Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Scruffy (1980)
Week 6 (July 26 – Aug 1) – Generic Cartoon Tapes “Every day is Saturday Morning at this Jo-Ann Fabric. Every space is liminal in Sylvester’s head (hand-drawn for PS1)” – Scumbalina Man, talk about bleak. Born in an abandoned house alongside her mother, Duchess (June Foray, Rocky the Flying Squirrel), a bright-eyed English Springer Spaniel puppy named […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Children (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Children was on USA Up All Night on April 12, 1991 and August 22, 1992. The best thing I can say about this movie is that nearly everyone in it is a horrible person. There are cops that don’t do their jobs well, expectant mothers that smoke and other parents that couldn’t care less […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Somewhere In Time (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Somewhere In Time was on USA Up All Night on August 12, 1994. Sometimes, a film is rejected by the critics upon arrival, only to be lovingly rescued by audiences over the decades. Somewhere in Time is the gold standard of this cult classic trajectory, a sweeping, unabashedly earnest romantic fantasy that defies the cynicism […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Up the Academy (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Up the Academy was on USA Up All Night on February 18 and July 28, 1989; June 27 and July 28, 1990; February 5 and June 25, 1994; February 24, April 10, August 5 and 25, 1995. In 1980, 8-year-old Sam was all in on MAD Magazine—every issue. It’s how I saw so many R-rated […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Toxic Zombies (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Toxic Zombies was on USA Up All Night on November 17, 1989. Writer, director, producer, editor and star Charles McCrann made this low-budget — but hey, it played USA Network — movie where drug crops are sprayed with chemicals and turn growers into zombies. That’s a novel idea, and this movie started a subgenre of […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Pinball Summer (1980)
Released at the dawn of the 1980s, Pinball Summer (also known as Pick-Up Summer or Flipper Girls in Germany) follows the Crown International beach movies and precedes Porky’s. Most of the action revolves around a place called Pete’s, an arcade hosting a pinball competition and a Miss Pinball pageant, which I really hope was a thing […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Night of the Werewolf (1980)
The ninth movie in the saga of Count Waldemar Daninsky — as always played by Paul Naschy — wasn’t released in the United States until 1985, when it was retitled from its original title, El Retorno del Hombre Lobo (The Return of the Wolfman). The last Naschy movie to play the U.S. theatrically as The […]
CULTPIX MONTH: Lady Streetfighter (1980)
Renee Harmon is Linda Allen, an exotic Eastern European woman who lands in Los Angeles with a suitcase full of vengeance and a wardrobe that suggests high-fashion spy via Sears. Linda is looking for the mobsters who tortured and murdered her sister. Naturally, this involves a lot of driving around L.A. and looking intensely at […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama 2026 Primer: Funeral Home (1980)
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 24 and 25, 2026. Admission is still only $15 per person each night (children 12 and under free with adult) and overnight camping is available (breakfast included). You can buy tickets at the show, but get there early and […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama 2026 Primer: Fade to Black (1980)
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 24 and 25, 2026. Admission is still only $15 per person each night (children 12 and under free with adult) and overnight camping is available (breakfast included). You can buy tickets at the show, but get there early and […]
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