High School Movie Night

Today's the last day of freedom for high school freshman but they don't join their upperclassmen until Friday. Those are the people recruiting them into gangs or murdering them with a nunchaku on deserted islands. Just like what happens in these movies!

Switchblade Sisters is our third Jack Hill movie after Coffy and Foxy Brown. Unfortunately there's no Pam Grier in this one but two other Jack Hill/Pam Grier collaborations were just re-released so we haven't seen the last of them.



Battle Royale is a Japanese movie (that's in Japanese, I'm going to sneak that in here) so the 15-year-olds in it are probably closer to American college seniors. What with their cram schools and having to cram into subways and singing kramaoke. Anyway, people love this movie. Here's Tarantino naming Battle Royale the best movie since 1992:



But you don't have to take his word for it.



Because it's on a bunch of best of lists.

You'll recognize a couple people. It has Chiaki Kuriyama, Gogo from Kill Bill, and one of the hosts from Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC). He's the guy on the right that they've named Vic Romano:



In Japan that show is called Takeshi's Castle and Vic Romano is really named Takeshi Kitano.

Since BR is two hours long we only have time for the CBS Schoolbreak Special Ace Hits the Big Time for a bonus third movie (show). Like Switchblade Sisters someone joins a gang on their first day of school but then it goes into a whole weird area.

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

Eye trauma.

Grindhouse Trailer Movie Night

I usually don't post the trailers to the movies we watch. They typically give too much away. But since both these movies started as trailers I think it would be appropriate. These are the original, and NSFW, versions.





We've seen the star of Machete, Danny Trejo, twice before at BMN. In both The Hidden and Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects he plays a prisoner. In Kinjite it's especially weird since he's playing Random Scary Prison Guy but he's Danny fucking Trejo:

NSFW


So Charles Bronson arranged to put that guy in the male-raping wing of the prison?

Here's Danny Trejo on Breaking Bad on a turtle:



People taking a backseat to Trejo include Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Michelle Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson (together again!), Lindsay Lohan, Stacy Keach and Tom Savini. That's pretty impressive. It's directed by Robert Rodriguez so if you liked Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (in theaters now!) you'll like Machete.

The role of Hobo in Hobo with a Shotgun was recast since the trailer with Rutger Hauer. Who else, really.

Hey, if you stay late maybe we can watch Mondo Cane since its director, Gualtiero Jacopetti, just died. I've always wanted to do a Mondo theme but they almost always have real animal killing, which is banned at BMN. Except for some rats in Wild Beasts. And I think a guy kills a snake in Massacre in Dinosaur Valley. And probably some others.



Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

Trucker Movie Night

Why are there two versions of the title card for both movies:




I think this the first time I've encountered something like that and it's true for both movies. Weird. Also, why am I blogging these movies when I won't even be at BMN, for the first time ever, and I didn't pick these movies. Because it's an officially sanctioned Bad Movie Night is all.

Convoy is directed by movie legend Sam Peckinpah. After he became an almost unemployable drunk. Remember that Simpsons where Homer says, "Look, son! It's one of nature's most beautiful sights: the convoy!"



That episode was called Maximum Homerdrive, a reference to another BMN movie, Maximum Overdrive.



White Line Fever is directed by the guy who did The Accused, Project X and, most importantly, Heart Like a Wheel which I know because it's sampled in an L7 song:



White Line Fever will be our sixth movie featuring Dick Miller:



It also stars Slim Pickens and Airwolf!




Here's what happened two weeks ago:

Today's Movies

Cut for eye trauma:

Cheesy Movie Night

Happy 300th post! The years 1986 through 1991 are known as The Half Decade of Cheesiness. A combination of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill Hearings, the Rodney King Beating, Jeffrey Dahmer, the end of the Cold War, The Perfect Storm (the actual thing), Nevermind and the birth of Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle put an end to cheese but we still have artifacts that span this time period in the form of these two movies.

I was charged with making a theme that lent itself to snacks. Calling it Cheesy Movie Night may be a cop out but just be glad I didn't give in to temptation and show Double Down so we could all eat Double Downs.



Also feel sad because Double Down is amazing.

Breathing Fire should be the headliner but it doesn't have any nudity, and since Breeders only has nudity, it goes in the kid friendly spot. The MacGuffin in this movie is slices of pizza which have the impression of a key on them. More cheese! There's also a bank robbery, some kung-fu and Bolo Yeung in drag.



Ironically, Breeders is directed by gay porn director Tim Kincaid. Fangoria has an interesting interview with him which includes this exchange about non-gay porn movie She's Back:

ABLEY: SHE’S BACK starred Carrie Fisher! Whoa! Any non-litigious stories you’d like to share about Ms. Fisher?

KINCAID: No.

He also directed the Mystery Science Theater 3000 first season movie Robot Holocaust:



Hey, what's going with Tim Kincaid's movie The Female Response and the poster to King Frat?:



Weird.

Here's what happened last week: