The Dark Backward - re:View
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มี.ค. 2024
- Jay and Josh dive into the weird, disgusting, depressing, off-putting world of The Dark Backward, an under-seen dark comedy from 1991 directed by Adam Rifkin and inexplicably starring Judd Nelson and Bill Paxton.
- บันเทิง
![[LIVE] : ONE ลุมพินี 71 วันนี้!! คู่เอก "ทรงชัยน้อย vs รักษ์"](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_AGPnq2p6Js/mqdefault.jpg)
THE DARK BACKWARD was my first official credit on a movie! I started my career as a make-up FX artist, and I was the "Arm Harness Wrangler - Paul "Squidly" Salamoff". My main job was to put the 3rd arm on Judd Nelson. I still have some cool set pictures (and some interesting stories!). I'm still friends with Adam Rifkin to this day and I cherished that I got to spend so much time with Bill Paxton. BTW: I've been a HUGE fan of RLM since the PHANTOM MENACE reviews and am fairly sure I've seen all your videos from then on! Always excited when you discuss things I've worked on (I also worked on CARNOSAUR and THEODORE REX!). Thanks for making my day and Keep 'em coming!!!
It's always cool to see people in the industry leave comments like this. Thanks for the input!
@@lotus-prince This movie was a happy memory for me and my first real time on a film set!
Yeehaw
Sounds like you need to make a trip to Milwaukee for a guest episode 😁
you rock dude
An obscure, disgusting, nihilistic low-budget drama filled top-to-bottom with filth, corruption, and perversion. It's great to see Jay broadening his horizons.
😄
I always think of this and The Vagrant as a good early 90s Paxton double bill.
"An obscure, disgusting, nihilistic low-budget drama filled top-to-bottom with filth, corruption, and perversion" is honestly a great way to describe RLM as a whole
@@tweeeeeex hack fraud approved
@@tweeeeeex Sprinkle in some elderly abuse and you got yourself a Wheel Of The Worst tagline.
I'm convinced that Tubi is run entirely by one guy in his basement with a stack of bargain bin DVDs and a server bank that he won from the McDonalds Monopoly game back in 2002.
It’s such a bizarre collection. Some of the most obscure stuff out there. In a way it reminds me of early Netflix (the early mail DVD era) which was the best way to find obscure cult movies for about 5 years, because the licensing was less.
@@asmodiusjones9563 Mail order Netflix and Blockbuster is how I watched a lot of the Asian cinema that are now some of my favourite films ever. I'd sign up for a free trial over the summer between classes and just watch whatever I could.
That one guy who has every movie ever uploaded to plex
And the name on the LLC is Mr. Plinkett
We wish him well
FRIENDS but every laugh track is replaced by the sounds of gunshots and a woman screaming in the distance
Would you like a hot dog?
@@OxoceroTwowanna eat some puddling while going down a slide?
@@science_bearI hate slides
I would watch that edit
I'm now convinced that for the last 20 years, Bruce Campbell has been basing his every performance on Wayne Newton in The Dark Backward.
Sometimes, all you need is a one-sentence plot summary to know if it's a Jay Bauman Movie.
"Struggling comedian who lives in a wasteland starts growing a third arm out his back" -- yup.
Or as Jay put it:
"a garbage man is wondering through a dump, and then he finds a naked body and starts molesting it"
Haha!! Right up my alley though. It's one of the reasons why I have a weird desire to meet the people of red letter media
I love Star Trek and have almost a encyclopedic memory of the series', and then I love the most grotesque horror movies in existence
I for one apologize, for guessing Rich Evans... based on the third arm growing out of his back part.
Bill Paxton has been in so many insane projects
Marty is a perspiring comedian.
Mike is an expiring old.
My headcanon is that this movie takes place in the same reality as the one you're stuck in in the game Harvester
God what a good pull
The same reality as the game Bad Mojo
100% correct
How are these 2 Twin Peaks fans reviewing a film with Lara Flynn Boyle in and not mention her once?!
yeah i kept waiting for them to mention Lara Flynn Boyle lol
I came looking for this comment haha
'cause she STINKS!
No, I'm kidding. She's great in this.
And not only did they not mention her, they didn't mention the disturbing scene where her and Bill Paxton "fool around" at the diner. One of the most uncomfortable scenes I've ever watched.
I think Jay is wearing a Twin Peaks pin too
Jay and Josh talking about a movie on tubi? Finally, you guys read my letters
OKAY I GET THE HINT I won't audition for your movies anymore, Jay.
