Retro Christmas Classics: Volume 1
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Celebrate Jesus’ birthday the way it was intended – with greedy kids clamoring for toys, creepy guys in bad Santa suits, and retro holiday highlights lovingly curated by Santa's Little Helpers at Something Weird Video!
Girl in Lover’s Lane
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Leather-jacketed thugs corner young LOWELL BROWN (High School Caesar) on the railroad tracks. He is rescued by brooding BRETT HALSEY and the two "boys on a boxcar" head down the lost highway of life. They land in Small Town, U.S.A. Halsey has a chip on his shoulder and a bad-father complex, while runaway rich kid Brown has a hundred bucks in his pocket and everybody wants it. Together, they have to fight off a pool hall full of thugs and a hotel full of really sleazy, rinsed-out blonde, bubble-bath-taking broads
The Weird World of Weird
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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. Why? Because the dog is not played by a real canine (or a puppet or a cartoon) but by a large adult in a mangy dog suit with a creepy dog face, clumsily walking around on his hands and knees. The Weird World of Weird (1970, color) is a loony 47-minute never-aired TV special in which host RALPH STORY explores psychic phenomena, astrology, witchcraft and “all those mysterious secrets hidden in the mystical world of the occult.” with detours to a psychic “balloon reader” and a spook-filled séance at the Magic Castle. It's got a groovy, late-60s psychedelic feel to it all that makes it a wonderfully bizarre time capsule. Follow That Skirt (1964, color) is a nasty little 26-minute short that was probably intended to be America’s second gore film. Though not released until 1965 when, according to Dave Friedman, it played a single theater in San Francisco, there’s little doubt that Blood Feast was its influence. Based on the popularity of its trailer, The Smut Peddler (1965, b&w) is among a handful of currently “lost” films that Something Weird (as well as the rest of the world) has been actively searching for. So we were thrilled when we at least found this much in excellent condition. And, yeah, it’s good stuff. A crude oyster-eating publisher, a lesbian secretary, and a French photographer all love mauling and exploiting their lovely nude models while W.B. PARKER (Olga’s House of Shame) is shocked and appalled. - Frank Henenlotter
Atomic Rulers of the World
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An outer space crimefighter known as Starman comes to Earth’s rescue when he learns that powerful criminals are threatening a nuclear winter.
Reefer Madness
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Reefer Madness is a 1936 American propaganda film revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when high school students are lured by pushers to try marijuana—from a hit and run accident, to manslaughter, suicide, attempted rape, hallucinations, and descent into madness due to marijuana addiction. The film was directed by Louis Gasnier and featured a cast of mainly little-known actors.
Marihuana Story
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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.
Love Wanga
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After rejecting the affections of his Black neighbor for a white woman, a wealthy Haitian plantation owner unwittingly lets loose a zombie plague.
The Black Alley Cats
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Four young women who were raped by street thugs toughen up, don leather jackets, and seek bloody vengeance on the vermin who assaulted them.
Wild Ride
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A rebellious punk (Jack Nicholson) of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few police officers, and finally sees his own life end in tragedy.
That Tender Touch
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A breakup between two lesbians becomes a twisted affair.
The Acid Eaters
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Buxom skin-goddess Pat Barrington (Mantis in Lace) is just one of The Acid Eaters a bunch of 9-to-5 working stiffs who become drug-crazed bikers on the weekend! After Miss Barrington kills a galpal in a catfight and the deceased inexplicably returns as a girlfriend for wacky artist Artie, the group enters a pyramid made of giant LSD sugar cubes which is also the entrance to Hell where Artie suddenly turns into The Devil and everything explodes into one big Acid Orgy... Whoa! Easily the Sixties' most insane mix of sexploitation and psychedelia, David F. Friedman's The Acid Eaters is soooooo out there that even the strongest of minds may become unhinged.
The Weird Lovemakers
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A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
God’s Stepchildren
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A light-skinned African American woman given away at birth by her mother struggles with her racial heritage and finding her place in the world.

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