Blessed? That's how I felt when I got not one, but two cool movie updates from the Horror Channel site. Coming straight to a video store soon, offered for your viewing pleasure, are these fine works of art: Poultrygeist and Evil Bong. "Poultrygeist?" you ask, "Is this some sort of anti KFC documentary akin to Supersize Me?" Ummmm, nope. This beauty if aptly titled. The premise of the story goes something like this: A chicken fast food chain builds one of its restaurants on an ancient Indian burial ground. The photo of a man having his nose pecked off by a big chickeney looking thing on Horror Channel paints a pretty clear picture of where the Troma studio is going with this baby. And Evil Bong? Need I clarify it by telling you that is stars Tommy Chong? Even better, how about a cameo by William Shatner? Best to just check out a photo of the Bong itself here. Isn't she just breathtaking?
Obviously, both of these films are B-movies, which doesn't really stand for bad as some might think. According to Wikipedia, "B-movie originally referred to a Hollywood motion picture designed to be distributed as the "lower half" of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters, or horror." Studios even had units that would do nothing but make these fine gems. Ronald Regan made his acting career out of staring in them. OK most aren't great, but they aren't horrid. You don't agree? Perhaps it is an acquired taste.
Personally, I rather enjoy a B-film every so often. There is a sort of nostalgia in it for me. It reminds me of Saturdays spent as a child watching our local Channel 13. This station would broadcast the best of the B-movies. That's where my addiction to Godzilla started. Even now watching a Harryhausen film brings back fond memories of a lazy afternoon, kicking back with some Jiffy Pop. Long before CGI films like Star Wars and The Matrix, these films created fantasy worlds the good old-fashioned way with stop action, models, puppets and corn syrup mix with good old red dye no. 2. If it was a really great film, it featured claymation.
Will I rush to the theaters when these films come out? Of course not. I'm not going to waste the price of admission on something like this. Will I rent them? You bet. I can picture it now. A warm Saturday afternoon, some microwave popcorn and an angry rampaging chicken puppet pecking out the eyes of some greedy developer. Life doesn't get any better.
2 comments:
Hi Kat....cool waving. Running out the door, but wanted to quick make this connection so we'll see each other here on blogspot.
I've used my blogspot as my place for the charity crochet. Some of it you already know about, but doubt you've seen all the pictures. If you're real bored, start in the back and come forward. On my way to post office and plan to update this blog when I return, as I'm mailing out the latest items.
Glad you're here so we're still connected.
Tootles for now
Sandy
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