Bad movies made in South Africa

[Trevor]

There are a few too many  

Space Mutiny
Nukie
The Demon
The Mangler
Prisoners of The Lost Universe
Laser Mission
American Ninja 2 The Confrontation
American Ninja 3 Bloodhunt
American Ninja 4 The Annihilation
American Ninja 5 The Constipation
Cyborg Soldier
Gor
Outlaw of Gor
King Solomon's Mines (1987)
Alan Quatermain and The Lost s**tty of Gold
Operation Delta Force (and its' pee warm sequels)
Most of the dire "subsidy films" made here during the 1980s.
Country of My Skull 
Invictus (not a bad movie at face value: just horribly inaccurate)
District 9 (I hated this movie and I wasn't the only one here who did)
The Color of Friendship (ghastly anti SA film made by Disney)

[zombie no.one]

I was watching the commentary track to INVASION USA the other day and they mentioned that the AMERICAN NINJA movies were done in SA... I haven't seen them but they sound craptastic!

and they also said how Warner Bros pulled out of distributing another Joseph Zito film RED SCORPION because it was filmed there

[Alex]

The first American Ninja movie was an enjoyable bad movie.

[claws]

Not a bad movie but just yesterday I read the Last House on the Left (2009) remake was actually filmed in SA. I had no idea. I was also surprised to read the German film Friend Request (2016) was shot in SA as well.

I assume it is cheaper to film in SA? Charles Band made the majority of his 1980s and 1990s movies in Italy where he owned a film studio in Rome. Lots of US productions used to film in Bulgaria. Not sure if they still do.

[Trevor]

I was watching the commentary track to INVASION USA the other day and they mentioned that the AMERICAN NINJA movies were done in SA... I haven't seen them but they sound craptastic!

and they also said how Warner Bros pulled out of distributing another Joseph Zito film RED SCORPION because it was filmed there

Here's American Ninja 3 and 4 for your viewing...... (I won't say pleasure  )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxBnrJSam9o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM498MA_EGQ

Red Scorpion: yikes. That was made by a pro-apartheid group headed by fraudster Jack Abramoff  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scorpion

[Trevor]

The first American Ninja movie was an enjoyable bad movie.

That one was made in the Philippines (I think)

[pacman000]

Wasn't Prisoners of the Lost Universe filmed in South Africa?

[FatFreddysCat]

I believe "Laser Mission" with Brandon Lee was a South African production (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, Trevor).

[Trevor]

Wasn't Prisoners of the Lost Universe filmed in South Africa?

Yes it was: I was a bit confused about whether it was a TV movie or for theater release but it was. 

[Trevor]

I believe "Laser Mission" with Brandon Lee was a South African production (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, Trevor).

My review here: http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,137884.0.html 

Indeed it was: a German / SA co-production (also partly filmed in Namibia) and one of the few good "subsidy films" of the 1980s. Brandon Lee (RIP) was great in it and funny too. I know one of the actors in that well and he said it was a lot of fun to make: he also spoke very well of Brandon Lee.  

That theme song though 

[pacman000]

Wasn't Prisoners of the Lost Universe filmed in South Africa?

Yes it was: I was a bit confused about whether it was a TV movie or for theater release but it was. 

TV Movie in the U.S.; Theatrical movie in Europe. (Going by memory.)

[RCMerchant]

 I seen one with Christopher Lee called DEATH MERCHANTS? Or MERCHANTS OF DEATH with my brother Glenn. Just because it had death and Merchant in the title.   About 1994?
I cant't place the title!

EDIT: ALBINO (1976)!
I don't consider this a bad movie. It's actually very good. 


http://youtu.be/0RcAHPnSKU8

[Trevor]

I seen one with Christopher Lee called DEATH MERCHANTS? Or MERCHANTS OF DEATH with my brother Glenn. Just because it had death and Merchant in the title.   About 1994?
I cant't place the title!

EDIT: ALBINO (1976)!
I don't consider this a bad movie. It's actually very good. 


http://youtu.be/0RcAHPnSKU8

There was an SA movie called Merchant of Death with Michael Pare:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119661/

Albino (aka The Whispering Death, Death In The Sun, etc, etc) was made in my birth country then called Rhodesia: very uncomfortable film as the war I grew up in was going on at the time and my Dad was in the police.

[zombie no.one]

Here's American Ninja 3 and 4 for your viewing...... (I won't say pleasure  )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxBnrJSam9o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM498MA_EGQ

[Trevor]

I seen one with Christopher Lee called DEATH MERCHANTS? Or MERCHANTS OF DEATH with my brother Glenn. Just because it had death and Merchant in the title.   About 1994?
I cant't place the title!

EDIT: ALBINO (1976)!
I don't consider this a bad movie. It's actually very good.


http://youtu.be/0RcAHPnSKU8

The chump who wrote the blurb for this German DVD release obviously doesn't know that Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa were and remain two different countries.


Rhodesia at the time of apartheid. Policeman Terick's fiancée is raped and murdered by a terrorist gang and her leader, called "Whispering Death". Full of thoughts of revenge, Terick and a crowd of people follow the killer. When things get dangerously out of hand in the act of revenge, the government sets Terick's ex-boss Bill on Terick to pull him out of circulation. Ultimately, there is an all-important, merciless clash for everyone involved.