B Movie Bonanza

cross-posted from !action_movies@piefed.social : https://lemmy.ca/post/54517080

For the #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon, it's action thriller Excessive Force II: Force on Force, one of those "sequels" that bear no relation to the film it claims to be the sequel of.

Directed by Jonathan Winfrey (Roger Corman protégé) and starring Stacie Randall (Trancers 4 & 5) and Dan Gauthier, also Tom Wright (Marked for Death, Martial Law TV series), Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years), and action/B-movie stalwart James Lew (Big Trouble in Little China, Shira The Vampire Samurai and Red Sun Rising: Based on the Legend of the Death Touch). Oh, and Mandingo Warrior. (No, that's not the character's name, which is Ernie: that's the actor's name!)

Join us as we watch the movie (each person plays from their own source, e.g. Youtube) and comment live on Mastodon, with the hashtag #MondayActionMovie.

Summary

Harly is a former special forces agent with a bullet in her head, out to get the ex-lover who put it there before he offs a witness.

Trailer

• Youtube

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• Wikipedia
• NeoDB

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• Just Watch (adjust for your country)

Time: Monday 3rd November, 8pm US ET

Remember that daylight savings time in the US just ended, so it starts an hour later if your clocks didn't change.

• EveryTimeZone.com - Times around the world for the start of the watch party

Watch party announcement

https://timeloop.cafe/@bunnyhero/115475358787800181

Hosted this week by: @Bunnyhero@timeloop.cafe

In august we watched EXCESSIVE FORCE. now comes the excessively named sequel: EXCESSIVE FORCE II: FORCE ON FORCE. we won't force you to watch this but would love to have you anyway!

press play here {REDACTED YOUTUBE LINK} at 8pm EST monday, nov 3 and toot along at the hashtag #MondayActionMovie !

Join us and throw virtual popcorn at the screen along with the MAM gang!

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• Eggplant.place - MondayActionMovie

FIGHT TO CHEER ANOTHER DAY

Three college cheerleaders use their martial arts know-how to save their Sensei from mafia kidnappers, but must keep their extra curricular activities a secret in order to make it into an Ivy League school.

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In the late nineteenth century, an ancient Egyptian sorcerer discovers the art of transferring the souls of the dead into inanimate objects.

You can even watch it on TUBI

Critters 3 (1991) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, November 2 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is ~~1am~~ (CORRECTION: 2am) Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100001415/critters-3
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time.
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/critters-3-you-are-what-they-eat

science fiction comedy horror direct-to-video film

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Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 0%, based on reviews from seven critics, with an average rating of 2.8/10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critters_3

Don't blame me, I voted for something else! It DOES have Leonardo DiCaprio in his first movie role, though he's just a kid and playing some kinda supporting role.

On the bright side, Ryan says they're gonna be playing "Fright Night 2" on that miru-miyaku link right afterwards as a double feature... so that's somethin.

It's Bruce Campbell... It's 1992... It's ~~Army of Darkness~~ Mindwarp!

VCR Party had a pre-Halloween movie marathon, showing assorted horror 'gems' found on VHS. I caught only this and Razor Blade Smile.

https://tiny.tilde.website/@vilmibm/115452923017308684

Mindwarp was produced by Fangoria (yes, the magazine) and combines straight-to-video's favourite genre, post-apocalyptic action, with the 90s' favourite gimmick, virtual reality, and adds a lot of gore to the mix.

Judy tires of her meaningless VR life safe underground in a community of wealthy post-apocalyptic survivors and wants to live a real life. In a case of "be careful what you wish for", the VR's sysop dumps her in the post-apocalyptic wasteland full of mutants, cannibals and... Bruce Campbell disguised as an ewok?

Plenty of gore, clichés and chin!

Trailer

• Youtube

Info

• Wikipedia
• NeoDB

Reviews

• HorrorNews.net
• Moria Reviews

Legit Streams

Not included in any of the "all-you-can-eat" stream offerings, only for rental or "purchase".

• JustWatch (adjust for your country)

Screenshots

I didn't take any myself, so I'll try hotlinking some here.

