400th Movie Night

Our 400th movie is this Friday. That's more movies than Cameron Mitchell has ever been in. Of course, no one person has seen all 400 of these movies. I've only seen 398 of them. I just don't have the time anymore.

 

The VHS tape of Frozen Scream is one of my favorite possessions. It comes in a porno/Disney-sized case and the box lists the price as $49.95.

 

Oh, and it comes with Executioner II, one of my favorite BMN movies, where the picture looks way better than my old DVD copy. I just found out that Everything Is Terrible made a video of the movie a couple of weeks ago:

 

Even the IMDB plot synopsis for Frozen Scream seems to barely care what's happening in the movie:

Mad scientists turn people into frozen zombies and the zombies wreak havoc and kill people.

So odds are people will talk during this movie and never notice how amazing it is. Kind of like last year with Desperation Rising, our 299th movie.

Not that I Am Here.... Now is the equivalent to our 300th movie, Birdemic. That extra long ellipsis portends the awkward pauses and long padding of the movie. Murderous birds are replaced with a new-age-y preachiness. Instead of million dollar software sales every woman's shirt is buttoned one button away from a nip slip. That part's okay. Also pretty okay: all the appendage severing, the frozen-time acting and monster sex.

Here's movies 301 through 400:

King Frat

Savage Streets

Zombi 3

Day of the Dead

Ben & Arthur

Cruising

Desperate Lives

Death Drug

Return of the Killer Tomatoes!

The Happening

Fantastic Planet

Heavy Metal

Bare Behind Bars

Massacre Mafia Style

Five Element Ninjas

Terminal Force

Five Deadly Venoms

Breathing Fire

Breeders

Convoy

White Line Fever

Hobo With a Shotgun

Machete

Mondo Cane

Things

The Gate

The Killing of Satan

The Intruder

Mac and Me

Escape from L.A.

Rubber

Drive Angry

Rocktober Blood

Dark Night of The Scarecrow

Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf

Blood Games

Murder Party

Halloween 3

Halloween

Piranha II: The Spawning

Humanoids from the Deep

Silver Dragon Ninja

L.A. Streetfighters

Robot Jox

Double Down

Blastfighter

The Final Alliance

BMX Bandits

Rad

Here Comes Santa Claus

Cobra

Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny

Invasion U.S.A. w/Karate Kommanoes

Trollhunter

Super

Hercules

Deadly Weapons

Friday the 13th Part 2

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

The Brain

Alien Warrior

Twin Dragon Encounter

Freaks

Hell Up in Harlem

Cellular

Homebodies

People Under the Stairs

Twin Peaks

Ax 'Em

Hollywood Boulevard

Baadasssss

The Unborn II

Blue Sunshine

Eliminators

The Annihilators

Parasite

One Crazy Summer

Roller Boogie

Thrashin'

Bad Ronald

Little Corey Gorey

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

Night of the Lepus

Demons 2

Child's Play

To Catch a Yeti

Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century

Ong Bak

Deadly Reactor

Bloodsport

Godzilla: Final Wars

Wild Zero

Maniac

Maniac Cop

Hell Squad

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak

No Dead Heroes

Strike Commando 2

Frozen Scream

I Am Here…. Now For the rest go here.

Here's what happened last week:

 

Thoughtful Memorial Day!

It's the annual (except I forgot last year) posting of a scene from Memorial Valley Massacre. Be careful at the grill this year.

Today's Movies

War Movies Night

You could boil this theme down even further to Vietnam War Movies but I wouldn't want to exclude any veterans on this Memorial Day weekend. I'm not like the VFW. Let those Civil War veterans in you jerks!

Hopefully the title No Dead Heroes means "a hero lives on in everybody's memory" and not "if you're a such a hero how come you're dead, you dead dumb dope".  Netflix says I watched this movie on November 14th. I don't remember it but I gave it three stars. Plus it has one of my favorite things, a combination of one and ten star reviews on IMDB. This includes the competing, "THE WORST THING EVER CREATED BY MANKIND" and the rebuttal ten years later, "The BEST thing ever created by mankind!". I will judge who is right by the names of the reviewer:

"Worst thing" -- kingofthekickboxers from the lodge of sin
"Best thing" -- Comeuppance Reviews from United States Minor Outlying Islands

Best thing it is!

The bad news about Strike Commando 2 is that Reb Brown is out



but the good news is he has been replaced by Brent Huff, who we just saw last week in The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak.



Back-to-back Huff!  He's playing the same role as Reb and, also helping with the continuity, the sequel is written and directed by the same people. That would be director Bruno Mattei who you also know from Zombi 3 and Rats: Night of Terror and writer Claudio Fragasso who you know from Troll 2.



It also somehow stars Richard Harris, maybe best known for playing Dumbledore right before he died.

Huff's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

Desert Sexploitation Movie Night

I wondered why so many car movies take place in the desert and I think I came up with some plausible reasons. But sexploitation movies? Sand, cactus and dryness aren't a good fit. But it does encourage clothing removal and staying indoors so...

Nobody in Hell Squad, A.K.A. Commando Girls, went on to do much else. Although the woman who plays Ann was apparently in Night of the Demon.

This is gross:


She also starred in movies called Sensuous Delights and Domination in Spiked Heels before making Hell Squad her last movie. You might as well go out on top.

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak is directed by Just Jaeckin. But it doesn't end there! It stars Loi Lam Duc, Kristopher Kum, Chen Chang Ching and Zabou. Just Zabou. In fact Zabou maybe one the most successful people we see Friday. She's now a successful director. Anyway, who knew the Land of Yik Yak would be so full of people with funny names.

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

 

Lustig's Maniac Movies Night

 Here's William Lustig:



He made a small number of movies, mostly in the 80's, but a lot of them are notable.

After starting with a couple of porn movies Lustig really made a splash with 1980's Maniac. It stars Joe Spinell, last seen at Bad Movie Night in Cruising, and Caroline Munro, who's starring in her fifth BMN movie:


Starcrash
Maniac
Slaughter High
Faceless
Don't Open Till Christmas 

Maniac was also the inspiration for the song of the same name from Flashdance with original beginning lyrics:

He's a maniac, maniac that's for sure
He will kill your cat and nail him to the door

This sounds like a joke but it's not. The remake is in post-production, slated for a 2013 release, and stars Elijah Wood. This sounds like a joke but it's not.

Maniac Cop stars everybody. Tom Atkins,


Escape from New York 
Desperate Lives
Creepshow
Halloween III: Season of the Witch 
Night of the Creeps 
Maniac Cop
Drive Angry

Bruce Campbell, Richard Roundtree, William Smith, Robert Z'Dar, George 'Buck' Flower,


Massacre Mafia Style
Escape from New York 
Maniac Cop 
Mac and Me
They Live
Blood Games

and the lady that played Kramer's mom.

Nowadays William Lustig runs Blue Underground, a home video company that has brought us Anguish, Nightmare City, Q - The Winged Serpent, Rats: Night of Terror and Zombie.

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

They Came Back Wrong

Stank Edition

Japanese Movie Night

Our Nipponese friends have had some great movies at BMN. Hausu was a big hit. Battle Royale beat The Hunger Games to the child-killing punch. Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice was shown at Penis Movie Night. And The Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds and Godzilla's Revenge round out what Japan might be most famous for, big rubber monster movies.

But here we are nearing two years without a Godzilla movie. Unless you count the costume in Hollywood Boulevard:

 

So we should watch Destroy All Monsters because it's the The Expendables of monster movies. In that I'm pretty sure Mickey Rourke is in the Rodan costume.

 

Wild Zero stars the band Guitar Wolf as themselves. In that way this is the Head


 of Sci-Fi zombie musicals.

 Here's what happened last week: