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April 12th, 2013: Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

Apr12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged adults playing teens, AIP, bad rear projection, bad special effects, Bert I. Gordon, cash-in, DDT, Drive-In, gym, high school, James H. Nicholson, low-budget, music summons the monster, musical interlude, rip-off, rock and roll, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Science!, scientists, teachers, teens

April 5th, 2013: Teenage Caveman (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Apocalypse, Black and White, Coming of Age, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", "it was the future all along", adults playing teens, AIP, bad special effects, before they were famous, cave, cavemen, Drive-In, futures past, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, low-budget, Malibu Pictures, Robert Vaughn, Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, teens, terrible bear suit, twist

July 5th, 2012: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Jul5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged adults playing teens, AIP, androids, Anette Funicello, Beach Movies, Drive-In, Frankie Avalon, Harvey Lembeck, James H. Nicholson, Les Baxter, Norman Taurog, Samuel Z. Arkoff, secret agent, sexy robots, stock footage, teens, The Supremes, Vincent Price

June 14th, 2012: The Lost Boys (1987)

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Leave a comment Posted in Event Film, Horror, Movie of the Day, Vampires Tagged "kill the head vampire to return victims to normal", adults playing teens, Alex Winter, before they were famous, cash-in, comic book store, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Edward Hermann, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Joel Schumacher, Kelly Jo Minter, Kiefer Sutherland, nerds, old timer, Richard Donner, sexy vampires, single mother, teens

February 26th, 2012: Kenka Erejî aka The Fighting Elegy aka The Born Fighter

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Black Comedy, Comedy, Coming of Age, Crime, Drama, Issue Film, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Satire Tagged adults playing teens, boarding house, Catholic, coup, Facism, February 26th Incident, Hideki Takahashi, Japan, militarists, Nikkatsu, Seijun Suzuki, street gang, teens, World War Two

February 18th, 2012: Grease (1978)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Comedy, Coming of Age, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, The Original Tagged 1950s, adults playing teens, coach, Didi Conn, drag race, Edd Byrnes, Eddie Deezen, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, greasers, high school, Jeff Conaway, Joan Blondell, John Travolta, juvenile delinquent, Lorenzo Lamas, Los Angeles, Los Angeles sewers, Michael Biehn, nostalgia, Oliva Newton-John, Paramount Pictures, Robert Stigwood Organization, Sha-Na-Na, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, teens, Wendie Jo Sperber

October 3rd, 2011: The Room (2003)

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1 Comment Posted in Drama, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Tragedy Tagged "Erotic Thriller", "Skinemax", adults playing teens, alcoholic, amateur actors, bender, cult, femme fatale, Los Angeles, love triangle, low-budget, midnight movie, non-linear timeline, quotably bad dialogue, stilted dialogue, triple threat, vanity project, wooden acting

August 16th, 2011: Wet Hot American Summer

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Spoof Tagged adults playing teens, Amy Poehler, before they were famous, Bradley Cooper, Christopher Meloni, David Hyde Pierce, David Wain, Elizabeth Banks, Janeane Garofalo, Joe Lo Truglio, Judah Friedlander, Ken Marino, Kevin Sussman, low-budget, Marguerite Moreau, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, Molly Shannon, musical interlude, nerds, Paul Rudd, stand up comedy, summer camp, teens, training sequence, Zack Orth

July 9th, 2011: The Blob (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged adults playing teens, alcoholic, annoying children, B-Movie, before they were famous, boy who cried wolf, Burt Bacharach, cold kills the monster, Drive-In, Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., it's not over, low-budget, movie theater, Paramount Pictures, Steve McQueen, teens

June 9th, 2011: Midnight Madness (1980)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Coming of Age, Family, Movie of the Day, Slapstick Tagged adults playing teens, college, college students, David Naughton, Eddie Deezen, Michael J. Fox, nerds, Paul Reubens, scavenger hunt, Stephen Furst, teens, Walt Disney

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