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Showing posts with label Bad Movie Night. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bad Movie Night. Show all posts
Friday, December 25, 2015
Monday, January 19, 2015
Movie Night: Joyride (1977)
Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Tonight we're watching a classic, cult road movie from 1977, Joyride, so buckle up!
Starring a stellar cast including Desi Arnaz, Jr, Robert Carradine, Anne Lockhart and a very young & frequently topless, Melanie Griffith. Joyride is about three friends who ditch their crappy day jobs and head north to Alaska in order to find their slice of the American Dream. They learn pretty quickly that the world can be a cruel and unforgiving place! What else is new? Heck, these guys have setbacks at every turn. Tiki T. and I would have given up and turned around after the very first night when their car gets broken into! End of road trip, roll credits!
Directed by Joseph Ruben, Joyride is a very 70's movie with a very 70's soundtrack (featuring a buttload of ELO) plus there's plenty of T&A, some good car chases, a heist and even a peeing contest! Nice!
Tonight we're watching a classic, cult road movie from 1977, Joyride, so buckle up!
Starring a stellar cast including Desi Arnaz, Jr, Robert Carradine, Anne Lockhart and a very young & frequently topless, Melanie Griffith. Joyride is about three friends who ditch their crappy day jobs and head north to Alaska in order to find their slice of the American Dream. They learn pretty quickly that the world can be a cruel and unforgiving place! What else is new? Heck, these guys have setbacks at every turn. Tiki T. and I would have given up and turned around after the very first night when their car gets broken into! End of road trip, roll credits!
Directed by Joseph Ruben, Joyride is a very 70's movie with a very 70's soundtrack (featuring a buttload of ELO) plus there's plenty of T&A, some good car chases, a heist and even a peeing contest! Nice!
Tiki T. thought the soundtrack had too much ELO and could have benefited by darker, heavier music of the time (like Sabbath) whereas I really liked it. Like a good salad, it had just the right amount of cheese!
Anyways, we give this one two raised cocktail glasses (filled with hooch!)
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
Sunday, December 21, 2014
(Bad) Movie Night: Christmas Evil (1980)
Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its (Bad) Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Its that time of year again, kids! The weather sucks, everyone is broke, stress levels are high and suicide rates are off the fucking charts! There's the constant feeling that in these days and weeks leading up to Christmas the other shoe is gonna drop! Something's gotta fucking give!
Luckily, Tiki T. and I relieve our holiday stresses with bourbon, like normal people.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Harry Stadling, the protaganist of Lewis Jackson's festive 1980 slasher flick, Christmas Evil.
Hapless Harry (played by Brandon Maggart) is driven totally batty by a traumatic event from Christmas past and goes on a Holiday killing spree dressed like a lunatic Santa Claus. Actually, the event really didn't seem that traumatic! Basically, it involved his dad dressed like Santa Claus caressing and kissing his mother's thighs! Geez Harry... get over it!
Now in his 30's, Harry has a crap job at the Jolly Dreams Toy Factory and when he's not working he's stalking the neighborhood children to keep track of which ones are "good" and which ones are "bad"! Something finally snaps and Harry transforms himself into a homicidal Santa and Christmas Evil becomes the more festive of all the early 80's slasher movies!
Is this what Christmases in the early 1980's were like? Egg nog-crusted mustaches, crappy overhead lighting, bad suits, worse jokes and terrible disco versions of Christmas songs? Fan-fucking-tastic!
The movie is pretty much terrible and by that, of course, we mean its fucking GREAT!
Look, John Waters agrees!
Its that time of year again, kids! The weather sucks, everyone is broke, stress levels are high and suicide rates are off the fucking charts! There's the constant feeling that in these days and weeks leading up to Christmas the other shoe is gonna drop! Something's gotta fucking give!
Luckily, Tiki T. and I relieve our holiday stresses with bourbon, like normal people.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Harry Stadling, the protaganist of Lewis Jackson's festive 1980 slasher flick, Christmas Evil.
