
If Andy Warhol had hired John Waters to direct a supersleazy soap opera it would probably look like this 1973 feature from talent challenged horror weirdo Andy Milligan. Everyone of his inane horrorfilms are 100% unwatchable unlike this nice smutty 16 mm gem of urban filth, love and despair. Doris Wishman fans will dig it to the nines, hilarious dialogue! With Harry Reems (of Deep Throat fame) in several hardcore scenes. The mongoloids at Rotten Tomatoes rated Fleshpot On 42nd Street PG-13! 7/10

Apparently a Bob Dylan painting is based on a still from Fleshpot On 42nd Street!?!

Andy Milligan first movie (33 mins, shot in black/white) is a controversial and fascinating look - for 1965 - at the lives and conflicts of a group of homosexual men set during one evening in a New York bath house for men. People should read the amazing and deeply disturbing The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan by Jimmy McDonough (read it 4 times!) who also wrote autobiographies on Al Green, Tammy Wynette, Neil Young (very boring), John Fogerty and Russ Meyer. 7/10
https://m4uhd.tv/watch-movie-nightbirds-1970-245940.htmlWhile living rough on the streets of London's East End, a young man, Dink encounters the mysterious Dee and they begin a relationship. When tenderness gives way to cruelty they become consumed by darkness. With the assistance of director Nicolas Winding-Refn (Drive, Pusher, The Neon Demon), who had the only surviving film material, Andy Milligan's Nightbirds (1970) finally was unearthed from obscurity in 2013. 7/10

Happy 96th birthday to Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke here in the story of a brilliant silent-film comic whose talent is overshadowed by his ego, based on the life of Buster Keaton. By the director of Where's Poppa? and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Carl Reiner, who died last year aged 98. Carl was the father of Rob Reiner (This Is Spinal Tap). 6.5/10

Rewatched this early 70s british pagan satanic classic of "folk horror" at a library last night with x-mas cookies and eggnog. Unique very lowbudget shocker with lotsa full frontal nudity from teenage girls looking for devilish chills in the country side. Blood On Satan's Claw could NEVER has made today! 8/10