ROBERT BERRY'S
WEIRD MOVIE STUFF #11


WORLD O' WEIRD MOVIE FACTS: Horror Movie Hoe-Down!
Check out these amazing horror-film facts!

  • Years prior to TV's Charlie's Angels, Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd appeared together in the 1973 film SATAN'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

  • Clint Eastwood made an early film appearance (his first?) in the 1955 sequel REVENGE OF THE CREATURE, featuring that gill-guy from The Black Lagoon.

  • TENTACLES, a horrible JAWS rip-off released in 1977 about a giant octopus actually featured the acting talents of John Huston and Henry Fonda!

  • Magician and Claudia Schiffer love-slave David Copperfield starred in one of Jamie Lee-Curtis' legion o' horror films, TERROR TRAIN.


    REMEMBER WHEN...so many horror films were titled in ways to make you a paranoid agoraphobic? This string o' films certainly didn't do much for those staying at home alone at night:

                    DON'T GO IN THE BASEMENT! (1973)
                DON'T LOOK NOW! (1973)
                ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE? (1978)
                DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE!  (1980)
                HE KNOWS YOU'RE ALONE!  (1980) featuring Tom Hanks, FYI
    The time is right to bring this entertaining trend back!


    MATCH THE DIRECTOR WITH THEIR WEIRD MOVIE CREDIT: Yes, believe it or not, the following directors have each directed one of these films on the right. Match them all correctly, and win a date with Sam Peckinpah's former butler! (Become one with Hollywood History!!!)

    1.  Robert Altman               A.  PENN AND TELLER GET KILLED
2.  John Huston                 B.  THE HAND
3.  Sidney Lumet                C.  POPEYE
4.  James Cameron               D.  ANNIE
5.  Arthur Penn                 E.  THE TRIP
6.  Joel Schumacher             F.  PIRANHA 2: THE SPAWNING
7.  Oliver Stone                G.  THE WIZ
8.  Roger Corman                H.  D.C. CAB

    SUPER-ULTRA-MEGA-WEIRD TRIVIA: (Answer these right, and seek help!!!)
    (This issues theme: Krazy Kombos)

    1. What movie starred Lee Majors, Don Rickles, and ABE VIGODA?

    2. What film featured the unlikely pairing of Greta Garbo and Bela Lugosi?

    3. What 1979 basketball film featured among its cast Jonathan Winters, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and Stockard Channing?

    4. What 1935 Todd Browning film stars Bela Lugosi and Lionel Barrymore?


    WEIRD MOVIE STUFF SPOTLIGHT: SCARY DOG FILMS

    CUJO (1983): As movies about rabid St. Bernards go, this is the best! Actually, it's rather pitiful to see all of the makeup this poor mutt had to endure. I'm still waiting for CUJO vs BEETHOVEN.

    MAN'S BEST FRIEND (1993): One of the only redeeming things about this film is the fact that Ally Sheedy nearly becomes dog food. A genetically enhanced hound goes kill-crazy! Yahoooooooo!

    DRACULA'S DOG (also ZOLTAN...HOUND OF DRACULA 1977): HA HA HA HA HA HA! Check out the description of this movie, "A group of Russian soldiers accidentally (whoops!) bring Dracula's dog back to life. The hound travels to Los Angeles (from Transylvania?) where his vampiric master's descendants live.

    WOLFEN (1979) More angry dogs, this time with Albert Finney, and Gregory Hines as the chow. Good scene where a severed hand's dying fingers shoot off a gun.

    RABID (1977) Not about dogs, but it's got Marilyn Chambers, so it's close. Get this, after a cycle accident, Ms Chambers grows a weird appendage under her arm, and starts killing guys with it! So all of these horny guys get offed by her deadly pit! Who the hell thought of this one? Give 'em a prize!


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    Robert A. Berry
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