Doc Rotten and The Black Saint recap and review The best and worst horror movies from the 1970s. Grindhouse. Blacksploitation. Hollywood Blockbusters. B Movies. Films like Exorcist | The Car | Phantasm | Halloween | The Incredible Melting Man | The Manitou | Jaws| Vampire Circus | Dawn of the Dead |…
Doc Rotten and The Black Saint
“Meat is meat.” Where have you heard that before? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they relish the chance […]
“It would be nice just to see one little spurt at the moment of slashing.” A little spurt, you say? Can do. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, […]
“Smells like cheese, looks like ham… [takes a bite of sandwich] Oh, no problem. It's chicken.” Rest assured, Grue Believers. Nothing about this movie resembles chicken. Join your faithful Grue […]
“Mircalla?” “Marcilla?” “But that girl is a guest in my house. Her name is Carmilla. And my daughter is dying!” Looks like “Anagrams ‘R' Us” is at it again. Join […]
“You have the manners of an alley cat.” On the other hand, alley cats would be an improvement, right? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill […]
“How do you go about killing a machine? It's too heavy to hang and it's too big to put in the gas chamber.” Firing squad? Ole Sparky? Join your faithful […]
“She who is buried here shall henceforth have no name, shall cease to exist in the minds of man as she has ceased to exist in life.” Well, she has […]
“They'll come back. They cannot die.” Sounds like vampires… or zombies. Is it vampires or zombies? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Jeff Mohr […]
“I've had fifty-six lovers and haven't killed even one of them.” Good to know … for future reference. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, […]
“What an excellent day for an exorcism.” You don't have to say that twice. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Jeff Mohr, and guest […]
“Megalon! Megalon! Wake up, Megalon! Come on, rise up now, to the Earth's surface! Destroy the Earth! Destroy our enemies! Rise up! Go on! MEGALON!” That's quite the cheering section […]
“So what he came up with … was a parasite that's a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease that will hopefully turn the world into one beautiful, mindless orgy.” Wait […]
“If you don't stop pestering me, one of these mornings I'm gonna show up and start milking that cow.” Who doesn't like milk? Don't answer that! Join your faithful Grue […]
“He had a heart attack.” And you get a heart attack! Everybody gets a heart attack! Is that normal? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad […]
“Now you listen to me. Those are the first women been in this home since your ma died and I ain't having no trash in your ma's home.” Maybe they […]
“Mr. Henshaw… white meat or dark?” That depends if you're serving chicken or pork. What else could it be? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad […]
“Idiots. That's what they are. Stupid idiots. Just low-class idiots.” Low-class, maybe, but idiots? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – […]
“I sit here and I can't believe that it happened. And yet I have to believe it. Dreams or nightmares? Madness or sanity? I don't know which is which.” Sounds […]
“The Old Ones are not truly dead. They only sleep. It is a dreamless oblivion, stretching on and on towards vast eternity!” Eternal, dreamless oblivion? That's a hard pass. Join […]
“Right! Bring in the perverts” They always make for a good police lineup. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as […]
“I … I should never have come with you. We're going to be killed. We're going to be killed. I hear the demons of the red moon like the other […]
“Nothing is too vile. Nothing is too dreadful, too awful. You need to know the terror, the horror, Lorrimor. You need to feel the thrill of disgust, the beauty of […]
“I do not belong on this mission, and I want to return to Earth!” Would a free beach ball change your mind? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, […]
“The only good thing about this port is the inn of Abu Jamil the Squint, who, for six months, I have been dreaming of his roasted sheep's eyes.” Ah, yes. […]
“You know, it used to be in the old days, we would just take someone like you in an alley and blow their brains out.” While you eat lightning and […]
“What was that maniac drinking? Tastes like the Volga river at low tide!” Muddy water turned to wine? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, […]
“Yeah, you know, always on a full moon, the pigs get hungry. … They got used to eating human flesh. … You know the first time it happened was an […]
“Well, it can't be Human, can it? It feeds on Human flesh!” Apparently, they hadn't heard of cannibals? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, […]
“Not your baby! Our baby! Satan's baby!!” You seemed like a folksy small-town doctor but it turns out, you're really the head, satanic dude. Join your faithful Grue Crew – […]
“I was kicked out of the church. I drank too much. I lusted. I was an adulterer… and other things.” Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, […]
