Happy Thursday, everyone! I should have had up a new entry in the Invisible Man series, but...I have a weird tech issue (specifically, my PS5 controller will not sync with the PS5 and I really need to figure that out before I can play a DVD and I wasn't going to wait 30 minutes on the phone with Sony last night to try and figure it out). So, we'll have the next entry next Thursday. Meanwhile, let's look at the junk I bought lately!
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Look, we all know if you're into schlock, Road House is a classic. It's weird and violent and a little bit sexy with a raft of good character actors who know what kind of movie they're in. But I just want to highlight one thing, from the fantastic Will Harris interview with Kelly Lynch from the old Random Roles feature, where she tells the following story,
That's maybe the most Murray Family story ever.
Road House is currently streaming on Netflix.
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I've previously seen everything this week and this is one I need to re-explore. Elliot Kalan, previously of The Daily Show and longtime hose of The Flop House Podcast, has talked about his loved of the Czech New Wave and this is one of the few examples I've seen of it. It's a deeply...weird movie. The Wiki article describes it as "a 1970 Czechoslovak surrealist fantasy horror film" and that's a pretty good description; it at times feels like an odd take on Alice In Wonderland with a wonderful lead performance by Jaroslava Schallerová. Director Jaromil Jireš is someone who I should be more familiar with and I'm happy to see a lot of his work is currently on the Criterion Channel.
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Oh, do I have a treat for you folks about the intersection of horror and exploitation TV. The Witch Who Came From The Sea has one of the most lying posters in movie history; this movie is about a scarred woman (wonderfully played by Millie Perkins) who goes on a killing spree after taking a job in a seaside bar and getting progressively more fed up as she deals with the piggish male patrons. It's an almost surprisingly smart and sad movie about a woman dealing with toxic masculinity and has zero to do with that poster.
But what really delights me is that this is directed by Matt Cimber, an exploitation director who was always just a little better than his reputation in his '70s and then became...one of the founders of GLOW. So yes, if you watch the excellent GLOW series on Netflix, this is the guy Marc Maron's character was based on. And if you've never seen the actual GLOW clips, the Netflix series is actually underselling it.
I mean...damn. There's a lot going on here. (But seriously, the three seasons of GLOW are very worth your time.)
The Witch Who Came from the Sea is on a bunch of platforms, including AMC+, but especially Shudder.
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