Big Bad Mama (1974)

"Don't shoot my mamma."
Mama McClatchie (Angie Dickinson) does what she can to bring up her daughters in depression era America. She sees a way out of their poverty through bootlegging and bank robbery, and inevitably they criss-cross the country trying to stay one step in front of the law.
Trashy, campy and dagnabbit, entertaining slice of hockum featuring William Shatner as a conman amongst others. Cue the banjo music...

the terror of tiny town (1938)

"They want to hang you."
Bat Haines, (Billy Rhodes) an evil gunslinger arrives in Tiny Town, and promptly sets about taking the town over, but Buck Lawson (Billy Curtis) sets out to defeat him.
A standard western musical, given a spin by being acted by little people, with none being over 5 ft tall. Now the prologue seems to set a playful tone, but once the film truely starts it becomes a straight up musical western and the novelty value of the actors soon wears off.

carnival rock (1957)

"You're gonna pay for this baby."
Greek nightclub owner Christy (David J. Stewart) employs Natalie (Susan Cabot) as his star attraction, whom he is in love with; but she only has eyes for Stanley (Brian G. Hutton) a local businessman. When Stanley wins the club, Christy plots to destroy it and sweep Natalie off her feet.
Cabot gives her usual solid bad girl routine, ably supported by Dick Miller, in this entertaining drama with added music.

zombie king and the legion of doom (2003)

aka Zombie Beach Party. Enter... Zombie King!
"One of us."
Professional wrestler Ulysses (Jules Delorme), sees a poster for Tikki (Rob Etcheverria), advertising a wrestling bout featuring zombie graplers, but during the fights some zombies kill a girl. To get to the bottom of the nights events Ulysses decides to track down the zombie king...
Taking the Mexican El Santo films as its template this is cheap, Canadian and full of garage punk listening Luchas. What's not to like? Well a lot really, as its an interesting concept directed in the most mundaine way possible. Still despite itself it managed to hold my attention.

the great rock n roll swindle (1980)

"It's a swindle!"
A private eye (Steve Jones) tries to track down the Embezzler (Malcolm McLaren) and find out what's happened to the money he took from various record labels, in an attempted biography of the Sex Pistols. But from the start its an incoherent mess.
Worth a watch to see the Sex Pistols at their best, and ignore the philosophising and re-versioning of the story by McLaren, as he tries to wring some more cash out of the money making machine at any costs. An incoherent art-school prank AND a cynical cash in. Cash from chaos indeed!

curse of the swamp creature (1966)

"The best study for man is man himself."
The swamplands of Texas is home to Dr. Simond Trent (Jeff Alexander), whose vocation is experimenting on the locals, and reversing the evolutionary process! Then geologist Barry Rogers (John Agar) and crook Brenda Simmons (Shirley McLine) stray into his lab. This can only lead to trouble...
Enjoyable and educational; for one thing, I never knew there were swamps in Texas. The sort of monster flick that plays fast and loose with logic, and throws in every trick it can to keep it cheap and camp.

ghosts on the loose (1943)

aka The East Side Kids meet Bela Lugosi. Ghosts in the Night.
"You going goofy too?"
The East Side Kids decide to fix up a house for a pair of newlyweds, but they accidentally start renovating the wrong house. Fixing up a supposedly haunted house.
Bela Lugosi and Ava Gardner both pop up in this real clunker of a film, that lacks spark.