Mrparka's Weekly Reviews and Update Week 472 (05.30.2026) (Himalayan, Escape from Death 4k)

Añadido: 2026-06-02

[00:00:08]Hey guys, what's up? Week 472.

[00:00:12]Let's start this off with some sad news.

[00:00:14]First, I'll talk about George Eastman.

[00:00:16]RIP. Uh people always used to make a joke when I was younger, I look like kind of a smaller George Eastman. Great actor, you know, also a writer. um directed a couple movies too, but always remember him in Anthropophagus and Rabbid Dogs and tons of other movies and including some of the post-apocalyptic movies. Big Ape, but uh Eastman was a presence. He was great. Always enjoyed him. So, RIP, a lot of uh classic genre actors and people dying and RIP Cinema Wasteland. So, uh, Cinema Wasteland, uh, the convention that takes place used to take place a couple times a year in Strongsville, Ohio that I've been going since maybe late the second half of 2009, 2010 for uh, at the very latest. I I went through 31 shows um, out of the 50 or 52 shows that they had, something along those lines. Um, yeah, it just was a a great show. I It's one of those things that my whole year sometimes revolved around Wasteland, seeing a lot of people. I had a lot of great friends.

[00:01:11]Um, you know, it's just these memories you you I don't even know. I don't have the words and I didn't prepare anything, but I'm sitting here thinking about it and you know, you like, oh, it's just it's always good. You take it for granted. But then, uh, no other convention I ever went to lived up to it. I only went to a couple and it just didn't have the same atmosphere and I never really bothered with any other conventions but Wasteland. Um, I don't know if I'll go to something else. If something around Wasteland is planned, I definitely will go if it's full of Wastelanders, people that I knew. Um, I mean I met some of my best friends there to be honest and a lot of people that I knew from online and podcasting and movies and stuff. We all would meet up there. Moods and the 22 shots and JP and Carly and of course Cage was always there. I've been there so many times.

[00:01:49]The first time I went, I actually went with my dad. I was so young. I never been to a convention. And uh I remember we stayed Friday into Saturday and my dad uh we didn't sleep a week because it was so loud in there trying to sleep and my dad was like, "Man, those zombies sure know how to party." And I'll never forget that. you know, it was just a kind of a a moment I shared with my dad.

[00:02:06]Uh, you know, I just just a lot of memories tie into a lot of stuff like that. But yeah, RIP Cinema Wasteland. I want to thank uh, you know, Ken and his wife and everybody for running that place and all the the staff and everything. It was uh, it was something special as far as I could tell. And uh, I'll miss it. I'll miss the people. I'll miss going there. I'll miss hell, I'll even miss that shitty ratty hotel that they had it in. Uh, and the Super Eight that closed across the uh, the way too.

[00:02:31]So, um, it's weird to think that I'll never ever go to a cinema wasteland.

[00:02:35]You'll never ever wake up in the morning or you never go to that hotel. You'll never drive in. You'll never walk that showroom. It's kind of setting in a little bit the longer it goes on. It's a [ __ ] bummer. I'm going to be honest.

[00:02:44]And I know some people that doesn't mean anything. They go to different places, but this was uh, you know, the convention, right? For me at least. Uh, so let's jump into the reviews. And the first one up is another Golden Harvest early one here from 88 Films. And this is the Himalayan. And uh this one it kind of stands out because it has a lot of younger people. I mean like they're younger. A lot of big people that pop up in this one in smaller roles. Like you see Jackie Chan and I didn't even recognize him, but you see him right on the back there uh before he had his his facial construction. I seen Yoan Bao in the very background. Sam Hong is kind of a badass in this one. Has some good fight scenes. Um and there's other people like Angela Mao has been in the other two Golden Harvest flicks as well.

[00:03:22]And the lead baddy in this one, uh Chang Singh, I think it is. He's super familiar to me and I've seen him in a bunch of stuff. He's got like lowlay energy kind of to me. But uh yeah, he's he's a pretty convincing kind of scary big kind of bad guy in this one. So this this plot is one of the most convoluted.

[00:03:37]And when I'm talking about Hong Kong movies like this, convoluted plots, you know, the idea that it just kind of uh loses its meaning, right? When you say something's convoluted in a lot of these kind of crazy movies like this. But um the one thing that does stand out is that, you know, it takes place in like Nepal kind of area. Tibet kind of deal. So, it definitely takes place on its scenery.

[00:04:00]It has these great background landscapes and all that kind of stuff. So, it's not your standard Shaw Brothers of Golden Harvest sets kind of production. It's it's a little bit different. It's a little bit, you know, I guess they definitely explore the cinematography aspect and that's definitely, you know, uh is appreciated because as much as I like the sets as anybody else, this is just kind of a little bit something different and it really helps with this one because this run time's a little long. I think this one's almost two hours long and um sometimes, you know, a lot of Asian films could be accused of having a little bit of too long of a runtime and I do think that some of the Shaw and the Golden Harvest do, but uh I I mostly enjoy it anyways. But this plot here, getting to this convoluted plot here. Of course, it's a period piece and we have um I don't remember that exactly, you know, the background of this family, but they're well off and they're the kind of leader of the Marshall world, this guy, and he wants this uh you know, somebody to marry his daughter that's worthy. So, uh, they have it spied out that there's going to be this, uh, this guy who's really good at his martial arts and he has an older brother who's incredibly evil. And, uh, they kind of lightly spar and, uh, they're going to be married and everything like that, but the brother pulls a fast one and a ridiculous fast one. He ends up killing his brother and planning a guy who's already married into the kind of marriage that looks like him. They have to put a fake birthark on him. It's this whole thing.

[00:05:12]And it's incredibly convoluted and it gets more and more complicated the way um, people start to know and people are blackmailing and all this other [ __ ] and it just unfolds correctly for the bad guy. It's like, man, this guy was basically assuming a lot was gonna fall in his favor. And I caught myself halfway through this being like, geez louise, come on, guys. This is a bit [ __ ] much, isn't it? But, uh, overall, this one kind of builds up to a giant fight scene at the very end. And that's kind of the showstopper here. We have this giant fight scene with all the characters kind of in this giant castle and everything like that. I think some of the characters motivations are a little bit silly, like the father thinking his daughter did something wrong almost immediately without even questioning her, sends her off on a raft to die. All this kind of stuff like that where I think that they do a lot of, you know, uh coincidental things and and things of that nature, convenient things to move the plot along to make the bad guys kind of, you know, uh whole deal kind of go into place. And I mean, I'm sitting here, you know, uh complaining about that stuff when I watch like Wooshaw movies, which are completely fantastical. And this one doesn't have necessarily a fantastical feeling. So maybe it has more of I guess a a slight grounded feeling in it. So that's why I'm probably nitpicking it. Doesn't mean the movie is horrible or anything like that. So I mean it is solid. It is talky. And it does take a long time.

[00:06:19]Probably the third act late third act to middle third act. This movie is so long it has like four acts. But uh basically you know the whole training montage right where the characters we can't win unless we go get our training and come back and fight because we have a small town kind of poor guy that's not you know fit to marry the daughter. But uh there's defin definitely some attraction there and whatnot. And uh I I just found this movie pretty solid, pretty decent, good bad guy, good martial arts action.

[00:06:44]And it's great to see people like Jackie Chan and Yung Ba in like a a blink and you'll miss it and Samo Hong roll. So tons of people in this movie. Um as far as the features, I did enjoy the main feature here, which is a commentary with Frank Jyn and Michael Worth. Always full of knowledge, always talking about all the characters and pointing them out. I didn't even register. That's uh you know, a lot of these people were in here before they did that. Of course, I recognize Samo. He's my boy. But then we also have Tales from the Monastery, Interview with Dorian Tan, English opening and closing credits, original trailer, image gallery, versible slave.

[00:07:15]And this one, I believe, was only in Mandarin if I'm not mistaken. Mandarin and English. Um I watched it in Mandarin. Um sometimes watching these in English can be fun. Sometimes it's uh detrimental to a serious story. It depends on my mood on the Hong Kong movies. Um, a lot of the horror films I will watch in Mandarin and Cantonese or Cantonese, not typically English. And a lot of the horror movies actually were never dubbed uh in any other language or at least I haven't come across them. But yeah, this one here, uh, pretty decent one. Looks pretty solid. Love the glossy cover art here. And, uh, yeah, it's nice to see some of the early, uh, Golden Harvest ones get released. These covers are actually really nice. Okay, we're going to end the Gali Guns and Gore box set here, The Brutal Films of Darren Ward. And the last one here is Beyond Fury from 2019. Now, um, the main character in here played by, um, what is this? Michael, he he has two names actually. He kind of changed his name.

[00:08:06]Michael Nick Randell and I think he goes by Nick Roberts or something like that now. But um, so he kind of plays Walker in all three of these and they're not really directly tied together. They definitely have the same kind of energy and whatnot. The first one being Sudden Fury, which I already covered, which is more of a sov kind of crazy almost fun, light-hearted one in comparison to the other two films. in a Day of Violence.

[00:08:25]He plays kind of this this kind of dumb hitman guy that's trying to get some, you know, um uh uh what's the word I'm looking for? Uh redemption in his life.

[00:08:35]And the final one here, Beyond Fury.

[00:08:38]Actually, I think that Randelle turns in his best performance. And I think that Darren Ward and Nick Rendell have come a long time, a long way in their acting and directing. And I think he gets better every time in a lot of different aspects here. So a as in uh Darren Ward is an English filmmaker of course and he's inspired by all sorts of genre cinema including spaghetti westerns Euro crime films luchio falty horror films all that kind of stuff there and you can tell he puts a lot of it into his films.

