HIGHLY SUGGESTIBLE: 70‘s Cheesy Horror Films Part Two!

So here’s the next section of my list of recommended low-budget, cheesy horror of the 70‘s and 80‘s, covering 1976-1980, as requested by Mad Cat Cattis.  I’ve now limited myself to two films per year, as the list could get seriously long if I do not restrict them.  You’ll see my love of certain subgenres of grindhouse cinema emerging, like my affection for Australian horror movie. 

Oh, and I somehow forgot to include one film in the first half of the 70‘s list that deserved to be here, so you’re getting eleven films this time out!

Once again, I am emphasizing lower budget films, specifically ‘cheesy’ and ‘scary’ examples.  You will find, however, a lot less cheese and a lot more scare.  If I discussed these films during the earlier Halloween Horrorfests or on Dread Media or The Honeywell Experiment, I’ve provided links.

So here we are--once more into the breach!

Honorable Mention from Part One: SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970)

This insane almost stream-of-consciousness product of one Gordon Hessler is one of only two films that feature best friends and horror icons Christopher Lee, Vincent Price and Peter Cushing--although they have no scenes together.  This is a totally nonsensical mash-up of science fiction, spy and horror tropes that literally makes no sense...but is totally fun to experience.  It’s got acid baths and synthetic vampires and Cushing as an Eastern European dictator and a guy who keeps waking up to find his limbs amputated one by one, all presented in this breathless style.

GOD TOLD ME TO (1976)

Larry Cohen is one of my heroes, a New York City boy like myself who was so compelled to make movies he would drive around Los Angeles with a trunk full of scripts he wrote, going from producer to producer to sell them.  This is one of a number of films he shot in my home city and while it’s not my favorite (we’ll get to that in a later part of this series), it’s definitely the weirdest.  It concerns a rash of people that commit spree killings (including a young Andy Kaufman!) and claim God told them to it...only God is an alien hybrid creature!  It’s nuts and has a lot to say about belief!

WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976)

Spain had some quirky little horror films that came out in the 70‘s--I could also point you to the Blind Dead series and A Bell From Hell--but this film is a Creepy Kids Film at its creepiness.  A group of vacationers end up on an island off the coast of Spain where the children have gone mad and slaughtered everyone. Unlike some of the other Creepy Kids film, there’s no explanation; they’re just Pure-D-Mean and they’re looking for bloodshed.  Very, very intense.

SHOCK WAVES (1977)

I know some people will poo-poo this choice, but while it’s low-key and not particularly violent, it is atmospheric and novel.  A ship full of vacationers runs aground on an island inhabited by a former SS commandant who commanded a ‘death corps’ of aquatic zombie Nazis...and those zombies are still active and killing everybody off.  The sequences of the zombies walking along underwater are genuinely erie, and there are good performances by Peter Cushing and the stunning Brooke Adams, who should have been a bigger star than she was.

BLUE SUNSHINE (1977)

This is a ludicrous horror film about a specific brand of LSD that, years later, causes its users to lose their hair in alarmingly quick fashion and kill everyone around them.  It’s debatable whether the scariest thing in this film, which treats its story as a 70‘s paranoid conspiracy thriller, is the bug-eyed, bald murderers or the lead, played by future Red Shoe Diaries impresario Zalman King.  Some of the set pieces are spooky, and some are hilarious!

MARTIN (1978)

This is a movie George Romero made between Night of The Living Dead and Dawn of The Dead...and it is not only my favorite in his cv, I think it’s his best film.  Martin (played with a heart-rending numbness by John Amplas) comes to live with his grand uncle in a deteriorating Pennsylvania town.  Martin also thinks he’s a vampire--or maybe he is--who drugs, rapes and slits the wrists of women so he can feed off their blood.  His grand-uncle also believes Martin is a vampire, and is just waiting for him to slip up.  This is an emotionally exhausting, powerful character study that can be interpreted to be about severe mental illness, or could be interpreted as being more fanciful.  Either way, it’s a must see.

LONG WEEKEND (1978)

Remember I mentioned my fondness for Ozploitation?  This is an Australian take on the ‘Man v. Nature’ genre that was so popular throughout the 70‘s, and it. Is. Brutal.  A couple behave like assholes on a long weekend in the wild....and the wild strikes back.  If you like to root for unpleasant people to die, this is the film for you.  Yes, the special effects aren’t that special (watch out for that bird!), but the story is compelling as Hell.

