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MR. LOBO'S CINEMA INSOMNIA: DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME, THIS SATURDAY

This Saturday night on Roku OSI 74 and Twitch (kicking off with a sprightly preshow at 10:00 and the main feature at 11:00), Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia presents a great, pop-cultural crossover, as Boris Karloff goes up against Ralph Byrd in the 1947, B-movie classic, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome. 

Directed by John (The Green Hornet Strikes Again!) Rawlins and written by Robert E. Kent and William Graffis, the adventure oozes of fun, with Karloff's titular baddie (abetted by Skelton Knagg's X-Ray) pulls a semi-Mr. Freeze/Captain Cool, using an immobilizing gas to subdue his adversaries. Byrd's dashing, master detective (along with his sweetie, Anne Gwynne's Tess Trueheart, and his sidekick, Lyle Latell's Pat Patson) counters the villainy with super-sharp know-how.  

For the movie's wraparound, Mr. Lobo shares his irreverent perspectives on the Chester Gould-inspired tale, squeezing in trailers, snack-bar inserts and a politically incorrect, Dick Tracy cartoon from the 1960s. To support the brash frivolity, the sexy Lady Shank'nstein pumps up the action with an amiable yet competitive visit.

 

Be sure to tune in, folks. The one delivers the investigative goods and oodles more!

HAPPY 25 "MISUNDERSTOOD" YEARS, CINEMA INSOMNIA (7/28)

 

MR. LOBO'S CINEMA INSOMNIA PRESENTS THE MAD MONSTER/MONSTERPALOOZA BLU-RAY

 

Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia's Monsterpalooza Con Crud Special: The Mad Monster (set in Pasadena, Ca & OSI 74, Pa) is now available on blazing Blu-ray. 

Released by PRC, The Mad Monster is a neato, 1942, werewolf flick, which stars two horror titans, George Zucco (at the time in full swing with his Mummy/Kharis efforts) and Glenn Strange (just two years before playing Frankenstein's Monster), wherein the former (a mad scientist) transforms the latter (a child-like handyman) into a lycanthrope (with a little, ferocious help from makeup artist Harry Ross). The werewolf emergence is comparable to Whit Bissell's transformation of Michael Landon in I Was a Teenage Werewolf, though that one struck a good fifteen years after the fuzzy fact. 

In addition to Zucco and Strange, Mad Monster stars Johnny (Our Gang) Downs and Anne (Black Friday) Nagel, and was directed and produced by Sam Newfield (the uncredited director of the Gojira II redux, Gigantis: the Fire Monster) and scripted by Fred (Nabonga) Myton. The results create a wolf-soldier-serum experience that triggers top-tier tension throughout its tight running time. 

For extra enjoyment, Mr. Lobo intersects the melodrama by bringing his bushy-tailed cheer to the big convention, meeting fascinating venders, avant-garde artists and even G. Larry (Frankenstein Versus the Monster from Blood Cove/Skate to Hell) Butler. Such is accompanied by a jubilant, studio visit by the hyper Yellow Fever, who nurses a sickly Mr. Lobo back to health with bananas.

Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia, Monsterpalooza Con Crud Special: The Mad Monster is an ideal submission for any "misunderstood," physical-media library, and one can procure it at 

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MR. LOBO'S CINEMA INSOMNIA: SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT, THIS SATURDAY

 

It's Christmas in July this Saturday night (July 5) on Twitch, OSI74/Roku and Amazon Fire, with a reshowing of Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia's 2023 Naughty Christmas/Xmas Special. (The preshow commences at 10 pm.) 

Produced by Troma's Lloyd Kaufman and directed by Theodore Gershuny, who cowrote with Ira Teller and Jeffrey (The Sentinel) Konvitz, Silent Night, Bloody Night is revered not only as a pioneering Christmas, horror picture, but one that holds a noteworthy cast, which includes John Carradine, Patrick O'Neal, Astrid Heeren, Walter Abel, Philip Bruns, Jay Garner, James Patterson and sexy, cult-film sensation, Mary Woronov. 

Along the warm, Yuletide way, the movie takes shameless stabs at Psycho (with an arguable, Empire Strikes Back catch), bumping off a couple of its leads early, as they occupy an old mansion/former asylum where madness and carnage prevail, thanks to a shadowy fiend who flaunts the moniker, Marianne. Why does Marianne kill? Well, the answer lies in that age-old motivator ... back-story revenge!

To wrap the carnage in sardonic joy, Mr. Lobo (equipped with a Grinchy Necronomicon) leads an all-star, Cinema Insomnia roster, featuring Miss Mittens, Countess Bloodsuger (Jessie Seeherman), Sally the Zombie Cheerleader (Nicole King), Yella Fever (Eric Sabo), filmmaker (and Silent Night, Bloody Night connoisseur) Michael Verrati and the laser-disc-loving puppet with a huge heart, Igor (Ben Stansbery), who sprinkle enough cynicism on the proceedings to make any unreformed Scrooge sigh with sadistic respect. 

