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All Superheroes Must Die (2011)

Lowbudget attempt to one-up superhero movies 78min imdb

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Four superheroes awake from unconsciousness and find out that their powers are taken away. Via TV a supervillain explains that they must play by his rules or civilians will die. So the heroes play along and soon find out that the civilians will die anyway, no matter how much they follow his orders. That’s why the green ranger whose power is superedginess, starts murdering civilians himself.

Well, yes, there are spandex people in this, makes me wonder why. Obviously the writer, director and star of this movie wanted to do a dark and gritty hatemovie that proves what petty losers superheroes are, except for the Marty Stu of course, who is a true edgelord and badder than the baddest supervillain. Well, it’s got drama, tragedy and a bit of action and also Havoc from XMen 4. So you can watch it if you want, but as a superhero movie it fails miserably.

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Marx Brothers 9: At The Circus (1939)

In their 9th movie the Marx Brothers try to recover the hero’s stolen money. 87min imdb

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So there is this dude who has 10k Dollars that he needs to make his circus dream come true, but he tgets knocked down from behind and robbed. The Marx Brothers try to solve the case, but fail. So instead, Groucho goes for Margaret Dumont for some gold digging.

Yes, it’s true, this not one of the better Marx movies, and of course there are WAY! too many musical numbers which all suck except for those three with one of the Brothers in them. And yet: it’s fun. This movie does not reinvent the wheel but it takes you for a joyride.

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Black Friday (1940)

Old-fashioned brain transplant thriller with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. 70min imdb

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So there is this professor wo suffers serious brain damage in an accident. His best friend, a doctor, performs a brain transplantation, using a criminal as organ donor. Indeed, the professor recovers, and it takes a while until the criminal’s personality takes over more and more often. Good thing too, the doctor thinks, because he wants to get the gangster’s lost money.

Makes you wonder: why is the doctor surprised when the man with the criminal’s brain starts acting like the criminal? Everybody who watches the movie must be surprised that the professor remained pretty much himself at first. Another thing that I don’t understand is the casting. In the first place it was planned that Karloff would be the professor and Lugosi the doctor. But then Karloff was the doctor and Lugosi played a gangster with precious little screen time.

Pity. While I do appreciate the old-fashioned b&w screen gems I must say that this is not one of them. It’s a wasted chance.

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The House By The Cemetery (1981)

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Classic horror movie by Lucio Fulci.

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So there is this scientist from New York who has to move to Boston to finish a work that a colleague started before, so they tell him, he killed his his wife and then himself. At this point, his son starts seeing a ghost girl on a photograph.

In Boston he moves into the house where his colleague Petersen had lived, and he finds out that Petersen wasn’t doing the research that he was supposed to do, he instead was obsessed with a long dead surgeon called Freudstein.

In fact, the place where he and his family are staying now is the Freudstein mansion, and guess what, this place is haunted.

Not going to lie, this movie has ghosts and atmosphere and shock and suspense and a fair amount of blood. While watching this I thought that I would have got to complain about all the plot holes and how the various elements of the story just don’t fit together. People who call this a masterpiece are invited to explain all the logic bugs to me. I just feel like Fulci tried to create a masterpiece, and when he realized that he just didn’t have it in him, he decided to go for a massive overuse of blood and cheap thrills and then top it with a sad SAD mystery ending to add some artistic flavor.

What can I say? It works! I could write endless paragraphs about the shortcomings of this movie, but I don’t, because it really got me and I really like it!

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The Claire Wizard Thesis (2018)

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Parody of found footage movies

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So big brother David is shooting a documentary and is making fun of little brother Jacob who is shooting a remake of the Blair Witch Project and is a total prick.

That’s the story, basically. This is a parody of found footage films shot as the making of of a found footage film. The movie has its moments, thinking about it I must say that some bits are just great, and it’s certainly the best found footage movie I’ve ever seen. But most of the time I just miss things like story and sympathetic characters.

By the way: all the time I was hoping that director Ishak Issa would play the part of Jacob, but was pretty sure at the same time that he was David. So it was quite interesting to watch the end credits and find out which character he actually played.

One last thing: I can relate to most characters in this movie because I’m a wannabe myself. A wannabe critic, that is.

