RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie Thread!)

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
The Alien Factor (1978)
https://youtu.be/rh1Blm0-duA?si=zDLHBi7OZf2hsmIg

Actually filmed in 1972, explaining a few things....
So, this young couple are making out in their car, when the boy is grabbed by something that looks like a plastic suit of armor.... Next day, the local sheriff takes the girl to the town doctor, and a pair of locals bring the dead boy, in his car... The mayor shows up wanting to find out what happened, & the sheriff guesses an animal attack...
Later on, a young woman sees an alien in a pair of jeans.... Some local hippies try to find & kill the animal, but get killed... Another guy is killed by a ball of light, & some kids find him the next day.... Then a musical number from the local rock band, followed by a guy leaving the show only to find big foot in his basement....
The sheriff wants to call in the state troopers, but the mayor is afraid it might scare off a new tourist trap... Then an astronomer shows up looking for a meteor.....

Early '70s synth soundtrack which is pretty grating... Stiff looking regional actors... The low budget audio is passable.....
Very riffable..... Couldn't escape this nagging sense that I'd seen all this before.....

[M.10rda]

Yeah, Don Dohler remade ALIEN FACTOR at least once - in the 70s or early 80s! (Wasted no time with it.) I too don't remember if I saw the O.G. or a remake or maybe I've seen two versions... I guess you can't fault Dohler for, uh....... lack of attention span?  His films are a laff riot, though.

[LilCerberus]

Yeah, Don Dohler remade ALIEN FACTOR at least once - in the 70s or early 80s! (Wasted no time with it.) I too don't remember if I saw the O.G. or a remake or maybe I've seen two versions... I guess you can't fault Dohler for, uh....... lack of attention span?  His films are a laff riot, though.

Oh, yeah..... Kinda reminded of The Galaxy Invader(1985), which I saw on a local late night horror show, albeit, I was kinda thinking (at the time) about the Polonia Brothers movie.....

[M.10rda]

MOROZKO aka FATHER FROST (1924):
To check out the poster image on Letterboxd (as well as some of the reviews) you'd think this was a freaky art/horror flick, hence I sought it out and watched it. Don't make the same mistake! This is a 40 minute nothingburger where the eponymous Krampus-lite weirdo appears only briefly and does nothing!

Honestly I couldn't brief you too well on what does happen - a peasant family in snowy Russia sits around their hovel, bickers, then a female member wanders around in the snow and gets lost... maybe is in danger of freezing... then maybe (?) is rescued by "Father Frost" or whoever... makes it home... and there's a party or maybe a wedding? I have no idea and couldn't care less. A handful of intertitles are in Russian w/ no available English subtitles, though the scarcity of foreign text couldn't significantly illuminate this threadbare and uneventful slog. Is Father Frost the West's "Santa Claus"? He's got long creepy claws and doesn't seem too jolly, but then he doesn't kill or eat anyone either (unfortunately) and there is a sleigh.......

And hey, what's up with the plasticine noses (and other facial features) on so many silent film actors? Were these hold-overs from their theatre makeup kits and they didn't realize they looked ultra-fake in close-up/on camera? I'm talking about members of the family here, not the mythical snow-guy of the title. It makes ya' really appreciate the credible self-created FX worn by Lon Chaney during the same era.

2/5 at best. I got nothing out of it. Riffs might help but then I don't even think there's enough here to make fun of.