Abominable Advent Calendar Day 21: The Devil’s Sword (1984)
Alligator people; car-headlight-eye cyclops; flying guillotines, limbs, and heads; magic mushrooms; booby traps; laser-eye dragon statues; and all sorts of other goofy stuff—in other words, schlock-and-awe moments around every corner.
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 20: Terror in the Jungle (1968)
If you’re a true fan of bad movies—if The Room and Fatal Findings are the bad cinema kiddie pool as far as you’re concerned and you need a fresh fix—meet your new favorite fixation: Terror in the Jungle.
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 19: Queen of Blood (1966)
Astronauts John Saxon, Judi Meredith, Basil Rathbone, and Dennis Hopper must fight a feral, oversexed, alien CindyLou Who
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 18: All’s Faire in Love (2009)
Hail, good gentlefolk, and welcome to the post in in whiche I describe the travestye and odd charme of the lifeless rom-com in whiche the ultimate goth girl, Christina Ricci—whom thou mayest know as Wednesday Addams—did find romance at a Renaissance faire.
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 17: The Devil’s Rain (1975)
Ernest Borgnine. William Shatner. Ida Lupino. Tom Skerritt. Eddie Albert. A baby John Travolta. Not all be A-listers, but they’ve all had respectable careers. So if they’re together in one film, it should be halfway decent, right? Oh, so very, delightfully wrong.
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 16: Golden Queen Commandos (1982) and Pink Force Commandos (1984)
Women-in-prison, martial arts, spaghetti western, WWII spy movie mashup!
