COLLECTING OLD VHS TAPES.

     Well I feel old- I was reading someone's blog online and he was talking about hunting for and swapping old VHS tapes and he wrote about how he played them on an old VHS VCR he got at a yard sale for $5 and he reminded me of collectors who use to search the yard sales and thrift stores for old 78 records (You young people may of heard of those- they were round disks that played music when you spin them under a needle) I wrote him and told him I enjoyed the post and that I also collected VHS tapes- But many of them were new when I got them.

     I also got a bunch of Betamax tapes I bought new.

     (Re posted from my Facebook page)

PIN DOWN GIRLS Trailer.

     While most of the schlock movies I see are in the areas of horror and sci fi sometimes I enjoy other off the wall type of films. PIN DOWN GIRLS is a schlock drama about wrestling women. The female star of the film is Peaches Page and this seem to be her only movie. Too bad.
     This film was featured on THE MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 show under the title RACKET GIRLS.

FACE OF THE SCREAMING WEREWOLF Trailer.

     Trailer for Jerry Warren's FACE OF THE SCREAMING WEREWOLF.  A film that  was spliced together from footage from two Mexican horror movies LA MOMIA AZTECA and LA CASA DE TERROR. Warren also recut LA MOMIA AZTECA into the movie ATTACK OF THE MAYAN MUMMY.

THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS (1961) Trailer.

     A trailer for the schlock classic THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS (1961) a featurette starting Tor Johnson as a rocket scientist who becomes a mad monster after being expose to the blast of an atomic bomb. The opening reminds me of the first issue of the INCREDIBLE HULK except that Tor Johnson is already a big giant guy before the bomb goes off.

AMERICAN DRACULA Indian horror movie.

     A few days ago I found a movie on You Tube that reminded me of the butcher jobs of producer/director Jerry Warren. The film was was on an Indian channel and entitled AMERICAN DRACULA. The title card was in both English and Indian script.

     I soon discovered that the movie was the American 'Adult' film DRACULA SUCKS with all the nudity and sex cut completely out. 

     I guess they did not have very much film left over after taking out the adult footage so they edited into the film scenes from movie GHOULIES. Of course this movie is badly dubbed with Indian dialogue. The filmmakers also added a few songs from the 60's including SPIRIT IN THE SKY and DON'T YOU WANT SOMEBODY TO LOVE.

     There was no subtitles on the print I saw so I don't know if they addressed the fact that the film kept going back and fore from the Dracula movie which took place in the 20's and the ghoulies film which took place in the 80's. 

     The print I saw had awful color. I don't know if the film was released that way or if the person who posted it took if from a home recording. The film seems to be from a TV broadcast.

     By the way Dracula was played by adult film star Jamie Gillis who was pretty good in the role. The DRACULA SUCKS footage that this film was re cut from was fairly well made.

HUNTING FOR CHEAP MOVIES

Unlike most people I did not throw out my VHS VCR after DVDs became popular. In fact I got five of them. People gave me their old VHS machines. The best part of having five VHS players is that you can buy VHS tapes for between 50 cents to a dollar out here at the Goodwill Thrift stores. Most of the movies are mainstream Hollywood flicks but if you look around you can find something of interest in the horror and sci field. Yesterday I got the three first Alien movies and a copy of the Hammer horror film RASPUTIN starring Christopher Lee in a good change of pace role. I also got 3 tapes of the English TV series ARE YOU BEING SERVED? If you are a person with a lot of old VHS tapes and are planning to get rid of them I hope you give them to the Goodwill or some other thrift shop so that other film collectors who hung on to their old VCRs can buy them cheap. I think that would be better than throwing them out with the trash.

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)

     Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) Photo is from a frame capture from the trailer.