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CONVENTION GIRLS to screen at the Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers on September 28!
Temple of Schlock co-founder and editor Chris Poggiali will introduce a super rare screening of Joseph Adler's CONVENTION GIRLS (#16 on our Endangered List) at the Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers on Sunday,...
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Guest Review: Italian All Night Splatterfest (Phoenixville, 8/30/2014)
Former 'zine editor Tim Mayer is back with another festival review, this time from the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA, famous for its appearance in THE BLOB (1958). These days Tim runs the blog...
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Movie Ad of the Week: INSIDE LAURA ANTONELLI (1979)
Big thanks to Raleigh Bronkowski of Screen 13 for sending us this week's ad in response to a Mystery Movie post we ran a couple of months ago. INSIDE LAURA ANTONELLI, which played U.S. theaters in 1979...
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Guest Review: TIGER BY THE TAIL (1969)
Il nostro buon amico Tim Ferrante, a 30-year-plus veteran of the world of fandom, returns to the Temple today for another installment of "Guest Reviews." In addition to writing for such publications as...
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Mystery Movie: KUNG FU COPS (1975)
Something called KUNG FU COPS opened in Buffalo, NY on April 30, 1975. Both the title and the artwork are new to us. Any ideas?
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Movie Ad of the Week: GRINGO (1985) a.k.a. STORY OF A JUNKIE (1987)
GRINGO, Lech Kowalski's grim documentary about one-eyed East Village smack addict John Spaceley, opened at the Waverly Twin (now the IFC Center) on November 22, 1985.The release expanded to three outer...
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Mystery Movie: THE STRANGE LOVE LIFE OF HITLER (1972)
An adult movie titled THE STRANGE LOVE LIFE OF HITLER opened in Seattle on March 31, 1972 with ad art swiped from LOVE CAMP 7. It could be a re-titling of that film, or it could be something else, like...
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Movie Ad of the Week: FIREBIRD 2015 A.D. (1981)
Hot on the heels of THE LAST CHASE and GAS, two other Canadian tax shelter movies released in 1981 and inspired by the energy crisis of two years earlier, the not very prophetic FIREBIRD 2015 A.D....
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Movie Ad of the Week: SUPER FUZZ hits Yonkers! (May 14, 1982)
Avco Embassy began a really slow regional roll-out of the Terence Hill super(supahhhh!) comedy SUPER FUZZ in October 1981, and it took seven months for it to reach the New York City area. The B.S. Moss...
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Watch It Now! OVERLAPPING SCENARIOS (2014) Directed by Eduardo Miyar
Hey everyone! Here's OVERLAPPING SCENARIOS (2014), a clever Florida-shot indie short from director Eduardo Miyar and writer Don Guarisco. Mondo-Digital's Nathaniel Thompson describes it as a "crafty...
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Movie Ad of the Week: NURSES REPORT w/ THE EXTERMINATOR (1975)
Here's an odd double bill that played two Buffalo drive-ins the week of April 16, 1975: An R-rated West German "sex report" and a PG-rated French thriller with Jean-Paul Belmondo! DER...
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Endangered Fest II is next month in Austin!
Holy schlock! Endangered Fest II is less than a month away, and except for the Facebook and Twitter announcements we made over a month ago, we've hardly done any promotion! Well, let's get to it now!...
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Mystery Movies Solved! CAMPUS TEASERS and NAUGHTY FRESHMEN
Thanks to Sebastian del Castillo of the American Genre Film Archive, who provided us with frame shots from a couple of AGFA prints, we've been able to ID two more mystery titles from the shadowy SRC...
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Movie Ad of the Week: THE OLD MASTER w/ DRAGON SQUAD (1982)
A kung fu double bill of THE OLD MASTER and DRAGON SQUAD opened at the Paramount Theater in Newark, NJ on January 1, 1982. The top attraction is a Joseph Kuo movie, SHI FU CHU MA (1979), while the...
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Exhumed Films presents DRIVE-IN ZOMBIEFEST! Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24
On Memorial Day weekend, Exhumed Films will be partnering with the Mahoning Drive-In to present the first-ever DRIVE-IN ZOMBIEFEST! We'll be showing a weekend-long retrospective featuring nine walking...
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Blue Movie Monday: "In the Flesh" series returns to Anthology Film Archives!
Anthology Film Archives32 Second AvenueNew York, NY 10003(212) 505-5181Anthology Film Archives' scintillating series "In the Flesh" explores the years when sexually explicit movies that emphasized...
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Movie Ad of the Week: THE JAWS OF DEATH (1977)
THE JAWS OF DEATH, William Grefe's JAWS-meets-WILLARD mix starring Richard Jaeckel, began its regional release through Cannon in July of 1976. It opened in the New York City area on March 18, 1977 --...
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NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER in 35mm this Thursday at the Nitehawk!
Hey everyone! Chris P. will be at the Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn this Thursday night, August 13th, to introduce a rare 35mm showing of the amazing NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER! This event, part of the “The...
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MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE screening & soundtrack premiere in Brooklyn on Oct....
Hey gang! The New York City premiere of the HD restored MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE (1966) will be at the Nitehawk Cinema on Wednesday, October 7th at 7:30 P.M. and is being hosted by the folks at Ship to...
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