THE MOVIES OF MY LIFE PHASE ONE: Candidates for 1968

Welcome to my pre-school year!  I’m pretty sure I’m in the year that my parents started taking me to movies, and as we move further I’ll have more sense memories of seeing these pictures advertised in newspapers and on TV (Oddly enough, I’m willing to bet my first sense memory of a movie theater is false, as it involves 1966‘s Our Man Flint).  Your candidates for this year are:

NUDE DJANGO (a.k.a. BRAND OF SHAME)
It’s named Nude Django, for goodness’ sake!  This is, I assume, a soft core porn parody of the spaghetti westerns that were slowly but surely sliding into the cultural zeitgiest of the time, pretty much influencing the way the western was approached over here.  I’ve seen some soft core porn from the 60‘s (thanks, Joe-Bob Briggs!), and I think there’s a direct connection to be made between this style and the ‘XXX Parodies’ of our modern age.  I love spaghetti westerns (and I’ll elaborate in a little bit), and I’m intrigued by how those tropes translate into the porn genre....

I couldn't find a trailer for this that's Safe For Work, but if you're  an adult, you can go here.  It is NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!

SPIRITS OF THE DEAD

This was a candidate that never quite made it during my 2018 Halloween Horrorfest.  I love anthology films, and the combined star power both in front of and behind the camera intrigues me.  After all, it’s not every day you can get Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim to direct short adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe stories starring Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, Terrence Stamp and Bridgette Bardot.  I’m am so intrigued by what that mess of talent came up with....


THE GREEN SLIME

Yes, the Green Slime are coming, and they’re going to interfere in Richard Jaeckel and Robert Horton’s fight over who gets to sleep with the stunning Luciana Paluzzi!  A notorious Toei/MGM co-production about a weird alien menace...well, menacing a space station with its electrifying tentacles has this rep of being ‘so bad it’s good’ (and having one of the weirder theme songs ever recorded)  I want to see if it earns that rep, or is it just so bad it’s BAD.

IF YOU MEET SARTANA, PRAY FOR YOUR DEATH

As mentioned earlier, I am a fan of spaghetti westerns.  I’ve heard about the Sartana series, about a well-dressed, mysterious and amoral gunslinger who may very well be the Angel of Death, but never seen a canonical one--like Django, a lot of filmmakers plopped the Sartana name on totally unrelated movies hoping to make some extra money.  This is the first of the official Sartana quadrilogy, featuring Gianni Garko as the enigmatic hero, and also boasts the Awesomeness That Is Klaus Kinski, so I suspect there’s no way it can fail to entertain.

Please head over to my Twitter Page and vote.  You have until the afternoon of January 4th to make your voice heard.

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