thanks to amc, i have managed to relive a part of my childhood by rewatching some of the incredibly nutty films i grew up on while drinking alone in my room in the middle of the night. many of these movies include death race 2000 (roger corman has david "frankenstein" carradine and sylvester "machine gun joe" stallone butt heads and run over innocent pedestrians in a bloody race across the nation), prophecy (john frankenheimer sends adrian from rocky into the canadian wilderness to be menaced by a giant killer mutant teddy bear), john carpenter's they live (john carpenter gets "rowdy" roddy piper and keith david to kill aliens and duke it out with each other in one of the greatest screen fights ever), the poseidon adventure (one of many overblown irwin allen productions, this one about a capsized ocean liner with gene hackman onboard, who's basically good in anything), robinson crusoe on mars (adam west dies while his buddy and his pet monkey are chased around mars by leftover props from the war of the worlds), the 1976 king kong remake (an incredibly hairy jeff bridges competes with rick baker in a gorilla suit to see who is truly the hairiest creature to ever walk the earth), the airport disaster film series (commercial airplanes go down and big name actors try their best to look concerned; somewhat morbid knowing that a majority of the actual planes used in the series would all ultimately meet their tragic ends years later in accidents that mirrored their onscreen destruction), panic in year zero (a nuclear attack strikes every major city in this cold war era film where, somehow, against all odds, frankie avalon successfully manages to actually ACT!), the conqueror (john wayne is genghis khan in radioactive utah; forever surrounded by an air of gloom thanks to everyone involved getting cancer from the nuclear fallout of nearby nevada), and jaws: the revenge (i can't even think of the words to describe how stupid this one is).

being a fan of asian cinema, of special mention are the disaster and monster films from toho studios in japan such as high seas hijack (a japanese oil tanker is taken over by a black terrorist group while peter graves sits alone in his office wondering where his paycheck is), the last days of planet earth (apparently nostradamus was a boring japanese man who predicted that a lot of silly shit would blow up just because we suck), frankenstein conquers the world (the frankenstein monster's irradiated heart regenerates a new body and grows to immense proportions just in time to battle a giant subterranean lizard), and terror of mechagodzilla (godzilla battles his mechanical double and an overgrown seahorse for tokyo's future). check 'em out... good times guaranteed for all (note: only applies if you are heavily intoxicated)!

expect an onslaught of special articles over the next few months (a couple of which i had originally started OVER TWO YEARS AGO!), followed by several brand new images that i am VERY behind on posting. i'm not interesting and i hate talking about myself, so expect very little in the way of text from here on in. until then...