Jack Attack Movie Night

No, this isn't related to the Commodore 64 game.



Or the Jack-in-the-box from Demonic Toys.



Jack Attack Night is merely about guys named Jack pummeling non-Jacks about the face and body.

The bad guy in Double Team, Mickey Rourke, is such a non-Jack his name is Stavros. Rourke made this movie the same year as Another Nine & a Half Weeks, which was minus a Kim Basinger but plus an Angie Everhart. So he may not have been in the best place at the time. Dennis Rodman, on the other hand, was just about to make Simon Sez.



So he was at career peak. By which I mean he's only had two starring roles and Simon Sez is worse than Double Team.

He was in last year's Blunt Movie:



starring Angie Everhart! And an 8-years-dead Pat Morita. Good for him.

Superfights is from the guy who wrote No Retreat, No Surrender. Which is Double Team star Jean-Claude Van Damme's first movie. It also stars professional wrestler Rob Van Dam. This is the Lincoln/Kennedy thing all over again!

Most oddly, legendary film producer, subject of the documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture



and Two-Face cosplayer



Robert Evans is credited as "Day Performer". Did he have time for that? That year he was producing the movie Jade with... Oh my god. Angie Everhart! What is happening!?!

Here's what happened two weeks ago:

Yesterday's Movie

Force Movie Night

There's no Bad Movie Night this week so I thought I'd catch up on one from last month. It was Movies Ending In Force Night (Vengeance Is Mine is AKA Death Force) and the force was with us that day. Millennium falcon, Alderaan, Mynocks.

Oh hey, since Star Wars came up organically, Megaforce isn't like Star Wars at all. But it certainly exists because of it. A 1982 sci-fi/action movie, it tried to capture the same Star Wars audience as that year's Forbidden World and Nightbeast. But it was also the tail end of the trend. The same year saw more mature sci-fi like Blade Runner and The Thing.

The director Hal Needham, who we lost to eternal life in October, directed previous BMN movies The Cannonball Run and Rad. If trends persist, get ready for the wrestling comedy Body Slam and an episode of B.L. Stryker.



Super weird Evening Shade prequel.

Death Force is directed by Cirio Santiago, who I typed about here. It's his best movie I've seen. And I've seen TNT Jackson, Hell Hole, Firecracker, Stryker, Caged Fury, Future Hunters, Eye of the Eagle, Nam Angels, Behind Enemy Lines, Beyond the Call of Duty. Live by the Fist and probably more. Who can keep track of generic titles like Operation Impossible, Once Upon a Time, Impossible Dream, Naked Vengeance, Kill Zone and One Man Army. If you have the opportunity, name your movie Oily Maniac. Certainly that's not taken. Ah, crap.



Here's what happened last month:

Today's Movies

Welcome Horror Movie Night

We welcome an original Bad Movie Night member back on Friday, last seen here in December, 2010. Although there was a special away game. So in observation we'll watch movies with some real talent behind them.

Not that much of it ended up on the screen for Rawhead Rex. It will be our third Clive Barker thing, after Hellraiser and Candyman. Barker was unhappy enough with the adaptation of his short story that he went ahead and directed Hellraiser himself. I have a soft spot for the movie. One, it's a monster movie, my favorite thing. Two, it was on the cover of the first Fangoria I ever spotted, at the grocery store:



Apparently it took me a year to subscribe because I also remember my first issue I received by mail, the one with Bad Dreams on the cover:



Some of my friends were still reading Highlights.

This is our second attempt at watching Phantasm. Here's the first. That night I was surprised to find out that I, in fact, did not own Phantasm. We ended up watching Phantasm II, as evidenced by the poster post I belatedly posted. Posty. And by "We" I mean me, because I was the only one who stayed to watch it.

This will be our fourth Don Coscarelli movie: Phantasm, Phantasm II, The Beastmaster and John Dies at the End. Who's up for Kenny & Company

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a charming coming-of-age movie from the man who thought up flying silver spheres that drill into your head.

Here's what happened last week:

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Today's Movies