Rip-Off Movie Night

or

but probably

and definitely


Here's the deal. I took a chance that Netflix would send me Robo Vampire in time and it doesn't look like that's going to happen. I'd buy it but it's out of print. I don't think the guy selling it used for a penny will be in any hurry to put that in the mail. So we're going to watch another Godfrey Ho movie, Scorpion Thunderbolt. This works better anyway. I've actually seen Scorpion Thunderbolt so I know how batshit insane and awesome it is. It doesn't have a single ninja in it for people that are sick of Godfrey Ho's colorful ninjas.



The one problem is it doesn't fit into the theme as well. The only thing Scorpion Thunderbolt is ripping-off is itself. Or what ever movies were cut and pasted into it. But that counts, sort of. Oh, and the soundtrack clearly takes compositions from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Superman. Rip-off!

It requires no mental gymnastics, however, to call Starcrash a rip-off. It comes from director Luigi Cozzi. He made Alien Contamination about aliens that come from eggs, incubate in humans and then burst from their chests. He also made Hercules a year after Conan the Barbarian came out. Hercules is just the public domain Conan. But before all that he made the Star Wars suggestive Starcrash.

Starcrash has been out-of-print since I've been aware of it. It's finally being released September 14th. But here's a sneak preview. Caroline Munro is the star of it. We saw her in Don't Open Til Christmas, where she played herself for some reason. In Slaughter High she was the one who seduces the main character as an April Fool's Day joke.



It stars another horror movie icon, Joe (Maniac) Spinell. Christopher Plummer from Dreamscape (the movie Inception is ripping off incidentally) plays The Emperor. But you're just going to be waiting for David Hasselhoff, aren't you?

This is all in honor of returning founding BMN member Emily!

Here's what hppened last week: