Cinema Head Cheese: The Podcast! #72 - Fun for the Whole Family

Kevin and Dave talk about kids' movies that adults can actually enjoy. After seeing Wreck-It Ralph, Kevin decides to focus on animation. Dave then tackles the live action family films that he enjoys.

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Movie Review:The Night Of The Devils (Blu-ray,1972)

Since Raro Video branched out with their American releases over the past couple years, many of their titles (much of them quite obscure) have caught this reviewer by surprise. Whether it’s Plot of Fear or one of my personal favorites, Murder Obsession, I’ve been able to enjoy some movies I knew nothing about from Italian filmmakers. Now, we have Giorgio Ferroni’s Night of the Devils to peak my interest. The movie’s story sounds fun and its available now for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray from Raro, so could it be yet another diamond in the rough?

Most European cult cinema fans will know Ferroni from his excellent feature Mill of the Stone Women. The Night of the Devils was produced several years later and involves a man named Nicola (Gianni Garko, The Psychic) who’s been admitted to a mental hospital where he has some horrific dreams. Rotting bodies, naked women, heat-ripping, faces exploding are all a part of these dreams. Why is he having these crazy visions? After watching Nicola shift and twitch in his bed with his doctors overlooking him, we are shown exactly what made him goofy.

Movie Review: Jungle Drums of Africa (1953)

Directed by Fred C. Brannon
Starring Clayton Moore, Phyllis Coates and Johnny Sands
Run Time: 167 minutes


Back in the early 50‘s, television was just beginning to become a threat to the motion picture business, and one of Hollywood’s responses to the growing popularity of television series’ was the Serial. Which was usually some type of adventure story-line told through several chapters, with each chapter ending in some type of cliff-hanger situation where a main character was placed in a near-hopeless situation, which in theory would keep people, especially kids, coming back to the movie theaters every week to see how their favorite characters escaped certain death. Some serials were great entertainment, with some of my personal favorites being- Flash Gordon (Universal, 1936) and The Masked Marvel (Republic, 1939-43), while others were not so good.

Prepare To Get Your Flesh Eaten By The "Bath Salt Zombies"!

Bath Salt Zombies is a new horror film directed and co-written by Dustin Wayde Mills (Puppet Monster Massacre, Zombie A-Hole, Ballad of Skinless Pete) and produced and co-written by Clint Weiler of Aggronautix. The movie sensationalizes the recent bath saltepidemic and the attacks surrounding them. “Although the film is somewhat of a black comedy, I wanted to portray the real power of drugs in a horror story… Dustin was able to pull it off with ease,” said Weiler who wrote the treatment for the film and worked on the basic characterization. “It’s off the wall comic book insanity with blood, gore, nudity, martial arts, gunfights, and a mutant jack-chi,” said Mills. “You should check your brain at the door and prepare to have your face melted off.”

Movie Review: Elvira's Haunted Hills (2002)

Reviewed by Kenny Barnwell

Directed by Sam Irvin

Starring~ Casandra Peterson, Richard O'Brien, Mary Scheer

Plot ~ Elvira and her maid are traveling to Paris for a show. Unfortunately, along the way they get sidetracked in a creepy castle with mysterious characters, strange goingson and an old family curse to be unraveled. Nothing fancy or complicated about it, its a parody on the same theme as the 10,000 other haunted castle movies that came before it, but this one has the one thing the others don't, the legendary dick-tease Elvira and her iconic cleavage, which is served up to us buffet-style for the entirety of the film.

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Movie Review: 247 Degrees Fahrenheit (2012)

In 2010 Adam Green brought many horror fans by surprise with his film Frozen. It’s a simple narrative surrounding a few twenty-somethings caught in frigid weather on a ski-lift. Holding an audience for 90 minutes with that story-line can’t be easy – but the Hatchet creator succeeded with what may be his best film. Just recently a film taking almost the same formula,except using extreme heat as the antagonist is now upon genre-philes in the form of Levan Bakhia andBeqa Jguburia’s 247 Degrees Fahrenheit.

Scream queen Scout Taylor-Compton plays Jenna, one of four youngsters looking to party it up in a cabin decked out with all kinds of amenities. The big draw for the kids is the deluxe European sauna. After a little sex and booze the group decides to relax a little more by trying out the sauna. They drink, drink some more and go back and forth until three of the four get stuck in the sauna.

Cinema Head Cheese: The Podcast! #71 - Drippings Vit Goo

Dave, Jeff and Kevin decide to talk about some horror movies that they think are underrated. they get into the obscure, forgotten sequels and a series that doesn't get its due.

