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From: Andrew_Miller@camelot.apana.org.au (Andrew Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Re-Animator on LD
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:14:31 EST
Organization: The TOWER BBS

 AL>  And of course, "GORE, simple GORE" is part of what cult films
 AL> are all about!!
 AL>  I thought Reanimator and Bride of R were enjoyable, both as
 AL> spoofs of the classic horror flicks and as relatively well-done
 AL> tonue-in-cheek wild and crazy stories!
 AL>  And also there was the head scene...
Which bloody head scene??? I thought Reanimator was quite good... havent
seen Bride yet.

     Me.

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From: fate@eskimo.com (Craig Stykel)
Subject: Re: NICK DANGER / FIRESIGN THEATRE
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:23:01 GMT

ftc@netcom.com (Entropy Tech.) writes:
> k Firesign fans,
> 
> I have the video of Nick Danger and the missing yolks, but I want to 
> know if there have been any other VIDEOs made of nick.
> 
> Id collect the vinyl, but they are just too damn hard to find. 
> 
>  ftc@netcom.com
> 
> 
Hmmm... I never did see the movie...
But I have one on tape...Called ... The further adventures of Nick
Danger..
If off the tape called "HOW CAN YOU BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE WHEN YOU'RE
NOT ANYWHERE AT ALL....
Strange stuff...
   fate@eskimo.com
From: robert@aero.org (R. S. Statsinger)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: GODZILLA NEWS
Date: 24 Dec 1992 20:56:32 GMT
Organization: Your Guess Is As Good As Mine...
NNTP-Posting-Host: halcyon.aero.org

In article <16300010@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
>Actually, its GOJURA.. Godzilla is half gorilla GO and half whale JURA...

Actually, its GOJIRA......with an I.

:-)

		R.S.

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From: econrad@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Eric V Conrad)
Subject: Re: MOST GROSS MOVIE EVER AWARD
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:34:16 GMT

In article <Bzpx6o.5uL@rahul.net> kpapai@rahul.net (Ken Papai) writes:
>I am surprised no one has mentioned Blood Sucking Freaks.  Guess what you
>can do with a soda straw and a bone drill down in the basement.  Anyone
>seen this movie from the mid 60s?  Herschel Gordan Lewis I believe.

According to Steven Scheuer's guide, Bloodsucking Freaks was directed
by Joel Reed.  The reviewer (who obviously hated the flick) lists an
alternate title, namely The Incredible Torture Show.

I rented a video version during the summer.  It features some delightfully
campy bad acting and dialogue.  The gore reminds me of some of the
better passages in Juliette (by the Marquis De Sade).  Pleasantly
tasteless and outrageous.  This is a film to be avoided by the truly
prudish, but prurient hypocrites and fans of the Grande Guignol (sp?)
should enjoy.  People who don't care for the tongue in cheek stuff won't
find it as attractive.  (It also has lots of female nudity which is
probably why they didn't bother to send it to the MPAA to be rated.:)

Another tacky tongue in cheek gorefest is Psychos In Love.  Also a must
for people who like Psycho-style shower scenes.  (Three of 'em if I
remember correctly!)  Again, lots of female nudity so it would be
un-American to let the kiddies see this.

To fake blood and excessive nudity,
Eric

-- 
There are two kinds of people:
	1) Those who classify people into two kinds; and
	2) Those who don't.
From: qhe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Qing He)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: ali-baba
Date: 24 Dec 92 00:27:14 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Can anybody help me to get a copy of the movie "ALI-BABA" staring Fernandel,
and Samia Gamal; on vedio tape ?
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From: pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel)
Subject: Re: BLADE RUNNER FAQ Version
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:21:01 GMT

rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
>The next one is a matchstick man (after Deckard is on the case).

I believe it is actually a man with an erection - Gaff is amused at 
Deckard's zeal.

