Gator chow!

                                                   Let's visit a Video Nasty from 1977.

                                          It's Tobe Hooper's horror piece, EATEN ALIVE!


              

                              And now you will watch the film?

The film is about a seedy bayou hotel whose owner, a deranged guy named Judd, has a pet crocodile that lives the waters underneath the hotel porch. Judd is a violent guy with a scythe and a chip on his shoulder.

When a prostitute comes by the hotel after being kicked out of her brothel, Judd attacks her and feeds her to his gator friend. This is your basic idea of the film. People stay at the hotel and get killed by Judd, the gator, or both.

It's a complimentary piece to Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and even stars Marilyn Burns. It also stars this familiar horror face.

                                                Robert Englund himself in an early role.

This is a fun film with a simple premise and although not super original, it was still the target of the Video Nasty mess of the early 1980s and was unsuccessfully prosecuted. 

The show must go on!

                                             And so it will with this classic piece of trash film.

                                              It's time for the BLOODSUCKING FREAKS!


                                

And now for the show! I dare you to watch it. Actually I don't care either way.

So here is some sleazy gore material from 1976! Master Sardu and his demented diminutive doofus, Ralphus run a Grand Guinol type horror theater complete with torture, mutilations, and murder all on stage. While the patrons think it is all elaborate special effects, it is actually all too real.

When a harsh critic attends the show and gives Sardu his opinions, he is kidnapped along with a beautiful balerina and subjected to some hideous and revolting acts. Sardu and Ralphus love to degrade their victims and Sardu is fond of using naked women as coffee tables and dart boards! Other fun hijinks include guillotine acts, brain drilling (and blood bubbling with a straw), and sawing off uncooperative dancers' feet!

Oh, and they also traffic sex slaves and keep a cage full of feral women in their basement.

And the Master himself likes some pain once in a while so it's all good.

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS is just an all around fun time for the whole family. That's what the review is getting at. Pretty ugly stuff but the acting and effects are so cheesy that it is hard to get too offended by it all. And if you do, well then maybe this blog ain't for you.

The green that makes you mean.

Today we're going to watch something that will put you in a haze and give you the munchies.

                                          Cheech and Chong approved, It's POT ZOMBIES!

                                                Here it is on YouTube, courtesy of Troma.

Director Justin Powers made POT ZOMBIES in 2005. The plot is simple. Marijuana that is tainted turns you into a glowing eyed zombie and then you eat people! It's not that complicated, OK?

It's a series of scenes that mix comedy and gore. And there's little animated bits too but it's not for the kids!

Here we see our old friend, Lloyd Kaufman in a small role as a "special" pizza delivery man that becomes zombie chow!

There's also a sequence with a hippy in a Volkswagon that gets pulled over by a cop. It doesn't end well for the cop.

You get the idea. It's pot jokes. 

I must admit this film is silly and stupid, not to diss Justin Powers though. Reviewers have been pretty cruel to the film. It's not a Hollywood blockbuster. It's a micro budget zombie film from Texas. I have a special reason to mention this film on Screaming Streaming. It was my first movie work. Some of the horrible added digital effects are my work, circa 2005 when I was still doing short movie parodies for YouTube. Justin's people got a hold of me and asked if I could pick up some of the slack on scenes remaining to be done so they sent me the footage, I threw in some eyes, smoke, crazy crap in the background, or whatever and sent it back.

Troma then bought the distribution rights from Fringe Media and the rest is movie history. Powers recently completed POT ZOMBIES 2 which I have yet to see but am looking forward to checking out. Until that time, see how it all began in this goofy little film.

Something for each day of the week.

Today we'll go after another German horror flick. From the man behind NEKRomantik.

It's DER TODESKING (English title: THE DEATH KING) from Jorg Buttgereit.


                          

                                                            Feel free to watch it here.

DER TODESKING is a bleak film. Not one of those great "invite you buddies over because this movie will make them feel nice" kind of films. Not exactly.

