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There are certain movies Iv'e always wanted to see,yet are nigh but impossible to either catch on TV,or am afraid to bye because I might find them worthless,or just hard to find.If any one has seen some of these...are they worth hunting down?
MESA of LOST WOMEN- It supposed to be insanly bad,plus it has Jackie(Fester) Coogan in it.Iv'e been tempted to buy it through Sinister but...
SHREIK of the MUTILATED(1974) Read about it in the Psychotronic Movie Guide...looks weird.
ISLAND of the DAMNED(1976) I had a book once and it had a short paragraph about this Spainish movie about an island of murderous kids.Also known as WOULD YOU KILL a CHILD?
the SNAKE PEOPLE(1968) One of Karloffs Mexican movies.I always see this at flea markets or used video stores,but always seem to bypass it in favor of some other crappy treasure.
I would LOVE to find a copy of a movie iv'e only seen pictures of in an old horror Illustrated History of Horror Movies book called HORROR of the MALFORMED MEN(1969)a japenese film.Also the Philipino BLOOD DRINKERS(1966),The BLACK CAT(1966) A girl gets an axe in her headd in a photo I saw.

Riders to the Stars (1954)
In an attempt to discover the composition of meteors, three astronauts are sent out into space in three specially designed rockets. Their mission is to capture a meteor and bring it to Earth.

Road to the Stars (1954) ~ Pavel Klushantsev
Pavel Klushantsev began working on the colour film in Leningrad in 1954. His aim was to explain and realistically portray the coming age of space exploration. With technical advise from Tikhonravov (who was secretly developing the Soviet Union's first manned spacecraft at the time), Klushantsev showed tremendous ingenuity in explaining and portraying man's conquest of space. The film was nearing completion when Sputnik 1 was launched. Klushantsev hurriedly filmed a sequence illustrating this feat, and the film was released internationally a month later.

Queen of Outerspace (1959)
Three American astronauts are on the first manned mission to Venus, and when they arrive, they find the planet to be inhabited solely by women with high heels and short dresses. Unfortunately, they are immediately imprisoned, for the queen who rules Venus hates men... Suspecting the astronauts to be spies, she now plans to destroy the Earth. So now it's up to the three men (and some friendly Venusians) to overthrow the wicked queen and save the Earth.

12 to the Moon (1960)
An international team embarks on an expedition to the moon in an uncommonly spacious rocketship. There they encounter a faceless alien intelligence who conclude that the human race is too immature and dangerous and must be destroyed.

Galaxy of Terror (1981) ~ Roger Corman
As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?

"Mesa of Lost Women" is insanely bad.  I tracked it down and was immediately sorry for doing so.

"Shriek of the Mutilated" is not all that bad for a corny, niche film.  The production reminds me of "Equinox" in some ways.

These are the films that continue to mock me:

"The Witch With Flying Head"
Asian horror movie about an undead horror that some owners of the "Fiend Folio" will recognize.  The female vampire's head detaches from her body and flies through the night, looking for victims.

"The Monitors"
Aliens have come to Earth and now supervise humanity.  They do not eat people, enslave them, or abuse their power at all, instead they act more like parents of a spoiled child.  All of the aliens dress smartly.

"Oversexed Rugsuckers from Mars"
An alien-created vacuum monster wants to suck on women (you know what part).  Had this on my list for years and suddenly, this month, two different people email me about the movie and remind me.

The Monitors-seems like I saw this for sale in some video catalog somewhere...but for te life of me I can't remeber where! Hmmm...no you got ME curious.The hunt is ON!(I love the thrill of the hunt!)

RCMerchant you might be dissappointed with both MESA OF LOST WOMEN and THE SNAKE PEOPLE.

MESA OF LOST WOMEN isn't a good bad film like BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS for example.

THE SNAKE PEOPLE is worth checking out for Boris Karloff completist. It has some good moments and could have been much much better. The excessive dancing brings it down. Could have been a good film.

QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE is a film you might want to check out. I thought is was entertaining. Zsa Zsa Gabor stars in it.

Shriek of the Mutilated looks good, been out on dvd for a while, I just always procrastinated.

I've always wanted to see these:

Hellroller: A horror film about a maniacal serial killer in a wheelchair.

Ghoul Sex Squad: Weird kung-fu porno with hopping vampires.

Mystics in Bali: Indonesian film with flying heads (what is it with flying head movies being so hard to find!!!)

Last House on Dead End Street: After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.

I got this on CD from TMac a few years ago. I won't swear to this, but it's my understanding that this dinkie little 240x180 Quicktime 1.0 CD-Rom for Windows 3.0 is the only way it's available.

