AMC is really pushing it…
Crappy Movie Friday is put on hold again this weekend, in lieu of a Breaking Bad marathon.
But, unlike the Oscar weekend, it’s not TOTALLY absent.
The Puppet Master is airing in the wee hours of Saturday Morning.
After Magic last week, seems AMC is on some kind of doll fetish lately.
I’m rather curious just how AMC is going to edit this thing up to air it…
It’s not often you find even straight to VHS crapola movies having to cut things to keep their rating under “X”…I can’t even post the trailer on here without adjusting the blog settings to adult content.
If you can get by some of that, though, you have a film that inspired 8 sequels. There is a certain charm to the puppets, in that they are as much victim as they are villain. A formula lost on many modern shows, and virtually absent from the slashers this fits in with.
No, this week is for UEN.
UEN is airing Atom Age Vampire.
A little history with me and Italian horror…
There have been 2 movies that have caused a lasting phobia within me. The first being Alien. Oh, how terrified I was of that thing. It’s responsible for the ONLY time in my life I have ran in pure fear, losing all sense. A haunted house at the age of 10, had re-created part of the Alien movie, and when that alien (guy in a costume) popped out of the wall and made that noise, I was GONE.
The second film, was The Beyond. How Zombie movies SHOULD be done. Specifically this scene:
Still gets me. I don’t like anything anywhere near my eyes anymore.
Anyhow, Italian horror films typically have a mood and POV that is something just left-of-center from their American counterparts.
Atomic Age Vampire is no different. Since there are NO vampires at all. This is a mad scientist film in all it’s worst.