B Movie Alert

[il ragno]

Tomorrow night, midnight EST, IFC: the too-rarely-shown Ken Russell neo-Victorian sex-horror classic LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM. Two thumbs up, one turgid willie shaking back and forth.

Consider yourself apprised.

Then - quite serendipitously - at 2am on TCM, a drive-in trash double feature: Roger Corman's 1957 cheezfest ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS and 1959's even-more-surreal THE KILLER SHREWS.

If your idea of a recipe for horror is a thousand-dollar budget, one indoor-set location, German shephards with rubber monster-masks on that don't always stay on, and James (Roscoe P Coltrane) Best as the hero....welcome to Flavor Country, pilgrim.

[Monster]

I watched it, though I missed the first 40 minutes. I tuned-in during the stewardess stocking fantasy on the airplane. Good looking babes in this movie, and they had pubic hair. That chick with the huge strap-on dildo was pretty awesome.

I know I'm making it all sound dreadful, but it was actually a good movie. I didn't know that vampires can be charmed with bagpipe music.

[Jaybird]

I caught the tail end of Shrews last night, but I was drunk as a skunk. How is that IFC channel? I don't get it.

[Monster]

IFC shows "independent" movies, which means there's lots of good stuff and lots of bad. Keep it on the list of stations that you check out.

I saw "Mister Death" (the Fred Leuchter story) on IFC. What other channel would show that?

Other good movies shown on IFC: Shattered Glass, Sid and Nancy, Gianni Stecchino, A Pure Formality...lots of stuff.