Johnny Longbow shares his recipe for stew with Nurse Disembaudee while Geoff watches and discusses this classic 70s monster movie – Track of the Moon Beast!
Category: 1970s
Stunt Rock (1978)
This week, B-Movie Enema goes down under for another Australian treat.
This week’s movie comes from Brian Trenchard-Smith. He’s someone we’ve seen around these parts a few times. The first movie of his I ever looked at was one he was only a co-producer on, 1982’s Blood Tide. However, I later took a look at two other films of his that are way better. The first was also from 1982, the dystopian, Most Dangerous Game-inspired Turkey Shoot. Then, I looked at the first of two sequels to one of my all-time favorite Halloween movies to watch, Night of the Demons 2.
I pretty much knew that Trenchard-Smith was someone I could cover a large portion of his filmography in a few different ways. Hell, 1983’s BMX Bandits features a teenaged Nicole Kidman in the early stages of her career. There was a trio of movies of his that we’ve looked at over at Film Seizure – Leprechaun 3, Leprechaun 4: In Space, and Dead End Drive-In. Those two Leprechaun movies could very easily appear here on this blog. But I decided to go a little more interesting for this week when it comes to Trenchard-Smith’s filmography. This week, I’m going to look at the mockumentary/action/musical Stunt Rock from 1978.
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Welcome to a brand new B-Movie Enema review!
This week, we’re going back to the world of Italian cinema and, for the first time in quite a while, the horror subgenre of said Italian cinema – giallo. Not only are we going back to those realms but this week is for something kind of new too. This week’s feature, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, was made by Italian horror/thriller/giallo master Dario Argento.
Now, true, I did cover a couple movies he produced, namely Demons and Demons 2. I also talked about him tangentially when I looked at Shock because it starred his ex-wife, Daria Nicolodi, as well as his daughter, Asia Argento, when she appeared in xXx. However, for nearly 60 years, Argento has been known for being a writer, director, and producer of mostly horror films. But… that’s not exactly where he started. When he was working his way up the ladder, he began as a writer. In the mid-60s, Argento worked on scripts for several different movies of different genres. The biggest film he worked on the script for, without a doubt, was 1968’s Once Upon a Time in the West.
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B-Movie Enema: The Series Episode #54 – Kingdom of the Spiders
Geoff and Nurse Disembuadee once again go to William Shatner for an episode of B-Movie Enema: The Series. This week, they go to war against the Kingdom of the Spiders!
B-Movie Enema: The Series Episode #53 – Hannah, Queen of the Vampires
For the Season 5 premiere, Geoff and Nurse Disembaudee go to Vampire Island and check out this Spanish chiller from 1973, Hannah, Queen of the Vampires!
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
Oh boy, do we have one that I picked up along the way last year at a convention that I couldn’t wait to feature on B-Movie Enema!
This week, we go to the mid-70s and the first ever movie covered here starring a true American icon of the decade, Burt motherfuckin’ Reynolds. This past August at HorrorHound, I was visiting my favorite table where I often find several, ahem, gray market, movies that aren’t so easy to find in the flesh. Staring at me was this movie with Burt Reynolds smiling right at me. I looked at the title and read it aloud to myself… W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings. I chuckled to myself knowing that Burt was going to give me everything I could possibly want in this and more, especially because it was a comedy.
Before we discuss the man himself, let’s talk about who actually directed this film.
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Drive-In (1976)
Let’s pile into the car and go to a movie at the local Drive-In!
Welcome to a new B-Movie Enema review. As you can see by the title and my clever little opening salvo for the review, I’m looking at 1976’s Drive-In directed by Rod Amateau. If you look at the poster for Drive-In, and then look at the poster for George Lucas’ 1973 charmer American Graffiti… I think it’s clear that Columbia Pictures was leaning heavily on the coming-of-age style and depictions of the characters used by American Graffiti to sell Drive-In.
It’s obvious others picked up on it as it often was pointed out in reviews at the time. However, what’s interesting that some critics had some positive things to say about a movie that was very easy to call exploitation and trying to suckle at the teet of American Graffiti’s success. Critics pointed out that while not every performance by the young cast works, it’s got appeal. Others just flat-out called it likable for being easygoing. It’s often called funny by retaining a youthful, juvenile energy. So, yeah, this is a movie that, despite me just becoming aware of it over the last six months or so, was somewhat fondly reviewed during its day.
The one standout in the reception section of Wikipedia was good ol’ Gene Siskel. In a negative review, he said he wished the script for Drive-In had been tossed out in favor of the fake movie, Disaster ’76, to have been made instead. Oh, Gene…
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The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
Welcome to B-Movie Enema for another review to sate your appetites.
So I was trying to think what would make for a good review for this week. I was driving along the roads of New South Wales in Australia and took a detour into the French countryside. I eventually found my way through my European GPS, which was just some road signs, to a strange little village. That’s when it struck me… I want to talk about Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris.
Turns out, the same inspiration that struck me to talk about this movie with a very peculiar title was the same inspiration that struck Weir to make the film to begin with. He was in Europe and claimed that the road signs on the French roads diverted him into what he called strange little villages. From this, being an outsider from a wholly different continent, he got the idea to make a movie where the inhabitants of a small village, that he named Paris, profit from car wrecks.
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