The Bad Movies of Vestron Video

[claws]

Trivia:

The Final Terror (1983) and Too Scared to Scream (1984) were both filmed in 1981, but not released until years later.

Jodie Foster and director Dennis Hopper didn't get along on the set of Backtrack (1990). Apparently Foster called Meryl Streep and warned her about Hopper. Streep was planning to work with Hopper but didn't after she got the call from Foster.

Kelly McGillis didn't make another movie for a decade becaus of her traumatic experience filming Cat Chaser (1989).

Physical Evidence (1989) was ment to be a sequel to the Glenn Close thriller Jagged Edge (1985), but it was also written as a stand alone film. When Close declined Theresa Russell was hired to play her part. The movie was a financial flop and critics didn't like it. Columbia Pictures produced and released the film. Vestron was a co-producer through a third party, securing home video rights in the U.S.

The Devil's Gift (1984) was filmed in 1982 but not released until 1984. in 1996 director Kenneth J. Berton removed all the violence from The Devil's Gift and included the edited version into his kid-friendly movie Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.

[M.10rda]

Trivia:

The Final Terror (1983) and Too Scared to Scream (1984) were both filmed in 1981, but not released until years later.

Okay, make that twenty-NINE for me - I watched TOO SCARED TO SCREAM only last summer and REALLY liked it - yet the title failed to register at all when I scanned this list. Because of course the title fails to describe the contents of the film at all and sounds like any number of other films.

FTR, TOO SCARED TO SCREAM is a perfect film to recommend on this website: sleazy, frequently undermined by poor directorial judgment and/or hasty rewrites and/or wacky editing, yet also filled with fun oddball scenes, hilarious dialogue, and a lot of good acting - including Ian McShane from DEADWOOD and JOHN WICK giving a virtuoso performance in one of the lead roles.

[Rev. Powell]

I've seen at least 13 of them, probably more, plus a number that were featured on MST3K.

[retrorussell]

I loved that ident for some reason.
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[LilCerberus]

I wonder how many of these Andrew's reviewed...