Terrible Delights

This week's pick is the 1975 blaxploitation film the Candy Tangerine Man. There is no Candy Tangerine Man in this film at any point, which confused us. But we were delighted with the extreme overacting of Richard Kennedy and surprised by some of the violence.

This week's pick is the 1975 low-budget thriller Psycho from Texas. Wheeler, the titular character, kidnaps an oil baron with the help of a bumbling and filthy-looking man ironically named Slick. Along the way, Wheeler terrorizes and kills other folks.

This week's pick is the 1973 British horror film Horror Hospital. A mad doctor lures young hippy types to his out-of-the-way estate and performs brain surgery on them so he can control them by mostly making them perform gymnastic feats. Featuring the grossest pair of underwear in a movie we've covered.

This week's pick is the 1981 Indonesian supernatural horror film Mystics in Bali. There's a witch that laughs like an insane Yoda, a a flying vampire head with internal organs hanging from her neck that drinks the blood of an unborn baby, and a fight scene where the witch turns into a bipedal pig with human boobs.

This week's pick is the 1977 bruceploitation film the Dragon Lives Again. The soul of Bruce Lee ends up in the Underworld where he fights the likes of James Bond, Clint Eastwood, the Exorcist, and Dracula. Popeye the Sailor helps Bruce along the way.

This week's pick is the 1983 Italian post-apocalyptic action flick Endgame. A telepathic mutant recruits a champion gameshow warrior and his gang to guide her and other mutants to safety amongst the dangers of the outside world. Featuring special guest Ben Scrivens of Fright Rags.

This week's pick is the 1979 sci-fi weirdness known as the Visitor. Franco Nero is Jesus Christ! Shelley Winters slaps a child! A basketball explodes! A telekinetic girl sends an ice skater through a restaurant window!

This week's pick is the 1976 pirate/blaxploitation/women in prison film the Muthers. A female pirate leader infiltrates a coffee plantation fronting as a women's prison to rescue her kidnapped sister. Mild action and boobs scenes commence.

This week's pick is the 1977 natural horror film Day of the Animals. TD Hall of Famers Christopher George and Richard Jaeckel star in rather subdued roles (which disappointed Bill) alongside a fiendish Leslie Nielson who steals the show as a huge prick. They are part of a hiking group that is terrorized and attacked by animals gone mad from the effects of a depleted ozone layer.

This week's pick is the 1980 killer kids horror flick the Children. Toxic gases turn the youngsters in a small Western Massachusetts town into zombies that can microwave you to death with their flesh-melting hugs.

We kick off season five with the 1974 threequel the Streetfighter's Last Revenge. Important questions are asked like: Can Sonny Chiba keep up his intense face energy from the previous two movies? Why is there an evil mariachi strongman? And why does Chiba become a ghoulish vampire briefly? Help!

This week's pick for our season 4 finale is the Shaw Brother's insanity soaked the Battle Wizard from 1977. This film features finger lasers, a dart shooting bone gun, fire breath, power smoke, a giant red snake, a man with extendable metal chicken legs, and a gorilla.We also induct four excellent new members to the Terrible Delights Hall of Fame: Fred Williamson, director Enzo Castellari, Danny Lee, and the Shaw Brothers.

This week's pick is the 1974 poliziotteschi film Street Law. Franco Nero is Carlo, a timid engineer turned vigilante who seeks revenge on some thugs that kidnapped and assaulted him. He eventually befriends Tommy, a small-time crook with a kind heart, in his quest for justice.

This week's pick is the 1981 Cannon Films release Enter the Ninja starring Franco Nero and his mustache, along with Will Hare aka Old Man Peabody from Back to the Future, and Terrible Delights Hall of Famer Christopher George. Cole has just completed his ninja training and visits his old war buddy, Frank, helping him to fight off the thugs Mr. Venarius keeps sending in an effort to bully Frank off his valuable land. Venarius tries to counter by hiring ninja Hasegawa, who despises Cole for becoming a Caucasian ninja, bucking Japanese tradition.

This week's pick is the 1981 revenge/action film Lovely But Deadly. Teenager Lovely seeks revenge on the drug dealers that caused her brother to drown while high. Featuring Irwin Keyes as dull witted and horny Gommorah.

