Vigilante Movie Night

With vigilantism as the theme I surprisingly didn't choose the movie Vigilante starring Alligator's Robert Forster and 1990: The Bronx Warriors' Fred "The Hammer (although Vic Morrow played the character Hammer in that movie)" Williamson.



Kill Squad will be Cameron Mitchell's 7th BMN movie.



We previously named Linnea Quigley the leader with 7 showings but that included Silent Night, Deadly Night archival footage in the sequel. Mitchell wins on a technicality.

I forgot to mention in the invite that there will be a Chuck Norris short movie at half time.

I wanted to watch a Death Wish after AMC starting showing Death Wish marathons recently. Death Wish 3 seems to be in the zeitgeist lately. My zeitgeist anyway. Can you have a personal zeitgeist? It's next month's today's New Cult Canon Movie and it was in a They Might Be Giant song I heard recently:



I surrender universe. I know what you need me to do.

Here's what happened last week:

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Nicholas Cage-Related Remake Night

I like this e-mail commentary thing.

We watched Nicolas Cage in the remake of The Wicker Man a few months ago.

Turns out it was almost exactly a year ago. Happy The Wicker Man Remake Anniversary!

Friday we're going to watch the original.

I assure you it's different enough that you won't be bored. No worse than watching another zombie movie that's like all the other zombie movies. Ooo, that makes me want to watch another zombie movie.

We're also going to watch the Bad Lieutenant remake starring Nic Cage after never watching the 1992 Harvey Keitel original.

We could watch that one if you want. Especially if you want to see Harvey Keitel's penis. I know, you're thinking, "again?".

I get the feeling people didn’t really dig The Wicker Man remake even though it’s pretty much one of the best bad movies to come around in the last 5 years. Witness: "Howditgetburned Howditgetburned Howditgetburned Howditgetburned?",



"What's in the bag? A shark"?



Leelee Sobieski getting kicked in the face? Cage punching a woman while dressed as a bear?



And this is all you need to know about The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans:



Okay, one more thing. It's made by legendary director Werner Herzog (Aguirre: The Wrath of God). He also (therefore?) is crazy. And the insane things keep happening. He once rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a car crash:



A few days later he was shot at during an interview with Mark Kermode and wasn't all that that worried about it:



And there was that time he went with Errol Morris to dig up Ed Gein's mom.

Here's what happened last week:

Killer Invertebrates Night

I'm just going to do commentary on the e-mail invite:

These movies shouldn't be a surprising choice since they were requested last week.

This is sorta true. It was requested that Slugs be put on hold until the interested party knew she was able to come. She wants to face her fear of slugs that kill people.

I guess the theme is killer invertebrates although I'm kinda guessing at the anatomy of a "tremor".

Although I did see this video:

Monstrous Wildlife from Frank Robnik on Vimeo.

I just realized there's still room in this world for a killer jellyfish movie. Why not? Everyone's afraid of them. They're fucking creepy.

I said this without looking to see if there was a killer jellyfish movie. Just now I found Sting of Death, a half-man-half-jellyfish movie from the man that brought you Wild Rebels:



The Slugs director made one of my favorite movies from BMN: Pieces.



He also made the MST3K movie Pod People. It Stinks!




Watching Tremors will really help your Kevin Bacon game skills. Now you have Michael Gross and Reba McEntire to connect you to ABSOLUTELY NO MOVIES.

Fine, Michael Gross was just in a new movie with Frankie Muniz, so that brings the entire Agent Cody Banks resource. Reba was in One Night at McCool's, which has just about everybody in it. It's from the director of Agent Cody Banks!

Here's what happened last week:

Unseen Driver Movie Night

Why are so many car movies set in the desert? There's the two hitchhiking movies from a month ago. These two movies on Friday. Mad Max. Vanishing Point. Maybe it's just easier to close the roads for filming. Maybe kicking up sand is cool? Not as many objects to accidentally hit?

The car in The Car is a Lincoln Continental Mark III with a whole new body.



Which is a pretty scary car to be chasing you. I would be most scared by the Volkswagen Thing though.

The Car is on The Official Razzie Movie Guide's 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made, a list I just found out exists. I'm going to track it down and figure how many we've watched from the list.

The truck in Duel is a 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck:



And Dennis Weaver in the film drives a 1971 Plymouth Valiant:



The guy who wrote the movie, Richard Matheson, also wrote I Am Legend and the Nightmare at 20,000 feet episode of The Twilight Zone. Plus it's directed by Steven Spielberg who directed the best exploitation movie of all time, Jaws.

Here's what happened two weeks ago: