Gliding Movie Night

Non-powered flight in animals can be boiled down to gliding and parachuting.



And parachuting is just gliding poorly so there's your theme. That's your theme.

Jamaa Fanaka made the killer penis movie Soul Vengeance and is quickly becoming one of my favorite BMN directors. Especially of the low quantity, high quality variety (James Bryan, non-porn Tim Kincaid). Fanaka only made Soul Vengeance, Black Sister's Revenge, three Penitentiary movies and Street Wars. Alamo Drafthouse wrote a very nice post about him after he passed away last year.

Street Wars is the one that has the glider. It's flown by a man named Sugarpop who's also the hero of the movie. Sugarpop is played by Alan Wone and here's his YouTube channel where, thankfully, he posted a video of his mother dancing on Soul Train:



In February we're combining blaxploitation movies with 2013 Academy Award nominees. But until Denzel Washington and Quvenzhané Wallis remake The Professional those will have to be two separate movies.  Kathryn Bigelow directed Point Break in 1991 and didn't have a lot of success again until The Hurt Locker in 2008. That earned her an Oscar and she's nominated again in the Best Picture category for Zero Dark Thirty.

Point Break is the one that has parachuting. Also, our fourth Swayze, second Busey and first Keanu. The hero's name in this one is Johnny Utah so maybe I should have made this Ridiculously Named Protagonist Night.

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

Supernatural High School Sex Comedy Movie Night

There are four categories of 80s sex comedy. You got your period movies (Porky's, Screwballs, The Last American Virgin, Lemon Popsicle), privacy (Private School, Private Lessons, Private Resort), food (Meatballs, Hot Dog... The Movie, Hamburger: The Motion Picture, Hot Chili, Lunch Wagon) and supernatural. That's just School Spirit and these two.



The Invisible Maniac stars Savannah (just Savannah), Clement von Franckenstein and Claudette Rains. Somehow I suspect those aren't their real names. But wait! IMDB says that von Franckenstein's real name is Clement George Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein. So now I don't know what to think.



Equally curious is the director, Adam Rifkin. He wrote Small Soldiers and designed the poster for Encino Man.



Plus he helped write and produce Going Overboard, the worst Adam Sandler movie, narrowingly beating out all the other ones.

Zapped! stars the Corys of the early 80s, Scott Baio and Willie Aames. But I'm most excited about a man that made less appearances in Tiger Beat, Scatman Crothers. He was last seen in Deadly Eyes, released the same year as Zapped! 

Hey!, I can add Zapped! to my list of movies with an exclamation point in the title that I've seen:

Airplane! 
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 
Top Secret! 
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! 
¡Three Amigos! Mars Attacks! 
That Thing You Do! 
Baadasssss! 
Saved! 
Anvil! The Story of Anvil 
The Informant! 
SLC Punk! 
Viva Knievel! 
Zero Hour! 
Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Zapped!

That's my favorite kind of movie!

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

Tropical Movie Night

We once had Tropical Nudity Movie Night but then Leslie Nielsen died so we watched Viva Knievel! and Amazon Jail got pushed back to the third movie where nobody stayed. So this will be our first pure tropical bad movie night. As pure as the cocaine that grows so well in Peru's tropical Huallaga Valley.



Hell of the Living Dead isn't to be confused with other movies we have watched like Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. There's also a danger in mixing it up with movies that have a similar tropical setting: Zombie, Zombi 3 and Zombi 4: After Death. You should confuse it with Night of the Zombies, Zombi 4 (no After Death), Zombie Creeping Flesh, Zombie Inferno, Cannibal Apocalypse, Hell of the Living Death and Virus because those are different titles for the same movie.



Hell of the Living Dead is directed by Bruno Mattei, who brought us Rats, Zombi 3 and both Strike Commandos. All those movies also involved Claudio Fragasso but he has the additional feather in his cap that is Troll 2. He's the Bernie Taupin to Bruno's Elton John.



Anaconda is Danny Trejo's fifth BMN movie.



He may be overshadowed by J Lo, I Cu, J Vo, E Sto and O Wil in terms of star power but not in actual power.

Anaconda is from the writers of The Secret of My Succe$s so I hope it makes use of Yello's Oh Yeah.



Here's what happened last week:

They Came Back Wrong

Today's Movies

Alien Abduction Movie Night

Sometimes devising a theme goes like this. I definitely want to watch Xtro. Xtro's amazing. What's Xtro about again? The first sentence of this plot description mentions alien abductions. That's part of a lot of movies. Let's see. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is too good (and long). Mysterious Skin is not fun. I'm saving Slaughterhouse-Five for a different thing. We already saw The Last Starfighter. Marissa is scared of Flight of the Navigator. This Island Earth... eh, possible third movie. So that just leaves Starship Invasions.



Not that I'm settling. Starship Invasions is directed by Ed Hunt. We once dedicated a whole night to him. What's more, he has the qualifications to make a great alien abduction movie. He directed the documentary Flying Saucers Are Real! which has faith in UFO phenomena and is prepared to shout that at you.



And another thing, Christopher Lee and Robert Vaughn are in this movie. An Ed Hunt movie would never again have a star higher than Julie Brown.



October of 1977 maybe wasn't the best time to release a low budget sci-fi movie. People were on their third helping of Star Wars. Little did they know that had they gone to Starship Invasions they would have seen future Star Wars actor Christopher Lee.



They should have put that on the poster.



Wait, the French version is called Invasion of the Violent Soup Cans? Weird.

Xtro stars Bond girl Maryam d'Abo.



She played Kara Milovy. Oh I get it. Caramel Ova. That's a sex thing, right?

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

Finally Available Movie Night

This is a 500th-movie-caliber movie night on a 466th one. Five Hundred doesn't sound that far away from 466 but think of it this way. You will be uncomfortably warm while you walk up to my front door for the 500th movie, hoping I have the air conditioning on.

I went with "Finally Available" as a theme but Miami Connection did come out on VHS at some point. It was pretty hard to come by though. I'm sure these two movies have something else in common but I haven't seen them. By the titles I can tell they each take place in America. I bet people die. And the soundtracks are surely going to have synthesizers.



Killing American Style is the previously long lost film by Samurai Cop's Amir Shervan. He has only two more English-language movies that remain to be discovered (as far as the Internet has to say about it), Gypsy and Young Rebels. Here's a good summary about what people know about Shervan's movies.

KAS sees the return of Robert Z'Dar from Samurai Cop, the two things that made my favorite movie clip on  YouTube:



I post it here a lot.

Jim Brown is in the movie too. He's history's greatest football player and third greatest actor.

Miami Connection's director made L.A. Streetfighters. 



The night we watched that movie we also saw Silver Dragon Ninja.



Which makes that night one of the best. But this night might be just a little bit very comparable.

Here's what happened last week (NSFW):


Usually I don't post trailers here but the whole movie pretty much played like a trailer.