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Movie Review: Madame O (1967, aka Zoku akutokui: Joi-hen)

Directed by Seiichi Fukuda

Michiko Sakyô plays the Madame O of the title, a highly successful female surgeon with issues. The frowning, matronly Sakyo is all business at the clinic, but come nightfall she paints on a smile and hits all of Tokyo ’s seediest gin joints to pick up men. After a roll in the hay, Madame O reaches for her lancet, marks her male prey and presses some syphilis-moistened swabs into their wounds as they sleep. Sakyo is lashing out at men after being gang raped on a beach as a teenager. She hates all men, and hates herself just a little bit more, as she mutilates her own genitalia sans anesthetic. A fellow male doctor (Akihiko Kaminara) catches her in the act and promptly falls head over heels in love with her! – YEEEEEEEEEEEcccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhh.

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An Otto Preminger Masterpiece and More Coming Soon From Twilight Time!

LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: English SDH
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 2.35:1
AUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
1958 / Color and B & W
94 MINUTES
UNRATED
REGION FREE
Limited Edition of 3,000 Units

Special Features: Isolated Score Track / Domestic Trailer with Francoise Sagan Interview


“Arguably Preminger’s masterpiece.” —Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader “One of the most gorgeous films ever made.” —New York Magazine “One of the great underappreciated films of the 1950s.” —Nick Pinkerton, The Village Voice


Bonjour Tristesse (1958) is producer/director Otto Preminger’s widescreen adaptation of the provocative best-seller by Françoise Sagan about a jaded 17-year-old (Jean Seberg) who wreaks havoc when she begins manipulating her playboy father’s love life. David Niven as the careless roué and Deborah Kerr as the elegant new object of his affections also share the screen with cinematographer Georges Périnal’s stunning color vistas of an idyllic French Riviera and more melancholy black-and-white views of a lovely but chilly Paris. Georges Auric contributes an appropriately bluesy score, supporting Preminger’s influential take on the lives of the rich and reckless.

 

LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: English SDH
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 2.55:1
AUDIO: English 4.0 DTS-HD MA
1955 / Color
104 MINUTES
UNRATED
REGION FREE
Limited Edition of 3,000 Units

Special Features: Isolated Score Track / Trailers and TV Spot

 “Lana Turner as the titled trollop…has the role of temptress down pat. Burton’s portrayal of the dedicated Indian doctor who falls in love with Turner has strength and conviction and is underplayed intelligently.” —Variety  “Boasts color CinemaScope…an all-star cast…Oscar-nominated special effects…Turner offers a sultry, overtly sexual interpretation…Burton is surprisingly good in a role that could easily backfire on an Anglo actor…the special effects are the main attraction and the melodrama’s raison d’être.” —TV Guide


The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)—based on a Louis Bromfield novel and an earlier Twentieth Century Fox hit, The Rains Came (1939)—is a juicy, full-bore melodrama, directed by Fox’s own master of the genre, the great Jean Negulesco. Starring Lana Turner as a heartless vixen who first lures, then falls in love with an honorable Indian physician (Richard Burton), the film plays out against the magnificent sweep of the Indian subcontinent, torn by the harsher powers of nature and lushly photographed by Milton Krasner. Also starring Fred MacMurray as a potentially heroic drunk, Michael Rennie as Turner’s cruelly cuckolded husband, Eugenie Leontovich as a worldly-wise Maharani, and Joan Caulfield as a loyal innocent, the film is further highlighted by a romantic score from the incomparable Hugo Friedhofer (available here as an isolated track) and thrilling special effects that were nominated for an Academy Award.


Both titles street on November 13th, so be sure to grab one of these super limited titles right here at Screen Archives Entertainment.

 

Cinematic Hell: Monstrosity aka The Atomic Brain (1964)

by Hal Astell

Director: Joseph Mascelli

Stars: Marjorie Eaton and Frank Gerstle

Buy The Atomic Brain (Monstrosity) on DVD

I just couldn't resist following up The Brain That Wouldn't Die with The Atomic Brain to make a double helping of brains, even though this film was originally titled Monstrosity only to perhaps be renamed because the original title described the picture too well. Both films ponder the same theme, the old chestnut about mad transplant surgeons, and both come down firmly on the side that it's immoral, unethical and unforgivable. How quaint we were back in the sixties when it came to such things, but then this film was co-written by no less than four writers and directed by Ray Dennis Steckler's cinematographer. Having four writers generally makes the best script turn to mush and it isn't surprising that Joseph Mascelli never directed again. He kept busy for a while on Steckler's films, with 1964 also seeing him lens Strange Compulsion, The Thrill Killers and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?

