Take three murderous scumbags, two cut-rate superheroes, several rock and roll music numbers, some dumb-assed slapstick, a seemingly never-ending chase through the streets of LA, a guy in a cheesy gorilla suit and a final showdown in Topanga Canyon (whose scenery the director couldn’t resist) and you’ve got RAT PFINK A BOO BOO
Apparently the most authoritative overview of the splatter movie phenomenon ever published—or so I’ve been told
It’s an article of faith among many film buffs that the top filmmakers of the so-called movie brat generation (Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, etc) all had “monumental” debuts
Here’s one for fans of late sixties cinematic self-indulgence, of which this film stands as a particularly outrageous example
Made back in 1969 by the veteran character actor Clu Gulager, A DAY WITH THE BOYS packs a punch that time has not diluted; it is, quite simply, one of the most powerful short films I’ve seen in some time
A fascinating made-for-TV experiment by the late Jim Henson, proving his talents extended far beyond the Muppets
A far weirder-than-average potboiler from the sixties. It’s a druggy adventure set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, starring the one and only Vincent Price
This lunatic late sixties obscurity, a hippified take on THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, is hardly a buried treasure. It is fun, though, an unforgettably whacked-out wallow in gore and sleaze!
The first and thus far only book about Jack Hill, arguably the greatest exploitation movie director of the grindhouse era
This posthumously published memoir is a frank and fast moving book about which my only real complaint is that, at just 197 pages, it’s far too short