The heart-breakingly beautiful Summer Cummings is famed throughout the world for her sex appeal, her expertise when it comes to obscure horror films and for her impeccable taste in blogs. Thank you to the sultry Summer for this kind shoutout to Balladeer’s Blog! For more of Continue reading
SUMMER CUMMINGS, WORLD-FAMOUS BEAUTY, LOVES BALLADEER’S BLOG
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM OCTOBER 12TH
UNC-PEMBROKE RULES THE WORLD – Just as various 1AA (FCS) college football teams manage upsets over 1A (FBS) teams the teams in NCAA Division 2 sometimes manage upsets over 1AA teams. Yesterday the UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-PEMBROKE BRAVES took it on the road against 1AA’s UNC-Charlotte Forty-Niners. The Braves more than doubled-up on their higher division opponents, winning a 45-22 upset smackdown!
HISTORY FOR OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY – The NAIA’s OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY BISON won the very FIRST football victory of this debut year for their restored program! They simultaneously embraced that NAIA tradition of defeating their rivals in NCAA Division 3, too. The Bison traveled to face Division 3’s SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PIRATES and stampeded them by a final score of 42-21! Congratulations, OBU!
TOP 25 UPSETS – NAIA – The MAYVILLE STATE COMETS welcomed the 16th ranked VALLEY CITY STATE VIKINGS and defeated them in a 14-9 nailbiter ### Meanwhile the KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY KNIGHTS notched a 22-14 road win over the number 17 LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS ### And the DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY TIGERS toppled the 20th ranked DOANE TIGERS 31-20 in their Continue reading
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BLAXPLOITATION HORROR FILMS FOR HALLOWEEN SEASON
Blackenstein
Balladeer’s Blog’s month-long celebration of Halloween continues! When it comes to the tasteless but enjoyably bad blaxploitation horror films of the 1970’s it seems like the lion’s share of the attention always goes to Blacula and its sequel, Scream, Blacula, Scream with a little attention left over for Ganja and Hess, since it features the African American hero from the original Night of the Living Dead in one of his few screen appearances.
In honor of the Halloween season Balladeer’s Blog will take a look at some of the neglected blaxploitation horror movies, all of which deserve to have a larger audience than just me and my fellow bad movie geeks. It’s in the spirit of my Continue reading
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AMERICAN LIBERAL MYTHOLOGY: CHE GUEVARA THE HOMOPHOBE
MURDEROUS HOMOPHOBE AND WOULD-BE DICTATOR
I’ve made my contempt for American Liberals and American Conservatives very clear in the past. The latest mess in Washington is further proof that the Liberal and Conservative fanatics who have taken over the Democratic and Republican Parties are hopelessly destructive fools.
However, at this particular point in history the pretentious asses of American Liberalism are more pompous and hubristic than American Conservatives so I’m “deconstructing” their mythological figures first. I’ll do Conservative Mythology next.
CHE GUEVARA – If you disagreed with this animal’s politics he wanted you dead, period. I’m basing that on Che’s own writings, the same writings where he extolled the benefits of guerillas hiding with the general population so that if the opposition forces struck at you they would likely injure or kill non-combatants, too, making “the people” angry against … well, against the people Che hated for getting to be dictators instead of him.
This cold and compassionless bastard would have made Machiavelli himself say “Hey, dude, find a conscience or something.” Deluded American Liberals like to pretend Che was a freedom fighter, which is absolutely ridiculous. Read the man’s own writings and you’ll realize this Continue reading
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM OCTOBER 10TH AND 11TH
NUMBER ONE TAKES A FALL – The undefeated and top-ranked team in the country, the defending champion VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY BLAZERS, were toppled on the road last night by the number 12 UNIVERSITY OF WEST ALABAMA TIGERS. The two Gulf South Conference rivals played things tight through to Halftime, by which point the Blazers actually led the Tigers by a score of 16-14. In the 2nd Half West Alabama exploded for 35 points while holding Valdosta State to just 14. The 49-30 victory gives the Tigers a 5-1 record, the Blazers fall to 4-1.
THUNDER OVER MESABI RANGE – Meanwhile, down in the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association), which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year by the way, there was only one game last night that was remotely close. The FOND DU LAC TRIBAL COLLEGE THUNDER took it on the road against the MESABI RANGE COLLEGE NORSE. The Thunder emerged with a Continue reading
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MEXICAN MOVIE MONSTERS FOR HALLOWEEN
Welcome back to Balladeer’s Blog’s month-long celebration of Halloween! - Mexican horror films of the 1950’s and 1960’s deserve to be as well known as the Hollywood horror films from the 30’s and 40’s. Just as Universal Studios churned out a series of memorable movies featuring the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman and the Mummy, studios from south of the border went on to give the world equally outstanding creatures.
These horror films boasted Universal- style production values and beautiful black & white cinematography combined with uniquely Mexican twists on horror themes as well as more sensuality and lurid violence than Hollywood had dared to present. This list aims to introduce Mexi- Monsters to younger viewers who may not be familiar with them. I’m omitting generic monsters like the various vampires from Mexican horror films (including Fabian Forte, Cristina Ferrare and a descendant of Nostradamus) and the werewolf wrapped in mummy bandages from Face of the Screaming Werewolf.
