Something Weird Triple Feature:
The Atomic Brain (a.k.a. Monstrosity, 1964)
Starring Erika Peters, Frank Gerstle, Marjorie Eaton
Directed by Joseph V. Mascelli

Love After Death (a.k.a. Unsatisfied Love, 1968)
Starring Guillermo De Cordova, Gloris Garcia, Carmin O’Neal
Directed by Glauco Del Mar

The Incredible Petrified World (1957)
Starring John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates
Directed by Jerry Warren

Image Entertainment/Something Weird Video
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Are you not getting your daily requirement of cinematic depravity due to the demands of modern life? Fret not, dear sleaze beasts – this triple bill of tripe from Image Entertainment and Something Weird Video delivers three times the deviant behavior you need for good health, but in almost half the time required to watch the average single feature. Now, I know what you’re saying: how can this be? Well, check out this lineup of lunacy:

Sick Flick #1: The Atomic Brain, in which a hatchet-faced old biddy, her emasculated gigolo henchman, and a fist-faced doctor hire a trio of naïve foreign girls to work as housemaids – but in reality, they’re being groomed to serve as the new body for the old bat’s pickled brain! Add a mutton-chopped dog-man mutant, a revived corpse that can’t keep still, heavy overtones of necrophilia, sex with the elderly, and white slavery, yards of hateful dialogue, and a heavy-breathing narrator (“Three new bodies… fresh, young bodies…), and you’ll know why this fractured flick was originally known as Monstrosity!

Sick Flick #2: straight outta South America, where life is cheap, comes Love After Death, the romantic story of a milquetoast husband whose cataleptic fits cause him to be buried alive by his heavy-hootered wife and oily, comb-over-sporting doctor. Not one to take things lying down (har-har), Hubby crawls his way out of the grave, and emerges a new man – a new and completely insane man who launches a campaign of rape, assault, lesbian manhandling and transvestite abuse before settling the score with Wifey and Doctor Dirty.

Sick Flick #3: okay, The Incredible Petrified World isn’t really that sick – it’s about a quartet of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave – but it was directed by Jerry Warren, who also did The Wild World of Batwoman and Teenage Zombies, and John Carradine is the star, so those have to count for something. Oh, and there’s a crazy hermit who wants to molest the female divers (he doesn’t get the chance, though). I dunno, I’m trying.

Anyway, there’s also the usual barrage of trailers, all having something to do with deviant science or screwing around with dead people, including Curse of the Living Corpse, Back from the Dead (“I love my daughter, despite all the evil in her… but she’s been dead for six years!”), and Frozen Alive! The whole shindig, from start to finish, runs 202 minutes – less time that it usually takes you to smoke all of your roommate’s pot or max out the credit card you stole from your girlfriend with internet porn. There’s simply no excuse any longer to not get the sleaze you need, so why not pick this triple bill today? It’s available in your grocer’s freezer, and under better manholes and sewer grates near you. _________________________________________________________________

– Paul Gaita

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