New Arrivals: Something Weird

Yipes! A veritable banquet of "Bad Cinema," Monstrosity is so gloriously stupid as to be almost brilliant. Surprisingly, director JOSEPH V. MASCELLI, who also shot three Ray Dennis Steckler gems - Wild Guitar, The Incredibly Strange Creatures, and The Thrill Killers - is best known as the author of two excellent works, The American Cinematographer Manual and The Fiv...Read More

Actually, The Phantom Planet is really one of those damn phantom asteroids (resembling a giant bowel movement) that zips around space on its own power, and sucks the spaceship of DEAN FREDERICKS to its surface. Once Fredericks is exposed to its atmosphere, he gets dizzy, sees ten teenie-tiny men creep up on him, and shrinks inside his space suit (a great shot) until...Read More

There’s no way around it. DWAIN ESPER’s Maniac can justifiably be called one of the greatest exploitation films ever made. Not content to crank out another sex hygiene or dope film, Esper and his wife, HILDAGARDE STADIE (who wrote the screenplay), concocted a uniquely delirious mix of horror film, discourse on mental illness, and whacked-out girly show. The plot – i...Read More

Give up? Well, for starters, he's now known as Count Adrian and, sporting a van dyke and a bad Bela accent. He and a bunch of motley ghouls run "Dracula's Dungeon," a bizarre Hollywood nightspot. When actor Guy and his girlfriend Angelica show up at the club, Drac decides he wants Angelica for all eternity - meaning he's got to bite her three times for her to be pro...Read More

"The Lure of Motion Picture Stardom for Young Pretty Girls Has Always Been Part of the American Dream!" One of the crowning achievements of sixties softcore cinema, Starlet! is an hilarious send-up of the adult film industry that casts the actual EVI Studios as itself. Fast-paced, funny, and surprisingly sexy, Starlet! is a lustful wink at the outlaw spirit of th...Read More

To celebrate 20 years of Something Weird bringing the world the very best in subversive, disreputable, and cult cinema, SWV made available four exceedingly rare, never-before-released jewels that will make any cinephile’s head light up and spin. Rosie (b&w) is a failed 19-minute pilot for a TV sitcom about a talking dog named Rosie. It is absolutely horrifying. W...Read More

When evil Prince John (STEVE VINCENT in a weird goatee) has Robin’s father killed and his mother, Robin (RALPH JENKINS) becomes obsessed with two things: the defeat of Prince John... and orgies. "They’re a crude bunch of bastards, are they not?" asks a comely wench, which rather accurately reflects Robin and his band of merry, very horny men in The Ribald Tales Of R...Read More

It’s the Gone With the Wind of nudist movies! Jay Randolph Latimore (R. G. ARMSTRONG) is a hard-bitten old grouch (supposedly wealthy but the cheesiest set in the flick is his alleged “mansion”) who drives his lovely widowed daughter-in-law (JAMIE O’HARA) and painfully cute granddaughter out of the house... and inadvertently into the open arms (and naked torsos) of ...Read More

Cultural historians take note. The Joys of Jezebel is a biblical sex fantasy peppered with elaborate sets, split screens, off-kilter camera angles, and psychedelic sprinklings. "Intensively Incandescent in color!" CHRISTINE MURRAY ( Trader Hornee) stars as Jezebel, the 19th century Phoenician princess known for her wanton, wicked ways. The turbo-bodied temptress ...Read More