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A rat/man creature haunts the swamps of Louisiana killing rednecks. PG rated monster horror with little to no monster or horror. The creature (a guy in a suit)  is only seen a few seconds in the entire movie. No sex, no nudity, no gore (just a bit of blood), no drugs (except some moonshining), no nothing.

Filmed in 1984 as Nutriaman, The Copasaw Creature, this one is usually filed under Bigfoot movies. The monster even looks like bigfoot. If anything, it mixes elements of Wes Craven's Swamp Thing (1982) and Charles B. Pierce's Boggy Creek movies, but in truly poor C-movie fashion. It's kind of rare and it is on youtube I think for those Interested. Watch with caution  :teddyr:

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It took me over a decade just to track down the name of this movie and just as long to track down a copy.

I found that quote from Stephen King hilarious. It's probably from the janitor who just happened to be named like the famous writer.

King did a lot of coke in the 80s.

Notice the ellipses. The full quote actually reads "I recommend The Boogens be banned and its director shot. Watch a wildly energetic monster movie by Stephen King instead of this crap."

 :buggedout: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

for the longest time I thought the poster said The Boogers  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

You know the badness of The Boogens is cool when Quentin Tarantino shows it at his own theater (Beverly Theater)

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Pretty sweet triple feature he did in October 2019

Kinda liked Boogens as a kid....
Thought the title was funny, that one guy who goes back to see what just attacked him, the way that girls towel stays in place...

When Wilford Brimley passed, I kept meaning to do a review of Death Valley (1982), but never got around to it....
Definitely some of Peter Billingsley's best work, while also a reminder that most of his films were pretty bad....
Interesting how they start off with Billingsley playing the four-eyed bookworm in which he was previously typecast, & then discard that idea & have him playing a kid for a change....

So did I. Coca-Cola, I mean.  :wink:

anything I think is 'rare' will probably turn out to be quite well known around these parts...




side note - not sure if any of you have seen COCAINE COWBOYS. it's my favourite documentary of all time. I must've watched it at least 20 times. all about the cocaine scene in miami in the 80s. recommended. (even if the first 10 minutes or so makes it look like a sloppy college project)

Here's a handful I remember:
BLOOD SONG (1982)
Frankie Avalon sort of goes "back to the beach" (Coos Bay, OR) for this weird horror tale where he stars as a flute-playing loon who kills people.  I'd only heard of this on its USA Network appearances.  Frankie's performance is.. um.. different.
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MAUSOLEUM (1983)
Weird supernatural horror flick with evangelist-turned-actor Marjoe Gortner as a guy whose wife is possessed by a demon that killed her mother.  Fairly gory.  Good old Aunt Esther (LaWanda Page) from Sanford & Son is in this!
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THE COMING (1982) aka BURNED AT THE STAKE
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of a witch-finder from the 17th century in Salem, MA.  I only heard of this through a cable listing, and it disappeared from the lineup pretty quickly.  It's okay.  Bad film maven Bert I. Gordon directs.
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EYES OF FIRE (1983)
Weird supernatural horror set in the mid 18th century where a bent preacher is saved from hanging by a witch.  When he and his family are attacked by Native American Indians on a raft they retreat to the forest which is infested with the spirits of dead Native Americans, who torment them with a lot of creepy visuals.
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I own that Mausoleum / Blood Song Double Feature DVD. Fun movies with heaps of cheese. Mausoleum also has an amazing blu-ray release. The image quality is great and a huge improvement over the DVD.

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The U.S. Home Video release of Blood Song is a bit of a mystery though. According to IMDb Blood Song was released to VHS by Coast-to-Coast Family Films. VHSCollector.com has a scan of the VHS and it shows Iver Films Services (listing Coast-to-Coast Family Films as distributer), but no release year. Never heard of either company. Appears to be a Canadian release. My guess is Blood Song never had a legit U.S. tape release.

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I've seen The Coming once on late night cable TV but I barely remember anything about it.

Always enjoyed Eyes of Fire, but then again I have a soft spot for folklore horror. Eyes of Fire is coming for the first time to blu-ray in autumn. The disc will also feature a never before seen extended version.

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The Deadly Intruder (1985)

A killer escapes a mental institution and stalks a young woman having a few guests over for a thanksgiving dinner. Very shallow slasher-like horror that never delivers the goods. Plenty of mundane stuff with a non-thrilling showdown. However, it is a rare slasher that never made the jump to DVD.

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Mindkiller (1987)

A man finds a way to expand his mind in order to mind-control his surroundings. Shot-on-video trash with outstanding but bad practical f/x. It is kind of fun for what it is.

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All's Fair (1989)

Employees of a company spent the weekend playing war games. Hilarity ensures. Not. Silly and unfunny Canadian comedy with an impressive cast. This one used to be in all rental stores back in the day, but it never made the transition to DVD. It is worth a watch for the cast alone.

THE LAST SLUMBER PARTY (1988)

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guessing this might be somewhat rare... sounds like a mish mash of about 3 other films but I enjoyed it. it's extremely bad. I'd never heard of it till maybe last year. IIRC there are some actual fluffed lines... always a bonus!


hmm wonder how many 'escaped from a mental institution' films there are. practically a sub-genre in itself

this one's on youtube but I can't watch due to that new "verify your age" crap which I refuse to do

There's a number of truly ghastly Z grade horror flicks made here during the so-called subsidy film period of the 1980s: titles like No Hard Feelings, Mutator, Burndown and the champ: Return of The Family Man, a complete rip off of The Stepfather series.

No Hard Feelings (Kick Or Die)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jIxGAs-CWc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jIxGAs-CWc)

Mutator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_Vld0MPKE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_Vld0MPKE)

Burndown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8UtSuZfDFI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8UtSuZfDFI)

Return of The Family Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9dy9pwBHd4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9dy9pwBHd4)

I'm going to bed now: I've inflicted enough horror on all of you for now  :wink:

I know it's not from the 80s and it's probably not that rare, but I feel some kind of fondness for this one since it was my first bad movie experience. We rented it with my friends and we still laugh about it to this very day.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113449/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113449/)

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i've seen Blood Song (1982) holy F... is that movie bad

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I own the original Jack-O DVD from Image. It was rereleased by Retromedia to DVD twice. It's a crappy film but I would buy a blu-ray if they ever do one.

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Rare but requested by fans to boutique labels for release. If a certain movie never made the transition from VHS to digital it is always one of these reasons:

1. complicated rights issues / music rights only for TV and VHS
2. original film elements are lost / only VHS master exists
3. owner doesn't care / owner asking for too much money

wasn't Jack-O (1995) ? i did see The Tomb (1986) yeah that one is WOW is it bad, i also did see The Supernaturals (1986) as well that one also was a chore to sit through. Mausoleum (1983) that was forgettable as well it must have been pretty bad cause i don't remember a thing about it.

Keep in  mind that's the edited quote.

The real thing could easily be something like "I highly recommend the Boogens to anyone that can't sleep.  It's about as far from a wildly energetic monster movie as you can get."

*ahem* Well, I guess great minds think alike...

Saw this one once when I was a kid, Then saw an edited for television version years later...
Susan Swift somehow type cast as a possessed kid...
During the '90s, I came across it in one or two video stores, but they were the edited for television version, which remixes the story in a way that doesn't make sense....
Finally found the original unedited on a torrent bootleg, but the scene where Swift's character gets possessed was blurred out...

While researching this years ago, I also looked up Jennine Babo (who plays Dorcas Goode) & found out she did some of the shot on VHS with heavy CGI movies for a group called Ikuzo.
In Ikuzo's case, imagine The Polonia Brothers only with a budget, some real actors, real writers, and absolutely no pretention that this cinematic opus would ever be a serious movie, just a fun little project, and you get the picture...

that shot on VHS is what i call and i wish i could have come up with the term shot on s**tteo which is when you make a movie on a VHS camera circa (1985) and thy are still made today just a better camera than back than.

There were a lot of movies made in SA in the 1980s to cash in on our loophole ridden subsidy system: most of these were made by inept, fraudulent filmmakers who didn't know which end of the camera to look through, they never or seldom paid their cast and crew and most of them made a fortune with these so-called quickies: the titles were the best thing about them.

Most of these are truly ghastly but here you go:

https://retroafrika.com/ (https://retroafrika.com/)

Oh yeah, most of them were uploaded to Youtube if you feel like watching the fifth oldest film industry in the world's years of shame.

I have an '85 Qasar VM10 that I once tried using to record a show at WRIR, but I couldn't get any local film makers interested.

I also have a Qasar VK105QE black & white camera that I've tried vlogging on....

i wish i had come up with that term i didn't. i dunno camera's cause tech isn't my area. my dad in (1989) brought home from work a camera that we ended up using on our family vacation. i do not remember what kind of camera it was but it was my dad's boss's and he had to return it which i remember really is something that i wish we didn't have to do. my brother a few years later did end up buying one himself  i dunno what kind it was though i think he was able to get one used but i could be wrong on that one. this was like in the i'd say mid 90's.

I actually just made that up off the top of my head....
I didn't really notice was thing until the early 2000s when I started seeing a lot of local commercials with really bad audio...

Jack-O might not be a good film, but it's a great bad one.  It's become one of my Halloween staples. 

i've never seen it but it's on my list though

There are two other truly bad ones made here:

The Headhunter

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099749/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099749/)

Rising Storm

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100464/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_3 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100464/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_3)

Truly blah.  :tongueout:

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I own the blu and the film looks better than it is, but I still somewhat enjoy it.

Not so rare after all I see  :teddyr:

The star of that, Wayne Crawford made quite a few movies in SA during the subsidy period and after and got into a lot of trouble with local unions due to the way his company treated local actors and crews.

i dunno this one and it can't be too rare if it's on bluray

It's a cheesefest. Headhunter had presence at rental stores back in the day. I know because I rented it back then.

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They wanted you believe it was taking place in L.A. I think?

I've read somewhere that Wayne Crawford was an a-hole in general. He acted like a douche on the set of some other movie as well.

that's one i don't remember but that doesn't mean a damn thing cause there's a lot of movies like you said that were Video store hits like this one that i missed no doubt.

It was supposed to take place in LA but, like Crimelords, another film that Wayne Crawford made here, was filmed in Durban.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099319/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099319/)

I don't know what he was like to work with but I do know that legal action was pending against him during the making of the Okavango TV series and a lot of what was done on set made the newspapers.

well he wouldn't be the 1st difficult actor, Tom Cruise is another one, David Carradine also could be really Difficult as well, Bette Davis could be as well, some who worked with loved her and some who worked with her hated her and still do.

Michael Parks was another: he worked in South Africa on a film directed by a friend of mine and they nearly came to blows several times.

i can believe it, i dunno why some are like that David Carradine also was that way as well which why he stopped getting roles by big directors but he was also a boozer for many years well. and he used to complain about not getting any calls by big directors anymore yet he burned all those bridges himself. 

i dunno why there's just some actors or actress's that are such.... to the cast or crew etc... than those same people can be really easy to work with, Brando was known to be difficult as well but than you have the Godfather (1972) and he had a ball making that one and they also had fun with him too. hell there' s a picture out there with him being taking down stairs on a stretcher with a big grin on his face.  no doubt a behind the scenes pic.  Bruce Willis is that way as well,

it just baffles the hell out of me when one actor or actress is such a pain in the ass for some cast members and they can't stand them or even the director yet take the lead or whoever is giving you the problems on another film and they can be fun to work with.  i think it's been said that at the start of each film you cna walk on the set of whatever film and whatever the 1st thing happens it sets the mood for the rest of the shoot. sometimes you can go on a sets and know you will have a ball working  on this particular Project or you walk on and kn0ow it will be a nightmare or so i hear anyways

Retired actrss Cristina Raines (The Sentinel, 1977) told in (later) Interviews how Morgan Fairchild was a super-biatch on the set of TV Series Flamingo Road (1980). Everybody was happy when the show got cancelled because they didn't have to work with Fairchild anymore.
I guess Raines was unlucky as she also had an awful experience filming The Sentinel. Director Michael Winner was apparently a sadistic sociopathic douchebag. It went so far that Raines had to hire the New York Guardian Angels on the set because Winner was threatening her life.

i've heard that what i find really interesting was Burgess Meredith according to a John Carradine book i own said that working with the freaks in that film taught him more than anyone had before on how a person should be treated cause they were really fun to work with and wonderful people.  i forget what all he said but the film is pretty bad i think.

The horror that is Nukie  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukie)

The Return of Captain Invincible.

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I was going to mention my mentor Jans Rautenbach's worst film No One Cries Forever (1984) as a rare 1980s bad movie but I found out that it is freely available to buy anywhere.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087793/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087793/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt)

If your ears can stand it, here's the theme tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERtkAAuPESI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERtkAAuPESI)

Running Out Of Luck (!985), Mick Jagger's companion film to his solo album, She's The Boss
The tale of a rock star's worst nightmare after being mugged, left for dead & lost somewhere in rural Brazil...
His luck continues to get worse as he tries to get back on his feet, and eventually learns the rest of the world thinks he's dead...

i actually own Captain Invincible (1983) on dvd really only cause Christopher Lee is in it that's really the only reason i bought it and yeah it is  a bad film

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Dial: Help (1988)

Italian erotic thriller tailored for Charlotte Lewis who had tons of media attention back in the day because she was discovered by Roman Polanski. He cast her in his flop Pirates (1986), and she did The Golden Child (1986) with Eddie Murphy afterwards.

Dial: Help was all about style over substance, about a cursed phone if memory serves. Awfully done fluff that was neither erotic or exciting. It did feature a few cool practical effects (not Charlotte Lewis).

i think i did see Pirates (1986) and thought it was terrible but than i do not honestly remember it could just be that it was that bad but i love The Golden Child (1986) it's one of my favorite Eddie Murphy films. my favorite part for me is when Eddie's looking around for the old little naked dude and i forget what Eddie says about it but it still makes me laugh.