VR beds

This is my twangstick!

Drink! Drink! Drink!

EDIT: Here are some more screenshots from IMDb

ATTACKED... BY A CREATURE FROM HELL!

After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity — and its effects on animal life, including humans.

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The Howling (1981) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Oct 26 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100044051/the-howling
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
• archive: https://archive.org/details/thehowling1981_202002
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time.
• dailymotion (WARNING this movie is 3 minutes shorter?!?): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9i7rle
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-howling

the film follows a news anchor who, following a traumatic encounter with a serial killer, visits a resort secretly inhabited by werewolves.

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Howling holds a 76% approval rating based on 45 critic reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The consensus reads: "The Howling packs enough laughs into its lycanthropic carnage to distinguish it from other werewolf entries, with impressive visual effects adding some bite".[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[13]

In 1981, Roger Ebert's 2-out-of-4 star review described The Howling as the "silliest film seen in some time", but Ebert also said the special effects were good and the film was perhaps "worth your money, IF you get it two for one".[14] Gene Siskel liked the film and gave it three and a half stars out of four.[15] In his Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin wrote that The Howling is a "hip, well-made horror film" and noted the humorous references to classic werewolf cinema.[16] Variety praised both the film's sense of humor and its traditional approach to horror.[6] Kim Newman, in his 1988 book Nightmare Movies, called The Howling "a brisk chiller that effortlessly revives the prowling-through-misty-forests genre", and called Picardo's transformation sequence "the movies' most impressive werewolf monster".[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Howling_(film)

IN DEEP SPACE, THE DEADLIEST ANIMAL IS STILL WOMAN.

A space-prison commander sends a female android to Earth to destroy Kol, an escaped convict. Kol teams up with a group of Earthlings, and together they try to evade the Alienator's relentless hunt.

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Pumpkinhead (1988) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Oct 19 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/306943/pumpkinhead
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
• dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9pm9xg
• dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9gaghi
• archive: https://archive.org/details/pumpkinhead-1989
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time.
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm49887

After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095925/

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Pumpkinhead holds an approval rating of 50%, based on 54 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10. Its consensus reads: "With effects work and solid direction from Stan Winston—and Lance Henriksen adding welcome gravitas—Pumpkinhead is a creature feature that stands a cut above".[13]

Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "As a technician, Winston clearly knows how to make a monster, but as a director he's yet to learn how to bring one to life".[14] Richard Harrington of The Washington Post wrote that the film has poor writing and acting, but it is surprisingly polished for a B movie.[5] Chris Willman of the Los Angeles Times wrote that, despite its poor writing, the premise is interesting, but it's not executed as well as Forbidden Planet.[15] Empire rated it 2/5 stars and called it a Friday the 13th clone with "little atmosphere and no surprises".[16] TV Guide rated it 2/5 stars and wrote that the film's second half becomes tedious because of its overdone slasher formula.[17]

In a 1992 retrospective, Jon Nalick of the Los Angeles Times described it as "a well-executed film in a genre that is littered with dimwitted slasher flicks".[18] Bloody Disgusting rated the film 4/5 stars and called it "a gothic story of love, loss, vengeance, and redemption".[19] Joshua Siebalt of Dread Central rated the film 4/5 stars and wrote that film "stands as a timeless, dark fairy tale".[20] Reviewing the 2000 DVD release, G. Noel Gross of DVD Talk rated it 3.5/5 stars and wrote that the film is "too good to pass over", despite its lackluster presentation.[9] Nick Nunziata also criticized the 2000 DVD release and wrote that the film does not hold up.[21] Nick Schager of The A.V. Club called it an endearing pulp film that lacks subtlety.[22] Reviewing the film on Blu-ray, Ken Hanley of Starlog said it is "one hell of an impressive directorial debut".[23] Writing in Horror Films of the 1980s, critic John Kenneth Muir called it "a meditation on vengeance" that is "surprising and rewarding" for its rejection of vigilante justice, a popular theme in the 1980s.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkinhead_(film)

Full movie: The Brain Stealers (1968) on Youtube (Shaw Brothers Cinema licensed channel)

cross-posted from !action_movies@piefed.social : https://piefed.social/post/1382511

For the #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon, it's the Shaw Brothers mad scientist flick The Brain Stealers, directed by Inoue Umetsugu, starring Lily Ho, Peter Chen Ho and Betty Ting Pei.