[00:09:04]So I always appreciate that and watching Beyond Fury in 2019 I was like I don't from 2019 I was like I don't know this is it's a mix it's it's kind of a mixed bag from that time for independent cinema especially British cinema because I know that I've seen this sentiment before. Britain used to be one of the kings of films and uh after you know the a lot of the stuff like the hammer stuff would die down they never really held it into the the 70s I think they kind of fell off a little bit and the same thing with Italy and a lot of other countries as well and the same thing it feels like the United States is doing for me so it's so many different places are kind of falling off or changing and you know adapting but I I was a little concerned when I when I started this box that I didn't know how I would like them I appreciated all of them but Beyond Fury here it kind of won me over I think that I am a Darren Ward fan for the most part um there's a short on here too called Passion which I think actually flexes his film making techniques the best his colors and everything doing a jello very good at that kind of stuff but uh so we're going to talk about Beyond Fury here so it's your standard kind of story here a little long on the run time but uh it's it's kind of your revenger except it's incredibly brutal and sadistic um so this guy Walker he is kind of settled down he's married and his wife is pregnant and they're super excited to give birth um and everything like that and he does definitely seems to have a dark past maybe possibly in some sort of government uh you know agency, but he's out now. But he was supposed to be a badass. You kind of get that impression. And and Nick Rendell's a big guy. So um Randelle, I feel like I don't want to mess it up and I'm saying the wrong actor's name because he's like the main guy in all these movies. But uh he's he's a big guy. And one day, you know, uh him and his wife go out to dinner and they run into some thugs, which are completely over the top, almost like Deathwish style thugs, like the Deathwish sequels. Uh one is like Spider and and one is like Skank and all that kind of stuff. Sullivan. They all start with S, which is odd, but uh so so they have a runin and uh his wife ends up dying. I don't want to spoil it too much, but in a brutal, nasty, incredibly nasty fashion, which keeps you get worse and worse and worse, and they think they kill him. Of course, they don't. And he uh is going to get revenge at any cost, no matter what, because his life is basically empty at this. And you know, he's he's he's struggling with depression and sadness, but he's also struggling with his anger, and that takes over. So he kind of goes into badass mode when he runs across one of the thugs and starts to kill his way to the top. And you learn that this gang is basically ran, this crime lord has his son was running this gang and kind of like a Johnwick style thing, right? And then it's played by Giovani Lombberta Redi, House on the Edge of the Park, Cannibal Farox, um, City of the Living Dead, one of the all-time great Italian actors, RIP, one of my personal favorites. Um, but yeah, he plays the main baddy here, this crime boss, and he's very eccentric, and he's playing as Lens Lensovich, which obviously he's got to be a shout out to Alberto Lensy, and I bet that uh, Giovani, old Johnny Morgan here definitely was having fun playing that role because he can't stand Alberto Lens in interviews and stuff like that. Um, so he he directed him in Kibal Farox. So, I imagine that he was definitely taking some liberties and hating this guy, making him a sadistic monster. So yeah, basically this movie is Randelle kind of finding these people and killing them and them getting kind of a bit of revenge and all that kind of stuff like that. And it ends in a very sudden fury and um Day of Violence kind of way, right, where he always leads to these giant chaotic like shootouts or giant kind of set pieces. And there's no difference here. Um there is some amazing gore set pieces in here which are absolutely brutal. People's feet get completely obliterated. And when I say obliterated, I'm talking Adam Chaplain style gore. Some people compared this to Terrifier 2 and three style gore. I can see it. Yeah, it's on that kind of level in a lot of places, but it also has that kind of action as well. Um, I enjoy this. The goons are memorable. Um, the main hero is actually a actor that I followed through this journey and I think he's gotten better and this is the first time I think more so that he has a character that you can root for. Even though he's sadistic and goes nuts, you you're rooting for him. You're sympathetic towards him. And in Day of Violence, he was playing a guy that you didn't really care for. In that movie, nobody is is likable or even to root for, and I don't need that necessarily, but they're also just kind of like the bottom of the barrel scumbags. They're not very interesting. This one, the characters are a little kind of wacky and weird. And the acting does range. I think that the main players, most of them are are solid or to good. Giovani is always interesting and fun to watch.

[00:13:07]And Nick is good in here as well. I think that it looks more professional.

[00:13:11]It it's, you know, it's it's um polished, I would say. And the opening credits were pretty cool, you know, uh definitely something that he took his time on and did some good work on. But uh overall um as far as the special features, we're getting those first.

[00:13:21]Making its UK Blu-ray debut behind the scenes featureette. Audio commentary with Darren Ward and Nick Randell. The crime trilogy part three. Beyond Fury, Darren Ward looks back on making the film. Chainsaw fun featurette gas works visual reel. Visual effects reel. Crime story. Crime trilogy props tour. Short film passion which I would recommend.

[00:13:36]That's very good. Passion commentary trailers image gallery English subtitles. So overall pretty solid. Uh nice little release here of three movies. Uh Jolly Guns and Gore. So, it's it's it's not going for too much money here. So, if you're a fan of independent cinema or just brutal violence, then I think you will enjoy this. Now, they are rough around the edges and I didn't love all my time with it, but I overall came out on the positive side, I would say, with this box set. And I would like to see him make a full-blown modern horror movie um with no, you know, if he could get the money and his the means to make it. But yeah, pretty cool box set from Treasured Films. Okay, we're going to tackle the first set here of the uh The Treasure of the Soviet Animation Volume One. Treasure of the Soviet animation volume 1 from De Crocodile. De Crocodile, great company, does a lot of eur Eastern European films and a lot of animation. So there's three films here and we're going to talk about The Return, um the mystery of third planet, the third planet and the past. Um Vladimir Tarlovves uh has done the past and the return and Roman Kachanovi Nov has done the mystery of the third planet. The first one on here is the return and this is 10 minutes. This is very abstract. Um, the animation is great, but I don't really know where what I could say about it. Um, and it's a little oddball one here. I like the animation's interesting going over Russia waiting for this astronaut or cosmonaut, if you will, to make it back home and his father kind of enters the room. I don't really have much to say about this one is most definitely my least favorite of it, but it was definitely a nice kind of uh kind of brush to understand what I'm getting into. And I've seen my fair share of animation, kind of Eastern European animation, and I think this style was actually one of the better ones I've saw. I think this was made in 1980, but we're not going to break all these up.

[00:15:14]We'll show clips if we can, a trailer.

[00:15:15]But then the second one here, I want to make sure I say this right, is the mystery of the third planet. And this one actually had a commentary in a video essay. There's two video essays on here.

[00:15:23]One for Vladimir Tolavasov's career and one for Roman uh Kachchanov's career.

[00:15:27]And they kind of go over their entire career, what they were into, how they made the animation, and talk about these movies as well. both great video essays, but there's commentary on the mystery of the third planet, and they talk about how popular this was in Russian pop culture and how it kind of even proceeded into American pop culture and was redubbed over in English a couple times, which I found very interesting.

[00:15:44]But the mystery of the third planet reminded me a bit of um the uh the the Bill Plimpmpton kind of mutant aliens one, just a little bit different, if you will, but uh and more light-hearted.

[00:15:56]This is a child's film. So, it takes place obviously in some sort of sci-fi future alternate reality where we can just travel wherever we want and a couple professors with his one of the professor's like second grade daughter are going to go to this planet to get kind of animal, you know, animals for their zoo. So there's like a flying cow that they look at and they kind of stumble upon this kind of tragedy where there's these kind of birds that are these these special birds that have been kind of killed and they think it's every all signs point to the the guy that's in charge of this mission being responsible. So they start to dig deeper and they're trying to survive and they have their couple tricks that they find to make it and everything like that and they kind of uncover this conspiracy that what what was killing these birds.

[00:16:35]It's it's fun. It's light-hearted. The characters are entertaining, really enjoyable. There's this wild man kind of character here that appears to be some sort of alien that's a heroic type and he's pretty funny and one of the more likable ones. I can't remember what these birds are actually called. But this one I really enjoyed. Really solid stuff. Um would recommend that one. It's about 50 minutes long and the time doesn't feel like 50 minutes. And the last one here um the pass. Um I think that uh the mystery of third planet was 81. Um the return is 80 and this the pass here is 88. And uh oh boy, the pass is definitely the gem of this this three kind of short films here. I think technically the mystery on third planet counts as a feature because it's over 46 minutes or something along the lines.

[00:17:15]But here we go. The past. This one has that same abstract style of The Return, but the story is just wonderful and dark. And I noticed a lot of musical stuff in here. And they talk about that too, that a lot of the animation would have musical notes and things of that nature, and I can appreciate that. But what I uh was kind of surprised by how dark and weird this one was. So 16 years um this this kind of giant spacecraft crashed on this planet, and these people had survived. And it appears to be these kind of giant almost like civilizations within these spaceships that live here.

[00:17:42]And you don't really know that until they figure it out. But there's a group of older people that have been here six years and they're kind of getting older and they have their kids there and it's kind of a last ditch effort that we got to get to our old spacecraft. We need the gun. We need supplies. We need to somehow get there and communicate and let the people know our distress beacon and all this kind of stuff like that.

[00:17:57]So, um they decide to go on a mission.

[00:17:59]and one of the adults goes with these three these three kids and they're going to go through this desert-like, you know, uh environment where there's these things called night creatures that come out where the sheep that kind of visits them is this weird bugeyed creature that was a lost pet. Um all sorts of strange things of that nature, but it also is completely experimental and how it does things and um also the sounds are great, the music is great and it just gets completely weird. I love abstract and weird experimental stuff when it pertains to the story and this movie mixes it perfectly. It's not just crazy imagery for the hell of crazy imagery, which I don't mind, but when it pertains to the story and the way they tell the story, how they show where the space shuttle is within the crevice and they tell how it got there, it's just great stuff. This is a great piece of animation and it is a little bit scary, but I think it's approachable for an entire family. Would highly recommend the pass. And I say overall all three of the sets good and we got the two commentary tracks on there and they do kind of hit you over the head on the commentary tracks. They say, "Man, I really," one of the guys goes on and on about how Western animation is just so boring. And especially when they do sci-fi, it's the same crap. Same as Star Trek, it's Star Wars. It's this. It's never something different. And the Russian stuff kind of is Soviet stuff is is definitely a bit different. And I would imagine so, you know, that big space race thing kind of running through and this the paranoia from the Cold War and the some of this stuff. So, it's it's an interesting kind of look at a lot of these movies and whatnot. And uh very entertaining. You know, you got two, one of which is kind of a mix of light-hearted weirdness, and then you got one that is completely lighthearted, and then you got the dark one that I thought was fantastic. All three are are worth watching, and the second and third one I thought were really good, and the third one's my favorite. Okay, so I wanted to treat myself to something special this week uh to cheer me up. And I can't get the whole shrink wrap off, so I left it around the slip cover and pulled it out the bottom here. But this is part of the Luchio Falty Presents line from 1988 here. And this is from the director of Sister of Ursula, which is a nasty, sleazy, jolly, which I really like because I'm a pervert. Pull out your pervert card. This one is called Escape from Death. Um, and I wasn't too familiar with this one. I had heard about all these movies in passing and I kind of avoided a lot of them. I had seen, I think, the Fulty. I had seen one of the Fulty ones, of course, but not both of them. And this has a decent cast in here. Kind of surprising. And it took me a second to register who they were. you know, like the main cast in here. Um, like they're like I think the lead actress is famous, but she's not like f famous famous for being famous as Urklani said that if I'm not mistaken on which actress they said, but uh there's a couple cult favorites in this movie that I didn't even register was them.

[00:20:19]And so I was listening to the commentary and I was like, I can't believe that's Annie Bell. Annie Bell was in this movie from House on the Edge of the Park and a slew of other movies. Yeah, Annie Bell.

[00:20:27]Um I think absurd as well, but yeah. Um I couldn't believe she was in this. and Zora Kova from New York Ripper and Cannibal Farox again. So, it's got a nice little be cast here. This movie, it's a 4K and Blu-ray combo. This movie opens up bonkers. Like, it opens up with a guy narrating and he's like, "Oh." And he like gets shot and or something like that and you're like, somebody gets shot and you're like, "What the hell is going on?" And you completely forget about the beginning while you start watching this.

[00:20:51]And what happens is it turns out that there's this woman who's incredibly rich. She's beautiful. she's rich and uh her doctor and everybody thinks that you know um the doctor her husband's secretary is still there for whatever [ __ ] reason and this kind of strange girl and uh her dad is is there working the the stables there but uh they think she's mentally ill. It's kind of like a gaslighting story where like they're trying to make her seem crazy and her husband died. She witnessed it but the body disappeared forever. So she always believed he was dead. No one else really believed that you know he was dead. Um, so one day her husband shows back up and she's like, "You're not my husband.

[00:21:29]You're not my husband. You're not who I you are." And you really don't know what the hell's going on. And there's a lot of this going back and forth, like the doctors getting involved and the secretary and these other two kind of oddball characters. And then other people start coming back from the past as well. Um, the actress who plays the succubus from the Manda Mccabra movie, Succubus, which is a cool movie. Uh, she's in here. So, it's not a relatively huge cast. But the problem with this movie is without that opening where somebody gets shot in the face and and uh there's not much gore or anything like that and I think people are probably expecting gore being a Luchio Fali presents movie which was tacked on to the end you know after these were going to get released but also it's just a little boring until that point. Um, it does add an element of possible [ __ ] well it's not possible. There's a homosexual element in here which reminded me of FC's movie Devil's Honey, which uh it's a much better movie than this, but it has that whole element going on. And then we have this like showstoppping weirdo crazy scene like an hour into the movie, like 57 minutes in the movie, you only got 30 minutes left where we have some uh, you know, testicle, some uh, dick carnage and and whatnot. And then it starts to pick up and gets really weird and people start getting picked off. And then the reveal is just like what the [ __ ] ever. It looks really great. Kind of like Massacre. It looks great and it sounds pretty good, too. It's in Italian, but it's not a spectacular movie, but I don't think anyone exed, you know, most of these Luchio Fali presents movies, which have a horrible reputation to be anything but watchable. And it's definitely watchable. It definitely has like some entertainment value, and there's some fun things to be had. Um, I think this would make a good group movie because by yourself it gets a little talking. It gets a little kind of gaslighting kind of storyline here. But as far as the special features are concerned, what we have here is contains 87minute presentation, Dolby Vision HDR, newly scanned 16 millimeter. They were on all shot on 16 millimeter by the way.

[00:23:15]U following soundtrack uh Italian language with newly translated subtitles and the commentary track for film historians Eugenio Erlani and Troy Howworth. Always welcome. um contains everything on the UHS disc except Zora the escapey. An interview with actress Zora uh Kova, victim of circumstance, an interview with uh Alexandro Fay Berger, Bloody Sonata, an interview with composer Paulo Gada, Exuming Luchio, an interview with critic Pierre Mario, Escape from Death, Enter the Showbiz, an interview with film historian Erkalani.

[00:23:46]Man, I must have missed the Kurova interview because I listened to all the special features. I did not see that.

[00:23:51]Did I miss that? I must have. Which I apologize. I remember listening to the Urk Alani and of course the uh the Fulty kind of fanatic, but they did mention that Zora kind of had uh you know her acting career and then she moved back and had to come back and Falty helped her out in the the the uh commentary and everything and gave her uh some roles and everything to help her out which is great. She did a few of these kind of Fulty movies. Um this isn't a Fulty movie but she got the role because of Fulty on this one from Escape from Death. So if you're an Italian horror film fan completist like myself, then you got to have it. I enjoyed it. Uh, I probably would watch it again. Um, and if they release more of these, I will definitely buy them. Although, I am a subscriber, so hopefully I get them anyways. But yeah. All right, let's get into those 1983 movies.

[00:24:32]>> I have returned.

[00:24:58]Okay, show me.

[00:25:06]Where is the music down in the sound of laughter?

[00:25:22]There was never laughter.

[00:25:35]>> What's it like?

[00:25:37]>> What's what like >> screwing a psycho?

[00:25:53]What the [ __ ] was that?

[00:25:58]>> It's gone.

[00:25:59]>> Guy blows dead dogs. Just lay it in there.

[00:26:02]>> Eat [ __ ] and die, Ricky.

[00:26:03]>> Eat [ __ ] and live, Bill.

[00:26:05]>> Yeah, Bill.

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[00:26:13]32.

[00:26:14]32. Year of a man's prime. Loved by many women. He might still learn to swim. 32.

[00:26:23]Going.

[00:26:25]The kid was cut in half, aren't they? He had to scrape his legs up with a shovel.

[00:26:30]Well, isn't that what you're supposed to do with [ __ ] Scrape it up with a little shovel.

[00:26:34]>> One final moment of revenge.

[00:26:38]>> Wondering what's real.

[00:26:44]All of it is real.

[00:26:47]>> You You want to see something really scary? You're dead.

[00:26:51]>> Really?

[00:26:51]>> Yeah.

[00:26:55]>> GET THE VIDEO DRONE. LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH.

[00:27:00]Have >> no choice but to kill the son of a [ __ ] >> Living on his entire life in a state of fear.

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[00:27:30]Oh boy. The first one up for 1983 is a [ __ ] bonkers movie here. This uh stars Pia Zadora um who I think I've seen it a couple times, but she she looks she's got a great look and this is based off a book called The Lonely Lady.

[00:27:43]It's listed as a horror film. God knows why. I mean, there's some horrific [ __ ] in it. That's probably what happened.

[00:27:48]And uh this is directed by Peter Zazdy, who is a Hammer guy, and he worked on the Hammer House, a horror t television show, and he did a couple movies. So, it's kind of crazy. You know, Zazzy was I don't say one. He's not like a Terrence Fischer or a Freddy Francis or a Roy Baker, but you know, he did a couple and mostly the thrillers and everything like that. Um, and there's some other familiar faces in this movie.

[00:28:07]Um, uh, Bebish and of course Jared Martin from the New Gladiators and stuff like that. Looking at the cast and everything like that. Uh, Mickey Knox is also in here and, uh, gez, who else pops up in this one? Really owned in a small role, but the the with Mickey Knox and them, I was like, "Oh, this is got to be an Italian co-production." And damn, damn, it definitely was. Uh, and it is a super bizarre movie. I don't know how to go about this movie. So, I guess we're just going to dive into it. So, The Lonely Lady, I'd not really heard much about it. Didn't have too many thrilling reviews on Letter Box, but I put this in, I start watching it. And um uh a lot of people are like I I thought maybe it'd be the subject matter and how how twisted a lot of the stuff is that bother people. And I could see that, but right in the beginning, we have this uh prize-winning I think she uh she's like a prize-winning a best-selling author and she's super young. They say she's years past like, you know, she her intelligence, she's way smarter and understands things way more for her age.

[00:28:59]and she's getting this award and they kind of she starts talking about I always want to put something new in and different to help people learn as she gets cut off and shushed and that kind of starts the president how poorly she's going to be treated and this like condemnation of Hollywood that this movie is going to do but for me this movie is kind of like that which is one of my favorite movies so I'm not bad mouthing about candle holocaust right where it's like it's condemning all these things about you know the exploitation of people and the how media manipulates and things like that but to get its message across it's also committing these acts of you know this incredible exploitation you're like Jesus But in this aspect, you're like, so it's basically talking about how poorly women are treated in Hollywood and how hard it is. But by this movie, you're also like putting this woman through the meat grinder and all this kind of [ __ ] up [ __ ] So I'm like, it is a movie though at the end of the day.

[00:29:42]So like, but so like right at the beginning of the movie, she goes uh she's supposed to go on this like date, this Hollywood date, and they're like she's with this kind of like schlubby guy and he's like, "We got to go." But she wants to stay because she's talking to this world famous like teacher and writer uh uh her son. And so she's like, "I want to say it." He's like, "I'll introduce you to my dad." He has a buddy in Ray Leotaa who's like definitely he's all he's all messed up on marijuana and violent. Um it's completely ridiculous, right? Back then they're like, "He smoked weed and he went nuts." Uh but uh yeah, so he ends up committing a sexual assault on her in a really twisted way.

[00:30:17]And uh you know, instead of going to police because they don't feel like they have enough evidence or that these people will be pursu uh persecuted or prosecuted because they're they're rich in Beverly Hills kind of deal. Um the father comes over of the the young boy and tries to make amends and he's much older guy and they end up falling in love and getting married. So you're like, "Oh, this is [ __ ] twisted." I I wish I would have known it was a book before I it was too close to the date. I would have I would have read the book.

[00:30:40]I've been reading all the books from the 83 as well. But uh so they get married and that starts like this this obviously turmoil where this writer uh on a movie set, he starts like using her ideas without saying so and she feels neglected all this kind of [ __ ] like that. and she ends up going through all these different men and having these relationship and every one of them turns out to be an absolute scum [ __ ] bottom of the barrel, the worst possible person in the movie. The only person that seems halfway decent that's a guy is the uh her this uh homosexual director who actually is in all that jazz. Uh the I think his name is Guy in this movie. He plays uh you know um he's he's I can't remember his role in all that jazz, but he's definitely one of the big main motivating factors for Roy Shider's character and helps him out a lot in that one. good good actor and I like his character in here. Although he kind of betrays her too with a couple words later on in the movie, but uh the whole movie leads up to this kind of mental breakdown and I was like where are we going to go from here? Are we going to go for a revenge thing here? We're going to kill and just violent crazy nonsense insane thing. Um and the movie's played straight but it has this element of campness. Maybe it's because there's a uh you know Peter Sazzy was kind of an odd director for the project. Maybe it's because it's an Italian co-production.

[00:31:44]Um maybe because it's just not translated well into screen. But it just becomes this campy weird mess to the point where I was like, is this played straight or is this a joke? And I I just could see why people would really enjoy this movie because it hits that camp element, right? Like a mommy dearest to a certain extent or something just completely Flowers in the Attic where it's like it's crossing that line of just utter absurdity to a point but cruelty and weirdness. And then at the very end we have this big kind of almost clever speech that she gives uh on the nose but funny and clever at the same time. And you're just like what is this movie? So, it's like basically you you got to [ __ ] your way to the top, but you get to tell everyone they're pieces of [ __ ] and it was all worth it or you're just walking out of here. It just it's just a [ __ ] weird bizarre film. Um, as far as the special features are, we basically only have an interview with her, interview with Pier Zidora, and a network television broadcast version of the film. But plenty of nudity, plenty of sleas, a lot of it unpleasant. But hey, um, I enjoyed it. I don't think it's necessarily a classic movie, but it's definitely got a camp classic kind of thing written all the [ __ ] over it. I don't know how much of a horror movie it is. Although a lot of the [ __ ] that happens is completely horrific. Um I don't know where they list it, but hey, it's a cult movie and I'm glad I watched it. The Lonely Lady from Peter Sazzy.

[00:32:54]Okay, the next one is a Hong Kong picture and it is called Sketch and this is listed as kind of like a crime thriller on Internet Movie Database.

[00:33:01]It's so funny what they list as a horror movie and Letterbox calls it a horror movie. This is a [ __ ] horror movie, guys. Um they're listening like sometimes they'll list these certain movies that are horror films like this is a horror film. is that guys um Emanuel in a woman's prison is not a horror film if something wicked this way comes the dead zone and and um sketch aren't like that's absurd like it's just because those are popular movies and people just like that's not horror and nobody's seen [ __ ] sketch but Sketch is a horror film so it's a crime thriller horror film uh so what we have here is there's a serial killer going around in this kind of Hong Kong like village isolated village here it's not super isolated but it does feel a little bit small but also it seems to have a genuinely like decent size police force or maybe the killer's only striking in kind of the rural areas which I I dig that for sure here. Uh I like that rule kind of uh kind of police procedural kind of stuff here. Um the aftermath of the the opening kill is actually brutal.

[00:33:52]This woman is raped and killed in the chicken coupe and the way they do it and stuff flattering around with the chickens. This movie does have animal cruelty in it of course. Um but yeah uh pretty brutal opening and then we definitely have that uh you know that comedy that these Hong Kong movies have.

[00:34:06]Um, this is definitely closest in line with something like Red Panther from 1983 as well, which is also a bizarre kind of serial killer mystery horror movie, which has the comedy elements. I think this is less comical than that one, but it still has it. So, what we have here is basically two detectives on the case. One of them, which is a uh a younger guy who's not from around here.

[00:34:25]He's an outsider, and we have a local.

[00:34:27]So, they're kind of paired up here. And the local uh guy is kind of he knows all the family and he knows all these people and he's trying to help figure this out while the new guy is getting a hard time. You know, his wife also suffers from some sort of mental illness, some possibly anxiety and stuff of that nature. And there's a gang that's led by, you know, like the uh the mayor's son, and he has like a group of five or six guys. Some of some of them uh one of the guys is definitely a familiar character actor. And they're just pieces of [ __ ] They run this town. They sleep with prostitutes. They beat people up.

[00:34:55]So, you don't really know. He's definitely the lead guy is definitely a suspect as well as there's a couple kind of people have a history of sexual kind of pro uh you know defunction or degeneracy I guess you'd say within this town and they're also on the the list here. So we kind of plan all these possible suspects in here and there's a new person in town who's a psycho uh you know a psych um what is this psychiatrist or psychology I don't [ __ ] know his name or what doctor what's translated correctly but he he just moved in this town he's got like bad skin and he's completely demented um and he's also a suspect. So, we have all our suspects and there's some gaslighting being played to the point where the husband doesn't even believe that his wife is actually telling the truth and people get picked off here and there in kind of violent fashion. But the reveal I thought was pretty fun. I didn't expect the reveal to be that. Um they they threw me for a loop a couple times, but then when it was hitting to a certain point, I was like, "Oh no, we're going to do that." And I was actually happy with the reveal. I thought that Sketch was pretty damn good, to be honest. I was entertained with it. I thought it was above average Hong Kong horror flick thriller deal. and I thought it was better than Red Panther.

[00:35:56]I thought that for how many little people have rated this thing on letter box. I like the look as well. It's kind of like that. It's got a darker look than it should because the quality is not great, but I love the location being in that small village on kind of the like coastal kind of water and everything like that. I like uh the the the guy who plays the local cop also in a ton of movies. I believe he's in the inspector wear skirt series where he's like the male kind of inspector guy who's always trying to like date the lead uh female inspector in those movies. and he's got a good comic kind of comical kind of style about him. But overall, I thought Sketch was pretty damn good. Um, and it kind of at the very end we have this whole like big kind of festival that happens and like people are trying to figure out who the killer is and stuff and they cop split off and stuff. Reminded me a little bit of Double Impact at the end there. But hey, uh, entertaining movie sketch.

[00:36:39]Check it out. Okay, this one is really interesting. Another kind of crime thriller last horror film here. And this is the next victim from Brazil. And uh what I've noticed um is a lot of the uh South American movies like you watch the Colombian movies or something with a carne de car and stuff like that from the early you know 80s um and there are some sex exploitation stuff too. Some have the comedy elements but they all seem to have a gritty element especially like you start doing these movies like pure blood which I I really liked as well from 82 and the car is from 83 I think that's Colombian. Pure Blood I think is Brazil. That's Colombian as well. But this one being Brazilian I was like okay you know we have the old Coffin Joe movies from the 60s and 70s and stuff like that and they have a sense of brutality as well. Um this one is very dark and gritty and it says it's based on true incidents although nobody in the movie is based on any an actual and this is during a time of like political you regime change and the people are you know upset on the streets and things of that nature. And we have this reporter, you know, he's like one of these type of characters that obviously probably comes from a better background than most of the people that he's interested in investigating and things like that, but he he's uh, you know, our intellectual type. And so he wants to be involved with this case when these prostitutes start to end up being murdered brutally. Um, and there's actually it's not like in that sense that, you know, like it shows the murders, but it shows the aftermath. And they're graphic like that. I don't know why they're they're filmed this way that is actually bothersome. It reminds me of the opening shot again in Pure Blood when we go through the hallway and we have that the the sprawled out and bloody body and everything like that.

[00:38:03]But there's a couple of these aftermath shots of characters where I'm like, "Oh, it looks like real crime footage and stuff being the reporter and stuff." So, he starts to dig deeper and you can tell that they're trying to railroad these certain people, this railroad this person into being the murderer and stuff and he wants to dig to the bottom of it and figure out well at the same time he has a tra taxi driver style thing going on. And instead of like Travis Travis not sleeping with Jodie Foster, he ends up having this relationship with this 15-year-old prostitute, you know, while he also has a relationship with one of the his co-workers at the same time. And he's going he's he's like separated from his wife and kids. So his life is complicated. He's a very complicated, you know, iffy ass character. And you can see why like some of the people, you know, that live uh kind of lash out him at one point. And um I thought this is an interesting movie. There's also like political stuff going on with like the the kind of guy running the police force and everything like that. All sorts of stuff of that nature. I liked how it was shot. I like the characters. I thought it was pretty interesting. I do think the opening two acts are a little bit more interesting to me than the final act. I I felt like not that I thought it was bad. I felt like it was maybe losing me just a tad bit towards the end of the film. And I think the beginning was just something that sucked me in right away with the way it was shot and the way that it had going about it. But I thought this was really good stuff. The next victim. I would recommend this one.

[00:39:12]Um, and there's a point in here where one of the guys who runs the hotel suggests something and it was straight a line out of cruising, right? Or the idea of cruising, right? It's always somebody different, right? Uh, they're they're black, they're white, they're Japanese, they have dark hair, they have light hair. It's always somebody different, right? Always always different many. And you're like, oh, so the suggestion that maybe there's something else besides, you know, not a supernatural element, but maybe some sort of conspiracy or it's just not the same person every time. Like we got a Boston strangler situation or something of that nature.

[00:39:41]But, uh, yeah, that cruising that idea, right, that it's a different killer and it's just the idea that they're that whole idea there. Um, is batshit crazy.

[00:39:48]If you haven't heard, uh, Joe Rubin talk about, you know, his proto slasher his his like kind of uh, weird slasher kind of movies episode he did on the secret top 10. He goes deep into the careers and it's great information on that. I might have to listen to it on anchor or Spotify on podcast. I think it probably was had to be edited on YouTube or something. But anyways, I thought that The Next Victim was a interesting different movie and I didn't expect much out of it. You know, I didn't know what to expect, but I'm I'm finding a couple hidden gems in 83 movies that, you know, maybe they flirt with the horror. Maybe they are borderline horror, but I would call this probably thriller crime than horror, drama horror. But, uh, I I've seen a lot less horror movies, movies that are less horror films listed as horror a lot lately. But, yeah, good stuff. All right, we're here for another special Patreon review. And this time around we're doing the 1975 movie Johnny Firecloud. And uh this was basically a patron said any Buckflower movie I hadn't seen. So I got on my letter box and I was going through it and I was like Johnny Firecloud that looks kind of familiar. Did a little research on it. I had heard about it in passing and it sounded like the one that I was definitely going to watch right up my alley. Um, the big thing here is I didn't know this was produced by David Freeman and that would have made the world of difference because uh some of the stuff Freeman produces not a fan of, but some of the stuff he's had his hands in I absolutely love. So, um, the cast is the one thing and I'm I'll let you uh do the bigger names in the movie. I meant the headliners besides the main Baggy. But for me, I'm drawn in by the character actors. So, of course, we got Ralph Meer, who I've always liked. We got uh Buck Flower, of course, goes without saying. John Golf is often contribute uh basically his partner in crime. Richard Kennedy. So, we got a nice cast in here. And then we got a couple familiar faces in the lead, the guy who plays a Native American. I've seen him pop up in a few things.

[00:41:32]>> Yeah. Yeah. A lot of uh you know, some people that were doing a lot a lot of episodic television and stuff. Um but yeah, I I was actually surprised when you had mentioned that you hadn't seen this before. Um you know, it's a a 70s revenger. Um I figured it would have been, you know, right up your alley. Um >> so yeah. Yeah, I was I was kind of surprised when you were like, well, you know, it's, you know, one of the one of the pics is, you know, George Buckflower thing I hadn't seen before. I'm thinking about, you know, these two. Uh, and I was like, "Oh, Johnny, you know, Johnny Firecloud would be a fun one uh to do."

[00:42:02]And yeah. Yeah, I was very surprised we hadn't seen it before. And like you said, you know, Dave Freriedman production. Um, so the plotline for Johnny Firecloud uh from 1975, it's essentially I mean, it's a setup you've probably seen two dozen times. I mean, it's basically the setup for, you know, I could probably name 15 black exploitation movies right off hand that have, you know, more or less the same setup where a man comes back from NAM.

[00:42:29]Uh, in this case, he's a Native American and not a, uh, you know, not an African-American. Um, a guy comes home to a small town after fighting for the country in Nam. uh meets up with a bunch of good old boy racists uh who, you know, are basically terrorizing the local minorities. Uh eventually they take things too far and he, you know, he's had enough. Uh and he he turns the tables and he's out for revenge. Uh and that is more or less the entirety of the main plot of this. You know, it's funny.

[00:43:06]A lot of times movies with this sort of plotline, you will get some sort of subplot where, you know, oh, the big the big dog in town is, you know, out to do some like shady real estate deals or, you know, clean up and, you know, make some sort of profit. They don't they dispense with any of that stuff in this one. It's basically they're just dicks.

[00:43:23]Uh, >> they do have a subplot in here and the subplot is is kind of wild and weird.

[00:43:28]So, uh, Ralph Meker's got the sheriff kind of over a barrel, if you will, in kind of a way that he knows a lot of dark secrets about him back in 1975 Dark Secret. And I thought that character was really interesting because at first I'm like, "Fuck this piece of [ __ ] cop."

[00:43:41]And then over a while you're like, "Oh, wow. Now this guy is a little bit more nuanced and he actually becomes a pretty solid character." And did you listen to the commentary on here?

[00:43:49]>> Um, I did. I did.

[00:43:50]>> It was pretty funny what Hener was saying about the crowd and that's he's like if they don't know what to think, they always just stay quiet. Like I remember having that at the witch like after the witch was over everybody was like what the [ __ ] was that? Like like I didn't I it took me like a few minutes to register if I liked it or not.

