Archive for Hicksploitation
Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: Never to Early to Plan for Memorial Day! (May, 1979)
Posted in 1970-1979, Movie Ads with tags Alien Invaders, Coma, Creature Feature, Exploitation, Hicksploitation, Horror, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978, Macon County Line, Memorial Day, Random Drive In Mash Up, Sci-Fi, Star Crash, Stingray, Supervan, Thunder and Lightning on May 8, 2017 by WB KelsoMultiplex Mash-Up :: We Are Not Alone. (December, 1977)
Posted in 1970-1979, Movie Ads with tags Al Pacino, Alien Invaders, Bobby Deerfield, Burt Reynolds, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, First Love, Henry Winkler, Heroes, Hicksploitation, Jackie Gleason, Marthe Keller, Melinda Dillon, Melodrama, Multiplex, Richard Dreyfuss, Romance, Sally Field, Sci-Fi, Smokey and the Bandit, Steven Spielberg, Susan Dey, Sydney Pollack, William Katt on June 20, 2015 by WB KelsoBold and Brutal! (January, 1958)
Posted in 1950-1959, Movie Ads with tags American National Films, André De Toth, Bayou, Cameron Mitchell, Crime, Dianne Foster, Douglas Fowley, Ed Nelson, Edward Small, Edward Small Productions, Exploitatoin, Harold Daniels, Hicksploitation, Jack Albertson, Jonathan Haze, Kathy Garver, Lita Milan, M.A. Ripps, Monkey on My Back, Narcotics, Paul Richards, Peter Graves, Robert E. Kent, Timothy Carey, United Artists on April 26, 2015 by WB Kelso
Monkey on My Back (1957) Edward Small Productions :: United Artists / P: Edward Small / AP: Robert E. Kent / D: André De Toth / W: Paul Dudley, Anthony Veiller, Crane Wilbur, Ivan Bunny (novel), Barney Ross (novel) / C: Maury Gertsman / E: Grant Whytock / M: Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter / M: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards, Jack Albertson, Kathy Garver
Bayou (1957) American National Films :: United Artists / P: M.A. Ripps / D: Harold Daniels / W: Edward I. Fessler / C: Ted Saizis, Vincent Saizis / E: Maurice Wright / M: Gerald Fried / S: Peter Graves, Lita Milan, Douglas Fowley, Jonathan Haze, Ed Nelson, Timothy Carey
Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: An Evening With the Duke (October, 1960)
Posted in 1960-1969, Movie Ads with tags Abbott and Costello, At War With the Army, Comedy, Dean Martin, Drive In, Geraldine Page, Hicksploitation, High Octane, Hondo, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jeffrey Hunter, Jerry Lewis, John Ford, John Wayne, Laurel & Hardy, Martin & Lewis, Road Racers, Robert Mitchum, The Golden Age of Comedy, The Searchers, Thunder Road, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Westerns on January 9, 2015 by WB KelsoBayou Bigfoot, a Trail of Terror and Destruction in His Wake! (August, 1976)
Posted in 1970-1979, Movie Ads with tags Bigfoot, Creature Feature, Creature from Black Lake, Cryptozoology, Dub Taylor, Hicksploitation, Howco International, Jack Elam, Jim McCullough Productions, Mystery on January 14, 2014 by WB Kelso
From the guys that brought you Night of the Strangler, Night of Bloody Horror and The Mountaintop Motel Massacre comes another mid-1970s search for Bigfoot cash in after Charles B. Pierce’s The Legend of Boggy Creek raked it in at the box-office — this time a little further south in the swamps of Louisiana. And thanks to the efforts of hicksploitation stalwarts Dub Taylor and Jack Elam, and another spectacular job by Dean Cundey behind the camera (– that’s kinda butchered in the wrong-ratio DVD release), this research rehash manages just enough spooks and backwater bayou buffoonery to rate a hearty recommendation.
