THE WILD WOMEN OF WONGO (1958)

  This seems like one of those nudie-cutie movies but since it was made before those existed there's not actually any nudity but just a bunch of girls running around in old-time bathing suits. The story concerns a couple of prehistoric tribes that have mating problems. The people of Wongo also worship an alligator that they call a dragon since this was filmed in Florida and alligators were plentiful. It's all pretty dumb but I suppose it was a bit more thrilling in 1958 when you could go to the movie theater and look at a tit and the idea of women being kickass was just a novelty. Kitschy campiness abounds though so if that turns you on give it a spin. 

This was also an equally stupid song by The Tubes!: 

TROG (1970)

 I caught this one years ago in a theatrical showing, where much laughter ensued, and then revisited it more recently on glorious VHS. This might be my personal favorite Joan Crawford film. Obviously that BABY JANE film is the superior film but how many laughs are you gonna get from that epic? The story here involves a caveman, who lived in dinosaur times but somehow survived for millions of years, that is found in an underground cavern. Then he's tamed(sorta) by Ms. Crawford until he is riled up and goes on a killing spree about town which includes hanging a guy on a meathook just like in THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.
 The sight of this screen legend shooting a man in an obvious rubber caveman mask with a tranquilizer gun might be one of the all-time cinematic joys there is. Sadly ol' Joan felt this was the most embarrassing thing she'd ever been in and it was the last theatrical film she would appear in. If only she knew of the enjoyment it would bring to future generations.
 ENCINO MAN is the movie that I always think of as the 90's equivalent of this except that was meant to be a comedy and it was crapped out in the 90's so I've avoided it like the plague.

FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS (1974)

 Made in 1974, the greatest year of cinema ever, this one doesn't disappoint in the crazy grindhouse horror category. Chock full of some great characters including a pervy little dwarf who frequently molests women ,whether they are alive or dead, a couple of neanderthal men(one of which gets turned into a Frankenstein monster named Goliath), a mad Doctor Frankenstein (of course), his assistant named Igor(played by former sword n' sandals movie strongman Gordon Mitchell) and a horny humpback amongst others. The plot doesn't make a bunch of sense(like why are there cavemen running around in the hills of old timey Europe?) but it sorta fits in with the later Universal monster mashes( if they were really sleazy and wackier anyway) and this one is always fun to me. I first discovered this movie on a fuzzy UHF showing hosted by Elvira on her Movie Macabre program. That was obviously a censored version which I enjoyed enough for it's strangeness but having discovered the raunchier full length theatrical cut I became a lifelong fan. How this thing was originally released with a PG-rating I'll never figure out but obviously it had something to do with how great 1974 was. AKA MONSTERS OF FRANKENSTEIN, TERROR CASTLE, THE HOUSE OF FREAKS and DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS

Known in Italy as TERROR! THE CASTLE OF THE CURSED WOMEN:

PREHISTORIC WOMEN (1950)

 This is a weird one.  A tale of cave-women who are sorta history's first feminists, except this is the 50's so the feminist message gets a little skewed when they encounter some hunky cave-fellows.  They take these beefcakes hostage and boss them around so it all seems like some sorta weird fetish movie for guys who wanted to submit to ladies in skimpy loincloths.  The other strange thing is the whole movie has people talking in silly caveman-talk while a narrator tells use what the hell is going on.  There's a giant prehistoric man who fights a tiger, another guy who wrestles a black panther and at one point the monster bird from THE GIANT CLAW shows up.  It's all shot in primitive color and while it's not a particularly exciting movie it's at least watchable once as a weird curiosity piece. This was re-released, in black and white, as THE VIRGIN GODDESS.