THIRST (1979)

This Australian oddity has been pretty much been obliterated by the shadow of Park Chan-Wook’s excellent vampire noir....but man, it is bug fuck insane.  A woman (played by Chantal Contouri, who I always suspected was cast for her weird, keening scream) is abducted by a mysterious cabal called The Brotherhood of Hyma and told she is a direct descendant of Countess Elizabeth Bathory...which gives her the right to drink the blood of her lessers.  What makes it insane is how the Brotherhood uses ‘farms’ of pale, out-of-it...patients?...who get milked daily, their vital fluids distributed to the members of this cult in milk cartons.  There is some insane imagery here, and an amazing cast--this may be the only place you’ll get to see David Hemmings and Henry Silva in the same room--and it is not boring.

TOURIST TRAP (1979)

Before there was Full Moon Features and Puppet Master, Charles Band and David Schmoeller collaborated on this crazed variation on the slasher film, featuring Tanya Roberts wearing the most revealing-yet-modest tube top ever and a wonderfully vigorous performance by Chuck Conners as a roadside attraction proprietor who’s also a telekinetic, sadistic madman with a fetish for mannequins.  The film is a little ramshackle, but it’s also fun and creative--even when it collapses into crazy nonsense for the final act.

WITHOUT WARNING (1980)

I recently had director/producer Greydon Clark on The Honeywell Experiment.  Clark was responsible for a number of great grindhouse features--all for less than a million dollars--and perhaps his most noteworthy film is this science fiction/horror mash-up about an alien utilizing fuzzy starfish with neon lights to hunt humans in the woods...and how said alien in turn in hunted by a PTSD suffering Martin Landau and his friend Jack Palance.  It’s really entertaining, gory at times and has some really effective acting from Palance and Landau.

CHRISTMAS EVIL/YOU BETTER WATCH OUT (1980)

While a lot of people hold up Silent Night, Deadly Night as the ultimate Killer Santa film, I love this tiny film shot in and around my home town featuring Brendan Maggart (father of Fiona Apple) as a man who loves Christmas and slowly starts to believe and behave like he’s Santa Claus when his life falls apart.  It’s got more of a character study feel to it, but that approach gives us a surprisingly uneasy feeling of sympathy for the main character--and the surreal ending makes you look at the entire film in a new light.

Next Time: Ten Cheesy Horror Films from the beginning of the 80‘s!

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Meanwhile, Over At Dread Media....#648

Up from the depth, twenty stories--well, one story high--it’s Des and Darryll as they review last year’s entry into the Legendary Monster Universe, Godzilla: King of The Monsters!  Then Rich The Monster Movie Kid takes a look at the adaptation of the Stephen King/Joe Hill collaboration available on Netflix, In The Tall Grass!

The trailers are below, as is a guide to all the monsters featured in Godzilla, a joint interview with King and Hill, and music from Eminem and The Tall Grass Band!

Listen to Dread Media #648 here

HIGHLY SUGGESTIBLE: 70‘s Cheesy Horror Films Part One!

You know one of the ways you realize you’re considered an expert?

When people start asking you for suggestions.

Last week, my Twitter friend ‘Mad Cat’ Cattis asked on behalf of his ‘back-up human’ for me to recommend some cheesy horror films from the 70‘s and 80‘s.  Now granted, there are some that I have covered during the last two Halloween Horrorfests, so I advise this petitioner to also wander through the achives associated with this month-long festival (and for those films I discuss below which I discussed during the Horrorfest, I will provide a link to the specific article.)  Some of these films I discussed on episodes of Dread Media, so I will provide the link for that.

So I started going through my files for possible suggestions...and started finding a lot of them.  So what lies below are ten films I recommend which are kinda weird, kinda cheesy--sometimes kinda freakin’ scary--that were released between 1970 and 1975.  I will return at a later date with films from 1976-1980, then 1981-85 and 86-90.

Since the request was for ‘cheesy and scary’ films, I focused more on lower budget entries.  Most of them are kinda silly--some of them wildly so--but I included some real frightening fare in this list as well.

And if you’d like me to suggest some stuff, I invite you to buy me a Ko-Fi and private message me with your request.  I’ll be glad to comply!

