THE MIND PARASITES
A bizarre book with an even more bizarre history
YOR: THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE
One of the more endearingly ridiculous entries in the early 1980s sword and sorcery movie craze was this Italian-Turkish co-production, which plays like an unholy mash-up of QUEST FOR FIRE, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and STAR WARS
IT’S ALIVE III: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE
The second sequel to IT’S ALIVE (following 1978’s IT LIVES AGAIN) was this straight to video goof from 1987
Remembering that which is Better Forgotten: NOT A LOVE STORY and THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE
Here I’m going look at 1981’s NOT A LOVE STORY: A FILM ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY, one of the most infamous documentaries of its time, and 1984’s THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE, which is considerably less well known
THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Fact: everything you’ve heard about this, the notorious STAR WARS Christmas TV Special, is true
SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY
Holiday movie imbecility from the Florida underground
FREAKED
My taste for ridiculous movie novelizations continues
RESURRECTION DREAMS
Not a very good book, I’m afraid, although RESURRECTION DREAMS is an enjoyable enough goof
2017: A Look Back in Bedlam
Here we have the latest installment of my Look Back in Bedlam end-of-the-year overview of topics that are of particular interest to this site–and Bedlam, it turns out, was indeed the word for 2017
JAWS at 40
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the June 20, 1975 release of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS