Comet TV’s been running a MST3K marathon all day today. I’ve been listening more than watching, but it’s still fun.
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Cult film geek fact sharing time.
Maciste who nobody outside of Italy much less North America knew who he was so the movies got renamed to Hercules, Sons of Hercules, Samson, or some such familiar strongman name. This one in particular was originally named Maciste And The Queen of Samara
Fun fact all these films are dubbed. The actors would just say their lines in whatever language they knew because the Italian, English, German, etc would be dubbed in during post.
In other fun times I finally saw all of Dolemite. I saw the first 30 minutes or so some time ago and got distracted. It was quite fun.
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You watched that rat soup eatin’, low self-esteem movie maker?
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And enjoyed every stupid minute of it.
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I prefer classier films, but I will condescend to mention that Burt Lancaster worked on such a production.
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The whole dubbing of Italian films thing was done at all levels, from pure schlock all the way up to highbrow art films.
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Rifftrax has generously added “The Guy From Harlem” to its YouTube channel at no cost to you.
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A legitimately interesting interview.
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A Z-grade director with a vomit fetish.
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May I suggest the wonderful classic of action cinema that is Samurai Cop?
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This looks amazingly awful…
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Cannot possibly be that bad when they have three-word combos like:
Erotic Hitwoman Thriller
and
Ballroom-Dancing Geisha Assassin
or Whoya Fuckina Kiddina?
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This one cracked me up.
It may have been the beer, it was many months ago.
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Tammy and the T-Rex comes immediately to mind.
Just this Halloween season I also watched 1985’s Phenomena, a bizarre Dario Argento film starring Jennifer Connelly of Labyrinth fame as a sleepwalking girl with telepathic insect-friend powers staying at a Swiss boarding school, who makes friends with Donald Pleasence as a wheelchair-bound kindly entomologist, who has a live-in chimpanzee assistant, and also there’s a serial killer who weirdly is just kind of there in the background until finally becoming the focus in the last 20 minutes of the movie. It’s surreal and disjointed, with wildly out of place music by Goblin, Iron Maiden and Motorhead playing over otherwise fairly sedate scenes, and gets increasingly bonkers and unpredictable as it goes on. It wasn’t boring, though, I’ll give it that. Oh, and if that weren’t enough, it was apparently the inspiration for the Clock Tower video game series.
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While not Argento’s best, I still love Phenomena. An utterly mad film.
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The wonderful How Did This Get Made? podcast recommended this gem a couple of years ago. The whole thing is available on YouTube completely free and legal.
And if you’re not already familiar with HDTGM it’s a great podcast about “bad” movies, both bad bad and fun bad. I’ve gotten a ton of recommendations from there over the years.
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I absolutely loved Phenomena! It was so bizarre and wonderful.
I think it was last year, the first time I’d ever heard of ‘giallo’ and looked through some movies in that category. That was my pick for which one to watch first to see if I liked the genre, and I loved it. Jennifer Connelly was so good and the weird side bits and that music! It’s just magnificent.
You’re right that it never gives you a chance to get bored. It’s nothing like typical Hollywood movies, it’s a whole different thing.
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