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July 1,
2010
Dear Greywizard,
When referring to the woman with all the breasts
covering her body in American Raspberry 1977 that was
a parody of an old milk commercial. The original commercial went
something like this "milk it does a body good". That also explains the
"milk can't get enough of it" parodies in the movies. The stay down
parody was just that, the man uses stay down so he won't have an
unwanted erection. I was 23 in 1977, so I remember everything they made
fun of.
Michelle Jones-Hall
Thanks for your information about the
breast woman. As for the "Stay Down" commercial, I could swear it was a
spoof of a commercial for a completely different product (maybe for an
anti-perspirant product?)
June 6, 2010
[re: The Asylum movie
studio]
Looks like you were ahead of the curve on this one by
about a year and a half:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/06/the-most-ridiculous-holly_n_602146.html
a1a45127
May 17,
2010
hell-o!
i like your page very
much, i discovered it about two weeks ago and since then it inspired me
to watch two films that you reviewed, i liked them a lot, thanx
:)
another movie that i
watched before reading your review was Troll 2, maybe if you don't know
that fact already, sometime ago it became a cult
classic and
even a documentary about it was made. There are some links to nice
article about the documentary:
http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=865:george-hardy-having-
the-best-worst-time&catid=36:demo-articles&Itemid=56
http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=716:best-worst-movie-film
-review&catid=50:movies-tv&Itemid=181
greets :)
jacek
ps. sorry for
my bad english, i live in some third world country and i've learned your language by reading
comics using some ancient dictionary to
translate them ;)
May 16, 2010
Hi Greywizard, I was
just trolling around Unknown Movies and came across your review of Emperor Of
The North. Reading it reminded me of a
movie that was on TCM a couple of months back, called Wild Boys Of The Road
(I think that was it). It was actually made in the early 30s,
and dealt with what was apparently a common phenomenon back then:
teenagers deciding to hit the road because their fathers were out of
work and couldn't afford to feed them. Sometimes the fathers
suggested that they leave. And it wasn't just boys. Anyway,
our hero (Frankie Darrow) starts riding the rails and living in hobo
camps, along with a loose group of other teens ( one of them is a very
young Sterling Holloway !). One girl gets raped by a railroad
guard (Ward Bond). The others surround him and start closing in,
as the picture fades to black, though we are never told if they just
beat him or killed him. When they get to a new town, the police
are waiting, and if they don't have friends or relatives who might take
them in, they are told to get back on the train - even in big cities
like Chicago. Its a pretty bleak movie, up to the unrealistically
happy ending. But interesting, and not just from the point of view of
social history.
You mention in one of your reviews that you like post-apocalypse
movies. One I like I first saw under the original title of Battletruck. It later turned
up with a generic title: Warlords Of
The 21st Century. Why not just call it Warriors Of The Post-Apocalypse
and be done with it ? It was filmed in New Zealand in 1982,
before it became a fashionable location. Its far from a great
movie, but what I liked was that it made more of a stab at realism than
most of the genre. (In Mad Max
I always wondered what people were eating.) The Hero (Michael Beck ) is
a loner, but he's not the usual homeless wanderer. He has a nice
little homestead, with a cabin, a vegetable garden and a flock of
chickens, who provide both protein in their eggs and fuel for his
motorcycle in the methane he extracts from their dung. He also
maintains friendly relations with the local farming commune. It
appears to be a mutual-backscratching arrangement: he shares the
wild game he hunts with them, and if he needs something they can
provide (clothes, boots, motorcycle repairs ) he can get it. Into this
semi-idyllic arrangement comes the titular vehicle, owned by The
General (James Wainwright) who uses it and his private army of thugs to
steal, rape and murder his way across the desolate landscape.
Any likelihood of you reviewing The
Road or The Book Of Eli
? I saw the former, and the basic premise seemed poorly thought
out. Its supposedly not more than 10 or 12 years since the
(unexplained) apocalypse ( we know this because flashbacks show that
the boy's mother was pregnant when it happened) but the few survivors
are starving and most of them have turned to cannibalism. There
must be milions of tons of canned food in North America. It can't
have run out so soon. Also, the father has a pistol with only one
bullet. In gun-happy American, he can't find either a gun or
bullets for the one he has ? why doesn't he check the glovebox of
every abandoned car they pass ? The attempt at a 'happy' ending
was unconvincing. I couldn't help wondering how they feed that
dog.
Sandra
Thank you
for your suggestions. There is indeed a movie called Wild Boys Of The Road, and the description seems to fit what
you saw. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
I did see
Warlords
Of The 21st Century many
years ago, and I remember I enjoyed it. However, I haven't seen a copy
of it for a long time.
The Book Of Eli did enough business that I don't think
it's an unknown movie. As for The Road,
I guess it's currently unknown enough, though I have a feeling it may
find an audience when it's released on DVD. By the way, I did see it
when it was in theaters. Though I liked it better than you did, I have
to admit I wondered how they fed the dog.
April 29, 2010
Hello
Greywizard,
another movie you should seriously consider for your list is Bloodbath At The House of Death
starring Kenny Everett, English comedian. It's a spoof on many of
the Hammer House of Horror type movies, with reference to more modern
ones such as Jaws, Aliens and ET. Not quite as funny now as
it was when first released, however, it is a classic of its time and is
billed as the original scary movie.
You may also be interested in Undercover
Brother - another send off, this time of the blacksploitation -
meets Austin Powers mix.
Michelle
Thanks
for the suggestions. I actually saw Bloodbath years and years ago,
and I though it did have some funny moments. Haven't seen a copy around
for years, however. As for Undercover
Brother,
I don't think this major studio move is unknown enough right now. Maybe
in a few years...
April 19,
2010
I totally disagree with your review of The Magic
Garden of Stanley Sweetheart! It is my favorite
movie! 1. Holly Near ( fat Fran), who
became a revered folk singer and activist, feminist and
lesbian advocate. In her biography she confesses to having an
affair with Johnson while filming the movie, before she came out as a
lesbian. http://www.hollynear.com/
2. The wonderful sights and clips of New York City, including
footage of the actual building of the World Trade Center.
3. The fantastic soundtrack, for example the song, written by the
Bee Gees, the Sound of Love, that can still be heard on
the myspace page of Angeline Butler, http://www.myspace.com/angelinebutler/playlists
Her rendition of Keepin That Man
in the film too, is a sweet pre- woman's liberation stand- by- your
-man love song 4. The era. I am about the same age as Don
Johnson. As a then apolitical "hippy" privileged native New
Yorker, the film is remarkably true to (my) life and that of my friends
of the time. Thank you for allowing me to share my
opinions. I think it is a shame that this film was never
officially released to public for home viewing.
Robin
Marion
Actually,
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the movie. I'd rather hear someone felt a
movie was good rather than hearing that they suffered through it.
Anyway, I just couldn't connect with the movie. I suppose it's possible
that someone who grew up in the era might find more they could identify
with, but this more modern reviewer didn't.
April 7, 2010
[re: Didn't You
Hear]
Just wanted to give my take on the movie as
well as a bit more “family history” first off a shout out to my cousin
Ashley you will not remember me last time I recall you were in diapers
and I was like 5 years old. I am in contact 04/2010 with Skip. Your
history did provide additional information and as off beat these movies
are that Skip worked on including the cast, crews, backers, writer’s at
that time this was very innovative and creative at the time. There were
few what we call them Inde films being made because of cost but as a
total sum this one movie did open up and start the independent film
makers in Seattle and through the use of the mog also create a creative
music scene in Seattle that now include some very well known acts. So
the impact of the film its self may not hold much but what it created
was the start of independent producers of music writers and the
strangle hold Hollywood and large producers had on what we see, hear or
watch. The people involved in this up to and including David Carradine
and later movies were the true innovators in their day and I will say
that Skip in many ways was ahead of his time as others of his period
that started true Independent or Inde stuff. So the film has it place
few B rated movies up to this one were ever produced outside Hollywood
so it did start a movement if only because if he did it why can’t I?
Michael
March 17,
2010
I
am not sure when you wrote your review for Earthbound. I was curious
about the movie because my family and I were in the film. I think I was
three at the time living in Utah. My parents were involved in the
acting
business and were in other things also. Last night over dinner my
parents
and I were reminicing over Earthbound.
My father was one of the searchers
who had to walk by Burl Ives and catch him in case he fell. I remember
being
in the crowd in town who had to scream and run. My mom then commented
on a
pool scene. I do not remember that one. I remember seeing the movie
once,
probably on tv. Fun memories!
Thank you for your input on the movie. I wish I could
see it again. Even if
it is so bad, it would be for a good laugh!
Thanks again,
Margee
March 16, 2010
Hello.
I recently stumbled upon your fine website the other day, and was
delighted to see that it had an extensive collection of well-written
reviews for my reading pleasure. I enjoyed immensely your take on some
of the Troma library (including the oft-ignored Troma's War),
some MST3K classics, and even some films I haven't seen yet enjoyed
reading the reviews of, whether I still don't intend to see them (APE)
or now really really really want to (Sonny Boy).
While browsing through your list of films, however, I found a very
disturbing review. It seems that you consider Boondock
Saints an unknown film. Seriously? Have you not seen the
constantly replayed television advertisements for it's sequel? Or the
fact that numerous men who are still young enough to adorn their walls
with pictures held up by thumbtacks choose to buy one of the myriad of
posters based off the film almost as much as they choose the film it
completely ripped off, Pulp Fiction?
(You try
apologizing for this fact in your review, but come on man. It's obvious
as the sun itself).
I'm not asking you to take this review off your site - I'm not asking
you to do anything, in fact, since your site does very well on it's
own, without the input of some random jackoff with a gmail account and
a seething hatred of rubbish action films. I just couldn't handle
reading your review and staring at the "EMAIL" button at the bottom of
the page without throwing in my two cents, and letting you know that
there are cinema lovers out there who appreciate a good trash film, yet
truly despise Boondock Saints.
When you started talking about what makes a "real" movie, my heart
sank. I really, REALLY hoped you weren't going to go into how real Boondock Saints is. But you did, and
not only that, you called it "film-making at it's most powerful."
Seriously? Watching people's heads get blown in is not "powerful
film-making." Powerful film-making exists when technically proficient
directors (i.e. not Troy Duffy) take a concept that is actually
worthwhile and intelligent (not a overwrought story about two brothers
"pushed two far" who get a sign from god, represented by a voice over
and the ultra-cliched
"waking up in bed in a cold sweat" trope, who go out and start killing
people as an excuse to kill more people and have the obligatory
cold-blooded detective track them), turn it into a good screenplay (not
one that looks like a couple cliched action vignettes drawn out over a
plot so thin it makes Family Guy
look like Park Chan-Wook - you acknowledge these holes in your review
as well), then direct fine, capable actors (not actors who are usually
good but seem to be not trying at all, as you've acknowledged in the
review, again) and release it. Boondock
Saints does none of that, and was
never capable of any of it from the beginning. If I did want to be my
own judge, jury, and executioner at film's end, it was only because
this shitty film would make me want to kill people and rob their
corpses for the 3.99 I spent on the damn rental.
After reading that paragraph of your review, and the one in parenthesis
right after it (ESPECIALLY the one in parenthesis - dissing Kurosawa
films to make Boondock Saints
look better is just not good film criticism), I was fairly certain your
review was a joke. Not a serious review with humorous sarcasm, but a
complete prank, and a joke. In fact, I'm still not completely sure it
isn't, if only because you run a movie-related website. But later on,
you write a statement that is just so full of blatant contradiction that
I wonder if you were just high off your ass while writing it. The claim
that this movie isn't supposed to be taken seriously because if it took
itself seriously it would diminish the realness is just absurd. Did you
proofread that one? it makes absolutely no sense. And the claim that
the song and dance numbers were "added" To Singin' In The Rain is equally
stupid - the whole f**king movie is ABOUT singing and dancing. it
wasn't added - it's based off of that, just like Boondock Saints' basing itself off
of every cliche in the book (crawling through air vents to get to the
boss' hideout, the "pushed too far" trope, the detective going to a
strip club for clues, etc.) is the entirety of the film, not an
addition to witty dialogue or great characterization. The entirety of
this movie just. plain. sucks.
Approximately half of your review is spent apologizing for the
inadequacies of the script, Troy Duffy, and the two main actors. In
fact, about half the review is just apologies for the technical
retardation evident in the final film product. Even when you try to
give a nod to the supposedly "brilliant" dialogue, it just comes off as
sarcastic - a stream of "f**ks' doesn't do anything talented toward
showing a character's frustration. It's just lazy. Then you try to
excuse the critical derision this film rightfully suffered by saying
your parents loved it, and they loved Dead
Alive, so there. This just perplexes me - if you're talking
about films, cite a noted critic who's job it is to study these things
and analyze them for a living, not your
parents who have nothing to do with film or it's appreciation. Oh,
wait, everyone who knows anything about film and film-making hated Boondock Saints. Guess your inverse
ad hominem argument had to suffice, huh?
Anyway, I just wanted to get that off my chest. Other than that you
have a great site, but I don't think I'll be re-visiting it. That
review left a bad taste in my mouth and cut all hopes of finding true
insightfulness in your writing (not that mine's much better, as you can
tell. Then again, I don't purport to the entire internet to be an
authority on such things), and the "well my cool parents liked it so
there" argument makes me think you're 14.
You know what the worst part is though? I just know that for every
email you get about the movie that reads like this, there are 10 more
in your inbox that say something like "BETAR THAN PULP FICTIN! DUFFY
ROOLZ!" And maybe that's why I come off as so bitter in this review.
Whatever. We're all entitled to our own opinions, I guess.
Michael
Power
Whew! Let me answer your long letter. First
of all, I agree that Boondock Saints is no longer an unknown movie. But it was
when I put up that review - that review is several years old.
Second, I
was never trying to indicate that Boondock Saints is some kind of artistic masterpiece - I
WAS KIDDING! In my review, I was trying to give the impression to
readers that the movie is a violent, simple-minded, foul-mouthed,
trashy experience... but a FUN violent, simple-minded, foul-mouthed,
trashy experience... if you are in the mood for something like that.
When I talked about what "real" filmmaking is, I wasn't being serious -
that was a JOKE! I can't believe you actually took seriously my
comparing the movie to Kurosawa and Singin' In The Rain - do you think any sane person who wasn't
joking would say things like that? As a matter of fact, I've watched
Kurosawa and Singin' In The Rain,
and I think those films are artistic masterpieces.
I suggest you go to the "Drama" section of
my site's genre index - there you will see plenty of serious dramas I
have reviewed in a sober tone. Many of these same dramas I have enjoyed.
Oh, and I don't like everything about Boondock
Saints - a couple of days ago I
watched the sequel, and I was quite disappointed with it. It was
sloppily-made and lacked the spark of enthusiasm that made the first
movie a lot of fun to watch on a trash level.
March 15, 2010
Hello,
I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for putting together such a
great collection of unknown movies. I too am a B movie activist and
it's
refreshing to find some so dedicated to the cause as your self.
I recently started an RSS feed of B movie reviews. It
doesn't quite compare
to what you do but it's fun for me. I update it quite frequently so I
figured you might get a kick out of it.
http://www.flixster.com/api/v1/users/kurtastbury/ratings.rss
If you'd rather just peruse my most recent ones you can
see them on my blog.
http://bmoviereviews.blogspot.com/
Again, thanks for all of the great information. I hope
to one day enjoy as
many B movies as you.
Take care.
Kurt
Astbury
March 11, 2010
[re: Boondock
Saints II: All Saints Day]
Just wondering, do you ever plan on reviewing this
film? Considering how
much you loved the original i'd be very surprised if you didn't.
Michael Prymula
Probably not. In the years since I first
reviewing the original, the first movie has become so well-known that
it's no longer
an "unknown movie". The sequel got plenty of publicity and did well in
its limited theatrical release (grossing more than $10 million), so I
don't think it's "unknown". But I'll definitely watch the sequel. I was
planning to rent it today, but every copy at the video store in my
neighborhood was out.
March 10,
2010
[re: The Stranger]
Hey just wanted to let you know that there's a easier
way to see this
film-get a DVD-R of it from Ioffer.com, that's what I did, it was
reasonably
priced at $10.00 and i'm sure there's plenty of others around the same
price. You can get lots of rare, expensive and unreleased films on
DVD-R on
Ioffer, heck maybe they even have a copy of The Farmer! P.S. on an
unrelated topic, did you know that there was another Die
Hard-in-a-water
treatment plant- film that came out the same year as Lethal
Tender?
It's
called Demolition University
and it stars Corey Haim (who just died of
an
overdose today sadly) and Robert Forster, I actually thought it was
more
enjoyable then Lethal Tender
as it had a bigger body countand a more
likeable main character, so you might want to check that film out.
Michael Prymula
I think
I'll have to check out that web site, since I learned that the original
DVD company that had the rights to release The Farmer on DVD no longer has the rights. Thanks
also for alerting me about Demolition University. Haim and Forster together in a movie? The
results should be... interesting.
February 14, 2010
[re: The
Stranger]
There are, I guess, similarities to High
Plains Drifter - the supernatural ambiguity of the character (or do
I mean "ambiguous supernaturalism"?), etc., but I think it owes a lot
more to Leone's Once Upon A Time in the West.
(And I know you said you wouldn't do our research for us - but if you
happen to know where I can get a (***Reasonably-priced***) copy ... I'd
love to know - I see the cheapest VHS copy on Amazon is $60...
Wish I'd taped it when it was on satellite.)
Mike
Weber
Thanks for your letter and comment. Since
my mailbox has been pretty empty lately, I decided I would make an
exception in your case and look for a used copy of the movie for you.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find what you wanted. I did find DVDs, but
they didn't seem to be legitimate releases. My suggestion is to
regularly check Amazon, as well as eBay.
January 23, 2010
[re: The
Angel Levine]
Am I the only person to think that Levine is
the guy who stole the fur in the first scene and was killed?
David Phillips
I pulled out my copy of the movie and
rewatched that scene. I am pretty sure you're right.
January 8, 2010
I was an "extra" in Raw Force in the bar scene at the
bar in Manila [I was the tall, bearded white guy in the orange Hawaiian
shirt].
Not only were the drinks served in paper cups, it was actual alcohol.
Everybody was so drunk [I don't drink so was about the only sober one]
that continuity completely fell apart.
The naked dancer is used so much because the director was trying to
make his own little blue movie of her and probably shoot hours of just
her dancing. I talked her into insisting on more money since she had
not been hired to dance naked....
There was a Filipino AD who kept getting yelled at by the American
director since most of us thought the American guy was a teenager
making his first movie and took our director from the Filipino.
Cameron Mitchell was nice to everybody but he defiantly liked his
liqueur.
The bar itself was a real one in a very seedy [and dangerous] part of
the port of Manila.
I was an American university student in Manila [my dad was an engineer
for the US Navy in the RP] and often got bit parts as a token American
in local movies.
I never saw this movie until I found it online last year. It's working
title, Warriors Island, was what my pay slip said and I never
knew the real title and it wasn't on Cameron Mitchell's filmography.
Until I found it last year, I had no idea what the rest of the movie
was about.
The "Asian" fighter in the bar was a relatively well-known Filipino, as
I recall, and most of the other guys were habitue's of films but I
remember this one guy who sat outside and read poetry with his
girlfriend between scenes.
Gary Arturo Flossmann
January 3, 2010
Howdydo.
Re: Who Killed Mary Whatsit?
I dimly recall a Dick Cavett interview with Alice Playten, who was
nonplussed by the indifference of director Ernie Pintoff. When she or
Red Buttons would suggest a re-shoot to improve a scene, they were
stonewalled with "The last take's good enough." Big hairy-assed
surprise that Pintoff soon landed in television.
Recommended: Family Enforcer, a.k.a. Death Collector.
Quirky mob ultraviollence filmed in 'Jersey with goombahs like Joe
Pesci and a smokin' Joseph Cortese (who must kick himself to this day
for not
landing a part in Goodfellas.)
Mike
Mueller
December 27, 2009
[re: Naked
Killer]
Hey, did you know there's actually a sequel to
this film that came out 10 years after this called Naked Weapon?
It stars Pei-Pei Chung of Crouching Tiger fame and Maggie Q, I
came across at my Hollywood Video store but unfortunately never got
around to renting before the store closed down. Maybe you should check
that film out, it certainly sounds like your type of movie!
Michael Prymula
I rented Naked Weapon when
it first came out, and I was disappointed by it, in large part because
it didn't strive to be anywhere as outrageous as the original.
December 25, 2009
Hello there!
I came across your review for Hugo
The Hippo on your website, and I laughed so hard while reading
it. Hugo was one of my favorite animated films while growing up, ad
while I'm old enough to recognize the flaws now, I still feel that tug
of nostalgia while watching it. On a side note, the original Hungarian
version is currently posted on YouTube under the title of Hugó, a
víziló (no subtitles), if you're interested in feeling the pain
again.
Also, I was wondering if you have heard of a couple other obscure
animated films that were once a huge part of my childhood (sadly, my
VHS tapes that once held these films are sitting in a garbage dump
somewhere). The first is a rare Danish film called Strit Og Stumme,
known as Dreaming Of Paradise
in America and known to the rest of the English-speaking world as Subway
To Paradise. The story is about the remnants of humanity living
underground because the world has been over-polluted, and they try to
make a living beside a river of lava while avoiding a group of
anthropomorphic rats that wish to steal their dreams (don't ask). After
years of searching, I finally found a copy of it, though it's the
original Danish language. Still, I do believe English VHS copies are
available on eBay if you're interested (part of the Danish version can
also be found on the Tube of You).
The second film is Marco Polo Junior Versus The Red Dragon.
This 1972 film actually has the distinction of being Australia's first
animated film, and yet it languishes in obscurity. The story is about
how Marco Polo Jr must sale back to Xanadu to return a medallion piece
to a kidnapped queen, and you can pretty much guess everything from
there. Sadly, the title has recently been partially resurrected as Return
To Xanadu, an abomination that hacks up the film and adds in new
animation and subplots (mainly to draw out the appearance of the
talking dragon...again, don't ask). It's a travesty that the butchered
remake is currently available on DVD but the original is nowhere to be
found. If you can find a copy of this film, grab it - I'm still looking.
Keep up the good work with the website, and may you find some obscure
gems among the septic slime.
Gareth
I hadn't heard of those two animated
movies before. But after reading your description of them, I'll
definitely check them out should I happen to come across them.
December 9, 2009
I just read your very perceptive review of Your Three Minutes Are Up -- I
could add some comments but everything you said mirrors my memories of
that gem. I saw it in in Italy, where I was stationed. Twice in a
couple months they showed it at the base theatre--I made sure to see it
again the second time cause I liked it so much.
So--do you have any idea if this will ever get released? The actors are
well known enough. I tell friends about this movie all the time--but t
doesn't exist except in your and a few other short reviews on the
internet.
Just wanted to see if you have any inside info and to say again how
great your review was.
Phil Budig
Currently, the only version out there for
sale is the edited-for-TV print, from bootleg movie outfits. It doesn't
look good for an uncut, official DVD edition, seeing how obscure the
movie is as of this date.
December 3, 2009
Hello,
I was doing one of my occasional web searches, hoping that someone has
come to their senses and put Lee Marvin's Monte Walsh on DVD, when I found
your review. I loved this movie when I first saw it in the theater and
share your feeling that it really ought to be a classic. I have always
thought that the movie never took off because fans of the classic
Western would not have liked it, and people with the intellect to
appreciate it wouldn't have gone to see a Western. The movie is an
undiscovered gem. That bronc ride through the china shop, flattening
the town and tipping the water tank is unique.
You said that you reviewed a taped-from-TV version which is why you
said that Monte never really said why he quit the Wild West Show. He
did give a reason, but it couldn't be said on TV (at least not until
recently). When he turned in the costume he said "I just can't sh*t on
my whole life!"
If you are still there, I'd like to ask if you ever viewed the Tom
Selleck remake. What did you think of it? I haven't seen it and
wondered how it stacked up.
Thanks for your review. It made great, nostalgic reading.
Cyn
I have seen the Tom Selleck remake. In
fact, I have a review of it in my files. I have not put it up on the
website because I am not sure if it's currently "unknown" enough. Maybe
sometime next year, after memories of it have faded some more?
November 25, 2009
Hi.
I read your reviews on the Unknown Movies web page with much much
enthusiasm. One of the best movie websites on the net, I don't mind
saying.
Now, onto the question.
Have you ever seen this movie called Hu-Man?
Here's a link to the movie on IMDB -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139371/
I don't even know so much if this movie would qualify as just an
unknown movie. Because I'll tell you something....this movie is
virtually as hard to find as The Day The Clown Died.
In other words, nobody has seen this movie. Of course, someone
somewhere has seen it....but hardly anyone. And for those who have...I
don't think they remember it....or if they do, vaguely.
Writing this email to you just made me remember another movie with
Terence Stamp that I saw when I was very very young. I remember it as
being quite strange.
That movie was called The Mind of Mr. Soames.
If I recall, it's about a man who wakes up from a coma that he's been
from the time he was a small small child.....so he's in a
sense....still an infant in the body of a man.
Anyway, love your web site.
Tom Waits
Never heard of Hu-Man before
getting your e-mail. The plot description does sound intriguing,
however. I don't know why it seems to be lost, but there may be a
dispute over rights.
As for The Mind Of Mr. Soames, I
did see it on TV several years ago, and I enjoyed it. I don't remember
why I didn't review it for the site.
November 19, 2009
There was a horror film from the early eighties
called Hysterical, starring the Hudson Brothers and Julie
Newmar, kind of a Leo Gorcy meets Beach Party ghost story. You might
get a kick out of reviewing it.
vnfelix
Uh, I did review the movie! You
can read the review here.
November 5, 2009
[re: Goliath
Awaits]
Thanks for being there on the unknown movies. Bermuda
Depths...me and my sister have been wracking our brains for
that one!
Whew.
Maura
November 3, 2009
Hi, I just wanted to thank you for your movie
review of The Brothers Lionheart,
and also to leave a comment. It has been over 15 years since I saw that
movie. I saw it as a little child, and have always
remembered it being one of my very favorite movies ever, especially the
ending. When you asked if kids would ever sit through that movie or
enjoy it, I most definitely did. And when you asked if the ending
would be too much for children, I must heartily say no. That was my
favorite part about it. I have only ever seen it that once as a child,
but it had such an impact that I have always remembered it. And
in fact, the way that I found your review was that I was thinking about
that movie after all these years, and wanting to watch it again, and so
looked it up online to see if I was even remembering the title
correctly. Thanks for your plot summary for the clarification I was
looking for.
Best wishes,
Eve
November 1, 2009
[re: Outlaw
Force]
Hey, you were wondering about whether Border
Of Tong or Loner existed? Well they both have entries in
IMDB and they're found under the alternative titles of Massacre
and Ragin Cajun respectively, and they both have DVD releases
in the U.S. in case your wondering, oh and if you want to see a good
David Heavener (yes, such a thing does actually exist!) then I would
recommend checking out Fugitive X: Innocent Target, it's a
pretty competent Most Dangerous Game rip-off, it's
professionally made so well that it almost looks as good as a PM film
(Ok maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it's still looks way
better then you'd expect a Heavener film to look) and Heavener also
acts much better, that films available very cheap on Amazon.
Michael Prymula
October 24, 2009
[re: Goliath
Awaits]
Ok, I suddenly came across this line in your review.
"Then there was this foreign animated movie I saw at a theater in the
'70s which had a little blue dog in it; I did find out the name of this
movie years later, but darn it, as time continued to progress, I forgot
the title again!"
I think I know answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Puppy
Andrey Zhuravlev
Thank you for taking the time to try and
help me, but that wasn't the cartoon I saw. What I saw was a
feature-length animated movie (running way more than 19 minutes), and
the artwork was more slick than what the picture at the Wikipedia site
shows.
October 18, 2009
Hello there!
Have you ever heard about 1994 French movie Giorgino? Although
I'm sure that answer will be "no"... :)
Believe me, it's worth to watch, but before you start to search...I
suspect, that only one way for US citizen to watch is YouTube or
Dailymotion.com
Thanks
Andrey Zhuravlev
Thanks for your suggestion. I hadn't
heard of that movie until you e-mailed me. I did some quick research,
and found out that the movie (which runs three hours long!) hasn't been
released in North America. So it seems unlikely I'll get to see it.
September 24, 2009
Hey about Sidaris, why out of all his films did
you pick Seven to review?
It's easily his worst film and it's lacking the one thing all his other
films after it have-incredibly sexy ass-kicking women who frequently
show their breasts, you said you were enjoying Seven at the
beginning for it's crazy opening scene, well Sidaris's other films are
all chock full of scenes even crazier then that one! And they rarely
ever slow down unlike Seven, So I think you should honestly
give Sidaris another chance, I mean you said it yourself in one review,
I forget which one exactly that any film could be at least partially
redeemed by the presence of frequent female nudity, something that
Sidaris other films definitely have plenty of! I seriously don't know
why Sidaris is so hated, I mean aside from Seven his movies
have everything you could possibly want from a cheap B-movie, I think
you should watch one if his other films like Savage Beach, Hard
Ticket To Hawaii, Malibu Express, Picasso Trigger,
etc, hell ANY Sidaris film other then Seven! Or Stacey
for that matter. I can guarantee you'll enjoy them on some level, so
what do you say huh? Give him the guy another shot, Sidaris didn't
deserve to be compared to hacks like Albert Pyun. P.S. in case you
didn't know, Sidaris died about 2 years ago, just thought you should
know.
Michael Prymula
I mentioned in my review that I have seen
other Andy Sidaris movies - that's why I said with confidence that his
movies are awful. I like the idea of Sidaris movies - mixing
R-rated action with good old fashioned T&A - but Sidaris screwed up
the execution of his own formula each and every time.
September 12, 2009
Howdydo.
RE: The logic-challenged If Footmen
Tire You...
I find indie religious films irksome in the way "Christian" music can
be annoying: If the artists are so inspired by Jesus, why is their
product even crappier than secular stuff?
Like Ed Wood's Plan 9, Estus Pirkle's gullible churchgoing
investors were "rewarded" with bit parts. Cecil Scaife, the jowly
"commisar," was a Columbia records promoter @ the time, and played the
hapless sap
beaten to death with his own severed arm in the Ormonds' Monster
And The Stripper. Cult mag Psychotronic (#26) reported that Burning
Hell ('74), the Ormonds' feverish follow-up, played Columbus, Oh's
"Free Christian Drive-In" as late as fall of '96.
While pillaging a 50 -cent LP bin @ a rat-bitten thrift store- damn,
again no peelable Velvets covers - I unearthed Pirkle's album bearing
the Footmen title (Moffit MPLP 2368). The curious cover art
would be apt for a kiddie record, but reverse text reveals that the
contents are one of Pirkle's sulfurious rants, recorded @ Camp Zion,
MS, Jan '66, predicting commie takeover of America by 1972 "unless God
intervenes." The tirade's paperback transcript sold for $1.75.
I passed on the platter, but changed my mind a month later. Returned to
the site and found it abandoned and shuttered...much like most video
shops.
Recommended: Winter Kills, a conspiracy crank's wet dream.
regards
Mike Mueller
September 9, 2009
Hi:
Your site is terrific! Very informative and fun.
I just watched American Raspberry
for the first time. To my amazement, it's currently available via
Comcast's "On Demand" library. (They get some interesting things --
right now they're also showing Hot Bubblegum and Gorp,
neither of which is available on DVD and which aren't easy to find on
VHS, either. Over the summer I was stunned and delighted to find the
1976 made-for-TV movie Smash-Up On Interstate 5, which
has never been released on DVD *or* VHS.)
Anyhow, the reason I knew about American Raspberry in the first
place is that Nancy Parsons (of Porky's and Motel Hell
fame) is listed in the credits as "Lady Mailperson." However, after
watching the movie, I did not spot her; I can only assume either that
her scene was cut out, or there are different versions of the movie
floating around.
I'm wondering if, by any chance, she was in the version you saw. (In
the version showing now on Comcast, there was a scene involving mail
delivery -- a handicapped guy delivering mail -- but there was no "Lady
Mailperson" anywhere in sight.)
I figured it was worth a try asking ...
Thanks,
Jon Putnam
I still remember a lot about
American Raspberry even though it's been years since I
last saw it. I don't remember any scene with a female mailperson in the
version I saw. It's possible she was cut out of the movie at the last
second, or that other versions of the movie exist with her in it.
August 25, 2009
I just stumbled across your site while looking
for information on Raggedy Ann
& Andy. My younger siblings loved it and I thought the
animators must have been high. I recently picked up a copy for my
daughter and professional animator husband and wanted some background :)
Since you appear to like blaxploitation and horror, I thought I would
mention a couple of my favourite unknown movies.
Sister Street Fighter - is possibly where the arcade game
got their inspiration. It is public domain now and excellent
Japanesexploitation (?).
Zombies On Broadway - is one of the first zombie movies
ever made, when 'zombies' were still a Haitian drug-induced haze, with
a pair of bumbling Abbot & Costello rip-offs. It's got Bela Lugosi
going for it and it's actually really funny.
Cheers,
Maren
August 21, 2009
Thank you so much for the list of relatively
unknown family movies! It is so hard to find new, interesting movies to
watch with my kids.
I read about your trouble finding family movies to review in the Local Boys piece, and I thought I
would share two suggestions with you. Now, I realize they have
star-studded casts and may be more well-known than I realize. (I am
sort of lost in a child-focused world lately.) However, in my circle of
friends both these movies seemed to slip by and have been relatively
unnoticed. Both were very surprising to me and actually quite
enjoyable.
Stardust
City Of Ember
Laura Way
Newark, DE
Thanks for your suggestions! While I am
not sure those movies are as of now "unknown" enough, since they are
currently still prominent in video stores, they both look like they
have a good chance of slipping into obscurity as the years go by. I'll
keep them both in mind and consider them for review a few years from
now.
August 16, 2009
Howdydo.
Your Son Of Frankenstein
review was fairly balanced, but jeez, why slam a 4 1/2 year- old kid?
Like poor Gary Coleman in more recent times, Donnie Dunagan was taken
advantage of by kin. On the Frankenstein set, he played
checkers with a costumed Boris Karloff for quarters.
A broke has-been at 18, Dunagan joined the military and became a career
Marine. (Met him @ a horror convention. Tall and fit in his 70's, he
could still kick your ass.)
Dunagan retired to his home state Texas, and invested his life savings
in a rising local energy concern... Enron.
Hence, horror convention appearances.
Speaking of bad investments...you mentioned admiring old man Turner's
TCM. Abstain from a subscription to its "magazine," little more than a
puny listings pamphlet prefaced by that old queen Bob Osborne. Worse
yet, the mag arrives over TWO MONTHS after you've reimbursed American
Express.
Regards
Mike Mueller
I suppose the bad performance could be
blamed on the director - he obviously saw the performance and did
nothing about it. But I've also seen plenty of good performances from
other youngsters in movies and TV over the years.
July 30, 2009
[re:
Collision Course]
Hey, you mentioned that you'd like to see
Leno's opinion of this film or something like that? Well as a matter of
fact, on an episode of The Tonight Show in December 2005, Steve
Martin appeared on the show and there was a game called "name that
clip" being played. Leno was supposed differentiate clips from Martin's
films - Cheaper By The Dozen 2 and Shopgirl, but the
last clip was from Collision Course, which Leno immediately
said was a horrible movie. Martin said Leno was right, but that he
still had to pay 20 dollars for making it! Pretty funny eh? Even though
I'll admit to liking Collision Course myself though.
Michael Prymula
July 29, 2009
After logging on to tour site about four hours
ago I'm hooked. I was wondering if you could review an early seventies
B horror movie called The Severed Arm about miners trapped in a
cave. I remember it being pretty spooky. Keep up the great work.
