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Aerobics 2 Movie Night

We're not strangers to aerobics at Bad Movie Night. Killer Workout AKA Aerobicide was shown early on.



Hold on, that was the intro to the last post. In fact, did I just do that so I could post another scene from Killer Workout? Yep.

It's not so weird watching Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout. It's directed by the guy that made Evil Spawn. Linnea is like a sister to us:



that you've seen naked a weird amount of times and it's only 60 minutes. Even so the exercising is padded with zombie chases and clips from Linnea's movies. We might as well follow the routines, however, so bring your spandex.

I've been intending to show Revenge of the Ninja for almost as long as BMN has been alive. It still hasn't happened. But we're watching its sequel, Ninja III: The Domination (Enter the Ninja is the first one) since it's crazier and enjoyably worse. It's been out-of-print for as long as I've known about it but it seems to get almost monthly posts onto YouTube. That's because it's constantly taken down as well. The one posted in July is gone but the one from two weeks ago is still there!

If Ninja III: The Domination isn't available when Friday rolls around the alternate movie will be Invaders From Mars (1986) because we just saw Laraine Newman in another movie last week.



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Strange foreign Heavenly Bodies posters:

Aerobics Movie Night

We're not strangers to aerobics at Bad Movie Night. Killer Workout AKA Aerobicide was shown early on.



Zombies attacked an aerobics class in Nightmare City:



And probably a lot of other times but this will be the first night dedicated to the... craft?

Heavenly Bodies comes Canuxploitation recommend. They say that although it's co-produced by Playboy there's little nudity in it. But that doesn't mean there isn't tons of spandexercising. I found out the actress that plays the lead was killed in My Bloody Valentine by using this wiki. This is great! Remember when Billy in Sleepaway Camp died by "Beehive dropped on head/stung by bees". That was super.

Perfect really opens itself up for an easy dig by critics. By being terrible. It stars rumored androgen-insensitive male Jamie Lee Curtis (previously) and alleged masseur-insensitive actor John Travolta (previously).

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Hunting Movie Night

This theme came together better than the night it's emulating. At least Mutant Hunt and The Bounty Hunters (AKA Revenge of the Mercenaries) both include the word hunt. I passed off August 5th of last year as Cheesy Movie Night just because both movies achieved a certain level of 80's camp. Just so you know: Camp + 60's = Barbarella, Camp + 70's = Sci-fi, Camp + 80's = Cheese and milk protein + enzymes = cheese. The circle of life, it moves us all.

Mutant Hunt is the equivalent to Breeders, Tim Kincaid's preceding movie. What it lacks in aerobics it gains in shoulder pads. What it lacks in women writhing around in goo it gains in underwear standoffs. What it lacks in not being Breeders it gains in pretty much being Breeders.

The Bounty Hunters has a very low Internet presence. It has a review at Bleeding Skull, the producer is profiled at Canuxploitation and is ignored most other places. This makes The Bounty Hunters the most obscure movie we have ever seen.

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Flipsiders

I was just reminded that this existed:



Welcome back memory from the deep recess in my mind!



See also: Holy crap, Hit Stix!

Definintely One of Today's Movies

Not only will this be our 420th movie but this is our 420th blog post. Synchrony!

Probably One of Today's Movies

I don't know, I'm not running this show.

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I ended up watching the sequel instead because it has more explosions and less cemetery stakeouts. Plus I couldn't find the DVD of the first one. But people have made some interesting Phantasm posters:

Eye Trauma Movie Night

This isn't the first Marissa-is-gone-let's-watch-movies-with-eye-trauma night. We watched Anguish

 

and Iced in December of 2008. Of course, plenty of BMN movies have had eye trauma in them. Looking up IMDB keywords "Eye Gouging" and "Stabbed In The Eye" is like a trip down memory lane. Undefeatable!

Kristi Jones: We'll keep an EYE out for you, Stingray.
Nick DiMarco: Yeah, SEE ya.

Day of the Triffids narrowly missed being part of Evil Vegetables Movie Night but lost out to The Happening. The theme kind of gave away the ending to The Happening now that I think about it.

I was tempted to make this Eye Surgery Night since the main character has eye surgery and I could pair it with Eyes of the Werewolf



where a guy gets werewolf eyes transplanted into his head. That hospital needs better screening procedures.

Day of the Triffids is what inspired the screenwriter of 28 Days Later.... Yes, Triffids has more scenes of a guy just out of the hospital wandering around famous London sites. BMN is a fluid trip through cinema.

I called Phantasm the "ninth most popular horror movie franchise of the 1970s/80s". My arbitrary ranking is:

1. Halloween
2. Nightmare on Elm Street
3. Friday the 13th
4. Jaws
5. The Exorcist
6. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
7. Hellraiser
8. The Howling
9. Phantasm

Before you shoot off an angry comment, the Night of the Living Dead franchise didn't start in and has only two movies in the 70s and 80s so I didn't count it. I also considered 3 a trilogy and 4 or more a franchise. We've watch at least one of each of the above except for Jaws. Who's for Jaws The Revenge?



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