Schlockfest
Alice's Schlockfest is where live some of the most astonishing, sleazy, gross-out, tasteless, campy, sometimes worst movies ever made. One of the most successful, bad taste, low-budget cult films, a spoof of heroic monster films, was director Michael Herz' and Lloyd Kaufman's "The Toxic Avenger" (1985) pictured right. Below you may enter Alice's line-up of the very best of the very worst....
Planet of Blood / Journey to the Seventh Planet (1966)
Director: Curtis Harrington, Sidney Pink
Starring: John Agar, Dennis Hopper, Basil Rathbone, John Saxon, Greta Thyssen, Ann Smyrner
A sci-fi classic double feature. "Planet of Blood" (1966) Aka 'Queen of Blood' - An outer space rescue mission finds a green-skinned woman in a Martia... Read more
Village of the Giants (1965)
3.3/10
Director: Bert I Gordon
Starring: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Ron Howard, Beau Bridges
Eleven year-old Genius (future successful director 'Ronny' Howard) mixes up some super-goo with his chemistry set, turning cats and ducks into giants.... Read more
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
6.6/10
Director: Byron Haskin
Starring: Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West
Genre master Byron Haskin ('War of the Worlds') filmed this loose adaptation of Crusoe's classic shipwreck story, and set it in space, where a lonely... Read more
Spider Baby (1964)
Director: Jack Hill
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr, Carol Ohmart, Sid Haig
A.k.a. 'The Liver Eaters', 'The Maddest Story Ever Told'. Lon Chaney Jr is the manservant to a family of cannibals in this low budget horror comedy. L... Read more
Ride The Wild Surf (1964)
5.8/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Fabian, Tab Hunter, Barbara Eden, Anthony Hayes
Columbia attempted to catch the "beach party film" wave with this more serious look at three surf bums in Hawaii whose ambitions revolve around surfin... Read more
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
2.6/10
Director: Nicholas Webster
Starring: John Call, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Pia Zadora
A really bad film shot on a low budget in an abandoned Long Island airport hangar about two children kidnapped by Martians to advise on their domestic... Read more
They Saved Hitler's Brain (1963)
2.5/10
Director: David Bradley
Starring: Walter Stocker
Connoisseurs of bad movies rank this execration as an all-time favorite, rivaling Ed Wood's infamous Plan 9 from Outer Space as the worst film of all... Read more
Blood Feast (1963)
5/10
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring: Connie Mason, Mel Arnold, Thomas Wood
Herschell Gordon Lewis invented the modern gore film with this 1963 low budget thriller about a mad Egyptian caterer who uses human victims to spice u... Read more
The Raven (1963)
6.7/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Jack Nicholson
The wheels of horror churn amid touches of humour in this twisted tale of sorcery most fowl! Inspired by the gothic poem by Edgar Allan Poe and starri... Read more
Eegah! (1962)
2.2/10
Director: Arch Hall
Starring: Arch Hall Jr, Richard Kiel, Marilyn Manning
Long criticised for it's inept amateurishness, "Eegah!" tells the story of a gigantic Neanderthal who has managed to survive into modern times living... Read more