A high-flying trapeze artist is in Mexican looking for work as a lounge singer. Stop if you’ve heard that one already. Fun in Acapulco features the King of Rock ‘n Roll, Elvis Presley, as well as several winking hare-brained rapid-fire references to what it’s like to be king. He’s Mike Windgren (a joy to hearContinue reading “Fun in Acapulco”
Category Archives: Strange cinema
Burial Ground
Title multiplicity is in full effect here: the wackier the movie, the more likely a title mouthful. Burial Ground is known by its original handle, Le Notti del terrore, Nights of Terror, but also Zombi Horror and The Zombie Dead. (That last one seems a bit redundant unless you’re splitting definitional hairs; Zombies could be considered “undead.”) In Peter Normanton’s The Mammoth BookContinue reading “Burial Ground”
Really Awful Movies 