Got it?  Let’s begin...

TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (1970)
I am a big fan of The Golden Age of British Cinema, typified by the work of Hammer Films...and the 70‘s was where that Age started going seriously off the rails before it crashed completely.  This film is directed by Peter Sasdy, it's the last of the really good entries in Hammer’s Dracula series, and it’s notable for how Christopher Lee’s Dracula is kinda treated like the hero.  A group of decadent rich people are conned into conducting a Satanic ritual...but when those guys kill the young acolyte leading the ritual, Drac comes back from the dead and turns all their kids into bloodthirsty monsters.  In addition to Lee, watch for the divine Linda Hayden as one of the kids....we’ll be seeing her a little later.

THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (1971)
This, which is one of my favorite films overall, was directed by Robert Fuest, a very...dramatic and stylized director who got his start working on my favorite television series, the 60‘s spy romp The Avengers.  It’s a film that, to me, acts as a bridge between the Gothic Horrors of the last half century and the more garish, confrontational Horrors that were just emerging from the United States.  Vincent Price gives one of his best performances as a theologist/expert musician who has come back from seeming death to wreck havoc on the nine medical professionals who let his wife die on the surgery table.  Since he uses elaborate methods based around the Plagues of Egypt, I’m betting young Jigsaw saw this and took notes!  It’s witty, its Art Deco set design is fun to look at, and it features a mute performance by the great and gorgeous Virginia Noth (who retired after marrying an English Lord!) as the ultimate henchwoman, Vulnavia!

BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW (1971)
This film was made by Tigon, which was a grimy, low-rent counterpart to Hammer.  Some of their work was downright goofy, like The Blood Beast Terror, but this film that started out as an portmanteau, is a nightmarishly twisted little thing that benefits from its chaotic nature, its use of natural lighting, and an exceptional cast of British character actors...including a Master Class of a performance by Linda Hayden as the villianous Angel Blake!

NIGHT OF THE LEPUS (1972)
This film is based on an Australian satirical novel The Year of The Angry Rabbit.  Unlike the novel, it plays things totally straight.  It features a bunch of aging Hollywood types like Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, Stuart Whitman and DeForrest ‘Bones’ Kelly contending with a plague of giant, bloodthirsty...rabbits.  It is as gloriously silly as it sounds, especially when we get to the not-so-special effects of actual rabbits rampaging through toy railroad model towns and stuntmen in rabbit suits with blood on their teeth.  One of those things you may end up dying from laughter watching.

CANNIBAL GIRLS (1973)
This mostly improvised film was directed by Ivan ‘Ghostbusters’ Reitman and starred a very young Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin before they gained fame as founders of SCTV.  It is inept, it is hilariously low budget, it is nonsensical...and yet it is endearingly charming in its goofiness.  I defy you to not smile during this slice of Canuckploitation about a couple who end up spending the night in a...restaurant?...managed by a weird cult leader in a top hat and cape and the three literal man-eaters (a brunette, a blonde and a redhead, natch) who are his daughters/slaves/whatever.  Sadly, I don’t think the American cut of the film survives, which featured a ‘Horror Horn’ gimmick to warn scaredy-cats for the not-really-gory scenes of violence.

HORROR EXPRESS (1973)
Many people assume this film is British, but it’s actually Spanish...and it is a crackingly good sci-fi/horror mash-up featuring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing joining forces to stop an alien missing link from taking control first of the Trans-Siberian Express, then the world.  Really cool, really well paced...plus we get Telly Savalas as the baddest mutha-f’in cossack of all!

DEAD OF NIGHT/DEATHDREAM (1974)
You know Bob Clark from either Black Christmas, Porky’s or A Christmas Story.  He also directed this Vietnam-era variant on ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ with make-up effects by Tom Savini.  It’s fairly dark and gruesome, short enough to not wear on you and unfortunately falls through the crack due to Clark’s...eccentric career

CAPTAIN KRONOS, VAMPIRE HUNTER (1974) 
The 70‘s was an insane time for Hammer Films.  New chairman Michael Carreras was notorious for cruising the canteen asking writers to pitch new ideas...which is how my hero Brian Clemens of The Avengers fame ended up writing and directing this pulpy-as-all-Hell ‘horroventure’ about a possibly immortal, swashbuckling, pot-smoking vampire killer, his hunchbacked assistant, and the hot gypsy girl (played by Caroline Munro, one of the most beautiful women to ever walk the Earth) he picks up on the way to defeating a strange, youth-sucking monster.  It’s strange, it’s unique, it has some kick ass sword fights, and it’s tons of fun.

SUGAR HILL/SUGAR HILL AND HER ZOMBIE GANGSTERS (1974) 
Forget the rather campy secondary title--this is a serious cool blaxploitation horror film about a woman getting revenge for her lover’s death thanks to Baron Samedi and a number of creepy, cobweb-encrusted zombies.  Marki Bey, besides being flat-out gorgeous, skillfully plays this film’s two extremes, toggling between super-sweet southern belle and vengeful, spiteful vigilante.  It also features Robert Quarry, the not-very-good aspiring horror idol.

THE DEVIL’S RAIN (1975)
This is Robert Fuest again, and it is a ludicrously out there satanic panic melodrama featuring William Shatner trying to save the souls of his family from cult leader Ernest Borgnine--who, as we find out, is very likely a demon complete with horns and goat-face.  Even though much of the film is as stylized as the Phibes films, it is notorious for its climax, which features a snow-globe of the damned and a goopy-as-all-hell sequence where a lot of cultists (including a blink-and-you-miss-it John Travolta) melt into a messy puddle.  It’s real silly, but I guarantee you haven’t seen anything quite like this before.

Next Time: Ten Cheesy Horror Films from the later part of the 70‘s!

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Meanwhile, Over At Dread Media....#647

For this episode, Des and I go back....far, far too back...to revisit what may very well be the first exploitation film, 1922‘s crazy examination of witchcraft, Haxan.  Then Des gives us another Top Five, this one about creepy documentaries!

The trailer is below, as is an essay on the scariest silent films, some tips for the beginning witch, and music from Burning Witches, Haxan (although for some reason the drum kit says ‘The Kix’) and Ministry featuring William S. Burroughs!

Listen to Dread Media #647 here

THE MOVIES OF MY LIFE PHASE ONE: MURDER BY DECREE (1979)

I can claim that, while I am not a Holmesian, I have read every one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories and novels featuring Holmes and Watson.

The thing that kind of annoys me is how so many media interpretations of these characters are...kind of off.  Right from A Study In Scarlet, the duo are treated as energetic and vital people.  I don’t think a lot of movies portray that--it’s one of the great things about the Michael Ritchie films--and tend to give us a staid, contemplative Holmes instead of the physical, vibrant, engaging character Doyle portrayed.  And I really have issues with Watson, a former soldier who Doyle portrays as active and wicked smart only hindered by his war wound; far too many pastiches give us Watson as a dunderhead whose only purpose is to ask questions of his partner and act surprised.

(Given that we’ve had books featuring Irene Adler and Professor Moriarity detecting crimes, I wonder if there are any focusing solely on Watson.  You could place it during Holmes’ ‘death.’  Seriously, this could work!)

The Holmes and Watson of this film are portrayed by Christopher Plummer and James Mason respectively, and while Mason is still of ‘not quite getting it’ variety, the chemistry between the two are palatable....and I love Plummer’s vigorous, droll and righteous Holmes.  The rendition of their friendship is how I imagine the classic duo’s relationship in the original texts. 

What makes this film so fascinating to me is that this is a Holmesian mystery observed through the cynical, paranoid 70‘s.  As such, we’ve got a Holmes that, while investigating the Jack The Ripper murders, becomes involved in a government conspiracy to cover up a royal indiscretion that he ends up agreeing to not make public to save the life of the woman at the center of it all.  It’s a Holmsian film where Holmes solves the puzzle, but does not triumph....quite the contrary, he ends up haunted by his investigation leading to some innocent deaths.

It’s fascinating seeing some of the DNA from Clark’s previous films.  The stalking sequences are right out of Black Christmas, and there’s some gruesome moments that seem torn out of Deathdream.  I also liked the fact that Clark decidedly does not give us an idealized Victorian England--the sequence where Watson is interviewing a prostitute, who is suddenly aware that one of her ‘perfect’ teeth are coming loose is sort of heart-breaking. 

