Satan's School for Girls Trailer

Satan's School for Girls (1973)

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A Little Restructuring

We'll be back to poking fun at bad movies soon enough. We bought some new properties and are having to plan our approach with those. Also, G+ moved Hangouts to YouTube, and we haven't even fooled with that, yet.

Our next movie is the Lifetime MoW, Wife, Mother, Murderer, starring Judith Light of Who's the Boss fame. We're no longer working on a schedule of any kind, so we can't say when we'll be recording, but it will be available on the YouTube channel and from the websites once it's done.

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vs. Wife, Mother, Murderer

The B-Raters vs. Wife, Mother, Murderer

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vs. Mother May I Sleep with Danger? (Promo)

The B-Raters vs. Mother May I Sleep with Danger?

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Never Too Young to Die Trailer

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Snowbeast Trailer

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vs. The House That Would Not Die

The House That Would Not Die

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Die, Sister, Die Trailer

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Killdozer Commercial (1974)

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vs. Tarzan and the Trappers

The B-Raters vs. Tarzan and the Trappers

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Tarzan and the Trappers

June 13

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The Movie of the Week (MOW)

Born Innocent

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, all of the major networks broadcast made for TV movies about once a week - usually more often. Many times, the MOW (or Movie Of the Week) featured unknowns and/or has-beens bartering on their remaining fame. Sometimes, the MOW was a failed attempt at a feature film which lost backing or interest and was picked-up by a network. Usually though, the network financed and produced the film itself. Miniseries stretching eight to 10 hours or more were also common throughout this time in American TV, shown in two-hour installments over the course of several nights.

Because there were only three major networks in most American homes throughout these decades, almost everyone over age 30 has seen one or more of these at some point in their lives. It was for this reason that some created such a stir upon their release. One of the most well-known is Born Innocent, starring a young Linda Blair of Exorcist fame.

The most well-known of these attained legendary status due to fond memories amongst those who had seen them and word-of-mouth, sometimes fueled by fanzines and Internet posts. Although some were released to DVD, an overall lack of interest at a reasonable price-point is likely to have been the reason the market was not pursued more aggressively. These days, many MOW can be found streaming online but for many years, they remained unavailable excepting the rare cable broadcast.

Most MOW are stinkers, though there are a handful of gems to be mined. These films were generally exploitative, capitalizing on popular and divisive issues of the day. Recurring social issues include Women's Rights, disparity between white and black Americans, divorce and infidelity, children behaving badly, and vaguely religious and/or Supernatural themes. They were cheaply made and rarely as effective as fans nostalgically recall. Many were suspense thrillers and outright horror features.

Made for TV movies were less regularly primetime fare by the late 1980s but persisted well
into the 1990s until the MOW was gradually (then very suddenly) overtaken by the advent of the news magazine. While major networks still aired the occasional movie, most had received a prior theatrical release. The concept persisted on cable networks for years, and still remains.

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Curse of Bigfoot Trailer

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vs. Curse of Bigfoot

The B-Raters vs. Curse of Bigfoot

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Curse of Bigfoot

The Curse of Bigfoot

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vs. When Michael Calls - ep. 2.14

If you think When Michael Calls is just another ABC Movie of the Week, you're right.

This one, however, stars Michael Douglas - who was apparently never young. Based on a book no one remembers and even fewer read, it has something to do with telephones... and Michael Douglas. Like almost all of the movies we riff, we have never seen this one (nor even heard of it) and, like most film-goers, we certainly haven't read the book, so this is a cold riff.

Be sure to tune-in tomorrow night around 10pm CT to see The B-Raters vs. When Michael Calls - LIVE and UNSCRIPTED - on YouTube and Google HoA.

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vs. When Michael Calls

The B-Raters vs. When Michael Calls

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When Michael Calls

When Michael Calls

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vs. Beyond the Bermuda Triangle

Lay the Credits, so Let's Go There!

Several weeks back, The B-Raters took on a lesser-known Fred MacMurray... "classic." This nigh-forgotten TV gem was entitled Beyond the Bermuda Triangle and also stars a sexy Donna Mills being all... sexy. Whatever, it was the '70s, so butterfly collars and social unrest were the norm.

Here is the link to the riff and, as usual, a link to the movie itself is in the comments beneath it. The B-Raters vs. Beyond the Bermuda Triangle was recorded LIVE on September 6^th, 2014.

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vs. The Devil's Daughter

Like, Oh my God! I mean...

This weekend, The B-Raters are forced to endure The Devil's Daughter, an extremely timely movie of the week made in 1976 and quickly forgotten. It stars no one of any import doing anything anyone should ever be forced to watch. If the IMdB description is anything to go by, it's like The Bachelorette for demons. So... it's like The Bachelorette.

There was an explosion of Devil Flicks in the mid-1970s, thanks to the runaway success of The Exorcist. Most of these, such as The Omen, featured Evil Children who were usually the victims of daemonic possession. Evil Children flicks are an ages-old meme that really picked-up steam in the 1950s and became a popular trope amongst sci-fi B-movies. In the 1970's versions, the theme appeared most frequently in Horror movies with heavy religious overtones, usually Catholic.

We do not screen the movies we watch and The Weirding Theater is LIVE almost every Saturday night around 9:30pm, CST, so some of the content in the movie may not be suitable for some audiences. The B-Raters' commentary on The Devil's Daughter is suitable for absolutely no one - even we are ashamed of ourselves and publicly disavow ourselves of any knowledge of this, or any other, commentaries we never made.

The B-Raters vs. The Devil's Daughter was recorded LIVE September 20^th, 2014.

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