Join us as we watch the movie (each person plays from their own source, e.g. Youtube) and comment live on Mastodon, with the hashtag #KungFuSat.

Summary

A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.

Trailer

Not a proper trailer; the opening & a couple of other clips

• Youtube

Full Movie

• YouTube (Shaw Brothers Cinema channel)

Movie Info

• My Drama List

• NeoDB

Time: Saturday 18th October, 12pm US ET

• EveryTimeZone.com - Times around the world for the start of the watch party

Watch Party Info

I'm not sure how much kung fu we're in for next week, but it sounds extra halloween-ey.....Take care. See ya soon. https://youtu.be/MUuhnyvj9zU (THE BRAIN STEALERS - 1968, Shaw Brothers Channel, restored & subtitled, region-free link)

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DOCTOR MORDRID WILL HAVE YOU BELIEVING IN MAGIC ALL OVER AGAIN!

An unspeakable evil has come into our dimension and wants to rule over Earth. Only a mysterious sorceror known as Doctor Mordrid can stop him.

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THIS AIN'T NO WALK IN THE PARK.

During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1361387

A subway construction crew uncover a mysterious key beside the skeleton of a Medieval Templar knight. This leads to the appearance of the Minion, a demonic entity that is capable of inhabiting and passing through human bodies.

Trailer

• Youtube

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Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.

• Flixhouse *

Legit Stream & Download Finders

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Neither is perfect. Check your preferred streamers directly, just in case.

• nobraincellsleft global search

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• TMDb 44%

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There's an ancient, murderous demon that possesses human beings, turning their eyes black, and transfers into another nearby living person when its host is killed, and Dolph Lundgren has to hunt it down before it ends the world even while nobody believes him, and... hey, wait a minute! Didn't I just see that?

I did, I did just see that! Don't Kill It in #MondayActionMovie on 29th September. (See here)

Dolph is a priest and a modern day Knight Templar, here to save souls and kick ass... and he's all outta souls! He saves a pretty Mohawk archaeologist and together they go on the run from the titular Minion who's out to get the key they uncovered to unlock his evil master and the end of the world in time for the new millennium.

Like with Don't Kill It, I was expecting something truly atrocious but got something substantially better than that (although not quite on the same level as DKI).

Screenshots

Dolph puts Andrew Scott to shame in the hot priest stakes!

NOOO! NOT SANTA!!!!!

It's amazing how much money you can save on your movie shoot by having your hero wear a helmet that obscures their face and allows you to film an entire scene with a much cheaper stuntman!

The Hunger (1983) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Oct 12 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100045171/the-hunger
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
• archive (low video quality?): https://archive.org/details/the-hunger-1983-catherine-deneuve-david-bowie-susan-sarandon
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time.
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm60122 or here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-hunger-1983

The Hunger is a 1983 erotic horror film ... Its plot concerns a love triangle between a doctor who specialises in sleep and ageing research ([Susan] Sarandon) and a vampire couple ([Catherine] Deneuve and [David] Bowie).

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The Hunger was nominated for two Saturn Awards for Best Costume and Best Make-up, while receiving mixed reviews upon its release: its pacing and plot were felt to be unsatisfactory, with more emphasis seemingly being placed on cinematography and atmosphere. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times described the film as "an agonizingly bad vampire movie," remarking that the sex scene between Deneuve and Sarandon is effective, but that the film is so heavy on set design and scene cuts that any sense of a story is lost.[10] In a brief review in Rolling Stone, Michael Sragow similarly called it "A minor horror movie with a major modern-movie problem: director Tony Scott develops so many ingenious ways to illustrate his premise that there's no time left to tell a story."[11]

Christopher John reviewed The Hunger in Ares Magazine #15 and commented that "Beautifully filmed, but boringly void of substance, The Hunger is (was) a film to be avoided like the plague."[12]