Movie Review: Karate-Robo Zaborgar (2011, Blu-ray)

As a youngster, my earliest exposure to science fiction from Japan came from our local UHF station.  If Chicago horror host Son of Svengoolie wasn’t on I was usually watching some Japanese giant monster film or Kaiju. Along with monsters like Godzilla and Gamera, I also enjoyed robot flicks and other cheesy science-fiction fare. Spectreman was a big favorite, so when I saw the preview of Karate-Robo Zaborgar from director Noboru Iguchi (RoboGeisha, Mutant Girls Squad), I had to check it out.

If you’ve seen any of Iguchi’s previous films you might have a slight idea of what you’re in for, if not, prepare yourself for a wildly entertaining, ridiculous ride. Yutaka Daimon (Itsuji Itao) is on a mission to cripple the evil forces of Sigma, a group of robots, cyborgs and other unexplainable entities. With him, at his side is his robot/ motorcycle named Zaborgar. Zarborgar is way cooler than any of the transformers you may have seen in Michael Bay’s films. He’s got a whole host of weapons and tricks that make him and Daimon an amazing tandem against the forces of Sigma.

Movie Review: American Maniacs (2010)

Directed by C.M. Downs

Starring Ashlynn Yennie, Jason Miller and John Redmond

In most horror/thrillers there is a distinct line drawn between the characters which dwell within it. You've got the good guys on this side, the bad guys on that side. The victimizers over here and the victims over there. American Maniacs has no hero's, there is no one to root for here because every single character is deeply disturbed in their own special way. Think “The Jerry Springer Show Meets Ed Gein” You've got Clyde (Jason Miller) a hillbilly failed actor who has abducted a group of christian kids who happen to have AIDS and is keeping them locked up in a chicken coup in the barn. You've got Clyde's wife Starlene, (Ashlynn Yennie of Human Centipede fame) a meth-head stripper who married Clyde for the sole purpose of getting her hands on a stash of money she thinks he has hidden somewhere in the barn. You've got Punch (Shawn Smith), a meth dealer who is fucking Clyde's wife and is determined to get his hands on that stash of money. And then you've got sheriff Lewis (John Redmond), who is not very good at his job and has some seriously fucked up sexual issues going on in his life.

Movie Review: Profane (2011)

Directed by Usama Alshaibi

Starring Manal Kara, Molly Plunk and Dejan Mircea

Profane is a film that is set up like a documentary and it follows the lifestyle of a beautiful young Muslim girl named Muna, (Manal Kara) who also happens to be a professional dominatrix. When Muna isn't reading her Koran she is busy at work... shitting on people's faces and kicking them in the balls among many other forms of sweet degradation to earn a living. Along for the ride is her side-kick and business partner Mary, (Molly Plunk). They spend a great deal of time getting high on cocaine and pills when they’re not hard at work double-teaming hapless Johns.

Midnight Movies #12: Shockumentary Triple Feature DVD on 2/26/13!

Blue Underground is back with Midnight Movies #12... the shockumentaries!

AFRICA BLOOD & GUTS:

“What the camera sees it films pitilessly, without sympathy, without taking sides,” it begins. “This film only says farewell to the old Africa and gives the world a picture of its agony.” Here was a world now ruled by rebels and refugees, plunderers and poachers, mercenaries and murderers, a land suddenly aflame with brutality, racism and unspeakable slaughter. At the risk of their own lives, the filmmakers’ cameras captured it all. The result is a daring and disturbing work that ranks among the greatest achievements in documentary cinema, an experience that remains as shocking – and shockingly relevant – as it was 40 years ago. This is AFRICA BLOOD & GUTS!

GOODBYE UNCLE TOM:

It was advertised as “The first motion picture based on historical facts about the rise and revolt of slavery in America.” It became one of the most reviled and misunderstood films of its time. This epic recreation of the American slave trade atrocities was both condemned as depraved exploitation and acclaimed as an unprecedented cry of Black anguish and rage. The Detroit Chronicle hailed it as “a graphic, moving, nerve-paralyzing film.” Legendary film critic Pauline Kael called it “the most specific and rabid incitement of the race war.” Three decades cannot diminish GOODBYE UNCLE TOM’s impact or quiet its controversy.

GODFATHERS OF MONDO:

For more than four decades, they have remained among the most brilliant and misunderstood directors the world of cinema has ever seen. Now in this all-new documentary feature, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi finally have their say. From their life as journalists and career as filmmakers, through success and scandal, from the tragic misunderstanding that made them international criminals to the reasons behind their bitter break-up, Jacopetti and Prosperi reveal the startling and often surprising stories behind their infamous films. Forty years later, they remain passionate and proud, defensive and daring, and as confrontational and controversial as ever. They are THE GODFATHERS OF MONDO.

