RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie Thread!)

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The Dark Power (1985)

This is one worth seeing.  It's all over the place in tone and even in the set-up.  At the start it feels like they might be setting this up as a slasher, but the undead that show up never really feel slasher-like.  If anything, I would compare it to Neon Maniacs and I didn't think I'd ever have anything to compare to that movie.

The plot uses the old "ancient Indian burial ground" but the monsters when they appear are so far away from anything feeling "Indian" like that only the most sensitive of people looking to be offended would find anything wrong. 

A group of four good looking college girls, one of them black, one of them extremely racist, move into a house that was built on the previously mentioned Indian burial ground.  The racist girl invited her dickweed brother and his annoying friends to annoy the others when she finds out that she has to live with a black person. 

Then the dead rise because it's that time of year when the dead rise and because somebody removed the protective objects that were stopping that from happening.  There's an odd humor and silly slapstick even while they're killing people that feels out of place.  There's also one great kill where they grab a guy's mouth and stretch it open peeling his face away. 

And in the end the day is saved by ... an elderly Lash LaRue.  if you don't know who that is, he was a cowboy actor in the 40s and 50s famous for using a bullwhip instead of guns, dressing all in black despite being a good guy, and looking a lot like Bogart.  He even gets into a whip fight with one of the undead.  Which is honestly, kinda dull. 

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That's a good one. It's slow at times but it is very very odd.

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
The Devil's Sleep(1949)
https://youtu.be/848xrrlpbzg?si=NHDCjnfY1bid1hxh

Opens with flashing headlines about teenage crime, kids popping pills, with an announcer blabbing something, then roll opening credits, then a teenager running down a dark alley & the cops catch him.....
So, the female judge of juvenile court is discussing what's gotten into kids these days with a police chief & his head of narcotics cop.... The narc's girlfriend's kid brother is from the same neighborhood, & figures he could enlist the boy's help.... Thing is, the boy is one of the bad guy's customers, along with his girlfriend, who happens to be the judge's daughter.....
The drug dealers run their operation out of a lady's spa & gym, where he sells uppers to the clients, & has a young recruiter sells stolen pharmaceuticals to teens & persuades them to rob medical warehouses.....
The narc gets to work, while the teens go to pool parties at the recruiter's house.....

Watchable, with the gym being a setting for fat jokes & Hays Code exploitation, under the guise of being anti-drug propaganda......

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
SuperHigh(2017)
https://youtu.be/NDMR86gc_Sw?si=nfM4i60NwdW9VBnr

A college age Latino wakes up with a huge hole in his wall & a pair of friends who want to know what happened.... He thinks back to the previous day, when his girlfriend dumps him, & then a mysterious homeless man, who somehow knows a lot about him just gives him a bag of weed..... He gets high, & then a friend takes him to a rave, which gets busted by the cops.... In the confusion, he shoves a cop, who goes flying across the room & t-bones a squadcar.... Then he runs away, busting through walls as he goes....
They conclude it must be the weed, and develop superpowers.... They decide to become superheroes, but assaulting a cop isn't the best way to get started.....

This is a ten part webseries edited into a seventy-five minute feature, so the tone isn't entirely consistent... The one liners & punchlines had me cracking up for the first thirty minutes or so, then at about forty minutes, it takes a dark turn from which it has a hard time coming back from.....