Camille Paglia wrote in Sexual Personae (1990) that while The Hunger comes close to being a masterpiece of a "classy genre of vampire film", it is "ruined by horrendous errors, as when the regal Catherine Deneuve is made to crawl around on all fours, slavering over cut throats", which Paglia considered an inappropriate focus on violence rather than sex.[13] Critic Elaine Showalter called The Hunger a "post-modernist vampire film" that "casts vampirism in bisexual terms, drawing on the tradition of the lesbian vampire...Contemporary and stylish, [it] is also disquieting in its suggestion that men and women in the 1980s have the same desires, the same appetites, and the same needs for power, money, and sex."[14] David Bowie later commented about the film that "the first twenty minutes rattle along like hell – it really is a great opening."[a]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Hunger holds a 59% approval rating based on 39 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The consensus reads: "Stylish yet hollow, The Hunger is a well-cast vampire thriller that mistakes erotic moments for a satisfying story."
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The Hunger has been listed as a cult film.[18][19] A retrospective review of the film by Film at Lincoln Center concluded: "With its famously bold visual aesthetic—featuring high-intensity lighting, expressionistic production design, and thrillingly intimate perspectives—and the melodramatic intensity of the three lead performances, the film is an ultra-stylish time capsule, an archetype of the high-gloss, high-concept storytelling mode that prevailed in early 1980s Hollywood."[20] The film is popular with some segments of the goth subculture and inspired a short-lived TV series of the same name, although the series has no direct plot or character connection to it.[21]

The film has been cited by publisher Fred Berger as an influence on the creation and direction of his gothic subculture zine Propaganda, and by showrunner Bryan Fuller on his television series Hannibal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_(1983_film)

YOU CAN'T STOP PROGRESS.

Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.

SLIGHTLY NSFW TRAILER

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Mitsuko has a secret crush on her boss, Sakamoto. Hoping to win his favour by losing weight, she takes a diet supplement containing royal jelly pheromones extracted from wasps. The supplement has a side effect however: it transforms her into a homicidal (and sex-hungry) WASP WOMAN.

SLIGHTLY NSFW TRAILER

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Fright Night (1985) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100000586/fright-night; WARNING: uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox might not work for that tubi link
• dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ns3g4
• archive: https://archive.org/details/fright.-night.-1985.1080p.-blu-ray.x-264-yts.-ag
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm126519

The film follows teenager Charley Brewster (played by William Ragsdale), who discovers that his next-door neighbor Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. When no one believes him, Charley decides to get Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), a TV show host who acted in films as a vampire hunter, to stop Jerry's killing spree.

The film was released on August 2, 1985, and grossed $24.9 million at the box office. Since its release, it has received positive reviews from critics and become a cult classic, and spawned the media franchise of the same name.
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Fright Night garnered critical acclaim, holding a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; the average rating is 7.2/10 based on 38 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Fright Night deftly combines thrills and humor in this ghostly tale about a man living next to a vampire."[32]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and wrote, "Fright Night is not a distinguished movie, but it has a lot of fun being undistinguished".[33] Variety praised Sarandon's performance, writing that he "is terrific as the vampire, quite affable and debonair until his fingernails start to grow and his eyes get that glow".[34] Colin Greenland gave a negative review for White Dwarf #75, stating "We may be justified in suspecting that a film which has such contempt for its characters has contempt for its audience, too."[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fright_Night

As special effects-driven horror and sci-fi cinema dominated the global box office in the 1970s, Hong Kong’s mightiest film studio Shaw Brothers not only followed suit but took things one step beyond!

The Food of the Gods (1976) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100001417/the-food-of-the-gods
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
• dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9o8e1w
• archive: https://archive.org/details/bert-i-gordon-complete-collection/1976.+The+Food+of+the+Gods.mp4
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time.
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-food-of-the-gods

... the film was loosely based on a portion of the 1904 H. G. Wells novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. The film reduced Wells' tale to a "nature revenge" plot, common in science fiction films of the time.