AFRICA BLOOD & GUTS Extras:

·         Theatrical Trailers

·         TV Spot

·         Poster & Still Gallery

·         U.S. Press Book (DVD-ROM)

GOODBYE UNCLE TOM Extras:

·         Theatrical Trailer

·         Behind-the-Scenes 8mm Footage with Audio Commentary by Giampaolo Lomi

·         Giampaolo Lomi’s Behind-the-Scenes Still Gallery

·         Poster & Still Gallery

AFRICA BLOOD & GUTS: ©1984 Mediatrade. All Rights Reserved.

GOODBYE UNCLE TOM: ©1971 Euro International Films. All Rights Reserved.

THE GODFATHERS OF MONDO: ©2003 Blue Underground, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 

If you still think Halloween is the scariest night of the year… RING IN THE HOLIDAYS THE ANCHOR BAY WAY WITH SILENT NIGHT

In select theaters November 30th;  Blu-ray™/DVD combo and DVD on sale December 4th

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – You better watch out! Santa Claus is coming to town, and he knows who’s been bad. On November 30th, Anchor Bay Films presents Silent Night on screen in ten major U.S. metropolitan areas. Blu-ray™/DVD combo and DVD will be available to unwrap nationwide on December 4th.

A loose remake of the horror classic Silent Night, Deadly Night, the film’s stellar cast includes Malcolm McDowell (Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Easy A), Jaime King (Sin City, My Bloody Valentine 3D), Donal Logue (Shark Night 3D, Blade), Lisa Marie (Sleepy Hollow), Brendan Fehr (Final Destination, X-Men First Class), and Ellen Wong (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World).

Movie Review: Maximum Conviction (2012)

It's not often that you get to see action stars from different eras meet up for a story filled with killing, blowing things up and all around ass kicking. Expendables aside, it's really true. I had the opportunity to see two of my favorites together, and I was not disappointed.

It's really very simple. You take Steven Seagal, throw in Steve Austin, add Michael Pare and soap opera star / martial artist  Bren Foster and then throw them all into a prison that houses the worst criminals known to man. It's like the '80s threw up on the '90s and it all just oozed over the last twelve years, and I loved it.

Nightscape Press: Dungeon Brain

Hola, peeps. Our friends over at Nightscape Press are giving away copies of Dungeon Brain by Bram Stoker Nominee Benjamin Kane Etheridge! This is a great Halloween promotion. So, get up and get over there by clicking on the handy, dandy link right below. Don't cost nothin'.

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Cinema Head Cheese: The Podcast! #70 - Classic Slashers

Dave and Kevin jump in on separate segments to talk about their favorite classic slasher movies. Dave starts with Halloween before getting into Scream and other great franchises. Kevin runs through the Friday the 13th series and figures out that American Psycho wasn't just about the greed of the 1980s.

Kevin also shares his thoughts on the Munsters remake Mockingbird Lane.

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Movie Review: Butterflies (1974)

by Greg Goodsell

Directed By Joe Sarno

Denise (Marie Forsa) is tired of her farm girl life in rural Germany and pines for the bright lights, big city. Climbing aboard her country-hick boyfriend (American porn star Eric Edwards) one last time, she packs a tube of lipstick in an exceedingly tiny suitcase and thumbs a ride to Munich. Meeting a pig-face lingerie salesman along the way, Denise hooks up with suave and de-boner nightclub owner Frank (porno icon Harry Reems – in his hottest role). Whisking her away to his penthouse apartment in Munich, Denise is wined, dined and sixty-nined under the proviso that she is aware that she is only one of a countless string of women who is lining up for Frank's precious bodily fluids. Reems fornicates with several women in many intense scenes, until Denise gets sick and tired of his fuckin' shit, hits the road and presumably thumbs a ride back to the farm.

Movie Review: Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012)

I said it back when I reviewed The Frankenstein Syndrome, and I'll say it again. I don't pander. If a friend makes a movie that I don't like, I won't review it. I'd rather say nothing than lie. That being said, I was very excited to see our own David Hayes in Bloody Bloody Bible Camp. The cast includes Reggie Bannister, Ron Jeremy and Tim Sullivan, and that, plus the crazy title are all a horror fan really needs to get into a movie like this. As proud of this as Dave and director Vito Trabucco are, I knew it had to be good. Not only was it funny and ridiculously gory, it was a perfect love letter to classic slasher flicks.