Hot Generation by The Pandoras
The Pandoras were an early 80s garage punk band that are now shamelessly imitated by blander ripoffs like The Donnas. There was a re-issue of their music about 20 years ago that is still available on Amazon if you enjoy real indie music. Here’s a performance by the band on an old cable access show called L.A. IN. Enjoy:
Doomed!
Maverick Entertainment’s Doomed is much maligned as a plot-less convict vs zombie chase fest set in an alternate future where prisoners compete for pardons and cash on a reality TV show called Survivor Island. I think it’s a fairly entertaining fun film that takes the “who is the real monster” political commentary so often found in zombie films to absurd enough lengths to make the movie subversive. Are they mocking the brain dead Hollywood anti-hero formula? You decide and enjoy:
Eric Koenig’s The Lurking Fear
Animator Eric Koenig made this homage to Lovecraft last year and it’s really quite entertaining. It has little to do with the Lovecraft story of the same name but Lovecraft fans and horror hounds in general will love this raucous jaunt into cosmic terror – and comedy.
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The Dead One a.k.a. Blood of the Zombie
Thanks to Hulu you can experience this classic voodoo horror shocker from the late 60s. It involves a blonde voodoo priestess raising her dead brother as a zombie to chase off her cousin and his new bride from a plantation he inherited. Oh and he brings a belly dancer with him. The star Linda Ormand never made another movie – thankfully given her performance. But this is a very entertaining film. Enjoy Blood of the Zombie:
Me and the Devil Blues
Facts are facts, there’s only one surefire shortcut to fame and riches if you don’t feel like putting your nose to the grindstone and risking never being successful. But there’s a price, one that bluesman Robert Johnson paid allegedly after his own deal at the crossroads. This short film set to Johnson’s Me and the Devil Blues goes out to all you big timers looking over your shoulder, waiting for that day to come:
Channel 13 by Psychocharger
I grew up watching Chiller Theater and later such camp classics as Doctor Morgus so I have always had a soft spot for the recaptured weekend horror aesthetic of bands like Psychocharger. Their song Channel 13 from their album Curse of the Psycho is basically auditory nostalgia that makes me pine for a time when my greatest fear was monsters in my imagination.