Misfits - 1983 - Boston

Misfits 

at The Channel

Boston, Massachusetts 

20 March 1983

1. Halloween
2. 20 Eyes
3. Wolfs Blood
4. All Hell Breaks Loose
5. Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?
6. Devil's Whorehouse
7. Demonomania
8. London Dungeon
9. Die, Die My Darling
10. Violent World
11. Astro Zombies
12. Green Hell
13. I Turned Into a Martian
14. Skulls
15. Devilock
16. We Are 138
17. Nike a Go Go
18. Hatebreeders
19. Braineaters
20. Attitude
21. Rise Above
    (Black Flag cover)
22. Horror Business
23. Bullet
    
    
    

    While in Boston
    The Misfits filmed a promo video for
    "Braineaters" at a local venue/restaurant,
    pretty sure it was Cantone's.

    
    
    
    

Vice Squad (1982)

Released in 1982, Vice Squad initially came into my orbit thanks to a less than flattering review from Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel that peaked my interest. Didn't make the scene while it played theaters, but I immediately grabbed it for a rental when it popped up in my local video store.

Directed by Gary Sherman (Raw Meat, Dead & Buried, Poltergeist III); Vice Squad delivers a dark, slimy, and violent experience for the viewer. The movie offers more than one might expect from similar genre films and reportedly received strong praise from celebrated director Martin Scorsese.

Taking place on the mean streets of downtown Los Angeles, the film centers on Princess (Season Hubley), a street prostitute who is pressured to aid the police in apprehending the psychotic and hyper violent pimp Ramrod (Wings Hauser) after he murders a prostitute named Ginger; this cameo is played by Nina Blackwood. Of course this simple plan is further complicated when Ramrod escapes police custody with murderous revenge on his mind.

 the trailer

the feature

The Children (1980) - Repost

Repost with updated, working movie + trailer links. 

I'm dating myself here, but once upon a time before cable television there were pay tv channels that broadcast movies, specials and "adult" fare over uhf signals. In the metro Chicago area, one such service was named ONTV. You had to have a decoder box to sort out the signal, but that never stopped my pals and I from attempting to catch a glimpse of the nudity and forbidden films on display with out the decoder. I was lucky enough to have a buddy whose parents subscribed to ONTV and were cool with him and his pals watching the R-rated flicks, usually with them watching as well. Several of the movies I first caught in this pre-cable set up have always brought back memories of that channel and time with 1980's low budget horror flick The Children being one such film.

The plot concerns a bus load of little ones who pass through a cloud of toxic gas released from the neighborhood nuclear plant. This turns them into black-finger nailed killers driven to decimate the adult population with killer hugs. You might recognize actor Martin Shakar from his earlier role as the conflicted priest/older brother of John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

trailers

the feature 

Rush - 1974 - Ontario

Rush

performing
with their original drummer
at the 

Laura Secord Secondary School 

St Catharines, Ontario
1974

1. “Need Some Love”

2. “Before and After”

3. “Best I Can”

4. “I’ve Been Runnin’”

5. “Bad Boy”

6. “The Loser”

7. “Working Man”

8. “In the Mood” (partial)

Geddy Lee – lead vocals, bass

Alex Lifeson – guitars, backing vocals

John Rutsey – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Thanks to BrunoSamppa for posting