Peter Falk's first film! And not a bad one at that. The whole opening scene features free-form prose set to a bongo beat -- then long-gone Nico (Falk) gets hungry for kicks and kills some kid by feeding him a hamburger filled with ground glass. And the plot takes off from there. The ads said "A Motion Picture That Peels Off the Dirty Sweaters Covering the Raw Emotions of Youth!" It's a bongo-blastin', beat generation bloodbath.

Desperate to become popular, a teenager turns to a life of crime in an effort to impress the prettiest - and greediest - girl in school.

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 he’s only a few inches high. Next thing you know, he’s having a fist-fight with one of the little men right inside his space helmet! Yes, boys and girls, it’s another sci-fi kiddie matinee full of rockets dodging meteors, aliens in fiery space ships, an astronaut who floats to his death reciting “The Lord’s Prayer,” an allegedly “advanced race” that lives in a self-imposed “primitive” lifestyle because they once had too much leisure time on their hands (huh?), and, best of all, what may very well be the funniest-looking monster in movie history. And, because it’s all set in the futuristic world of 1980, everything is carefully explained with a lot of scientific jibberish that doesn’t make a goddamn bit of sense.

Not a lot is known about this exploitation clip-collage which examines the classic marijuana scare-films of the 1920s through the 1940s. However, the year of release, tone of the narration, and the complete lack of credits indicate that The Devil's Joint may well have been some kind of underground film. After all, it was released around the time when vintage drug films like the 1936 Reefer Madness were being rediscovered by a new generation via midnight screenings at smoke-filled theaters and college universities. The tone here is cleverly set from the opening text which informs us that the film has been made without the cooperation of the Whit House, FBI, or local police authorities. In case you still didn't get the hint, The Devil's Joint then shows us a clip of TICHARD NIXON stating that he is here to tell us the truth despite his honesty and integrity being under question, before cutting to grisly newsreel footage of Chinese opium users being executed in the 1930s. What follow is essentially a series of extended clips from a number of the most notorious roadeshow drugsploitation films including Reefer Madness (of course), as well as a silent film from the 1920s called The Pace That Kills For the most part, the film wisely lets these clips speak for themselves, although a narrator does give us a quick rundown of all the propaganda clichés used in the drug scare genre, and during sequences which depict stoned people fighting, Batman-style "Pows!" and "Zaps!" flash across the screen. Occasionally, silent-movie-style text cards pop up displaying lurid pulp blurbs like "An Innocent young virgin under the spell of the Killer Weed! Will she fall prey to man's lust?"

This is the story of four jewel thieves on the run who decide to hole up with a hillbilly couple until the search for them slackens off.

An outer space crimefighter known as Starman comes to Earth’s rescue when he learns that powerful criminals are threatening a nuclear winter.

An invisible alien wreaks havoc in Santa Monica after a crash landing and it isn't long before law enforcement and scientists are on its trail.

A man peeps at women. The women don't seem to mind.

Psycho stalks the streets of Greenwich Village, killing and scalping his victims.

Before he relocated to Spain and made the gender-bender shocker I Hate My Body and a handful of Paul Naschy movies (including Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman), director LEON KLIMOVSKY shot this warped anti-pot thriller in his hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Like earlier "warning" films which purported to tell the truth about marijuana abuse, Klimovsky's is naively wrong-headed wrongheaded from the get-go. However, viewers expecting a Reefer Madness-style camp classic will be sorely disappointed. Substitute heroin or crack fro the dreaded weed and the situations depicted in The Marihuana Story suddenly become no laughing matter.

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, so he can bury them alive.

"Nurse, prepare Mrs. Bennett for... an insemination!!!" These words, darkly intoned by fertility specialist TIMOTHY FARRELL, set the stage for the shocking scene that follows.

REG LEWIS stars as Maciste (Maxus) in this fantasy which pits the legendary hero against an invincible hydra monster, surly cavemen, and a frightful sea monster. Maciste saves the leader of the Sun Worshippers tribe from a sea monster, then is later called upon when the Moon Worshippers tribe kidnaps the Sun tribe's women. The film is presented in it's original Sons of Hercules Theatre syndicated television version. This was the only sword and sandal action adventure that Reg Lewis appeared in.

A filming of a burlesque act in 1954 Harlem, complete with slapstick comedy, baggy-pants clowns, showgirls, blues singing acts and tap dancers.

Three girls on a tour of the English countryside meet up with two young women who introduce them to the joys of life in a nudist camp.

Tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon after ten years of the Trojan War cause divisions between different factions within the Greek camp.

Ten years after Yuki Daijo usurped the throne by killing his father and he was saved by a magic bird, the would-be prince uses his powers for revenge.

Sex, drugs, and a rubber monster mask in another Argentinean rarity from EMILIO VIEYRA, the director of The Curious Dr. Humpp! Then he plays his organ. Preying upon the "swingers" who frequent a local nightclub, Rubber Face lures babes with his own haunting theme song, turns them into love-slaves with heroin, and slobbers all over them while still wearing that stupid monster mask.