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The movie was AIP's most successful release of the year, causing them to make a series of films based on H. G. Wells novels.[7]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one star out of four.[8] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a stunningly ridiculous mixture of science-fiction and horror-film clichés."[9] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film half of one star out of four and wrote, "The heavy television ad campaign promises six-foot roosters and panther-sized rats. What it should promise, if truth-in-labeling applied to film ads, is rotten special effects and a laughable script."[10] Arthur D. Murphy of Variety wrote, "Too much emphasis by Gordon on his good special visual effects combines with too little attention to his writing chores ... Every player has done better before; this script is atrocious."[11] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "the entire picture is a joke—unintentionally."[12] Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "A truly appalling piece of s-f horror in which the cretinous dialogue, hopefully illuminating the follies of human greed and tampering with nature, poses more of a hazard to the cast than the crudely animated giant wasps or the monster rat and cockerel heads stiffly manipulated from the wings."[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_of_the_Gods_(film)

FOR THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS, HE'D MAKE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL.

Martin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as a guitar player in a band and loses his job on the way, he makes a deal with a Voodoo priestess. She promises him the fulfillment of all his dreams if he swears obedience to her. He becomes a rock star and hooks up with many women - but to stay alive, he has to kill other people.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52025086

An attorney is forced to fight back after his family is brutally murdered by vicious drug dealers, leading to an astounding martial arts showdown.

Trailer

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I started watching on Youtube, but after some occasional quality deteriorations, I switched to Fawesome about half way through. Still a low-quality 480p but without the frequent deterioration.

• Youtube * (480p, low quality)
• Fawesome * (480p, low quality)

The Youtube channel is FilmRise, a licensed AVOD film distributor.

• FilmRise Movies YouTube channel
• FilmRise homepage

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The 'nobraincellsleft' link finds legit stream sources from many countries, listed by two-letter code.

The Just Watch link lists legit stream sources only for one country at a time. On the web page, change the country to your location, e.g. change Mexico to Australia.

Neither is perfect. Check your preferred streamers directly, just in case.

• nobraincellsleft global search
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From 90s straight-to-video action stalwarts PM Entertainment, Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this vigilante justice flick as "The Shellsuited Crusader", oops, I mean "The Karate Man", a lawyer/martial arts expert (yes, that's a thing) with selective amnesia (even characters in the movie don't think that's a thing) about the murder of his wife and child.

We know Don's character has a traumatic background thanks to a serious case of the flashbacks, and lines he delivers flatly like "Can't kill a man who's already dead." :D But, of course, watching Don trying to emote tragedy is the real tragedy here.

Well, except for Shari Shattuck's accent. Is it... really bad South African? Or atrocious English? Who can tell?

All the fights, shootouts and explosions we've come to expect from PM Entertainment. But not one of their or Don's best.

With appearances by B movie / action movie figures like Aki Aleong (Kickboxer), Robert Miano (Fear City), Michael DeLano (Commando, Slumber Party Massacre II), Ken McLeod (Double Dragon, Virtual Combat), Todd Curtis (Chain of Command, American Tigers) and Bob Schott (Russ Meyer's Up!, Gymkata).

And while Don's is quite tame, the movie also features some of the most impressive mullets in the industry!

Movie Info

• TMDb 4.9/10
• NeoDB

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(The FreeTube video controls are visible in some screenshots but are usually hidden.)

Some casual neck snappery

Your mullet's bigger than mine?! That's a wrist snapping!

Once again, Don proves he can raise an eyebrow.

Getting our money's worth from the stuntmen in the pre-CGI era.

The Shellsuited Crusader in action.

It's hard to suspend disbelief when the stuntman trampolining in front of an explosion has a completely different build and hairline.

HER REVENGE WAS BLOOD AND DEATH

A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to his death by luring each member of the committee into compromising situations and then killing them one by one.

