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#81
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - December 22, 2025, 10:28:24 AMFolks, we have a Bad Movie "winner"!
THE FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR (1961):
Instantly as the film begins you will ask yourself: What Is It??? Is it for kids? Is it an art film? Is it a Chinese live-action remake of BAMBI? Is it a heretofore undiscovered Rene Cardona/K. Gordon Murray follow-up to SANTA CLAUS and LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD? Is it softcore porn for furries? Is it a peyote nightmare without the peyote? Is it complete and utter horse$#!t? The answer to most of those questions is.. yeah, pretty much!
Human actors in threadbare animal costumes frolic around a mountain (to an instrumental version of "Jingle Bells"!) as "Deer Warrior", "Sika Deer", "Miss Deer", "Uncle Goat", and a variety of birds, rabbits, chipmunks, turtles, pigs, oxen, and other crap. (Uncle Goat keeps addressing a character as "Cat" but I saw no such recognizable creature.) Okay, so FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR is for kids, then! Well, no... there's also prominently featured femme fatale "Erotic Fox", who causes lots of mischief with her duplictous behavior and heavy pheromones. And also "Evil Wolf" quickly appears in a terrifying/ridiculous fetish mask, clubbing Deer Warrior's father with a fungo bat (for what is a sylvan kids movie without parent death?) and then eating several child actors.
TFODW is quite a sight to behold, which isn't to say it's a Good Movie. Deer Warrior himself has about half of one character dimension, and that dimension is "big jerk". His love interest Miss Deer has so little discernible personality that it isn't even clear if she actually likes and wants to be with DW. (In one problematic scene, DW beats up lovelorn nice guy Sika Deer and the little kid animals pressure Miss Deer to accept that she's stuck with DW!) Also, the only print I could find is almost literal trash... so dark and faded it looks circa 1931 instead of 1961... it's clearly missing entire sequences... and at one point "Evil Wolf" surprisingly addresses the camera and opens his jaws to break the fourth wall, but then the audio cuts out entirely and the image deteriorates before your eyes.
What did he want to tell us???
Even with bits deleted, FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR overstays its welcome at nearly 90 minutes, but... I remained entranced and usually highly amused! The poor print quality may be why this one never found its way on to MST3K - or am I wrong and did they do this one at some point?! Cut to 75 minutes and full of good riffs, this would be a Bad Movie Classic. I'd wager you'll get sufficient laughs out of it even w/o pre-rolled riffs.
And - though furry cosplay honestly isn't my thing - I must confess I am a bit smitten with the slinky, horn-rimmed glasses-wearing Erotic Fox, who dominates two-thirds of the film with her sexy/daffy antics like a young Maggie Cheung crossed with early Mink Stole. Even the most asexual of Badfilm fans may feel a peculiar stirring in their depths when Erotic Fox dances to "Tequila"!
3.5/5 for entertainment
And for my money, more children's films should end with GAMES 0F THRONES-style "execution of one's enemies" scenes.
THE FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR (1961):
Instantly as the film begins you will ask yourself: What Is It??? Is it for kids? Is it an art film? Is it a Chinese live-action remake of BAMBI? Is it a heretofore undiscovered Rene Cardona/K. Gordon Murray follow-up to SANTA CLAUS and LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD? Is it softcore porn for furries? Is it a peyote nightmare without the peyote? Is it complete and utter horse$#!t? The answer to most of those questions is.. yeah, pretty much!
Human actors in threadbare animal costumes frolic around a mountain (to an instrumental version of "Jingle Bells"!) as "Deer Warrior", "Sika Deer", "Miss Deer", "Uncle Goat", and a variety of birds, rabbits, chipmunks, turtles, pigs, oxen, and other crap. (Uncle Goat keeps addressing a character as "Cat" but I saw no such recognizable creature.) Okay, so FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR is for kids, then! Well, no... there's also prominently featured femme fatale "Erotic Fox", who causes lots of mischief with her duplictous behavior and heavy pheromones. And also "Evil Wolf" quickly appears in a terrifying/ridiculous fetish mask, clubbing Deer Warrior's father with a fungo bat (for what is a sylvan kids movie without parent death?) and then eating several child actors.
