Tonight's Stinker: The Wild Women of Wongo(1959)

Tonight's Stinker The Wild Women of Wongo(1959) https://youtu.be/aCIJq6GbfTE?si=naVr4s1EJ-tMzBlR It opens with a voiceover of how mother nature tried to mix the ugly men & beautiful women in one tribe, & vice versa with another tribe, but it didn't work.... The king of Wongo, who's terrified of birds & snakes (and aeroplanes, and Lenny Bruce is not afraid), goes to the temple of the dragon to ask the high priestess to receive the women for marriage ceremonies, & then goes home.... Back at the village of Wongo, he sleeps all day while the women do chores & the men go fishing.... The prince of Goona shows up asking for help fighting against ape men, but the men of Wongo are more concerned with how the tribe's women have gone gaga over this handsome stranger, & try to kill him.... The women intervene, he gets away, & the women hafta go to the temple to prepare for marriage, & make a blood sacrifice for blaspheming their god..... Meanwhile, a terribly annoying parrot watches it all for no reason.... Slow & grating for the most part, the audio is pretty grating.... I have a headache... This movie can't seem to decide if it wants to take it's self seriously, or go full on comedy.....

Tonight's Stinker: The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock(1959)

Tonight's Stinker The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock(1959) https://youtu.be/6ciAPmIEbY4?si=n-4Cpdo5pDCO3rsy Lou Costello is a scientist who's just built a tiny supercomputer..... Unfortunately, he has to pay for it by driving a garbage truck, which also not fully paid for.... Meanwhile, the local bank owner, who owns half the town & holds a lien on the other half, is running for governor... He's trying to suck up to a TV talk show host by putting up a front as the nicest guy in town, which he has a hard time holding up...... Another problem the banker has, is warning the men of the town not to go near his niece, who's already secretly dating Costello... Costello & the girl sneak out to a mesa so he can try out his computer on natural radiation (or something), but after an argument, she storms off into a radiation cloud & comes back thirty feet tall.... When Costello tries to tell the banker, he misunderstands, believing his niece is pregnant, and orders the pair be secretly married... Mayhem continues to ensue as Costello tries to keep his new bride happy while the banker tries to protect his campaign.... Bud Abbott is not in this movie, & I think it works out better for it, as I've never found the pair all that funny.... This film got quite a few chuckles outa me.... Thumb up!

Tonight's Stinker: I Love Maria(1988)

Tonight's Stinker I Love Maria(1988) https://youtu.be/y9-sjq4H0jw?si=TK1UelwMhbeaw2Wd A klutzy reporter show up to an active crime scene, where police fail to stop a giant robot from robbing a bank.... The next day, the reporter loses his camera at a press gaggle at the police station, but is helped out by a klutzy scientist.... The scientist later proves his bosses new machine gun won't work, & tries to talk the leader of the science team into his design for a ray gun.... His boss brushes him off, more concerned about his job than stopping the robot.... Later, the scientist helps out a drunk at a bar, who's a former member of the robot gang.... Meanwhile, the leader of the gang has built a robot in the likeness of his girlfriend, Maria, who's not too happy about her doppelganger.... They send the robot to kill the drunk, who's rescued by the scientist, and the robot malfunctions after getting wet.... The drunk & the scientist find themselves on the run from bot the police and the mob.... The English dubbing cuts out & goes to Chinese many times throughout this print, so It's kinda hard to know what they're talking about..... Other than that, there's plenty of decent slapstick, and the robots, the stuff they smash & the practical effects are fairly impressive....

Tonight's Stinker: Spectre(1977)

Tonight's Stinker Spectre(1977) https://youtu.be/QU_yg13NxiM?si=LSMh32eLu2bOL3hf Robert Culp & Gig Young as demon hunters... So, Young shows up to an old friend's house... A woman conducting black magic is ignoring the doorbell until she's finished, then takes him to see Culp.... Culp is a former criminologist turned cultist who needs help with a case in London.... Young is the skeptic.... Then the young woman who hired them shows up.... She tries coming onto Culp, but he manages to exercise a demon disguised as the client.... They fly to London & then start discussing demons as the plane malfunctions.... They get to London & stop to see an old friend, only to find him dead with his house on fire... The get to the mansion of their client, who's older brother has staffed it entirely with attractive young women & the décor is all about hedonism & blasphemy.... The client herself is a prude.... Things get weirder..... This is one of those movies I saw as a kid, & then spent years trying to remember what it was.... Intended as a TV pilot, it maintains a fast pace in the first hour, & then starts with the investigating & reveals later....

Tonight's Stinker: Island of Lost Women(1959)

Tonight's Stinker Island of Lost Women(1959) https://youtu.be/3Co0FNXARLU?si=wYhoPPWzOiT7sGqB A reporter & his pilot realize their lost, one of the engines on their plane konks out, & the radio dies, when they see a small island in the middle of the ocean..,.. A loud voice tells them not to land, but they have no other options... As soon as they land, a scientist comes out to greet them & asks them to leave, but his three teenage daughters come out of the jungle, having never seen a man before.... It turns out, the scientist helped build the atomic bomb, and is convinced the world is on a path to self destruction.... But the reporter has the story of a lifetime, which presents a dangerous problem.... Meanwhile, three smitten teenage girls presents it's own problem.... Short, not too much wasted time, & the scientist has an answer for pretty much every question the viewer may have, with plenty of fluffy drama between the women & the men....

Tonight's Stinker: Zarkorr! The Invader(1996)

Tonight's Stinker Zarkorr! The Invader(1996) https://youtu.be/54ivQh9fHzo?si=4Fh5PoJi4762t9Mp Somewhere in California, a fairly adequate looking kaiju busts out of a mountain & starts destroying some decent looking miniatures.... Meanwhile, in New Jersey, an off duty postal worker is visited by a six inch tall alien disguised as a "teenage mall tramp".... She tells him he's been selected by a superior race to save the Earth from Zarkorr, because he's the most ordinary man on Earth... He decides to enlist the help of a pretty young cryptozoologist who's being interviewed by an unenthusiastic anchor at a local television station, but a series of misunderstandings, and rather dated jokes about postal workers (you had to be there) lead to a standoff with police.... From a pretty blurry VHS rip..... The segments tend to linger for long periods of time, but the jokes and frantic pacing, along with the interspersed scenes of the monster trashing sets, manage to keep it from getting dull

Tonight's Stinker: Terror in the Midnight Sun(1959)

Tonight's Stinker Terror in the Midnight Sun(1959) https://youtu.be/aUn6FdRypjM?si=kiecD7JlnhfY0NcP A meteor crashes somewhere in Sweden, locals see it, then roll opening credits to a corny d00-wap song while some guy skis across the frozen landscape to a telegraph office.... Next, we're introduced to a scientist, the hansom young geologist who'll being joining him & later on, to the mischievous young niece of the scientist, who spends the first half hour teasing the young geologist..... Then there's some hubbub about something killing the local reindeer & finding some giant footprints in the snow... The next day, everyone goes to the crash site & discover the meteor is a spaceship.... The relationship of the aliens inside to the bigfoot creature terrorizing the countryside, their intentions is never fully explained.... Pretty formulaic, with some of the reveals being laughable, & even at a short hour & twelve minutes, is gratingly slow....