Saturday, November 3, 2012

Psychotic Saturdays! Six Flicks That Send Any Trip Into Insanity


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This week’s twisted treats for Psychotic Saturday are films that exploit your fear of travel and the nightmares waiting for you on your journey. Consider these films controversial, disgusting, degrading or demented. They are truly encounters of the psychotic. Whether to watch only once or over and over think of these films on this Psychotic Saturdays! Saturday!!


1 Trip With The Teacher (1975)
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Directed by Earl Barton and starring Edward Cross, David Villa, Susan Russell, Jill Voight and Jack Driscoll. A pretty young teacher and four of her pretty students take a minibus to some Navajo ruins, little suspecting another kind of ruin awaits. A trio of bikers begin to flirt with the gals, and when their bus breaks down, they helpfully tow the vehicle to a deserted shack. The chief biker, Al, chews up the scenery, kills folks, and rips off the teacher's clothes before raping her. The poor schoolgirls are also in for their share of abuse.


2. Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
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A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator. “Poor Pretty Eddie” is directed by Richard Robinson and David Worth. The film stars Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters and Michael Christian.


3. Orgy Of The Dead (1965)
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Directed by Stephen Apostolof and starring Criswell, Fawn Silver and Pat Barrington. John and his girlfriend Shirley go in search of a cemetery in order to inspire John for writing his next horror story. After they crash the car, they wander into the graveyard and encounter the dancing dead, a full moon spectacle overseen by the Ruler of the Dark. Before long the couple is spotted and taken prisoner. Tied to stakes and forced to watch the dancing, they await their fate.


4. Multiple Maniacs (1970)
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Directed by John Waters and starring Divine, David Lochary and Mary Vivian Pearce. The travelling sideshow 'Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions' is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all - but her life changes after she gets raped by a fifteen-foot lobster...


5. Blood Thirsty Butchers (1970)
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Sweeney Todd, a barber, and Maggie Lovett, a baker, join forces to commit a series of brutal, gory murders in London with a little help from Tobias Ragg, an employee of Maggie' bakery who abducts a number of customers from the barber shop and kills them and helps the couple make "meat pies" out of the dead victims for sale. Directed by Andy Milligan and starring John Miranda, Annabella Wood and Berwick Kaler.


6. The Ghastly Ones (1968)
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Directed by Andy Milligan and starring Veronica Radburn, Maggie Rogers and Hal Borske. Three married couples are forced to spend the night in a Victorian-era house where they start getting killed off by a deranged psycho who's bent on claiming an inheritence they are all entitled to.

Now that you have some ideas of how to better exploit your psychosis take these suggestions and explore deeper into what you can handle and what drives you over the edge. Let these films take you on a trip into the insane realm. And as always have a Psychotic Saturday!
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