[00:44:06]>> Yeah. And it's true and I mean I guess we can kind of discuss it. I mean if if anyone doesn't want uh you know any sort of the uh uh side stories of Johnny Firecloud spoiled uh you know fast forward to the next chapter. Um, but it's revealed that the sheriff character in this is actually like a closeted homosexual and he was kicked out of the military. Uh, you know, he got drunk one night and, you know, he was, uh, walked in on by a superior officer. So, he actually got kicked out of the military, uh, for homosexuality.

[00:44:37]And Ralph Mer's character knows this about him and is basically blackmailing him, you know, uh, into doing his bidding. uh and he's kind of being forced to do it.

[00:44:49]He knows that, you know, what he's seeing here is wrong and he is opposed to it. Uh but unfortunately he's, you know, not yet prepared to kind of have this fight with himself, you know, and kind of have this thing revealed. And it is, you know, a very, you know, the 70s were way different times. Uh, you know, and especially, you know, it it is very surprising to see a character of that sort be portrayed sympathetically and as like a fully realized three-dimensional character, right? Normally in exploitation movies, uh, you know, you you'll have, you know, these sort of like mincing types or, you know, these, you know, just joke joke stereotypes.

[00:45:31]>> Even in the 1980, we were there.

[00:45:32]>> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. don't answer the phone. Like, come on.

[00:45:35]>> Right.

[00:45:35]>> Like, >> um, which strangely shares another similarity to this, but we'll get into that in a minute.

[00:45:40]>> Um, >> but yeah. Yeah, it is one of the more refreshing things about this movie and one of the more interesting things about this movie is the way that it does kind of sympathetically handle this character. Uh, and that that's really, you know, one of the surprises about it.

[00:45:57]And it's something that to me kind of elevates this movie uh a bit higher than you would typically give something like this credit for.

[00:46:07]>> And it's also good for us because it's produced by David Freeman. So when he gets his hands on things, and I know this sounds terrible and call say it what you want, he adds a gratuitous amount of violence in it. And the violence in this looks so much better than the [ __ ] Hershel Gordon Lewis stuff he touched. It's like it's shockingly good. I know I didn't know this movie was going to be that brutal.

[00:46:25]and the the Hicks in here are are almost cartoonishly over the top to the point of disgust where I was like, "Fuck these people." Like, I would shoot them in the [ __ ] head and sleep like a baby. Um, the one scene and like I don't I don't want to spoil everything, but we're going to there's spoilers here. There's a couple like there's a rape scene in here which I was kind of like I can't it was brutal and I was just like [ __ ] nasty um point in here and there's of course nudity too, but I don't think any of the nudity is [ __ ] pleasant. So, I think it's in there. Yeah, it's it's I mean the the girlfriend character um who you know is is Christina Hart um you know her nudity is a little more erotically played but Sasha Little Feather no definitely not that's just a brutal assault scene. Um, so jumping back to the gore, um, so the gore effects were actually jump done by, uh, Joe Blasco. Um, and he was, uh, you know, he got his start in some some lowbudget things like, you know, Garden of the Dead. He had done the effects for the SS, uh, already at this point. Um, and he went on to like he actually founded a well and I >> after this he did, uh, some Croninberg stuff. He did uh They Came From Within and Shivers. And he's kind of noted as I mean They Came From Within and Rabbid.

[00:47:41]They came from Within being aka Shivers, right? They're the same movie. Jesus Christ. Um >> and he was kind of he's known as kind of being a a pioneer of the bladder effect, you know. So in in Shivers when they have that guy's chest there and it's like pulsating and you know, things that we will see throughout the 80s through, you know, pretty much every transformation movie. You know, you look at stuff like Beast Within or or uh you know, Marin London. Yeah. Right. Um, so I mean he's kind of uh, you know, given credit as being sort of like the the real pioneer of that effect. Um, but he went on to found uh, a makeup effects school. Um, which was really kind of the first of its kind. When I was in high school, I wanted to be a special effects makeup artist. And I remember writing down to them. They had a school down in Orlando, Florida. uh and getting they sent back like this package of information uh including like you know all this stuff of you know prior people had gone there and like a a photocopy of an old Fangoria article about Joe Blasco where it's talking about like his makeup for the Croninberg films and like I say she wolf and stuff like that. So yeah, I just thought it was like super cool but my parents were like oh you know maybe you should like look into something you know uh a little more practical, right?

[00:48:55]Yeah, pretty much. My parents were always like, "Yeah, you could do the writing." Because I was wanted to be a writer. He's like, "You could do the writing, but you should like get another backup." Like, so you're not like they always like they they like were always good about that stuff. Like, oh yeah, you should do that. It's great. But also like >> maybe go to regular college first and then, you know, I'm just like fine.

[00:49:16]>> Um but yeah, so I I I know, right? Well, and the funny thing is like had I gone down there, I graduated in 1995. So, had I gone down there and, you know, done this special effects, you know, course, I would have been certified and out on the job market just in time for CGI to take over all of the makeup effects jobs. So, >> right. I was going to say, so my parents would have actually probably been right, but whatever. That's not the point.

[00:49:42]>> Uh, I do want to mention some of the the we said Buckflower and John Golf were in over 40 projects together. So that's insane to think that. And Ralph Mer was with uh Buckflower a couple times and the one that I want to mention is G uh Mer and Flowers again is probably Bill Roain's best movie, The Alpha Incident.

[00:50:00]I think it's his best film. I think it's his good a good film too. And Ralph Miker was one of those character actors that was in a lot of bigger films early on like The Dirty Dozen and St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Fruit of the Fruit of the God's not a big movie, but that's one of our kind of but he was always a really solid actor. But I think he suffered from a stroke in late 70s, early 80s and after that he was kind of pushed into like minimal roles. He you'll you'll spot him in without warning. Um and one of the as a bar patron and >> I think that might have been his last thing, right?

[00:50:28]>> He can't really do anything in it. I mean he's surrounded by a bunch of nutso actors like Neville who's in there. It's uh Jack Palance, Martin Land.

[00:50:36]>> Yeah, Jack Pal. Martin Land.

[00:50:37]>> Mitchell's in there, but he's not in the bar.

[00:50:39]>> I don't want to say Neville Brand's not in that one, is he? He he seems like he he'd pop up in the bar, but I don't think he is. I think it's Martin Land down the crazy, but he he could easily have been in that movie, too. But uh yeah. Yeah.

[00:50:50]>> What did I just watch? I just watched something with a young Neville Brandon the other day. What was what the hell was it?

[00:50:55]>> Is it the one with uh Anthony Perkins and uh he's like a sher he's like a young sheriff and he has to stand up to him at the end.

[00:51:03]>> It was definitely a western, but I don't remember.

[00:51:05]>> Shooting star. Is that's that what that one's called? There's one with Perkins and uh he's like a young sheriff and he's got to stand up to him. I can't remember the big actor.

[00:51:12]>> It may have been Stewart.

[00:51:14]>> It may have been the It may have been the Elvis thing that I watched the other day. If he if he if if he's in Love Me Tender, then that's what it was cuz we just watched that the other night. I know. We We've slowly been making my way through the Elvis. Anyway, so Ralph want mention Oh, yeah. Go to Maker. I was going to say, yeah, so Ralph Mer, I mean, the main thing I knew him from, uh, I don't know if you're a film noir guy. Um, but he, uh, he's in Kiss Me Deadly, uh, which is, you know, one of the better noir, uh, titles. Uh, so I mean, he's he's kind of like he's kind of a mean son of a [ __ ] in that one.

[00:51:46]So, I mean, he always kind of really left an impression on me from that. Um, so yeah, that's always like what I mainly knew him from. Um, but yeah, he's he's one of those guys that's always cool to see pop up and stuff.

[00:51:57]>> He's good. He's also in the Night Stalker, the uh he's his buddy that lets him down. I mean, he's a great actor.

[00:52:02]Those are the actors I get excited about. People are excited about a lot of the big guys. I'm like, it's got Ralph Mer and George Kennedy in it. People are who the [ __ ] are you? What? But uh and also Richard Kennedy, I' I've this is a guy I've seen a handful of times in movies and I'm starting to put it together now rewatching the Ilsa movies.

[00:52:17]The first two he's in those. He's fantastic in both of those, but he's really great in um >> Yeah, because this one too in Shewolf is the way he's and he's has the woman piss in his mouth like if I remember correctly or piss on his face or something, right?

[00:52:32]>> He's also in Harlem. He's got that >> in her Keeper, right? Yeah.

[00:52:35]>> Harm Keeper. Yeah.

[00:52:36]>> Playing a different character, right?

[00:52:37]>> Harlem. I keep calling it Harlem Keeper.

[00:52:40]>> That'd be a great movie.

[00:52:41]>> That'd be a whole different movie, right?

[00:52:42]>> Elsa in the Hood. It's like Leprechaun.

[00:52:44]But then we got uh Kennedy was also in um which I I didn't even remember him being in this but this is a movie I watched numerous times uh which who came from the sea. He's with Buck Flower and they're both police detectives and John was in that as the father. That's a that's a great underrated movie by the way. It really is. It's kind of like one of the best video nasties that shouldn't have been on the list. But >> yeah, it's kind of like a dark twisted little psycho character study. Uh yeah.

[00:53:09]Yeah. Fantastic.

[00:53:10]>> Um we should get into like some of the stuff in here. I feel like the main Native American character is pretty nuanced, too, because he's a character that's so prideful and he he tells people off all the time. And to be honest, if he was a little bit more careful with how he handled his grandfather and the the teacher, they might not ended up in such a bad way. To be honest, he should have he was he he refused to, you know, I guess blow smoke up his grandfather's ass. You know what I mean? He's an old drunk guy, man. But he he somehow like inspired him. But to to to rise up against him, but in reality, I I'm not saying to kind of like back down in this situation, but it's it's really tragic what ends up happening to all the people around him, >> right? Yeah. It's a lot of peripheral damage. You know, he comes home and basically stirs up the pot a bit. Uh you know, kind of uh >> getting all these local Yogals really wound up. I mean, you know, and it's set up that, you know, the the Ralph Maker's character, you know, who basically runs the town. You know, he's a big racist.

[00:54:13]You know, Johnny Firecloud had an, you know, a relationship with his daughter that he disapproved of. She got pregnant. You know, he left for war without even knowing that she was pregnant. Um, she turned to alcoholism because Ralph Maker was hiding, you know, these things. She thought she was abandoned by him. Um, turns out he was writing her letters the whole time and, you know, the dad was just intercepting them. and basically, you know, not only, you know, essentially ruining his own daughter's life, you know, driving her to, you know, become this just sort of uh uh, you know, hopeless lush.

[00:54:46]Um, so yeah. Yeah. And, you know, once Johnny returns, you know, essentially he's he's framed for a rape, uh, which, you know, isn't a rape. It was, you know, purely consensual. Um but yeah, they use that as an excuse to throw him in jail. And while he's in there, you know, again, these these locals are pushing things too far and they end up murdering the grandfather.

[00:55:09]Uh which is, you know, the catalyst to, you know, spur Johnny's revenge.

