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Foreign countries make better posters:

Underground Martial Arts Movie Night

In the 80's and 90's Hong Kong was the place to get your foreign action movies. I almost chose Hard Boiled (1992) for this Friday:



By the 2000's they were usurped by Thailand, maybe not least of all because Thailand's movie set safety laws became more... lenient.

Because people get hurt in Ong Bak. One of the American taglines is "No computer graphics. No stunt doubles. No wires." and it brings to mind the end credits to one of Hong Kong's Police Story movies:

 
Ong Bak's Tony Jaa is the newest "new Bruce Lee" after Jackie Chan. Since then Jackie Chan has become the new Pat Morita who was the old Al Molinaro:

 

According to IMDB Al Molinaro is actually from Kenosha and this is his childhood home:



 People, a former occupant was in a Weezer video.



Pick up your yard.

One of the coolest things about Bloodsport is that some of it is filmed in Kowloon Walled City before it was torn down.

 

It stars Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds,



Bolo Yeung from BMN movies Boxer's Omen and Breathing Fire



and JCVD.

This website that's doing God's work chronicling movies like Scorpion Thunderbolt and Ninja Terminator has a post on what connects Bloodsport to one of my favorites, Silver Dragon Ninja.

 Here's what happened last week:
3 MINUTE TO CATCH A YETI from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo.

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Yeti Movie Night

 

There was the original Bigfoot Movie Night when we watched Night of the Demon and Demonwarp.

 

We also had Not Bigfoot Night which were bigfoot movies that didn't have a bigfoot in them. In between that people hated Cry Wilderness, about a boy and his bigfoot. That movie finally has a YouTube clip:



It had an E.T. quality to it and that's where To Catch a Yeti is coming from as well. Except it's a second-generation E.T. rip-off that only strives to be Mac and Me. In other words, this is the Coupling of kid-friendly creature movies.

   

Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century is also an "opportunity movie" as it came out a year after the King Kong remake when people's appetite for large primate-stomping was at a fever pitch. Around that same time The Curse of Bigfoot came out. Which I only mention to ask, what is happening on the cover to that movie?



Here's what happened last week:

They Came Back Wrong

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Is Diabolik in this?

Crazy foreign Child's Play posters:

Birthday Horror Movie Night

 

The Titanic hit the iceberg on the same day as my birthday. Lincoln was shot on my birthday. Adrien Brody was born. Clearly my birthday and horror have always gone hand in hand.

High-rise movies are hot right now. There was Tower Heist, Attack the Block and the buzzy The Raid: Redemption:

Well, Demons 2 was doing that in 1986 while the top films of that year were wasting their time on an aircraft carrier, the Australian Outback and Vietnam. Remember the movie Operation Dingo Drop?

D2 is directed by the same guy who did the original, Lamberto Bava. That's why there's so much continuity. And it's still written by horror legend Dario Argento but now it also stars his 11-year-old daughter Asia Argento pre-naked-in-everything. One hopes. This movie is Italian.

Child's Play is on the short list of Movies I've Seen With My Mom. If I wanted to make that a BMN theme  we're left with Jurassic Park and The Crying Game. Child's Play is our second Tom Holland movie after Fright Night, our second Brad Dourif movie after Blue Velvet and our second killer doll movie after Black Devil Doll From Hell. Unless the doll in Ghosthouse killed anyone.


This picture I found seems to think so.


Here's what happened last week:

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Easter Movie Night

Rabbits and Jesus aren't so different. Both warn others of predators with powerful thumps on the ground,  neither are able to vomit and if a rabbit dies in the Mideast it appears in America to start a new religion.

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter seems to be the Modest Mouse of  B-movies. Even people who have no interest in the genre seem to be aware of it. Personally, I've never seen it. I don't own The Moon and Antarctica either.



The title reminds me of another religious figure fighting demons in a BMN movie:



I haven't seen Night of the Lepus either but at least I can talk about the credits. One of the best known credits for director William F. Claxton is The High Chaparral, a 60's western TV show that starred one Cameron Mitchell.



And if anything could make me like Cameron Mitchell more (and Fuddruckers for that matter) it's finding this video of Cameron Mitchell in a Fuddruckers:



Janet Leigh from Psycho is in Night of the Lepus. Rory Calhoun from Motel Hell is in it. And scary bunnies.

Here's what happened last week:

They Came Back Wrong