From Friday 2/17 to Sunday 2/19 we (meaning J and Chris) visited Capricon 37 in Wheeling, IL. This con is one of our Chicagoland favorites. We cruised the dealer room and picked up Netherworld from Full Moon Entertainment. Then we gave it the ol’ B-Movie Mania treatment before the con parties.
Synopsis: A young man arrives at his father’s mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.
Sorry, folks. This one isn’t available for free. However, you can watch the making of Netherworld free on YouTube. Someone also uploaded the complete soundtrack. It has a lot of Edgar Winter on it. C’mon. Don’t be a Stranger to Love.
Assorted musings:
– Special thanks to q. phia for loaning us the swanky hats in the picture above. She makes all kinds of awesome, steampunky clothing. Seriously just look at her site.
– Chris really liked our hotel bathroom. Way to go, Westin Chicago North Shore.
– Once upon a time in Arkansas, Paul and J went to the Full Moon Film Festival and screened their film, Late Afternoon of the Living Dead. It was there they met the man who puts the “Full Moon” in Full Moon Entertainment, Charles Band.
If, on his deathbed, David Lynch had a fever dream about ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit,’ this week’s movie would be the blood oozing from his nose.
We watched The Amazing Bulk and boy is it a doozy. A man is transformed into a monster when a secret government experiment blows up and purples all over his chest. This film follows our hero as he is chased away from the one he loves by cops, the military, a mad scientist, and a bunch of other garbage from Windows ’98.
Is he the biggest? Not even close.
Is he the baddest? If you’re talking production value, you got it.
Is he the purplest? Of course.
Am I sorry about this movie? Hell no!
In our inaugural episode, Jason chooses the 1987 Patrick Swayze post-apocalyptic flick, Steel Dawn. It’s a little bit Mad Max, a little bit Shane and a whole lot of fighting! Seriously, the fights are great. In this episode we talk about what elements the film borrows from westerns and samurai films, Patrick Swayze in the bathtub, Dirty Dancing and much more! What’s the matter? Never seen a grown man naked?
Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? These are questions humankind has wrestled with since the beginning. Paul Brooks, Mike Hayes, Jason Huls and Crazy Chris Hutson have no idea what those answers are but we can tell you why we decided to do a podcast about the B-movies we know and love. That is what this short introduction is all about. Join us as we slide into B-Movie Mania!
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