Maniacal Movie Poster Monday #207!

The Devil's Messenger  (Herts-Lion International Corp, 1961)

Lon Chaney (having dropped the Jr. some time before) went to Sweden and shot scenes hosting a creepy anthology horror show called 13 Demon Street which only played overseas. A few years later, an American film company bought the rights to string three episodes together and release it as an ersatz movie in the US. It's not bad, and it's always nice to see Jr. You can find the movie in countless bargain DVD sets.










Invisible Invaders  (United Artists, 1959)

How can you go wrong with 50's sci fi starring John Agar and John Carradine? You can't, if you like those guys and 50's sci fi!











Panic in Year Zero  (American International Pictures, 1962)

This is a cool little low budget thriller - with Ray Milland both directing and starring - as an atomic apocalypse leaves handfuls of survivors spread across the country - and as usual, the end of the world always brings out the worst in people. I like that the musical score by Les Baxter gets more poster real estate than Ray's directing credit, buried at the bottom of the poster.









Until next post, you Can Poke Me With A Fork, Cause I Am Outta Here!

Saturday Night at the Movies 3/14/15!

Who cares what picture we see?



Bernard Cribbins surely would - so we will go with this one tonight...

Alfred Hitchcock's last great film - about a crazed strangler choking his way around London - with a terrific cast and all the cool Hitchcock touches. I was taken to see it as a wee lad - I remember bits and pieces of that viewing - and have only seen it one time since as an adult.


I did just add the DVD to the video vault - so we could be working ourselves into a frenzy anytime - even tonight - if your couch doesn't have a stranglehold on you and you feel like coming over...









Until next post, you Can Poke Me With A Fork, Cause I Am Outta Here!

Celebrity Endorsement: Patty Mullen!

She's asked the world if it might "wanna date?" thanks to an talking VHS box -

And now Frankenhooker herself - the ageless and gorgeous Patty Mullen - shows she knows good pop culture blogging when she sees it:

Thanks, Ms. Mullen!










Until next post - you Can Poke Me With A Frankenhooker, Cause I Am Outta Here!

Maniacal Movie Poster Monday #206!

I Married a Monster from Outer Space  (Paramount Pictures, 1958)

This is a cool little 50's sci-fi flick. On their wedding night, Tom Tryon is replaced by an alien - and poor Gloria Talbott doesn't realize it - at first. Eventually she figures it out - including that she's not the only woman married to one - and learns the aliens' plan - to mate with Earth women to repopulate their planet. Creepy!















Thar She Blows!  (Entertainment Ventures, 1968)

Oh look! It's one of David F. Friedman's patented soft core nudie sex flicks. Well, how could the perpetually 15 year old boy who lives inside me resist this title or the other dirty puns on the poster?











The Brute Man  (Producer's Releasing Corporation, 1946)

Universal shot this in 1945, once again playing off star Rondo Hatton's real life disfigurement from acromegaly. When Hatton passed away after production before the film's release - Universal got nervous about their exploitation of his condition and shelved the movie. They then sold it to PRC who put it out a year later.









Until next post, you Can Poke Me With A Fork, Cause I Am Outta Here!

Saturday Night at the Movies 3/7/15!

Who cares what picture we see?



Tomisaburo Wakayama most certainly would, so we will choose this as tonight's feature...


(The trailer is somewhat NSFW - so watch accordingly)

Starting out as a very popular manga in 1970, this didn't take long to get adapted to film, premiering as Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance in 1972. The story has disgraced ronin samurai Ogami Itto roaming the Japanese countryside sometime during the Edo period (1608-1868) with his young son in a baby cart. They get into and out of trouble - mainly thanks to Ogami's near-supernatural skill with his dotanuki sword. The movie was so popular they made three sequels in 1972 alone (!) then two more in the next two successive years.

More interesting factoids - star Tomisaburo Wayayama is the brother of Shintaro Katsu - star of the 26 Zatoichi movies - another master swordsman on a never ending journey around ancient Japan. Katsu also was a producer of Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance!


This is a wild flick, with near balletic fight scenes and blood spraying in artful gouts - definitely an influence on Quentin Tarantino for his Kill Bill movies. I have the whole Lone Wolf and Cub movie series in a nice slim Blu-Ray set and we could be watching the Itto boys anytime - even tonight - if you wanted to come over and check it out with me.







Until next post, you Can Poke Me With A Fork, Cause I Am Outta Here!

February Watchlist!

Here's everything I watched in the month of February: (this does not include a lot that was watched with my wondrous wife Suze - just my own personal watchlist - although Suze may have watched some of this with me.)





Burn Notice: "Mind Games"  (Streaming - Netflix)

Midnight Chronicles  (DVD)

Batman  Chapter Four  (1943 serial)  (DVD)

Dagmar's Hot Pants, Inc.  (Streaming - Netflix)

Star Trek - Deep Space Nine: "Emissary"  (Streaming - Netflix)

The Day the Earth Moved  (DVD)

The Simpsons: "The Wreck of the Relationship"  (DVR - Recorded from Fox)

The Flash: "Plastique"  (DVR - Recorded from Fox)

Guns  (DVD)

Burn Notice: "No Good Deed"  (Streaming - Netflix)

The Slams  (DVR - Recorded from TCM)

Batman  Chapter Five  (1943 serial)  (DVD)

Here Comes Trouble  (VHS - recorded from TCM)

Star Trek - Deep Space Nine: "A Man Apart"  (Streaming - Netflix)

Seems Like Old Times  (DVR - Recorded from TCM)

The Simpsons: "Super Franchise Me"  (DVR - Recorded from Fox)

Gotham: "The Mask"  (DVR - Recorded from Fox)

Mixed Blood  (DVR - Recorded from TCM)

Burn Notice: "Square One"  (Streaming - Netflix)

Convict 762  (DVD)

Batman  Chapter Six  (1943 serial)  (DVD)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown  (2014)  (Streaming - Netflix)

Star Trek - Deep Space Nine: "Past Prologue"  (Streaming - Netflix)

Elvira's Movie Macabre: "The House That Screamed"  (DVD)

The Simpsons: "Opposites A-Frack"  (DVR - Recorded from Fox)

The Flash: "The Flash is Born"  (DVR - Recorded from Fox)

Lone Wolf and Cub - Sword of Vengeance  (Blu-Ray)

Burn Notice: "Enemy of My Enemy"  (Streaming - Netflix)

Until next post, you Can Poke Me With A Fork, Cause I Am Outta Here!

Maniacal Movie Poster Monday #205!

Girl on a Chain Gang  (Jerry Gross Productions, 1965)

For easier reading -

I haven't seen this potboiler, but reviews on the IMDB do not indicate incipient quality. I guess that's no surprise coming from good ol' Jerry Gross. And of course, I'd watch it anytime.













House of the Dead  (Artisan Entertainment, 2003)

This seems to be the movie that put director Uwe Boll on everyone's radar, and mostly with a giant bullseye painted on him. I haven't seen the movie (and can well imagine those who have will chide me to check it out and see how awful it is). I probably will give it a shot one of these days.












For Love & Money  (Crest Pictures Corporation, 1967)

Seemingly just another "look at those big boobs" movie - and I see nothing wrong with that, by the way - but this one does boast a story written by Ed Wood, Jr. - which increases the appeal of seeing it immensely.









Until next post, you Can Poke Me With A Uwe Boll Movie, Cause I Am Outta Here!