I cast a somewhat wider net with this update than I’ve managed to do in a while:
Crippled Avengers (1978), which isn’t 12.5% as squirmy as that other kung fu movie with “crippled” in the title…
Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay (1971), in which King Arthur’s evil half-sister decides that collecting hot chicks is way more fun than thwarting Grail quests and tricking knights into betting each other their heads…
The Invincible Kung Fu Brothers (1976), in which Chang Cheh’s fourth Shaolin Temple movie looks remarkably like his second…
Shaolin Temple (1976), in which the fifth one, on the other hand, breaks quite a bit of new ground…
Mutant (1984), which isn’t about mutants so much as it is about acidic zombies and ornery rednecks…
The Red House (1947), which always gets awkwardly shoehorned into discussions about film noir and the most aridly fallow period of American horror cinema, even though it’s really a very well-disguised gothic mystery…
and…
Teenage Zombies (1959), in which I regret to inform you that Jerry Warren is at it again.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
#1 by Chris on October 10, 2024 - 10:01 am
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“And if you rented Mutant on VHS, like I kept almost doing throughout the second half of the 1980’s, then you got suckered in by one of the truly great Damned Dirty Lie box covers of the era.” GUILTY! Boy, what a disappointing afternoon that was…
I forgot all about The Intruder Within, hope you get around to it someday.
#2 by Solipsody on October 24, 2024 - 8:35 am
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Two misleadingly titled zombie movies, with two Dr. Myras, one directed by a J. Warren and the second played by a J. Warren? An excruciating double bill, sure, but a great premise for one of those stupid time-loop horror movies.
#3 by El Santo on October 25, 2024 - 11:31 am
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…how in the hell did I not notice that?!
#4 by Supersonic on November 14, 2024 - 8:51 am
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The idea of misplacing a habitable island in a lake that you can see across from any nearby hill may be more amusing than the actual movie.