Product: Special Bulletin (TV-Movie) [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 4.0
"God bless the United States"
Multi-tasking made for TV movie successfully stirs drama, horror, parody, and truly disgusting racial slurs, into a wonderland of insightful entertainment. The post-war Japanese are sure "warm", have "rosey red lips", and "glowing" personalities. (I laughed so god damn hard!)So to the chase: The Three Stooges combine with Angela Davis and Chrissy Snow in a strange attempt to blackmail the.....well everyone I geuss. They decorate a garbage can with christmas lights, try to hide it on a tug boat, swear up and down it's a nuclear bomb, and threaten to pull the string should thier demands not be met. One wants a blood test, one wants a pizza, and one wants a car, one wants an apology, and they all wanna-be on TV. Professor McKeeson (mad Professor) is crazy with anger that TV people wear wigs and use fake names. He hallucinates and thinks he hears TV people making fun of him. Another talks to the world via a reporter and camera dude they had kidnapped earlier. He's a mad scientist too. Then there's the Veteran who laughs every time he shoots someone who gets too close. The Black lady recites original poems that address such topics as "all men are like one man", and the best way to "mourn for them". The Social Worker confesses to the FBI she had sex outside of marriage. Given these outrages, the viewers comes to accept that the world should in fact be destroyed. RIGHT NOW TOO! SEX? POETRY? PIZZA? Where did humanity go wrong?The FBI finds that Nuclear material IS missing from a lab that one of the mad scientists had worked at. A closer examination of the dressed out garbage can in the hull of the ship leads the Nuclear Emergency Response Team to believe the garbage can does indeed contain fissionable material that is configured into a bomb. The President orders the evacuation of the South Carolina coastal theatre. "Beautiful" Charleston is at particular risk. But that counter on the garbage can is for real; and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Not even the SEALS. Science now has 90 minutes to disarm it.Not the stars, not the science, not the philosophy; not mathematics, love, or deceit; not religion, not OUIJA, Tarot, or tears ---- the horror is within us. It is within us all.