Of course, since this was shot on location in and around London (and Shepperton and Elstree Studios)*, Clark takes advantage of the talent pool and brings some top rate actors.  I was rather shocked to see John Gielgud playing the prime minister, and pleasantly surprised to see David Hemmings in a major role.  And I would be remiss if I did not mention an extended cameo by my beloved Geneviève Bujold, who plays a key figure and manages to convey the fact that her situation has driven her mad without giving into the temptation of playing ‘movie mad.’

This was kind of refreshing, and made me want to visit more Holmesian pastiches (particularly the ones that address the Jack The Ripper case).  I do recommend it.

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*--I do not get calling this a Canuckploitation film.  The only thing Canadian about it is Donald Sutherland, and he’s a minor character at best.

Meanwhile, Over At Dread Media....#646

This week, it’s the end of the world as A.T. White knows it as Des and Duane take a look at the strange apocalyptic saga from last year, Starfish. Then Rich The Monster Movie Kid looks at Mike Flanagan's 2019's adaptation of Stephen King sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep!

The trailers is below, as is an essay on the difficulty of making cosmic horror films, Stephen King's top 15 favorite horror films, a list of songs to play at the end of the world and--if you’ve got a lot of time--a compendium of radio dramas adapted from or inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft!

Listen to Dread Media #646 here

SONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

If Everybody’s Doing, Why Can’t We: 2020 Stuffage To Look Forward To

Welcome to the new decade.  I hope everyone made the transition to the new 20‘s.

I am still hoping to lure some of you into the Domicile as a full-on Patreon.  Here are some things I hope to lure you in with:

1) I’ve still got two copies of The Best of Bare Bones, an anthology of pieces that appeared in the seminal publication that grew out of the ashes of The Scream Factory.  I’m represented by an interview with the great detective novelist Richard Prather and a critical overview of George S. Chesbro’s science fiction/crime noir series, Mongo.  I mailed a third copy this week to my $10 Patreon, Angie Bulkeley.  I want to give these remaining copies to the next two people who go to my Patreon Page at the $5 level or more.  The $5 level will net you exclusive writings like the ongoing Liberty serial (I am working on the second segment now), reviews and commentaries, access to the uncensored versions of Thomas Deja’s Watching (which I will get back to, promise!) and Patreon exclusive podcasts Cinematic Mirage: The Theater of Movies That Do Not Exist (a new episode should be recorded shortly) and Pacific Rim Rialto (Episode One, covering Japan’s Bloody Chainsaw Girl, is in the can; Episode Two, covering Korea’s Rampant, will be recorded shortly).  If you decide to invest more money, you can get things such as movie commentaries (the first two will cover Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II and All About Evil, and will be recorded in the next two months) and the right to make me write articles about whatever you want once every three months.  And that’s not counting special surprises like the Holiday Mixtape I dropped on Christmas Eve, participation in special events like the Halloween Horrorfest, and the experimental pilot Come To The Movies, which is still free for everyone!

And speaking of Come To The Movies....

2) The response to this little experiment was pretty positive, so I will be doing it again in the near future.  The Two True Freaks Network has picked it up, and I will most likely do what I am doing with Thomas Deja’s Watching--post future episodes ‘raw and unedited’ on Patreon for a period of weeks like I did with my...experience with Cats before releasing it on the TTF network.  The Patreon version will include everything, but I will be streamlining the TTF episode so it fits within a half hour listening time.  Like Cinematic Mirage, there is no set schedule, but I will try to make it to the movies every month or so.

3) If you like something I present but are unwilling to commit to a monthly pledge of support, you can do a one time donation over on my Ko-Fi page.  Presently, the money from this page will be going toward getting some new equipment for my audio stunts.  In my situation, every little bit helps.

I know it sounds like I’m begging, but things are bad and I am not asking for a handout.  I continue to produce new stuff and looking for new ways to entertain and inform you.  For me to continue to do so, I need to keep my equipment current and my head above water.  If you can’t, I understand, but if you can, it will be appreciated.

Let’s fight against the rudeness and injustice of this world together.  Let’s make the world stranger!

Meanwhile, Over At Dread Media....#645

As is the tradition, the first episode of the year is Des’ look back on the year before!  Join the Master of the Morbid Mansion that is Dread Media as he lists the best of horror in pop culture across the board!

