Today's Movies

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Crazylegs is the pilot in Zero Hour!. As in the guy they named the Crazylegs Classic after.



Which is happening tomorrow. Yeah, I totally planned that.

Say, is that why Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is in the Airplane! version? They're both Wisconsin-related athletes who are most well-known for playing on Los Angeles teams.

Lesser Version Movie Night

It must be depressing to have someone come along and make a superior version of your movie. Zodiac (2007) and Airplane! improved upon these movies just like any episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is better than watching the movie itself.

Which is a double whammy for Tom Hanson, director of The Zodiac Killer and one of the stars of The Hellcats:



He played Mongoose. Come to think of it The Zodiac Killer came out the same year as Dirty Harry, a movie about a serial killer in San Francisco named the "Scorpio Killer". Poor The Zodiac Killer. At least Bleeding Skull liked it:

Last week, I watched The Zodiac Killer. Twice. It still wasn't enough. This is a tier of tabloid-horror that, once discovered, takes an instantaneous position as "one of the good ones".

This is also the second movie in a row we're watching that was put out by Something Weird Video. Previous movies from them include Basket Case, Blood Freak and Godmonster of Indian Flats. They're always great about putting plenty of extras on their discs so maybe we'll see something similar to this thing we watched last week:



Zero Hour! has an exclamation point. I love movies with exclamation points. I'll add this one to my list:

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!

Machete Maidens Unleashed!, you're next!

Here's what happened last week:

Happy Easter

From the guy driving past my house yesterday with the Easter Bunny in the passenger seat.



And he waved.

Today's Movies

More Black Sheep:

Killer Sheep Movie Night

Lambs are second only to bunnies in Easter iconography.



Sure, you could argue that the chick is up there



but the lamb gets points for having the only connection to the religious side of Easter.

Godmonster of Indian Flats may be the original killer sheep movie. I compared it to Westworld because both take place in a Wild West theme park.



Imagine if the Godmonster turns out to be a robotic killer sheep. That would be amazing. Plus androids would dream of them.



It's not a robot though.

Again, Black Sheep is not the 1996 comedy but rather the 2006 comedy. It does remind me of the deer scene in Tommy Boy, though. To confuse matters.



Student animation is kind of awesome.



Black Sheep's most famous credit is probably Weta Workshop, who did the special effects for The Lord of the Rings, Avatar and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn

Here's what happened last week:

Last Week's Movies

Unrelated to:

From Bad Movie Night

We had Chinese. This was Marissa's fortune.

Rat Movies Night

Willard and Ben get all the glory but a decade later there was a rat movie resurgence. Michael Jackson doesn't sing on the either soundtrack



but Deadly Eyes has two songs by The Chuck McDermott Band.



I don't know who that is either but it looks like they're still around.

Another rat movie that almost made the cut is Of Unknown Origin from 1983. Maybe it could be a bonus third movie. The more bonus movies we watch, the sooner we see Birdemic.

A lot of post-apocalyptic movies have rats in them but Rats - Night of Terror makes them the star. This from the team that made Strike Commando. Incidentally, I have Strike Commmando 2 in my possession right now. I'm going to watch it tomorrow. I won't be taking phone calls.

Deadly Eyes has a good team behind it too. Robert Clouse, born in Wisconsin, directed Bruce Lee's mega-hit Enter the Dragon before peaking with the gymnastics/karate masterpiece Gymkata.



Deadly Eyes is adapted, from this book,:



by Charles H. Eglee, who went on to write episodes of St. Elsewhere, Moonlighting, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, The Shield, Dexter and The Walking Dead.

It's never been released on DVD!

Here's what happened last week (a little NSFW due to disembodied breasts):

BMN Movies in the News

Today the AV Club named Malibu High one of their "Films That Time Forgot" but you didn't forget it. We watched it in September of 2009 when it quickly became a favorite of mine. They even make a "memorable quote" out of one of my favorite lines in all of BMN-dom. A line nobody heard because SOMEONE WHO SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS arrived late and everyone was distracted when it happened. I'm not angry.

Tomorrow's Movie

Chalk Walk

I often come across kid's chalk drawings on my way to work and I've finally decided to start recording them. This one is from today.



Why won't anybody play Super Mario Brothers with Gabe? Is it because he calls them Super Mayo Brothers?

House, Party Movie Night

The English title to this movie is House but so as not to confuse it with the great William Katt/George Wendt/Richard Moll movie...



...I'm going to call it by its Japanese name Hausu. It's from 1977 but just got released last year, playing at some theaters and then put out by The Criterion Collection. That might sound prestigious but Criterion has some questionable selections. Armageddon, Chasing Amy, The Blob (they'd be better off going with the 1986 version), The Rock, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (and I'm going to assume The Darjeeling Limited is terrible too) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button all make these joke covers more believable.



But I don't think Hausu belongs in that category. Looking at the list of releases, however, I realized that while I said Hausu will be our first Criterion Collection movie that was actually White Dog:



I also mentioned that I discovered Hausu while searching for a movie with a killer lamp on YouTube. I didn't find it then but I now know that the movie was Amityville: The Evil Escapes:



Which was probably brought to my attention by the AV Club from their Ridiculous Horror Movie Adversaries Inventory also featuring BMN movies Death Bed: The Bed that Eats and Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare:



Here's what happened last week:

BMN Movies in the News, Part 2

From yesterday, the director of the Saw movies talks about The Stuff at Trailers From Hell.

BMN Movies in the News

Okay, not the news but I've run into a few lately. Everything Is Terrible posted this great edit of Hollywood Cop today. The guy calling the titular character Turkey is Cameron Mitchell!

NSFW:


It's director of Samurai Cop's other movie.

My favorite channel on YouTube is Cinema Apocalypse and they just posted a review of Raw Force, also with Cameron Mitchell:



You should probably skip the clip of the movie, I'm guessing all the best scenes had nudity that you can't post on YouTube.

He also reviews Evilspeak which doesn't have Cameron Mitchell but does have Clint Howard. Ignore that it still says Raw Force:



Lastly, it's April Fool's Day which was the theme for BMN two years ago when we watched:



More horror trailers need Three Dog Night. Although the theme to the other movie we watched that day would work too: