Why not include these to the list? "pumpkinhead", "the gate", "night of the comet". Ok, maybe the last one is almost too cheesy. It really WOULD be hell on earth if the last remaining survivors on earth were valley girls!
Btw, anyone remember a movie (perhaps with mother in the title) made in teh 70's I think about 3 friends who go on a camping trip to remenisce about their teens or something and they get kidnapped? I think two demented rednecks drag one or eventually all back to their love shack where their mother instructs them to do lots of fun torture before death? Ultimately I think only one girl escapes of the 3.
You're right - it was called "Mother's Day".
That was "Mother's Day", sm, where two of the three escape(after savagely killing their psychotic sleazoid abusers),only to face off with Mother's equally crazed sister. Wonderfully filthy ,outrageously nasty drive-in sleaze(too bad that this type of outrageous cinema isn't made anymore).
And "Pumpkinhead" is perfect for a review on this site's page,instead of those two ohter wussy,heavily mediocre titles(but they're interesting choices worth mentioning,since they both have their own devoted fans).
Oh by far I don't love 'the gate" or that "night of the comet", they're just so bad. Bad in a way that i never understood why there was any kind of following for either. And didn't that Gate movie have a sequel? Seems i remember the kid grown up and father died in a plane crash and he could make wishes come true but it turned to crap (literally) just hours afterward. Well anyhow. :-D
Guess it was "Mothers Day", very awful and I think movie studios are afraid to make movies this bad. Seems modern day "bad movies" are very high budget, but they just don't have that same jene se qua (and i know i butchered that spelling) that the very low budget badly acted, raunchy actor films of the 70's and earlier had. Well the 70's really summed up bad flicks..even the good ones were awful. Ever notice that when you look back at those films and the "nude" scenes the girls aren't all that sexy and pretty? It was practically trying to find ANY actress who would get nekked. Nowadays everyon'es willing so even in the bad films they all look like playboy models. I guess each decade brings it's own version of bad movies to the table.
Fear the pumpkinhead!
Was Mother's Day an early Troma film or did they just distribute it?
My vote is for HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD, of course! Assuming it hasn't been reviewed already.
Whoops, he's already reviewed it. It even got a skull rating!
They Just distributed it.
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I think hell of the living dead wa reviewed. How about that Masouleum movie? (was it called that or given another name? I'm so bad with remembering names) High school girls playing a cruel initiation joke on a girl by making her sleep in the house of the dead? Meg tilly if i'm not mistaken. And what was the deal with that one girl who chewed her toothbrush all the time - I often wonder why scriptwriters include things into the story. At least she died without cavities. Tho wasn't she simply buried in corpses? I never understood how the concept of corpses falling on top of you could result in your demise. Ah well
That's ONE DARK NIGHT. VHS copies are supposedly a highly sought item on EBay.
>Oh by far I don't love 'the gate" or that "night of the comet", they're just so bad.
>Bad in a way that i never understood why there was any kind of following for
>either.
I don't know, I always thought they were kind of fun. Like Night of the Creeps.
>Nowadays everyon'es willing so even in the bad films they all look like playboy
>models.
Yes, but did you ever notice that most of today's nude scenes are fairly brief or only show part of the actress? In many 70s films, you'd have actresses walking around and doing entire scenes in the nude.
>That's ONE DARK NIGHT. VHS copies are supposedly a highly sought item on
>EBay.
Another movie I've always kind of liked. Of course you have to understand that when I was younger, the biggest creep-out factor for me was dead things (bodies, mummies, skeletons) coming back to life. Especially if they didn't act like they were alive, like the zombies in Night of the Living Dead.
I remember seeing ONE DARK NIGHT on cable back in the 80s. I was really surprised it got a PG rating back then, it was pretty scary. I wonder if the falling corpses scaring people to death was a way to secure a PG rating--having walking corpses killing people was probably a ticket to an R for sure. But I think an R probably would have been better for business. That movie TOURIST TRAP had the same problem.
I dunno, falling corpses can be dangerous, particularly when your hand jams into their chest and unloads about 50 gallons of worms that somehow squeezed in those crypts..lol. I've seen it on tv too, and I guess censors for awhile were really tight (lately they've loosened up i guess since i've heard alot of profanity, seen alot of nudity and violence of course..times have changed!)
Maybe they gave it a PG because it promoted tooth care. I never liked the rating system, it's so biased and hypocritical. Poltergeist kind of confuses me. I saw it when it came out so it must have been a PG since i was a kid then. But was it given a new R rating? What's the deal with that.
>I guess censors for awhile were really tight (lately they've loosened up i guess
>since i've heard alot of profanity, seen alot of nudity and violence of
>course..times have changed!)
Did you ever notice that channels like USA aren't shy about including profanity or nudity in stuff they make, but they shop the crap out of movies or shows from any other source. La Femme Nikita included words like "ass" regularly, but they blanked those out of shows like Highlander. They showed a male character on LFN get out of bed fully nude in a well lit room (from the back), but in other shows they'll put a blurry patch under a woman's arm if you can see the side of her breast while she's changing tops.
Poltergeist was definiltey a PG, and I remember people being more than a little disturbed by that at the time. If Spielberg hadn't been associated with it, it certainly would have been an R. As it stands, I think Poltergeist and Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom were two of the films the MPAA had in mind when they created the PG-13 rating in the mid-80s.
No, what's disturbing is watching TBS or USA air something like "The breakfast club' and edit out "eat my shorts" to "eat my socks" or something like that. Meanwhile NBC is airing words like s**t and b***h. Ah well...i never really got what was going on with the network and cable stations these days in that arena. Only that for awhile it was real strict and now almost anything "seems" to go.
Poltergeist "was" a PG, but wasn't the rating upgraded to R? It seems i remember something about this whole thing like they talked them down to a PG from an R initially.
Indiana jones and the temple of doom and red dawn came out the same year and both got PG-13. From what i've read around the internet, it was "Red Dawn" that seems to get the credit since it was released in August and indiana hit theaters in October. crazy. Honestly i think the rating system needs to go, it hurts movies in some cases and often is not a true determinate in if a film is watchable by certain age groups.
I didn't remember Indiana Jones coming out the same year as Red Dawn, so I checked the IMDB [not always reliable, but usually so when it comes to years of release and ratings.] Indiana Jones came out in 1984, a year earlier, and was rated PG.
According to the IMDB, Poltergeist was originally an R and changed to a PG. It was definitely a PG when I saw it back in 1982 [my parents wouldn't have let me see it otherwise.] The R was due to "intensity." Spielberg fought for a PG and got it. Sounds sort of like what happened with HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER except in that case the movie got an X for "moral tone" and the director decided to release it unrated.
IMDB isn't always reliable, "red dawn" was released in 1984, Before the indiana jones movie. http://www.hollywood.com is a better source of exact info...but I also remember this because it fell in a year that I moved. I usually don't rely on one source on the net but do multiple searches from reliable sites to make sure.
But the rating system is bogus. "Jaws" got a PG and probably has an equal amount of gore and blood than some movies that got R ratings. not to mention it was probably responsible the decline in beach tourism in the following years..lol
Motel Hell........absolutely halarious!