Below are some Best of Lists from some of our YouTube Peers (including one from 2018 from Mr. Good Bad Flicks Cecil Trachtenberg...go figure), a playlist of the best metal songs of the year, and an animated musical review of film in 2019!

Listen to Dread Media #645 here

Best Metal Songs of 2019

THE MOVIE OF MY LIFE PHASE ONE: Candidates for 1980

Welcome to the 80‘s!  I’m pretty sure I’m going almost to the ends of Queens, as I was expelled from Benjamin Cardoza and transferred to Springfield Gardens--a school that was primarily black.  This, oddly enough, resulted in me not getting into as many fights as I made friends with one of the members of the Wrestling Squad.  I also got mugged for the first time; the mugger only made away with a package of Trident.  I am pretty deep into my community theater phase, and discovered my love of musicals.  I’m also watching a lot of movies...

...which is why I might put stuff on here I did see in its original run.  Some of them I have only hazy memories of, and some I have forgotten entirely except I know I saw them.  So keep that in mind from this time out.

THE APPLE

I’ve already established that I love musicals, and 1980 is usually associated with Xanadu, the roller disco musical that featured Olivia Newton-John as a Greek muse and Michael Beck as a man killing his career.  But true weird musical fanatics know about this, a Canon Films joint that tells a...Biblical Creation Myth? with strange disco music, hippies and people walking around with this triangular prismatic sticker on their forehead.  I want to experience it with the more educated eyes I now possess.

THE NINTH CONFIGURATION

I watched Exorcist III: Legion for last year’s Halloween Horrorfest.  It was the other, more famous film directed by writer William Peter Blatty.  I was so impressed by that film, I want to see this, his first effort.  It’s supposedly a black comedy about a hospital after the Vietnam War which tries an unusual treatments towards its patients, all of whom are suffering from PTSD.  It’s also got an interesting cast for a lover of character actors like me, featuring Stacy Keach, Jason Miller, Neville Brand, Moses Gunn, Tom Atkins, and others.

THE STUNT MAN

Okay, this one I almost saw, as I tried to go to a revival screening of it at a theater in Times Square (it’s now a visitor center)...and was promptly told that the pass I received was no longer valid because the person who issued it had apparently ripped off the company that was operating the theater.  It’s supposedly a weird metaphysical thriller where Steve Railsback (he of the Most Punchable Face) is on the run and becomes a stunt man for Peter O’Toole’s maniacal director--who may be more than a director.  I have always been intrigued by this film and want to finally see it.


THE GONG SHOW MOVIE

This is a strange one--a TV tie-in based on a bizarrely cynical reboot of the classic talent show, and apparently focused primarily on its creator and host, Chuck Barris--who is a cynical and bizarre person himself, judging from his disputed autobiography(?) Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (which was turned into a great movie by George Clooney featuring Sam Rockwell as Barris).  Even though TV tie-ins were common in the 60‘s, they had died out by 1980...which makes this a strange outlier.  I loved The Gong Show (not enough to watch the neutered version featuring Mike Meyers playing an English stereotype), and I am super-curious what they managed to do to take up a feature film.

Please head over to my Twitter Page and vote on which film you’d like to see me view and review in the coming weeks.  This may be the strangest collection of candidates, so I’m curious as to what ends up the winner.

Oh...and if you’re wondering, I have seen Murder By Decree, the winner from last year, and will post my thoughts in the next few days.

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Phase Nine of...THE HONEYWELL EXPERIMENT!

The New Year always brings a New, Particularly Fun Episode of The Honeywell Experiment, and 2020 sees Virginia and me urging my lab monkey Chris Honeywell to Get Up And Boogie by enduring--WATCHING!  I mean watching 1975‘s Darktown Strutters.  Learn how a script written in three days became a thoroughly insane spoof of blaxploitation and biker flicks that involves a Colonel Sanders look-a-like, cross-dressing Klansmen, martial artists who don’t like doors, The Dramatics stuck in a dungeon and jokes about terminal venereal disease!  This is one of the strangest movies we’ve discussed in this series (and if you know I’m saying that after a film featuring a cat living inside another cat, that’s saying something), and it’s the perfect way to ring in the new decade!

(Plus it’ll put a smile on your face, which is fortunate given what we’re going to subject you to in February...)

Park your brightly colored tricycle here!

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