Javi
I saw The Severed Arm ages
ago, though I don't remember too much about it. I do know that it's now
in the public domain, so if I see it in the cheap bin with other
low-cost DVDs, maybe I'll give it another try.
July 27, 2009
My friend,
You are responsible for the fact that I didn't manage to finish any
work today! I stumbled across your site and I kept reading for 3.5
hours! I was instantly hooked. Dude...you must have some sort of
cinematographic developer running through your veins instead of blood.
Your passion for movies obviously has no boundaries. Respect!
Take care.
Filip Keyaert (Belgium)
BTW Some of the introductions you've written on your site are
hilarious. Your Blair Witch / Cannibal Holocaust
reference made me laugh non-stop for 10 minutes. I've written several
reviews myself (not sure you will agree with all of them but
hey...that's cinema).
July 9, 2009
Hello,
First of all, I think your site is great! What a good idea.
I have a suggestion for your site. It would be great to have a search
button, so that when people want to search something within the plot
(let's say they remember something in the movie, but not the title)
they can do so and find that movie they have been looking for. I am one
of those people who remembers movies by the plot but not the title, and
have asked many people to help me with certain movies/short films and
they were unable to.
So anyways, A search engine would greatly improve the site.
Thanks,
Andrea
Though I would love to add stuff to my
site like search engines, I have to admit that my web editing and
construction skills are very limited. I have no idea how to make and
put stuff like that on my web site. Maybe one day in the future...
July 5, 2009
Howdydo.
Just returned from a horror convention where I met, among others, Gary
Conway (I Was A Teenage Frankenstein). Quizzed him about
availability of The Farmer, long on your want list.
Conway, now a winery co-proprietor, couldn't provide a date, but
emphatically replied that it would "definitely" be rereleased. Said
he's asked about it alla time.
Recommended: The Carrier ('88), a feverish slab of paranoia
that could only have been made in militia-mad Michigan. Available for
trade.
regards
Mike Mueller
June 21, 2009
Hello,
Here is a list of movies you need to review:
* The Day Time Ended
* Winterbeast
* Equinox
* We Are The Strange
* Godzilla's Revenge
* Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
Also if you care here is my site:
http://kaijuworld.piczo.com/?cr=7
Jake McConnell
June 19, 2009
[re: Free
Money]
Your wondering why this film is so inconsistent
at times and why Brando chose it? Well according to the DVD commentary
Brando didn't choose this project, because Free Money was
actually Brando's project from the beginning. The director pretty much
did whatever Brando told him to do, he rewrote significant portions of
the script every day to accommodate whatever new ideas Brando came up
with, that explains a lot about why the film is so surreal and
unfocused. Despite all that though, I will admit to getting some
enjoyment from this film from the sheer weirdness of it.
Michael
Prymula
June 13, 2009
Your Sinbad
Of The Seven Seas page is a gold mine for people like me who
love the movie's camp value and unintentional humor. I discovered the
movie in a video rental about ten years ago, got up to the snake rope,
and realized, dang, I've seen good-bad movies before, but this is
transcendent.
So I started showing it to my friends, and it caught on with them as
well. It has become a staple of the culture of the regulars at my web
site, http://www.rinkworks.com/.
Finally I decided I needed to pay the movie the kind of tribute it
deserves. I started a webcomic for it, in the vein of DM of the Rings
and Darths and Droids. The first comic is here:
http://www.rinkworks.com/sinbad/?c=1
I thought that, since you are obviously a fan of the movie in the same
way I am, that you would be interested to know of this. If you cared to
link to it from your review page, that would of course be welcome. But
I didn't write this email just to ask -- honest. I first read your site
many years ago now
and consider it among the very best bad movie sites on the web. Keep up
the great work.
-- Sam.
June 12, 2009
THANK YOU SO MUCH for having a review of The Godsend (1980) on your site.
I saw this movie at the drive-in when I was about 7 and never forgot
the movie... but I did forget the title. I posted a few years ago on a
horror site asking if anyone knew what movie I was describing and
someone just recently responded with The Godsend. Doing a
search to see if that could be the movie I was remembering, I found
your site.
After reading the review... IT'S THE MOVIE! Seriously, I have been
trying to think of the title of this movie for YEARS. Not a few or 5 or
even 10... but 25 or so years!
I found a copy of it on eBay and now I wait for it to arrive and I'll
probably be disappointed in it HAHA. I'm prepared that a movie I liked
when I was 7 won't be as good now that I'm 36.
Thanks again!
Shelley
There are plenty of movies I have
reviewed that I have wondered if anyone else has seen, or will see. The
Godsend was one of those movies. I'm glad to know someone else has
seen it, and I'm glad to know I helped your search. Thank you for your
e-mail! But let me warn you again before you get your copy - it's a
pretty crummy movie!
June 2, 2009
[re: New York
Cop]
In this film you were wondering about why the
film seems to jump ahead so abruptly, well on IMDB the US version is
listed as the cut version, whereas the Japanese one clocks in at 93
minutes, meaning a whole 5 minutes were trimmed for the US release, and
I'm pretty sure important continuity related material was most likely
cut from the film.
Michael
Prymula
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