Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Unfinished Movie Night




Last week's Game of Death is the inspiration for this week's theme. Looking at the other movies on Wikipedia's list of unfinished films there are a few famous ones like Jerry Lewis' clown-in-a-concentration-camp movie The Day the Clown Cried

 

and Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote but also some lesser known ones. I just found out that Sleepaway Camp IV came out a couple of months ago despite the fact that it was started in 1992.



That means there are two third sequels to Sleepaway Camp as Return to Sleepaway Camp came out four years ago. Weird. Also, as a connection to three weeks ago, Who Killed Bambi? was to be the third collaboration between Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert and it would star the Sex Pistols.



That is until the stupidest person in the world shut production down. Who ever it was. At least Ebert posted the screenplay a couple of years ago.

When The Basement was finally released last year it came out in both DVD and VHS. It's featured in this New York Times article about the continuing popularity existence of VHS.

We never saw the first Grizzly but we saw the Day of The Animals, which is by the same director and also has a bear. That wrestles Leslie Nielsen. Its sequel, Grizzly II: The Concert, stars John Rhys-Davies and Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher. It doesn't have any credits (see where I think the title screen would have appeared above), has temp music, limited special effects and rough editing but don't criticize it too harshly, who would want to be judged by something that wasn't finis

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