I have been watching (as of 10-09-2008):

Inglorious Bastards A wild 1977 Italian World War II film directed by action director Enzo Castellari. Court-martialed soldiers in transport, escape across Nazi-occupied France, eventually volunteering for an important suicide mission. Starring Bo Svenson and Fred Williamson!

Usually referred to as a knock-off of The Dirty Dozen, this film was made 10 years later, and is actually a high budget film for Italy. Lots of big sets & explosions! This film is now becoming more famous as the remake by Quentin Tarantino starring Brad Pitt is due in the theaters next year. But from reading descriptions, it doesn’t look like it sticks to the plot of this original film too closely.

Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper 1974 US concert film of the fantastic Billion Dollars Babies 1973 Alice Cooper tour, directed by by Joe Gannon.

This film is Cooper at his peak, right before he quit drinking, dumped his classic lineup band and moved to Hollywood. This act predates everything punk wished it could be. Amazing show, with guilloteen, snakes, baby dolls parts and mannequin pieces all over the elaborate stage. Cooper’s audience loves and hate him, with girls trying to kiss him and guys flipping him the bird and screaming inaudible f-yous!

The Amazing James Randi is on hand to help with with the great beheading routine, plus play the part of a dentist with a giant drill!

Horrible Horror With Zacherley “The Cool Ghoul” a horribly obscure title only released on an old VHS tape from 1986. Zacherley being one of the most well known of the old 50s-era horror hosts. You may have even heard his hit song, Dinner With Drac.

It was intended to look and feel like his old Shock Theater TV shows, and has great crazy scenes of him horror-hosting (electrocuting toy robots, jabbing pencils into brains, dissecting a weird green blob-like creature) interspersed with clips “of the most dreadful of the old films”, such as The Brainiac, Spider Baby, Night of the Ghouls, The Killer Shrews, The Blob, The Indestructible Man, The Amazing Colossal Man, and many I could not positively identify. . . and even an old black and white clip of Zacherley himself singing on some Pat Boone show.

The Gauntlet an absolutely ridiculous film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, from 1977. Eastwood has directed some top notch films such as Play Misty For Me or The Outlaw Josey Wales, and he has also directed some silly films such as Bronco Billy and this piece of zaniness.

The film centers around set pieces where the maximum amount of bullets are fired by police into a house, a car, and finally a bus. The bus runs a gauntlet of Phoenix police flanked on both sides of the street, with others on the roof, guaranteeing that if this happened in real life, the police would be massacring each other with each shot that missed the bus. I remember seeing this at the drive-in as a youngster, and even at that time laughing at how silly this was. Why didn’t they just put a barrier in the street? Or even easier, one good spike strip and they could have saved 10,000 bullets!

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