Last Week's Movies

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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: