Vile creatures of the night are running wild on this week’s B-Movie Enema: The Series and it’s up to two of Mexico’s best luchadores to stop them in Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters!
Tag: horror
Kiss of the Tarantula (1975)
Spiders… why’d it have to be spiders?
Welcome to this week’s B-Movie Enema review. This time around, I’m looking at the 1975 horror film Kiss of the Tarantula directed by Chris Munger. Munger only did three films, of which this film was his last. A few years later, he directed a single episode of The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. That was pretty much the end of Munger’s career.
This movie… Well, I thought I knew what this movie was. This found its way onto the list to cover because the title of the film was so recognizable. Kiss of the Tarantula is the title of a movie that somewhere in my mixed-up memory was this creepy movie. That’s when I realized I was thinking of Black Belly of the Tarantula, the Italian gaillo film by Paolo Cavara. Trust me when I say that will eventually make it onto the blog.
But then I thought, “Wait… Isn’t there a movie from the 80s about kissing spiders? Yeah. Is that what I was thinking of?” Then I was like, “Oh, no, you goober, that’s the 1985 Academy Award-winning film Kiss of the Spider Woman.” That movie is probably a little too high-brow for B-Movie Enema. It was at this point that I realized I had no idea what this movie was. This was only furthered by the fact that I recognized no names in the cast. This was a movie that was entirely new to me and I had no idea of anything about it.
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Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)
Happy Friday the 13th, Enemaniacs!
For this week’s B-Movie Enema review, what better way to celebrate this once or twice-a-year occasion than to cover a movie about the one person who best embodies Friday the 13th? That’s right, we’ve got a movie featuring the Lord of the Flies himself, Satan! What… You thought I was gonna do that Jason fella? Well, you shoulda learned last October, the last time the 13th fell on a Friday, I’m gonna be a goof about this and always fuck it up. I’m saving Mr. Voorhees for another time.
No, for this week, I’m going to return to the filmography of Filipino director Eddie Romero. The last time we saw a Romero film was the kooky Beyond Atlantis movie. What we’re looking at today is the movie that preceded that movie by a couple years, 1971’s Beast of the Yellow Night. Like I said, this has a bit more… devilish flavor to it.
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B-Movie Enema: The Series #73 – Night After Night After Night
On this episode of B-Movie Enema: The Series, Geoff and Nurse Disembaudee come face to face with a man who kills Night After Night After Night!
The Ward (2010)
This week, B-Movie Enema has something new for you, my dear Enemaniacs!
Yeah. This week, it’s the first ever movie directed by John Carpenter that gets the review treatment here at the blog. Sure, he’s been mentioned. After all, I’ve done several entries in the Halloween franchise. His longtime producing partner, Debra Hill, got featured here too with Confessions of Sorority Girls which was a part of a whole series of movies she did for cable channel Showtime that was remaking or reinvisioning old-school 50s exploitation films.
But 2010’s The Ward is the first time I’ve actually covered a film directed by Carpenter. This film would not be well-received, nor did it make its money back against its budget. While I’m not sure if it was planned, he would ultimately step out of the director’s chair and focus more on making music before doing some executive producing and consulting on other projects. Most notably, he returned to the Halloween franchise with the trilogy that began with David Gordon Green’s Halloween in 2018.
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Brain of Blood (1971)
Can you believe, after 441 reviews, Brain of Blood is only the second time Al Adamson has been reviewed on B-Movie Enema?
Yeah. I couldn’t either! Al Adamson is one of the big names in low-budget schlock horror in the 60s and 70s. The only other movie of his I ever mentioned is Black Samurai which I covered, like eight years ago. And, to be honest, I didn’t really know who Al Adamson was at that time. I was still in my fledgling days of being a blogger covering schlock films and just getting into the stuff at the time. Plus, I was more keen to talk about the blaxploitation elements of that movie than the guy making the movie.
Adamson made dozens of movies. His beginnings are that of just assisting his father, Victor Adamson, himself a filmmaker. After helping his dad with the western Half Way to Hell, Al struck out on his own to make his own movies. He could crank out a lot of drive-in fair like a Roger Corman, but the difference was that, for the most part, Adamson seemingly worked way cheaper and with kind of half-baked scripts. For the most part, you’d think of him as a monster movie guy who didn’t so much care about the rest of the stuff as long as they could advertise a monster.
Al Adamson often worked with a lot of the same people, Kent Taylor is someone in this movie who appeared in other Adamson films, and made lots of friends during his filmmaking career. Interestingly, early on, he worked with two pretty big-time cinematographers – Vilmos Zsigmond, a four-time Oscar nominee and winner for Best Cinematography for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and László Kovács who went on to make BIG movies with BIG directors including being the cinematographer on 1984’s Ghostbusters.
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B-Movie Enema: The Series Episode #69 – Island of the Dead
Nefarious real estate guy Malcolm McDowell buys New York’s Hart Island to build a village for the homeless, but spectral flies and maggots who call the island home might have other ideas in 2000’s Island of the Dead on this week’s B-Movie Enema: The Series!
Xtro (1983)
I sure hope you like slimy and gross-out horror because that’s what B-Movie Enema has on tap for this week’s review!
Xtro is a 1983 sci-fi horror film that some think is one of the many responses to the 1982 runaway hit E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. I believe that misaligns this movie with those more exploitative or cash-grab knockoffs. Yes, E.T.’s immense popularity led to many movies that wanted to “answer back” by featuring nasty, very unfriendly alien invaders as an almost rejection of the big box office brought in by the very sweet and family-friendly film from Spielberg. This is not one of them for a couple of reasons.
The first is that I think this movie has much more credit to pay toward two late 70s sci-fi horror films; 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers and 1979’s Alien. In Xtro, we have a very slimy and gross alien that wears the disguise of a recognizable human character. It is also weirder than that as far as where the alien comes from that we’ll dig into later. The primary reason why I do not think this is a response to E.T.’s popularity is because this film was originally intended to be released by New Line Cinema in 1982. Even if we give the conservative release schedule in 1982 of very late December, the production value, the creature, and some of the design work put into the movie wouldn’t have had time to get written, all the pre-production done, and the film shot and edited and put in the can for release that quickly after E.T. It just couldn’t have been possible.
Even on this film’s very scant $60,000 budget.
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