SON OF DRACULA 1974
U.K. film. Produced by Ringo Starr and released by Apple Films, Son of Dracula was billed as "The First Rock-and-Roll Dracula Movie." This is the best quality version we've seen, out of many lesser quality ones!

Son of Dracula has received some terrible reviews over the years but we think it has its merits. Ringo Starr plays Merlin the Magician and Harry Nilsson plays Count Downe, the Son of Dracula. The Count's rock-and-roll band, the Count Downes, include members Klaus Voormann, Keith Moon, Peter Frampton, John Bonham, Leon Russell, Bobby Keyes, and Jim Price who can all be seen rocking away in performance scenes.

(I'm just going to share the press release for this movie. I can't explain why this movie deserves a Bridget & Mary Jo riff better than it does.)

Fellow ROK fans, tired of every new film having a militant feminist theme? Want to see a universe on video in which men create a paradise on earth with their wise rule, and insolent women causing trouble are given their just reward? My short film (18 minutes) is called Pax Masculina (Latin for Peace of Men) and is an alternate history science fiction movie.

It all started when I posed the question “What would the United States be like today if women had never received the right to vote?” Check out the two minute trailer below. I think you will love the PAX universe.

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In Pax Masculina, a theocratic totalitarian regime takes over the United States in 1910. Under this government, women have few rights like in Old Testament or Victorian England culture. The suffragettes were defeated and women never got the vote.

Uninhibited by the influence of women, what follows is a century of peace and prosperity, known as the Pax Masculina. Out of disgruntled suffragettes evolved the Women’s Resistance Movement (WRM) which violently opposes the regime. The movie takes place in 2016 when the WRM has increased aggression in its opposition to the governing patriarchy in their fight for equality of the sexes.

The Women’s Resistance Movement uses assassinations and bombings to create terror and kill without mercy. Seduction and murder of policemen and government officials are common tactics. The government induces its own terror with televised torture and execution of captured women soldiers. The movie’s Facebook site gives more details and many behind-the-scenes photos from the film.

The following photos represent the philosophy of the regime:

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The conflict between the regime and WRM is really a battle for the hearts and minds of young women who might join the WRM. When a girl turns 16, she is eligible to be married. Husbands pay the father a dowry and there is a transfer of property. There is an all-girls high school where harsh teachers use ruler and paddle freely to discipline unruly females.

Girls are forced to watch public hangings of captured WRM soldiers on classroom televisions. In the photographed scene below, one girl jokes around about the threat of hanging beside a victim she has just had to watch.

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A symbol on the wall of all classrooms remind them of the consequences of having a bad attitude. Gentlemen, how many times have you wanted to tell a woman to “lose the attitude”? In this universe, it is official policy!

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The beautiful women of the WRM wear steampunk inspired uniforms designed for combat and seduction as they engage in hand-to-hand combat with police. Authorities have better weapons but hesitate to use them since they want to capture these arrogant women alive for public display.

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Captured WRM soldiers are hanged publicly with a worldwide TV broadcast of the event as if it was the World Cup or Superbowl. There is no drop and a large diameter rope is used to haul them up into the air so they slowly strangle, preventing permanent damage to necks or windpipes. There is a good possibility that they will be half hanged (let down before dead) to be made a sex-slave to a deserving man. This discourages young women from joining the WRM while entertaining the populace.

As for the status of the film, the cut is finished and being submitted to film festivals. To stay up to date about its release, follow the Facebook page. The world premier of Pax Masculina will be at Comicpalooza in Houston May 12-14. The exact screening time and date will be posted on the aforementioned Facebook page.

I made this film to express my view and to share my artistic vision, not to make money. Eventually it will just be posted on YouTube or Vimeo to be viewed for free. But for now, festival rules prevent that to retain eligibility. My goal is to make a full length feature film which expands the story line of the PAX universe. But that is a year or two away. Now, I just want to share the vision with like-minded individuals such as ROK readers. I hope the trailer whets your appetite andI would love to hear feedback. My best estimate for release of the short film for public viewing is six months.

I admire Roosh more than I can say after having experienced similar harassment by the social justice warriors against me. Maybe he will agree to be a consultant on the feature film? I made this movie with a balanced perspective instead of the expected female empowerment manifesto. But the mere hint that a government which excludes women might be successful has led to an effort to silence my creative voice.

