Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

The Monster Club (1980) “Why I’m not a stranger, I’m a clergyman”.  That doesn’t exactly sound comforting these days, does it?

*/***** Sometimes a fun title is nearly all you have. Oh, you can get a mileage out of a title. A LOT. I have always imagined there’s the bell that rings in the minds of those who want to put a movie out there for a type of audience. “Well, let’s see if we can make a movie…we sure have a title!” Then you watch the movie. Well, at least the title was something because the movie sure as fuck wasn’t. The film’s official running time is about 70 minutes. Take out a rock stage performance, opening credits, closing credits, and a repeated opening scene closing the film (!) and you might have 45 minutes worth of “real” movie. This film is built as a throwback grindhouse type of movie, but ultimately, it is sour grapes. It is a film where the cast looks like they emerged from a Lloyd Kaufman/Michael Herz casting call. Some rough looking folks show up to populate this no-budget supernatural vigilante revenger. There’s not a lot of plot here. A married couple is besieged...

I guess I look at Obongo as a type of spectre that doesn’t haunt as much as pleasure and arouse Alice. Alice will be out on a terrace, naked on a lawn chair, asleep and vulnerable, with Obongo’s hands crawling up her body looking to drive her wild, even masturbating her during the process. Outside of the fantasy dream is resort proprietor Jess Franco peeping on her from on the other side of a door leading to the terrace. She startles out of her sleep to find him, not Obongo, looking on, immersed in his voyeurism. tribal statues and the whole cultural milieu Jess exploits effectively One of Jess' many shots of the location As is typical, Romay naked and sleeping Room with a View   They Call Him the Peeper Well, if you really like ’83 body Lina Romay, then this film gives you your money’s worth. She’s naked A LOT. And even when she’s not naked, she’s scantily clad. Jorts and tiny bikinis are it. She’s actively involved in se...