Tom Joyce's chamber of the bizarre

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I used to love watching the Saturday morning horror movies on the UHF stations out of Philadelphia. “Creature Double Feature” on Channel 48 was my favorite.

They were the types of movies made outside the Hollywood studio system, by scrappy film-makers of the Roger Corman variety. What I really liked about them was the fact that they didn’t speak the vocabulary of the standard Hollywood film. These were filmmakers who made up their own rules. Start in on one of these movies, and you never quite knew where you were going to end up.

So the maker of this movie, “Night of the Templar,” contacted me and asked if I’d mention it on my blog. I watched the trailer on Youtube, and … sold! No, I haven’t seen it yet, but I plan to. That trailer’s got the delightfully off-the-wall vibe that used to keep me planted in front of the TV set on many a Saturday afternoon. And hey, it’s got David Carradine. Have I mentioned “sold?”

Here’s the trailer:

And here’s the info: