I’ve been really into this video for a long time and watch it whenever I need to have a quick laugh. Bunny cracks me up and I love Billy Beyond as one of the Strawberry elfs. Only recently however have I come to realize that “I took the shortcut, the strawberry shortcut,” needs to become one of my standard phrases, along with Jerri Blanks “All that cheese, I’m gonna be trumpeting all night long,” and “Ello-hay, old-hay on-hay”, which Edith Massey says in Polyester when she answers the phone.
Click below to see the single most amazingly bad video I have ever seen, for Michael Jackson’s older sister Rebbie’s 1984 hit single. Trust me, this is unreal - a woman that turns into a tiger, a Cobra that shoots 80’s laser beams from its eyes, a group of tuxedoed rejects from Madonna’s Material Girl video doing a strange line dance resembling the arms of the Centipede, it’s like the director saw Diana Ross’s video for Pieces of Ice, which I posted HERE some time ago - and decided, “You know what, I don’t think they went far enough into crazy town.” The lyrics are insane too - “When the centipede is hot, you’re bound to feel the fire.” It’s all too, too wonderful.
Here’s some clips from Philip Michael Thomas’ angel dust freakout extravaganza Death Drug…soon to be screening at the soon to be world famous Price Chompers Bushwick Discount Uniplex Pavilion…I’m not going to really explain these clips - they’re pretty obvious..so don’t get worked up.
Crack is wack, but Price Chomping is the wave of the future!
This is my next must-find, and after watching the two clips below you’ll no doubt understand why once I locate it, I’m adding Nocturna to the screening list for Price Chompers Bushwick Discount Uniplex Pavilion.
Nocturna is a 1979 disco vampire movie starring the late, great Lily Munster - Yvonne DeCarlo in the titular role and featuring disco numbers by Gloria Gaynor, Vickie Sue Robinson, Anthony Hamilton, and Moment of Truth.
Here’s the opening sequence:
And a later sequence where Nocturna learns to dance. Keep watching till the end - it’s worth it.
His band must be pretty good - he can walk away from the guitar in the middle of a number and it keeps playing!
After I got finished watching Frightmare this weekend, I was quick to pop in Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, an exploitation independent (as Stephen Thrower calls them in Nightmare USA) from 1977 that was never released officially until a DVD release in 2003. In the meantime, it was bootlegged and pirated and released in the public domain in Europe and Asia, developing a cult fan base among vidiots and cult-horror film junkies. I’m a little late to the Death Bed cult, as the kids at Kim’s have been telling me about it for years, but after watching it I’m fully on the “this movie is genius and a real work of trash-art” tip.
Here’s the Opening:
It’s the most ludicrous premise on Earth, a possessed bed, a demon’s blood seeping into the bed, making it a hungry monster - though it’s sort of no more absurd than some of the cheesy monster movies that came out of the 50’s and 60’s with tiny animals growing to monster size after coming in contact with radioactive materials. The funny thing is the conceit of the movie is that people have to lie down on the bed, which immediately sucks them in, using a sort of piss-colored acid to rot away their skin, while the spirit of a consumptive Aubrey Beardsley-esque artist imprisoned behind a painting on the wall watches and acts as the omniscient narrator, observing, and ultimately helping to vanquish the cursed bed. The film could be described as sort of a schlocky Ed Wood affair meets Jean Rollin-esque Euro Horror meets hauntingly weird surrealistic nightmare. There’s completely hilarious sequences like the bed develops an indigestion from eating too many people, and in the next sequence we see it eating a bottle of Pepto Bismol. But as Stephen Thrower points out: “Death Bed can be silly alright, but it’s humor is all over the scale, from slapstick to irony: even on first viewing it’s not something you simply laugh at.”
Unless of course, you’re Patton Oswalt, who hilariously skewers the entire production, in a completely admirable way on his album “Werewolves and Lollipops.” You can tell he really likes it, even though he puts up a good front. Enjoy.
I’m sure his hilarious bit drove many of his fans to check out Death Bed: The Bed that Eats, and that’s just fine by me. The film is truly something special, an inspired piece of insanity from the pit of the 70’s bargain basement horror bin.
Okay, that’s enough about that. Time to call it a night. I’ll just lie down here on my bed, and AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! FUCCCKKKKK!!!!
I just ordered this little gem from Eddie Brandt’s today, along with a few other goodies.
This is from the 1970’s TV movie “Mary’s Incredible Dream.” This is how Pimpadelic Wonderland describes it:
MARY’S INCREDIBLE DREAM 1976 [C+] The battle of Good vs Evil is represented by Manhattan Transfer and Ben Vereen in this high concept, Emmy nominated oddity from Mary Tyler Moore. Who knew she had it in her? At times reaches late seventies heights of disco-fied tackiness a la Xanadu and The Apple. This vanity project went one million over budget and spooked the networks from ever bankrolling anything like it ever again.
As my friend Billy Beyond said when I emailed him about it “A Million Over??? I need to see it!”
I think this may need to be the first screening at PRICE CHOMPERS BUSHWICK DISCOUNT UNIPLEX PAVILION, which is under new management and opening very soon.
