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THE WEIRD WORLD OF WEIRD Volume 2

Here’s another volume of ultra-rare oddities, obscurities, and jaw-droppers that may be among the best 83 minutes Something Weird has ever assembled – and almost all of them from the original negatives! THE MARTIANS (1962; color) is a pilot for a never-made TV series about two Martians who come to Earth and see the sights. The Martians, Skodo and Palachu, are played by hand puppets (made from old Whimsie dolls). And the sights include touring Broadway and seeing LIBERACE at a nightclub; goggling the Weeki Wachee mermaids in Florida; and taking a whirl on Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel. One can only watch this in stunned silence. TOPS 'n TUNES (1964; color) is a series of Scopitone-like musical shorts, probably meant for TV airings. DIANE RENAY sings “Kiss Me Sailor”; FREDDY CANNON sings “Abigail Beecher” and “California Sun”; and THE YOUNGER BROTHERS sing “She Loves You” wearing fake noses and Beatle wigs before revealing that one guitar is actually a toilet seat. “SWINGER” (1966; color) is a commercial for, of all things, the Girl Scouts of America (?!?) who must have a different definition of what “swinging” means. SLUMBER PARTY (color) is an oddball collage of teenage-girl-type imagery: records, pizza, soft drinks, JAMES DEAN on TV, and lots of giggling. CHEMICAL POP (color) is another inexplicable bit of madness: a pop montage of 70s images from bombs to bums to getting buzzed. THE ASSIGNATION (1963; color) is an unseen-till-now, quietly unsettling short by CURTIS HARRINGTON, director of Night Tide, Games, and What’s the Matter with Helen among others. A masked man in a cloak gets into a Venetian gondola for a grim rendezvous with a woman…. A CHRISTMAS FANTASY (color) uses stop-motion animation to show toys coming to life and playing while a little boy sleeps… all rather creepy. WOTON'S WAKE (1964; b&w) is the hands-down winner in this collection: a previously-unreleased, energetically insane comedy of horror-movie clichés from none other than a pre-famous BRIAN DE PALMA (Sisters, Scarface, etc.), starring WILLIAM FINLEY (The Phantom of the Paradise) as a monster-faced madman who runs around attacking women with a blow torch! Though this definitely looks like the work of a film student, it’s nonetheless consistently entertaining, downright bizarre, and full of vivid imagery ranging from a woman created out of crazy machinery to hilarious close-ups of Woton making booga-booga faces to the wacky King Kong-style ending. Very cool. And finally, we finish up with some newly-discovered Spook Show trailers for live midnight shows including Edward (sic) Allan Poe’s Museum of Monsters (with “Frank and Stein, the Twin-Headed Monster!”), Midnight Spook Party, (with “The Vampire Bat Girl”), Voodoo Show, (“A Surgical Maniac Loose on the Stage!”)...