| ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE MOVIE LISTINGS -- September 16, 2008 |
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MOVIE -- Horror Musical "Cemeterio Del Rock'n'Roll." (1967 - Mexico) Mexican horror star Paul Naschy plays the nervous groundskeeper at a cemetery haunted by Mexican comedians Tin-Tan (dressed as The Mummy), Ramon Valdes (The Frankenstein Monster), Guillermo "El Borras" Rivas (Dracula) & some great Mexican rock'n'roll bands of the era, including Los Loud Jets, Los Yaps, Los Beatniks & Dug Dug's. At the time this was reviewed as "Ed Wood's Orgy of the Dead without the girls." Directed by Chano Urueta.
Los Dug Dug's bring the horror rock in CEMETERIO DEL ROCK'N'ROLL
MOVIE -- Horror "The 8th Plague" (Made for TV, 1975) A bullied young boy (Alfred Lutter III) discovers he can communicate telepathically with locusts during his frequent grand mal epileptic seizures. His parents (Elizabeth Ashley & Michael Murphy) begin to worry when swarms of insects surround the boy's hospital, waiting for orders. With frequent game-show host Bill Cullen as Dr. Menschen, John Cassisi, Robbie Rist & an uncredited Scott Baio. Directed by Philip Leacock, from a script by Robert Ludlum.
Alfred Lutter menaces in THE 8TH PLAGUE
MOVIE -- Suspense
"Bad Hair Day" (1987) Direct-to-video shocker loosely based on the classic Japanese film Onibaba by Kaneto Shindo. On their remote pig farm, a brutish mother (Anne Ramsey) & her sexy halfwit daughter (Lisa Whelchel) rob & sexually satisfy themselves with passing salesmen while the family patriarch is serving time in federal prison. Or is he? Also stars Lloyd Bochner, Craig Wasson & Joanna Pacula as the nosy neighbor. Directed by Golan Jaspers. MOVIE -- Action/Fantasy "Romulus & Remus Vs. The Centurion Dogs of Hell" (aka Rabies!) (1963) After founding Rome, Romulus (Steve Reeves) & Remus (Gordon Scott) run afoul of the Emperor Caligula, supernatural packs of zombie dogs, man-eating boulders & a beautiful queen who changes into a vulture at will. A sequel to 1961's Romulus & Remus. Starring Vittorio Gassman as King Caligula, Cameron Mitchell as the warlock Tirestes & Rossano Podesta as the unpredictable Queen Sademir. Directed by Sergio Corbucci.
Rossano Podesta
MOVIE -- Horror/Western
"The Great Lubbock Range War Massacre" (1973) A murky, bloody western about a pair of drunken cowboy drifters (Luke Askew, Jan Michael Vincent) who stumble on a psychotic rancher (R. G. Armstrong) & his unstable clan, who believe their daughter (Valerie Perrine) has given birth to the antichrist. Also features Joanne Dru, David Hess, Sylvia Miles (as Shaky) & Tom Ligon. Directed by Tyler Tresloth, from a script by Frank De Felitta. Music by The Serendipity Singers.
MOVIE -- Comedy "Gimme Three Steps" (Dir. Max Baer Jr., 1974) In this rollicking comedy based on the popular 1973 song by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Earl Holliman stars as Cab Dickey, Jr., a devil-may-care FM DJ who gets into all kinds of trouble by having an affair with Linda Lu (Pamela Sue Martin), the wife of a trigger-happy pro football hero (Alex Carras). Also stars Tim Conway, Burton Cummings & Richard Libertini as Diesel.
Earl Holliman in GIMME THREE STEPS
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