Hapless Harry (played by Brandon Maggart) is driven totally batty by a traumatic event from Christmas past and goes on a Holiday killing spree dressed like a lunatic Santa Claus. Actually, the event really didn't seem that traumatic! Basically, it involved his dad dressed like Santa Claus caressing and kissing his mother's thighs! Geez Harry... get over it!
Now in his 30's, Harry has a crap job at the Jolly Dreams Toy Factory and when he's not working he's stalking the neighborhood children to keep track of which ones are "good" and which ones are "bad"! Something finally snaps and Harry transforms himself into a homicidal Santa and Christmas Evil becomes the more festive of all the early 80's slasher movies!
Is this what Christmases in the early 1980's were like? Egg nog-crusted mustaches, crappy overhead lighting, bad suits, worse jokes and terrible disco versions of Christmas songs? Fan-fucking-tastic!
The movie is pretty much terrible and by that, of course, we mean its fucking GREAT!
Look, John Waters agrees!
Two bourbons, up!
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
Friday, September 5, 2014
(Bad) Movie Night: Devil's Kiss (1976)
Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its (Bad) Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Now we're not exactly sure what the hell is going on in this darkly-lighted, poorly-dubbed Spanish film, The Devil's Kiss, also sometimes known as The Wicked Caress of Satan (great title!) or The Print of the Devil.
Here's what we can tell you... a bunch of aristocrats get together at a castle in France for a party that culminates with a spooky seance. What the occupants of the castle don't realize is that the medium who conducted the seance, Countess Claire, has a bone-to-pick with them. She teams up with mad scientist, Professor Gruber, and proceeds to create a freaky reanimated corpse in the castle's basement laboratory that she will control with her psychic powers! There's plenty of dim-lit creepy sets, naked women, horny dwarfs & satanic scientists to go around!
Oh and there's a pretty rockin' fashion show...
Here's what we can tell you... a bunch of aristocrats get together at a castle in France for a party that culminates with a spooky seance. What the occupants of the castle don't realize is that the medium who conducted the seance, Countess Claire, has a bone-to-pick with them. She teams up with mad scientist, Professor Gruber, and proceeds to create a freaky reanimated corpse in the castle's basement laboratory that she will control with her psychic powers! There's plenty of dim-lit creepy sets, naked women, horny dwarfs & satanic scientists to go around!
Oh and there's a pretty rockin' fashion show...
And just for the record kids, we are wholeheartedly on Team Betty!
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
Thursday, September 4, 2014
(Bad) Movie Night: Godzilla's Revenge (1969)
Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its (Bad) Movie Night on Vinyl in the Valley!
Also known as All Monster's Attack, Godzilla's Revenge (1969) is the tenth film in Toho Studio's Godzilla series and its a doozy!
The movie is about a little Japanese kid, Ichiro Miki, who is bullied at school and whose parents are too busy working to really pay attention. In a dream, he is transported to Monster Island and becomes friends with Minilla, Godzilla's son, who is also the victim of bullying-- by the monster, Gabara. While on the island, Ichiro witnesses the mighty Godzilla do battle with a giant sea monster (Ebirah), a giant spider (Kumonga) and some Japanese jets!
Later he aids Minilla in a one-on-one fight with his antagonist, Gabara, and wouldn't you know it, the little guy wins! When Ichiro wakes up back in the real world, he has the wherewithal to escape from some bank-robbing kidnappers (?) and eventually gets up the courage to fight back against his tormentors. What's the lesson here kids? Well if you want to grow a pair, you've got to hang out with giant monsters!
Directed by legendary kaiju director Ishiro Honda, Godzilla's Revenge is the first Godzilla film that seems to be specifically targeted at children which makes it appear even sillier than your usual giant monster fare! Actually if you think about it, theme-wise its not too different from the book/movie, Where the Wild Things Are. (Cue James Gandolfini starring as Godzilla in the middle of an existential crisis just sitting and staring at ducks in his pool!)
The movie ain't all that great but of course we were counting on that! One major upside is the movie's theme song.
| Touchdown! |
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
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