Television Movie Night

I was actually thinking of doing TV Movie Bad Movie Night later this year or early next year. That's not to be confused with this Friday's Television Movie Night. Movies about television, not movies on television. 

"About" and "on" can be synonyms.  So I don't know what's happening. But I do know Shocker isn't about the thing you think it is. It's about a TV repairman, one Horace Pinker, who is too a stinker. He's a murderer played by FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner's Mitch Pileggi. The lead is Peter Berg, who nowadays directs Mark Wahlberg being a hero in numerous ripped-from-the-headlines movies. I could see Wahlberg as the person that told Megyn Kelly she was fired or Ethiopia's first female president. Oh no. He's going to be some Red Sox idiot, isn't he?

WNUF Halloween Special is a TV broadcast from 1987 but was released as a movie 26 years later in 2013. Just like last week's Ninja Zombie, filmed in 1992 and released this year (2018-1992=26). Proof that 2044's (2018+26) METI message to 55 Cancri and HD 10307 stars will yield some passable movie night material. 

Here's what happened last week:

Cheap Movie Night

What's the cheapest Bad Movie Night movie? Ogroff couldn't have been that much. The Force on Thunder Mountain must have been a bargain. These movies challenge the extreme couponing of our most economical movies.

We were going to watch a Halloween anthology movie but, just out last week, Ninja Zombie snatched that movie from the jaws of da cheap. I said in the e-mail invite that the director went on to make gay porn. Turns out they were just gay love stories but I was at work and didn't want to click on movies like Rhapsody.

Plus I was thinking of people like BMN favorite Tim Kincaid who legit directed (well regarded!) gay porn.

The original file for Who Killed Captain Alex was destroyed. The only remaining copy has a "Video Joker" track playing along with it, which Wikipedia explains: "Audiences go to video halls where narrators called 'video jokers' translate the dialogue and add their own commentary."

A sequel to WKCA? (fittingly a radio station in Salt Lick, Kentucky) was completed but power surges destroyed it. This film seems cursed.

Ninja Zombie's director Mark Bessenger continued to make gay love stories:

and they were not destroyed. This is a clear sign that if there is a god he is pro-gay all the way.

Here's what happened last week:

Sharp Objects Movie Night

I'm from Milwaukee. More generally Wisconsin. Even more generally the Virgo Supercluster.

So I appreciate the Milwaukee Police Department's desire not to be stabbed. But I also live in a serial killer hotspot. Jeffrey Dahmer in Milwaukee, John Wayne Gacy over the Illinois border and Ed Gein in Plainfield. Law enforcement in the Bermuda Stabbing Triangle is on pins and needles. They might put those pins in a Chunky. They may put those needles in a full-size Snickers. But since I only eat Necco wafers I'm going to go ahead segue into Skinned Alive.

The writer/director of Skinned Alive has very few credits but one of them is being a zombie in The Dead Next Door, the 17th Bad Movie Night Movie. It also "stars" Scott Spiegel, who worked on Evil Dead II and was the director of Intruder, the 171st BMN movie. Does this mean BMN is all a part of God's plan? Probably.

Here's what happened last week:

Baseball Second Season Movie Night

Baseball Movie Night was originally intended for my softball league that finished last weekend in a triumphant not-last-place. But it also makes the perfect segue into the reasoning for the pumpkin seasoning: A baseball horror that leads into a future cult movie that has a lot of baseball in it. But, like, reverse that.

I haven't been forthcoming with this but Blood Games is a repeat movie. As an aside it played along with the 2007 movie Murder Party, a movie directed by Jeremy Saulnier, the now hot director of Blue Ruin, Green Room and the current Hold The Dark. I don't want to say I have my "finger on the pulse" but your pulse is 60 to 90 bpm and how else would I know that?

I watch all movies with exclamation points. This one has two!! Here's a list of exclamation point movies I've seen with the BMN ones in bold:

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! 
Return of the Killer Tomatoes! 
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Zapped!
Everybody Wants Some!!

Here's what happened three weeks ago: