Monday, July 8, 2019

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!“


Friday, July 5, 2019

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.

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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.