This week's pick is the 1974 blaxploitation filmTNT Jackson. tough lady Diana "TNT" Jackson encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother. Many asses are kicked and many backflips are performed. Written by the legendaryDick Miller!

This week's pick is the 1976 action-like thriller Project: Kill. An elite assassin (a sweaty Leslie Neilsen) flees a government mind control program he headed to blow the whistle on it. He completely abandons this plan almost immediately upon arriving in the Philippines and instead looks for love while being pursued by his former second in command (a sweaty Gary Lockwood), as well as local police and Terrible Delights Hall of Famer Vic Diaz!

This week's pick is the 1979 martial arts/adventure style movie Jaguar Lives! The Jaguar (champion martial artist Joe Lewis) travels the world constantly trying to stop the bad guys from doing bad things, we think? Maybe there is something happening with opium? We're not entirely sure. Featuring the likes of Sir Christopher Lee, John Huston, Barbara Bach, and a wonderful Donald Pleasence in small roles that make you wonder why they agreed to take part in this movie.

This week's pick is the 1979 exploitation flick Malibu High. Kim is flunking out of high school so decides to sleep with her teachers to get straight A's and become a prostitute for easy money. It all obviously leads to her quickly becoming an assassin.

This week's pick is the 1973 exploitation film the Candy Snatchers. A girl named Candy is kidnapped, or snatched, and is buried alive by criminals demanding a fortune in diamonds from her father's jewelry store.

This week's pick is the 1980 Xmas slasher To All A Goodnight. Someone dressed as Santa Claus is picking off the girls that are staying at their prep-school during the holiday break.

This week's pick is the 1984 British holiday slasher Don't Open Till Christmas. Basically, if you're dressed like Santa Claus in London, there is a high probability that you will get murdered. The chances go up if you're a drunk Santa!

This week's pick is the 1972 early slasher film Silent Night Bloody Night. IMDB sums it up beautifully: "A man inherits a mansion which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region." Special guest Mike Neel joins us and talks about the expanded re-release of his film Infinite Santa 8000.

This week's pick is the 1985 Cannon Films action masterpiece Invasion U.S.A. starring a denim-clad Chuck Norris. A one-man army comes to the rescue when the United States is invaded by communists.

This week's pick is the 1982 action/sci-fi flick 1990: the Bronx Warriors. According to IMDB: In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs. Featuring a maniacal Vic Morrow and a sharp-dressed Fred Williamson

This week's pick is the 1976 martial arts movie Master of the Flying Guillotine. The titular character seeks revenge against the One-Armed Boxer for killing two of his disciples, laying waste along the way to any one-armed man he encounters with his flying guillotine. Featuring a man with very long arms and a Krautrock soundtrack.

This week's pick is the 1978 drama/thriller the Fifth Floor. A disco dancer is placed into a mental asylum and held there against her will while being tormented by an orderly. Featuring a young Robert Englund and too many dance scenes.

This week's pick is the 1975 blaxploitation (with a side of Nazi overtones) film the Black Gestapo. The staff leader (Night Court's Charles P. Robinson) of a black community-service militia organizes a private army and initiates a violent war against white mobsters.

This week's pick is the 1984 slasher flick the Mutilator. Years after the accidental death of his wife by his son with a hunting rifle, a deranged man begins to kill his son's friends at his beachfront condominium during an impromptu fall break weekend, which is conveniently stocked with an array of murder weapons.

This week's pick is the 1975 melty Satanic film the Devil's Rain. Watch as Ernest Borgnine forcefully converts William Shatner to Satanism and Tom Skerritt blows away cult members in a spray of orange and green blood!

This week's pick is the 1981 slasher film Madhouse. A deformed woman escapes from a mental institution and organizes a morbid birthday surprise for her twin sister with the help of her deranged priest uncle, who can carry a tune pretty well.

This week's pick is the 1981 horror film Evilspeak. Relentlessly bullied by classmates and treated poorly by every adult staff member he encounters, a pudgy military-school student fights back using computer technology to summon a devil worshipper and his demonic powers to exact his revenge on those who have wronged him. Starring a toupee wearing Clint Howard, Richard Moll of Night Court fame and Don Stark of That 70's Show fame!

