It's Name that Movie Monday! Challenge #5!

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Welcome back to Name that Movie Monday!

It's time for Challenge #5 here at the ol' Arcana.  Can you identify this week's mystery photo, scanned direct from The Holecheck Archives?  If you think you recognize it, post a comment below.  As the week goes on, if no one guesses correctly I'll begin adding some pretty useless hints.  Easy, right?

Here ya' go -- good luck!

UPDATE:

Congrats go out to "delicreep" for correctly identifying this week's photo as Stephen Traxler's Slithis (1978), a fun, radioactive mud-monster romp where the titular creature stalks the denizens of Venice, CA.  It's the kind of movie that opens with an extended slow-motion frisbee sequence, and takes time out from its plot to showcase a local bar's turtle race.  I'm not kidding. And yes, I think it's awesome.

Theatrically, Slithis had an oddball distribution history.  After none of the majors wanted to pick it up, executive producer Dick Davis farmed it around to regional sub-distributors.  Director Traxler then adopted a grassroots advertising approach, traveling from town to town with costume in tow, making public appearances and even creating a Slithis Survival Kit and Fan Club!  The effort paid off; the film turned a nice profit and a fair amount of press, not that Traxler really benefitted... (For more information, check out the Slithis chapter in Stephen Thrower's essential Nightmare USA.)

Seeing a VHS release in 1981 from Media Home Entertainment, Slithis was out of print for almost 30 years until Code Red finally rescued it for their recent DVD, featuring a new anamorphic transfer and a handful of trailers. 

For a look at last week's entry, click here. And don't forget, our Upcoming Releases List (the best on the 'net) is constantly updated, so stop by and preorder some cool stuff!

(Additional photos stolen from Quasi-Interesting Paraphernalia Inc.; I'm not sure if they were the original scanners, but it's a cool site nonetheless!)

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