Take some reading lessons first.
Jay and Josh talk about some weirdo movie I'll never watch.
Excuse me while I watch this episode of re:View 18 times.
When they did a ReView on the rocketeer, and mike was praising the movie so much, i paused the ReView, watched the entire movie, then went back. Had never seen it before.
Likewise. Stay on target.
I paused the review and watched The Dark Backward.
@@heyyoitsmebrianI love the movie, and not just because I have always had a huge crush on Jennifer Connelly.
@ananimal9779 yeaaa shes a dreamboat.... the only time ive ever rented a RE:View movie and didn't like it was Joe vs the Volcano
What's really incredible about the clips of Judd Nelson in this movie is that it looks like he's doing a portrayal of Joe Pera but 20 years before the fact
Half Joe Pera, half Neil Hamburger.
Huge traffic spike to Tubi incoming!
Like there should be.
ya I like tubi just rewatched all of blue mountain state on there
They seem to be carving out a niche.
from 2 viewers to 4, a 100% increase.
Tubi has some pretty good content.
Bill Paxton is one of those celebrity losses you never truly get over. Just a great actor & even more incredible person. God bless the Pax Man
Came here to mention Bill. What a great performance! 4K true lies coming soooon!
The more clips they showed, the more this movie started to crawl out of the depths of my brain like a long forgotten parasite I'd picked up while channel surfing late at night. It's disconcerting. I had completely forgotten about this movie.
Yea, I didn't realize that I had seen it like 15 years ago, also on DVD through Netflix. Wasn't till the Paxton trash diving scene where it clicked.
I thought the name is the movie was "My third arm"
In 10 years Jay's jacket will have so many pins he'll look like General Zhukov
He's got a Randall Flagg vibe going on. Weirdly hot & creepy at the same time
🤣
Minimum 31 pieces of flair.
@@amym0040yea he does look like Randall flagg
Now this is the most "Jay and Josh Re:View Movie" of all time.
I watched this as a small child with my dad and i have been trying to figure out what it was called for like 20 years... RLM saved my sanity
Jay is transforming into the Dude.
Or Bob from Twin Peaks.
Or Bob from Twin Peaks.
Or Bob from Twin Peaks.
Tubi was the only place I could find Petey Wheatstraw so for me Tubi kicks ass.
There's a lot of crap, but buried underneath there are some classic gems.
@@yam83The crap is half the reason I go there! Netflix used to have quality crap, but now it's all boring movies from the late 2010s onwards. You can't find any real B movies there anymore because they got pretentious and think they're pushing quality (while continuing to release slop like the awful Cowboy Bebop and Avatar adaptations) whereas Tubi snatched them all up.
Also, Tubi has C.O.P.S. (the fun '80s cartoon, not the fascist pig dog propaganda from the '90s)
@makeitthrough_ amen to that. There really is some surreal entertaining garbage on the platform ( some of which are like being in a fever dream) love it 😂
There are also some legitimately well made Z movies on there too. I am glad Tubi is still around
Yeah, I dont know why they say Tubi with an attitude. I saw Blow Out on Tubi. I watched the ReAnimator/From Beyond double screening after the re:View about that, I watched Platoon for the first time just last night off Tubi. It's great for lesser known and/or older movies.
24:16 Adam Rifkin was initially part of Adam Sandler's circle of freinds, he produced his pre-SNL movie Going Overboard, but they stopped working together before Sandler became big, Apperantly Sandler wasn't very funny even back when, but he build up a circle of friends to prop him up, and everyone in his friend circle ended up well off, like writer Tim Herlihy or director Frank Coraci. Wonder if this is reflected in any way in this movie
I feel like Jay and Josh just scratched the surface of how INSANE Bill Paxton is in this film. Just complete unhinged, manic and anarchic energy. He's hilarious.
Judd Nelson's character is like a cross between Crispin Glover and Jeffrey Combs. Definitely an underrated performance.
That's Doctor Judge Nelson to you!
"Judd"
Saw this on LSD in highschool.
One of my buddies flipped out
"Real life isn't like this , right guys?
Right Guys!? This Isn't Real is It!?"
Had to talk him down for hours.
lmao
Why would you watch this film of all things? 😂
It's strange enough sober, never mind when you're tripping
@@casanovafunkenstein5090 Heavy Metal os a good one too. 😅
Watching this on LSD could be life threatening. Setting is the most important thing. Bad setting = bad trip.
@@mikeycrackson when that video came out, that experience is the 1st thing I thought of lol.
My buddy was David.
I'm the backwards man the backwards man, I can walk backwards faster than you can.
I'm utterly shocked that neither Jay nor Josh mentioned that the actress that plays the girlfriend is Lara Flynn Boyle, who plays Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks
If you think Judd Nelson’s character is unrealistic, I implore you to look into real actual person and comedian Tom Myers.
Or better yet, just save yourself the trouble and get a bong hit transplant.
@@jogiff hell yeah dude
Make America Innate Again!
@@jaxonpallone4377I found out I’m a bit autistic because that title bothered me so much. For days I would think of that title and get angry. What does it even mean?!
RLM to Curntown pipeline
These re:view videos are the only ones that I end up stopping 10min in to go watch the movies. I need more grotesque and nihilistic cinema in my life.
This feels like it would make a great double bill with How to Get A Head in Advertising, where Richard E Grant plays an advertising executive who grows a second, evil head that slowly takes over his body and compulsively improvises advertising copy whenever he encounters a product.
That sounds amazing lol
When I saw the boil I thought it WAS that film, I couldn't remember what it was called.
@@heyyoitsmebrian yeah, it's a pretty cool film.
I think that it's the same director as Withnail and I, though obviously it's a bit different.
It's one of those comedies that holds up fairly well, but it's also something that could only have come out when it did because it's a bit of a precursor to gross out comedies like Kevin and Perry Go Large and There's Something About Mary, but it's a bit more focused on social commentary than just being gross.
The effects are really impressive for the budget and genre, though it's not exactly the focus so much as the psychological aspects
Hella great movie I still think about it
Never heard of this and it’s right up my alley. Thanks for the video, guys!
Seeing Marty’s stand up stuff makes me wonder if it was an influence on Neil Hamburger.
That's exactly what I thought!
I knew there would be another video so quickly following, the previous one. I think Mike has developed some sort of quiz addiction.
Monthly plays for Bloodhound Gang must skyrocket everytime
I have always loved this movie. Still have my VHS copy. You guys always manage to feature stuff I love that no one seems to know about. So great.
So happy to see an Adam Rifkin movie getting some attention. I'm a big fan of his work and it all started with finding the DVD for this movie in the $3 DVD section at BigLots! in 2010.
Everything I'm seeing about this movie feels like it takes place in a Tim & Eric/Neil Hamburger shared universe and I mean that in the most complementary way.
the main character also reminded me of neil hamburger, just much less mean spirited.
Turkington 100% saw The Dark Backward as a kid, and it is the inspiration for Neil Hamburger. There is no way it isn't.
Apropos of nothing, I saw him live years back. One of my friends tried to heckle him, was met with a "SHUT UP YOU PIG PERSON". I've kept that insult in my back pocket ever since.
Agreed !
And then right back to inspiring Holy Motors,
Faradenza - Little Big (see you go big!)
When You die - MGMT, and by proxy the Joker movie,
Fooly Cooly anime, and Kamina from Gurren-Lagann
@@sboinkthelegday3892I would say that Holy Motors is free of this because the accordion scene is literally an intermission.
Zero opinion on Joker, because that's an absolutely shit film.
Wow. It's the first time RLM is talking about a movie I haven't heard in my life, ever. Gonna look it up, thanks!
Also, 2:57 is SO JAY. "Oh, I saw a garbage man molesting a dead body and I just had to see the whole thing!"
Dont.. you've been warned!
@@theayatollahofrockandrolla so far I looked up the Tom & Jerry knock-off and it's hilarious, like a precursor to Happy Tree Friends!
@@ELEKTROSKANSENNever has there been a film that sucks the life out of you while simultaneously injecting you with dread..
@@theayatollahofrockandrolla sounds like a great Sunday evening watch before getting ready for a week of work!
@ELEKTROSKANSEN Fair enough.. you'll never see Bill Paxton the same again tho..
Hell yes! This is one of the few VHS' I kept after having to get rid of my collection.
An "anomaly" is the perfect term for this. Such a bizarre experience. And I friggin love every second.
Jay has hair like an old west gunslinger.
Jay: Texas Ranger
Jay Marston
This video unlocked a memory. I watched this on cable when I was so young, had no idea what it was even called. Always caught it like 10/15 min in. All locked away in my brain until Josh and Jay recorded this chat.
FUN FACT: Adam Rifkin was gonna do the planned third Tales From The Crypt movie with the great Wallet Hill that was called "Redneck Frank" first than changed to "Body Count" about a violent Rambo-type vigilante in El Paso Texas who we find out is a resurrected Frankenstein-esque super soldier that escaped the Government and is now looking for revenge against the people that turned him into a monster.
