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Wednesday, November 22, 2017
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Psychotronic Movie of the Week: Impulse (1974, William Grefe)
Impulse
1974, Conqueror Films/Camelot Entertainment
D: William Grefe S: Tony Crechales P: Scorates Ballis
Starring: William Shatner, Ruth Roman, Jennifer Bishop, James Dobson, Kim Nicholas, Harold "Odd Job" Sakata, William Kerwin
Michael J. Weldon's review from Psychotronic Video #9:
What a find! William Shatner is Matthew Stone, a creepy, lying, seductive psycho gigolo hustler with sideburns, a scar, and white flair pants. A perfect cliche black and white flashback shows how as a kid he defended his mother by running a samurai sword through a tattooed drunk (William Kerwin!). Another flashback shows him crying while strangling a woman then sinking her car (ala DEMENTIA 13). He seduces a widow (Jennifer Bishop from Al Adamson movies) whose best friend is played by Ruth Roman. Only the woman's bratty precocious little blond daughter (Kim Nicholas, who is perfect in the role) knows what a creep he is. Shatner/Stone runs over a dog, hangs Harold ("Odd Job") Sakata, and says things like "People like you should be ground up and made into dog food!" The video print is scratchy, but IMPULSE has excellent clever cinematography and editing and is the most enjoyable of Grefe's made in Florida movies I've seen so far. It's a sleaze classic.
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Labels: Michael J. Weldon, psychotronic movies, William Grefe, William Shatner
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Greg Cartwright & Friends at the Bell House!!
Monty Hall |
MC for the evening will be Rex from WFMU's Fool's Paradise program.
Tickets are $15 and available now at the Bell House website.
All proceeds go to WFMU.
Ichiban DJ's include:
Nitty Gritty Tania & Thomas Torment (Real Nitty Gritty)
Pat K (Make With The Shake)
Matt M (What's Happening?!?!)
Dave Amels (DA the DJ's Ichibunny Robot)
Debbie D (Debbie Does WFMU)
With special DJ guests:
Mikey Post (Reigning Sound, Jay Vons, Daptone Records)
Benny Troken (Reigning Sound, Jay Vons, Lee Fields)
Greg Cartwright (Reigning Sound, In The Box)
Hope to see you there!!
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Sunday, November 12, 2017
It's SHING-A-LING time!
Then Whig Out! at 8:00.
Streaming player, playlist and comments here: https://wfmu.org/
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Saturday, November 11, 2017
Psychotronic Movie of the Week: Fugitive Girls (1974, A.C. Stephen)
From the time he wrote ORGY OF THE DEAD (see PV #1) until his death in 1978, cult figure Ed Wood (a forgotten man at the time) worked (often uncredited) on nudie films made by Stephen C. Apostolof (A.C. Stephen). He wrote this one and appears as "Pop," running a remote gas station. This film was rated X and has soft core sex scenes (which would earn it an R today). An R-rated, softer version was called FIVE LOOSE WOMEN. After a sex scene with badly dubbed in "Oooh Aah Ooh Aah,...," the guy, with long thick sideburns, decides to hold up a liquor store, shoots the owner, and leaves Dee, the cliche women's prison victim/star (Jabie Abercrombe) to take the rap. Her cellmates at the minimum security farm are nudie (and porn) star Rene Bond as a bank embezzler with a thick southern accent - "There's only two things worthwhile for a girl - men and money!" Cap, a manic, short haired dyke who killed her husband - "His mistake was, he turned me on to women and I dug it!" and a black woman who trades insults with the Southern "Dirty white trash!" Cap says "I'm getting sick and tired of this rainbow trip!" After Cap forces Dee into a long lesbian scene, they all escape and stay with camping, organic hippies until Cap says "They all smell like freaks!" A hippie goes "Good Christ, a lesbian!" and a chain fight starts. In a scene Ed borrowed from his script for THE VIOLENT YEARS ('56), the women steal a guy's car and rape him - "Leave me alone!" They also ambush some bikers, fight them using martial arts, then take over the home of a paralyzed Nam vet. FUGITIVE GIRLS is too dark most of the time, but has a funny recurring Hammond organ theme, and enough Wood touches to make it a must for fans who can't get enough.
