Yes, it is as bad as you think. Some of the worst acting and dialogue I've ever seen. Kinda fun though.
I won't pretend it isn't terrible, but I like it!
Winterbeast began production in 1985. Producer Mark Frizzell thought it would take a weekend to finish. By 1989, he pulled the plug.
Originally, the filmmakers imagined the Winterbeast to be a stop-motion creature. This became a guy in a costume, of which some footage was shot. When the film fell apart, Frizzell did a little stop motion bits between gigs at his day job to fill in the missing monster footage. The film as we know it was released in 1992.
So the monster you see on the cover is not actually in the movie, instead you'll see some foolish claymation creatures.
This movie is absolutely a knockoff of The Warriors (1979) but I actually think I like it more. The main character, Trash is the best androgynous action hero since Ellen Ripley. The violence is great and the themed street gangs are over-the-top.
Alexander Hell rides his Harley Davidson motorcycle out from the dark abyss to battle samurai sword carrying Vampires who are unleashing their vengeance on modern day Hollywood, California. Once on earth, Hell joins forces with an ancient Asian vampire.
“There is a flap.” Hahaha
A new breed of enemy has taken over the world… Sam Hell has come to take it back.
‘Hell’ is the name of the hero of the story. He’s a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.
The year is 2020. He’s mostly human, and totally invincible…Until now
Somewhere in the future the environmental overkill had come. Many people had died. The rich were able to build the underworld, the poor had to stay on the surface building gangs to survive. Jason Storm, an underworld guard gets knowledge of a conspiracy to kill all people on the surface. He needs to flee to the surface, and wins Sumai, a respected martial arts master, as his ally to stop the dirty plot.
Wa da tah, my friends. Wa da tah.
Pootie Tang is the ultimate superhero. A cool-walking, smooth-talking lady's man, Pootie is a hero and a role model to all the kids of the neighborhood. Everybody looks up to Pootie except evil Dick Lecter, CEO of Lecter Corp., a company that makes cigarettes, alcohol and fast food. Pootie shows cool determination and strength to prevail over Lecter and his minions.
SA DA TAY!
Straight-laced nerd Alistair moves into a college dorm with hardcore marijuana users Brett, Larnell, and Bachman. Larnell orders an old giant bong that proves to have strange magical powers. When smoked said bong sends a person to a bizarre drugged-out alternate realm from which there is no easy escape.
On another planet where colonists live like in the old west, Zack Stone must return to his small hometown called Oblivion after his father is killed by the evil alien lizard-like bandit Red Eye. Zack is a pacifist but Oblivion needs a new sheriff to foil Red Eye and his gang of hellions from taking over.
When a researcher at the Chronos Corporation is mysteriously killed, his daughter; her boyfriend, Sean ; and a rogue CIA agent named Max Reed all suspect foul play. Sean discovers a top-secret suit of Chronos armor called "the Guyver," which fuses to his body when he tries it on, turning him into a supremely powerful cyborg. Chronos' evil CEO, Fulton Balcus (David Gale), is enraged and sends a crew of mutant alien monsters to get the Guyver back.
Sorbo is a complete maniac these days, but I won't let that soil the good times I had watching his buffness in the 90s. Plus this movie has Tia Carrere :)
After five years as a slave, warrior Kull travels to the shores of the fantastical kingdom of Valusia, where he slays mad King Borna. Inheriting the crown, Kull begins an ambitious program of bringing freedom and tolerance to Valusia, which displeases Gen. Taligaro and the royal court's advisers. Determined to unseat Kull, Taligaro has a wizard resurrect the witch Akivasha to seduce and destroy the new monarch.
Kids at a first-time offenders’ boot camp discover the legend of lumberjack Paul Bunyan is real, but is much more horrifying than they could have imagined. They incur the wrath of the 15-foot monstrous giant, who was banished from town 100 years ago and thought dead.
Awesome, I’ll pick it up. Thanks!
Teens in a small conservative town are turned into evil demons thanks to the music of the titular heavy metal band.
Did you think that trailer was bizarre and terribly directed? Well that is literally the beginning of the movie... Yes, they show you a trailer with all the best parts before the title card. I watched this the other night and I have never seen a movie try so hard to fill 90 minutes. Certain scenes go on and on forever. There is a whole lot of heart in this movie, but the filmmakers just didn't have the talent to pull it off.
A mother obsessed with mind-altering televangelism consequently vomits a pulsating growth that slithers down the throat of her son during the night. Upon spewing the parasite, the son is driven by an uncontrollable force to murder and feed corpses to the now-multiple-toothed monsters manifesting throughout the house. This gory, shot-on-Super-8 regional rarity is a micro-budget salute to H.G. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft.
A bloodthirsty visitor from outer space crashes his spaceship near the small town of Perry Hall and embarks on a gory rampage. Sheriff Jack Cinder has to coordinate an evacuation when the alien attacks.
Salvatore's Drizzt series is what got me into reading like 20 years ago. I loved them then and now the CQ series is reminding me why. They are very easy reads with likable characters and I think his writing really shines when it comes to action/battle scenes.
Why do you have AC units pumping hot air into your base?
I’ve always liked Ilya Repin. “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks” is my favorite work of his.