Toby and Butch (Michael Coby and Paul Smith playing Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail. Starring Michael Coby, Paul Smith, and Dominic Barto. Also known as Convoy Buddies.
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthals. Starring Doug McClure, John McEnery, and Susan Penhaligon. Based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, this British movie is pretty corny but fun.
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade a small town, replicating the residents one body at a time. Starring Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Brooke Adams, and Jeff Goldblum. A remake of the 1956 movie. This body snatching thing has been going on for decades. Must be a government cover-up.
In 1895, in a small town ravaged by the Mexican Revolution, the revolutionary leader Aguila and his men massacre the town's locals and the military garrison soldiers. Ten years later Aguila, now a reformed priest, encounters a newly-arrived woman, Alvira, who is looking for those responsible for murdering her husband. The town is run by the corrupt Don Carlos who promises to help Alvira find those who killed her husband in return for the gold reward Alvira is offering. Everything is complicated by the sudden arrival of the Mexican Army led by a brutal Colonel whose face looks very familiar to the town priest. Starring Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Martin Landau, and Stella Stevens. A spaghetti western with a good English cast. Robert Shaw went on to make JAWS.
A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure. The islanders are just as determined to keep their sacred treasure. Complications ensue. Starring Patrick Wayne, John Ashley, and Leigh Christian. Filmed in the Philippines this movie was supposed to be R-rated with topless women. Patrick Wayne, son of John Wayne, insisted that the movie be a family friendly PG. A curious and fun movie—for the whole family!
Cheerleaders attending a cheer camp are stalked by a masked murderer. Starring Tom Sizemore, Todd Bridges, James Duval, and Krista Grotte Saxon. What could be more fun than a bunch of cheerleaders being stalked by a murderer? Who is behind that mask? In Gore-a-Rama.
After being falsely accused of being insane and put in a asylum so his wicked aunt and her daughters could steal his money, a recently released young man returns to seek the ultimate revenge against them. Starring Renaud Verley, Viveca Lindfors, and Alfredo Mayo. A Spanish horror film with some good moments. Director Claudio Guerín fell from the tower housing the title bell on the last day of shooting and was killed. The film was then completed by Juan Antonio Bardem. This is the sort of a horror film fulfilling its own prophecy. A curiosity for horror film fans.
During an all-girl secret society initiation, one of the new members is killed playing Russian Roulette. Many years later the survivors are invited for a reunion to a lavish estate, which turns out to be owned by the crazed father of the girl who died. Starring Arthur Franzl Claudia Jennings, Cheri Howell. The revenge-for-a-fraternity/sorority-prank-gone-wrong is an old cliché in horror movies nowadays but it was pretty original back in 1972 when this movie was made in California (but not released until 1977).
Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set up a stronghold just out of the cavalry's reach in Mexico, Kaleb is given amnesty in exchange for leading a small band of especially trained soldiers to wipe out the Indian stronghold. Starring Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors and John Huston. Chuck Conners sort of replays his Branded television role in this Italian-Yugoslav film made in Spain starring Yugoslav actor Fehmiu. Also known as The Devil's Backbone.
Lazar, a feared bounty hunter know for killing the bounties rather than taking them alive goes to a small gold mining town to blackmail Barrett, a former bandit and now a gold mine owner who is ruling the little town with a iron fist with the help of his band of hard men. Lazar is followed to the town by a young gunfighter with an agenda of his own. Lazar eventually teams up with the gunfighter to conclude the blackmail, but not everyone is after the gold. Starring Jack Betts (Hunt Powers), Franco Borelli, and Benito Pacifico. Also known as Stranger That Kneels Beside the Shadow of a Corpse, this spaghetti western takes a while to get going but eventually the gun slinging gets going…
Wilford Butler returns home on Christmas Eve and his house had been turned into a mental institution for the criminally insane. But the day of his return, he is set on fire and dies. The locals believe his death was an accident, and the institution-house is later closed down. Wilford leaves the house to his grandson Jeffrey. A few years later, Jeffrey finally decides to sell this grandfather's house, but the towns people including the Mayor have mixed feelings on keeping people away from the house, especially when a serial killer escapes from another institution and finds refuge there. The killer makes frightening phone calls and kills anyone coming near the house. But what does the killer have in common with what happened to Wilford Butler years before? Staring Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, and John Carradine. One of the early crazy axe-killer movies. Wait till Halloween comes around! This movie was rated R when it came out, not for sexual content but for the gore. Today it is PG.
