What real movies do the movies-within-the-movie spoof? MOSQUITO is obviously a parody of THEM! and its giant ants, TARANTULA, THE DEADLY MANTIS and THE BEGINNING OF THE END and its grasshoppers.
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
Attack of the Amazing Electrifying Man or whatever it was called was a spoof on The Tingler. I'm pretty sure the seat shock gimmick was also used for that movie too.
I'm just having trouble placing what movie The Stench was a take-off on. But yeah, this movie was like Grindhouse about a decade and a half before that movie existed.
Attack of the Amazing Electrifying Man or whatever it was called was a spoof on The Tingler.
The Stench is a riff on Smell-O-Vision which never really took off because it cost too much to outfit theaters to use it. There weren't any horror movies done in Smell-O-Vision, so The Stench also serves as a parody of mid-twentieth century Japanese horror like Godzilla and Mothra. Only in this case instead of a giant nuclear monster, you have a giant nuclear cloud of foul-smelling gas.
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