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The Joys of a movie this bad

posted 17 years ago by runemesa
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1. A guy named Joe, who looks like Bruce Campbell but talks like Barney Gumble, and coins the term (as far as I know) "the old fingeroo".

2. A cute, white-overalled gal named Louise, whose hair gets as freaked out as she does, while on the run from the madmen in this flick.

3. Some pretty cool, original, mostly punkesque songs that actually drive the scenes pretty well.

4. A teacher who refuses to pay attention to what he's teaching his students, for fear of the camera missing his creepy face for even one second.

5. Invisible sharp things.

6. The most Jewish-looking Nazi you'll ever see in a movie.

7. A noticeable use/influence of the color white: cars, clothes, houses, lighting, a cat.

8. The dumbest character ever in a horror movie: Gary.

and the list goes on....

[–] sistermorphine71 15 years ago

When I first started watching this movie, I was put off buy the low budget and the cheap dvd quality, so I shut it off and put it on the shelf. A few months later, I decided to watch it again and was surprised that I actually ended up enjoying it. I also noticed the girl's hair would go back and forth between what appeared to be her real hair and the next scene would have her in a really bad wig! LMAO at your numbers 5 and 6!

[–] seth_yeah 10 years ago

I know this is an old post, but the phrase "fingeroo" is an old one that goes back at least to the 1930s, probably earlier. (Another funny instance of it being said is by a midget in the 1939 book Day of the Locust.)

[–] Dan_Garten 8 years ago

Interesting thoughts.