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Bite Me! (2004)

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Nice little trash movie with Erin Brown (Misty Mundae)

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The Go-Go-Saurus is a bar with exotic dancers, and it’s quite broke. A drug deal might save the place, but with the weed there come huge spiders that suck blood just like ticks. Getting rid of them turns out to be not easy, especially since everybody, the manager, the girls and even the exterminator, are quite inapt.

Fun little trash movie with Erin Brown (Misty Mundae). What more can I say? It’s not Citizen Kane, it’s entertaining. Very entertaining.

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Werewolves On Wheels (1971)

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70s exploitation of Easy Rider with a horror twist.

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Does it count as a spoiler when I tell you what’s no happening in this movie?Well you’re NOT going to see a pack of Werewolves riding their bikes.

Instead there is this gang of bikers, little league, small time crooks, but they call themselves The Devil’s Advocates, so they don’t hesitate to drink the wine some Satanists offer them. By night, when everybody is drugged, the Satanists have a satanic picnic with one of the gang members, and from that moment on things go downhill for the bikers. Gang members are murdered every night until the gang gets lost in a sand storm and things get a little trippy.

Most of the movie, we see bikers biking or stopping at a gas station or resting in the desert. They also added a bit of horror to it, but not enough to tickle my fancy. There are reviews that tell you how fun and free the shooting must have been, and that may very well be true. And yet: I really wanted to like this little trash movie, and I still wanted to like it after I realized that it was not really about werewolves on wheels. I wanted to write just how refreshing it is to watch this amateur movie that just doesn’t care about the laws of filmmaking. But the best thing about this is that I now can claim that I have seen a movie called Werewolves On Wheels. And? How was it? Well, quite disappointing.

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Marx Brothers 13: Love Happy (1949)

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At last: Harpos long awaited solo movie, co-starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Marilyn Monroe and Raymond Burr.

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Harpo works as caterer for a musical production. Chico is on the crew because he knows how to handle the man who wants money for the sets and costumes. Groucho is after the hot woman who is after the royal Romanoff diamonds, which are hidden in a can of sardines which Harpo stole.

Of course, Duck Soup was better, and so were, I assume, the even older movies that I didn’t see. Yaddayaddayada. I know that kind of talk because I used to talk in this fashion myself. But that was long ago, I have seen a ton of other movies since, and after rewatching it now I must say: wow! Funny! Entertaining!

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Trivia: They say that Harpo wanted to make a solo movie, but Chico had to be in it because of his gambling depts, and the investors insisted on Groucho. Also in the cast: not so important actors like Raymond Burr and Marilyn Monroe.

War Of The Satellites (1958)

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Roger Corman’s quick reaction to the Sputnik fad.

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The UN space program is experimenting with manned satellites, but all attempts fail. Eventually some kind of meteorite crash lands on earth, containing a warning of aliens who declare that they don’t want people like the earthlings in space and that the planet is quarantined. The satellite program is continued nonetheless, so the aliens replace the most important scientist with a shapeshifter.

Well yes, very old fashioned and quite entertaining movie by Roger Corman. Nothing special though.

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John Cleese On How To Irritate People (1968)

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A pre-python TV show with John Cleese

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This is an evening TV show with John Cleese, a nice assortment of sketches. It’s funny, yes, but when half of the Monty Python crew is gathered, we are used to a little more than just “it’s funny, yes” (you are not? Well I am, spoiled little brat that I am). All in all it’s a good but rather conventional 70s TV show. But hey, this is from 1968, so who knows, maybe they were ahead of their time then already? Anyways, I list and link it here because you know what we fanboys are like. What if this was some lost media stuff where Cleese, Booth, Palin and Chapman are doing these TV sketches long before the Flying Circus? I sure would die to see it. So I think it’s better that is NOT lost. Gentlepeople, I present you what may not be the greatest show in the world, but I guarantee you that it’s a highly interesting historical document and about 100 times funnier than anything that Adam Sandler or Kevin James could ever come up with.

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Mission Stardust (1967)

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Italian trash flick that both started and ended the movie career of Perry Rhodan.

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Perry Rhodan is the first man on the moon, well, the first human anyway. Because shortly after touchdown he discovers a shipwrecked spaceship of the Arkonides. Those are the rulers of a huge interstellar empire, their technology is advanced beyond human imagination, yet they have become so lame and lazy that they don’t even think of fixing their ship or even cure the cancer of their commander Crest. Rhodan thinks that it might be a good thing if the aliens owed him one, so he offers to take Crest to an African oncologist. Together with Thora, a hot tempered alien Amazon, they use an arkonide shuttle to land in Africa, where soon African army and a gang of gangsters are after the extraterrestrial technology.

Well, that’s the story of the movie, anyway. In the original story, Rhodan landed the shuttle in the desert Gobi and had a hard time preventing world War 3 when China, America and Russia tried to have the alien technology all for themselves. Trouble was that in 1967 nobody even thought of big budget space operas, so the plot was downsized to what the budget would permit, and it showed. The owners of the franchise never sold any movie rights ever again.

Oh well, the movie sure doesn’t do any justice to the biggest science fiction franchise ever, but in comparison to other space flicks of that Era it isn’t even too shabby. Yes, I’ll say that it’s entertaining in its own way.

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And just for the hell of it: a Playlist with a selection of official and inofficial Perry Rhodan Music.

The Orange Man (2015)

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Comedy about a bunch of losers who are stalked by a slasher with a hook and sack of oranges.

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Back in the 80s there was a farmer who went from door to door, trying to sell his oranges, and as he didn’t succeed, he went on a killing spree. In the present days he is still not caught, and we see businessman Gerald announcing how he will run over an orange orchid with a bulldozer. But since his wife wants a divorce, he decides to make a trip with his bestest buddies who, each in their own way, are as miserable as he is.

Yes, since the slasher (apart from a sack of oranges) uses a hook, it’s a bit like I Know What Napoleon Dynamite Did Last Summer, but I’m okay with that. This is a microbudget movie done with love and diligence, and I appreciate that very much. Also, I ‘m a big boy now, and I’ m not going to complain like “bohoo, there’s not enough blood in it for a slasher movie” or “bohoo this comedy is so inane with its abundance of pee (and peeping) jokes.”

No, this is not a bad movie, and if you watch it you will find that, whether you like it or not, at least it’s not much like other movies that you’ve seen before. This is why I give it three stars, and i tell you why I don’t give it four: I think that the script would have needed much more effort. So we think that Gerald will meet the Orange Man because he is a destroyer of orange orchids, but then the story switches to buddy movie mode. When then the friends team up against the lover of Gerald’s wife, we (or at least I) think “whoa, this is some weird film about friendship.” But eventually the film decides to be full throttle nihilistic. Speaking strictly for me: I prefer scripts with a little more coherence, and while I think that nihilism in real life is rubbish, I also think that nihilism in art is valid and can be quite cool if it’s done properly, it just doesn’t tickle my fancy too much.

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Suspiria (1977)

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Italian horror movie about a nightmarish dance academy, directed by Dario Argento, starring Jessica Harper.

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American dancer Suzy enrolls at a German “Tanz Akademie” (where everybody speaks English). The night she arrives, another student flees the school in panic and is brutally murdered shortly thereafter. The academy turns out to be a sheer nightmare: the staff is a complete freak show, the dorms are maggot infested, and it seems like the headmistress has Suzy drugged whenever she feels like it. Suzy talks to Sarah, who used to be a friend of the girl that was murdered at the beginning of the movie, and she gets the impression that witchcraft may be involved.

Dario Argento is said to be one of Europe’s greatest directors of horror and giallo, and I can see why. The sets do not even try to look realistic, the movie makes excessive overuse of light and color, it all looks like a dream, like a trip, unreal… Maybe surreal? Well this is not arthouse, this is an extremely well crafted horror movie starring the adorable Jessica Harper.

In short: me like!

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Detective Heart Of America: The Final Freedom (2015)

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Puppet animation movie by Jason Steele about a plaster eagle who works as an detective.

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Heart Of America is a detective who works for the police. This time, somebody is doing something fishy with bitcoin. Heart Of America has no clue what’s going on, but it very much looks like that America-as-we-know-it will soon ceas to exist.

This movie is fun! Jason Steele has created a full animation movie just by taking puppets and wiggling them, and that’s enough if and only if you are an artist who knows he’s doing.

