#Pandemonium movie hayden series#

Filmed in 'Cinemagic'- basically a red filter to obscure the painted backdrops - the hapless astronauts discover carnivorous plants, gelatinous sea monsters and a towering bat-rat-spider monster. I absolutely love this 1959 sci-fi film about a rocket trip to Mars that ends badly. Truly bizarre from beginning to end with a wild rock score. A scowling Sonny Chiba plays the man-wolf with super hearing and mad fighting skills that is investigating these supernatural murders.

#Pandemonium movie hayden series#

Ben (with theme song by Michael Jackson) was the sequel which is also out in a beautiful Blu-ray from Scream Factory.Ī wonderful oddball 1975 Japanese film (never released in America) about a series of killings of criminals by a ghostly invisible tiger on the streets of Tokyo. Ernest Borgnine is wonderfully loathsome as his nasty boss in this surprise 1971 box office hit.

Joyboy.' The gorgeous black and white cinematography by Haskell Wexler shimmers now on Blu-ray.īruce Davison is the bullied office boy living at home with his suffocating mother (Elsa Lanchester) who befriends two intelligent rats, and their friends, and sends them out on missions to kill his enemies. With Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger, Liberace, beautiful Anjanette Comer as a death-loving cosmetician, and the unforgettable Ayllene Gibbons as 'Mrs. 'The motion picture with something to offend everyone!' was how they advertised this berserk 1965 black comedy and caustic look at the cemetery business, starring Robert Morse and based on an Evelyn Waugh novel but with an off-the-wall screenplay by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. Liz Renay ( Desperate Living) shows up as a pink see-through negligee who gets her intestines yanked out. Stein, tries to help a severely wounded Vietnam vet only to create a lumbering monster with a flat-topped afro that had audiences howling with unrestrained laughter in this colossally inept and astonishingly stupid Blaxploitation film. There was pandemonium on 42nd Street when I saw this 1973 film in one of the grindhouse theaters. Arrow has assembled scores of extras in this must-own limited edition.

A fantastic Faustian blend of horror and humor that gets better each time you watch it. The trade-off is that Brian has to find Elmer fresh brains to devour.

Here are 15 upcoming Blu-rays that will break your brain:įrank Henenlotter's ( Basket Case) subversive nightmare is about a hapless New Yorker-Brian (a sensational Rick Herbst) who comes under the spell of a sinister, phallic-looking, creature named Elmer that attaches to his neck and injects him with a drug-like fluid that gives him ecstatically trippy hallucinations. Movies thought to be long lost to VHS garbage bins now appearing digitally restored, with director's commentary and hosts of extras. The treasure trove of obscure, oddball, and just plain berserk Blu-rays keep on coming.