#john brinkley

[pierppasolini]

A Bucket of Blood (1959) // dir. Roger Corman

[alienfirst]

I COULD explain this, but instead I'll just say, go check out this episode of Behind the Bastards. That is an honest-to-god quote from a book by a quack doctor who did some stupid shit with goat balls from 1918 to the 1930s. The quote from the puppet is from the podcast episode, not the quack doctor.

[cinemaquiles]

Sarcófago: "Guerra dos Satélites" (War of the Satellites, 1958) legendado

[screamscenepodcast]

Roger Corman plans his horror return with A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959) starring Dick Miller and Barboura Morris! This MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM remake brings in the scariest beastie of them all... Beatniks!

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 44:11; Discussion 58:26; Ranking 1:16:19

[kuutamosonaatti]

Nuts! (2016) | dir. Penny Lane  

[thenib]

Read Emi Gennis in our SCAMS issue.

[goodedison]

John Brinkley was a charlatan who exploited radio technology to manipulate people...and popularize country music. But the snakeoil he was selling is the most bizarre part of his story. From Reply All, it started like this:

PENNY LANE: This elderly farmer named Bill Stitsworth comes into the office and, you know, after much hemming and hawing kind of manages to spit out his problem which is that he’s a flat tire. Um, get it? Get it? You know, and finally that Brinkley is like, “Oh you’re impotent. OK, gotcha. I’m so sorry, we have nothing for that.” Like, “Modern medical science has not solved that problem. I’m very sorry.”

PJ: According to Brinkley, what happens next is that he and the farmer, get into small talk, and they start talking about goats. They start talking about how goats never seem to be impotent. They’re always virile. And the farmer says something to Brinkley that will change his life.

PENNY: And he says, “gosh it’s too bad I don’t have Billy Goat nuts.” And then Brinkley kind of laughs and then, after hours of Brinkley saying, “No! I didn’t learn that in medical school! That’s not how we do things, uh, that might not work and could be dangerous!” The farmer refuses to leave until Brinkley agrees to try to fix his impotence by giving him goat testicles.

Listen to Reply All’s episode on Brinkley, his foray into the goat testicles business, his wife’s rundown mansion and his Mexican radio station here.

[krosestark-blog]

NUTS! Character Design

I’m working on a segment of animation for the documentary NUTS! by director Penny Lane. 

These are some variations on the character design of John Romulus Brinkley, the subject of the film.