The Psychotronic Zone

Allow all conventional thinking to remain silent. You have entered the Psychotronic Zone. This Tumblr celebrates cinema, television and music with emphasis on the surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, psychotronic, and the just plain WEIRD!

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10La Planete Sauvage (1973) By Roland Topor & René Laloux 72 minutes.

Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage, lit. The Wild Planet) is a 1973 cutout stop motion science fiction allegorical film directed by René Laloux, production designed by Roland Topor, written by both of them and animated at Jiří Trnka Studio.[1] The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and was distributed in the United States by Roger Corman. It won the special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The story is based on the novel Oms en série, by the French writer Stefan Wul. A working title for the film while it was in development was Sur la planète Ygam (On the Planet Ygam).[3] The film had a total of 809,945 admissions in France.[4] + 

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Destroy All Monsters - Trailer (1968)

Aliens have released all the giant monsters from their imprisonment on Monster Island and are using them to destroy all major cities on the planet. It is up to the daring crew of the super rocket ship X-2 to infiltrate the aliens' headquarters before the Earth monsters and King Ghidrah annihilate the planet.

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General Cinema Pre-Show Bumpers and Policy Trailers ~

A bunch of bumpers and trailers from the now defunct General Cinema movie theater chain, which was acquired by AMC in the 2000s.

Takes me back!

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Every era worth it's salt has it's great horror movie host. For me, it was Seymour, the host of 1970s Saturday night program FRIGHT NIGHT on KHJ-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles which featured the worst in horror and sci-fi movies.

Official fans of the show received a "Certificate of Demerit" which read:

"To whom it may concern...and it won't. This is to certify that (have a friend help you spell you name) is a member in bad standing in Seymour's Society of FRINGIES. Because you enjoy such outstanding horror films as Attack of the Mushroom People and Monster from the Surf etc. & etc. you are truly on the LUNATIC FRINGE and deserve all the help and recognition you can get. You are an idiot of the very first order."

It was signed "Disrespectfully Seymour, Master of the Macabre, Epitome of Evil, The Most Sinister Man To Crawl The Face Of The Earth."

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Rat Pfink a Boo Boo: Riding the Pfinkmobile

Heroic Rat Pfink and his sidekick Boo Boo ride through the streets...

I love the music in this scene which also featured in Russ Meyer's Mondo Topless the same year.

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Geeks of Doom reports that Eli Roth may finally turn his Grindhouse faux trailer Thanksgiving into actual movie a la Robert Rodriguez's Machete.

Turns out a lot of good things came out of those faux trailers seen in Grindhouse. Robert Rodriguez has taken his Machete trailer and turned it into a full-fledged feature and is working on its sequel. Now Eli Roth’s faux trailer for Thanksgiving is being turned into a film as well. And the best news is that Thanksgiving could be hitting theaters as early as Fall 2013, the perfect time to release a film like this one.

And here’s the original trailer for Thanksgiving, be careful, its NSFW.

Further details at Geeks of Doom. (via Geeks of Doom)

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Meet the Feebles (1989)

Long before The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson directed this incredibly sick, twisted spoof of The Muppet Show. The Feebles are a far cry from the cheerful felt creatures of Jim Henson’s world, representing every vice imaginable and being cunning, crude, and the opposite of friendly. Meet the Feebles is a different side of director Peter Jackson made long before the Hobbits and the Oscars. The trailer only hints at the weirdness of this very twisted film which is DEFINITELY not for everyone.

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The Crawling Eye - 1958 Trailer

Originally titled The Trollenberg Terror in its UK release, this film was directed by Quentin Lawrence and features Laurence Payne as journalist Philip Truscott, who investigates unusual accidents occurring at a Swiss resort. The film also stars Forrest Tucker as United Nations troubleshooter Alan Brooks. The film was based on a serial written Peter Key, and Jimmy Sangster scripted the film version based on Keys' story. It was the final film to be produced by Southall Studios, one of the earliest pioneer film studios in the UK.

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Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968 TV Spot)

Peculiar U.S. TV spot for Dracula Has Risen From The Grave which was inexplicably given a "G'" rating by the MPAA in 1968.

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This account will remain silent on January 18th, 12:00am-11:59pm (PST) as a protest against SOPA/PIPA

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Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)

Directors: Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer

Writers: Randall Frakes, Donald G. Jackson

Cast: Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, Cec Verrell, William Smith, Rory Calhoun

The great nuclear holocaust has come and gone, and humanity is hanging on a string. Women rule what’s left, and the world is filled with giant mutant humanoid frogs who have started their own communities. Fertile human males have become one of the rarest things on Earth. This really low-budget sci-fi adventure chronicles the exploits of one of those men, the wandering loner Sam Hell (as played by former wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper). The tale begins as Hell is caught and tried for raping a woman. Realizing that he is fertile, Medtech, the organization devoted to repopulating the world, takes him and forces him to wear high-tech underwear designed to control his lusty tendencies and to keep him from squandering his seed on infertile ladies. The organization then forces him to go deep into froggy territory to bring back the fertile women stolen by the amphibian’s leader. (allrovi.com)

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Bride of the Monster is a 1955 sci-fi horror film starring Bela Lugosi, along with Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy and Loretta King Hadler. It was produced, directed and co-written by Edward D. Wood, Jr.

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Bela Lugosi was born 129 years ago, on October 20, 1882.

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Looking for some less obvious horror flicks to shudder through this coming Halloween? Den of Geek has a list of 10 overlooked British horror movies for your consideration.

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Dr Who And The Daleks (1965)

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The height of 1960's Dalekmania.