Jack and Rich Evans discuss the failed Dan Aykroyd brainchild Nothing But Trouble, starring Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, John Candy and Dan Aykroyd as both an elderly judge and a terrifying diaper baby.
For my entire adult life, I was 100% certain that this film was a nightmare I had as a kid. Up until now, I had no idea it was real. I mean, how could it be? It's just as weird and random as the nightmares you have as a kid. I feel like I've been living a lie. Holy shit.
Same deal with me. I could never remember the name of it. I just remembered a movie that Tupac was in where everyone was a grotesque monster and are disgusting sausages.
Same here. I remember being younger than 5 and staying up late(probably like 10pm, but it might as well have been 3am) and seeing bits like the Bonestripper and the musical number on HBO. I went through most of my life (as in up until 23 minutes ago) assuming it was some wierd fever dream or maybe a reimagining of a less batshit movie I saw and had recurring nightmares about.
Believe it or not, this movie is loosely based on one of Dan Ackroyd's real life experiences. He claims that he was pulled over for speeding late one night in the middle of nowhere. Instead of handing him a ticket, the cop insisted Dan follow him through the woods to an isloated, creepy old mansion. Once inside, the cop introduced him to "the Judge", an extremely odd and eccentric older lady, who kept Dan there for hours and hours just to talk to him, before finally letting him go. The Judge did not have a penis for a nose. Source: "Wild and Crazy Guys" by Nick de Semlyen. A good read, check it out.
the making of this movie is pretty interesting. it went way way over budget. I actually think it's a really funny movie but maybe that's just because I grew up watching it. I also feel like Chevy Chase's phoned in, detached performance somehow works in this movie because of how weird it is.
İ have similar story with this movie too. İ watched it when i was kid never knowing the name of the movie but remembering plot and some scenes then İ found out again couple years ago . İ always mixed up this movie with "Dredd sylvester stallone movie" İ think because of judge in it
It’s absurd, with 90’s gross out humor, but it definitely gives you that trapped feeling. I remember being really disturbed by this movie back when it came out.
@@williamsandell3260 When and who is putting this out?! Shout Factory? This is one of me and my friends favorite movies of all time. We quote it all the time. lol
@@jean-lucpicard5510 well. There is a Blu-ray release with everything he mentioned. And his account is the same name as the production designer, so i’d say that’s some pretty concrete evidence genius
This movie was probably so poorly received because Dan Akroyd made for himself and no one else. It's so esoteric and uniquely Dan Akroyd that it would be inaccessible to most people.
I know I've watched this movie as a child back near its release, but I had forgotten every single aspect of it since then. Thank you for allowing the trauma to resurface now that I am a grown man.
@@Lark1610 there's a giant underground fire that's been burning sense the 1960s, the fire department had an annual tradition of setting the landfill on fire at the end of the year as a big event, but that year it was built on top of a masive abandoned coal mine so when they burned the land fill the fire spread to the coal mine, and it's still on fire to this very day.
That’s so interesting because while I was watching this with my boyfriend last night he said it reminded him of Centralia, but was referring to Centralia, Washington. Which is also a kind grungy gross town, minus the underground fires.
@@andedoesnthaveityet Centralia, WA isn't so bad, a little backwoods as far as Washington goes but it's got its charm. Plus maybe my favorite burger place is there too.
I watched this when I was WAY too young and it left a big impression on me. Can't say it is good, but for someone young who didn't fully understand storylines yet, it was quite an experience that I still hold dear in some strange way.
CHEVY CHASE IS SAID TO BE THE MEANIST, BIGGIST JERK IN HOLLYWEIRD~ ONE GUY IN AN INTERVIEW SAID HE WAS A CHEVY FAN AN WHEN HE SAW CHEVY BEHIND THE SCENES ON SNL HE WENT UP TO CHEVY PROSEEDED TO COMPLEMENT HIM AN CHEVY GAVE HIM A DIRTY LOOK, WALKED PAST HIM A SAID F%#& YOU! F *** OFF! AN WENT TO HIS DRESSING ROOM IT GOT TO THE POINT WHERE NO BODY WANTED TO HIRE CHEVY, HE HAD ALIENATED EVERYONE IN HOLLYWEIRD AN GOT BLACK LISTED... HIS HEAD WAS BIGGER THAN ANY OTHER PART OF HIS BODY
Mr Freeman that asshat got paid thousands of dollars to be a total fuckpot, Comedian or not he still was high over his head with his ego I didn’t care who he stepped on to boost his ego it was all about his ego such an ass twat
You hit the nail on the head about Danny! Ghostbusters was originally going to be about catching ghosts throughout time and space! Yes, GHOSTS ON OTHER PLANETS.
I remember seeing part of this on tv as a kid in the mid-90s. My parents and relatives had it on and they knew it wasn't appropriate for me to watch but the movie only had another 30-45 minutes so they had me go read some books and play with toys instead. I was at my grandparents house so the books there were new to me too, one was this giant book about the history of Mexican art, a lot of which was heavy on macabre imagery, especially Francisco Goitia and José Guadalupe Posada . (I was relived when I stumbled upon the colorful work of Frida Kahlo toward the end of the book) What I did see of the movie was so bizarre and I didn't recognize anyone at the time, so I struggled for years to figure out what it was. After awhile I wondered it was a fever dream I retroactively assumed was a movie, especially since in that same couple hours I had visually devoured a lot of surreal artwork. It wasn't another 15 years before I came across this. I haven't watched the whole film since but what I have seen is interesting, it's a bit less strange than I expected but still very, very weird for something that isn't a more artsy indie flick - especially considering the cast and budget.
I saw it in the theater, and the only reason I bought a copy of the movie was for the two performances of Digital Underground. (Humpty Hump died today :( )
I hate this movie. It should have been a horror movie because it's so fucked up, but that they try to make it a comedy just makes it nauseating to watch.
So many Kafka allusions (deliberate or not) in this film. The mansion/'The Castle'; crime, bureaucracy and disproportionate punishment/'The Trial'; watermelon chopping machine/'In the Penal Colony'.
9:56 When I was a kid this WAS a horror film to me. I only remembered the creepy judge, maze house, and giant babies so it was basically Texas Chainsaw Massacre to me until I saw it a few years later and realized the comedy in it.
Oh my God, I've been looking for this movie for other twenty five years, no joke. I remember watching this on TV in the early 1990's. I was probably about eight or nine at the time. I only remember part's of the movie like the insain house, the junk yard and the ending with the mutants and a train or something. I only remember little bit's of this movie but for some reason it always stuck with me. I thought many time's I found the film like with the crazy house in The People Under The Stairs and the mutants with the movie Freaks but I knew they wasn't the movie I was looking for. At the beginning of this video with a scene of the huge, mutant babies and a junk yard my first reaction was "this is it!!!"
When I heard Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, John Candy, and Demi Moore were going to be in a film together, I got so excited. When I finally got to watch it on cable I couldn't sit through the whole movie. I got about a third of the way through.
I remember trying to explain this movie to people growing up. It was so bizarre that I could never do it justice. Finally found it at Target for $5.00 on DVD. They didn’t even give it a plastic case. Even after now being able to show people this. I cannot do it justice. They’re right. You just have to watch it.
Demi Moore could easily have gotten the car... all she has to do is go for a ride with Chevy Chase and then while driving say, "can you please pull over? I'm going to be sick..."
Wait a second... Aykroyd wrote a Blues Brothers cinematic universe for the Blues Brothers? and the studios stopped him?... I would of loved to have seen a Donald the duck Dunne stand alone back story film... haha
HOLY FUCK! This movie gave me horrible nightmares as a child. I actually repressed it so hard, I forgot it was actually a film and not just a dream. That fucking junkyard, the fat boys, and Dan fucking Aykroyd. DO NOT SHOW THIS TO YOUR LITTLE KIDS.
I hear the "All Around the World" song on XM every once in awhile and I could never remember how I knew it. I dig that song, but this movie was nightmare fuel for kids.
nah, I say just streamline it a little. Clean- it up and just keep it this weird creepy movie that straddles the line between comedy and horror. They could even keep Dan as the Judge.
I saw this as a kid. I love the dreamlike quality. The sets/atmosphere is great. I'm glad this movie exists. I recommend toxic avenger 4, Freaked, and Poultrygeist.
i dont remember the rest of this movie, but i have vivid memories of watchinh that fucking hot dog scene as a child. i remember the train being totally horrifying for some reason.
I also watched this movie at about 7 and I was scared out of my fucking mind. Everything about this movie was absolutely terrifying, when I saw this in the title I had flashbacks on childhood trauma. I had grown up on 80s horror movies and this movie by far was the most effective giving nightmares. Rich Evans is 100% right, this is a horror movie with mild comedy adventure elements.
Child's Play was the one that gave me nightmares. This movie was up there with The People Under The Stairs, where it was just this weird creepy movie that my poor young mind just couldn't even process it completely to the point that it could give me nightmares haha!
“Dude, it looks like you need a nice couple of weeks holiday, you know.” Nice, time off from your job. Leisure time, kick back. (Winks) Nice, fish tacos.” I don’t know why but I absolutely love this line delivery, a lot! Lol RIP TAYLOR NEGRON
I didn't even know the movie was considered bad until the internet; I just thought it was something people watched whenever it came on TBS, TNT, WGN, WSBK, WPIX, or KTLA or whatnot.
I watched this movie as a kid and it was like a damn fever dream nightmare. I actually thought that this was something I had imagined watching until RLM did this review. So uh... Thanks?
Praise of shadows' video made the very funny point that warners was so busy trying to handle bonfire of the vanities that they were too busy to try to control Aykroyd
I cannot stay mad at this movie no matter how hard I try, it's basically like a Tales From The Crypt episode (come to think of it the episode 'Death Of Some Salesmen" has a similar idea to this movie and has Tim Curry playing multiple characters like Dan Aykroyd) , I think you can even see the house from this movie in one episode (although, it may actually be the house used in the opening). The idea of having John Candy play the daughter as well was based on the idea of seeing John Candy in drag, which made Aykroyd himself laugh, also get this...the story of what happened to Aykroyd in 1978 and get this....it's actually a lot like the movie itself, the judge who held him up was a elderly woman. It's pretty much Texas Chainsaw Massacre if it was a comedy, And I bet that it inspired Rob Zombie to make House Of 1000 Corpses.
Holy fucking shit! No joke, I legitatimatly thought this movie was a nightmare I had when I was a child, thank you for clearing this up. This was a super surreal video to watch
I remember seeing the trailer of this when I was either 13 or 14, and I was like 'No!'. lol... I do like these re:Views. I'd like to see them do some on more obscured movies that I liked watching growing up. 'My Science Project', 'Solar Babies', 'The Wreath' (1986 Charlie Sheen film).