TFODW is quite a sight to behold, which isn't to say it's a Good Movie. Deer Warrior himself has about half of one character dimension, and that dimension is "big jerk". His love interest Miss Deer has so little discernible personality that it isn't even clear if she actually likes and wants to be with DW. (In one problematic scene, DW beats up lovelorn nice guy Sika Deer and the little kid animals pressure Miss Deer to accept that she's stuck with DW!) Also, the only print I could find is almost literal trash... so dark and faded it looks circa 1931 instead of 1961... it's clearly missing entire sequences... and at one point "Evil Wolf" surprisingly addresses the camera and opens his jaws to break the fourth wall, but then the audio cuts out entirely and the image deteriorates before your eyes.
What did he want to tell us??? Even with bits deleted, FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR overstays its welcome at nearly 90 minutes, but... I remained entranced and usually highly amused! The poor print quality may be why this one never found its way on to MST3K - or am I wrong and did they do this one at some point?! Cut to 75 minutes and full of good riffs, this would be a Bad Movie Classic. I'd wager you'll get sufficient laughs out of it even w/o pre-rolled riffs.
And - though furry cosplay honestly isn't my thing - I must confess I am a bit smitten with the slinky, horn-rimmed glasses-wearing Erotic Fox, who dominates two-thirds of the film with her sexy/daffy antics like a young Maggie Cheung crossed with early Mink Stole. Even the most asexual of Badfilm fans may feel a peculiar stirring in their depths when Erotic Fox dances to "Tequila"!
3.5/5 for entertainment
And for my money, more children's films should end with GAMES 0F THRONES-style "execution of one's enemies" scenes.
#82
Bad Movies / Re: Color horror movies you sa...
Last post by The Burgomaster - December 22, 2025, 10:28:18 AMI probably saw a lot of them in B&W when I was a kid. We got our first color TV when I was about 6 years old, so everything I watched was in B&W before that. I remember being shocked when I found out the Ultra Man TV series from the 1960s was in color!
#83
Bad Movies / Re: Color horror movies you sa...
Last post by The Burgomaster - December 22, 2025, 10:26:42 AMQuote from: Trevor on December 16, 2025, 08:18:46 AMOn the other hand, there is the colorized version of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 😳😝😝
I bought it on VHS in the 1980s. I ended up regretting buying the colorized version, so I'd turn down the color on my TV and watch it in B&W anyway.
#84
Off Topic Discussion / Re: the I hate xmas thread
Last post by The Burgomaster - December 22, 2025, 10:24:15 AMThis year has been strange. I didn't put a tree or decorations because I ordered a 4K / 3-D projector and 100" floor rising screen and the tree would have been in the way. As it turns out, they delivered the screen, the stand that holds the screen, projector and 4K player, and the 3-D glasses . . . but the projector isn't coming until around the middle of January. So, I could have put up the tree.
No big deal . . . we have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at my parents house and open all the gifts there. So, my tree isn't critical other than as a decoration for me and my wife to look at.
I do all my shopping online (I started in October). So, not much stress there.
I watch a lot of Christmas movies and shows and listen to Christmas music, so that keeps me in tune with the Christmas season.
No big deal . . . we have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at my parents house and open all the gifts there. So, my tree isn't critical other than as a decoration for me and my wife to look at.
I do all my shopping online (I started in October). So, not much stress there.
I watch a lot of Christmas movies and shows and listen to Christmas music, so that keeps me in tune with the Christmas season.
#85
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - December 21, 2025, 11:49:08 PMBILL EVANS TRIO Sunday At The Village Vanguard
#86
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
Last post by LilCerberus - December 21, 2025, 10:16:01 PM
#87
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - December 21, 2025, 09:06:01 PM"Red Sonja" (2025)
After years in Development Hell, the red-headed, sword swingin' warrior woman of comic book fame makes her return to the big screen with young, unknown Matilda Lutz (who?) in the title role. This time out, Sonja's on a quest to find her lost tribe, doing battle with a whole lotta armored bad guys, some poorly CGI'd monsters, and a would-be Emperor along the way.
All in all, it's a cheap, cheesy sword & sorcery flick that looks like a pilot film for a SyFy Channel series from 20 years ago. Yes, it's THAT bad. I have a new contender for Worst Film I've Seen This Year.
In case I haven't made it completely obvious ... AVOID.
