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....

Tonight's Stinker: A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity(1972)

Tonight's Stinker A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity(1972) https://youtu.be/VLVTonRRwaQ?si=g2rOyEOJToDsMjq4 A gunfighter rides into town, Remembers how his newlywed brother was murdered, finds the killer, & shoots him... Six years later, he rides back into town, finds out about the hardships his wife & kids went through after he left, then kills the killer's three friends.... He rides back to his old home in hopes of winning back his wife & kids, & promises not to use a gun again... Unfortunately, he has to deal with a group of thugs working for a local landgrabber, while Klaus Kinski shows up as a bounty hunter who spends most of his time standing around & watching.... Supposed to be a sequel to an identical film, but really not that original to begin with, just tries to stay sappy most of the time.....

Tonight's Stinker: Hells Angels on Wheels(1967)

Tonight's Stinker Hells Angels on Wheels(1967) https://youtu.be/K_TspgXRbMg?si=be_rocIUpMKVFYfF Hell's Angels cruise around San Francisco, cause some trouble, the pull up to a gas station, where Jack Nicholson works as an attendant.... He gets fired after mouthing off at an impatient customer who doesn't like being one pump over from bikers.... He later shows up at their hangout, where he get in it with one of the Angels when they break his headlamp.... The leader (Adam Roark) breaks it up & offers him a new headlamp if he follows them, to a rumble.... Afterwards, he falls for one of the girls, but she's not into monogamy.... Following a gratingly long party scene, the Angels decide to make Jack a perspective member.... Lots of riding & rumbles, with very little time put into story development.... Failed to sit through this one as a kid, & quickly remembered why.....