Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

I had these left over from an episode of Kolchak, the Night Stalker called "Demon in Lace". I had a good time with this one and these were moments that gave me the giggles. Love Andrew Prine, too, so his guest starring along with poor Keenan Wynn (as a homicide detective dealing with mounting stress every time Kolchak appears at his crime scenes) was a major bonus.

 Hitchcock introduces us to a television studio set prior to the episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, "Salvage". We see the crew putting together the next scene. Mr. Hitchcock is lucky he moved towards us to talk! A nice present/replacement chair for Hitchcock from his crew! Haha.

This will be my next SWV review. It was a double feature with Alice in Acidland and could very well eclipse it in pure trashy value. Again I have only penned (well typed) a little bit on S&F, which I will include below, but this could actually be fun once it is all accumulated together. SWV has a history of this. One film on the double feature gets a bit more pop while the "additional film" is actually better. I would say this about Satan's Children, for instance, as I felt it was actually more entertaining than William Girdler's highly repped Asylum of Satan (which I would actually like to watch again; as the commentary track audio was kind of fun). -- I think some exploitation (SWV?) fans might find “Smoke and Flesh” a bit pretentious (you could perhaps apply this to many kinds of film direction that desires to incorporate a visual motif or style, in the editing or photography phases) in that the director wishes to describe sexual pleasure and lovemaking ...

Thanks to those wonderful folks at Something Weird Video, here is Alice in Acidland. Adult material involved in this post. Ongoing Blog post... Alice in Acidland Alice in Acidland is your typical “teenage girl ‘of age’ is introduced to the ‘dark side’” adult feature as the sexual revolution was underway leading into the debauch 70s where full on explicit sex would soon be an attraction. The late 60s fed into this unveiling of the dismissed inhibitions and the curtains that once hid so much were not only drawn back but thrust open like Mama Bates as she was about to slice and dice Marion. Alice is just a cheaply made exploitation feature, with added jazzy score and narration describing a teenage girl’s “descent” into sex and drugs. The face of innocence lost according to this film Take a slide down the ladder into the pool of debauchery Lil' Blondie is quite popular with the boys Her first smoke and drink. Your drunk and wasted...time...