Saturday Sci-Fi

[Squishy]

October 12th, Sci-Fi Channel's gonna serve up a dripping wet slab of chunkage. Aside from familiar standbys like "Ghost In The Machine" and "The Thirteenth Floor," and the bottom-of-the-barrel booyah like "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer," there'll be some fresh stuff, some of which have pretty awesome reputations in the B-movie-review world...

"The Devil's Prey" mit Patrick Bergen
"Route 666" (Warning: Lou Diamond Phillips!)
"Ragdoll"
"Incubus" -- according to the listings, this is the William Shatner 1966 film, not the nasty John Cassavettes movie from much, much later. Oh God, I hope that's right.

"Can your heart stand the shocking crap?"
--Grizwell

[Squishy]

(dances about merrily) ohmygodohmygodohmygod--I just looked up "The Devil's Prey" at the IMDB! It's directed by Bradford May! "Gargantua!" "Asteroid!" Those two "Darkman" sequels!
It.
CANNOT.
Be.
Good.
Wooooooot!

[Foywonder]

Ummm...which one is supposed to be worth watching? All those sound sucksational!

[Susan]

I can't watch sci-fi anymore. Not just because the commercials either. I think i gave it my last go a day or so ago when I saw some really cheesey bad made for sc-fi movie starring bo derek

(btw I know it's just me but whenever i see the old image of her in those hair beats running on the beach in 10, she always reminds me of the lady in the movie "The Shining" who was in room 237 that turned into the old naked hag lady with giant lesions on her) Way off topic and revealing some of my inner psychosis.

[Ash]

I quit watching the Sci-Fi channel because of all the damn commercials!  It seemed like it broke for commercials every 5 minutes!  After seeing the Bowflex ad for the 10,000th time, I'd had enough!  The only redeeming shows on it are the old Twilight Zone episodes and Lexx.

[Chadzilla]

I hate to admit it (wait, this is a BAD movie site, what the hell am I thinking?) but I am addicted to William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night - those things are worth taping, I swear.


Has to be the Cheese.

[Squishy]

Yeah, Chadzilla--had I known what movies they were showing on "Full Moon Fright Night" (I was surfing and stumbled onto "Killjoy," which turned out to be just as freaking awful as reviews suggested hooray!), I would've watched it from the get-go. Way to advertise, Sci-Fi.

[Susan]

is shatner going to be hosting that? I could have sworn somewhere in tvland I saw Shatner either hosting or advertising that he was going to host something..no idea the channel. Maybe i'm hallucinating. By hosting I mean it seems like an "elvira" type role, intro to the films

[Chadzilla]

Yeah, that's William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night - he serves as host in some bar with a frankendork bartender as partner.  They do goofy schtick stuff (which is oft times better than the Full Moon movies he's hosting) Shatner becomes a zombie or gets stuck in a computer or gets his brain removed etc and interviews if the movies run short (considering that most Full Moon movies run way under 80 minutes (and that's with plenty of credit padding).  Shatner has interviewed Charles Band, Stan Lee, Stuart Gordon (with Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs at his side), Heather Langenkamp (sp?).

For someone that grew up watching Creature Features with Bob Wilkens and then John Stanley, its a fun trip down memory lane.  I give these my highest recommendation, at lease for Shatner (who has shown some pretty decent comedy chops in recent years and is not the least bit afraid of treating himself as a joke)

Some of the movies shown
Killjoy (damn that was funny, but the clown freaked my son out)
Prison of the Dead (nuff beefcake to choke a cow)
Hideous
Shrunken Heads
HorrorVision (argh!)
Ragdoll (which is this Saturday)
The Creeps
and some others

These things could play forever and not bother me at all.

[GeeWhiz]

Chadzilla,

I'd agree with you, but I can't abide comparing Shatner to the Great God of Bad Movies, BOB WILKINS .

I do agree that Shatner's stuff is more fun than the other garbage I've seen lately.  He does make bad movies fun.

[Squishy]

Just a bump to remind everyone

[Flangepart]

Aaaaghh!
....Can.t believe i've missed all that cheese!
....One intresting new on Sci-Fi, and i keep forgetting it. Am i getting old or what?
....What?

[StatCat]

The only thing I find worth watching on scifi are the LBX versions of Godzilla vs hedorah, gigan, megalon, mechagodzilla. Taped them all except for megalon which only seemed to play once ever in letterbox format- wonder why, yes its terrible but....

[Squishy]

The "unique style" of "Route 666" gave me a headache and an urpy tummy at the same time. Argh, here comes that "Spaz-E Seizure-Cam" again--blerkkkk!!

Give Sci-Fi credit: they funded the restoration of William Shatner's "Incubus," which was pretty--strange. Pretty sad job on the subtitles, though; whole words missing occasionally, which can leave the dialogue open to misinterpretation--like saying:

"Honey, I'm going to
the dog."

[Chadzilla]

No mention of Ragdoll?  No mention of the William Shatner getting menaced by his own voodoo doll or jabbing a pin in a dolls buttocks while shouting "How's you prostate?!"

Ragdoll itself was decent, for a Full Moon Movie - I've seen much worse from the company.