It consists of short stories, one for each day of the week that concerns a violent death or suicide. I won't bother going into details about each day. That would spoil the film. But you get the full deal here. Each segment is divided by this.

A body that slowly rots away during the course of the film. Tasty stuff.

As of now, DER TODESKING has not gotten a DVD release here in the States although it did receive a VHS distribution under Film Threat Video during the 1990s. As such, this might be your best way to see Buttgereit's depressing movie.

Barker's badass

                                                       Introducing the movie of the day.

RAWHEAD REX

                              

                                                  If you must, then you can watch it right here.

RAWHEAD REX is the film adaptation of a short story by Clive Barker. In this film, a man travels to Ireland to research religious artifacts. He witnesses a farmer trying to remove a stone pillar from his field. Let's just say that isn't the best idea because this thing is basically a big wine bottle cork holding down one nasty fella. An ancient pagan demon known as Rawhead Rex.

In addition, Rawhead also has a brainwashed deciple of doom named Declan O'Brien, who became insane after touching an altar and given hideous visions.

Rawhead feels fit to baptize the man by pissing on him, because that's how demons roll. Basically the plot consists of the researcher following Rawhead's trail of destruction and murder, unraveling the story behind the beast and looking for a way to defeat him.

In the meantime, the old brute rampages through the Irish countryside, maiming and mutilating the population as he goes.

I haven't watched this film in years and was surprised to find it on YouTube. My memory is rather rusty to be honest, hence the vague plot details. I may have to watch this one again myself. I recall loving it as a teenager during the late 1980s. 

Barker himself did not like the film adaptation of his story, mainly feeling that Rawhead looked entirely wrong. His creation is described as a "nine foot phallus with teeth" and later incarnations from the Nightbreed comic books seem to follow this idea. 

The future looks bleak.

I've been wanting to cover this film for a while and it is now available on YouTube so here we go.

                                                        It's IDAHO TRANSFER time.


                               

                        Watch it now, later. Maybe you already did watch it. Time travel paradoxes!

In a secret government facility near the Craters of the Moon lava fields in Idaho, a teenager named Karen is part of a revolutionary discovery. The scientists there have discovered time travel and learned that in some years, there will be a cataclysmic event that wipes out humans. They send young people ahead to rebuild and repopulate since older folks don't seem to handle the journey well and they often die.

The damn gob'ment eventually shuts down the program and traps the travelers in the future. And it is not a nice place to be.

Peter Fonda directed this film in 1973. It's more science fiction than horror but it's bleak and uninviting. It's an ugly future reality. It is a slow burn film but never the less, it is a fascinating and forgotten and unknown film now.

A classic double header.

                         

This is a classic promotional trailer for a double billed horror feature. It is that very pairing that we'll watch today. THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE and I DISMEMBER MAMA!

Both films are available on YouTube so you can challenge yourself and see if you can remain calm and not go berserk like the poor idiot in the trailer above!


      

                         THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE on YouTube.


                  

                               I DISMEMBER MAMA on YouTube as well!

So first off, THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE tells the tale of a newlywed couple staying at an old home. The house is filled with paintings of the husband's male ancestors but all of the paintings of the women are in the basement. One of them was a notorious killer that murdered her new husband. We then meet a woman named Carmilla that looks very much like the woman in the painting and the new bride befriends her. Through a series of nightmares and hallucinations, she falls under Carmilla's spell and the two form a lesbian relationship bound on murder and mayhem.

I DISMEMBER MAMA concerns a psychiatric patient named Albert that tried to kill his mother because he felt that all non virgin women are unclean whores. He escapes custody and heads home looking to finish off his mom. Along the way he becomes friends with a little girl named Annie. He likes her because she is pure in his eyes. But behind her back he continues to kill women to satisfy his bloodlust.

A fun duo of classic horror! Try to remain calm. Try not to lose your mind. It's THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE and I DISMEMBER MAMA, brought to you by Screaming Streaming.