-- 
Internet: pete@extro.su.oz.au             UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!munnari!extro!pete
                       I am a big pond in a small fish.
From: dhentric@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (David Hentrich)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: New film _Brain Dead_ (was Re: MOST GROSS MOVIE EVER AWARD)
Date: 31 Dec 1992 08:16:31 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


      Two months ago, I attended (actually worked) a 24 hour horror film
festival in Columbus, Ohio.  I missed the film, but my friends (horror
fanatics) all claimed that they had seen the grossest film of all
time at this festival.  I was told that it made Romero's zombie films
look like a G rated film.  The film is called _Brain Dead_ and is due
for release sometime in February (I've seen it listed in _The Film Journal_
under TriMark pictures with no release date).

      The director of _Reanimator_, _From Beyond_, and _The Pit and the
Pendulum_ (starrring Lance Henrikson) attended the festival as a guest speaker
(and he brought a couple of his films with him).  (For the life of me,
I can't think of his name right now . . . it's *not* Brian Yuzna as he
was the guest speaker the year before.)  During his talk to the audience,
he announced that he had seen _Brain Dead_ about a week before at some
screening in California.  He said that he was AMAZED (a horror director
was amazed!) at the amount of blood and gore.  He said that he had 
personally asked the Australian director of _Brain Dead_ how many
gallons of fake blood he used . . . 3 *THOUSAND* gallons.  According
to the _Reanimator_ director (who I can't recall his name), he had
thought the previous record was 30 gallons . . . or that could have 
been the most he had ever used . . . I can't remember.

     All of my friends watching the movie (gore buffs) told me that it
made them (without exception) feel ill.  I'VE GOT TO SEE THIS FILM!
I don't know if this film will come out at the designated time . . .
TriMark puts their films into the Dayton,OH area as a test market
before they really release it . . . and I have as yet to see a full
release of some of their films that I've run (i.e. _Leprechaun_).
I hope it gets released on the big screen and not video.

     I've heard that at one point in the film, one of the main characters
picks up a running lawnmower and uses it to cut through an army of zombies.
And dig this . . . if you take away all the gore . . . the movie's
a love story!

     If anyone knows anymore about this film or has any corrections, mail
me!  I wanna know!  This film is done, but not in release yet.  By the
way, the director of _Reanimator_ has a new film coming out in February
from Warner Bros. called _Fortress_ starring Christopher Lambert.  This
is a futuristic prison film.  Supposed to be out in February.  I've seen
the trailer for it.

     P.S.  This movie is not to be confused with the Concorde film of a few
           years back called _Brain Dead_.  This one's new!

-- Dave Hentrich                       dhentric@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu
-- Computer Science Undergrad
-- University of Dayton
-- Projectionist
-- Loews Beaver Valley 6 (Dayton,OH)

** I speak only for myself! **

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From: donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Subject: Re: MOST GROSS MOVIE EVER AWARD
Organization: none
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:54:16 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.203416.17046@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> econrad@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Eric V Conrad) writes:
>In article <Bzpx6o.5uL@rahul.net> kpapai@rahul.net (Ken Papai) writes:
>>I am surprised no one has mentioned Blood Sucking Freaks.  Guess what you
>>can do with a soda straw and a bone drill down in the basement.  Anyone
>>seen this movie from the mid 60s?  Herschel Gordan Lewis I believe.
>
>According to Steven Scheuer's guide, Bloodsucking Freaks was directed
>by Joel Reed.  The reviewer (who obviously hated the flick) lists an
>alternate title, namely The Incredible Torture Show.
>
>I rented a video version during the summer.  It features some delightfully
>campy bad acting and dialogue.  The gore reminds me of some of the
>better passages in Juliette (by the Marquis De Sade).  Pleasantly
>tasteless and outrageous.  This is a film to be avoided by the truly
>prudish, but prurient hypocrites and fans of the Grande Guignol (sp?)
>should enjoy.  People who don't care for the tongue in cheek stuff won't
>find it as attractive.  (It also has lots of female nudity which is
>probably why they didn't bother to send it to the MPAA to be rated.:)
>

It wasn't sent to the MPAA because Reed couldn't afford to pay the fee.
It was only shown in three theaters in America. At a midnight show in
New York, it was picketed by Feminists, and removed. At a theater in
St. Paul, Mn., it was picketed by Parents and removed. At a showing
in San Francisco, it was picketed by Feminists and fundamentalists, and
the print was stolen from the theatre and burned in a trashcan in front of
the theatre.

