Tonight's Stinker: Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971)

Tonight's Stinker Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971) https://youtu.be/1j6fCW5jL1E?si=nDFQkeEUyW1VNqSJ Okay, so, I've always enjoyed a good Spaghetti Western, and I've always admired Klaus Kinski's prolific film career, being known just as much for his bmovies as he is for his art house movies, and with the advent of the internet, I learned Kinski made a few of these westerns... So, something I had to get outa my system... This turned out to be a mystery/suspense... The first half follows the formula of a group of people holed up in a bar, with a group of bad guys, the leader being especially sadistic, & tensions rise... It turn out, the gang robbed a bank, which is all over the telegraph lines, their guide for the desert has been murdered, & their bagman is way late... At the bar, a stranger offers to show them the way to Mexico in exchange for half their loot... The loot shows up, & the second half of the movie is pretty much the formula of people lost in the desert, not sure if they can trust their guide...

Tonight's Stinker: The Pumaman (1980)

Tonight's Stinker The Pumaman (1980) https://youtu.be/e59kuXC_bzA?si=7ifvL64j3OVj3HWy So, a million years ago, aliens gave the Aztecs a gold mask, promising Pumaman would protect it.... Present day London, Donald Pleasance leads a group of villains in black leather jumpsuits, who have stolen the mask & intend to use it to control the minds of world leaders... But first, an archeologist warns him about the Pumaman, whom he resolves to find & kill.... Cut to a professor out for a jog, reading about a rash of murders... He goes back to work, where he senses danger, & a Latino with super human strength attacks him & tosses him out a window, but he survives... Later on, the Latino shows up at his house, tells the professor he's the Pumaman, & tries to get him to try on a belt... The audio is pretty grating most of the time, but the disco & midi-synth soundtrack is amusingly goofy... Campy fun that manages to stay engaging most of the time...

Tonight's Stinker: Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)

Tonight's Stinker Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960) https://youtu.be/9sYoYgL4rGo?si=37UnmucRabitywFk So, it opens with an organized brawl, Glauco wins is the last man standing, & everybody walks away happy... Later that night, Pirro, his untrustable friend is approached by a pair of shady sailors who talk him into getting him on the next boat in exchange for drinking money.... Next morning, they're on the boat, & well. one thing leads to another.... Eventually, they make it to an island where they find promised gold & a table with free food & wine that's been drugged... The sailors abandon them to be enslaved by the Amazons.... Of course, the Amazons have their own set of problems, with the two alphas at each others throats, & a queen who's bored & likes to stay drunk.... Meanwhile, an escaped Egyptian inventor plots everyone's escape..... There's also a dated joke about an effeminate group of men.... Mostly comedy, with really poorly placed big band swing music during fight scenes....

Tonight's Stinker: Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963)

Tonight's Stinker Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963) https://youtu.be/64zVVd29-hI?si=TTZNu7xVj8pEDdJ1 So, uh, instead of ancient Greece, it's 16th century Spain, & Hercules is not the main character.... And so I'm having trouble remembering the first third of the movie, because I was too busy trying to wrap my head around that... Okay, so, in 16th century Spain, a Duke chases some escaping serfs onto a Don's property... The Duke threatens war unless he marries the Don's daughter... Old & committed to peace, the Don capitulates... However, a soldier betrothed to the Dona returns the next day, quickly learns the truth, gets exiled, & falls in with some gypsies, & becomes the masked rider.... A bad film print, ripped from a bad VHS, & the dubbing gets grating at times....

Tonight's Stinker: MST3K 517: Beginning of the End (1957)

Tonight's Stinker MST3K 517: Beginning of the End (1957) http://www.badmovies.org/movies/beginend/ https://youtu.be/E8kc3Z7Dxok?si=qBfkZ7g1IEJ5c35L A small Illinois town is destroyed, & all the residents disappear... A well known reporterette smells a story & decides to investigate.... After getting some pictures, both she & the national guard are stumped, until someone mentions a grain silo that collapsed a few months earlier... Instead of going strait to the silo, the reporterette stops at an agricultural scientists laboratory to ask for directions... He takes her to the wrecked silos, where they discover giant man-eating locusts... Must admit, I've seen the first half of this stinker several times, but for one reason or another, wasn't able to watch the end... Mike & the Bots jabs tend to produce some amusing one liners...

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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....

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)...

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!

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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....