Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring Ray Sager, Rodney Bedell and Agi Gyenes
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Showing posts with label Weird Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weird Kids. Show all posts
Friday, November 30, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Gleaming the Cube (1989)
Tony Hawk and Christian Slater reminisce about "The Cube"
Watch the full movie here!
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Starring Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Min Luong, Richard Herd, Tony Hawk, Ed Lauter and Tommy Guerrero
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Class of 1999 (1990)
Clip: "Corporal Punishment"
Watch the full movie here!
Directed by Mark L. Lester
Starring Pam Grier, Malcolm McDowell, Bradley Gregg, Stacy Keach, John P. Ryan and Traci Lind
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) aka Holy Terror aka Communion
Watch the full movie here:
Directed by Alfred Sole
Starring Brooke Shields, Linda Miller and Paula E. Sheppard
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Wild in the Streets (1968)
Clip: "Fourteen Or Fight" with Richard Pryor on drums!
Directed by Barry Shear
Starring Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook, Richard Pryor, Larry Bishop and Ed Begley
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Hardbodies (1984)
TV Spot
Clip: Vixen (aka Diaper Rash) - Mr. Cool
More Diaper Rash
Directed by Mark Griffiths
Starring Grant Cramer, Teal Roberts, Courtney Gains and Sorrells Pickard
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Up the Academy (1980)
TV Trailer
Soundtrack: Blow Up - Kickin Up A Fuss
Soundtrack: Nick Lowe - Heart Of The City
Directed by Robert Downey Sr.
Starring Wendell Brown, Barbara Bach, Ralph Macchio and Antonio Fargas
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Friday, August 3, 2012
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Basket Case (1982)
Directed by Frank Henenlotter.
Starring Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith and Beverly Bonner.
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Way before Slimer loved hot dogs in Ghostbusters, there was Belial!!
And just like America, he also loved burgers (see one post below), tinfoil and all.
Basket Case is an absolute classic and a great starting point for anyone getting into grindhouse or exploitation cinema. Henenlotter grew up on 42nd street in New York and got his education in the famously run-down theatres and it shows in his first film, Basket Case. It is, at times, hilarious, disturbingly gross and, above all, eternally memorable.
Has to be seen to be believed.
While the Burger King commercial below projects a fantasized America, Basket Case is its true spiritual opposite. The American Dream is not possible in Henenlotter's film where call-girls, drunks and freaks find themselves sandwiched together in a seedy hotel with nothing to do but get through the night without getting killed.
Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979)
Directed by William A. Levy.
Starring Scott Baio, Patrick Swayze, Flip Wilson and Billy Barty.
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"Famous" mostly for being Patrick Swayze's film debut, Skatetown U.S.A. fits the term "exploitation" perfectly, as it was created solely as a way to cash in on the roller disco craze with a paint-by-the-numbers script to make it widely accessible. Another film that did the same thing was Roller Boogie starring the one and only queen of exploitation, Linda Blair.
It's the Saturday Night Fever formula. Take a popular culture trend and insert a young man (or woman) defying all the odds to conquer the form and get the girl at the end.
That's what "exploitation" is all about.
Van Nuys Blvd. (1979)
Directed by William Sachs.
Starring Bill Adler and Cynthia Wood.
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Another great Crown International drive-in teen flick. Watch alongside other 70's fare like The Van, Pinball Summer and The Cheerleaders.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Directed by J. Lee Thompson.
Starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford.
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A classic Canadian slasher with one of the most memorable posters of the 80's. The producers of this movie were also responsible for the other giant of Canadian slasher films, My Bloody Valentine from the same year.
A fine example of "Canuxploitation".
Saturday, March 21, 2009
80's Metal Movie Tie-Ins
Dated?
Uh, a little. But horror movies and bad hair metal had a thing going on in the 80's and here's a few samples of some of those glorious train wrecks.
First up, Dokken does the main theme song for 1987's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. This brings me back to my youth when I took stuff like this quite seriously. I wonder what's more scary to main star Patricia Arquette - Freddy Krueger and his minion of creepy girls skipping rope or Don Dokken's poodle haircut?
Somehow, this one is worse. Alice Cooper continues his embarrasing 80's slide by penning this keyboard driven drivel for 1986's Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives.
Yet the video itself is entertaining as hell. The theatre setting is great and there are some truly bad special effects, such as Jason ripping through the screen and Alice inexplicably trying to scare the patrons by breaking a glass bottle over his forehead. Oooohh scary!
I have to include this one even though it's not really a music video. It's one of the climactic scenes of 1986's Trick or Treat, one of the best heavy metal themed films from that era.
That's actor Tony Fields as rock demon Sammi Curr but the music is really by Fastway, a second-tier act that included a former member of Motorhead and a guy from U.F.O.
This film also had Ozzy Osbourne in a great cameo as a preacher who railed against heavy metal lyrics and musicians, lampooning the PMRC and Tipper Gore who were in the midst of their metal witch hunts at the time.
The best part of this is when the guitar goes flying through the air and someone randomly yells "Rock and Roll!!".
If you can't stand the Fastway stuff, fast foward because there is some hilarious shenanigans towards the end and a ripping guitar solo straight from hell that could have been the inspiration for Will Ferrel's classic Satan and Garth Brooks sketch from SNL.
And while we're going there, I might as well bring this one out. A scene from 1988's Black Roses.
The context of this scene is that a metal band called Black Roses is playing a small town and the local parents and authorities are concerned about the effects on their kids. They sit in on the first song to make sure that nothing is going on and the band do their best to fool everyone with a vanilla sounding soft rock song. Soon the parents leave and the real metal begins!
Now, the best for last. This is a clip from 1985's Hard Rock Zombies. It's not a metal song, but there's a bunch of long hair bangers doing choreographed dance moves in the film's big montage scene and even some miming. Completely retarded and great.
Had enough yet? This is another clip from Hard Rock Zombies. This is quite possibly the most ridiculous scene ever put on 35 mm film. The band have been killed earlier in the day and then rose from the dead, making sure they still turn up to do their soundcheck for that night's show! This is some kind of love song for the main girl Cassie in the movie. Oh unrequited love!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Dungeonmaster (1985) Full Movie!!
Directed by Charles Band and various others.
Starring Jeffrey Byron and Richard Moll.
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I only got the chance to see this film a few years ago on a specialty cable channel here in Canada, and I've been trying to find it ever since.
This is not on DVD (and may never be) but someone posted the entire film on You Tube and here it is in all its 80's "dawn of computers" glory. This is filled with too many laughs to recount here but it is a memorable experience with roles for people like Richard "Night Court" Moll and an appearance by 80's B-Grade metal band W.A.S.P.
A lot of you probably don't have the time to watch a full film on someone's blog but if you want to waste an hour, have fun with this one.
The Dungeonmaster (1985) Part 1
The Dungeonmaster (1985) Part 2
The Dungeonmaster (1985) Part 3
The Dungeonmaster (1985) Part 4
The Dungeonmaster (1985) Part 5
The Dungeonmaster (1985) Part 6
The Dungeonmaster (1985) Part 7
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