This full-length feature is the third adventure of Heart Of America. You can watch the first installments here and here

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Spider Baby (1967)

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Classic Thriller about an insane family with Lon Chaney Jr.

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After the father of a family died, his driver took care of the rest of the family. All members of this family were born with a genetic anomaly that, as soon as they hit puberty, caused their mental and physical degeneration. Now that the father is dead, soon distant (and sane) relatives arrive and bring a lawyer and his assistant to grab whatever they can. The situation escalates quite quickly.

“The maddest story ever told” they claim in the opening credits, and in 1967 this may very well have been true. This movie is indeed quite insane and aged very well. Today it is a classic that just doesn’t get enough love and attention.

Talking about love: I love the part when the lawyer’s assistant talks to Lon Chaney Jr. about movie monsters with special emphasis on the Wolfman. Take a bow, Mister Chaney.

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Robot Monster (1953)

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Classic SF movie about an alien invasion that consists of one single Robot Monster.

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Ro-Man, the Robot Monster eliminates almost all mankind using a death ray. Only a handful of people survive because of of a miraculous new antibiotic. Even though the survivors act very much like slashees in a horror movie, which means that they don’t stick together and run around alone again and again, Ro-Man is has a hard time trying to track them down.

Ro-Man was the first and hopefully only Robot Monster ever that consisted of a furry suit and and a diving helmet, which earned him a Golden Turkey Award for being the “Most Ridiculous Monster In Screen History”, and all in all the story is so incredibly dumb that the final plot twist should not be surprising.

Many people celebrate this movie for being so-bad-that-it’s-good, and I so totally agree.

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Cannibal! The Musical (1993)

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Directed by Trey Park, co-written by Matt Stone: the biopic about Alferd Packer , one of America’s most famous cannibals.

Alferd Packer, despite his incompetence, works as a guide for a group of gold digger wannabes on their way to Colorado. The winter is cold, and the only member of the trek that reaches Gunnison alive, not half as starved as one might expect and also quite wealthy, is Pecker. Soon he is accused of murder and cannibalism.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are known and loved for their work on the South Park show, but already in 1993 they created together what turned out to be one of the best college movies ever, with astonishing production values including songs and a horse.

If you only watch one cannibalist biopic musical this year, watch this one.

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Supermen: World War (2019)

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Lois and Clark in France during WW2

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Lois and Clark go to France to report on the war. Good thing, too, because some mad scientist is working on a Superman for Hitler.

So this is a fan movie, totally not canon, and I admire what these people do. They put so much work into their movies, and money that they will never see again. There is no use pointing the finger at minor flaws, this movie is so much better than anything that you or I will ever create.

(Oh, wait, I must be a cleverdig for just one short paragraph in parentheses: you don’t have to read Nietzsche to make a Superman fan film, but according to the description, this movie explores philosophies about what Superman is, so it sure wouldn’t have hurt.)

By the way, Jimmy Olsen is replaced in this movie by Donald L. Callahan who was an actual war photographer and later became the director’s grandfather.

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The Chair (2016)

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Violent drama about a prisoner on death row and the sadistic and murderous warden.

Rowdy Roddy Piper’s last role.

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So there is this prisoner waiting for the electric chair. However, the warden and his henchmen soon turn this movie into a torture porn. In the second half it gets more dramaish with some extremely dull plot twists.

All in all this is a solid 1*, but I give it a bonus star because Rowdy Roddy Piper and Road Warrior Animal are in it. I don’t want to watch the movie a second time to find out whom Animal played (I assume he is the chubby cop who is shown in a flashback near the end), but Piper was a great wrestler, and of course a good actor, that’s part of the job description after all. This was his last movie.

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Blood Feast (1963)

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A caterer collects body parts for a Egyptian-style cannibal feast. First gore movie ever, directed by the notorious Herschell Gordon Lewis.

So there is this woman who wants to organize a party for her daughter, and the caterer promises her an Egyptian dinner that hasn’t been cooked for thousands of years. Trouble is that the caterer is a lunatic serial killer and cannibal who wants to celebrate a mass for the Egyptian goddess Ishtar.

