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Movie Ad of the Week: CALLIOPE (1971) a.k.a. LOVE IS CATCHING (1972)
World Premiere - Wednesday, November 17, 1971 - Los Angeles, CAAfter its release in Los Angeles through Allied Artists, CALLIOPE -- Matt Cimber's goofy take-off of La Ronde -- emerged a year later with...
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Don't miss Chris P's first podcast appearance!
Last month Bill Ackerman of the great Supporting Characters podcast interviewed Po Man about his "many endeavors in film culture, from co-creating the Temple Of Schlock fanzine and founding the...
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Movie Ad of the Week: HE KILLS WITHOUT WARNING (1981)
The Taiwanese production DA YING WANG (1978), a.k.a. THE EAGLE KING and starring Hua Tsung, was released to theaters in the U.S. beginning in 1981 as HE KILLS WITHOUT WARNING by Unifilm International.
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Movie Ad of the Week: SKIP TRACER (1977-1979)
If you listened to my interview on the podcast Supporting Characters last week, you heard me speaking fondly of Manhattan stores like Record Explosion and Entertainment Outlet, which had bins of cheap...
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Movie Ad of the Week: KUNG FU MANIAC (1981)
BAI CU SHI FU KOU CU TOU (1979) a.k.a. THE EAGLE'S KILLER - a Hong Kong production starring Hwang Jang-Lee ("King of the Legfighters") and John Cheung (Chang Wu-liang) - was released to theaters in the...
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Movie Ad of the Week: BLACK ON WHITE (1969) a.k.a. THE ARTFUL PENETRATION and...
Released by Audubon Films with a self-applied X rating, Tinto Brass' pop art stunner NEROSUBIANCO/BLACK ON WHITE had its U.S. premiere in New York City on October 10, 1969. Within a few months the...
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Movie Ad of the Week: NEXT! a.k.a. THE NEXT VICTIM (1971)
In the early 1970s, several European productions were announced in the trades as coming soon from Gemini Pictures International. In addition to making their own films, Gemini acquired some completed...
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Mystery Movie Solved! HUMDINGER!!! (1976)
Back in November, trusted Temple of Schlock correspondent Mike MacCollum took a break from bombarding us with PSYCHED BY THE 4D WITCH research to send out a text message in which he asked "Hey, is...
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Movie Ad of the Week: TO BE A ROSE (1981)
Filmed in the fall of 1973, William A. Levey's TO BE A ROSE - starring sexploitation starlet Sandra Dempsey - got picked up for distribution by Cinemation Industries in 1974, retitled THE PROSTITUTE,...
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Mystery Movie Solved! FARMGIRL FANTASIES (1980)
Back in April of 2010 we posted about an unknown Troma release titled FARMGIRL FANTASIES that had received an R rating in September 1980 but contained a lot of bogus credits in its advertising,...
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Movie Ad of the Week: FURY OF ROAMING MONK (1981)
The Taiwanese martial arts movie YOU FANG HE SHANG (1980) a.k.a. SHAOLIN MONK FIGHTS BACK and THE WANDERING MONK, was released to U.S. theaters by Unifilm International beginning in 1981 as FURY OF...
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Endangered List updates!
We have several new Endangered List entries that have been waiting in the wings for a while, but before we post those we thought we'd better do a quick recap of last year's finds. Vinegar Syndrome's...
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Movie Play Ad of the Week: SECTION 8 (1971)
Live performances of SECTION 8, Andy Milligan's stage play about homosexuality in the military (written under his Gerald Jackson pseudonym), began on May 25th, 1971 at the Jewel Theatre, one of Chelly...
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The Endangered List (Case File #169)
BANDITS ON THE WIND(1961)a.k.a. YATO KAZE NO NAKA O HASHIRUStarringYôsuke Natsuki (Taro)Makoto Satô (Gale)Somegorô Ichikawa (Gen)Izumi Yukimura (Kayo)Chishû Ryû (Village Priest)Akiko Wakabayashi...
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Mystery Movies: DEATH MASK OF THE NINJA (1981) and THE JACKY CHAN CONNECTION...
When DEATH MASK OF THE NINJA was first issued on videotape in March 1986 by Master Arts Video, "The finest in martial arts entertainment," it was revealed to be the Shaw Brothers production SHAOLIN...
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Movie Ad of the Week: NINJA STRIKES BACK (1981)
The Hong Kong production QI QIAO FENG HUANG BI YU DAO (1979) a.k.a. BRUCE TUAN'S 7 PROMISES was released to U.S. theaters by Unifilm International beginning in 1981 as NINJA STRIKES BACK, and is not to...
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A CONVERSATION WITH TONY ANTHONY - This Saturday at 7:00 PM (EST)
Hey everyone! Don't miss the special Zoom event A CONVERSATION WITH TONY ANTHONY this Saturday, March 20, at 7 PM (EST). Included in the program is a "A Long Journey," a 70+ minute audio interview...
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Movie Ad of the Week: THE MEATEATER (1979)
THE MEATEATER, filmed in and around the dilapidated Crest Theatre in Monrovia, CA in 1977 by indie filmmaker Derek Savage, opened in two theaters in Fresno, CA on March 14, 1979. Chris Poggiali and...
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Movie Ad of the Week: A FIST FOR A FIST (1981)
The Taiwanese martial arts movie LANG ZI DI SHI SAN (1980) a.k.a. TRIUMPH BY TWO KUNG FU ARTS, was released in the U.S. by Unifilm International as A FIST FOR A FIST beginning in 1981.
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Movie Ad of the Week: KAIJU JAKUMA NO MOSHU w/ GYAKUSHU AMANO HASHIDATE (1961)
Two 60-minute, black-and-white Toei productions -- KAIJU JAKUMA NO MOSHU (a.k.a. STRIKE OF THE JAGUMA) and its sequel, GYAKUSHU AMANO HASHIDATE -- opened on a double bill at the Toyo Theatre in...
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