Heavy Rotation Album Cover Challenge #1 The London Symphony Orchestra Performs Tommy (1972)

English Chamber Choir / London Symphony Orchestra perform Tommy (1972)

Genre     Stage & Screen, Classical, Pop/Rock

“The album challenge is simple enough to post an album cover per day for 10 days, challenging a friend per day to take the challenge & not to unfriend me for it. HAHAHAHAHAHA. As promised, today's challenge is extended to fellow Methodist alum, Michael Williams. Thank you for offering to take the torch and run with it for the 10 day 10 album marathon!“

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973) [Paul Naschy]

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973) [Paul Naschy]

La rebelión de las muertas (original title)
Director: León Klimovsky (as Leon Klimovsky)
Writers: Paul Naschy (screenplay) (as Jacinto Molina), Paul Naschy (story) (as Jacinto Molina)

León Klimovsky's Vengeance of the Zombies draws from many sources.  It presents a jaw dropping mashup of Hindu mysticism, Satanism, and Voodoo, plus references to the  Kali Death cult thuggees and a nod to the writings of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. This willingness to clump all sorts of horror sources together in one movie was a trademark of Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter Paul Naschy (who provided the screenplay). A truly admirable quality from Naschy's large body of work, as uneven or downright weird as it could get, was his love of the genre. He truly was a Glenn Danzig before there was a Glenn Danzig.

Psychomania (1973) [Adventure Horror]

Psychomania (1973) [Adventure Horror]

Director: Don Sharp
Writers: Arnaud d'Usseau, Julian Zimet (as Julian Halevy)

The other day as I was riding my bike around the lake, a line of spectral riders approached in the fog and I tried to remember the name of a movie about undead, Satan worshipping bikers terrorizing a small town. The Wild One, but from Hell. It was on a DVD from Netflix, years before they started streaming.

The Island of Lost Souls (1932) [Horror, Sci-Fi]

The Island of Lost Souls (1932) [Horror, Sci-Fi]

Directed           Erle C. Kenton

Screenplay      Waldemar Young and Philip Wylie,  H.G. Wells (novel)

This nearly 100 year old film is primitive yet effective. As is often the case with older films that lack the visual sophistication of modern movies, the screenplay is everything. The most important elements are related through dialogue, not in action. The story is mesmerizing, beginning with shipwrecked man adrift at sea and ending the revolt of pack of wild human-animal hybrids as the extract horrifying revenge on their creator.

The Cleaning Lady (2018)

The Cleaning Lady (2018) [Stalkers]

Director: Jon Knautz

Writers: Alexis Kendra & Jon Knautz

This is the second movie in what looks to be a 3 movie series dealing with relationships between women where one is in power, and the other is under her. The first was the Brazilian film Good Manners and the next one will be Greta.

For a movie that is supposed to be about women, however, screenwriters John Knautz and Alexis Kendra created their characters as 2 dimensional objects.  Most of the women are vain, selfish and superficial creatures whose prime motivations in life are eating chocolates, getting beauty treatments, shopping, and defining themselves through their relationships with men.