[00:55:15]>> Um I love how the revenge takes place.

[00:55:17]He [ __ ] these guys up. He royally [ __ ] them up. And the first one I was like, you got to scalp somebody. I mean, like that's such a brutal way like to kill somebody in general. And uh that that that scene where he walks in and I saw the first bit of gore. I was like, "Oh, this looks really good." And and in the 70s, we're even looking back at stuff like 79, like Fantasm or some of the early Italian ones like uh Speria. I don't know necessarily if that was on purpose or not, or Dawn of the Dead, the blood is not great looking. It It looks like paint. And that's the whole kind of gimmick here. And I'd always would like be like, "Well, the the real blood came in yada yada." That's not necessarily true because the blood on this looks great. This actually has some of the better gore effects for the time to be honest. I think that's very good.

[00:56:00]>> So the the first I had heard of the movie um was in 1992. I got a copy of uh John McCart's uh Splatter movie guide volume two. Um of course I bought Splatter Movie Guide Volume One at the same time. Uh there's this company in New York called Fantico and they used to do you know they always had ads in Fangoria and stuff and that's where they would sell like all the Chaz Balance stuff you know the Gore Score and Deep Red Magazine and stuff like that. So, I mean, you you put out a book called The Splatter Movie Guide. Of course, I'm going to want to buy that as, you know, a 15-year-old. This came out in 1992.

[00:56:32]So, I bought this and one of the list, one of the reviews it had in there was for Johnny Firecloud. And I'll I'll send you pictures of these because it's probably not going to show very well on the uh the >> How long is the review? You could just read it.

[00:56:45]>> Well, no, no, but one of the things it actually has a picture of the scalping in it.

[00:56:50]>> Ah, Richard Kennedy right there. So that image stuck in my head. Um, now none of my local video stores actually had the tape. So it wasn't until I was like 16 and I started driving around more and, you know, uh, you know, exploring other video stores that were within driving distance till I finally found a copy.

[00:57:08]Um, but that image of him walking into that church scalped, you know, that big like, you know, uh, >> putting him in a church is also demented when he walks into the church, >> right? that big bloody head wound uh always stuck with me and that was what made me you know originally rent the tape. Um the tape was from a company called A&E Video. Uh it was you know this uh you know plastic clam shell box.

[00:57:30]Um not great cover art. It it basically is mostly like a black cover um with like the uh rectangle in the middle.

[00:57:37]It's an image of him like with blood on him after he was beaten up. Um so nothing that would like really make you pick it up and be like oh I need to see this. Um, but yeah, they they had done a few other movies. Uh, I had like they did uh Alberto Lens's Iron Master. Um, they did >> also not an amazing movie, but an amazing cover, >> right? Yeah. Now, that one has good art.

[00:58:00]Um, they did like Franco uh Prosper's uh one of those other sort of uh uh like 80s Italian sword and sandal things. Um, but yeah, just just a a handful of things. Um, Ninja Wars, that that Sunny Chiba Japanese thing with a, you know, huge blood spurts and people vomiting all over the place. Um, but yeah, and it so the last time I actually watched this, eventually it came out on DVD, uh, in 2001 is the copyright on the back of the DVD. So, it's actually been like 25 years since I've watched this. Uh, so I'm actually kind of, you know, always looking for an excuse to to rewatch a goodie. Um, but yeah. Yeah, it uh yeah, it seems like it's kind of fallen off a lot of people's radar. Yeah, you know, >> I had only seen it in passing and it was um actually a surprise. It was more shocking than I thought and I didn't know that something weird had put this out on DVD as a double feature with Bummer, which is probably not something up my alley. I I probably would hate it, but it's not something I would seek out.

[00:59:02]I'd I'd watch anything. But um the the one thing I do want to mention is what blew my mind listening to the commentary is that 20th Century Fox picked this up for international rights everywhere except Canada, United States. So this movie got a lot of play around the world and it had so many dub tracks that Mike from Something Weird was talking about, too. It was really odd hearing that commentary and realizing that two of these guys are dead.

[00:59:22]>> I know. I know.

[00:59:23]>> It was bizarre.

[00:59:25]>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and it was it was Dave Freeman's most expensive production at the time. I think he said he spent like around 220,000 on it. Um, and yeah, he it was, you know, apparently it looked good enough. I mean, they shot it in scope, which was one of the things about the VHS tape that I never realized was that I was missing half of the picture information.

[00:59:44]>> Um, >> now it's it's not it's well shot, but it's not like a Sergio Leone movie where there's like stuff happening in like the periphery of the frames where you're just like, you know, staring at the middle of the screen like what the hell's happening? Um, but yeah. Yeah, I didn't realize that the the tape was so brutally cropped until I saw the DVD.

[01:00:00]Um, but yeah. Yeah, Fox picked it up for International. Um, and they he said that they basically just in the advance for international, they paid him back like the entire budget of the movie already, >> 250,000 or something like that.

[01:00:13]>> Yeah. Yeah. So, he was already, you know, sitting pretty and, you know, essentially any profit that rolled in from North America, uh, you know, went was pure profit at that point. I'm kind of shocked that Vinegar Syndrome or Egga have not grabbed this or Bleeding Skull or something. I It's not a police. It's too good of a movie and like straightforward and serious like it should be a Vinegar Syndrome type.

[01:00:33]>> It will be It will be uh it's you know because they they got all those uh all the Dave Freeman stuff. Um you know AGA had them originally and then I guess sort of uh decided to wash their hands with them. So I mean you know uh Dro Pix has slowly been going through uh this exploitation stuff. So yeah, I would I would not be surprised that if we see Johnny Firecloud some point in the future.

[01:00:55]>> This is definitely one that should hit Blu-ray. It's it's underrated movie and I love my revenge movies and that the fact that it has the exploitation stuff in it but also is nuance enough to be good. I've always appreciated movies that were like, "We're gonna entertain you, but we're gonna make you take your medicine with it, too." Because I feel like this is one of those movies. Like, heoids from the Deep to me is always like that, too, where it's like, it's got good messages in it and stuff, but at the same time, it's just like straight >> just right. Just just blood everywhere.

[01:01:20]>> What the [ __ ] is this? And I always tend to like enjoy those. Sometimes they can be like uh, you know, knock you back and forth a lot, but when it works, they're always beautiful. And this one, it works really well. the lead guy.

[01:01:31]>> I um he's also in Ghost Dance, which >> is part of that early.

[01:01:35]>> It's actually pretty decent. Yeah, >> it's decent. Um and it was [ __ ] when I first saw it on like a VHS ripped and then when I watched the Blu-ray, I was like, "This is a little bit better than I than I saw because I can see what the [ __ ] going on."

[01:01:45]>> Yeah. If Ghost Dance If Ghost Dance had like one or two more killings in it, it would be like really good. Uh that's >> the one in the the museum's really good with the glass. That's a good kill.

[01:01:55]>> Yeah, I like the movie, but yeah, it's a little bit slow. The name Johnny Firecloud is the guy who actually is possessed in in Ghost Dance, isn't he?

[01:02:02]>> I think so. Yeah, >> I think it is him.

[01:02:04]>> Yeah, Victor Mohooka. So, like like many people like like all the major uh Native American characters in this movie, none of them are actually Native Americans.

[01:02:12]>> They're all Italians, >> right? So, he So, Victor Moa was actually Puerto Rican. Um >> Okay.

[01:02:17]>> But yeah, and apparently he also has a small role in Don't Answer the Phone, which I don't remember him being in. The only character I can think of is maybe he's like one of the pimps uh like like later on in the in the you know when they're when he's going Kurt Smith is going out to get the prostitutes and stuff. I think there was like a pimp character. I'm like well maybe that was him but I mean I haven't watched >> he fights one pimp character and he breaks the bottle over his head. That's a black guy.

[01:02:44]>> Yeah, I do remember that. Yeah, that's in the hotel room. I think it's one I think it might be one of the guys out on the street but I could be wrong.

[01:02:49]>> The guy runs the hotel >> maybe. I mean, it's been I I haven't watched that movie probably since I worked on the DVD. So, that's been like 20 years.

[01:02:56]>> You got to rewatch that movie. That's great. Steals, that whole movie. And it's got that it's got Porky in it from Porky's.

[01:03:03]>> Mhm.

[01:03:03]>> He's like, "These are some nice bitches."

[01:03:07]>> That guy popped up in a few movies from the uh when I was going through the 80s.

[01:03:10]I was like, "This [ __ ] guy, you don't forget that dude once you see him."

[01:03:13]>> But yeah, Victor Moa like I mean at this point or Moika. I I think Freeman pronounced it Mohika, but the trailer pronounces it Mohooka. So, I'm I'm gonna side with Freriedman, I guess, and go say >> I would, too, because we don't want another Tob Hooper.

[01:03:27]>> Yeah, good old To Hooper >> or Harlem Keeper of the uh >> U. But, yeah, he was he was, you know, he he did some small television work, you know, not not a regular, but, you know, would just do uh uh appearances here and there and some small movie roles. So, I'm sure this was like, you know, the casting of a lifetime. like, oh, a lead in a feature, you know, I mean, I mean, who wouldn't jump at that?

[01:03:47]Um, Freeman did say it was a SAG production and he I think he paid everybody scale SAG scale, but still, you know, lead lead in a real movie. Uh, you know, I'm I'm sure he was he was thrilled for this. Um, so yeah, the the other two uh Native American characters, so his dad um who was uh uh let's see, I have Chief White Eagle. Um he was a guy named Frank Dova and he was actually Sicilian. So he was not even he was both his parents were Sicilian. So it's not even like there was a hint of Native American. So he actually he was another guy he played like a lot of TV stuff but he he also did like a lot of western movies and small things but he he played a Native American guy a lot.

[01:04:30]Um >> he never slipped through when he was like you're talking me all wrong here.

[01:04:34]>> Yeah. I know. Right. Right. He does the wrong role. because yeah, he was jumping from like either gangster stuff or uh uh you know cowboy movies. Um but he hit it big on F troop. Um he played a different indative American chief on that. Uh yeah, Chief Wild Eagle, not to be confused with this chief uh Chief White Eagle. Uh you know, no relation. Of course, they weren't they weren't banking on that at all.

[01:04:56]>> But yeah, he did 63 episodes of F Troop.

[01:04:59]Uh and I mean that was, you know, a big 60 show. Um but yeah. Yeah. I mean, I never would have guessed he was a Sicilian guy, you know? I I never >> He did look Native American to me. And usually you can spot you're like, "That guy."

[01:05:13]>> Yeah. I was going to say I never once doubted his credentials until I was looking into this. I'm like, "Holy [ __ ] that guy's Sicilian." I was like, as mad as when I found out that like Lou Diamond Phillips was like Filipino or whatever. I'm like, "What?

[01:05:23]>> I know.

[01:05:26]>> I just stopped recording.

[01:05:28]>> I'm done with this conversation.