NSFW AND SPOILER-HEAVY TRAILER

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The Angry Red Planet (1959) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/658204/the-angry-red-planet
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
• archive: https://archive.org/details/the_angry_red_planet_1959
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time.
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm40372

The first spaceship to Mars, presumed lost, is found in space and brought back to Earth by remote control. Only two from an initial crew of four are still alive, but one is unconscious due to an attached alien growth, while the other is traumatized, blocking out all memory of what happened. In hopes to save the unconscious crewman, the amnesiac is interrogated back into remembering. Those in charge thereby learn of the terrible dangers awaiting anyone venturing into the spooky, ruddy stillness of the very alien Martian ecosystem.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052564/ summary by "statmanjeff"

The Angry Red Planet received mixed reviews upon its release. The New York Times film critic Eugene Archer gave the production a negative review, criticizing its depiction of the planet Mars, likening it to "a cardboard illustration from Flash Gordon".[13] However, not all reviewers in 1959 and early 1960 were critical of the film in general, or in particular, CineMagic's deficiencies in simulating the terrain, fictitious plant life, and monstrous creatures on Mars.

Motion Picture Daily reviewer Samuel D. Berns was enthusiastic at the time about the production, calling it "a stimulating experience in suspense and intrigue".[11] He describes CineMagic in his review as "a well-conceived optical effect for dramatic impact", an element of the film that he predicts will draw "big gross business" to the box office.[11] Berns also compliments both forms of filming presented in The Angry Red Planet, as well as its music:
Everything seen or experienced outside the space ship on Mars is depicted in the Cinemagic process to symbolize a concept of nature on another planet. The rest of the film's action and background is printed in the normal fashion. ...Stanley Cortez delivered an expert job of camerawork, in marking the debut of the new Eastman 5250 Color, bringing into sharp focus the soft, effective color tones of the film. Paul Dunlap's music contributed its share of mounting interest and suspense in the subject matter for the producers Sid Pink and Norman Maurer.[11]

In his 2001 reassessment of The Angry Red Planet, Glenn Erickson of DVD Talk criticizes the film's flat direction, dull script, and overuse of stock footage.[14] Erickson does faintly compliment the film for at least coloring scenes of Mars' surface with a red tinge, which in his opinion gives the sequences "a credibly alien look".[14] In his 2014 movie guide, Leonard Maltin judges the film to be only average, awarding it 2 out of 4 stars.[15] However, reviewer Bruce Eder of AllMovie is more positive in his appraisal of the film, commending in particular its overall style of direction:
Danish-born director/screenwriter Ib Melchior brings a surprisingly light, deft touch to the proceedings, allowing the actors a chance to have fun with their roles—especially Gerald Mohr, still looking and sounding a bit like Humphrey Bogart, as the stalwart mission commander, and Jack Kruschen as the good-humored technician in the crew—without losing sight of the adventure and the story line, and meshing it all seamlessly with the special effects-driven sequences.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angry_Red_Planet

LOVE FADES, BUT MURDER IS FOREVER.

A police photographer who's afraid he's slowly losing his grip on reality is seduced by a disturbed model. She claims it's their destiny to be together. Her husband disagrees. The photographer starts having a strange feeling of deja vu.

SLIGHTLY NSFW TRAILER

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I think it’s safe to say here in 2025 that AI is here to stay. AI, CGI, green screen, blue screen, mocap…all of these tools can make for some pretty impressive characters, creatures, and exciting scenes in movies, but at the end of the day, does anything ever really top the physical makeups and costumes that turn actors into monsters or victims? Or the painstaking stop-motion effects of Ray Harryhausen, Willis O’Brien, and those they influenced?

There’s a reason that film buffs and we former monster kids alike still dote on such genre stars as Karloff, Lugosi, and the two Chaneys!

The new book, Making Monsters: Inside Stories from the Creators of Hollywood’s Most Iconic Creatures, is by Howard Berger and Marshall Julius, clearly both film buffs and former monster kids.

BTW it also covers Bud Westmore, credited for tonight's (Sunday 14th Sep 2025) #Monsterdon movie Creature from the Black Lagoon ... even though the creature was actually designed by Milicent Patrick, whom Westmore apparently got fired from the studio while she was promoting the film, out of envy.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milicent_Patrick
• https://www.npr.org/2019/03/28/707306134/the-forgotten-woman-who-designed-the-creature-from-the-black-lagoon