Tonight's Stinker: Atomic Rulers (1965)

Tonight's Stinker Atomic Rulers (1965) https://youtu.be/eLcJupntrhk?si=MhMmDephrDg4vqcu Japanese Superhero Starman is back, this time to stop an evil empire from using nukes to hold the world hostage... Starts out saving a commuter plane from crashing, then gets in a fight with a pair of thugs carrying atomic dust... Meanwhile, a group of orphans steals the suitcase with the dust, and while Starman goes to get it back, the thugs kidnap one of the orphans.... Drags most of the way, but has a goofy brawl about fifty-five minutes in....

Tonight's Stinker: The Humanoid(1979)

Tonight's Stinker The Humanoid(1979) https://youtu.be/vq4V0L1OLMM?si=VrCSsCxE4yvyuuZs In the distant future, Earth is renamed & under some sort of monarchy... The evil brother of the leader (a cheap knock off or Darth vader, with a mask that look like he got it a a bondage shop) has raised an army & has returned from exile to steal a bioweapon & kill a female scientist (Corinne Cléry)..... Clery's gets a call from an Asian kid she's taking care of, who has psychic powers, who tells her to come home, so the bad guys miss her.... Meanwhile, somewhere in deep space, a pilot (Richard Kiel, with a beard) is stuck on an outdated ship that just blew it's navigation & communication systems... He sees the bad guy's ship & decides to follow it.... The bad guy gets back to his base, run by an evil queen (Barbara Bach), & give the bioweapon to a scientist, who captures the pilot & turns him into Richard Kiel, without a beard, who is now laser proof with super human strength..... They bad guys send him back to Earth, where he grabs guards & throws them around, but the Asian kid uses his psychic powers to turn him back into a good guy.... An awful lot is packed into this movie, so it never gets dull (for me at least)... The sets & miniatures are pretty impressive... Many references to Star Wars... Manages to stay pretty goofy...

Tonight's Stinker: The Aftermath(1982)

Tonight's Stinker The Aftermath(1982) https://youtu.be/WMvEgm_DRqQ?si=FDD7mLhwgNJpuDML A group of astronauts on their way back home can't get in touch with mission control... Cut to a bombed out earth, where Sid Haig runs a gang that kills men & keeps all the women as slaves.... The astronauts decide to ditch their spaceship in the ocean off the coast of California for best visibility, but only two survive, & no one notices... Later that night, the pair gets attacked by mutants, & the next day, they find Los Angeles destroyed; WW3 happened while they were gone.... They find a mansion & settle in, & later one of them changes into some army fatigues & goes out to see if anyone's left... In a museum, he finds a dying curator who leaves him with a young boy... Meanwhile, one of Haig's slave girls escapes... Feels pretty long & meandering, driven by the one astronaut's superfluous narrative.... The first hour is mostly set up before getting in a feud with Haig's gang, leading to a painfully long showdown.... Sorta plays out like like the pilot for a Canadian TV show, even with the sex & violence, all of which is blurred out, & the film turns to black & white every time there's blood in the scene...

Tonight's Stinker: Motorcycle Gang (1957)

Tonight's Stinker Motorcycle Gang (1957) https://youtu.be/QD2vdbdgdig?si=kh75-kuHWr7BIaCH A pair of girls on dirt bikes get in a race with some other dirt bikers, attracting a cop car... After ditching the cops on a dirt road, one of the girls takes a spill, & one of the guys tries unsuccessfully to get in her pants, but she beats him up as the others arrive.... Somehow, they hit it off.... Later that night at the gang's hangout, their old leader shows up looking to kill the new leader after doing prison time for killing a pedestrian, and he's not too wild about the gang now being part of a legitimate racing club... The new girl in town decides to play the field, while the good boy biker dreams of being really good at bike racing, & the bad boy works at ruining it for him... Not too time consuming, but feels pretty grating (or maybe that's just the crick in my neck).....