[01:05:29]>> I'm done with this." Um so so the third the third character would be Sasheen Little Feather um who plays the uh school teacher um who you know unfortunately gets assaulted in it. Uh her big claim to fame at the time was she was the one who uh respectfully declined the uh Marlon Brando's Academy Award. So she came out at the Oscars when he won for Godfather 2 and said basically uh Marlin was wouldn't accept this award you know and and gave this whole spiel about you know because of you know the way that the you know indigenous peoples were treat you know the treatment of the indigenous people of this country and all this stuff. So, it became like, you know, this this big to-do and she became a huge like Native American rights activist. Um, but turns out that she was like the Rachel Dolesol of her time in that, you know, somebody, you know, doing research years later found out that she was actually of Latin American descent and not Native American. So, you know, she put on this whole big thing and that like wasn't even, you know, Sasheen Little Feather is obviously not even her real name. It was like Maria something or other. Um, >> but yeah, so like So, so like the three the three main, you know, Native American characters we have in this movie, none of them were actually Native American.

[01:06:53]>> You know what's really [ __ ] up?

[01:06:54]>> What's that?

[01:06:55]>> Turns out that uh Ralph Mer was actually Japanese.

[01:06:58]>> Oh, >> no. I don't >> I didn't know that. Oh, damn.

[01:07:01]>> Complete lie. That would be funny though if there was something like that like guys do that too. Well, they'll be like uh Bronson like hid his last name so people would know that it's like man your last name sounds really Russian.

[01:07:14]>> Right. Right.

[01:07:16]Um, so yeah, the the other the other main uh character I did just want to mention on was you know the girlfriend character Christina Hart. Uh, so you know she had done some exploitation stuff like the stewardises and she had some small roles in like the mad bomber and Charlie Veric. Um, her sort of biggest thing at the time was uh, you know, she or at least cultist thing at the time was she played Patricia Krenwinkle in the Helter Skelter TV movie. Um, that was you know a big miniseries event you know based on the Manson murders. Um, but something I didn't know until I was looking this up was that she was actually married to Frank Double Day, um, for like decades.

[01:07:53]Uh, and he was the, you know, he's one of the gang members in um, Assault Precinct 13. Um, and, you know, he was in, uh, Escape from New York and stuff like that. So, yeah, I I was completely uh, unaware of that as well.

[01:08:07]>> The last thing I do want to mention is some Buckflower cuz somebody did pick this for Buckflower. All right.

[01:08:11]>> Buckflower's classic in it. You're classic. Oh, I'm a piece of you know that like just redneck kill. He's great at that.

[01:08:18]>> Um I don't He's actually probably one of the better character actors. He's one of those guys that I'm always excited to see Buckflower like a Joe Spanel just popping up like there. And I don't think Buckflower ever really got a starring role.

[01:08:28]>> No, not that I can think of. Yeah, he's always just kind of in these, you know, small little supporting characters just walking around. And >> we always used to do this. It was my favorite thing in uh Wish Masters like, "Oh, we get scanter. We get scanter and [ __ ] dice." I just thought that was the funniest thing in the world.

[01:08:44]>> Well, speaking of which, so there there one line of dialogue from this movie I did write down and I forgot is uh >> at one point when Victor Mo when Johnny Firecloud first shows up back in town, he's at the pool hall, which actually ends up being a pretty cool little brawl. Like there's a guy thrown he's thrown there's like one guy gets thrown through a pinball machine and stuff. I'm just like, "Oh, this is actually pretty rough and tumble little uh uh uh knuckle duster here." Um, but when he first starts getting in a fight with um, uh, uh, Richard Kennedy, uh, he gets in a fight with John G. John >> G. Well, Richard Kenny says the line to him, "One of these days, me and you is going to tangle assholes."

[01:09:23]>> And that just made me laugh so hard. I had to write down.

[01:09:26]>> Kennedy doesn't actually fight fight him.

[01:09:28]>> But he's there during the fight.

[01:09:30]>> Yeah, he's there. He's playing poker with Ralph Meer, right? And he cuz he goes in, he's going to he's he breaks the pool queue and he's going to stab him with it.

[01:09:37]>> Yeah.

[01:09:37]>> Uh if memory serves and Yeah. He's he's like and the the sheriff stops him and he's like one of these days me and you is going to tangle ass.

[01:09:44]>> I don't even know what that means.

[01:09:45]>> I know. I know. It was so funny. I had to write it down.

[01:09:48]>> Just like the little intestines from Dead Alive or something. I don't [ __ ] know what's going on. But uh I I love that the bad guys are really just children. Like when they're pushed to a shove, they like just break down and cry like babies. All three all all three of the main goons do. Um there's a couple other goons in here. Like one of the guys that gets the axe to the head is so fast and so sudden then you see him just like dead and you're like [ __ ] rough, dude. He he butchers these guys pretty bad. But there's also another thing and I guess we're going to spoil the [ __ ] out of this movie. Um is that you expect this big climax at the end and it doesn't happen. Like the main baddy does not die.

[01:10:22]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. you know, he he almost does, you know, I mean, uh uh Johnny Firecloud whips up on him pretty good, but yeah. Yeah, he he doesn't actually get killed and you expect it to have, right? Everything kind of builds in a revenge movie to the climax, you know, this sort of cathartic climax. And instead, we sort of have this kind of weird almost existential standoff, you know, this sort of uh dialogue scene between, you know, the sheriff and him.

[01:10:50]And you know, it's kind of a bit more of an ambiguous ending. Um, you know, rather than this this sort of uh, you know, the gruesome payoff that you're kind of expecting. Um, so yeah, and that it does kind of stick in your memory because of that. Uh, but at the same time, it doesn't feel unjustified.

[01:11:09]You know, it does feel kind of organic to these characters.

[01:11:12]>> I wonder if actually the sheriff went back and did something about it. You never know. It's kind of like what is that? Uh, the confessions of a police captain. Not quite as good as that, but that ending is fantastic at the very end. It leaves it open-ended like that after all the [ __ ] up stuff. Um, but yeah, it's not quite as good as that. I mean, this is after all more of an exploitation movie, not like a high art crime film or something like that. But, uh, no, I was impressed with it. Um, I didn't expect it to be as big as polished. When I saw David Freeman's name, I was like, "Oh, this could go one of many." You know what I mean? And then it was like it just had the cast. I was like, "Huh?" And I was thinking maybe it's going to be something on the level of like a Bill Robane like uh you know the alpha incident and it was about on that level you know. I think it was a little bit better than that.

[01:11:52]>> I was going to say I think it was a little bit better than that. I mean to me it it plays >> you know it doesn't play that far removed from like the big studio sort of crime movies of the 70s or you know the sort of these these drive-in movies. Um >> you know it doesn't feel cheap. You know it doesn't feel like it cheaps out on anything. Um, so yeah, I could, you know, it it's not I mean I can see it playing on double bill with something like Rolling Thunder without issue, you know, >> as the B picture pitcher though, >> right? Yeah, >> it's definitely the B picture pitcher rolling thunder. Uh, but that that's a big expensive movie too though. It's got a big calling, I would imagine.

[01:12:27]>> Right.

[01:12:28]>> No, I liked it. Way better than expected.

[01:12:31]>> Mhm.

[01:12:31]>> I was gonna think like five and a half to six and it was like a seven.

[01:12:35]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's where I ended up landing on as a seven. Um, you know, it has well-written characters.

[01:12:42]You know, it it might be a little long for what it is. It's like an hour and 40 minutes. You know, for this type of movie, especially with one that doesn't really have much in the way of, you know, it's pretty much A to B for the most part. I mean, it does have some surprising depth to the characters, um, that you wouldn't expect in a movie of this type or this level.

[01:12:59]>> Um, but it is a little I would, you know, maybe 10 minutes too long for, you know, what's what's basically a simple revenge movie. I I would agree with that.

[01:13:08]>> But yeah. Yeah. Overall, yeah. Yeah.

[01:13:10]Seven out of 10 is not a bad rating. Uh it's, you know, a really solid above average uh little 70s action movie.

[01:13:18]>> There's a commentary is pretty much the only feature that I know of. That's decent. They talk about a lot of the people involved. And uh Freeman can't remember if this is the hard or the soft version. And it's most definitely the hard version like you know what I mean?

[01:13:28]But there's probably other stuff like Shai as well. Um I mean I couldn't I can't probably remember half the things that I did let alone this guy >> right who made like you know all these movies right and trying to remember them you know 40 years later it >> it's people think I hate hersa Gordon Lewis movies but it's a point like I don't hate all his movies you know he and Freeman produced them but I'm starting to think Freeman might have been the guy behind like why they were any good some of them >> right >> you know what I mean >> he's he's a better producer than AC Lewis is a director >> yeah I mean because is great too. Even though he didn't he didn't have the hands in the editing, he definitely was responsible for Elsa, >> right?

[01:14:06]>> A lot of it. Cuz Don Evans, he did direct uh Harum, which is a great one, too. I like that one. But Don Evans other movie, Terror on Tour, is is terrible.

[01:14:15]>> I I kind of like Terror on Tour.

[01:14:17]>> TERRIBLE. THERE'S NOT NOTHING HAPPENS.

[01:14:19]IT'S HORRIBLE.

[01:14:21]>> I'll rewatch it. It's horrible. When it when it gets Blu-ray, I'll rewatch it with >> He He did I think there's music rights with that one. Unfortunately, I saw like a a 35mm print of that. at one of those exume shows. Uh, and it looked mint. It looked like it did not play like a screen in its life. There was like no damage to it. The colors were great.

[01:14:39]>> Somebody should tell all those Hong Kong movies that [ __ ] there's music rights.

[01:14:43]>> Yeah, >> cuz I don't I I thought they stopped caring about music rights at this point with releases >> cuz about half the movies that get released, I'm like, what?

[01:14:50]>> Yeah, I know, right?

[01:14:51]>> I did hear I did watch that Pattern of Roses recently, which is like a British TV movie, and those [ __ ] the Beatles in it. I was like, "Oh, this is never going to come."

[01:15:01]>> Yeah, that's never coming out. Right.

[01:15:02]Another good Don Edmonds. Have you seen Bare Knuckles?

[01:15:05]>> No.

[01:15:06]>> Oh, that's actually a pretty good one, too. That's a good solid uh drive-in type movie. Uh >> yeah, watch that. Uh somebody who uh uh >> is is one of your uh Patreon Patreon subscribers should suggest that one so we can come talk about that one too.

[01:15:21]>> For sure. You can come back whenever. Um I like the movie. I thought it was pretty good.

[01:15:25]>> Yeah, same. Uh uh not to steal uh Eert.

[01:15:29]Uh you know, respect to Eert. Two thumbs up.

[01:15:33]>> Respect to none of them. Two thumbs up.

[01:15:36]All right, guys. Let's get in these questions, comments, and concerns.

[01:15:39]Explosive action. I just like to pray for so long as the VHS in Australia was the gypsy cut. Wasn't until the Blu-ray blue brewer, I'm going to say it like that from now on, that I knew there was a far tighter and more exciting shorter cut. Mr. Tony the Dead gives me a wave.