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Labels: A.C. Stephen, Ed Wood, Michael J. Weldon, psychotronic movies, Rene Bond
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Otis Redding and his Sisters of Soul!
Tonight! djgirlgroupgirl has the Queen of Memphis Soul, along with her entire court and entourage paying homage to the King of Soul, the one, the only, Mr. Otis Redding! Etta, Patti, Tina, Clydie, The Shirelles, The Glories and even Peggy Lee sing it with feeling on Crayons to Perfume! Tune in at 7pm http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/75684
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017
WFMU Benefit With Greg Cartwright & Friends
Poster: Pat K |
Master of ceremonies: Rex
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Sunday, November 5, 2017
Psychotronic Movie of the Week: Orgy of the Dead (1965, A. C. Stephen)
Back in Cleveland, there used to be an unbelievable three story used book store called Kay's. I was about 16 when I bought a heavily illustrated paperback book (with no cover) called ORGY OF THE DEAD and liked it so much that I cut the pictures out (bad move). I had to wait years to see the "adults only" movie based on the obscure book by the prolific Ed Wood Jr. - but that wait was worth it. Some people (O.K., lots of people) don't like ORGY OF THE DEAD, but to me this is surreal, it's art - or at least the ultimate ambient tape. Who wants a burning fireplace or a fish in a tank, when you can have sexy professional strippers, dancing in a graveyard?? Perfect for any party or watching alone.
The "star" is Criswell, who rises from his coffin and rants about "monsters to be pittied, monsters to be despised," a line lifted from Wood's NIGHT OF THE GHOULS. A horror novelist and his red haired girlfriend drive and have a typical awkward autobiographical Wood conversation. Outside it changes from night to day to night to day,... After the car crashes, they find themselves captives of the undead Criswell and Fawn Silver as the Black Ghoul (the real inspiration for Elvira?), a mummy and a howling werewolf. For the record, the eternally damned women who have to perform, each have their own bizarre musical theme and are, in order: The Indian ("she died in flames"), Streetwalker, Gold Girl (she dances to Martin Denny style music while two men in striped skirts watch, they pour gold coins on her, then dip her in gold), Cat Woman (she wears a great leopard costume with holes for her breasts, dances to really silly music, claws at tombstones and is whipped by an indifferent man), Slave (she gets whipped too, and rolls around on the ground in her G string), Mexican (dances around, fondles, and kisses a skull), Hawaiian (does a bump and grind to bongo music and is interrupted by grainy stock footage of a snake), "Skeleton" (a woman takes off her wedding dress and does the swim and the jerk to rock music in front of the skeleton of the husband she killed), and Zombie (does a very slow zombie dance). Criswell warns, "You may join us soon!"
In-between each inspirational performance, the other characters read dialogue worthy of your favorite Ed Wood directed movie. By this time, Wood's feature directing days were over, but he wrote one more filmed screenplay, THE FUGITIVE GIRLS ('73), also directed by nudie specialist Apostoloff (A.K.A. A.C. Stephen). Details on that one next issue.
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Labels: A.C. Stephen, Ed Wood, Pat Barrington, psychotronic movies
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Make with the Shake!! Tonight at 8pm EDT
Attention hipshakers & earthquakers, Make with the Shake with DJ Pat K (pictured above, far right) is back with another hourlong episode of 45rpm humdingers to keep you freaking and peaking! Click here for the live stream, playlist, and archive and catch the fever!
Also remember, you can still pledge to WFMU's "Into the Black" Year-End Fundraising Campaign! The station is almost to our goal but we're not quite there yet - if you haven't pledged already, help us get over the top! Click below to slip a few coins towards the radio station that keeps on giving!
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