I can’t find any info on Monkey Go Round other than it was made in Germany and released in the States by the venerable Castle Films in 1961. There’s no mention of the movie in the Castle Catalog. If anybody knows anything about the history of this little gem, please share.
MegaForce (1982)
The combination of ultra-cheesy blue-screen effects, a motorcycle that looks like it’s made of Styrofoam and garbage can lids, gold lamé jumpsuit and the actors’ goofy reaction shots make this scene from Megaforce a classic of ‘so bad it’s good’ cinema. A cult favorite - Matt Stone and Trey Parker paid homage to Megaforce in Team America: World Police and an episode of South Park - it’s inexplicably never been released on DVD. I’d love to hear director Hal Needham’s commentary.
“Megaforce, a phantom Army of super elite fighting men whose weapons are the most powerful science can devise”
The appropriately goofy theme song was written by Jerrold Immel.
Are the Olsen Twins channeling the Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black?!
Happy Halloween!
via Kembra Pfahler
We totally had one of these. Always good when it threw the last few records out of the slots due to momentum once it got going. Good times.
Bonus 8 track selector after the jump…
Comrade Vladimir Putin has proven himself to be more than just Ruler of All Russia (surely Prime Minster? - Ed.) - a dab hand at judo, a master of swimming, an ace shot, a singer, and excellent at going topless in public. It is, therefore, no surprise that some wag (surely Right Wing Capitalist Lackey? - Ed.) has a comic strip, poking fun at VP and his idiosyncratic ways. The strip comes at an interesting time, as Putin, who has had the highest approval rating of any world leader, may stand for re-election as President in Russia’s 2012 elections.
Bonus strip and Putin sings video after the jump…
Pre-Halloween disco grooviness.
Hot Blood’s classic ‘Soul Dracula’ was released in 1975. Here’s a clip from French TV
Here’s an amusing site dedicated to the fine art of crappy vintage American postcards from 1950 to 1975. I found some of these postcards to be truly hysterical.
View more postcards after the jump…
The Burning Hell, produced by Baptist minister Estus Pirkle and directed by exploitation schlockmeister Ron Ormond, is one of the creepiest Christian scare films you’ll see. It was released in 1974 with a promotional campaign that included the ghastly catchphrase “20,000 degrees Fahrenheit and not a drop of water!” The film was screened in churches, where it scared the living shit out of children. Ormond was the Hershell Gordon Lewis of religiosity.
The entire film is available on Youtube. Unfortunately, most of the film isn’t as freakishly over-the-top as this clip.
Another fiendish concoction by Pirkle and Ormond is the 1971 “red scare’ laff riot If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?. This flick imagines a world in which the Communists take over America. The only way to avert such a crisis is to believe in God and pray to Him daily. Okay?
In this scene, a little boy loses his head over Jesus. This would have totally freaked me out when I was a kid. Looks like a scene out of 2000 Maniacs.
Thanks Ralph Carney
In what is beyond the shadow of a doubt UK pop crooner Paul Young’s finest moment I have somehow found the mythical and difficult to obtain Dangerous Minds toaster post. I guess this was a top 20 hit in Blighty back in ‘78. Fine topic for a tune,really. Any song wherein actual toast is used as an instrument is just fine by me. Every time you go away you take a piece of toast with you.
Thanks again, Tony Coulter !
