Frank Henenlotter and John Zacherle on the set of Frankenhooker. For lovers of sleazy cult cinema, writer-director Frank Henenlotter is a god... and not merely for the six whacked out films he's made in the past three decades. I can say without hesitation that there's a ton of movies that I never wo...

By the late '60s, the Hollywood studio system was crumbling and independent filmmakers were invading drive-ins with a vengeance. Many actors found themselves without studio contracts, and they had to seek work elsewhere. That probably explains how Russ Tamblyn (WEST SIDE STORY, THE HAUNTING) wound u...

"Archie's here. Betty's here... Veronica too. Reggie's here. And here comes Jughead..." but I guess 15 years later, Hot Dog was dead, so instead Jughead dragged along his delinquent son, Jordan. Yes, in the late '80s, someone had the brilliant idea to transplant the classic Archie characters into a ...

Let me tell you a tale, a very scary tale, about two boys who were surfing one day, on a very weird beach 'round Dead Man's Point where there are haunted sea caves, they say... Following "Lidsville" came a vehicle for yet another rising teen heartthrob (who would soon be forgotten). "Sigmund and the...

"In the middle of a summer, in the middle of a park, there began a great adventure for a boy whose name was Mark..." Yes, on September 11, 1971 (whatta date!), the brothers Krofft premiered their legendary, whacked-out kiddie show, "Lidsville." The original Eddie Munster, Butch Patrick, played the a...

I feel the need to butch it up a bit after some recent shares... Gotta say, the GREATEST movie title ever is unquestionably OCTOPUSSY. I can't think of a single film (outside of porn) with a title that's anywhere near that salacious. One of the last films starring Roger Moore as James Bond, it's als...

One of the most highly anticipated films of 1982 was ANNIE, a splashy, multi-million dollar film adaptation of the Broadway musical (based on the classic comic strip). It was speculated at the time that the movie would revive the classic Hollywood musical genre that had been so badly tainted by rock...

You guys want music? Okay, it's time for some music... and a history lesson. Way back in June or July, I'd planned to launch a big post featuring the music from the shows of Sid and Marty Krofft... but the post soon became overwhelmingly monstrous. Somehow or other (and I don't really know how it ha...

1984 was a great year for movies... but one film was almost universally panned, and even singer Sting (who was at the top of his game at the time) couldn't save it. Adapted from the first novel in a series by Frank Herbert, David Lynch's DUNE confused moviegoers who hadn't read the book and, because...

Here's one for you, Trace! Continuing on with this month's theme of pointless downloads, here's several shares for NINE TO FIVE, one of the biggest hit movies of 1980 ( How have 28 years gone by since the film was released?). Recently the highly anticipated musical adaptation, written by Dolly Parto...