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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO EDWARD D. WOOD, JR!
*This is the first testament in our Ed Wood Gospel. The second, New Testament, will cover Wood’s late films, including his collaborations with A.C. Stephens. This month, Ed Wood‘s Plan 9 From Outer...
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COMMON LAW WIFE (1963)
Common Law Wife (1963) is a hoot, as most period exploitation films are. This film, directed by the infamous schlockmeister Larry Buchanan and Eric Sayers, gets a lot of mileage out of the white trash...
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CHILD BRIDE (1938)
Do not be alarmed! The loud thud you are getting ready to hear is merely the sound of your jaw dropping to the floor while watching Child Bride (1938). And before the credits roll, you will know that...
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SHANTY TRAMP (1967)
“Elmer Gantry (1960) with a dose of The Intruder (1962) on a 75 cent budget.” There is the one-sentence synopsis for Shanty Tramp (1967), written and directed by Joseph P. Mawra. Mawra was a...
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DAY OF THE NIGHTMARE (1965)/SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY (1965)
Something Weird Video offers up two of the most obscure, absurd, sexually depraved white trash soapers in this 1965 double feature. Day of the Nightmare was directed by John A. Bushelman. Bushelman’s...
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LIST CANDIDATE: REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE (1973)
AKA Caged Virgins DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent PLOT: Two lesbian killers dressed as clowns flee the law and wind up in the hands of a vampire who needs...
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LIST CANDIDATE: THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (1962)
DIRECTED BY: Joseph Green FEATURING: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniels PLOT: Against her wishes, a surgeon keeps his fiancée’s severed head alive while he searches for a new body for her. WHY...
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LET ME DIE A WOMAN (1978)
In a round table meeting with a couple of editors, I was discussing a proposed documentary (which we abandoned). As we were dialoguing, I mentioned a scene which would require green screen. One of the...
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CAPSULE: BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1976)
AKA The Incredible Torture Show DIRECTED BY: Joel Reed FEATURING: Seamus O’Brien, Luis de Jesus PLOT: A sadist who runs a Grand Guignol off-off-Broadway show as a cover for his white slavery ring...
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CAPSULE: CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980)
DIRECTED BY: Ruggero Deodato FEATURING: Robert Kerman, Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen PLOT: A professor launches an expedition into the Amazon searching for a missing crew of...
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SOMETHING WEIRD TRAVELING ROADSHOW FILMS II: DAMAGED GOODS (1961)/THE HARD...
Today we tend to primarily (or solely) think of “Roadshow” films as “filler” exploitation films for the pre-television era. However, Wikipedia’s entry on “roadshow releases” is a useful in-depth tool...
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CAPSULE: PSYCH-OUT (1968)
DIRECTED BY: Richard Rush FEATURING: Susan Strasberg, Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell, Max Julien, Adam Roarke, Bruce Dern PLOT: A deaf runaway goes to Haight-Ashbury in search of her burnout brother,...
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CAPSULE: THE TRIP (1967)
DIRECTED BY: Roger Corman FEATURING: Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse, Susan Strasberg PLOT: A director of commercials headed for a divorce takes LSD hoping for insight into his...
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AL ADAMSON’S DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1971)
The son of “Z” grade western director Victor Adamson, exploitation horror director Al Adamson came by his credentials honestly. Tragically, Adamson also unintentionally secured his own cult status, in...
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RUSS MEYER’S FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL! KILL! (1965)
Russ Meyer has been criminally underrepresented here on 366 Weird Movies. We will pay penance by covering one of his earliest and biggest cult films. Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (1965) comes by its...
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LIST CANDIDATE: BLIND WOMAN’S CURSE (1970)
DIRECTED BY: Teruo Ishii FEATURING: Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satô, Tatsumi Hijikata PLOT: A female yakuza leader blinds an enemy in a sword fight, then years later is hunted by a blind woman...
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CAPSULE: DICKSHARK (2016)
The reviewer of this film has requested to remain anonymous. DIRECTED BY: Bill Zebub FEATURING: Erin Brown, Kayla Browne, Rachel Crow, Scarlett Storm, Bill Zebub PLOT: A renegade scientist creates a...
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TEST TUBE BABIES (1948) & THE FLESH MERCHANT (1956)
We have been remiss in failing to cover the weird movie saint, W. Merle Connell (1905-1963). Do not judge us too harshly. Since Connell didn’t have an angora fetish (like Ed Wood) and failed to live...
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CAPSULE: CONDEMNED (2015)
DIRECTED BY: Eli Morgan Gesner FEATURING: Dylan Penn, Ronen Rubinstein, Johnny Messner, Lydia Hearst, Honor Titus, Jordan Gelber PLOT: A rich girl runs away to live with her boyfriend in the condemned...
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1960 EXLPOITATION TRIPLE FEATURE: BEAT GIRL, HIGH SCHOOL CEASAR & DATE BAIT...
America in the 1960s and 1970s hardly had exclusive rights to juvenile delinquent exploitation trash films. With Beat Girl (1960), the U.K. delivered the goods in one of the sleaziest examples of the...
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