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!
Tag: horror
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!
One Dark Night (1982)
It’s time for yet another B-Movie Enema article (the 425th to be exact)!
This week, I’m looking at a movie that I’ve known for decades. Even going back to when I was a little kid and watching scary movies between my fingers trying to hide my eyes, I seem to remember a movie about a girl spending a night alone inside a mausoleum and ultimately getting attacked by zombies and having to fight her way out. The problem was, every time I tried looking up what that movie was I was trying to remember so I can try to find it to watch again, somehow either I kept getting it mixed up with or finding the result to be 1981’s Hell Night starring Linda Blair.
It’s not that because it’s 1982’s One Dark Night starring Meg Tilly!
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Death Ship (1980)
Welcome to a new B-Movie Enema review. This week, we’ve got ourselves another movie that’s been sitting on the stack of movies I’ve been wanting to cover for a long while. Let me know if you’ve heard this before: Let me know if you’ve heard this before (see what I did there?), this week’s featured movie, 1980’s Death Ship, was something I saw for the first time on the long-defunct, yet always wonderful, Bizarre TV Roku app. I think I probably came into it about halfway through or toward the end of the movie and watched it to the end.
However, because I came into it late and then sought out what the movie was based on the Google keyword search “George Kennedy Richard Crenna on a boat horror movie”, it’s not a movie that I remember much of, so this review is now going to basically be a new first-time watch.
The movie was directed by Alvin Rakoff. Rakoff is a Canadian director who had a pretty long career. Most of his work over the course of, like, 45 years was for television. He didn’t make too many feature films made for movie theaters. In fact, Death Ship was one of the very last feature films he directed. With just a cursory scroll through his IMDb credits, Death Ship and The Saint (the television series which he directed an episode) are really the only two things that I recognize. However, a cursory scroll through his Wikipedia page did reveal something very interesting for me personally. Rakoff’s first wife was Jacqueline Hill. Hill played Barbara Wright, one of the trio of companions of the First Doctor when Doctor Who launched in 1963. Hill and Rakoff were married from 1958 until her death in 1993.
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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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Bong of the Living Dead (2017)
Welcome back to B-Movie Enema. This week, we’re going to have a little more fun with a fairly decent little horror movie released through independent distributor Scream Time Releasing. I’m going to be looking at 2017’s Bong of the Living Dead.
Bong of the Living Dead was directed by Max Groah. Groah has been around as a writer and director since 2010 when he made his first short film, Ringtone: The Gareth Blevins Story. Bong of the Living Dead is his first feature film. In fact, it’s still the only full-length film he’s made, though he did team up with Scream Time Releasing to write and direct a segment in the anthology film 10/31 Part 2.
Groah produced the film through Backward Slate Productions which is a small indie production company out of Columbus, Ohio. There’s a pretty healthy Midwest United States groundswell for indie film, particularly in the horror genre. Being a frequent visitor of HorrorHound in both Indianapolis, the home base of B-Movie Enema Industries, and Cincinnati, as well as visiting Days of the Dead Indy a few times over the years, I have often seen several indie filmmakers from the surrounding areas. It seems as though there are several Ohioan indie horror filmmakers with varying degrees of exploitation, throwbacks to the style of the 80s and 70s, and production quality.
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Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)
Welcome to a new review here at B-Movie Enema.
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I proudly call myself a MSTie. One of the great things about MST3K is the fact that it often exposed people to movies or shorts that they wouldn’t have known anything about. Granted, there are some more popular movies they covered on the Satellite of Love like a Gamera movie or a couple Godzilla films and even a couple of the late-stage Universal Classics like Revenge of the Creature and The Mole People. I’m even sure that there are a couple of the shorts they covered that I watched in school in the late 80s and early 90s.
But the real treasures tended to be the movies that were obscure but maybe even had a long-running stint on late-night TV or cable. That’s where this week’s featured movie that I’ll be reviewing likely lived most of its existence. I’m going to be taking a look at 1979’s Parts: The Clonus Horror.
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Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1984)
You’ve got monster!
Welcome back to B-Movie Enema. We’re headed to the wilderness of Arkansas this week. I’m going to review a sequel to a very popular cult hit from the early 70s, Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues. Both 1972’s The Legend of Boggy Creek and Boggy Creek II were directed by Charles B. Pierce. Pierce is an interesting character. He was born in Hammond, Indiana. Hammond is best known for being a sort of suburb of Chicago and the hometown of author Jean Shepherd who used it as the template for Hohman, Indiana in the holiday classic A Christmas Story.
Pierce based his movies on the legend of the Fouke Monster who is said to reside in the wooded area and the creek marshes around Fouke, Arkansas. The Fouke Monster is just the Texarkana version of Bigfoot or the Sasquatch. It supposedly attacked the home of a couple in May of 1971. Pierce, fascinated by the tales told about the monster from that story, made a docudrama about the event which was The Legend of Boggy Creek.
While the movie was a massive hit, Pierce has always admitted that he doesn’t necessarily believe in the legend of the creature, but is far more interested and fascinated by the folklore and tales the people told about the monster.
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