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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

AMERICAN SATAN - "Let Him Burn" (2017)

 
It's Wicked Wednesday down in The Dungeon and tonight's post strawberry moon extra-special feature is................

 
......."American Satan!"

Okay, so you can see from the start that there are differences in opinion about where this is going!

The other morning I was watching Gordon Ramsay's show called "Scrambled," that had Rowdy Rhonda Rousey on it, and that one was followed by one that had a gorgeous and funny gal in it by the name of Olivia Culpo.  besides being Miss Universe in 2012, was also an actress, so when I looked on IMDB, I found out that she was in this movie called "American Satan," and that's how we ended up here! The likeness on the record album doesn't do her any justice at all!

At first I didn't even recognize Malcolm McDowell, but after I did, it seemed perfect that he would be playing the Devil tempting a rock and roll band, especially if you've ever seen the movie "Get Crazy!"

So that's it! "American Satan" is your basic 'sell your soul to the Devil' story, and then sit back and see what happens!

You wanna play at "The Whiskey," then you better get out there and sell some tickets!

"American Satan" is a film made by Ash Avildsen about a band called The Relentless. There's a soundtrack album you can buy for the movie, and there's also an album out there by The Relentless, but since there's no real band called The Relentless, it's more like "Cow Pie" by The Masked Marauders!"

The always enjoyable Mark (Sons Of Anarchy) Boone Junior has the role of the big shot record producer Elias!

Ash Avildsen is no stranger to making movies, his Father John G. Avildsen was the Director of some minor movies like "Rocky," and "The Karate Kid," even though apparently they had a zero relationship. Ash Avildsen is also a songwriter responsible for some of the songs in this film, and is also the founder of the primarily Heavy Metal Sumerian Records label, that has bands like my new favourite Starbenders on it!

The lead character in "American Satan," and The Relentless is named Johnny Faust, and is played by Andy Biersack who is a real musician in a real band called Black Veil Brides, who just happen to also be on the Sumerian Records label.

The first half of the movie is pretty good. Johnny's a good guy with a sweet girlfriend and a bunch of goofy band mates. The music is all good too, and then it all goes dark! 

The band gets more and more popular, but more and more bad things also keep happening!

The second part of the film is all sex, drugs, rock and roll, and trouble, lots of trouble!

Olivia Culpo is Johnny's girlfriend named Gretchen. They had a nice love story going until he screws it all up!

The other woman in Johnny's life is Lily Mayflower, the bass player in the band, as played by trans actress Jesse Sullivan.

Just about the time I was getting tired of this film, they threw in Big Time wrassler Bill Goldberg as the band's new road manager Hawk. Multiple Champion Goldberg is the master of moves like the 'Jackhammer,' and the 'Pumphandle Drop.'

The band's life is going up in flames, and at the same time their single is going up the charts!

This movie is crazy! Even though Andy Biersack was a singer with Black Veil Brides, for some reason, they decided to use song vocals for his character by Remington Leith, the lead singer in another Sumerian signed band named Palaye Royale, instead. 

And just as I suspected, Olivia looked great throughout the whole ordeal!
There's also another beauty, Denise Richards as Johnny's Mother, and too many other characters to list, so you're just going to have to watch it for yourself if you want to find out.
You can find "American Satan" streaming all over the place. 
I watched it in all it's glory on this Plex site!
AND...........
Now I just found out that Ash and company made a spinoff TV show last year called "Paradise City" using many of the same characters, but a different story line, that streams on Amazon Prime for eight episodes! Rock on!!

Friday, June 10, 2022

13 GREAT SILENT HORROR AND SCI-FI MOVIE POSTERS

 Today we have a few posters from the beginning of film, and we see the care they took in the frightening graphics they created, almost as important as the movie itself.

There were many movies  about 'The Bat' character, which was based on a stage play. Let's face it, people have liked to be scared since the beginning of film.

The Cat And The Canary was another similar type sneaky murderous character, just putting claws on their gloves make them a feared fiend.


Then there's Nosferatu, don't remember seeing this poster before, pray this vampire thing doesn't come snooping around your place!

I used two different poster from this horror movie, just to get a look at how different the styles are, both are creepy in their own ways.

Boy, Universal had some of the most attractive posters there were. Lon's face in the background is truly a terrifying sight to behold! A real nightmare.

Some of Universal's posters featured elongated figures and wild backgrounds, qualifying them as surreal works of art.

 Universal had a few posters with artwork that would be considered some of the finest in movie history, this scene is stunning. Everyone will want to see it.

The audience must have been aghast when they saw this one at the theater when it came out. Love the crazy buildings, and 'Maria' is simply one of the greatest robot creations, ever, just beautiful. Other favorite robots I dig are Robby and Tobor.

Abstract expressionism affected Germany's style in a number of films, and totally in this crazy roller coaster ride called The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, man!

The Golem is another movie caught up in the expressionist movement, mainly in Europe. I mean, like, just look at that poster!

Here's an intriguing movie called GENUINE, it's about a vampire and has a number of scenes that are expressionist to the hilt, keine scheiss!

Probably the first space opera, astounding sets and a cool rocket set the stage for all the drama, for me, it's boring.

