Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: THE BONEYARD 

Probably the only movie in existence to feature both a monster poodle AND a monster Phyllis Diller!

I first saw this movie in my Production Management class in Film School. The teacher, Phil Smoot, was the Line Producer of this movie and went over how he was able to secure the location. Plus, he brought in his Pink Bone Yard Crew jacket with poodle logo.

A monster poodle? Were the people behind Rampage: Total Destruction fans of this movie?

Always a great day when Brandon uploads!

Chris Walas, the special effects wizard in "The fly", admirably directed "The fly 2". Just another example.

So this is where Hulk got its poodle from

When I was a kid I made a home movie about a laundry monster. It was based on that short film where a film editor is eaten by a roll of filmstock that comes to life.

This movie drags in places, but I found it fun overall.

I really miss the times when even a lower budget movie had really cool practical effects. I don't even hate CGI but it is so overused nowadays and so many times it's just cheap that i'd rather take a mediocre practical effect instead.

Does anyone else remember that 1967 stop-motion horror parody "MAD MONSTER PARTY" where Phyllis Diller did the voice of the Bride of Frankenstein? Boris Karloff was the voice of Dr. Frankenstein. It had all the classic Universal monsters in it. A fun little kids movie.

That Detective is Columbo from Wish

We're going to *The Bone Zone* with this one, boys!

When I was just a little kid, my mom picked up an animated film for us without really reading the back, it was “Wizards” from Ralph Bakshi. Absolutely fantastic film, but I was only like 9-10 at the time. It made an impression. 🍻 P.s. “you mean the movies lied?!”

The Jack Torrance played by meatloaf line killed me. 🤣🤣

Kyonshi? Jiangshi? If those, they're the kind of ghost vampires in Chinese folklore (Kyonshi is how they're referred to in Japanese). If you have played any of the Darkstalkers series of fighting games, the character Hsienko/Lei Lei is one of them.

No mention of "Killer Klowns from Outer Space?" Some of the most amazing effects and sets I've seen in a low-budget film.

Is Phyllis ghoul related to the Crypt Keeper? Seems like it.

I recognized the psychic when I saw her, for sure but couldn't place her. Then I looked at that IMDB again, I had just seen that episode of Columbo she was in before this movie. Funny how I've seen her twice in my entire life and both in the span of a week.

「狂死」(kyoshi) is a Japanese term that means "dying insane". I think that's probably the closest reference to the term used. Although, the characters 「恐」(kyo) "fear/dread" and「 子」(shi) "child" could be put together to form 「恐子」(kyoshi) ”terrifying child", which makes the most sense. Not a real word, but it works.

@4:08, hmm mistranslation? kyoshi means martial arts professor. they probably meant Kyuketsuki which means undead, ghoul or vampire.

Hey Brandon, I don't know how it works or how you choose these movies but I believe it'd be a funny review if you do the movie Robot Holocaust (1987). That's my suggestion. Greetings from Germany!

One of the best reviews to date. I’m amazed you never reviewed the ultimate cult classic Roger Cormans Fantastic Four. Maybe it doesn’t fit this channel.

Poopenplotz reminds me of Mayor Poopenmeyer the Mayor of New-New York from Futurama

Looks fun. Interesting choice for a leading lady with the psychic. Congrats to the producers for not tossing in some random titillation and arousal moments.

New Brandon movie review? So my day isn't that bad after all. Thanks fellow Brandon!

Please do She (1984). I saw it once on cable as a kid and searched for that fever dream of a movie years later and finally found it.

The Kyoshi resemble ghouls, demonic beings that inhabit graveyards and eat corpses

Have you talked about the puppet master movie because if so, then can you talk about the other puppet master like all the sequels

i first saw that poodle monster on cinemassacres monster madness openings, now i know where its from, this is gonna be so stupid good

Thanks!

Can't believe you haven't done Nail Gun Massacre.

Aberration 1997 should be next

First love your videos keep up the great work

I think the monsters are jiāngshī: undead corpses from Chinese mythology.

5:45 I remember Happily ever after. I used to watch it on VHS at my grandmother’s house back in the day.

Thank you, this is one I hadn't seen!

We need a Blu Ray of this NOW!

15:12 taps microphone *W O U L D*

Imagine if Pee-Wee encountered Poopenplotz in the truck instead of *LARGE MARGE!*

Great job as always, Brandon!

Why is there an evil poodle?

When Godzilla? When Godzilla?

I remember when I was stationed in Ft. Detrick MD. I saw this & they had both covers there & the lady told me the giant poodle one rented more copies. And I remember Fangoria hated it but I wanted to see it because Norman Fell & Phyllis diller is in it too.

Metal shifters review when

This movie could have been the prequel to The Autopsy of Jane Doe.

