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Three Bad Girls Who Find a Gun and Become Vampires [2025]
<=>"It could happen anywhere! It could happen to any girl!"



The most recent addition to the Mihmiverse. I hope it is not the last!

Christopher Mihm apparently remembers fondly the B-movies his father used to watch and decided to create more movies of that kind. They are very low-budget. An examination of the credits shows each was created by many of the same relatively small number of people who were not movie professionals...and many have the last name "Mihm".

The movies don't try to hide that they are amateur, low-budget, and strange but rather flaunt it. They are fun!

(And are surprisingly well-made and polished...all things considered!)

<=>F U N!

Beware: There were a couple of the films I was not too fond of but not because of their "quality" but because of their genre...B-movies come in more than one genre, even in the Mihmiverse. But if you watch them I think you'll likely remember them fondly.

My Mihmiverse reviews start here.

Queer.

Circa 1950's. Gay American expat, heroin addict, and alcoholic, William Lee is prowling Mexico City, desperately seeking sexual encounters, when in fact he's desperate for human connection. He tries to come off as cool and funny, but instead looks awkward and needy. And then he becomes infatuated with a bi-curious but straight man named Eugene Alerton. Believing Alerton will fulfill his physical and emotional needs, he convinces the younger man to accompany him on a trip to Ecuador, where he believes he can find and use a mysterious drug called Yage, which he thinks will give him telepathic abilities. On the trip, he succumbs to withdraw symptoms, before finally finding the mythic Yage. The Yage experience with Allerton is everything he wanted, but in the end is only illusionary.
A real treat for any William Burroughs fan who has read his semi-autobiographical novella, Queer. While there had been some additions in the theatrical version, it stays pretty close to the content, and especially the spirit, of the book. Very much recommended.

Elvis (2022 biopic about Elvis Presley starring Austin Butler as Elvis, Tom Hanks as Tom Parker under the direction of Baz Lurhmann)

I strongly suspect that if, in general, you've enjoyed the Mihmverse movies then you're likely to enjoy Three Bad Girls Who Find a Gun and Become Vampires—I don't think it is the best of the set but it is, nonetheless, as good as the others.

Since I am talking about the Mihmverse, "as good as the others" is a matter of personal viewpoint. But we enjoyed them!!

Tell It to the Marines (1926)
Starring Lon Chaney
April 1, 1883 - happy birthday Lon Chaney

Next I will watch either The Monster or The Unholy Three, both released 100 years ago in 1925.

The Monster (1925)
Lon Chaney film directed by Roland West.
Three people caught in a storm run off the road and take shelter in an asylum. Little do they know the physician and caretakers have been over powered and locked up. Inmates have taken control. It is a horror film with a touch of humor. I have read reviews that Chaney overacts in this. I think he is just portraying a madman. The same is true in some scenes of Phantom of the Opera. Insanity seems to flow from his gestures.

(This is the closest I could find to a trailer for The Monster. There are many YouTube channels with the full public domain film.)

The Unholy Three (1925)
A Lon Chaney film directed by Tod Browning.
The 1930 version had sound, but this version is really well done, and performed. Tod Browning knew how to make a crime melodrama.

^^^
Chaney had also remade The Unholy Three as a talkie. I personally thought the original silent version was better.

The Witch: Part 2: The Other Side (2022) on DVD

A science fiction action/gore drama about a girl bioengineered to be an X-Men Phoenix like being. She walks away from a lab where agents have attempted to destroy her. That might have been in The Witch: Part 1: The Subversion. She has more of those agents, all bioengineered, attempting to destroy her, and a couple other agents hired by the woman that created The Girl, Jo-hyeon and Tom (also bioengineered, but older models). Meanwhile, she helps a woman (Park Eun-bin) and her brother contend with a dangerous gangster, who killed their father to take over his farm. The gangster and the larger of the bioengineered groups team up, and battle the two agents, to kill or capture the girl, and to take possession of the farm. It is quite the battle.

Novocaine

I saw Black Bag. It was a decent Soderberg. I always get a bit weirded out when a movie is all slick Hollywood production but it's all British accents though. Takes me a while to get used to it.