Here a great poster from The Man That Laughs to end the show. Of course he was the original Joker... So, check in tomorrow when Eegah brings on the hurt.

Saturday, May 28, 2022

SIX-FIVE SPECIAL - "Calling All Cats" (1958)

This week's Saturday Night Special is SO special, it's even got the word special in the title!

My good friend Lord Litter in Berlin knows how much I love music, so he provided me a link to this film, just because he knew I would like it, and he was absolutely correct in that assumption. From a music lover's point of view, this film is an incredible piece of musical history. I daresay many people outside of the British Isles think popular music from England started and stopped with The Beatles, and most people, including myself, have very little or limited knowledge of what lead up to that. This movie puts a lot of that into perspective, at least for me!

"Six-Five Special" was originally a popular music TV show, and this movie was a spinoff from that show. It begins with a gal singing her heart out while she's taking a bath. Her roommate thinks she's good enough to perform professionally and decides to kind of be her manager. The singer is Diane Todd as Anne, and her roommate is Avril (The Revenge Of Frankenstein) Leslie as Judy.

The two girls decide to take the 6-5 to London to see if they can jumpstart Ann's career.

It doesn't take long before they realize that the train is full of some of the popular musicians of the day like Jim Dale, who does an impromptu number for them. Before becoming a musician, Jim Dale was a comedian, and has won awards for his many voices in Harry Potter audio books.

Another group on the train was called The Ken-Tones. If you've never heard of them, don't feel bad, I hadn't either, but they did have a single called "Rock 'n' Rollin' Santa Claus" in 1956.

There is SO much music in this film, I can't get into all of it, but this band featuring Johnny Dankworth on sax was blowing some hot stuff! John ended up being the main man behind the music of "The Avengers" TV series, and also has a credit for composing the music for one episode of "The Twilight Zone."

The Johnny Dankworth band also accompanies the great Cleo Laine on one tune! Cleo is one of the few artists in this film I had ever heard of before. Cleo was not only a killer jazz singer, she was also married to Johnny Dankworth. Cleo became Dame Laine in 1997, and Sir John Dankworth was knighted in 2006.

I found these synchronized hand dancers to be quite fascinating as they do the hand jive along with Johnny Dankforth's music!

Even the two chefs on the train are talented singers. Jimmy Lloyd is on the left, and on the right is Victor Soverall. Victor's song is slow, and the kind of music being left behind, but Jimmy's song "Ever Since I met Lucy" is pure unadulterated rock and roll.

A very young Petula Clark auditions her new song for the girls.

Right about here is where it gets pretty weird. Man, what a transition period. The teenage girls go crazy over "The Penny-Whistle Man" Desmond Lane and his song called "Midgets." I'll just say that it's a fairly bizarre scene. Going from this to The Beatles, no wonder the girls went ape shit for The Fab Four!

Then, the movie goes from fairly bizarre to totally bizarre with the appearance of the John Barry Seven. Yep, that's right, the same John Barry who composed almost all the music for the James Bond movies.

The John Barry Seven play a couple of great songs, and the second one was called "Every Which Way."  I love this song too much, and it sounded so familiar to me, but I couldn't figure out why. This is the kind of music this blog was based on, and then it dawned on me that this song reminded me of the music in Jess Franco's "Kiss Me, Monster."

The song  in "Kiss Me, Monster" even has the same twin sax sound and riff, but slower.
Here's the song from "Kiss Me, Monster." You tell me!

Then it hit me like "a kiss at the end of a wet fist," I always wondered who this band was, and I have spent hours researching it and coming up empty handed, but I think finally after fourteen years, I have come to the conclusion that this uncredited and unnamed band is fronted by John Barry. I can find no information to collaborate this, but look at him, and listen to the music, and then tell me I'm wrong! Now why the Hell would John Barry step in for this uncredited bit part after composing the music for "Dr. No," "From Russia With Love, "Goldfinger," "Thunderball" etc.? I have no idea. Maybe it was a Jess Franco tribute to John Barry, or maybe it was just for fun.
Any of you Sherlock's with ideas of your own, I'm all ears!

Back to the movie, and the music is still going on strong, this time with fifteen year old Scottish singer Jackie Dennis, who usually appeared wearing kilts, not plaid pants. Jackie had a meager hit in the UK with "The Purple People Eater" in 1958.

I thought The King Brothers were pretty cool. Their first song was folky like The Brothers Four, but on their second number when one of the brothers sat down at the piano, and they played a song called "The 6-5 Jive," it rocked solid!

There hasn't been another trombone playing leader of a band like Don Lang and his Frantic Five until Trombone Shorty came around!

Skiffle artist Lonnie Donegan puts in a totally solid performance on two songs, especially "Jack Of Diamonds," but in America he was known only as a novelty act with his hit song "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour."
 
I  don't think it was intentional but Dickie Valentine's set really showed that the old stiff and stale music of the past was really headed off the edge!
There were more dull songs from Joan Regan and Russ Hamilton that are just as well left behind.
 
Ann gets a job as background singer for this big Dickie Valentine number, and her stand out voice lands her a contract. (But not in real life!)

Monster Music

Monster Music
AAARRGGHHH!!!! Ya'll Come On Back Now, Y'Hear??