WEREPOODLE UNLOCKED

I have no idea how Brandon Tenold heard about this movie. I doubt he saw my suggestion but I have been suggesting this movie to many channels in the comment section many times. It is a great movie for a low budget film. The poorly made cheap parts of the film are used to maximum effect. The tone is refreshing as you can tell the actors are mostly competent. The dead children horror part makes the movie terrifying enough just due to how the content is treated. Also it is good to see a female actor who isn’t skinny. It just feels more real. The poodle monster at the end makes the whole movie feel very rewarding at the end. You can tell a lot of effort went into it.

Not sure about "Kyoshi", but in Asian folklore there is an undead creature known in Japan as the "Kyonshi". Also known as "Jiangshi" in China, and "Chinese Hopping Vampires" in the west. Clearly these things are very different.

I suggest Brandon to one day review EEGAH, an extremely loe budget caveman movie from 1962.

This movie was so good. As a kid, I rented this with my own money from an Asian owned corner store. I was already into it for what I originally thought was a werepoodle, but it didn't disappoint. Love how Phyllis changed. I didn't know what she became was a japanese imp/minor demon called a "gaki" until MUCH later when Samurai Shodown V came out and debuted the character Kusaregedo.

"FUCK YOU! IT'S MY CHANNEL!" Couldn't have said it better myself, Brandon! 😂😂😂

I am just waiting for Brandon to review the movie Wanted Dead or Alive with Rutger Hauer. I hear the actor that plays the villian always does a memorable job.

Comedy legend Phyllis Diller doing what she does best. I'm from the area of Ohio that produced two of the biggest comedy legends, Phyllis Diller and Jonathon Winters. Diller predates Joan Rivers which both had the same comedy styles. Diller is the best part of this hot mess.

I love this film, but then again I’m strange and unstable…. Erm I mean unusual

He succeeded in killing him with a forklift! He succeeded in killing him with a forklift!

Kyonshi means stiff corpse. It's the same as jiangshi, the jumping vampire from Hong Kong movies.

5:54 - That joke took me off guard. It's one of those that makes you giggle at first, but it takes you a second to process how truly brutal it was. Fucking brilliant.

Upon viewing the thumbnail, it didn't occur to me that the child zombie head might be a censor, I was picturing someone telling Quaid to "start the reactor".

Great review as always but I just wanted to mention an Anime you should check out called CORPSE PARTY: Tortured Souls, a 5 episode OVA based on a 1996 RPG. They also made a live action version while it would be neat to do a comparison between the two.

This is probably one of the few horror films in which the characters have a backstory that could have been made into another movie. And which has a gigantic monster puddle.

Kiyoshi is probably what they're thinking of, but they're supposed to be demon hunters, not goblins.

5:47 Until MovieBob reminded us This Movie Existed. 7:52 My next guess was Shang Tsung from the 1st MORTAL KOMBAT game. 9:40 At the pace she waddled at, she was late everywhere. Maybe she needed to run a few laps around her house. 12:50 For a "psychic", she sucks at predicting what will happen, seeing as she got surprised by the kyoshi behind her. 16:04 "OK, next question: how are YOU Not dead after that explosion?!" "I'm so fat, I'm naturally insulated!" 17:56 [GASP!] YOU HEARD OF ED "BIG DADDY" ROTH?!

great flick, fun stuff

Love the YTV shirt! Brings back fond memories of childhood watching Beast Wars, ReBoot, and those trippy computer animation shorts XD

the dirty & muddy look to these zombies really amps up the fear factor to them

I think I saw a bit of this in an intro to one of James Rolfe's "Monster Madness" marathons, maybe in 2010 with "Camp Cult" or 2014. The clip featured "Poodle-zilla". Gotta say, never heard of this one, does look worth watching mostly for the special effects...and Phyllis Diller. :D

I enjoy this movie for what it is, mainly for the practical effects. I do wish it had been paced better, with maybe a few kills earlier in the movie. Maybe instead of the doors being stuck already, a group of teens break in to mess with corpses as a prank or dare, cause the doors to get stuck and then get munched.

Brandon needs to do *"JAWS 3-D"* which was the directorial debut of Joe Alves (his only film as Director), who previously was the Production Designer of the first two *"JAWS"* films (as well as a 2nd Unit Director and Associate Producer in the 2nd film) and *"Close Encounters of the Third Kind".* We can thank Verna Fields (who won the Oscar for editing the 1st film and then became Vice-President for Feature Production at Universal) for recommending the director's chair to Joe Alves.

Kyonshi is the Japanese way to say Jiangshi or Goengsi, a chinese hopping vampire/zombie/ghoul

I like real trash and I found this one very humdrum. Meh

Come on, I'm pretty sure you know what a Kyonshi is. Those Japanese zombie-ghosts that get around by hopping? I swear you talked about them in a different review.

There is 狭心 Kyoushin, but it means "Chivalrous Spirit" in Japanese. 教師 Kyoshi is "Teacher." But then again, there are so many Kanjis out there 😅

“Kyoshi” in Japanese means “teacher”… I think he meant to say “kyonshi” which is a kind of zombie that jumps around. It’s a creepy monster

Hey bro! As a lifetime kustom car enthusiast I really appreciated the Ed Roth reference, and you're absolutely right, it definitely looks like one of his T shirt monsters 👍🏻 As for the movie, fx look really fkn good, and the rest looks just like most of my Tera-byte trash flick collection. I'll definitely check this out!

This movie is absolutely worth it for the last fifteen minutes. Also, it's great to see a middle-aged dumpy normal-looking woman as the main character,

Moosehead bottles? Tell me you're canadian without telling me you're Canadian. I comment in Australia in my house with my pet huntsman spider I call Spongey.

Hopefully this doesn't come off as a dis towards the artist who drew the poster, because I actually this aspect, but I stop seeing the ghoul in poster just going, "Ooggeddy boogeddy boo!" I think it's the hands.

Me: Oh man the makeup effects are so great! I wonder if I can hire this guy! Me after a quick google search: Bummer 😐

I remember a movie, I think it was called the Vampire Hunters. Dynamite was the way to kill jiangshi. Nice to see a return to explosives against the undead.

I can't believe I forgot about this movie. I saw it on Shudder at a point when I was just watching any and all horror movies, but between the actually disturbing kids, the poodle and Phyllis Diller..how did I forget about this?

Good gravy, Phyllis looks like Zelda from Terrahawks! And that's before her transformation! BTW, did you check to see if there is an alternate audio track with laugh tracks and carny music for the "comedy" version?

Last time I heard of this film, it was a "Dee Dee Reacts" video from the RB Comics channel.

Wow, Phyllis Diller and Norman Fell... and it's NOT a line from a ZAZ joke? Imagine that.

Okay this review had a lot of moments where I was cracking up from laughter! I'm gonna have to look this up for this will be a future DVD purchase for me

I rented this on VHS in 1991, I haven't seen it since, I remember the weird looking zombie children and the giant poodle, Another Top Review Brandon!😀👍

Why Brandon´s post-credit clip came pre-credits?? SOOO DISPOINTG DMMIT!!

The gun looks like a Mac-10 turned sideways, bolted onto some side folding shotgun stock with a pistol grip, then had every optic from Predator 2, and some goofy raygun barrel shroud slapped on. Probably a refugee from a star wars or aliens knock off's prop department. There's a good chance it's already appeared in another movie on your channel.

C’mon Dead and Buried, love it if you’d do your thing to possibly the most unique zombie film ever

You are my favotie Canuckistani. I play guitar and drums, and sing really well. You wanna fuck around and find out, leaf?

So, I agree that the pace is a bit slow for this genre, but i actually found this movie really charming when I first saw it- and in no small part because the movie gave its characters a lot of time to just... be people with lives and personalities. It sets up a pretty realistic, grounded set of characters, then slowly ratchets up the weird until Asian child zombies beget a Phyllis Diller monster begets a 9 ft tall poodle-beast. Also, i appreciate when a movie has a plus-size main character without making it the point of the movie. Or treating them like they're wrong for being that way. 🙄

I feel like the best explanation for the ending was that (if I remember correctly) the film was supposed to have a wedding scene at the end that got cut (for good reason; it feels like too much of a tonal swing!). So... maybe it was meant to go along with that? Either way, nice to get this blast from the past! I used to rent this when I was a kid, and usually just waded through the first half until it got rolling. I always felt the monster work made it worth it... though don't know if I'm quite *that* patient these days!

I def remember that poodle monster cover. Had no clue what the mocie was/was about so this was fun as always Brandon

I found this film quite fun when I watched it like 10 years ago haha

I think they should have gone with Stink Hole as the title

Zombie phylis looks like she'd be perfect for peewee's big adventure and Beetlejuice.

They never explained how the girl who woke up during her autopsy came back to life and how nobody noticed any life signs before they started cutting. Given the timing of her awakening when the ghouls started rising I was expecting some twist like a spell reanimated everything in the morgue and that we'd see more zombies and the girl would turn out to be a zombie that was just very fresh.

10:54 Brandon Tenold knows the classic Horror movie cliches. Never follow the sounds of a laughing nor crying children, that never ends well.

Yup, a poodle werewolf. It has to get points for that alone. Those of us old enough to remember Phyllis Diller will will appreciate the surreality of that also. I forget where and when I stumbled across this one years ago, but never regretted it.

You should do the review on the movie in 1970 called the equinox since the equinox was passed of this fall. You should review that one.

"What am I suppose to do with this grief jersey!" Look I am sorry for your los-... I'm sorry did you say, "grief jersey?"