Satan's Cheerleaders (1977)

Satan’s Cheerleaders is a wacky mix of Satanist horror and cheerleader sex comedies. It’s not scary, but its kinda funny! Our movie opens with a bunch of guys on a deserted beach playing football. Four young girls are standing nearby, and they are very excited! They are the cheerleaders. They are all pretty one-note and out of it, except for Patti, played by Kerry Sherman, who is found wistfully staring at the ocean. The football team is basically represented by one guy, the only one who talks. The others just stand around, laughing or staring, and silent. Their coach is played by Jacqueline Cole, who comes off as zoned-out and sweet. The first half of the movie actually sucks pretty bad, as all the cheerleaders do is fool around with the lame football guy, have a friendly brawl with their rivals from a neighboring high school who drive around in a jeep and throw water balloons at them, and make fun of the overweight stuttering janitor, who gets revenge by checking them out through a peep-hole in the locker room. Anyway, eventually things actually get interesting when their car breaks down on the way to the game, and the cheerleaders and their coach are picked up by the stuttering janitor Billy, who drives them to a secluded spot where there is a Satanist altar. He strips Patti and puts her on it, but she is some sort of Satanic princess, so she gets all breathy and gaspy, and strikes Billy down with her Satan powers (which are portrayed by a reddish tint to the film). The rest of the movie has the girls wandering around the small farming community, being surprised that everyone is a Satanist, including the town sheriff and the guy with the curly moustache and pitch-fork. The best part of the movie for me was John Carradine playing a shrewd bum. At one point, one of the cheerleaders finds him in a clearing, sitting on a sofa drinking beer. She keeps asking him for help, and he eventually points at something and says “Look behind you!”, at which point she turns around, see’s absolutely nothing, and runs away shrieking, as Carradine chants “Scaredy cat! Scaredy cat! Scaredy cat!” All in all, Satan’s Cheerleaders isn’t half bad, once they actually leave the high school, and once you realize that it’s really just a goofy comedy. Keep an eye out for Director Greydon Clark’s other films, including the similar Angel’s Brigade and The Uninvited, a horror movie about a monster cat hanging out on a yacht.

The Quiet Earth (1985)

The Quiet Earth opens with a naked man lying in a bed. He gets up and we learn that he is scientist Zac Hobson and that he is in New Zealand. He drives around looking for people, saying “Hello!” in a loud voice a lot, and finds nobody. Absolutely nobody! It appears that everyone is dead, and he may be the last man on earth. The Quiet Earth is primarily a character study, as Zac Hobson’s growth as a person is the main thrust of the film for me. Hobson is played by jazz drummer and cult icon Bruno Lawrence, who also played Teddy in one of my favorite movies, Jack Be Nimble. Lawrence spends the first half of the movie wandering around looking for people, and trying to discover the cause of “the effect” which apparently just wiped away almost every human on the face of the earth, like a dry eraser on chalkboard. He goes a little nuts after a while and starts wearing women’s clothes and delivers lectures to cardboard cut-outs of Hitler and Gandhi. The last half is all about discovery, as he meets first Joanne, a pretty young red head, and Api, a Maori, who are the indigenous people of New Zealand. Lawrence soon finds himself odd man out, but also remarks to them near the end that sometimes he feels that he is the only one really alive, and that Joanne and Api are figments of his imagination, spirits sent to aid him on his personal journey. I concur, maybe!

Fascinating

This is a list of movies that I own. I want to watch them, yet I haven't watched all of them. Can you help? Oh ok. Thanks.

VHS

Top Hat
The China Syndrome
The Presidio
Past Tense
Everybody's Famous!
Videodrome
Xtro
Beware! the Blob
It Lives Again
Screamers
Pet Sematary
Orca the Killer Whale
Witchboard
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Good Men, Good Women
Rapid Fire
The Secret of my Success
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Dutch
BASEketball
Road House
9 1/2 Ninjas
Russkies
The Trigger Effect
Alien Nation
Gremlins
Mad Max
Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Scorpion
Robocop
Hard to Kill
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1999)
Excalibur
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Bachelor Party
Labyrinth
Ransom
The Emerald Forest
Toy Soldiers
Willow
The Running Man
The Vanishing (1993)
Tie-Died
Summer School
One Crazy Summer
Blazing Saddles
Loose Cannons
E.T.
Extreme Prejudice
The Fugitive
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Face/Off
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop II
The X-Files: Fight the Future
The Peacemaker
Stakeout
The Perfect Storm
Goodfellas
Independence Day
Gleaming the Cube
Demon Seed
Spirit of Wonder: Miss China's Ring
Thunder Warrior II
Ginger and Fred
Flying Down to Rio
Night Warning
The Flamingo Kid
Emmanuelle IV
The Escape Artist
The Rescuers
The Rescuers Down Under
Best of the Fests 1989
Tommy Hobson
Shogun Assassin
Devil Talk
The Balcony
The Believers
D.P.
Zone Troopers
Kelly's Heroes
Shadowzone
Panic
The Crawling Eye
White Nights
9 Deaths of the Ninja
The Quiet Earth
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Strong Kids, Safe Kids
Richard Scarry's Best Learning Video Ever!
Takin' it Off
The Red House
True Romance
The Winner
Nico the Unicorn
Robotech vol. 19
Blank Tape #1 (Humanoids of the Deep, Scarecrows, Tremors, Maniac Cop)
Intimate Relations
The Art of Dying
The Crossing
Cleopatra Jones
Dead Man
Cold Fever
Sister Act
The Millionaires Express
The Day of the Triffids
From Hollywood to Deadwood
DOA (1949)
Where The Day Takes You
InHumanoids: The Movie
Toys
True Lies
The Land Before Time
Batman: Tales of the Dark Knight
The Lover
Blank Tape #2 ( random episodes of Columbo)
Blank Tape #3 ( Tommy, Batman (1966), random episodes of 60s Batman tv show)
Clownhouse
Slaughter in San Francisco
Stop Making Sense
Santa Sangre
Mindwalk
Mystery Date
Runaway Train
The Keeper