This week's pick is the 1975 supposedly revenge horror film Satan's Children. Teenager Bobby has had enough of his abusive stepfather and evil, weirdly horny stepsister. He runs away only to be assaulted by a group of unsavory men, who leave him in a ditch. He is then taken in by a Satanic cult and spends most of the movie trying to escape their compound in his tidy whities.

This week's pick is the 1974 Duke Mitchell crime thriller Massacre Mafia Style. IMDB describes it accurately: "The ruthless son of a Mafia kingpin blasts his way through Hollywood on a bloody crime spree." You're in or you're in the way!

In this special episode, Greg and Dan from Stabby Stabby literally stumble into the Terrible Delights realm through a wall and in a wild coincidence watched the 1980 artsy fartsy monkey fantasy film Tanya's Island, just like Scott and Bill had. What's left to do but to talk about the movie with these unexpected visitors!

This week's pick is the 1976 natural horror film Squirm. A storm causes downed power lines that touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start devouring locals.

This week's pick to kick off season 4 is the ass-kicking Return of the Street Fighter. Sonny Chiba is back to breath weird, make weird facial expressions and destroy everyone in the Street Fighter sequel.

In this special episode we each induct two acting legends that have appeared in multiple Terrible Delights movie choices into our Hall of Fame. The honorees are Vic Diaz, Christopher George, Shelley Winters and Richard Jaeckel.

This week's pick is the wonderful 1977 Shaw Brothers King Kong rip-off Mighty Peking Man. Also known as Goliathon, a giant ape-like creature with a rubbery face is brought to Hong Kong from the Himalayas and exploited for profit. A rampage of mass destruction follows once it escapes.

This week's pick is the 1981 slasher Girls Nite Out. Ohio college students taking part in their school's annual late night scavenger hunt find themselves falling victim to a killer dressed like the school mascot.

This week's pick is the 1977 revenge movie Death Promise. Slumlords kill a martial artist's father and he promises to kill them all to death!

This week's pick is the 1975 film Cover Girl Models. Three fashion models kind of, sort of become involved in some espionage shenanigans in a roundabout way, barely. It's all very confusing. Vic Diaz is criminally underused.

This week's pick is the classic 1972 martial arts flick Five Fingers of Death aka King Boxer. As two martial arts schools prepare for a tournament, one master tries to ensure his son wins the title by hiring three samurais, who target the rival school's best fighter. To succeed, the other fighter has to defeat the samurais and his rival.

This week's pick is the the 1981 sci-fi/horror film Inseminoid. A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one. Featuring a cast of unlikeable characters and loads of confusion.

This week's pick is the 1976 Jaws-on-land style movie Grizzly. An enormous grizzly bear develops a taste for human flesh and begins to terrorize a state park. It's now up to Mr. Cook a Hot Dog with Electricity himself, Christopher George, to put a stop to the beast's deadly rampage.

This week's pick is the sleazy 1977 film Hitch-Hike to Hell. Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the bodies start piling up, the police finally begin to investigate.

This week's pick is the 1981 Tobe Hooper directed horror (not slasher) film the Funhouse. Four teenagers sneak into a sketchy carnival funhouse and plan to stay the night when they witness some bad doings by the owner and his deformed son. Can they escape before getting killed off within the funhouse walls? Special guest Mike Neel joins us.

This week's pick is the serious and well-made 1977 vetsploitation film Rolling Thunder. A Vietnam veteran who returns home after years in a POW camp is treated as a hero, but his family proves to be distant. When thugs invade his home to steal silver coins that he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him, his wife and son for dead. He survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Now wielding a hook for a hand, he sets out on his mission of vengeance.

This week's pick is the 1974 Jack Hill film Foxy Brown starring the always awesome Pam Grier. Foxy Brown's boyfriend is gunned down and she infiltrates the bad guy's enterprises to bring them down.

This week's pick is the 1974 action-ish movie Savage Sisters. Three women of three races join forces to get one million dollars from, and revenge on, a double-crossing Revolutionary. It is kind of like a wacky caper with bad acting, bad fight scenes, and Sid Haig's over-the-top stereotyping of Mexicans.

This week's pick is the 1985 film Gymkata. The trailer makes it look like a lot more fun than you end up getting, but there are some decent gymnastics fighting scenes, multiple questionable hairstyles and loads of ugly people. Friend of the show Mike Spada joins in on the disappointment.