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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Rest In Peace Mighty Hannibal
Posted by Debbie D at 7:04 PM 0 comments
Labels: Debbie D, mighty hannibal
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Psychotronic Movie of the Week: The Sadist (1963)
1963 - Fairway International Pictures - D: James Landis - S: Arch Hall, Jr., Richard Walden, Marilyn Manning, Don Russell, Helen Hovey
Arch Hall, Jr. only appeared in a handful of films in the early 1960s, all produced by his father, Arch Hall, Sr., but his star will shine forever in the psychotronic universe for his turns in The Choppers, Eegah!, Wild Guitar, and this, perhaps his greatest moment. He plays the sadist of the title, Charlie Tibbs, who, along with his mute girlfriend Judy, terrorize a trio of teachers who stall out in the desert on their way to a ballgame at Dodger Stadium. Hall is a man possessed in this film - a sneering psycho ready to snap at any moment. If you notice some sharp camera work while you're watching, there's good reason for that, as the cinematographer was none other than a young Vilmos Zsigmond, who had previously worked on Ray Dennis Steckler's The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, but would go on to do award winning work on films such as McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Close Encouters of the Third Kind, Blow Out, and The Deer Hunter.
Cast and crew on the set |
Posted by Ted Cogswell at 3:45 PM 3 comments
Labels: Arch Hall Jr., psychotronic movies, Ted Cogswell
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Are You Gonna Be There?
Posted by Debbie D at 11:25 AM 0 comments
Labels: Chick Willis, Debbie D, Harvey Scales
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
The Ball State University Singers, 1966
Posted by Greg G at 5:21 PM 1 comments
Monday, January 13, 2014
WSB is on the air
Posted by Greg G at 10:14 AM 1 comments
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Happy Mighty Hannibal Day
Posted by Debbie D at 10:31 PM 0 comments
Labels: Debbie D, mighty hannibal
Psychotronic Movie of the Week: Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)
Posted by Ted Cogswell at 9:08 PM 3 comments
Labels: 1965, psychotronic movies, Ted Cogswell, The Poets
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Monday, January 6, 2014
January Is Mighty Hannibal Month!
Posted by Debbie D at 9:46 AM 1 comments
Labels: Debbie D, mighty hannibal
Friday, January 3, 2014
Mike Vraney 1957-2014
Mike Vraney and Lisa Petrucci, photo credit: Lars Erik Holmquist |
The news hit those of us who have been fans of his life's work for the last three decades like a ton of bricks. You see, his was not merely just another home video company. Founded by Vraney in Seattle in 1990, Something Weird unearthed thousands of films and entire b-movie and exploitation sub-genres from the dustbins of history. Especially back in the early and mid-90s, when information on the kinds of films he championed was not widely disseminated or easily found, the Something Weird Video catalog was a revelation. The films were categorized under headings like "Untamed Video", "Sexy Shockers From the Vault", "Grindhouse Follies", "Spies, Thighs & Private Eyes", "Crime Wave USA", "Sci-Fi Late Night Creature Feature Show", "Wrasslin' She Babes", "Nudist Camp Classics", "Twisted Sex", and the perfectly succinct "Big Bust Loops". I and countless other intrepid cinematic explorers poured over those catalogs, with their eye-catching graphics, tidbits of biographical and historical information, and original ad mats and poster art, like holy grails. We ordered these films through the mail, and some of us were lucky enough to live near adventurous mom and pop video stores that actually carried them. My own local mecca was Scotty Cooper's Video Bazaar in Metuchen, NJ, who always stocked a large collection of SWV titles on VHS, their colorful spines practically jumping off the shelf and into my curious hands, enticing me to take them home and dive into a world that had been lost to time, or may have existed only in the mind of a single, twisted auteur who died penniless and unknown, but whose life's labor was finally being presented to a (comparatively) wide audience.
Posted by Ted Cogswell at 9:11 PM 0 comments
Labels: Mike Vraney, RIP, Something Weird Video, Ted Cogswell