Or...at least discussion until next Wednesday.
Oh....man. Ah-nold's first starring role, this 1970 low budget travesty features the Austrian musclefreak as the Greek demi-god Hercules indulging in goofy antics in New York City. I don't know what's sadder...the plot, or the terrible dubbing job they straddled Schwarzenegger with. The TRIMARK DVD is a hoot, simply because not only does it contain the dubbed theatrical version of the film, but a version containing the original voicetrack with Arnie stumbling all over the English language.
Poor Tommy Kirk. One day, yer the child star of the 1950s television hit LASSIE......the next, yer starring as a Martian in this crap with Batgirl. After growing up and realizing he was being upstaged by a collie, Kirk made a bid at trying to continue acting as a chosen profession in a string of low-budget teen heart throb "beach movies" and this flick...which looks as if it had a budget of about 30 bucks. It ain't no STAR WARS, I'll say that.
What's that? Dear Reader, I think Lassie's trying to tell us something..... Tommy fell into obscurity? Good dog!
If you're a regular reader of this site, then you are probably familiar with the works of Edward D. Wood. This spectacle of trash was written by Wood, and some say he had a hand in the direction of it...even if it is credited to soft-core king A.C. Stephens. The flick plays like a bad acid trip, and if you watch it sober, you'll probably wis you had some chemical help afterwards. Strippers, dancing mummies and werewolves (no kidding) and Criswell as the king of the afterlife.....
And, for some odd, creepy reason....I have a feeling this is how death really is. At least a slow and painful one. One of the few films on Earth that nudity did not save. And, there's alot that goin' on in "Orgy of the Dead"....both the "slow and painful" part and the nekkidness.
The release date on "Rooster" is a little unclear. Sometime in the early 1980s/ late 70s it sprung up, and is now only available on hard-to-find, long out-of-print VHSs. Featuring Vincent Van Patten as a kid who's biggest dream is to make it to the world chicken fighting championships, it's a story filled with a midget, slow motion chicken fights and an aging Jeff Corey as a crazy backwoods preacher. Definately a film that must be seen to be believed.
It's either the work of a genius....or a piece of utter trash. I can't decide which.