Not everyone is like me, a movie masochist who willingly seeks out the absolute worst that cinema has to offer. Some of you might enjoy a little bad acting or some ridiculous plot twists, but you don’t want to feel like the movie mugged you in a dark alley and then kicked you in the groin for good measure. The desire for a film to NOT cause your mind to snap is something I can totally empathize with. You want fun, not pain. I understand perfectly. So today’s Bad Movie Monday suggestion is going to be a mostly fun one. And so I present to you Burial Ground.
The Bat (1926) [Halloween Horror Month]
A half-dozen genres are merrily mixed together in “The Bat,” the wild and often zany 1926 silent feature based on a Broadway play written by Mary Roberts Rinehard and Avery Hopwood, which in turn was based on Rinehart’s novel “The Circular Staircase” (1908).
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The Bootleg Files: Let the Good Times Roll
BOOTLEG FILES 883: “Let the Good Times Roll” (1973 concert film featuring Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Bo Diddley).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Music rights clearance issues are a big obstacle.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
During the early 1970s, there was a wave of nostalgia for the music and pop culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Broadway musical “Grease,” the movie “American Graffiti” and the sitcom “Happy Days” were the most prominent examples of this retro celebration of the era, while Sha Na Na kept the old tunes alive with their kinetic stage and television appearances, but a series of concerts dubbed “The Rock and Roll Revival” brought a number of the prominent music stars from that period to perform their old hits for admiring audiences.
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The Great Cinema Crazed Halloween Giveaway [Halloween Horror Month]
Ghouls and Boils! Hear ye, hear ye!
Our Great Pumpkin Giveaway is back! Similar to last year but easier. All you need to do to win this year is to email your name to cinemacrazedgiveaway@gmail.com and we will draw a few names on the 31st.
Animale (2024) [Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2024] [Halloween Horror Month]
A woman training hard to enter a bullfighting competition soon finds herself in a situation where the men around here are dying one by one.
Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bunny Hugged (1951)
Bunny Hugged (1951)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Story by Michael Maltese
Animation by Phil Monroe, Ken Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam
Music by Carl Stalling
During the early 1950s, professional wrestling enjoyed a flurry of popularity thanks to television. The Termite Terrace gang took advantage of this new wave of attention by dusting off the 1948 boxing cartoon “Rabbit Punch” and reimagining the action in a wrestling ring – with the musclebound pugilist Battling McGook brought back under the name Crusher.
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Carved (2024) [Halloween Horror Month]
Out now on Hulu
When a pumpkin comes for revenge, the folks in small town Halloween celebration become its main targets.