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter, Tania Frankenstein and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor's daughter. Starring Joseph Cotton, Rosalba Neri, and Paul Muller. The theatrical version of this spaghetti horror movie contained a bit of R-rated skin. It ends abruptly without any credits. Where is Peter Cushing?
Sweeney, a divorced man, is willing to do anything, even kidnapping, to win back his wife. He stands a fair chance as the ex-mates continue to sleep together, despite the fact that she's remarried. How far will he go to conquer his beloved once again? It's up to a team of New York cops to try and make sense of the crime. Starring Anthony Newley, Stefanie Powers, Isaac Hayes, and John Candy. A Canadian comedy filmed in Toronto as New York with John Candy in an early role. Got to love Stephanie Powers, The Girl From UNCLE.
Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life just before a big jump. Written by Alan Caillou of Cabot Cain fame and Assault on Agathon. Starring George Hamilton, Sue Lyon, Bert Freed and Evel Knievel in the authentic motorcycle jump footage. Evel Knieval was the number one son of Butte, Montana and the night this film came out he barhopped throughout Butte, buying everyone drinks.
On a South African plantation, a maniac is on the loose, first killing the estate's animals, then starting on the human members. A man who is "cursed" and has an evil brother, brings his young fiancée to his home. His mother tries to drive her away because she wants to see the lineage end. The brother is apparently deformed and mad and stares from the window upstairs. Starring Mark Burns, Shirley Anne Field, and David Oxley. A South African horror film with a few surprises.
Sartana, bounty hunter and gunfighter, witnesses the robbery of a shipment of gold. He finds his way into town where he meets with Samuel Spencer, who seems to own the company in this company town. The gold shipments are being stolen, so Spencer agrees to hire Sartana to protect the next gold shipment. Numerous dull-witted villains make attempts on Sartana's life, but he survives. Eventually, Sartana's nemesis Sabbath (he of the white coat and parasol) rides into town. With a showdown inevitable, Sartana and Sabbath square off to settle the score. Starring George Hilton, Charles Southwood, and Erika Blanc. Also known as Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, this is a decent Spaghetti Western with the Clint Eastwood look-alike George Hilton who smokes a thin cigar and lights dynamite with it.
Nurse Charlotte Beale arrives at the isolated Stephens Sanitarium to work, only to learn that Dr. Stephens was murdered by one of the patients and his successor, Dr. Geraldine Masters, is not very eager to take on new staff. Charlotte finds her job maddeningly hard as the patients torment and harass her at every turn, and she soon learns why Dr. Masters is so eager to keep outsiders out. Starring Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, and Robert Dracup. The perfect retro-drive-in feature! Careful with that axe Eugene! Before the Texas Chainsaw Massacre there was Don’t Look in the Basement!
The meanest villain in the West falls for a pretty schoolteacher and tries to change his ways, but a determined (and egomaniacal) singing sheriff is out to capture him. Staring John Astin, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn and Henry Gibson in this hilarious western spoof. Sort of the Adams Family meets Blazing Saddles.
The brothers, a couple of ne'er-do-wells, turn a sleepy mining town upside-down in their search for quick riches in this comedy western. Staring John Astin, Pat Carroll and Lee Meriweather. Sort of the Adams Family meets Blazing Saddles.
An intelligence officer working for the United Nations is sent to investigate events surrounding some of the world's leaders. He discovers a plot by former Nazi scientists who are intending replacing the leaders with brainwashed clones in order to return the Third Reich to power. Starring Robert Vaughn, Merrie Lynn Ross, Keenan Wynn. The Man From Uncle Meets the Nazi Clones? Yikes!