[01:15:50]What's up, Mr. Tony the Dead? Check his channel out. Um, then Door Kitty film.

[01:15:55]Uh, Tintto brass. Cheeky is a high mark for sex exploitation. Um, I remember the cover art. Well, I don't know if I've ever seen uh Cheeky though. Audio Love 1976. Just Jack and also directed Pearls of Gwenolin. Tanti Katan's first film. I forgot that he directed Emanuel. Oh, I love Pearls of Gwenolin. Super fun adventure movie. K&J [ __ ] happen to have the original VHS's Dr. Dracula.

[01:16:15]Nice to learn the original title.

[01:16:16]Alternate cut. Lucifers Woman. Neat.

[01:16:18]Thanks. Thanks for checking out the uh channel, man. KJ [ __ ] also good dude.

[01:16:22]knows his VHS way up, dude. Mr. Park is the man of movies. I appreciate it.

[01:16:25]Vanessa Hex, love Vanessa here. We worship Godfrey Hoe in our house. Haha, I'm stoked to grab Born a Ninja and Commander the Ninja. Also, totally agree on the shortest Cut of the Prey being the best of all three. Smile. I think everyone is. Uh, Steven Leblanc, Malcolm McDall from Caligula. That's the first Malcolm McDow credit you came up with.

[01:16:41]Oh, yes. He was also the lead in the Stanley Cobrig masterpiece, but still, Caligula, love you. Need to rewatch Malcolm McDall's other cinematic achievement, Blue Thunder. Hey, you know what channel you're at? Come on, man.

[01:16:51]This is this is uh pervert card world here. Of course, it's Caligula and Stephen Leblan's on. So, I've gotten a Blue Thunder because of this video and he shares a video a while back, but just finally watched it. Incredible. The live helicopter stunt work and VFX were completely off the hook. Thanks for the nudge. Yeah, it's a great movie. Thanks.

[01:17:06]Thanks for Arrow putting it back out. I' I've actually covered it a couple times at here. It gets better every time.

[01:17:10]Indie Phantom Son of a Cinema. Um always like Blue Thunder and it was an early Blu-ray purchase for me. Saw it with my dad at the drive-in in the theater in ' 83 on a double bill with Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. Um, Beyond Sour Ground. Hey Dave, I'm sure you probably already heard about Wasteland by now, and if not, I hate to be the messenger of death. I was devastated by this, and I'm sure you're feeling it as well. However, I don't want to bog down the comment section of your show with doom and gloom. I meant to comment on last week's video, but didn't uh didn't in time, but I knew you had some problems recently with censorship and YouTube penalizing you as a creator. I hate to hear that. It's certainly one thing I don't miss about making videos. But since you've been we're talking about how you might move forward if YouTube has ever delete your channel. I was just curious as if you've been on YouTube for damn near 20 years now. How long have you been backing up your videos? All the weekly videos would be saved. But uh that for that I don't know about everything else. The weekly videos and the the horror and 1980 on would be saved, but a lot of the other stuff early early reviews and some of the wasteland footage would not be. I I if somebody wants to back it up and make their own Wasteland high uh you know cut of all that stuff, go right ahead. And with the loss of Cinema Wasteland this week, it occurred to me that whatever that uh whatever people documented over the years is likely the only footage of Wasteland will ever have. I know Art always recorded the panels, but unless someone ever else recorded a lot of convention footage over the years and kept it private, you probably have the largest archive of Cinema Wasteland footage, even if it was mostly just people walking around and talking [ __ ] Yeah, exactly. I wish I would have known. It's kind of sad. I'm sure there's other people that filmed as well. Nick from Flanders, I have some decent mentions about memories about Blue Thunder. No doubt I have better ones after I watch it on 4K. Who can say no to Malcolm in Singing in the Rain Midn? Haha. Would you recommend Mr. Faly Zombie 2? I asked because it's lead Ian Mccullin has returned to acting Lori Brewster's Chronicle Chronicle of Chronicles of Depression. Listen, don't even be talking about Lori Brewster's [ __ ] movies. If you haven't seen Zombie 2, go watch Zombie 2. It is literally one of my top 10 favorite horror movies. It's one of the Fult's best. It's one of the best zombie movies. It's one of the best movies from 1979. It's one of the best Italian movies. It's got one of the best scores of all time by Fabio Friszzy. It's so good. It is an amazing horror movie. It is an all-time classic. And it not I'm not trying to be rude, but to even ask me, is Zombie 2 worth watching? Is just like, you haven't been watching this channel at all, but I know you have. So, it's like it's crazy. It's crazy. Go watch Zombie 2. Um, last week's comments, if you still have the energy, YouTube AI seems to be after you, sir.

[01:19:25]Watch your back.

[01:19:28]I got a AI about to watch my back for me. It'll be all right. I've always wanted to reacquaint myself with 10 to Midnight. Was so weird, thrilling, and more than a bit scary watching it at age 15. But, huh, who can say no to non nonsense? Charles Bronson. I actually think I read this to be honest. I think I read this one last week. Maybe I'm mistaken. Um, I do remember reading this, so I'm not going to read it. Ken Kley, I forgot to ask, do you plan on going to any other horses play Cinema Wasteland? I don't know. I don't know.

[01:19:50]Time will tell. Uh, and then Ken Kley, I saw Blue Thunder at a drive-in in ' 83.

[01:19:54]It was showing with Hard Bodies. I know Blue Th's Frame by Frame. Became a Royal Shider fan after Jaws and Jaw 2. Fun fact, fun fact, Shider also starred in 1965 Del Tenny Horror movie, Curse of Living Corpse. saw that late night movie show when I was eight. That was around the time Jaws was released, but I wasn't allowed to see a lot. See a lot. I also have been a Candy Clark uh since uh fan since I saw the man who fell to Earth and Drive in 76 as well as a George Lucas re-release of American Graffiti a year later in 77. I like Malcolm McDall after seeing Clark George time after Time and Get Crazy. Also in ' 83 with Blue Thunder co-star Daniel Stern who I liked seeing uh seeing Diner in 82. I liked uh Waros because of Stripes uh 1941 in a TV movie that was a pilot for a TV show based on True Grit, starring Oats as Rooster Colberg. The pilot aired, but the TV series never materialized. I also liked Oats from watching the Wild Bunch on TV on Sundays. He was my favorite after seeing him a bloody mess screaming while he kept shooting the uh Gatlin gun. I think it's machine gun. I think it's technically not a I don't know if it's a Gatlin Gatlin sort of gun. Um but yeah, uh absolutely. U Gatlin guns the rotator. It's a it's a it's got a thickening arrow. Who cares though? But yeah, he's absolutely amazing when he screams in that scene. Blue Thunder, which also became in TV show works as a psychological thriller. I hate to type cast Roy Shider, but he became Brody all over again. Paranoid about a black metal object instead of a slate uh blue with a white sea predator. The scenes of Shider being reprimanded by O reminded me of the scene in Jaws 2 where he tries to tell the mayor that they might have another shark problem, Mayor Vaughn says to Brody, "Don't push it this time."

[01:21:21]Which leads the viewer to believe that Brody may have PTSD. After all, he saw a man that he bonded with eaten alive and was almost eaten as well. and Blue Thunder. He has post-traumatic stress disorder from being in Vietnam um with Malcolm McDow. I didn't know there were Brits in Vietnam. The only scene I didn't like was the new yoga scene. I always uh I always have to freeze frame it because I'm shocked and have to freeze frame it to believe it. Then I have to stop the freeze frame because the TV screen hurts my nose after 20 minutes or so. Uh I also wanted to make a comment about Nightriders that didn't get read. Night Riders is my favorite George Merror film outside the Dead trilogy. Every time I watch it, I feel like I'm hanging out with friends because of the his unus his usual cast members like Ken Fory, Scott Renegger, uh John Applas, Jim Bafuko. When you reviewed Robin, Prince Atheis, I remembered Romero did the audio commentary and mentioned uh that Morgan Freeman was offered the role of Melvin Merlin, but he declined uh saying that Muslim Merlin's lines were too ghetto.

[01:22:12]So, Brother Blue got the job and nailed it. Brother Blue became a teacher at Harvard. He taught Shakespeare and modern urban speak. A very good friend of mine knew Brother Blue because they did poetry readings in the same bill. On New Year's Eve, that this friend kept bugging me to go to the annual event in Boston. him Boston called First Night. I gave up and went. Then I found out that Brother Blue is reading poetry in Doorchester. Doorchester, sorry. Having trouble with the uh after the surgery, my mouth's not exactly 100%. I wanted to go uh so I could meet uh him, but my friend didn't want to go to that. I made him promise me that he would introduce us. He never did. The ending of Night Ride was copied in the final episode of Sons of Anarchy. Both protagonists committed suicide, but intentionally getting creamed by a huge truck. Both had the camera showing a bird and both showed their helmets rolling in the road. Also, RP to Jonathan Thirstston. I was shocked. I didn't know you until I didn't know until you mentioned on last week's show. RP to Donald Gibb as well.

[01:23:02]Saw Avengers nerds as at a theater when it first came out. I went because I was a Robert Kerine fan after seeing the Pom Pom Girls and the Long Riders and it an obscure movie called Aloha Bobby and Rose. Yeah, I've seen that one as well.

[01:23:15]Um with uh gez, what is that guy's name from Paul Lamont? Yeah, right. Uh, Gibb also did HBO show called First and 10.

[01:23:23]The show is about a professional football team. Jason Bengal from Monkey Shides played the team's quarterback and Delta Burke played the owner. So yeah, that is it guys. Let's get Oh, I just going to do this quick update here. It's only two titles. So first up is Hunter's Blood. Can't believe Hunter's Blood is on four [ __ ] K. One of my favorites.

[01:23:39]1986 exploitation movie. Great cast.

[01:23:42]Clue Gallagher in here. But uh yeah, the one thing I am going to complain about, look at the back here. I don't know if you guys can tell how detailed that looks here, but the front here, it's sunfaded as a [ __ ] I don't know how they printed it. It just does not look necessarily great. Um, I'm not going to complain that much because it wouldn't matter that much. I still would have bought it. But, uh, for some reason, the print on the cover here just looks a little dull. The colors are the blacks are are [ __ ] But, uh, great release here. I can't wait to dive into this bad boy. 4K. Amazing. Amazing. Love Michael Felchers's Red Shirt Pictures Company. Kind of the Synapse deal. Look forward to Fright Night 2 and the prom night movies and everything like that.

[01:24:16]And last uh next up is uh the Pusher Trilogy. Now, I got this earlier and it had the three disc and it only had uh on two disc case and they're all shoved on there and it was rattling around. So, I sent it back because the d the one of the four case was damaged. I don't know if they actually shoved it put this one in a three disc changer here this time.

[01:24:34]But regardless, it's not rattling around. So, that's good enough for me.

[01:24:37]Of course, uh you know, Nicholas Winding Ruffid Trilogy here on 4K. Good price, but I don't know why you'd put three disc and a two disc chaser on 4K. It's not. They're delicate. So, but anyways, uh we're out of here, guys.

[01:25:09]Oh my god.