Tonight's Stinker: Crime Zone(1988)

Tonight's Stinker Crime Zone(1988) https://youtu.be/JHZnd5m5bqU?si=F3eesm0c00g5EiJs In a dystopic future, the police have set up a sting for a crook trying to hijack a truckload of weapons.... There's a shoot out & they catch him.... Next, a security guard with an attitude problem loses his job at a cryogenics warehouse.... He goes to a bar where he meets his old street gang, and the old leader tells him he never had a chance..... While at the bar, he falls for a state owned hooker.... She falls for him, & he convinces her to quit her job... Out of work in a tiered society, they turn to shoplifting & pickpocketing, which catches the attention of some guy who makes some big promises in exchange for a high end job... But he's not on the level, & their situation spirals out of control.... The action scenes are pretty cool, but the rest of the movie is pretty depressing.... More of a crime drama than sci-fi.... Most of the characters are pretty crass... From a decent VHS rip, the audio is not that good.....

Tonight's Stinker: The Glove(1979)

Tonight's Stinker The Glove(1979) https://youtu.be/5WZZtS2Ae5I?si=A0KAIQ0hHMnuKvyV OR HERE https://youtu.be/ORIKDF7d_tc?si=lUGyNltD1EcGTg7y Roosevelt Grier is an escaped con, who dons a riot suit & a five pound gauntlet, which he uses to hunt down a prison guard & bash him to death (along with his car).... We cut to John Saxon as a down on his luck bounty hunter spending the weekend with his daughter.... He later drops her off at school, as he narrates how he's behind on his alimony, & always on the verge of losing custody.... Of course, it's not coming up with the money that's the problem, but he's got a gamble bug... Grier finds out that Saxon is looking for him after passing out flyers & taunts him over the phone... Meanwhile, Saxon gets in a couple fights, shakes down an old lady, & gets burned in a poker game set up by his sleazy bookie, who runs a sleazy real estate agency....... Mostly about how the bounty hunter's life really sucks, padding what feels like a sub plot about a killer...

Tonight's Stinker: The Golem(1920)

Tonight's Stinker The Golem(1920) https://youtu.be/5cQXzHRQMf4?si=AoyYaTF6CfbevDNR A Rabbi is doing some astrology, & the stars tell him there's going to be a calamity.... Meanwhile, the emperor is kicking the Jews out of the ghetto for greed, snubbing Christian festivals & black magic, & sends a haughty squire to deliver the message.... The Rabbi asks the squire to make an appeal for him... The squire & the rabbi's daughter fall for each other.... The rabbi secretly sculpts a giant out of clay, then uses black magic to bring it to life.... He uses it for chores at first, while the villagers are freaked out at it.... The squire comes back with good news of an appeal, but the rabbi catches him groping his daughter, & sees her not resisting... The rabbi goes to a festival at the emperor's place to show off his golem & do some other tricks.... When the castle starts to collapse, the golem saves everyone, & the Jews are pardoned.... Not needing it anymore, the rabbi turns off the golem & tries to destroy it, but things go sideways when the rabbi's assistant finds out the daughter is having an affair with a stranger..... I had to pause this a lot because the subtitles happened to flash by pretty fast.... Pretty interesting take on the dangers of building an unnatural servant that turns on it's creator (considering)... Wouldn't surprise me if the platform shoes inspired Frankenstein....

Tonight's Stinker: 2019: After the Fall of New York(1983)

Tonight's Stinker 2019: After the Fall of New York(1983) https://youtu.be/X4-vUA3wbow?si=SrXHfOcxF7Oo3LxM It opens with some annoying midi/synth music that we're supposed to believe some guy on the street is playing with a trumpet..... A narrator explains how people have gone sterile following World War 3, & the predominant government experiments on the survivors.... Some soldiers dressed in black on horseback meet up with some gangsters in a New York street, & set about raiding a building to kill a bunch of people with nasty complexions... Then we cut to a desert, where a couple of cars are in a game of trying to kill each other while punk rockers cheer them on... The winner is our protagonist, & the prize is a male transvestite.... The hero sets him/her free, then gets abducted by a pair of guys in white uniforms... He's taken to Alaska, where a group of rebels have set up shop.... He's told there's one fertile woman left on Earth, & they want him to go get her with the help of a strongman & a guy who's mind is a map of Brooklyn (even though his name is Bronx, which is on the other side of the river).... They get into New York, but need to run through rat infested sewers to avoid gangs & soldiers, but ultimately get caught.... They escape, & end up getting help from a midget & an ape man...... The midi/synth scores in these Italian Maxploitation always gives me a headache.... Still, the the movie is pretty fast paced & enjoyable....

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....