Stuff we say to sound B-movie educated

[Chadzilla]

Fearless Freep wrote:
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> Given that *it* looked like a high school production, I
> suprised it's one of the later works in his long and
> glorified career
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All of Milligan's movies are like that (a mix of ham fisted theater and gutter scraping production values), the man had a self-destructive streak a couple of hundred miles wide.  If you are into exploitation/b-movie history then check out James McDonough's book The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Andy Milligan, it's a jaw dropping look at a very unique and extremely troubled man.  The ending will have you in tears, man even the scum of the earth deserve some kindness.

[Squishy]

Ew, "Merlin's" is definitely deserving of its IMDB ranking. It has something a lot of the other potential Bottom 100 contenters can't claim: a healthy chunk of its running time is lifted from (at least) one other, older, wholly-unrelated movie. All the "killer-monkey-toy" stuff is taken from "The Devil's Gift," which, unfortunately, I saw--years before MST3K mashed up "Merlin's" and scrubbed my face into it.

The "Hitler Building" in "Invasion of the Neptune Men" constitutes bad judgment on a galactic scale, but I assume the production company was desperate for whatever stock footage it could find. "Space Mutiny" uses "Battlestar Galactica" footage, but only brief clips of SFX material that they very obviously couldn't otherwise afford. This is something else entirely. It's taking another, already-complete movie, gutting it, putting bookends on it, and marketing it as something new. It represented the next step in carbon-copy "sequel" thinking, and I hope never to see its like again.

[J.R.]

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Another thing in the same vein is when a couple of episodes of a failed TV show are pushed together, tied by an incoherent voice-over or titlescreen and packaged as a movie. MST3K has done many of these and I've actually been duped many a time by clever (or devious?!) video covers.