Dangers of Honesty is a movie that I was involved with a year or so back. It tells about a young man struggling with drug addiction and coping with the loss of a loved one. The movie was produced and written Jonny Gillis, who also appears in the lead role as well as a couple other movies here on Protozoic. (Take a look at Jugular, written and produced by Andrew Salerno, who was responsible for the cinematography in Dangers of Honesty.) The movie was shot on location in Chestertown, MD (at Thom’s house) and in Harper’s Ferry, WV.
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TV Jam: Part 3 – Unloch the Beat
Dick Quits Macy’s
Back in the summer of 2000, Brian was working at Macy’s and quit. I made a web comic based on the events, but the comic was never posted (it was most likely intended for the Cave of Trouble site). Now, nine years later, here it is.
TV Jam: Part 2 – Sugar
The Monster That Challenged the World/It! The Terror From Beyond Space
When I saw The Monster That Challenged the World (1957), directed by Arnold Laven, briefly featured in Joe Dante’s Piranha (1978), I decided to check it out. For late 50’s sci-fi, it is pretty good. The monster are actually monsters, slugs to be exact, in The Monster That Challenged the World. The movie comes on a double DVD with It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958), directed by Edward L. Cahn. It! The Terror From Beyond Space was a massive influence on Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979). While Alien drew from a number of sources, like A. E. van Vogt’s The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950), It! The Terror From Beyond Space really is Alien, man in a rubber suit and all.
TV Jam: Part 1 – The “Prince” Show
Van
Fingerbowl – TV Jam with Joe and Mike – Part 0 (Prequel)
Zelda Joke
Q: Why didn’t Link go to Applebees?
A: Because he went to Rupee Tuesday.
Maniac
In Dwain Esper’s 1934 Maniac, a man eats a cat eyeball, while commenting, “Why, not unlike an oyster or a grape,” another man deals in cat pelts, there is a bunch of montage, possibly intentionally or possibly not, suggesting that women are cats, random nudity (probably has something to do with the cats), countless hodgepodge Poe references, one of the strangest Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde transformations ever committed to celluloid, and a bunch of other stuff I am fairly sure I have failed to mention. I will not try to give a plot summary of the film, but exploitation historian Eric Schaefer does, and after doing so writes, “The ‘story’ of Maniac may sound odd, but a synopsis of the film cannot begin to convey the disjointed, confusing experience of an actual viewing of it.”1
Basically, this is a great slice of entertainment to put on at the office while you are taking lunch today.
- Schaefer, Eric. “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!”. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1999. ↩