Most people that use the phrase "guilty pleasures" then immediately reject it. "Why should I feel guilty about liking Beastmaster?" They express as much in the first Guilty Pleasures episode of Siskel and Ebert. Really it's just another version of enjoyably bad. Which has its own detractors. "If Savage Water is enjoyable, how can it be bad?" Does no one recognize linguistic nuance?
Roger Ebert did. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 1975 not least of all because he could... vocabulary... good. The aforementioned episode aired in 1979, another episode that included BMN movies The Last Starfighter and The Last Dragon was shown in 1987. Two more episodes, from 1981 and 1994, haven't surfaced online. Through recollections from people on the Internet, however, we know the 1994 episode included The People Under The Stairs, Evil Dead 2 and Tremors. It's the 1981 episode where we haven't seen any of the movies. That's where these two, Ebert picks, come from.
Kill and Kill Again stars that guy from Space Mutiny:
The director's following movie is called Bush Shrink. It was made in South Africa but was popular in America. Like a reverse Rodriguez:
In conclusion I don't know a lot about Kill and Kill Again.
I know a lot about Invasion of The Bee Girls though. I've seen it anyway. It's great and weird and hilarious. It's William Smith's eighth movie:
Policewomen
Red Dawn
Maniac Cop
Memorial Valley Massacre
Action U.S.A.
Uncle Sam
Slaughter in San Francisco
Invasion of The Bee Girls
The last thing the director did was a documentary called Computers Are People, Too! from 1982. Thank god for YouTube:
The writer, Nicholas Meyer, went on to write all the good Star Trek movies: II, IV and VI. Hopefully, to quell the invasion, someone gets a bunch of whales to talk to the Bee Girls.
Here's what happened last week (NSFW):
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