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Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Adam on December 12, 1998, 04:49:04 PM
This is a classic b-film...I even think it spawned a couple of sequels, one I remember being called RETURN TO FROGTOWN, with Robert Z'Dar and Denise Duff (chick from SUBSPECIES sequels). Anyways, this is a lot of cheesy, dumb fun thats best watching with a group of friends. The concept is different and Roddy Piper makes a good b-film action hero (see THEY LIVE if you haven't yet). Overall, I recommend this to you fans of b out there...this is at its best.


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: tirinis@csrlink.net on February 05, 1999, 06:29:08 PM
Excellent movie!  This was the one that showed me the light of truly terrible movies.  I saw this up for auction on the internet so I put a bid on it, because Piper was in it.  He is the greatest wrestler of all time afterall, and I loved him in They Live!  I watch the movie, and decide to read more about it at the imdb.  I found a link to badmovies.org from there and my life has changed.  Thank you Mr. Piper!

---Chesna


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: startide@earthling.net on February 22, 1999, 11:37:53 PM
This is one of those enjoyable low budget "B" movies with any number of enjoyable lines.  If you liked this movie, you should catch Roddy Piper's other movie "They Live!" which has him saying some memorable lines, perhaps more so than in this fillm.   I only wish Roddy had been in more films since he has an earnest yet casual manner of acting that is appealing in "B" films.


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: NetFrog Alpha on April 10, 1999, 11:39:16 AM
One of the last fertile men on the planet is charged with impregnating as many women as possible, and also has to kill giant mutant frogs. I think every guy has wished for that at one point in their lives.


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: kbegg@park-ridge.lib.il.us on August 06, 1999, 08:21:14 AM
This film contains one of the great B-Movie lines ever.  When Bull, a giant man-frog sporting an eyepatch, tells our hero Sam Hell "You're one weird dude!", I about died laughing.  


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Jon4474@AOL on February 02, 2000, 10:24:09 PM
That Fred Olen Ray crack at the end of your review was classic. I know just what you mean. It's frustrating being a struggling, aspiring filmmaker, and seeing this guy continueing to be funded to churn out crap. Anyway, for years, I searched for this movie after having seen the video box when I was too young to have a membership of my own. I finally found it again recently, and, of course, rented it immediately. the strange thing is that I saw the far inferior sequel first. Let me just briefly tell you that Frogtown 2 is bottom of the barrel filmmaking. It stars Robert Zdar, the guy from Tango and Cash with a huge jaw that Stallone had broke prior to his jail stay. The paper thin plot revolves around the returning frog masks, and a Texas Rocket rangers unit. That's right, and the only time you see these guys flying with their rocket packs, it's stock footage from The Rocketeer. Therefore, their costumes when they jump to the ground look just like that of Disney's Rocketeer.


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: on February 06, 2000, 08:56:21 PM
You should put a WAV file of "You have aroused the 3 snakes" on here. great movie


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Fisheating Fred on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Frogtown three is called Toad Warrior. I've never seen it but that's what it's called.


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Green Hornet on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Haveing been bad, I punished myself by watching this thing. Two things kick this disgrace into the toilet: If Piper's sperm is so important, WHY did they send him on a rescue mission where he could have gotten KILLED? And why the chastity belt that shocks his "package", risking killing or mutateing (electricty causes mutants in movies) his "juice"? Just another "Idiot World".


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Dave on December 13, 2000, 05:05:50 PM
Hey, man!  What about one of the best Roddy Piper movies ever?  I mean, of course, They Live!


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Snow Dog on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
You should review Return To Frogtown...
crazy, crazy flick.  Brion James alone is
worth the price of admission.


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: HooN on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Movies like this are what makes America great.  Where else could someone make a movie like this without being deported or shot =).  It's absurdity makes it an 'entertaining' movie, good for a few hearty chuckles.


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: kent on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
What the hell is the 2nd sequel, we have "hell comes to frogtown", "Return to frogtown (Frogtown 2), supposedly there's a third??  WHAT IS IT???????

FROGTOWN ROCKS!!  and Rowdy RULZ!!


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: on March 31, 2002, 07:15:32 PM
*Speaking very unenthusiastically* Wow. Just what I wanted to see, a turned on mutant Frog. I bet that whole Three Headed Snakes FX must have kept the prop department up all night trying to figure out how they were going to pull it off.


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Ben Miler on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I saw this once on the Sci-Fi Channel and I couldn't believe what I was seeing: bad acting, bad costumes. I never laugh so hard when I saw Sam Hell's (played by Roddy Piper) genitals attatched to a device that electrocutes him. This movie is forever engrained in my mind for really bad movies. This is a must watch!


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: George on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
The "three snakes" part is enough to traumatize even the toughest bad-movie aficionado.  Sucks to be Sandahl Bergman in that scene.  Rowdy Roddy Piper is the shiznit!

Speaking of Roddy Piper, when are we gonna see a review of "They Live"  on this site?  I'm surprised it's not on here already.  That movie is Bad-movie gold!


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: samb on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
O.K. it's official- I love this friggin site! Me & my buddy (Brandon) picked this up for $5 at the local Edward McKay (N.C. used video/dvd/cd/book store)and laughed like hell (Sam Hell, that is). At about minute 73 look for the miraculous first appearance of a samurai sword and ask yrself- "Where'd that come from?" Also dig actor William Smith as "Devlin". This guy's been in more bad movies than you can shake Roddy's superpotent stick at. A classic "bad guy" actor some may remember from the (supposed)A-list movie "Maverick" starring one Mel Gibson (pre-Passion dontchaknow). Loved "Frogtown" & "They Live" IS INDEED B-movie gold- hallelujah!


Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Hadrian Wolff on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Awesome movie! It was the last movie i watched before i went off to boot camp. While at Parris Island I swore when I got my  ten free days before MOS school. I was going to rent that movie and have Hungry Howie's pizza like I did the night before I left. But wouldn't you know it? The video store got baught out and the new place got rid of it. p**sed me off. But oh well. I'm still looking for a copy.



Title: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Albert on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
My stepdaughter played one of the passives in this movie.  

I told her that it was a "Class Z Stinker"


Title: Re: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: CptHook on November 22, 2008, 11:00:43 AM
I have a turkey called 'Mystery on Monster Island' on right now. I'm not sure how people like Terence Stamp and Peter Cushing got sucked ito making this fiasco, but what tied it to 'Hell Comes to Frogtown' was the reuse of the frog's costumes for the villains here. I keep waiting for a "ribbit" to come from behind one o' these masks.



Title: Re: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: KRD on February 15, 2009, 12:59:40 AM
In fall 1972, the writer-director of this film, the late Donald G. Jackson, was working for an auto bumper plant near Detroit, while making Super 8 films and publishing a film and comics fanzine called Finders Keepers. I had flown to Detroit for a sci-fi convention, he picked me up at the airport, and we spent hours in his car in rainy freeway traffic, him interviewing me on tape (I was only 18 but had already made and screened several films) as he drove us to the convention. I also took dozens of photos for his zine at the convention. He was a fascinating fellow, with a unique vision and great passion for films and filmmaking.

Those were the days...   


Title: Re: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: bqueen on February 11, 2011, 10:32:33 AM
hi love the review just wanted to point out it's Sandhal Bergman not Sandra,  she kicks piper's ass


Title: Re: Hell Comes to Frogtown
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 04, 2013, 11:39:18 AM
Wow, if you can channel your inner 13-year old boy this is probably the greatest movie ever made. Piper's job is to travel the countryside sleeping with beautiful women and killing the occasional frog. Not a bad gig, and it comes with government benefits!