Three-Hundredth Movie Night

We're bringing out the big guns for Bad Movie Night this week since it's our 300th movie. I'd say movie zero was Troll 2, our 100th was The Room, the 200th movie was Showgirls because Birdemic wasn't available yet so that obviously leads us to the new The Room that was the new Troll 2, Birdemic: Shock and Terror.

But first we must make it through Desperation Rising. See that title card up there? The word Rising is rising! That's a good indication on how good this movie is. Another is a review from Bleeding Skull that says it would make a great double feature with Executioner Part II and it's "right up there with Samurai Cop. It's better than Kill Squad." All great movies.



Oh, Chris Mitchum. You deserve a box around your name. You've given so much joy to BMN. Hold on, an aside here. Am I just thinking of this? We should totally have BMN BMX night:



I read somewhere that Desperation Rising may have been a gang mediation exercise. That would account for it being confusing and crazy. But here's what I find weird: Nick Cassavetes is in it.



He's John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands son. He was in Face/Off. He directed The Notebook. Remember when The Hangover Part II was filming and there were rumors that Bill Clinton was going to cameo in it but then they said, "No, but Liam Neeson is in it" and then it turned out he wasn't going to be able to do it? Well, that role of "Tattoo Joe" went to Nick Cassavetes. But he's in Quiet Cool too so I don't know what to think:



Russians have a weird way of dubbing a movie. "Nooooooo!" "Nyet."

Speaking of people in weird things, Tippi Hedren of Hitchcock's The Birds is in Birdemic but only in "archive footage".



I'm guessing that's because Hedren was in another of Birdemic director James Nguyen's movies Julie and Jack, a movie I watched in those cold, lonely days when Birdemic wasn't available on DVD and I had to watch something by Nguyen. Anyway, Julie and Jack is about "Jack Livingston, a successful computer chip salesman who's looking for true love." The plot to James Nguyen's follow-up Replica starts "Suffering from kidney failure, Joe, a computer chip salesman goes through an organ transplant..." If a computer chip salesman doesn't get killed by a bird on Friday...

We have special guests at BMN this Friday, Marissa's parents. The last time they were here we watched Beaks: The Movie. They're going to think BMN stands for Bird Massacre Night. Amiright?

Marissa said no one liked Psychomania so here's why Psychomania is great and you're stupid from a BBC documentary series about B-movies. Man, America needs more public broadcasting if this is the kind of stuff they get in the UK: