List of psychotronic videos available at Internet Archive

In the comments for my post about The Hoodlum, Mr. Bali Hai said: "A while back, I dug through the IA and pulled out every cult film that had also made an appearance in Mike Weldon's Psychotronic Video guide. I came up with quite a long list."

I've been spending a lot of time digging around in the Internet Archive. In the course of my excavations, I uncovered a metric buttload of old cult filmage in the public domain, and in a fit of obsessive-compulsive mania, decided to make a list that included every film in the archive that also makes an appearance in Michael Weldon's essential guide to midnight movies, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film.

Click on the Extended Entry to view them all linked in one place for your free downloading pleasure, or order your own DVD w/jewelbox from my favorite purveyor of Psychotronica, Sinister Cinema.

The Amazing Mr. X
The Amazing Transparent Man
The Ape
Assignment: Outer Space
Atom Age Vampire
The Atomic Brain
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Attack From Space
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
The Beatniks
Bloody Pit of Horror
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Bride of the Gorilla
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Carnival of Souls
The Corpse Vanishes
Creature From the Haunted Sea
Daughter of Horror
The Day the Sky Exploded
Dead Men Walk
Dementia 13
Detour
The Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules
Doomed To Die
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

That's just A-D. For E-Z, with the links to the videos, visit Mr. Bali Hai's blog, Eye of the Goof. Link

[#1 posted by Takuan , May 17, 2008 10:41 AM]

looks like a new Canon for the Game

Accepted?

[#2 posted by ill lich , May 17, 2008 11:30 AM]

Wait. . . a "metric buttload"? How does that differ from the Olde English buttload? (And how many stones in a buttload using the Olde English system of measurement?)

[#3 posted by Nelson.C , May 17, 2008 12:16 PM]

Well, the olde english buttload was similar to the Roman buttload in that it varied with the size of the butt, which served as a rough rule of thumb for volume. Like the rule of thumb, this caused problems on group projects, when the difference in size of buttloads could cause shortage of materials, or with skinny merchants cheating customers, or fat ones going broke. The situation wasn't, in fact, regularised until the reign of King John, when it was defined as the size of King John's butt, naturally.

For while, the olde english buttload carried on being defined by the reigning monarch's anatomy, until the reign of Queen Mary, who was too modest to allow measurements to be taken. The Bloody Mary buttload therefore had to be estimated. Queen Elizabeth followed this practice, at which point, the buttload became a fixed volume until the mid-nineteenth century, when certain fine adjustments were made. This is, of course, the Imperial buttload.

By the mid-twentieth century, an informal volume had evolved, the metric buttload, which was a whole number of litres. (The French had their own traditional unit, of course.) Following the partial adoption of the metric system by the UK in the 1970s, the buttload was officially redefined to conform to the informal metric definition. Naturally, as with most SI units, adoption has been spotty in the UK, and totally ignored by the US. This had the unfortunate effect of the loss of a joint NASA/ESA Uranus probe in the 1990s, owing to inconsistent definitions used in the fuel management software.

(See also shitload)

[#4 posted by MrBaliHai , May 17, 2008 12:55 PM]

Thanks, Mark. I hope that self-linking in the comments didn't seem too shamelessly self-promoting. It's not something I do unless it's really pertinent to the topic at hand.

Nelson C., that's an Imperial Buttload o' funny!

[#5 posted by ill lich , May 17, 2008 1:54 PM]

See-- there's no such thing as a "stupid question." I learn something new everyday.

[#6 posted by scottbateman , May 17, 2008 2:31 PM]

I've stripped the sound from Atom Age Vampire and have been animating it, scene-by-turgid-scene. I think I'm about 35 minutes into it:

http://dir.salon.com/topics/bateman_atom_age_vampire

[#7 posted by Nelson.C , May 17, 2008 3:43 PM]

The quality of the answers may vary, however....

[#8 posted by Takuan , May 17, 2008 4:02 PM]

thank you Nelson

http://www.despair.com/cluelessness.html

[#9 posted by offal , May 19, 2008 10:50 AM]

For what it's worth, the image shows the cover for "The Psychotronic Video Guide." That's the follow up to "The Psychotronic Encyclopedia." There's virtually no repeat films between the two. The encyclopedia came out first, so pretty much any classic prior to the early 80's is in there. The video guide has a deeper mining of the earlier stuff, as well as any films release since the prior version. Both are out of print, and relatively expensive as I found out trying to buy a copy of each for a friend. Glad I got mine when they came out.