Most of the jokes are pretty corny, & the claymation aliens were beyond stupid, even for a film of such low standards, but it definately has plenty of WTF? moments.

My favorite scene is at the end, when Vernon sews up a major plot hole about his relationship with Dusty.

LAST HOUSE onDEAD END ST. has always tantalized me too. I read a number of reviews for it and it sounds pretty gruesome.
GALAXY of TERROR -I got this one on vhs... any movie with Sid Haig is always worth a look. And Erin(JOANI Loves CHACHI:HAPPY DAYS)Moran  gets squeezed by long alien tentacles until she EXPLODES! YEE HAAA!!!

I own and enjoy Mesa of Lost Women. It ain't good, but it made me laugh. I didn't find it boring at all; the "sultry" "dancing" (sorry for all the quotation marks, but Tarantella's dancing, while supposedly sultry, is just funny, and it isn't particularly good dancing, either) is something to see, and an evil, young Uncle Fester is worth a chuckle or two as well. Deep Discount DVD (http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=IMA008695) has a copy for about $6.

THE MONITORS : I remember this as a comedy, but it was so many moons ago, when i was in Jr. High, that i'd like to see it agine, just for giggles.


MESA and SNAKE PEOPLE sound like riffable slugs.
HELLROLLER? Hey, i think i know that guy! Well, he hasen't serial killed yet...

  Before Jackie Coogan was "Uncle Fester", he starred opposite the incomparable Charlie Chaplin in "The Kid", as The Kid -- Oh, just see it --
  He did a lot of other child parts/walk ons, and can occasionally be seen being a bartender or some other supporting character in various Westerns and Noir detective B's -- He also did some production.  One of the few low-rung actors who seemed happy with his career & grateful to Hollywood.
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  The movie that fascinates me no end -- and is apparently impossible to find --
is "Werewolf of Woodstock", by the same people who did "Werewolf of Washington" --
  Now, "Werewolf of Washington" you CAN find, quite easily, but my searching for "Werewolf of Woodstock" only turns up tantalizing info., and not the film itself --
  Why is this film interesting?  Well, the people shot it in '69, at the site of the Woodstock festival -- the stage and everything was apparently still standing on Max Yasgur's farm, and they just used what was available.  The second really really interesting thing about it is that it was shot entirely on the then brand-new medium of videotape, which would put it BEFORE Frank Zappa's "200 Motels", which other film histories will tell you is the first commercially distributed film shot entirely on videotape.
  "Werewolf of Woodstock" WAS distributed commercially and shown on big screens in the Maryland, DC, Virginia area, as my wife saw it as a young teenager & alerted me to its existence.  All you can find of it are single-sentence mentions of it in reviews of "Werewolf of Washington."  One of the most obscure damn films out there --  Not counting Lon Chaney's "London After Midnight", which is still lost, along with Willis O'Brien's original killer ant footage from "King Kong" --
peter johnson/denny werewolf

Queen of Outer Space is a fun time waster, KInd of the proto-typical 50s scifi B-Movie. It's also the film most clearly being spoofed in Amazon Women on the Moon. Can't believe it's that hard to find, it used to turn up on basic cable channels like TNT and AMC not all that long ago.

Mine: ditto on Galaxy of Terror, Last House on Dead Street.

El Topo and The Holy Mountain - Wanted them for years, I even have CD-Rs of them now, but without downloading a codex to play them, I can only hear the audio when I try to play them on my computer.

Cutthroats Nine - Was told about it for years by the ultimate extreme movie fan I know IRL, it's the only spaghetti western he gets excited about. I once found a VHS copy in a video store closing down, it was on my "next trip" list, but never made it back before it closed for good.

Pretty much anything starring Helga Line'. She has been a b-movie babe favorite ever since I first saw Horror Express. I've since seen Nightmare Castle, it's okay. A look at her films on IMDB reveals lots of horror and Euro-exploitation films.

Gates of Hell/CIty of the Living Dead - easy to find now I guess if I order it online. I've seen a few Fulci movies, and even picked up The Beyond cheap at a pawn shop. But the notoriety and rep of this one beckons.

The Day the Clown Cried - Jerry Lewis's notorious but little seen misguided attempt at a film about the Holocaust. Not sure it even exists as a completed film, and it is supposedly tied up in legal ownership hassles as well as Lewis's shame or loathing of the film, and may never see the light of day in any form.

