X-Ray (1981; Boaz Davidson)

Back in the good old days, this slasher entry from Cannon (produced by head honchos, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus) was released on an MGM-UA big box VHS with the more familiar title, Hospital Massacre, which at least sounds more fun than the film really is. The Scream Factory DVD-BD combo pack (which pairs this with Schizoid, another Cannon slasher from the day) carries it under the title X-Ray- referring to a pivotal piece of its meagre plot, in which Susan Jeremy (Barbi Benton) is mysteriously kept at the hospital, over an x-ray which alleges she has a terminal condition, while some maniac in a surgical mask slices and dices all the staff on the floor around her. 

 

So Sad About Gloria (1973; Harry Thomason)

One of most interesting "where are they now" stories from the days of regional films involves director and producer Harry Thomason, who would produce such successful TV series as Designing Women and Evening Shade, and contribute to Bill Clinton's election campaign. He had paid his dues in the previous decade with a quartet of drive-in genre pictures made in his native Arkansas, including the horror anthology Encounter With The Unknown (1973); the 1975 rural comedy The Great Lester Boggs (of which I may be its one admirer); and the delightful 1950s sci-fi homage The Day It Came To Earth (1977). Of these, perhaps So Sad About Gloria is the most sentimental, character-driven and competently acted (if because it features some Hollywood talent... not to take away from the busy local players who appear in many of these films).  

The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961; Coleman Francis)

Everything you have read about Beast Of Yucca Flats is true. It really is one of the worst films ever made. Or, are we missing the point? Surely no one would aspire to make something this terrible, or is this film an intentional gob of spit in the face of Tinseltown?