7. THE BRAINIAC (1962) – Mexican title El Baron Del Terror. Many may be outraged at Continue reading
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COOL FOOTBALL HELMET: OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY BISON
OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY BISON
Location: Shawnee, OK
Division: NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics)
Comment: The cool name and extra-cool logo of the Oklahoma Baptist University Bison have had me wishing for years that this revered institution of higher learning would add football. This year I got my wish! The OBU Bison are Continue reading
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NAKED FEAR: FIVE ODDBALL HORROR FILMS FOR THE HALLOWEEN SEASON
The Nude Vampire
Balladeer’s Blog’s month-long celebration of Halloween continues with this look at five unusual movies with that certain seasonal feel.
5. THE NUDE VAMPIRE (1970) – France’s Jean Rollin is one of those love-them-or-hate-them directors. The snooty French often bashed his films for their devotion to style over all else. Don’t believe reviews which claim that his movies have no comprehensible storylines. Personally I find him more straightforward than Lynch or Jodorowsky. At any rate the central figure of this arthouse Euro-horror is indeed a beautiful female vampire in skimpy outfits and less.
Members of a Suicide Cult have taken to offering themselves up to a vampress who turns out to be science-spawned rather than supernatural. Throw in various allusions to evolution, morality and mortality for good measure. There’s plenty of eerie and macabre imagery to go with the subtext which not only addresses the previous concepts but also examines the way in which the older generation of any time period always considers the younger generation to be figurative “monsters” who will quite literally inherit the Earth.
I’m not sure if Anne Rice was influenced by Rollin’s films but Continue reading
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM OCTOBER 5TH
THE GORILLAS RULE THE WORLD – Call it Rise of the Planet of the Gorillas or whatever else you might like. Yesterday NCAA Division Two’s PITTSBURG (KS) STATE UNIVERSITY GORILLAS played host to NCAA Division ONE’s Abilene Christian University Wildcats and pulled off the upset! In what was one of the tightest and hardest-fought games of the day Gus the Gorilla’s team came out on top in the end by a score of 28-20.
NUMBER THREE TAKES A FALL – The 4th ranked GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY VIKINGS were on the road against the number 3 team in the nation, the SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY COUGARS. This was the marquis matchup yesterday in the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) but the Cougars seemed determined to give the game away with no less than FIVE turnovers. That inability to hold onto the ball helped fuel GVU’s 48-21 upset victory.
NUMBER ONE TAKES A FALL – Meanwhile down at the CCCAA level of college football, the AMERICAN RIVER COLLEGE BEAVERS handed a rare defeat to the homestanding and top-ranked CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO RAMS. Even more surprising for fans of the storied CCSF football program was the sheer one-sidedness of the game. The final score in this humiliating smackdown was Beavers 34 Rams 13.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE HEART OF A CHAMPION – The defending national champions of NAIA college football, the MARIAN UNIVERSITY KNIGHTS, at last bounced back from the three-game losing streak that caused them to topple from the rankings. The Knights were visited by the number 23 ROBERT MORRIS (IL) EAGLES and defeated them in a Continue reading
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BLOOD FREAK (1972) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT: NOVEMBER 23RD, 1985
Blood Freak (1972)
In the middle 1980′s/ Way down on Level 31 …
Before MST3K there was The Texas 27 Film Vault! Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this neglected cult show from the 1980′s with another review of an episode where an original air date can be determined. My interview with Randy Clower, my research through VERY old newspapers and emailed memories from my fellow Vaulties are helping in this attempt to reconstruct elements of the show’s history.
EPISODE ORIGINALLY BROADCAST: Saturday November 23rd, 1985 from 10:30pm to 1:00am.
Blood Freak 2
FILM VAULT LORE: Our machine-gun toting members of the fictional Film Vault Corps Randy Clower and Richard Malmos used to joke about how The Texas 27 Film Vault seemed to show every movie that had the word “blood” in the title. Previously I’ve reviewed the T27FV episodes featuring the movies Queen of Blood and Blood Beach but there are plenty more coming with sanguinous titles.
Thank you to my fellow T27FV fan Dolores for this quote about Ken Miller, who played “Tex” on the show and who, tragically, committed suicide in 1988: “I loved the random bits of madness added by the gung ho Tex each episode! He always reminded me of Robert Duvall’s character Kilgore from Apocalypse Now. My favorite catch-phrase from Tex was when he would say “Commies don’t watch bad movies!” the way Duvall said “Charley don’t surf!” in Apocalypse Now.”
SERIAL: Before showing and mocking the movie our Film Vault Technicians First Class showed and mocked a chapter of the 1940 serial Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe. Special thanks to my fellow Vaultie Channing for her providing the date and serial for this episode.
THE FILM: BLOOD FREAK (1972) – This movie is about a man who turns into a murderous monster with the head of a turkey after he eats a Continue reading
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