After years in Development Hell, the red-headed, sword swingin' warrior woman of comic book fame makes her return to the big screen with young, unknown Matilda Lutz (who?) in the title role. This time out, Sonja's on a quest to find her lost tribe, doing battle with a whole lotta armored bad guys, some poorly CGI'd monsters, and a would-be Emperor along the way.
All in all, it's a cheap, cheesy sword & sorcery flick that looks like a pilot film for a SyFy Channel series from 20 years ago. Yes, it's THAT bad. I have a new contender for Worst Film I've Seen This Year.
In case I haven't made it completely obvious ... AVOID.
#88
Off Topic Discussion / Re: The Random Crap From Aroun...
Last post by LilCerberus - December 21, 2025, 08:31:14 PMQuote from: lester1/2jr on December 21, 2025, 07:43:41 PMhttps://x.com/psychotronica_/status/1983952932245766257
Chilean pro wrestling
Dracula vs Robin
Jeeze! Robin looks like some guy who lounges in his underwear! #89
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - December 21, 2025, 08:22:41 PMTonight's Stinker
The Magic Christmas Tree (1964)
https://youtu.be/PYtvzTUdudI?si=AV-YwiA3bDkNmyoj
On Halloween, a little boy dares his two friends to visit an old witch's house... They get scared & run off, but the old woman catches the boy, then asks him to get her cat out of a tree....
So, he climbs the tree, falls, and the movie changes from black & white to color, kinda like in The Wizard Of Oz... It turns out, the old woman really is a witch, who who rewards him with a Santa Claus ring, & tells him there's a magic tree seed inside.... First, he has to wait for Thanksgiving, so he can plant the seed with a wishbone.....
Then, Christmas comes, the tree can talk, & grants the boy three wishes, which he promptly uses to get into mischief, then kidnaps Santa.....
Some attempts at slapstick.... All the dialog is dubbed in at a rather shrill tone.... Pretty grating at times... I was gonna try & make it a Sunday twofer, but this one used up all my patience.....
The Magic Christmas Tree (1964)
https://youtu.be/PYtvzTUdudI?si=AV-YwiA3bDkNmyoj
On Halloween, a little boy dares his two friends to visit an old witch's house... They get scared & run off, but the old woman catches the boy, then asks him to get her cat out of a tree....
So, he climbs the tree, falls, and the movie changes from black & white to color, kinda like in The Wizard Of Oz... It turns out, the old woman really is a witch, who who rewards him with a Santa Claus ring, & tells him there's a magic tree seed inside.... First, he has to wait for Thanksgiving, so he can plant the seed with a wishbone.....
Then, Christmas comes, the tree can talk, & grants the boy three wishes, which he promptly uses to get into mischief, then kidnaps Santa.....
Some attempts at slapstick.... All the dialog is dubbed in at a rather shrill tone.... Pretty grating at times... I was gonna try & make it a Sunday twofer, but this one used up all my patience.....
#90
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by lester1/2jr - December 21, 2025, 07:57:08 PMI Know What You Did Last Christmas (2025) - Sometimes, all you have is a title. A group of friends, about half of whom are British for some reason, get invited to a party and reflect on the horrible thing that happened years before: they locked one of their friends out of the house as a joke and she wandered away and died. Why didn't she just go around the back or something? What kind of "joke" is that anyway?
It's incredibly cheap and there's not much incidental music or music at all, so it feels dead. Sometimes low budget movies can compensate for the cheapness by being campy and crazy and so forth, but this just feels like a mainstream movie that's missing the music and the celebrities and uses an AI script. One thing it proves: if the main character is a blonde woman I will keep watching it.
The killer is identified but keeps the mask and Santa outfit on for some reason.
2/5
You'd expect it to be a cheap cash in, but it's not even good enough to be that.
edit: the female lead is a top ranked kickboxer irl, so congratulations to the producers for not making any use of that at all.
It's incredibly cheap and there's not much incidental music or music at all, so it feels dead. Sometimes low budget movies can compensate for the cheapness by being campy and crazy and so forth, but this just feels like a mainstream movie that's missing the music and the celebrities and uses an AI script. One thing it proves: if the main character is a blonde woman I will keep watching it.
The killer is identified but keeps the mask and Santa outfit on for some reason.
2/5
You'd expect it to be a cheap cash in, but it's not even good enough to be that.
edit: the female lead is a top ranked kickboxer irl, so congratulations to the producers for not making any use of that at all.