This one got me into all kinds of trouble with my grandparents.

I sold it when DVD's hit and wished I'd held onto this one and a handful of others for there box art Google images A few years later I managed to buy the very same copy of the tape I rented from The Video Station when they went out of business. The bosomy and bubbly Rhonda Shear replaced Schlitt after a few years if I am remembering it correctly. The lovely Caroline Schlitt was the first host while squinty eyed Gilbert Gottfried was another. For these, the slant was mostly 'B' movies and crude comedies. Then there was USA UP ALL NIGHT, another movie program with a comedic host that aired Friday's and Saturday nights. USA also had SATURDAY NIGHTMARES that aired at 8pm Saturday evenings. Also, NIGHT FLIGHT aired frequent episodes of DYNAMAN, an intentionally badly dubbed version of a Japanese Tokusatsu show, the likes of which morphed into the hugely popular POWER RANGERS years later. This was where I first saw the wonderfully goofy ISLAND WARRIORS (1981). One of the segments was the hour long 'Rick Shaw's Takeout Theater'. It featured music videos, short films and cult movies. In addition to Commander USA's Groovie Movies, the USA Network also had KUNG FU THEATRE on Sundays (or Saturdays?) the USA Cartoon Express, a 90 minute block of cartoons (mostly Hanna-Barbera) NIGHT FLIGHT, an ahead of its time program that aired after hours into the next day. I wish I still had a lot of those old VHS tapes with Rollergames on them. Hase liked to stir up lots of turmoil between teams and often instigated brawls. My other favorite team was the Detroit Devils led by the mean and nasty 'Mizz' Georgia Hase (pronounced like Hoss).

Players like Ronnie 'Psycho' Rains, 'Skinny Minnie' Gwen Miller, the great Ralphie Valladares, Frank Maceda, Sam Washington and coach, 'Big' John Hall. I still remember a number of the players on the famous Los Angeles Thunderbirds team. I don't how much of it was real, but damn, if they didn't take some hellacious bumps. One of my grandmother's sisters had a swimming pool and when we had lunch, me and my cousin would watch the show before going back into the pool. Channel 48 had them on during the week at 11pm and CBS also aired matches Saturday's at 12pm. In the early 80's a bunch of us used to watch them at the Boy's Club after school. The Rollergames was a massive favorite of mine as a kid. I asked him if he was gonna finish the movie and his response was, 'That movie is evil! You'll never see this again!' Not long after, I managed to sneak the tape out of his cabinet and never heard anything else about it. After that, he promptly cut the movie off and took it out of the VCR and went upstairs.

My dad wanted to watch it and made it to the adultery scene. Needless to say, my jaw was on the floor after seeing this one. There was a trailer for some nasty mondo movie on there, too. I ordered a VHS tape of Deodato's movie, widescreen from Venezuela and with Spanish subtitles. One of them was Mondo Video (an upcoming Mail Order Madness! entry will feature Mondo Video) out of Tennessee. At the time, I was so much into gorror movies, I had a handful of mail order services I was sampling. I first came to learn of this movie in the great Chas Balun book, Horror Holocaust. The first is a few spots down (and it's a doozy). This was my second experience with Italian cannibal movies.

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