Post Numero Uno!!

Well here it is, post number one. Please hold your applause. After spending hours ranting to friends and family about my unique taste in films, I thought I'd bring some of that magic to the Internet for other lunatics to fight about. I'll admit it, I like horrible movies! If it's made on a shoestring budget, with terrible acting and effects, I'm there. The other day at a Labor Day barbecue, two friends were trying to tell me how bad Splice had been. Everything they said, and there was a lot, only served to make me even more interested in it. People in my circle know about my taste in movies, and often when trying to suggest a film I have to preface my recommendations with a "this isn't one of those so bad I love it movies."  Good, bad, and ugly, I've watched them all. I recently had back surgery and was on the shelf for awhile. During this time I was able to watch an endless reel of schlock, and loved it. I've bored just about everyone I can think of with tales of giant, sex assaulting maggots and Luke Perry apocalypse films and they have begged me to stop. So now I've brought my madness it to the net. So here goes...

So for a long time I've tried to find a movie from 1981, called Galaxy of Terror. It was Roger Corman's big budget ($2 million, a lot for him) rip off of Alien. I always had vague memories of my step brothers talking about it when they would come over for visits. The way they sold the movie, it sounded to fantastic to be real: Giant maggots having sex with buxom women, Joanie from Happy Days head exploding and Freddy Kruger being a good guy. In short, a crazy fucking movie. I watched and I loved it. Now, luckily for Roger Corman, he had a young upstart named James Cameron working on the effects and directing most if not all of the B-Unit material. Cameron, who wasn't well liked by a lot of folks on the crew, made the movie look really good. The script is poo-poo and the acting is okay I guess, but the movie looks really good, even with big mac cartons making up the walls of the space ship.

The overall story is kind of interesting with some sort of mystical leader named "The Master" ordering a rescue mission to a mysterious planet and then Zzzzzzz. Sorry dozed off, anyway, for Corman, a nice little, short, and fun movie. It was just released on DVD and Blu-Ray after being unavailable for a long time. I recommend you check it out for a fun evening. Get a pizza and some beer and try not to think too much about the crapiness and just enjoy.