Why is it deemed so offensive by some? Probably because the only women in 
the film are crazed savages who have reverted to primitivism, and they are
always nude. Sure there is a ballerina character, but she too is just a 
plaything of the men, and she is drugged and tortured until she too is 
half crazed. The Men are definately in control with this film.


Regardless, this is a film made for almost nothing, that is still being
watched and discussed years later. Joel Reed hit the nail on the head, and
by giving audiences something they couldn't get from Hollywood, he deserves
his <admittedly minor> place in Cinema History. He has done several other
films, but nothing this noteworthy.

Have a New Year!
Pax
					--Judex--

Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: larsel@ifi.uio.no (Lars Yngvar Ellingsen)
Subject: Re: ERROR in Backdraft
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:15:45 GMT
Originator: larsel@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no


In article <350008@hpunila.MSR.HP.COM>, rkatos@hpunila.MSR.HP.COM (Ray Katos) writes:
> Last sequence of the movie, alarm comes in: a fireman repeats it:
> 
> 1710 West Maplewood, got it!
> 
> ME: Yes I've got it, Maplewood in Chicago runs north and south,
> THERE IS NO 1710 West Maplewood! 
> 
> Ruined an otherwise great movie

Hehe... I think I will quote from "Ford Fairlane":
It goes something like this:
Chick: Gimme your number, Ford!
Ford : It's 555-xxxxxxx, baby!
Chick: Hey! 555 isn't a real number! They only use that in the movies!
Ford : Well, baby. What do you think this is?

Hope that helps!

Lars // larsel@ifi.uio.no
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Subject: TAXI BLUES: Russian film
Reply-To: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:05:58 GMT

I picked up this video the other day.  It's Russian
from 1991.  The plot involves a hard working stoic
taxi driver and his somewhat troubled relationship
with a Sax player who is "... a genius!" (a drunk
one).  The cabbie gets stiffed by this guy then
finds him can't get his money, takes the sax ...
and things go on from their.  The cabbie has a hard
time understanding that the Drunk Sax player is a 
Drunk Sax player.  Kinda reminds me of Jim Jarmusch
but maybe that was just the Taxi's.

Mo says check it out.

--------------------------------------
Maurice LaBiche   |   labiche@bnr.ca 

"The world is a strange place."
"Someone oughta sell tickets."
"I'd buy one!"
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From: rrezaian@amiserv.chi.il.us (Russell Rezaian)
Subject: The latest work from Peter Greenaway
Summary: What has he done recently?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:59:48 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems
Keywords: GREENAWAY

Does anyone know what Greenaway has been working on since "Prospero's Books"
came out in late 1991?  I haven't heard anything since then, and I have been
waiting for Books to come out on LD, and while it is on the lists, there's no
date listed yet.

It seems he has been releasing a film every year or so, and by that reckoning
we are overdue for the next one.  Since I missed "Drowning By Numbers" I would
not be too surprised if I simply did not see the film when it was released.

Any news would be interesting!
--
Russell Rezaian			|  rrezaian@austral.chi.il.us
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From: atkeson@spot.Colorado.EDU (L. Atkeson)
Subject: Re: french movies (sigh!)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: alt
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:34:14 GMT

labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche) writes:

>Try some of these:

>Delicatessen - great dark comedy, sort of like Brazil

>The Little Theif - Engaging Drama about a girl growing up
>                   who likes to steal things

>400 Blows - About a kid growing up and getting into constant
>            trouble

>Mon Oncle - Jaques Tati, kind of a French Charlie Chaplain, there
>            were a few made around this character who is the kid's
>            uncle in this movie.

>Monsieur Hire' - about a guy who is captivated by this woman who
>                 lives near him.  The guy gets wrongfully accused 
>                 of some bad crimes.

>The Hairdresser's Husband - just out in the theatres here in the 
>                            states in the last month or two.
>                            Very heartwarming story.

>              gentlemen.  She reads some interesting books.  This
>              one has a bit more of the sexual overtones which
>              most foreign movies are sterotypified with but still
>              a fairly interesting movie.

>
add: Baxter  about a dog who has unnatural thoughts!
From: ftc@netcom.com (Entropy Tech.)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: RIDERS OF THE STORM\
Date: 29 Dec 92 06:28:09 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Ok Folks, WHo out there remembers the movie
RIDERS OF THE STORM
With Dennis Hopper, and Michael J. Pollard ?
Basicly a 4 engine bomber, formerly psy-ops Vietnam, 
turned into a pirate TV station called S&M TV

I have a S&M  TV T shirt used as a promo when it was released, but would LOVE any toher parafanilia thats out there from this great flick. A MUST see, especiall thepart where they JAM a Ultra Christian TV show !
Music from Jimi ( Jams a SAM missle ) , Black Sabbath and a song I THINK
is by brian ferry. any riders fans, let me know on this.
ALOS 
ALSO Id like to know if anyone knows any of the movis that Michael Pollard
has been in.. ( Hes the short baldish guy with the squeaky voice ) Ive seen him in Roxanne, Riders, and he was the animatred blixtwelk in the superfriends cartoon. 

Email me, if youve heard of this flick, Ive watched it about 300 times so far :)

		ftc@netcom.com
From: vonzelow@adobe.com (Jon von Zelowitz)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: MST3K and Film Threat [was Re: Plan 9!]
Date: 27 Dec 92 22:55:54 GMT
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View

In article <1992Dec24.183656.5501@bnr.ca> labiche@bnr.ca (Maurice LaBiche) writes:
>I disagree with your assessment that this would be best 
>watched on MST3K.[...]
>Go LIVE.  Enjoy 3D human interaction. 

I don't have cable TV (!) so I hadn't seen MST3K until the other day.
I was getting drunk with some friends at my girlfriend's house (she
has cable) and it came on, showing "Santa Claus Conquers the
Martians." (An excellent film, BTW.) I was very interested to see what
the MST3K format would do to it, since I'd seen so much controversy
over the net.

I thought it was, under the circumstances, a fun way to see the film.
The commentary was generally amusing and added to my enjoyment. If I
had not been drunk, and had been more serious about enjoying the
nuances of the film, perhaps I wouldn't have liked the MST factor, and
would have rented the video instead. But then I would also have been
sssh-ing all the drunks in the room (who were also making funny
comments, Maurice) too.

So, I'd say MST3K can be appreciated and enjoyed for what it is.

In the same vein, I bought a copy of Film Threat, which has been
bludgeoned on the net. It is no Psychotronic Video, but it has its
moments. It's a little too close to the "real world" (Hollywood) for
me. I can see myself buying occasional copies when there's an article
of interest.

If imperfect entities like these get some more people interested in
seeing cult movies, I say that's good. Meanwhile, we alt.cult-movies
people can remain at the forefront of it all. ;-)

   Jon von Zelowitz   vonzelow@mv.us.adobe.com   ...uunet!adobe!vonzelow
From: cst@bork.nist.gov (Charles S. Tarrio)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: SF Novels that would make Great Films
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:18:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.013522.29179@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>  
jackson@sn.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
> Has anybody mentioned Alfred Bester's THE STARS MY DESTINATION?
> This has to be the single most SF novel that begs to be made
> into a film. Very expensive tho.

I agree, and I'd also love to see _The Computer Connection_, which he  
wrote almost 25 years after TSMD.  Typical Bester, you spend 3/4 of the  
book trying to figure out what the plot is, and it's resolved in one  
intense scene of 10 pages.

Also, how about Roger Zelazny's Amber books.  Non-stop action, war,  
scheming, all the things that make a good SF movie.  (It would definitely  
be better than _Damnation Alley_.)

__________________
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           -Stanislaw Lem
From: perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu (William Perez)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: med-Evil Dead (III)
Date: 29 Dec 92 02:19:28 GMT
Distribution: alt.cult-movies
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

>It is Evil Dead III, but since neither ED film was a big hit in theatres,
>they are stressing the title as "Armies Of Darkness".

It already played around mid-November at thee London film festival.  
Unfortunately I coudln't afford to go see it.  I did see thee making ov
the film over a year ago and it looked more like a comedy!  I didn't know
what it was either (ED III) until I read the blurb. 

WILL-E
-- 
perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu (William Perez)
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From: kupec@agouron.com (John W. Kupec)
Subject: Re: MOST GROSS MOVIE EVER AWARD
Organization: Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:06:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec27.165416.17474@news2.cis.umn.edu>, 
donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:
|> 
|> It wasn't sent to the MPAA because Reed couldn't afford to pay the fee.
|> It was only shown in three theaters in America. At a midnight show in
|> New York, it was picketed by Feminists, and removed. At a theater in
|> St. Paul, Mn., it was picketed by Parents and removed. At a showing
|> in San Francisco, it was picketed by Feminists and fundamentalists, and
|> the print was stolen from the theatre and burned in a trashcan in front of
|> the theatre.
|> 
|> Why is it deemed so offensive by some? Probably because the only women in 
|> the film are crazed savages who have reverted to primitivism, and they are
|> always nude. Sure there is a ballerina character, but she too is just a 
|> plaything of the men, and she is drugged and tortured until she too is 
|> half crazed. The Men are definately in control with this film.
|> 
|> 
|> Regardless, this is a film made for almost nothing, that is still being
|> watched and discussed years later. Joel Reed hit the nail on the head, and
|> by giving audiences something they couldn't get from Hollywood, he deserves
|> his <admittedly minor> place in Cinema History. He has done several other
|> films, but nothing this noteworthy.
|> 
|> Have a New Year!
|> Pax
|> 					--Judex--
|> 

I saw Blood Sucking Freaks ("BSF" to me and my projectionist buddy) at an
Austin, Texas drive-in theater somewhere around 1985 or so.  Truly memorable
even through a beer haze.
-- 

The Right Honorable John Kupec (kupec@agouron.com)
Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
San Diego, CA  92121 (619) 622-3040
From: ulma@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: GODZILLA NEWS
Date: 25 Dec 1992 12:45:02 +0100
Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken
NNTP-Posting-Host: coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de

robert@aero.org (R. S. Statsinger) writes:

>In article <16300010@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
>>Actually, its GOJURA.. Godzilla is half gorilla GO and half whale JURA...

>Actually, its GOJIRA......with an I.

>:-)

>		R.S.

Yeah, Gojira is the original japanese title. It's a contraction of gorira, which 
means gorilla and kujira, which means whale. Folklore has it that one of the
burly grip types on the set was called Gojira, and that gave the monster the
name.


     Ulrich Mayring

       - Echte Froehlichkeit kommt aus dem Herzen -
From: Sean_Seiton@camelot.apana.org.au (Sean Seiton)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Ford Fairlane
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:26:35 EST
Organization: The TOWER BBS

Yes!

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From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai)
Subject: Re: MOST GROSS MOVIE EVER AWARD
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 10:46:16 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.203622.23869@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:
>In article <1992Dec20.040202.6954@netcom.com> bagus@netcom.com (Mark E. Ruedy) writes:
>>Truth is stranger than fiction,
>>and documentaries can be goreir than H.G. Lewis.
>>
>>I think any thorough gore-fess MUST include "Red Asphalt" and
>>some of the other Ohio State Police drivers-ed shock flixs.  I
>>have a part of another documentary, which depicts a sex-change,
>>male to female.  I remember another blurb of a farm machinery 
>>safety film, in which they re-enact some guy getting his penis
>>ripped off in a combine (or something).  Then they sew it back
>>on - but this part is the real thing.
>
>Lets not forget "Signal 13", and "Wheels Of Death"! But I dare anyone
>to sit through the complete cut of "Shocking Asia". The powerdrills clearing
>the way for vaginal implants, in a male to female sex change, are 
>hard to watch, to say the least.
>
I remember watching this film while living in Japan. It's one of the few
times i've been grateful for government censorship...The Japanese use
enlarged pixels to obscure all crotch-shots. The shot of the surgeons
using what looked like giant spatulas to enlarge the breast cavities for
implants was unfortunately left intact...wauuuugggghhhhh!!!

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