The story is stupid, the actors are terrible, and the blood, well, the blood. They shot this movie in color to show the blood, but the red paint that they used looks so totally fake, like, hey, don’t worry, it’s not real, it’s just a movie.

However, you can and maybe should watch this, because this flick by Herschell Gordon Lewis is said to be the first slasher movie ever, so at the very least this is a historic document.

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Manos: The Hands Of Fate (1966)

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The story of a cultist with handprints on his cloak. Contender for the worst movie ever.

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A family on a road trip takes a wrong turn and ends up in the house of a weirdo with handprints on his cloak and his creepy servant. The master’s hobby is to magically enslave women and the servant is kind of jealous because he gets no woman for himself.

This is one of the worst movies ever, and the good thing in comparison to Plan 9 From Outer Space is that it’s in color. On the other hand, the latter at least had some (sort of) celebs in it.

Watching bad movies can be fun, but watching this one is more of a dare or punishment.

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Inhumanwich! (2016)

Inhumanwich! (2016) 73min Englisch sound with subtitles VPN:D

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An astronaut in the earth’s orbit is bitten by a radioactive sloppy joe and turns into a horrible bologna monster.

Yes. This is a good movie. When you got no budget and no genius, you can still go for a silly comedy, and when your actors can’t really act, they can still go all the way over the top. It doesn’t always work, but in this case, it does. I love it.

Tenacious D Live In Germany 2016

Tenacious D Live In Germany 2016, 62min VPN:D

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What can I say? Kyle Gass and Jack Black were great when they first created their miniseries about two chubby wannabe rockers strumming on acoustic guitars, and today, well, I guess that Jack Black is just the rocking actor that Johnny Depp always wanted to be.

Bruce Lee Against Supermen (1975)

Bruce Lee Against Supermen (1975) 84min English dub VPN:D

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A scientist invents a cure for famine, but he is abducted because he refuses to sell out to the villains. A Kung fu dude knot Bruce Lee, of course, but a character played by an actor called Bruce Li) comes to the rescue.

Near the beginning of the movie we see a man dressed as Kato, and there are also a few scenes with two guys in the red outfits of the Tri Supermen with green insects stitched on the chest. That’s about as superheroic as this movie gets.

This movie is incredibly stupid and doesn’t make any sense at all. The best explanation for this mess is that they had leftovers from other, unmade movies and then shot additional footage to compile something that (if you don’t look too closely) resembles an actual movie.

It may very well be that the so-bad-that-it’s-good community will say that this is a jolly good lark, and I sure would love Ryan George to do a pitch meeting about it, but normal people should avoid this at all costs.

Class Of Nuke ‘Em High (1986)

Class Of Nuke ‘Em High (1986) 85min English sound with autocaps VPN:D

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Nuke ‘Em High is the public school of Tromaville, pop 15k, the toxic chemical capital of the world. Of course they have a nuclear power plant there, and soon the innocent hero and his girlfriend smoke a joint made of radioactive weed before they do the naughty thing. While he gets the power to temporarily hulk out, she soon gives birth to the new school mascot.

Basically this is a very well done comedy pandering to the younger audience. It’s mostly about the joys of sex and drugs and violence (there even is some gratuitous (and silicone free) nudity included for those who who have not had any live action yet). Of course I resent that. Violence may be a splendid pleasure for the sadist, but I still say it’s despicable.

It is quite impressive just how prophetic this movie is: the ruthless dealers in this movie pimp their herbs with radioactivity very much like their today’s counterparts do with dubious synthetic drugs. Also, the villains in this movie sing the national anthem and use meaningless patriotic catchphrases, and after they got kicked out of the white house, ehm, I mean out of school, they soon return to spread violence and terror and bloodshed. Life imitates art indeed.

All in all this movie is superb, I’d give it 5* if only the jokes were a little funnier, and I know that I will watch more Troma movies in the future.

Room For Rent (2016)

Room For Rent (2016) 70min with Erin Brown. English sound with autocaps. VPN:D ⭐⭐⭐

So there is that dude who buys a house because he thinks that this is what grown people do. When he finds out that he cannot pay the bills he starts searching for a a roomier via internet. Via internet? Yes, and soon people start trolling him with stories about just how haunted his house is. So he tries to prove that his house is all right.

Well, I’m so totally not a fan of found footage movies, and I like microbudget movies only when they are well written and executed with diligence. The reason why I watched this is Erin Brown, I’m a bit of a fanboy since I saw her (as Misty Mundae) in Spider-Babe. In this film, however, she was not so convincing. She said her lines and walked across the lane clearly not knowing what she was doing there.

The really impressive thing about this movie: one of the bigger problems with this kind of movies are the unskilled actors, and here, in this movie, the sister and the friend of the hero are incredibly convincing. How come? Are they pros? Are the naturals? Well, I love to imagine that they are both awful actors, and since the author knew this he wrote parts for them that would not require actual acting, they just had to overact while being themselves. Well I love this theory and if it should be wrong, please don’t burst the bubble.

Anyways, this is definitively a 3* movie, fully okay if you occasionally watch microbudget found footage movies.

The Batwoman (1968)

The Batwoman: La Mujer Murcielago (1968) 80min Spanish sound with English subtitles VPN:D ⭐⭐⭐

A mad scientist wants to conquer the world with the help of fishmen. To create a prototype, he abducts and kills luchadores, because they are the best source material for the creation of fishmen. Batwoman investigates.

Needless to say, this movie is NOT canon, it’s a cheap Mexican exploitation flick and it’s fun to watch unless you hate both superheroes AND trash movies. Of course this Batwoman is not as hot as Ruby Rose, but at least this movie is ENTERTAINING!

Iggy Pop Live In Paris (2019)

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James Osterberg, the original white trailer park trash, the godfather of punk, one of the men who made Detroit the Rock City. Right now (2021) he is one of the very few legends who are still alive, and of all legends, alive or otherwise, he surely is the iggyest.

So, how was he in 2019? Did he sell out? Well, he recorded an art rock album and presented it in a suit at a fancy location for the highbrow TV channel Arte France. So I guess you could say that he’s still the same, always doing his very own thing.

Cat-Women Of The Moon (1953)

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Astronauts travel to the moon and discover that catwomen are not nekos, but normal women in catsuits.

This movie is quite bearable, even entertaining. I’m quite sure that some trash nerds will call this a cult classic, but I disagree.

The Iron Superman (1975)

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For decades ships and planes have vanished in the Bermuda Triangle, and only one couple ever was smart enough to equip their son with a life vest. About 20 years later this sole survivor has become a brave man who can mount and control a mecha and stop the alien invasion that is behind the occurrences in the Bermuda Triangle.

A classic 70s children’s trash movie, “so-bad-that-it’s-good”.

Ogon Batto: The Golden Bat (1966)

Ogon Batto: The Golden Bat (1966) 73min Japanese sound with English subtitles VPN:D ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Evil aliens want to dump an asteroid on planet earth. However earth scientists manage to resurrect Ogon Batto, a superhero from ancient Atlantis.

Japanese 1950/60s SF entertainment for children, that’s nothing new you might say. However, this movie is made well (not worse than similar movies) and I happen to like superheroes. And this superhero is a really special one because he made his first appearance in 1931, yessir, that’s 7 years before Siegel&Shuster equipped Nietzsche’s Superman with spandex and a cape.

I’ll say this is a “should see” because if you (as a normal person) miss this movie, well, that’s your problem, not mine. If, however, you (as a supernerd) watch it, you’re in for a treat.

The Paranormals (2015)

The Paranormals (2015) 88min, English sound with subtitles, VPN:D ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Life was good when they were kids, they wore tinfoil hats and played ghostbusters. As adults, however, life is different. Examining the strange case of the vanishing gas station does not make you a professional ghostbuster, and Adam decides to grow up and moves to Dallas for a real job. Thomas however still claims to be a psychic and refuses even to accept a daytime job at the local public library.

Adam, who desperately tries to fit into the real world is bullied by a demonic copying machine. Thomas teams up with Dirk who knows how to run a successful ghostbuster business because he is a scammer.

This is a real “should see” because it’s really good and I give it a bonus star because it is one of my personal favorites. It happens too often that microbudget movies are trash, done completely without love and diligence. This one, however, is flawless. Yes, it’s cheap and it shows, but I don’t care, because it is so much better than many of those average Hollywood blockbusters.