Tomorrow's Movies

Escape 2000 has a lot of poster variations:

Escape Movie Night

I'm calling it Escape Night and Escape 2000 is obviously about escaping and someone does indeed escape in Strike Commando but mostly it's just a bullshit theme so we can watch the pretty great Escape 2000 with the amazing Strike Commando.

Escape 2000, AKA:


AKA Outie 5000 is not the movie called Escape 2000 that was on Mystery Science Theater.



Which is more commonly known as Escape from the Bronx or even Bronx Warriors 2 because it's the sequel to Bad Movie Night movie 1990: The Bronx Warriors. No this is the one directed by the guy who made BMX Bandits and Leprechaun 4: In Space. That guy has one weird resume. Escape 2000 is featured in a great documentary called Not Quite Hollywood:

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about Australian Exploitation. Also featured is the only other Australian movie we have ever watched, Howling 3: The Marsupials.



The Quiet Earth doesn't count, that was New Zealand. Body Melt and Houseboat Horror were just not good enough.

Anyway, Escape 2000. Another movie proving that prisons must be filthy places because people are constantly showering in them.

Strike Commando is directed by Bruno Mattei, whose Zombie 3 and Rats - Night of Terror are always on the verge of being Bad Movie Night selections. Wouldn't it be great if being selected for BMN was seen as an honor and this would appear on the DVD box?:



I just ordered Strike Commando 2 but I couldn't wait to have Strike Commando Night. So don't feel sad when the movie ends. There's going to be more.

Here's what happened last week (NSFW):

Baby's First Pick

Today's Movies

Penis Movie Night

Soul Vengeance is also known as Welcome Home Brother Charles. Soul? Brother? Yep, this is another blaxploitation movie. I hope it's okay having one so soon after blaxploitation monthsploitation. And I'm going to be honest here, I can't find many good reviews for it online. But I'm pretty sure it's everyone else who's wrong. How about I promise it's better than Poultrygeist but not as good as Samurai Cop.



Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice is also known as Goyôkiba. Sword? Goyôkiba? Yep, this is Japanese. The same year that director Kenji Misumi made the movies that were later edited into Shogun Assassin he made this movie from the same manga writer.



The guy in Hanzo is the brother of the guy in Shogun. Connections!



Imagine if we had had Samurai Night with Samurai Cop and Shogun Assassin. It would have been better than Massacre in Dinosaur Valley and The Pit!

Here's what happened last week:

Last Week's Movies

The furlough day made me forget.



Cut for eyes.

Not Bigfoot Movies Night

You'll certainly remember where you were January 30, 2009 once I tell you it was Bigfoot Movies with the Word Demon in Their Titles Night. Yes, it's been over two years since we watched Night of the Demon and Demonwarp. Time for another bigfoot theme! Except not really.



According to the film's poster:



this movie stars Liza Minnelli, Jennifer Coolidge, Robert DeNiro and Linda Cardellini and Craig Bierko.



But really it stars no one. It's directed by Michael Findlay, who I mentioned recently as being killed in a helicopter accident just like Abby director William Girdler (not to mention 1990: The Bronx Warriors actor Vic Morrow). Findlay was waiting to a board a helicopter taxi on top of the then Pan Am building



when one of the landing gears broke, tipping the rotor into the passengers.

Findlay made his mark when he directed a movie named Snuff in 1975 that is the origin of the term snuff film. I should point out here that that fact is fascinating.

I mentioned that someone gets a disease from bigfoot in The Carrier. I know what you’re thinking, Lyme disease. That guy must be crawling with deer ticks. But that’s not it. The answer is scrapie.

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

Horror at the Wisconsin Film Festival

These have been lean times if you're interested in seeing horror movies at the Wisconsin Film Festival. Two years ago there were exactly zero of them. There's still little choice if you want to see what's currently happening in horror. But looking at the schedule for this year's festival, which takes place March 30th to April 3rd, three movies jumped out at me.

The Evil Dead
Wednesday, March 30, 8:15 pm and Thursday, March 31, 9:45 pm


Sam Raimi's 1981 original Evil Dead movie is showing at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, which is where it belongs. We watched the superior sequel at Bad Movie Night in September 2009.

Blood Hook
Thursday, March 31, 5:30 pm and Saturday, April 2, 8:45 pm


Also at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Blood Hook AKA Muskie Madness is a 1986 horror movie directed Jim Mallon, a writer for Mystery Science Theater 3000. While we haven't watched Blood Hook at BMN (yet), we have seen MST3K episodes Laserblast, Santa Claus and The Sinister Urge.

Night Train to Terror
Thursday, March 31, 7:30 pm and Sunday, April 3, 7:15 pm


Most incredibly, they're showing Night Train to Terror, which we watched for a second time three months ago. You know what this means don't you? Cameron Mitchell has a movie at the Wisconsin Film Festival!

Serpentine Monster Movie Night

The more ambitious a low budget movie is the more failure there is to be had. But in the world of Bad Movie Night that only increases its greatness. Both these movies have giant monsters using their girth to wreak havoc on the populous. Just like, oh, I'm going to go with Wilt Chamberlain.

Thunder of Gigantic Serpent was hard to find. Amazon doesn't even have it on VHS for 30 bucks like the movie Frozen Scream that I really want.



But I found it and it's our fourth Godfrey Ho movie. That brings him within one movie of leading director John Carpenter (Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and They Live.

I can remember the date I first saw Dragon Wars because it was on my birthday, April 14, 2008. That's how I choose to spend birthdays, so what? So I've pretty much planned to show it since BMN started two months later, the opportunity just never came up. And yet we watched Poultygeist 1.5 times.

Here's what happened last week (Rifftrax version):

Today's Movies

What is happening here? Is Space Travolta checking his messages after punching through his Earth Travolta's shoulder?



Other things that come up when you search for The Boy in the Plastic Bubble:

Boy in a Plastic Bubble Movie Night

Actually, neither of these boys are in plastic much, it's almost always glass. And nothing is ever shaped like a bubble. Would The Boy in the Glass Cube not play as well? In reality the name comes from David Vetter and the press that dubbed him the boy in the plastic bubble:



Word is when he saw The Boy in the Plastic Bubble he laughed at its ridiculousness. Hopefully we'll do the same.

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble will be one of our few TV movies we've seen. V and Duel are the only ones I can think of right now. But I totally want to do a TV movie theme some day. I wish I had the Helen Hunt/PCP TV movie Desperate Lives:



The director of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Randal Kleiser, has made a lot of name movies for someone I've never heard of. Grease, Blue Lagoon, Flight of the Navigator, Big Top Pee-wee and Honey I Blew Up the Kid.

Speaking of TV, the director of Crystal Heart helmed episodes of B.J. and the Bear, The Fall Guy, Knight Rider and Automan. Remember Automan?:



The film stars Lee Curreri, whose film debut was that of the keyboard player in Fame:



That was from the TV show. In Crystal Heart he plays a keyboard player in a bubble. I'm guessing he's a keyboard player in real life. In fact, he's now a composer, most recently making the theme song to the new Elvira show:



He also pre-dated Big Fun by composing something called Teenage Suicide: Don't Try It! I sure wish I had a video here:














But perhaps most importantly, should have mentioned it earlier sorry, Crystal Heart stars Arcade Fire-hating Tawny Kitaen.




Here's what happened last week (NSFW for language):