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YOU'LL NEVER TRUST YOUR VACUUM CLEANER AGAIN!
Aliens return to earth to see what has become of their humanity experiment. They come upon a homeless bum and conclude that earthlings are a mess. They figure that crossing human beings with vacuums will eliminate the untidiness situation. The breeding experiment goes awry, however, after the bum falls in love with Dusty, an over-sexed vacuum cleaner.
BEWARE! THEY ARE STILL AT LARGE...
A corrupt general plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit they are working with double crosses them. A tough cop and her boyfriend help two of the revolutionaries escape from prison, hoping that they will lead them to the cash.
Frogs (1972) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
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Frogs ... falls into the "eco-horror" category, telling the story of a wildlife photographer who meets an upper-class U.S. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species, including snakes, birds, leeches, lizards, and butterflies.
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A reviewer from HorrorNews.net found it odd for a horror film to be titled Frogs when all the killings in the film are done by animals other than frogs and discussed the acting: "Sam Elliott is good as always. He manages to feel like the outsider while also feeling like part of the group. It makes his role work in ways that it might not work in someone else's control. Ray Milland is also fairly good as the patriarch of the Crockett family. He personifies that bullheaded 'you listen to me because I'm always right' attitude in such a believable manner that you think he is that guy. The rest of the cast isn't as great as these two, but their lack of good performance only helps to make their deaths more fun to watch. They overact or underact in the perfect ways to make the movie priceless."[7]
MIGHTIEST MONSTER IN ALL CREATION!
An expedition to the irradiated Infant Island brings civilization in contact with a primitive native culture. When a sensationalist entrepreneur abducts two doll-sized priestesses from there, their ancient deity, known as Mothra, arises in retaliation.
THE ARK HAS BEEN RAIDED AND THE STONE ROMANCED. NOW, LET THE REAL ADVENTURE BEGIN.
Australia, August 1945. While on a secret mission, Airforce Lieutenant Harris flies through a time warp and winds up on Easter Island. Eventually he ends up fighting for the possession of a magical stone.
Do not get the subtitled version. I know this is the opposite of what you usually want for a foreign film, but trust me on this one.
The English Dub for this film is absolutely unhinged and great.
I've been trying to find a list of the English voice actors for a very long time because I swear I recognize several voices from my Saturday morning cartoons in the 90's. (Most notably one of the young Shaolin boys that Hung Man Ting befriends)
Starring:
Ten years before Kung Fu Hustle, Jet Li starred in this comedic action film which sports a lot of elements of what you might call a "Live Action Anime."
As shown in the animated GIF above, the film starts off on full-blast with a Shaolin plus a baby fight. (and of course catbox.moe is down so the GIF isn't loading now, d'oh!)
This would be the first of two films Jet Li would star alongside Miao Xie as a father/son fighting duo, followed by My Father is a Hero / The Enforcer (1995). The Enforcer is a much more serious film than New Legend of Shaolin, and in my opinion New Legend of Shaolin is just a way more fun film.
The entire film really feels cartoony and over-the-top. Every step of the way it gets weirder until it results in an absolutely insane climax and ending.
TRULY OUT OF THIS WORLD... LIKELY OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE.
Three Space Babes land on Earth in search of sexual energy to fuel their spaceship. They befriend a lonely farmboy who helps them get a job at a local strip club. Can the babes harness enough energy for their return trip? Will they be able to evade their mortal enemies, the Scrotes?
It's got Christopher "Saruman / Count Dooku" Lee! It's got Peter "that guy who blew up Princess Leia's planet" Cushing! Yes, The Gorgon (1964) is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
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Germany 1910: The village of Vandorf has suffered seven horrific murders in five years. In each case, the unfortunate victim has been turned to stone.
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Variety wrote: "Though written and directed on a leisurely note, The Gorgon is a well-made, direct yarn that mainly gets its thrills through atmosphere. The period storyline is simple and predictable, but John Gilling has turned out a well-rounded piece and Terence Fisher's direction is restrained enough to avoid any unintentional yocks."[7]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The Gorgon myth does not fit happily into Transylvanian surroundings, and there are too many red-herrings indicative of the script's straining after horrific effect (the mad woman, the brain transplantation, etc.). The trouble is that one is never really in doubt as to who the Gorgon is. Also, as in Hammer's stablemate, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, the monster's appearance is belated, vague and insufficiently spectacular. Still, it makes a change from vampires, and though the film has little genuine flair for atmosphere it is quite well acted by Richard Pasco and an appropriately blank-eyed, statuesque Barbara Shelley."[8]
After the last man on Venus dies, two voluptuous Venusian women set out on an intergalactic mission to collect men from around the galaxy. After assembling an assortment of bizarre, monstrous space men, the women’s ship crashes in Chihuahua, Mexico. There they meet a singing cowboy.
IT'S CURTAINS FOR HIS CRITICS!
Edward Lionheart, a Shakespearean actor, is enraged that his latest play did not win him any prestigious acting awards from critics. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Lionheart is rescued by a group of drug-addicted hobos. He then sets out to murder all of his critics, each with a different style of death taken from a Shakespeare play.
BILLY WAS A KID WHO GOT PUSHED AROUND... THEN HE FOUND THE POWER.
A happy go-lucky teenager stumbles upon an extraterrestrial weapon, which transforms him into a grotesque killer. He becomes the target of a pair of aliens who recently executed the weapon's previous owner.
A homicidal psychopath kills himself by sealing his soul into a camera. Years later, a woman buys the camera, and everyone she photographs starts getting haunted by the killer's spirit.
Tsui escapes from a super soldier project and plans to lead a peaceful life. However, when his former comrades go on a violent crime spree, he takes it upon himself to end their reign of terror as a masked vigilante.
TONIGHT, HE EITHER FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE OR HE'LL BE RUNNING FOR THE REST OF IT
Young Jason Stillwell moves to Seattle, where local bullies harass him without mercy. One day he enrolls in a martial arts class and quietly rises in rank with the help of Bruce Lee's ghost. His mettle is tested in an international match against Ivan Kraschinsky, the Russian champion.
Invasion of the Star Creatures is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
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Two Abbott and Costello-type soldiers find plantlike creatures that are under the control of two beautiful alien scientists who are bent on conquering Earth.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128274/
Invasion of the Star Creatures has never been well reviewed by critics. When it first opened, the film trade magazine Box Office opined: “What a lot of baloney! Such a waste of time, film and effort. The title was good, but was it a spooky film? Nope! A comedy!! Closed the first night”.[7] Film historian Bill Warren, in his 1996 book Keep Watching the Skies!, Vol. 2, called the film "astonishingly bad ... so helplessly bad that it's almost unwatchable".[1]
In 1979, the film was cited by Harry and Michael Medved in their book The Golden Turkey Awards, a tribute to bad films. Invasion of the Star Creatures was nominated in the category for “The Worst Vegetable Movie of All Time”...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Star_Creatures
Content WARNING: the Tubi version has a warning that "The content that you are about to view features depictions that are objectionable..." Nobody on Mastodon knows what that refers to, probably crass sexism? (edit: from perusing the imdb reviews, it likely refers to a scene with a stereotypical depiction of Native Americans...)
TRAPPED ON A LOST WORLD OF PREHISTORIC MONSTERS
A space-ship is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Soon, the crew discovers that the planet is inhabited by dinosaurs and supersized bugs. Can they survive long enough in order to get rescued.
HE COULD BE THE BOY NEXT D0OR...
A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his blood-lust.
"Play time's over boy"
This is such a cool and silly cult classic from the 80s. Sho Nuff aka The Shogun of Harlem is one of the coolest bad guys in B Movie history. The final showdown is just cool as hell.
Piranha is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
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Executive produced by Roger Corman, Piranha is the first installment in a series of low-budget B movies inspired by the film Jaws (1975), which had been a major success for Universal Pictures and director Steven Spielberg. Initially, Universal had considered obtaining an injunction to prevent Piranha being released, particularly as they had released Jaws 2 the same summer, but the lawsuit was dropped after Spielberg himself gave the film a positive comment in advance.
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Charles Champlin, in his review of the film for the Los Angeles Times, called it "a swift, efficient program picture which squeezes the most out of its dollars to squeeze delicious chills from the audience."[14] Jill Forbes of The Monthly Film Bulletin called the film "a quickie from the Corman company that can't decide whether to plump for horror, science fiction or social comedy, and plays safe with something for everyone", and found it "a lot of fun".[15] Screen International's Marjorie Bilbow wrote that the film "works as spirited scream and giggle nonsense because there is always something happening and Joe Dante directs with a slyly tongue-in-cheek awareness of the existence of big brother Jaws".[16]
Piranha has since acquired a cult status. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 72% based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5 out of 10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Performed with a wink and directed with wry self-awareness, Piranha is an unabashed B-movie with satirical bite."[17]
Steven Spielberg called the film "the best of the Jaws ripoffs".[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_(1978_film)
This community briefly discussed this film a couple years ago.
OOZE MONSTROUS AQUA-BEASTS HUNGERING FOR HUMAN VICTIMS!
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN EXPLOSION OF NINJA ACTION
John Liu, a sound technician for a New York City news station, becomes a vigilante ninja after his pregnant wife is murdered.
WHAT COMES AFTER WORLD WAR III?
After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts return to an Earth transformed by nuclear war. As renegade gangs and mutant cannibals rule Los Angeles, the astronauts join two women and a couple of kids in a growing resistance movement.
Invasion of the Bee Girls is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
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The premise of the movie is that a mad scientist (Ford) is using radiation-mutated bee serum to create an army of female beauties who seduce men to death. One by one, the male victims are killed before the local police catch on to the plans of the infected females.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Bee_Girls
Also see this community's previous discussion of this movie! (e: that has a much higher-quality version of the movie poster...)
HEAVEN HAS CHOSEN HER TO JUDGE OUR SOULS AND SEND SINNERS STRAIGHT TO HELL
Demoness Veronica lscariot manages to escape Hell. When she arrives on Earth, she decides to punish all the Sinners. But the last thing she expected to find was love.
MANKIND IN DANGER OF ANNIHILATION!
The survivors of a plane crash are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
