Posts tagged with ‘1970s’

IHC After Dark movies: ‘The Shiver of the Vampires (Le Frisson des Vampires) (NSFW)

A fantastically cheesy bit of cheap 1970s French horror from director Jean Rollin. A pair of newlyweds, a mysterious house, sex vampires… that kind of thing.

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“Red Sonja and the Wizard”: Lost footage from Comic Con, 1978

In the seventies, Red Sonja writer Frank Thorne and Wendy Pini used to perform a show, “Red Sonja and the Wizard,” at comic conferences. No record of these legendary shows were thought to have survived, however—until this film, shot by an audience member at 1978’s San Diego Comic Con, surfaced on YouTube.

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A treasure trove of animation from the early days of computer animation

From the 1970s into the 1980s, the YouTube channel VintageCG has over 100 videos showcasing the quick progress through the early days of computer animation, when just having a vector shape show up on screen and a shiny metal ball on a flat plane was a mind-blowing achievement.

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“Mike” from Breaking Bad wants to talk to you about menstruation

Actor Jonathan Banks, now well known for playing the hard-nosed badass Mike Ehrmantrout, starred in this PSA about menstruation from 1974.

IHC After Dark: Opening sequence from the 1978 Spider-Man movie

Tom Waits seems to be preempting Heath Ledger’s Joker in this video from 1979

These days, Tom Waits sounds more like Cookie Monster, but in this interview from 1979 from Australian TV, he seems like he could have been Heath Ledger’s Joker inspiration.

IHC After Dark: Trailer for ‘The Jesus Trip’, 1971

Jesus, bikers, drugs… I can’t wait til Tarantino does a remake. Oh, I’m sure he will.

Morning music: America “Tin Man”

America, fuck yeah.