DVDs

I Walked With a Zombie
The Body Snatcher
Leprechaun
Leprechaun 2
Fear No Evil
King of New York
Wholphin no. 5
To Live and Die in LA
Slipstream
Horrors of Spider Island
Vigilante Western Collection (Keoma, The Four of the Apocalypse, And God Said to Cain...., The Fighting Fist of Shangai Joe, White Comanche)
Transporter 2
The Master- the complete series!!
Kung Fu Killer
The Hunter
The Mechanic
Mazes and Monsters
Satan's Cheerleaders
Harlan County USA
The Sci-Fi Boys
Q the Winged Serpent
Batman: Gotham Knight
A Sermon About Natalie Wood (this is something i found on the street. It was intricately wrapped, contained detailed instructions, and possibly recorded by an insane person)

On the floor

I sat there in silence staring at the sumptous banquet placed before me, and found myself unable to enjoy it. I could think of nothing but long hours spent in front of a stove, of a lone woman spending interminable lengths of time in moist darkness, chopping vegetables and baking bread, curing meat and boiling pasta. I picked up a checkin drumstick, put it in my mouth and chewed and looked in the doorway. All I saw was the silhouette of a large mangy beast, probaly an ape. It stood there, bright shiny eyes piercing directly into my heart. I looked down into my food, unable to eat.

Here is how this story was written: one day I was hanging out with some freinds in their apartment, a conversation took place that I now forget all the details of, but I do know that I advised them to "write a story about it", and they said, "Why don't you write a story about it?" So I did, and then I read it to them. I think they liked it.

Walking Home

The little boy ran down the long hot sidewalk, his face open and clear. When he saw the dead grey bird lying there on the ground, he stopped and peered at it a long time. Then he began to lick it. He licked and licked. Hours later, the boy returned home with a strange look on his face. "What's wrong son?" his father asked. The little boy stared at his father for a while, his eyes large and milky, then opened his mouth wide. Out flew a small grey bird, wet with a little boy's spit.






















This was drawn by my best freind Lee, check out her drawings and other stuff at http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicinetongue/
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p.s. I thought of this story while walking home one night.

What If

So the other day I was at my grandmother’s house in my old room rummaging through a pile of forgotten belongings that were resting in the giant old wardrobe that takes up a quarter of the room where I spent a good part of my childhood. In this pile I found weird old games (Crocodile Dentist, Just Say No), a Incredible Hulk Uno game, a painting of a cat, and a strange pile of homemade cards that apparently dated back to when I was in the second grade. That was when I lived in Florida, and these were going-away cards. They were all written to me by friends I had when I was nine, who I have since long forgotten, and who in turn have long forgotten me. Reading these gave me a pleasant, sad feeling, as I imagined a parallel world where I stayed in Florida and stayed best friends with Andy, Mitch and Katey. These letters were handmade, with bizarre illustrations of palm trees, conch shells, and people made of bubbles. Two of them have squares cut into the middle, simulating windows, while one is actually a note proclaiming the maker’s love for a girl named Catherine. Catherine herself wrote me a good-bye letter, where she say’s that she will miss me even though I used to call her a “cockaroach”.

I miss them.

Suprisingly Beautiful

One surprisingly beautiful, near-winter day found me walking into Rite Aid looking for iced tea. I found it, and started walking over to the checkout counter. Once there I couldn’t help but overhear the conversation taking place between the young man ringing me out, and his boss, a middle-aged chubby woman. She said, “…God was smiling at you, the day you got this job.” The young man agreed, nodded his head, and said “Yeah, I was looking for work, and I guess no one was hiring, then I walked in one day, and saw Joe.” At this point, I had bought my iced tea, and felt strangely compelled to listen to this young man’s story, so I stayed. He continued. “Joe said come here, and I followed him into the back room where he had a row of cans on a shelf. All the cans had different markings on them. He picked up a blue can with an orange triangle on it, popped it open, and began eating what I assumed were Vienna Sausages, as they were small, wet and pink. He started talking, and this is what he said:
“’When I first started working here, my boss was a man by the name of Kevin. One day I came in and saw Kevin, and he took me into the back room, and started to lick my face. I didn’t like it, I told him to stop! The more he licked, the worse I felt, but he wouldn’t stop. He would lick, and I could feel pieces of me evaporating, small chunks flaking off of my soul. He said, ‘don’t worry, stop complaining, they will regrow, you won’t lose those pieces of yourself forever, they will come back! Just think, I need this more than you need yourself! Don’t be selfish, my needs are immediate, and you will eventually recoup your losses, so stop resisting!’ He was right, so I stopped complaining and let him lick my face.’”
Joe then stopped eating his Vienna Sausages, put his arm around me, smiled, and gave me a Rite Aid shirt!” The young man had finished his story, and I was surprised to see that a small crowd had gathered around him, listening to him speak. His boss, the middle-aged woman, nodded. “God smiled at you the day you got this job.”
I went outside and drank my iced-tea.