“Over 50 years ago, Bram Stoker wrote the greatest of all horror stories. Now, for the first time, we retell exactly as he wrote, one of the first – and […]
“Dang creature . . . I'm gonna get my shotgun and make a rug outta that damn thing!” And Jack Elam is just the one who can do it! Join […]
“You're a strange girl, Lizzie, one minute as hard and cold as a grave so, next as loving as any father could wish. Wonder what goes on in that mind […]
“There's a bald maniac in there, and he's going bat shit!” Believe it or not, this is an accurate description of several scenes in this movie. Join your faithful Grue […]
“I walked the streets, brooding on the bitter irony that all I wanted to do for humanity, for life, would be cheated by death… unless I could cheat death.” And […]
“That bugs me, man. That really bugs me.” This ends up being Glenn Ford's key line in his short appearance in this episode's movie. Join your faithful Grue Crew – […]
“Trust in Allah! … but tie up your camel!” Always! Trust, but verify, right? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – […]
“You've made an unbreakable vow. In the name of vengeance, you must foreswear all human emotions, all love and hate, everything.” Your basic all-inclusive vow, then? Got it. Join your […]
“May God bless you. This message was pre-recorded and automatically programmed.” It's so nice to know they gave it the personal touch. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, […]
“This is the ant. Treat it with respect, for it may very well be the next dominant life form on our planet.” It seems we're moving in that direction. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they shop for prime real estate in the Empire […]
“You know, my son, I wouldn't be Emperor of the Galaxy if I didn't have some powers at my disposal. Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!” Yup. That could come in handy. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out Starcrash (1978), […]
“She is a sad romantic woman. She will fall in love with me. Then I will sacrifice her on the next full moon.” So says the Wolf Man wearing a gold, silk, disco shirt. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out the […]
“She is a disturbing child.” It doesn't reach the heights of his USS Indianapolis monologue in Jaws, but Robert Shaw delivers this line with grim resignation. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out A Reflection of Fear (1972), a relatively unknown film […]
“His is the hand that makes. His is the hand that hurts. His is the hand that heals. His is the House of Pain. He who breaks the law shall be punished back to the House of Pain.” And you definitely don't want to go to the House of Pain. Join your faithful Grue Crew […]
“They had their chance to learn about my ideas 15 years ago. *evil chuckle* Now they'll pay for their scorn! I'll exact vengeance upon those fools who treated me like a madman and drove me into the shadows! *maniacal laugh*” And with the help of his robotic daughter! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc […]
“We're uptight. You're uptight. I'm uptight. We're all uptight. … They're dropping like flies, Agar. They're dropping like flies.” It's no wonder everyone's uptight! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they sample the visual delights of Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973), the film […]
“I can't work with animals anymore! I must have humans!” Damn the ethical principles of human experimentation! They're such a bother. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they witness the shenanigans going on in Horror Hospital (1973). Decades of Horror 1970sEpisode 163 – Horror […]
“That's the darndest thing I ever saw. The way that thing's unscrewing.” It sounds just like a metal lid on a mason jar. Join this episode's Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Jeff Mohr, and special guest host Dave Dreher – as they discuss another science fiction horror classic of the 1950s, H.G. Wells' The […]
“I mean, in a sense, we're all vampires.” Everyone is draining the life out of everyone else in one way or another? Hmmm, that's a dark take, but a fair point. Join your faithful Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Crystal Cleveland, and Jeff Mohr – as they drain everything possible from Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce […]
“I'm going to bypass your forebrain and speak directly to your amygdala” Bypass the which and go directly to the” whatdala?” Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr- as they assimilate the AI presaged in Demon Seed (1977). Decades of Horror 1970sEpisode 162 – Demon Seed (1977) […]
“The slightest move will send a bullet crashing through your stiff British spine.” What's all this, then? Join this episode's Grue-Crew – Whitney Collazo, Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr – as they discuss another pre-code vehicle for Boris Karloff, The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932). Decades of Horror: The Classic EraEpisode 124 – […]
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