Instead of reasoned debate, some think I shouldn’t be permitted to express my artistic opinion. In addition, I have openly promoted the men’s right movement (posted links to ROK articles for example), and I have dared to say some positive things about President rich asshole. I have been vilified and my reputation decimated with lies.

Having practiced engineering for over 40 years, I am used to dealing with truth and facts. I have learned that the artistic community is in general close-minded and truth means nothing to them. I am astonished at their ability to lie without hesitation, without guilt, without apology. Some “artists” show a total lack of character and honor. Any deviation from political correctness is not tolerated. That will be the focus of a future post. For now, I plan to continue to make movies that tell the truth and present an alternative viewpoint.

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Official trailer here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UygsvO5M8k4

Though this has been suggested.. twice.. I thought I'd stir up the cauldron and brew up a better description, as well as some reasons upon why this thing should be riffed in the first place...

Many Halloween fans will tell you H3 fits into the Halloween canon as Friday the 13th movies allegedly fit into the Friday the 13th The Series.

Bill: Wait? There was a series about Friday the 13th?

Yes.

Kevin: Did it have Jason in it?

No.

Mike: How could you have a Friday the 13th series without Jason Voorhees?

Well, it did have Jason's relation who allegedly ran a curio shop with items cursed by Satan and his niece and nephew had to get them back from people foolish enough to use them.

Bill: Did they have a cursed hockey mask?

Strangely no.

Bill: Awwww..

Anyway... getting back to Halloween... the story about why the third film had nothing to do with the other flicks was rather an interesting tale. Basically, what happened was the studios wanted to crank out another Halloween flick, and it seemed John Carpenter wanted to do something else.. so rather than having a typical slash-fest with Michael Myers, we ended up receiving some odd tale about some Celtic druids, mystic rocks put on masks, and a scheme so odd it makes Rock n Roll Nightmare seem mundane and logical.

So why should RiffTrax take a stab at this putrid witches' brew of cinematic nightmare?

1) The nonsensical plot itself: Throwing out the entire Michael Myers killer genre, the only killing occurs when an android (yes, that's right) murders a guy who manufactures Halloween Masks.

The company gets taken over by some strange old dude, and with a group of druids (though the flick is called Season of the WITCH), they place mystic stones into the new masks, and will do something nasty to the wearers when they broadcast some image on the television. Not sure how this is horrifying, or what's the point but there it is...

2) The producers can't decide if this is a horror film, sci-fi film, or just an episode of Doctor Who which was rejected. Seriously, when you watch this, you don't really witness any evil magic, or anything remotely witchlike, even though the title has 'Halloween' in it.. strange.. instead the henchmen are also androids and not really effective ones at that.. (suspect, Tom, Crow and Gypsy could perform a better job). And only a Doctor (though not THE Doctor) suspects the plot of what's going on) and must convince the town that Silver Shamrock masks aren't safe. But there's nothing really Halloween related to the story.. except the masks... and the fact the horrible thing occurs on Halloween night.. but no slashing as you'd expect.. well, not much anyway.. all that's missing is giving this doctor a sonic screwdriver.

3) The inexplicable cliffhanger ending: Inexplicable since they really never made a sequel to this drek.. no, instead, the studios later pretend that Season of the Witch had never existed in the first place and it was all but a demented dream by Torgo and the Master. Hey, you have a better theory?

Overall, RiffTrax should riff this title mainly because it makes as much sense as Cyborg Cop 2 and Fun in Balloonland. Also where can you see androids defeated by Silver Shamrock logos? No, seriously, in one scene the doctor's friend throws a bunch of the logos meant to be sewn into the masks onto a group of android, and they short-circuit wildly.. who knew magical rocks could do that? And where was the Witch in this entire film? Seems this one had more tricks than treats...

What do you get when Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry and (gasp) Joe Don Baker sit down with a talking gorilla? An all-star cast living with regret and such classic quotes as "stop eating my sesame cake!" https://youtu.be/8fbGbPwKbQA
Congo (1995), was one of the 90's biggest cinema disappointments. Coming off the high that was Jurassic Park, studios clamored to push out the next big work of Michael Crichton, hoping for box office gold. What the world got instead was a movie so B even Bruce Campbell made a cameo. From animatronics that would have made Stan Winston facepalm to Hudson's Nigerian impression, Congo is definitely "so bad it's good."