Video Beaverhausen: Lana Turner Trips Out on LSD in The Big Cube!

Lana Turner was far from her glory days when she made 1969's The Big Cube. Lana on acid but it's a bad trip, I warn you!

It's a campy psychedelic throwback with Ms Turner tripping on LSD that are put into her sugar cubes for tea. Unintentional hilarious at moments, though not enough of them to make this interesting.

Ms Turner was far from her glamor days here, though she works her frocks quite well. This is no The Postman Rings Twice or Imitation of Life. Hell, it's not even Love Has Many Faces!

Lana, in tis, is a rich widow with greedy kids spiking her tea with LSD to be able to get to her money by declaring her insane. The whole premise is, frankly, completely ridiculous!

Richard Egan and George Chakiris are in this, too. Hope all had a happy payday for their efforts.

Big Cube becomes a big bore. Not recommended by me except to the most devout camp devotees.

Cine Beaverhausen: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

Sisters are doing it it for themselves in the tacky but campy and sometimes scary film version of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

Based on the book by Jane Austen with a grafted-on zombie story line by Seth Grahame Smith. It's meant to be a parody, not to be taken seriously by any means.

I was surprised by the emotionally touching moments. It's just totally fun and buy yourself some popcorn and a soft drink for this.

Sturdy direction with a wonderful -- mostly good-looking cast, many of them newcomers to the silver screen. I went to the local cinema to see this. Lots of fun. I recommend it.

Zombies, before George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, were not cannibalistic. More like undead sleep-walkers. But now flesh-eating zombies are the rage, even on tv. This release definitely exploits the trend.

Austen purists will, of course, hate this.

Charles Dance is in this, lending class. Lily James stars. Not for everyone, but parody and camp and horror mavens should eat this up. Trash with class!

Video Beaverhausen: Vincent Price and the Theater of Blood!

Vincent Price entered his campy period with great panache in Theater of Blood, 1974. It was made just after his Dr. Phibes films.

I have great fond memories of Theater of Blood, as I saw it in a movie house with my Mom and brother, when they came out to Colorado for my graduation commencement. We were VP fans, and this was a film we all enjoyed immensely.

In this movie, smartly directed by Douglas Hickcox with great style, Price plays a hammy Shakespearean actor (ironically not much of a stretch) who jumps off a bridge after his performance of King Lear is roasted by the London critics.

Believed dead, he returns to take revenge, killing each of the offending critics according to death scenes in the plays of William Shakespeare. Take notice, reviewers: bad notices can be hazardous to your well-being.

Price met future wife Coral Browne, who is cast in this film as one of the ill-fated critics. The great supporting cast features the divine Diana Rigg as Price's daughter (and partner in crime). Ian Hendry, Robert Morley, Harry Andrews, Jack Hawkins, Milo O'Shea and even Diana Dors amongst other great UK actors, all playing this straight-faced -- and straight-laced!

A great treat for the Halloween season. On dvd and download.