Is there one more year in the decade? I understand that millennia work that way. Decades feel more informal. Defined by that third digit instead of the fact there was no year 0. Wouldn't it be weird if someone considered Edward Scissorhands (1990) the best movie of the 80s? Besides if you extended into 1990, Robot Jox is the best movie of the 80s. So no, that was it for the decade that has no neat, collective term. Something we don't have to worry about again for 80 years.
Movies
1. Black Dynamite
2. It Follows
3. Looper
4. Super
5. Blue Ruin
Now Black Dynamite is a problem since it had a limited release in October of 2009. But nowhere near me. So if it's important to you and you think Black Dynamite doesn't count, move everyone up one and put Contagion at number 5.
Our 600th movie was our "last" Bad Movie Night movie. Yet BMN keeps going like a zombie or Charlie Sheen.
We ended with Science Crazed. I thought it was pretty fitting.
It's still out there finding fans.
Our other "100" movies were The Room, Showgirls, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, I Am Here.... Now and Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. Vampire's Kiss, number 700, is closer to Showgirls than any of the others. And it stars the original flash dancer Jennifer Beals. Everybody makes a big deal about Nicolas Cage eating a cockroach in the movie but he gets no recognition for eating a sandwich laying down in Adaptation:
Tales of Halloween was going to be shown last year but got usurped at the last moment by the WNUF Halloween Special.
It's a horror anthology in the vein of Creepshow. It even has Adrienne Barbeau.
And two of the ten directors we've seen before, Neil Marshall (Doomsday) and Lucky McKee (May). That's 20% of talent!
As we all know (and which everyone gets wrong) Bad Movie Night started on June 29, 2008. Winterbeast was the first movie (not Troll 2). The first record I have of Winterbeast being mentioned is in an e-mail from May 30, 2008: "Tell Emily Winterbeast went down two dollars on Amazon." Purchasing Winterbeast had apparently been a discussion for awhile. The hard copy is now unavailable but Red Letter Media are watching it soon with Macaulay Culkin so get ready for a bidding war.
Masked Mutilator is one of my favorite things. A movie filmed a long time ago but only released recently. MM took 25 years to complete and features bookends filmed in the 21st Century, just to bring the run time to the lowest minimum movie length of 76 minutes.
Under the Silver Lake (UtSL) had no length issues. In fact, I had to show MM with UtSL to keep the total run time of this BMN down. It stars actual famous people like Middle Spider-Man, Elvis' Granddaughter, the star of Breakthrough and Garfunkel (no Oates).
Before I leave you two more people have entered the Five Timer's Club:
Jan-Michael Vincent died on February 10th of this year but it didn't make the news until March 8th. In a similar delay, we are going to honor J-MV two weeks later, this Friday. But, like when Farrah Fawcett died, something great has happened soon after that has overshadowed that sad event. Neil Breen has released his fifth feature.
Alienator is from director Fred Olen Ray, who has directed a zillion movies. And to his credit we've seen two and a half of them. That credit being he has a very low success rate. He more recently directed movies with titles like Bikini Hoe-Down, Thirteen Erotic Ghosts and The Girl from B.I.K.I.N.I. (I looked it up: Bureau of International Knowledge and Nonstandard Investigations [no, I don't know where the middle I went]). Mostly I think of him as the director of two seconds of Biohazard. You can see how the monster is in this video that removes all people from the movie:
But there is this moment where the monster yells that totally shows you that a kid is in that costume:
Oh, yeah, this is about Alienator. Well, P.J. Soles is in it so:
Carrie
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Halloween
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Uncle Sam
Alienator
Speaking of: Neil Breen has single-handedly put himself into the five-timers club:
Double Dutch
I Am Here.... Sike
Pitfall Harry's
Pass Out
Twisted Pear
This whole thing started more than seven years ago and shows signs of stopping. How much more poorly acted, special effects heavy cash grabs can we withstand? Oops, I just described all of Bad Movie Night.
One thing I hope people get from Bad Movie Night is a unique experience. I know there's only so many movies in the world but I try to find the enjoyably bad ones before most people. We watched Neil Breen movies before he became a pillar of bad movies. That link has a "Here's what happened last week" of Ninja Turf, a movie by future co-pillar Y.K. Kim of Miami Connection fame. These are my bonafides.
The two movies this week are out-of-print on physical media. Where are you going to find them, metaphysical media?
A Night to Dismember is by Doris Wishman from former BMN movie Deadly Weapons. In that post I marvel that it's our first DW movie. Well, we got to another one a mere 7 years later. In Bleeding Skull's list of 50 favorite trash-horror films from the 1980s A Night to Dismember ranks number one. That puts it four movies over Pieces. Blaspheme!
A Night to Dismember stars Samantha Fox. Not the mid-80s pop singer I vaguely remember:
Hawkeye is a kind of Rush Hour ten years before Rush Hour happened. I love the acting in this movie so much. Everyone makes the exact right choice. Most notable is Troy Donahue, who we missed entering the five timers club:
Hollywood Cop
Deadly Prey
Hard Rock Nightmare
Terminal Force
The Chilling
Hawkeye
All this star power is in honor of Oscar weekend. Personally, I'm going to be watching the ceremony and eating such themed snacks as Black Pan-seared Scallops, Bohemian Wrap Seedy Goulash, Roma tomatoes, The Flavour Aid, Greens Book, and Rice.
