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New Podcast Eposide: Monster Kid Memories!
  My good friend R. Sterling and I have recorded a new episode of The Whacky World Drive-in Podcast over at his Atomic Snack Bar YouTube Channel.This time we delve into Monster Kid Memories and as...
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Let's Go To the Movies #6 Friday 2 June 1972
 Over at the Colonial on Woodward Ave (in the exact spot where Little Caesars Arena now stands) is the Filipino produced THE HOT BOX (Their guns are hot and their bodies are hard!) with Margaret Markov...
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PAGES OF DEATH 1962
First released in 1962, this 27 minute short film purports to show the evils of pornography and its horrific effects on society with an emphasis on turning high school-age males into psychotic...
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HOLLYWOOD 90028
 "The bizarre and terrifying story of a psychotic killer"Christina Hornisher was one of the few women outside of the Corman/New World factory that directed an exploitation movie (along with Doris...
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SHRIEK OF THE MULTILATED 1974
 "Piece By Piece, By Piece, the Bodies Vanish in ... Shriek of the Mutilated"One of the more bizarre offerings amid 70’s cinema bigfoot/yeti mania, SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED is the cinema offspring of...
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Favorite Catalog Releases From 2021
This has been an unbelievable year for catalog releases and this list could very easily go into the dozens so here's a list of a just few of my favorites.I remember paying $20.00 for multi-gen bootleg...
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Let's Go To The Movies # 5 Fri. 28 June 1974
 One week 'till the 4th of July and lots of cool stuff playing around town! Playing multiple drive-ins around Detroit (including the inspiration for this blog's title), it doesn't get much better than...
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CHI L'HA VISTA MORIRE? aka WHO SAW HER DIE? 1972
 Hosted by Realweegiemidget Reviews & Pale WriterAlong with UNIVERSAL SOLDIER released in 1971, this was Lazenby's first role after his one-and-done tenure in the Bond series and unlike the role in...
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Let's Go To The Movies # 4 Fri. 12 Oct 1973
 Crisp Midwest fall Oct. evening with only a couple of weeks 'till Halloween ! Lots of re-releases this week as the drive-in season winds down in Detroit, Michigan. The magnificent Tamera Dobson in...
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THE TODD KILLINGS 1971
"Right out of today's headlines! The youth cult...the buried bodies...the shocking impact of what is happening now!"Â Released in the midst of that early 70's sub-genre of murderous teens (or hippies)...
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Let's Go To The Movies # 3 Fri. 13 June 1975
 Here's a (hopefully) nice early summer Fri. evening in Detroit. So lets see what's playing!There's a double feature of COMBAT COPS (aka THE GET-MAN aka THE ZEBRA KILLER) and last year's DETROIT...
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THE FARMER 1977
"They Committed Murder, Rape, Arson and One Mistake...They left The Farmer Alive""He doesn't get mad. He gets even."Â After decades of being unavailable and morphing into one of the great holy grails of...
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LA FRUSTA E IL CORPO (THE WHIP AND THE BODY aka WHAT) 1963
 Hosted by Cinematic Catharsis and RealWeegieMidget Reviews It could be argued that Mario Bava reached his pinnacle as a director in 1963. There was the classic anthology I TRE VOLTI DELLA PAURA (BLACK...
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I DON'T WANT TO BE BORN aka THE DEVIL WITHIN HER 1975
 Hosted by RealWeegieMidget Reviews"Conceived by the Devil, only she knows what her baby really is!""Pray for the Devil Within Her...before it preys on you!""You will have a baby - a monster, an evil...
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THE ANGRY RED PLANET 1959
 Hosted By Taking Up Room"Cinemagic And You Take a Trip To The Angry Red Planet!""The hell with radiation... Let's go!"Made at the tail end of the 50's sci-fi boom and released by A.I.P., THE ANGRY RED...
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HOLLYWOOD HORROR HOUSE aka SAVAGE INTRUDER 1970
 "A New High In Terror and Shock!"Made on the downside of the trend of casting actresses from Hollywood's golden age in horror and/or exploitative films that had started with Robert Aldrich's WHATEVER...
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OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE 1967
 The Home Sweet Home Blogathon Hosted By Reelweegiemidget Reviews& Taking Up Room"We know a secret...We won't tell. For if we tell, we'll go to hell"After spending years in the British film system...
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TRUCK TURNER 1974
Black, Bold and Bloody Mean! "Anybody ask you what happened, tell 'em you've been hit by a truck...Mac "Truck" Turner!" In recent years blaxploitation has been parodied and riffed on so much that the...
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RUN ANGEL RUN 1969
 "He Squealed On His Gang...And The Word Was Out...WASTE HIM!" RUN ANGEL RUN from 1969 is notable for having several "firsts" attached to it. It was the first biker film that William Smith (THE LOSERS...
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Force Of Evil 1948
 The Marie Windsor Blogathon Hosted By Toby Roan over at 50 Westerns From The 50's   While undoubtedly a film-noir (and one of the best IMO) Abraham Polonsky's 1948 FORCE OF EVIL while containing the...
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