I,too,seen Werewolf of Woodstck on latenite TV as a kid.I believe it even strted out as a made for tv movie.I got a Castle of Frankenstien mag from the 70's with a short review of it. i think he got hit by lightning or something...
CUTTHROATS NINE-I rented this at a video store back in the early 90's,and it's GREAT! Gory,weird,and very interesting...I forgot all about this untill it pooped up here!
GATES of HELL is  my favorite Fulci film of all time! HURRY! BUYIT!BUY IT NOW IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!GO,GO,DAMMIT"
Never saw EL TOPO-read an interview in another old C0F mag(I collect these old things...lotsa fun)and I could not understand a dam thing out of Jodroskys mouth...I wonder if he was on cid?Looks kinda artsy fartsy...still wanna see it.

I think that "The Beyond" is my favorite Fulci creation, though "The Gates of Hell" is shortly behind.  Hard to forget the one "vomiting out their intestines" scene from the latter film.  "The Beyond" wins out, because of the woman's freaky gray-mottled eyes and it is just as incomprehensible as any Fulci movie.

I have City of the Living Dead on DVD and I don't remember a thing about it which it weird. Have to go and watch it again.

I also want to see Rocketman (1997). I've never seen it and its not available on DVD yet.

Anything starring Lynda Carter tends to grab my attention, but after reading the back cover, I usually end up putting it back.
If I ever come across a copy of "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw", it shouldn't require any thought.

Hee hee hee.......I wonder why, no I don't.

I've several interviews with and articles about Jodorowsky, I think I understand what he is saying better than I think I should. I don't buy into any of it, especially his discussions about the Tarot, but it's till fun to read. Still wish he had gotten to make his version of Dune, what a beautiful trainwreck of a film that could have been.

The MONITORS-(1969) d.by Jack Shea.With Guy Stockwell,Avery Schreiber(!),Larry Storch(Garn!),Ed Begley,Keenan Wynn,Alan Arkin,Xaveir Cougat,Jackie Vernon,Susan Oliver.
Filmed in Chicago by the Second City comedy players.
The review in Lenard Maltin's 2007 Movie Guide sez-"Great cast wastedin this failed attempt at sci-fi satire...Alien Monitors control Earth and keep everything peaceful,but rebels plot against them." It has a vhs symbol at the bottom of the review,but no DVD one,so it may be currently out of print. Your best bet is to look into  scoring catalogs like SHOCKING or MOVIES UNLIMITED(who carry lots of OoP tapes...
DAM! Looked up WEREWOLF of WOODSTOCK in that old mag I had,and I was mistaken...NO review,just a large photo of a werewolf carrying a hippie chick. The caption sez it was a ABC Movie Special. No more info. Yer right,Peter...this one is starting to p**s me off....I DO recall that it had a VERY breif theatrical run,but was sooo bad it went almost immeaditly to TV,in 1974,which is where I saw it as a youngin.OTP-My Ma WENT to Woodstock(we lived in MarlboroNY for a very short while),and left us with a baby sitter...which was fine with me,cuz we saw TWO on a GUILLITINE with Ceasar Romero on TV! I would like to see THAT again...!

I guess It's directed by Chico Ibanez Serrador. If yes, you MUST look for it. It's one of three horror movies which really made me frightened (Other two are "House With Laughing Windows", by Puppi Avati and "Seven Black Notes" by Fulci). After 20-30 minutes this movie becomes one great suspence and feeling of loneliness. Also it force to reflections (which is very rare in horror). Must see!

     Thanks for the info, RC -- Yeah, it's just apparently impossible to get any sort of real info. on "Werewolf of Woodstock", let alone find an actual copy!!
     Re.  Jerry Lewis -- Yes!  "The Day the Clown Cried" is indeed another one of those legendarily bad/lost films -- though I have read real print reviews of it by people who claim they saw it -- psychotronic/fanzine ripoffs that I no longer have copies of -- so I'm guessing there are boot copies of it out there somewhere -- yes, it was completed.
     "El Topo" -- I was given a copy on VHS about 20 years ago by someone who worked for Jodoworsky(!) in Chicago.  It's a dreadful copy -- full of lines and blue squiggles -- but I've never felt I need to see a cleaner version of it.  Really a wonderful Spaghetti Western and a retelling of various Buddhist folk tales.  Plus funny as hell in places.  Really, don't avoid it out of fear it may be too "arty"
     "Lost" films have a way of turning up.  Edison's "Frankenstein" was lost for something like 80 years, and now you can get it anywhere.  There are still rumours that O'Brien's giant King Kong ants are in The Phillippines in the hands of a greedy collector.  And you still hear that someone, somewhere in Hollywood has the only copy of Chaney's "London After Midnight", but will only sell to the very highest bidder.
peter johnson/denny crane