Sunday, March 16, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Tonight's Stinker: Demon of Paradise (1987)
Tonight's Stinker
Demon of Paradise (1987)
https://youtu.be/sZ_saM3D2fs?si=o2NcSjmywhrQYn1N
Must mention that it's part of somebody else's weekend movie podcast... So, Anyway...
Takes place in Hawaii, Opens with some potty-mouthed dynamite fishermen & their equally potty-mouthed dynamite suppliers who become one of the subplots... After the salesmen take off, a guy in a fish suit shows up, the boats rocks & they drop the dynamite & everybody gets killed....
The local natives are complaining about a shortage of fish, & an elder talks about a demon... They do a hula dance to get rid of the monster, but a local fisherman ticks it off....
There's also a female scientist who believes the beast is real, and a local sheriff whom, no thanks to a sleezy reporter, we learn he lost his last job because he couldn't catch a serial killer...
Meanwhile, the owner of a hotel that's about to go under teams up with the down on his luck reporter to turn the monster into an advertising gimmick, which works, but with predictable consequence....
Lot's of that cheesy '80s midi-synth muzak, and a situation towards the end involving a helicopter that made me laugh out loud....
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Tonight's Stinker: Swamp of the Lost Monsters
Tonight's Stinker
Swamp of the Lost Monsters
https://youtu.be/dmFZbu8OxNI?si=uzzpHN18wXk6ZuhS
Had a hard time finding out more about this movie, (other than an assumption on my part that this was cobbled from some TV series) but the opening credits mention K Gordon Murray, a "producer" who imported some of the worst matinees that Mexico had to offer....
Also, this was a gosh awful VHS rip from TV of some guys weekend movie show, who cuts in with corny jokes...
So, a Mexican rancher dies, then disappears from his coffin... His brother sends for an American detective, but is murdered along the way...
Add on some guy in a cheesy sea monster costume who can't swim very well & wears an air tank...
Mostly a corny kid friendly detective story.... One scene, the hero gets in a gun fight, only to end it with nobody getting hurt (So I guess they were just shooting to scare each other)...
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Tonight's Stinker: Teenagers Battle the Thing (1958)
Tonight's Stinker
Teenagers Battle the Thing (1958)
https://youtu.be/iCrn9x54Q2g?si=5zSacnWvOLgVjQvj
(Or at https://youtu.be/33CeRPUyh38?si=11D84_HV12k2GHld )
A high school teacher takes some of his students on an archeological dig.... One of them finds a rock that turns out to be a tool....
They climb a mountain & find a tablet glued to the ground real tight... They pull it out & find a hole with smoke coming out of it.... Naturally, they go inside, where they find a clay mummy & take it home...
Later that night, an unconvincing ape man with a face like a drunk werewolf busts out...
At only 0:59 minutes, It's really slow & plodding even at the last ten minutes, with an ending so abrupt, it feels anticlimactic!
Monday, March 3, 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Tonight's Stinker: Beyond the Moon (1954)
Tonight's Stinker
Beyond the Moon (1954)
https://youtu.be/3y8TV2XHbPc?si=s2ASbq5BWRvIOCt1
Edited from the Rocky Jones, Space Ranger television series....
Rocky & his copilot Winky find out a professor friend of theirs has defected to an enemy race, but they smell a rat, they go to outer space to the enemy planet to see what's really up....
Meanwhile, there's a spy at Space Ranger Headquarters, and the aliens have used some kind of hypno-ray on the professor & his son...
There's also the addition of a female navigator & translator, who gets her share of the predictable misogynistic quips from Rocky....
Some of the sound effects are kinda grating, but they don't last long....
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