No ifs, ands or buts about it, Cinema Insomnia's Naughty X-Mess Special: Silent Night, Bloody Night is a gruesome, "misunderstood" gift to open any time of the year; so be there this Saturday night to do just that!

COLLECTIBLE TIME: MR. LOBO & SALLY, CHOKKY MILK GLASSES

The Cinema Insomnia, online shop offers a wonderful set of drinking glasses that feature the endearing likenesses of Mr. Lobo and Sally the Zombie Cheerleader, with the artistic former having rendered the vibrant representations.

The glasses are perfect for Cinema Insomnia's Chokky Milk Time and were inspired by a spiffy set of 1973, DC Slurpee cups. For his commemorative glass, Mr. Lobo's honors the Perry White submission, as our magnanimous host conveys a determined gait, carrying (no less) his reproduction of the glass, while declaring "Sweet Maple Walnuts, Jimmy!," offset by a splash of Lobo-yellow. 

Sally's commemorative glass complements Mr. Lobo's, with our favorite, living-dead vixen offering a ghastly expression (insinuating her ever-present craving for Fleshies), with her fingers spread for attack, embellished by a burst of pleasing purple. 

As an aesthetic bonus, the back of each glass proclaims "It's Chokky Milk Time!!!", whether it's 10:37 pm or otherwise. (These delightful glasses can be ordered together or separately, and they even come with certificates of authenticity. Proceeds support OSI74 Studios.)

If you're a Mr. Lobo and Sally fan, these spiffy glasses are a collectible set you can't do without. Order at 

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MR. LOBO'S CINEMA INSOMNIA: JESUS CHRIST VAMPIRE HUNTER, SATURDAY NIGHT

  

For a "divisive," Easter nod, Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia presents director Lee Gordon (Harry Knuckles and the Treasure of the Aztec Mummy) Demarbre's epic, hodgepodge crossover, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, which commences with a preshow this Saturday night (April 19, 10 p.m.) on Twitch, OSI74/Roku and Amazon Fire. 

This highly "misunderstood," Canadian, musical anomaly, scripted with quick wit by Ian Driscoll, stars Phil Caracas as Christ, who uses kung fu to protect his fallen flock (lesbians) from vampire attacks that occur in broad daylight. Yep, pretty original, even if it might maybe, just maybe, rub some the wrong way.

On another level, this bloodsucking extravaganza plays a lot like Brian Clemens' Hammer classic, Captain Kronos--Vampire Hunter, using much the same swashbuckling spark to get its ostentatious point across. It's also strengthened by Graham Collins' pulsating, electronic score and an eclectic, supporting cast: Jeff Moffett as El Santo, Tim Devries as Father Eustace, Maria Moulton as Mary Magnum, Murielle Murhelyi as Maxine Shreck, Josh Grace as Dr. Praetorious and writer Driscoll as Johnny Golotha.

To bolster the hippity-hoppity outrageousness, Mr. Lobo (who conducts a blessed interview with director Demarbre, in addition to serving scrumptious, Easter-candy segments) is joined by El Santo, The Easter Kogarella Bunny (Dixie Dellamorto), Miss Mittens and Countess Bloodsugar (Jessie Seeherman), who make the religious fervor all the more, well, offbeat. 

Be sure to tune in for this irreverent but original entry: a legendary movie within a legendary episode that's certain to start a meaningful, holiday tradition for misunderstood fans far and wide.  

MR. LOBO'S CINEMA INSOMNIA: IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS, SATURDAY NIGHT

This Saturday night (April 12, at 10pm, on Twitch, OSI74/Roku and Amazon Fire) Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia presents the 1973, television production, In Search of Ancient Astronauts: a recut edition of 1970's Chariots of the Gods? adaptation, which also stands as a helpful forerunner to 1975's The Outer Space Connection and is the reputed basis for Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of series. 

The documentary covers all the juicy insights of Erich von Daniken's book, as (re)directed by Harold Reiml and restructured by writer Don Ringe. It's also uplifted by Rod Serling's narration, which gives this special redux a nice brush of credibility. 

The presented theories and their supporting artifacts are, indeed, fascinating, ranging from amazing, ancient batteries to mysterious, landing fields to odd, golden-helmeted figures to weird, high-tech gears found under the sea, all of which fuel the conjecture that extraterrestrials visited Earth long ago.  

Mr. Lobo links the documentary's chapters with alien-orbiting trailers and thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, an investigative prowess that allows him to bypass many governmental secrets. He also takes a stroll through an Area 51, auto-parts spot: a venture that proves a little more terrestrial than not. But fear not, for a "veritable" alien does drop by to conduct a little (ahem) probing, and if that doesn't tickle one's fancy, Mr. Lobo interviews the one-and-only Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica. 

The edifying flow of In Search of Ancient Astronauts may differ from other Cinema Insomnia episodes, but that doesn't make it any less "misunderstood" and therefore, every bit worth a view this Saturday night.