SCHLOCK MOVIES ONLINE...AND SOME CLASSICS TOO.

     For those of you who collect movies but are on a budget or don't feel like paying more than 25 cents for that classic THE APE MAN there is an online digital library known as THE INTERNET ARCHIVES and you can find it at: www.archive.org/
     The archive features digital books, audio of old music and many old public domain feature movies going back to the silent film age and also the old time 16mm class room films of the 60-70's.
     Most of the stuff in the archives can be downloaded to your computer and burned to a disk if you wish. If you don't have a DVD burner and software you can download software to make VCD disks.They got a few to choose from in the software section and there is also editing software.
     Video CD disks are CDs that can play on most DVD players like a DVD or can play them in your computer CD player. The image is not as good as DVD, It's at a VHS level. There is also Super Video CD that is almost as good as DVD disks. I suggest looking up the subject on Wikipedia.
     There is a lot good movies at the Archives. But since I collect schlock and assume my readers do too I will list a few that you can find and download:
THE EYE CREATURES.
ZONTAR THE THING FROM VENUS.
SON OF INGAGI.
CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE.
CONFESSIONS OF A VICE BARON.
MANIAC (Dwain Esper)
REEFTER MADNESS.
SEX MADNESS (1930's VD horror movie)
RETURN OF THE APE MAN
THE APE MAN
ASSIGNEMENT TERROR
ROBOT VS THE AZTEC MUMMY
FACE OF THE SCREAMING WEREWOLF
TEENAGE ZOMBIES  and many many more movies that you can down load. Check it out.

THE ORGY OF THE LIVING DEAD

     The movie grindhouse were on the way out with the drive ins when I was a teenager. But I still got to go  to a few grindhouses and see good old fashion exploitation schlock movies.
     I went to see the ORGY OF THE LIVING DEAD  triple feature at the Plaza Theater in Downtown San Diego. The Theater is gone now. They replaced it with a big classy shopping mall.
     The three features were re named horror movies from Europe. They were already old movies. THE CURSE OF THE LIVING DEAD aka KILL! BABY. KILL!; THE REVENGE OF THE LIVING DEAD aka THE MURDER CLINIC and  FANGS OF THE LIVING DEAD aka THE VAMPIRE'S NIECE. I don't think this last film was released to the U.S. till that triple feature.

     The film had a gread sleazy looking poster. As I said before an exploitation movie needs a great poster.
  

THE KILLER TOMATOES STRIKE BACK (1991)

      Well I finally made it to YOU TUBE. Some one has posted the movie THE KILLER TOMATOES STRIKE BACK (1991). This was the 3rd of the four Killer Tomatoes movies which started with ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, and RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES and ended with THE KILLER TOMATOES EAT FRANCE.
      I did two days of extra work on  this movie. Extra work is also known as atmosphere and bit parts. But those two terms are design to make it seem like you are doing more than standing about filling up space on a film set.
     On the first day that I worked as an extra they shot at the SAN DIEGO ZOO. I can be seen in line waiting to get in. My back is to the camera and I am seen talking to a girl. The bonus is that I got to visit the world famous zoo for free later on that day after my scenes were done.
     You can see a close up of my face on my second day during the talk show scenes. I am wearing glasses because I was in the zoo scenes and the casting director told me it would make me look like another person.
     I enjoyed watching them shoot the talk show scenes because  JOHN ASTIN was playing  the villain of the film Prof. Gangreen and I really like watching him perform  his role. JOHN ASTIN is best known for the TV show THE ADDAMS FAMILY.
     Staring in the film was Rick Rockwell a comic best remembered by the nation as the millionaire of the TV show WHO WANTS TO MARRY AN MILLIONAIRE.
      Many people find working as an extra boring. I myself enjoyed watching them shoot a movie.

That's me in the center in THE KILLER TOMATOES STRIKE BACK.

    

PHOENIX COMICON 2011

      I went to the PHOENIX COMICON 2011 on Saturday.
     There I got to see in panels: Vernon (ROAD WARRIOR) Wells, Leonard (STAR TREK) Nimoy, Max (ZOMBIE BOOKS) Brooks, and Stan (MARVEL COMICS) Lee.
      I had my photo taken with ELVIRA (I was a gentleman and looked her in the eyes) She was there at the photo booth for about 15 minutes and took posed for about 60 pictures. I walked into the booth, Said hello, posed for a few seconds and said thank you as I exit to make way for the next person.
      It was a nice photo but I wished I had a few more seconds so I could at least ask her if she was having a good time at the Con. The photo was a birthday present from my sister.

      In the dealers room a group of GHOST BUSTERS fans had a giant inflatable MR. STAY PUFT marshmallow man set up. It was about two stories tall.

ATTACK OF THE 50FT WOMAN POSTER

     As I said before the two most important part of any exploitation movie is the outrageous title and the eye catching poster. The movie production it self seems to be an after thought. With a great title and poster you can sell just about any badly made feature for a quick dollar.

     ATTACK OF THE 50 FT WOMAN is a great example of this kind of  exploitation film sales. The title is great and the poster art is classic. If only there was such a scene in this movie as shown on the poster..
     The film it self is a soap opera with bad sci fi film special effects.
     See the movie for camp laughs but buy the poster and frame it.
   

THE LATE GREAT CREATURE: A Novel by Brock Brower.

     I just learned that the novel THE LATE GREAT CREATURE by Brock Brower is going to be back in print soon in paper book. The novel had been first printed in 1971. There was a paperback edition at the time after the hardback printing but I do not think it had been reprinted anywhere since then.
     This is a good novel for fans of old time horror movies of the era of Karloff and Lugosi.
     The main character of the novel is Simon Moro an old time horror movie actor who is  making an cheap horror movie.
     The strange Moro had made famous horror films such as GHOULANTUA and the GILA MAN series as well as a monster in an unnamed Abbott and Costello movie as a monster.
     You can pre buy the novel on Amazon.com or it's pretty easy to find a second hand copy also from Amazon.

Cover of the upcoming paperback reprint.

THE RETURN OF DR. X (1939)

     THE RETURN OF DR. X is a badly written mystery horror movie of just about 62 minutes. It would have been forgotten today had  not had actor Humphrey Bogart not been casted in the title role as a mad scientist that is brought back to life.
     For most of the motion picture Bogart is in a supporting  role in the film. It is not till about halfway thur the  movie that it is reveal that Bogart is a killer scientist that everyone believes is dead.
     Bogart did not want to make this movie but was force to by the studio heads to make it.
    In spite of the poor screenplay Bogart does the best he could with his role. He tries to make the character interesting. But since he is mostly in the background till about halfway thur the 62 minute film he does not emerge as a full character till near the end of the film. By then it was too late to make the movie interesting.

Humphrey Bogart in his only horror film.