One Week To Halloween Movie Night

One week later and we're two weeks closer to Halloween. That's how time works now. The theme I played with is foreign movies. Cemetery of Terror is a rare subtitled movie (for BMN) from Mexico but filmed in Texas. Nightmare is Italian but filmed in Florida. I hope those two states turn red soon, with blood!

Cemetery of Terror isn't that foreign. It has Hugo Stiglitz from Nightmare City.  The director made Don't Panic. If that helps, great that I held your hand over to Xenophobia.

IMDB says Nightmare is also known as Nightmare in a Damaged Brain, a rather presumptuous assertion that Nightmare is known in the first place. Take that Blood Splash! That's another alternate title.

Here's what happened last week:

Three Weeks To Halloween Movie Night

 

Lady In White is the return of Frank LaLoggia, director of Fear No Evil from September 1, 2018. His only other movie is some TV movie with Diane Ladd and Olympia Dukakis AFTER their Academy Award wins/nominations. It looks... interesting.

Who says there are no roles for older women? Crazy mother and scary cougar. There are two.

The director of Blood Massacre is Don Dohler, who you remember from The Alien Factor 

and Nightbeast (fake clip)

Blood Massacre is on the same boxset as Las Vegas Bloodbath, the best Las Vegas-based movie pre-Neil Breen. Yes, we watched it on a "Punishment Bad Movie Night" which was always the week after no one showed up to BMN and the movies were especially bad. You thought Wizard of Gore was bad? The movie shown with Las Vegas Bloodbath was Ogroff.

People always showed up for those nights. You guys are awesome!

Here's what happened last week:

Last Week Again Movie Night

 

We're repeating last week but with different movies. To see if we can improve upon it. Impossible you say!

Well this is somehow our first Herschell Gordon Lewis movie, known as the "Godfather of Gore". Not George Romero, Sam Raimi or Gore Vidal. I say somehow but the only movie I've seen of his is Monster a Go-Go and only in Mystery Science 3000 form. That's easily the worst movie they ever watched, Manos: The Hands of Fate be damned. His exaltedness must be unearned. Prove me wrong Wizard of Gore, prove me wrong.

Pumpkinhead stars Mushroom the dog observing people dying from a monster named Pumpkinhead. Pumpkinhead's head, I guess, kinda looks like a pumpkin. The dying people are teenagers and therefore must die, as was required in the 80s. You can check doesthedogdie.com to see if Mushroom makes it but I'll give you one spoiler from that website. Under the question "Does someone fart or spit?" the answer is yes.

Here's what happened last week:

Woods Movie Night

This is the start of Horror Movie Month. We're in the Woods with this week. Which is a reference to a thing I mentioned in the e-mail invite and would feel weird repeating here. So...

Wood you believe there's a movie about a group of friends going into the woods looking for an old scientist that has an ancient book that a bunch of monsters are interested in and the movie isn't The Evil Dead? Yep, it's a Chevy Equinox. Bad Movie Night's Ed Begley Jr. (Eating Raoul) was an assisstant camera man for Equinox marking his return to BMN after Eating Raoul. Ed Begley Jr. was in Eating Raoul.

Someday we'll watch Robert Rodriguez's terrific El Mariachi. We saw his Machete. But for now we'll watch his most high profile movie (if that's not Sin City). Remind me to warn Marissa that John Stewart is stabbed in the eye in The Faculty. She has a phobia about being stabbed by one of her students.

Here's what happened last week:

Best of the Decade

Is there one more year in the decade? I understand that millennia work that way. Decades feel more informal. Defined by that third digit instead of the fact there was no year 0. Wouldn't it be weird if someone considered Edward Scissorhands (1990) the best movie of the 80s? Besides if you extended into 1990, Robot Jox is the best movie of the 80s. So no, that was it for the decade that has no neat, collective term. Something we don't have to worry about again for 80 years.

Movies

1. Black Dynamite

2. It Follows

3. Looper

4. Super

5. Blue Ruin

Now Black Dynamite is a problem since it had a limited release in October of 2009. But nowhere near me. So if it's important to you and you think Black Dynamite doesn't count, move everyone up one and put Contagion at number 5.

Television

1. Nathan For You

2. Community

3. Broad City

4. Difficult People

5. Patriot

6. Rick and Morty

7. Atlanta

8. Catastrophe

See you in the 20s!

700th Movie Night

Our 600th movie was our "last" Bad Movie Night movie. Yet BMN keeps going like a zombie or Charlie Sheen.

We ended with Science Crazed. I thought it was pretty fitting.

It's still out there finding fans.

Our other "100" movies were The Room, Showgirls, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, I Am Here.... Now and Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. Vampire's Kiss, number 700, is closer to Showgirls than any of the others. And it stars the original flash dancer Jennifer Beals. Everybody makes a big deal about Nicolas Cage eating a cockroach in the movie but he gets no recognition for eating a sandwich laying down in Adaptation:

Tales of Halloween was going to be shown last year but got usurped at the last moment by the WNUF Halloween Special.

It's a horror anthology in the vein of Creepshow. It even has Adrienne Barbeau.

And two of the ten directors we've seen before, Neil Marshall (Doomsday) and Lucky McKee (May). That's 20% of talent!

Here's what happened last week:

Best of 2019 So Far Movie Night (11th Anniversary)

As we all know (and which everyone gets wrong) Bad Movie Night started on June 29, 2008. Winterbeast was the first movie (not Troll 2). The first record I have of Winterbeast being mentioned is in an e-mail from May 30, 2008: "Tell Emily Winterbeast went down two dollars on Amazon." Purchasing Winterbeast had apparently been a discussion for awhile. The hard copy is now unavailable but Red Letter Media are watching it soon with Macaulay Culkin so get ready for a bidding war. 

Masked Mutilator is one of my favorite things. A movie filmed a long time ago but only released recently. MM took 25 years to complete and features bookends filmed in the 21st Century, just to bring the run time to the lowest minimum movie length of 76 minutes. 

Under the Silver Lake (UtSL) had no length issues. In fact, I had to show MM with UtSL to keep the total run time of this BMN down. It stars actual famous people like Middle Spider-Man, Elvis' Granddaughter, the star of Breakthrough and Garfunkel (no Oates).

Before I leave you two more people have entered the Five Timer's Club:

 Death Force

 Firecracker

 Wonder Women

 Raw Force

 Strike Commando 2

 Dawn of the Dead

 Day of the Dead

 Terminal Force

 Alienator

 Empire of the Dark

   

Here's what happened one month ago: