This was immensely entertaining and I can't wait for the next show. Totally surpassed my expectations, and these were high, as Chris always makes great content. Congrats to you gents for this gem. And I hope that one of you will make the other suffer through "No Retreat, No Surrender" with Van Damme, sometime in the future. involves Bruce Lee's ghost and that "80s Cold War but it's sports" thing.
I haven't heard of either of these movies but i love movie discussions and also Chris's videos and Jim's comic work so I'm real invested in this and am excited to see where it goes!
I would love to see you guys cover Slaughter High!! It's one of my favorite B Slasher flicks... Also... Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky!! That movie is so insane haha
The broken mirror superstition is bigger in Latin countries, and goes back to ancient Roman times. Breaking a mirror was seen as damaging the soul and inviting misfortune.
It’s an interesting concept but nothing in the movie hints at that being a story element. It’s something that happens that doesn’t involve any of the characters and none of them ever mention it.
Laughed out loud so many times. Great work, guys. Keep coming with these obscure movies with cartoonist leads! Had no idea Michael Caine played one, haha. I would love to hear your commentary on “Mazes and Monsters” one day
I've said this before and I like to bring it every now and then. While quality is objective, whether something is "good" or "bad" is entirely subjective. Everyone has the right to like trashy things, you're not trash yourself for that. I'm not much of a cinephile, but talking about games, I pretty much enjoy the trashy kind.
Great show! Both movies are amazing, especially love Pieces, saw it for the first time last year at a cult movie marathon and they also showed Blood Rage ( aka Slasher, or Nightmare at Shadow Woods ) and if you guys haven’t seen that I’d say it’d be great to cover on the show. It also takes place entirely on thanksgiving, and the idea of trying to escape being murdered after eating a full thanksgiving dinner just sounds like absolute torture to me.
The dead woman's arm animating to perform some type of revenge is a fairly typical trope of that era and type of movie. The idea was to ride on superstition and emphasize the concept of murdered spirits not crossing over into the afterlife. Instead they would stay around in some form, to haunt the living until some kind of justice was served. Nowadays the audience expects a movie to establish this type of supernatural world building. Older movies liked to play with such ideas more. Give viewers a chill by suggesting this is real, regardless of what the movie genre established. And, no, the producers of Pieces probably didn't insert that part as a sequel bait. It was just in there to make audiences uneasy with the last scene. "The Hand" reminded me that I've seen a similar movie as a child. It was probably "Demonoid" (1981, from the same year as The Hand). Not entirely sure, though. In that story the evil hand arrives pre-servered in some excavation. It has a life of its own, due to demonic possession, and just can't be destroyed by any means. That scared me a lot, back then.
I feel like Jim (and Chris) should be using their sketchbooks while they talk about their film's. Like mini movie posters (with chesticles if you're Jim)!
That could be fun one time but we have a lot of notes we’re going over when we talk about this stuff and it’s meant for us to have some fun. But it’s not a bad idea!
I have a feeling you guys will probably get to it in this show, but I do recommend Robo Vampire. I mean, it's bad, but I think it fits. Though, I think one that probably fits better is Bloody Pit of Horror, which is another one that is obviously dubbed, though I don't think it was an American co-production. A ridiculous horror movie my family likes to reference is Slugs, which is another good one to consider, and I've heard Frogs fits under a similar umbrella. Can't think of any at the moment which are comic art themed, really. Probably the closest would be Robo Vampire, since it's a Robocop ripoff, and Robocop has been in comics and had comic artist/writer Frank Miller involved with the franchise. But that's not a direct connection. Maybe also that Bloody Pit of Horror's villain looks like he came from a comic book, in a way.
Thanks for the recommendations. We’ll watch all kinds of trashy movies, they don’t have to be comics related. It’s just fun to include one that does here and there.
Trash. Schlock. B-movies. I think our goal will be to find hidden gems and movies where you can tell they were trying, even if something went awry along the way.
The only movie of the style I can think right now to recommend, the Onechanbara movie. Is a trashy movie based on a trashy indie videogame (esentialy, Bikini ladies cutting thru the zombie hordes).
I appreciate that. That's definitely a deep pull. Never heard of it but the North American title cracks me up: Bikini Zombie Slayers. It reads like a search optimization word salad.
Loved it guys!! I haven't seen either of these, so I guess you're trashier than me! My suggestion: over time, take on the ROLLER BLADE series. Truly demented stuff from Donald G Jackson