Creature from Black Lake (1976) Jim McCullough Productions :: Howco International Pictures EP: William Lewis Ryder Jr. / P: Jim McCullough, Jim McCullough Jr. / D: Joy N. Houck Jr. / W: Jim McCullough Jr. / C: Dean Cundey / E: Robert Gordon / M: Jaime Mendoza-Nava / S: Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, John David Carson, Dennis Fimple, Becky Smiser
Leave the Chilren at Home … And if YOU are Squeamish, Stay Home With Them! (October, 1968)
Posted in 1960-1969, Movie Ads with tags Alan Haufrect, American International, Dick Miller, Fabian, Hicksploitation, High Octane, Hilary Heath, Horror, Ian Ogilvy, Judy Cornwell, Juvenile Delinquents, Louis M. Heyward, Melodrama, Michael Reeves, Mimsy Farmer, Rupert Davies, Samuel Z. Arkoff, The Conqueror Worm, The Wild Racers, Tigon, Vincent Price, Witches / Warlocks on November 15, 2013 by WB Kelso
Being completely Poe-addled at the time, after, basically, randomly thumbing through the famed author’s collected works, American International Pictures added the somewhat nonsensical title for Michael Reeves’ The Witchfinder General. Whatever title you see it under, the film is as creepy and hair-raising as the artwork would imply and is definitely worth checking out. And, to be frank, with no trace of the usual ham, I think the portrayal of the dastardly inquisitor, Matthew Hopkins, is one of the most arresting performances of Vincent Price’s storied career. As was also AIP’s modus operandi back then, The Conqueror Worm was sent out as a double-bill. And keeping up with the nonsensical approach, it was released with the Fabian-fueled stock car epic, The Wild Racers.
The Conqueror Worm (1968) Tigon :: American International Pictures / EP: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Tony Tenser / P: Louis M. Heyward, Arnold Miller, Philip Waddilove / D: Michael Reeves / W: Tom Baker, Michael Reeves / C: John Coquillon / E: Howard Lanning / M: Paul Ferris / S: Vincent Price, Hilary Heath, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies
The Wild Racers (1968) Filmakers Productions :: American International Pictures / P: Roger Corman, Joel Rapp / AP: Tamara Asseyev, Pierre Cottrell / D: Daniel Haller / W: Max House / C: Néstor Almendros / E: Verna Fields / M: Mike Curb, Pierre Vassiliu / S: Fabian, Mimsy Farmer, Alan Haufrect, Judy Cornwell, Dick Miller
Stalk ‘n’ SlashCinema :: Cashing in with the Most Horrifying Motion Picture You’ll Ever See! (May, 1981)
Posted in 1980-1989, Movie Ads with tags "10", Allen Danziger, Caddyshack, Edwin Neal, Gunnar Hansen, Hicksploitation, Horror, Jim Siedow, Marilyn Burns, New Line Cinema, Psychos / Slashers, Stalk 'n' SlashCinema, Teri McMinn, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Thriller, Tobe Hooper on October 18, 2013 by WB Kelso
Robert Shayne was only 27 when he formed New Line Cinema back in 1967. At its conception, New Line was strictly into distribution; mostly providing a pipeline for foreign and art house fare for college revivals, scoring its biggest hit when Shayne repacked Dwain Esper’s Reefer Madness, which had been recently unearthed by Keith “Legalize it Now” Stroup in 1971, whose draconian and overblown stance on the wacky-weed went over big with the under 30 crowd. New Line also provided a wider market for the likes of John Waters and other regional independent entrepreneurs; and when Friday the 13th hit big in 1980 New Line managed to secure the rights for Tobe Hooper’s magnum-opus and introduced it to a whole new generation. By this time, New Line was also dabbling in producing their own product and would eventually take the profits from this re-release and funnel them into their own fright flicks like Alone in the Dark and Xtro; not to mention their most famous slasher, who, while not much of a mystery to I.D., I’ll keep on the Q.T. until I post the ads for it in a couple of days.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Vortex :: New Line Cinema / P: Jay Parsley, Tobe Hooper / D: Tobe Hooper / W: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper / C: Daniel Pearl / E: Larry Carroll, Sallye Richardson / M: Wayne Bell, Tobe Hooper / S: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Teri McMinn, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen