Saturday, August 8, 2026
Tonight's Stinker: Hillbillys in a Haunted House(1967)
Tonight's Stinker
Hillbillys in a Haunted House(1967)
https://youtu.be/5wQwV_6Tpc8?si=rOS6H9vGjoCtMeJq
Shortened for RiffTrax....
Ferlin Husky & the busty Joi Lansing play a pair of country singers traveling with their fidgety manager....
They drive right into the middle of a police shootout, & decide they should stop at the next town so the manager can get some rest.... Unfortunately, the next town is abandoned but for a lone gas station owner, who recommends they crash at a nearby abandoned mansion.....
They go to the mansion, where John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Basil Rathbone, Linda Ho, & some guy in a gorilla suit play foreign spies who have rigged the place up with everything you'd expect from a haunted house ride...
Clipped to just an hour, the riffing over the dialog gets a bit excessive, but doesn't get in the way of story development......
Several musical numbers... watchable.,...
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Tonight's Stinker: Missile to the Moon(1958)
Tonight's Stinker
Missile to the Moon(1958)
https://youtu.be/FDxo09r3wVc?si=-MjyEjFLnxn1xJHJ
Some local cops are looking for a pair of escaped convicts.... Meanwhile, an eccentric millionaire scientist argues with a military leader over whether or not his new rocket & all it's innovative new features will work... There's also the tiny matter of the government taking it over & shoving him aside....
The sheriff shows up at the lab & wants to take a look around the property.... While showing the sheriff around, the scientist sees the two convicts hiding in the rocket, but instead of turning them in, he locks them inside & later blackmails them into helping him fly the rocket.... The scientists partner & his fiancé decide to look for him, & get trapped on the rocket when it takes off....
From there, it turns into an unapologetic remake of Cat-Women of the Moon(1953), with a few deviations....
Maintains a decent pace.... While names, costumes, sets, props & even some footage are recycled, many of the characters are more fleshed out, with the two ex-cons adding an interesting dynamic.....
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Tonight's Stinker: The Devil's Mistress(1965)
Tonight's Stinker
The Devil's Mistress(1965)
https://youtu.be/sgh_mzxpIIM?si=r90DsBFolgekM5zS
Four cowboys is riding through the desert, as a narrator delivers a modified quote from Deuteronomy 32:24.....
They stop for the night, & a pair of cowboys determined to stay perpetually drunk make jabs at a naïve young cowboy & how they'd treat an Apache woman, while the leader tries to keep a level head.... Talk turns to some ill gotten loot....
The next day, the spot a cabin.... The leader is uneasy about a lonely cabin in the middle of Apache country, but the other three expect a free meal & maybe an easy night's sleep.....
At the cabin, they find a creepy guy dressed in black with a glued on Amish beard, and his mute wife.....
They get free food, but the leader doesn't go in, as nothing seems right about the situation.... The leader & the young'un decide to ride on, but the two drunks decide to kill the creepy dude & abduct his wife....
At camp that night, one of the drunks kisses the girl & immediately get sick.... The next day, he dies along the trail, & things start going wrong for the other three....
Tries to go for atmosphere by doing a lot of panning through the scenery.... Sound track's okay....
I thought it was okay......
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Tonight's Stinker: His Name Was King(1971)
Tonight's Stinker
His Name Was King(1971)
https://youtu.be/e-W0QTHs_-c?si=mY7VBokVmVf-o6SZ
A group of wagons is rolling through the desert, when they come to an army checkpoint.... When one of the soldiers tries to investigate, he gets a pistol in the face, while another man offers him money... Smooth sailing, but the next checkpoint is a little more hard nosed with more men, but one of the wagons has a Gatlin gun....
Then roll opening credits, Where we're introduced to the protagonist, King.... King is a bounty hunter, who corners & dispatches four fugitives..... The brothers of one of the men swear vengeance, & start by killing King's brother & attacking his new wife.... So King swears revenge....
He rides off to the next town, where he gets in a gunfight with the brothers & their gang, then rides off to the next town, where an army officer gives him a heliograph, which he uses to report a stagecoach robbery to passing army patrols....
King gets captured while investigating, & learns the brothers are selling guns to Mexican bandits...
Meanwhile, back at the local army headquarters, King is being framed for stealing the guns & leading the patrol into an ambush.....
Drags most of the time, but the gunfights are okay.....
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Tonight's Stinker: Atom Age Vampire(1960)
Tonight's Stinker
Atom Age Vampire(1960)
https://youtu.be/C3FiQduQwYc?si=m1TMv96LD-K_BCvV
A stripper goes backstage to meet her boyfriend, But he announces he's breaking up because he's outgrown her career choice..... She gets in her car, gets blinded by an oncoming motorist & wrecks.... In the hospital, she finds out she's scarred for life....
Then an evil mad scientist sends his lovely assistant to recruit the girl for unorthodox beauty treatments....
The treatments work, but things get complicated, as the assistant loves the scientist, but the scientist falls for the stripper.....
The treatments start to wear off, so the scientist starts killing women to make more elixir....
the first half hour is okay, but starts to slow down after that.... The characters are written like they're out of some soap opera.... When the scientist starts killing, it runs more like a crime noir with a guy who turn into a mutant in lieu of putting on a mask.....
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Tonight's Stinker: Robotrix (1991)
Tonight's Stinker
Robotrix (1991)
https://youtu.be/5ScNL0rondU?si=2_GmYL-Mx1MqTVQs
A middle eastern prince goes frolicking in the pool with a group of nude women while a team of Asian policemen assigned to guard him watch..... The one policewoman on the team is put off & decides to step out.... A kidnapper gasses everyone in the pool, then shoots the policewoman on the way out......
Later, at a convention organized by the father of the prince, American & German android developers vie for a contract for a middle eastern android army.... Two androids get to fighting, things get out of hand, & a Japanese android comes in to save the day..... Then an evil mad scientist sends a video tape saying he's kidnapped the sheik's son, then transfers his mind into an android.....
This plot point is quickly forgotten until about an hour later.....
The dead policewoman's mind is put into an android..... Meanwhile, the police start looking for a man killing hookers.....
This one kept turning up in b-movie recommendations, had me thinking it was just going to be silly martial arts, but for the most part, was porn with jokes about misogyny & voyeurism set to a grating synth score, with no real plot....
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Tonight's Stinker: Cannibal! The Musical (1993)
Tonight's Stinker
Cannibal! The Musical (1993)
https://youtu.be/8g2ImE4moVw?si=MQW7ITPa9BhM0JMm
Trey Parker & Matt Stone's retelling of The Legend Of Al Packer, it opens with a gory scene of Packer portrayed as a zombie with superhuman strength, dismembering his companions, then cuts to a courtroom where the prosecutor is telling an exaggerated version of events, then role opening credits.,...
Next, we see reporter Poly Pry try to sweet talk him into telling his version of events, then succeeds by asking about his horse (an inside joke)....
We go back to the beginning, where Packer's over-enthusiastic friend talks him into leading a group into Colorado... Of course, Packer barely knows what he's doing, but when his horse wanders off, he decides to follow the horse instead of leading the group to the next town....
Along the way, he meets some sadistic trappers, and a tribe of Indians played by Japanese exchange students....
Maintains a pretty good pace, with off color jokes leading into off color musical numbers (albeit, I didn't get any giggles until about an hour in)..... The opening had me expecting more gore, but it doesn't overdo it or linger on these scenes, rather, poking fun a slasher movie clichés.... Thumb up.
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