Unfortunately, Crypt Presents Bordello Of Blood flopped critically and commercially.
"Wallet Hill"? 😆
@@thebrodwarrior_xi6515 walter hills lesser known, less talented brother
But bordello of blood was entertaining. Maybe not as good as demon knight but it's still good.
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Rambordello of Blood
That plot description kinda sounds like The Guest and Malignant. Which are two of my favorites.
I never could have dreamed that RLM would cover my favorite movie, and I can die happy now.
They used to play this one on HBO all the time in the early 90s and I ALWAYS would watch it. One of those movies I haven't thought of in ages.
Finally covered this! It's underrated. It was too odd for the time it came out. I hope Vinegar Syndrome releases a remaster
It's right up their alley and better than a lot of the releases they've made for 90s and newer films.
Time for VS and RLM to start openly colluding.
Josh saying he first saw it "recently" before Netflix stopped doing DVD's.
They stopped doing that mid-last year shockingly enough.
That service ended only last September.
@@doctabaldheadOH MY GAAAAWD!!
Everything becomes relative as you get older. Anything that happened in the last ten years was recently. Obama was president a few years ago. 9/11 happened a while back.
@@doctabaldhead damn for real? They kept it into the pandemic! Thought they stopped years ago lol
Not only did this guy made Small Soldiers or co wrote it, he wrote Zoom: Academy of Superheroes with Tim Allen and the year after that made underdog for Disney with Jason Lee.
Wait, he also did a WWE film with The Big Show Paul Wight called Knucklehead, so what quality.
Finding out he did Detroit Rock city is incredible tho, guy is versatile at best.
My friends and I rewatched Rifkin's Mouse Hunt somewhat recently. It wasn't great, but it absolutely had a weirdly dark vision that I could see overlapping with this in a strange way.
Red Letter Media video drops, I stop everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) I'm doing. It's a bank holiday for the next 38 minutes.
- the paramedic said with eagerness, as the injured woman flew from their hands to crack her head on the ground, before the paramedic rushed to the ipad to watch the re:View on the obscure film
Was driving and I let go of the wheel as soon as I saw this video and I don't have a Tesla.
Yeah, I mean who needs breathing?
Yup,cracked a cold one
@@matiaspageLet’s face it, you’re probably safer letting go of the wheel of a 2003 Ford Taurus than you are holding on to the wheel of a Tesla.
I had never heard of this. I just watched the trailer and got very strong Brazil meets Gummo. Just dirty and strange, yet somehow compelling. I want to check this out but have to wait until I’m in the right frame of mind.
No, don’t wait just do it. Better to be surprised. Bill Paxton is great. And as they opened with, it’s free on Tubi. But bring a towel.
This is why I love RLM: introducing me to a weird movie I've never heard of before 💛. Thanks!
Jay and Josh covering this is a pleasant surprise, and the least surprising combo to discuss it xD
6:10 "Why are you even hear... you can't even read words off the script... Rich Evans, you're hired!"
"Here"
Godamn. Caught snippets of this on cable all the time as a kid. Never knew what it was. One of those movies I thought I had hallucinated.
I need it known that Mousehunt is beloved.
Idk if its the delivery or the absurdity, but I actually laughed at the joke about cutting ears instead of hair.
05:08 "Sort of aspiring..." --- "He's mostly perspiring" The joke was right there!
Damn, again a movie that I didn't even know exists. You guys are just the absolute most essential information point for obscure movies.
I saw this super late night as a pre-teen insominac in the early '90s and it messed me up for life. I love it. Where's the 4K, Vinegar Syndrome?
You can always tell when Jay writes a video description as opposed to when Mike does
After many years, I've comfortably acknowledged that Jay, Josh and I absolutely do not have the same taste in movies. But this really stands out as something I not only have no interest in seeing, but actively want to avoid seeing. The clips from the Re:view alone made my skin crawl with discomfort and embarrassment. Not for me, but I look forward to the next Re:View!
Great to see the wizard back. He and jay always have a great re view
I met Adam Rifkin in my college film class. Super cool dude. He gave us an early viewing of Look and talked to us about the industry. I remember him being proud of his earlier movies and being kind of bewildered that Mouse Hunt was his breakout success since he wrote it as a throwaway script.
Looks like Jay is progressively stealing Josh's hair and making it his own.
Joshmosis
Ahh, so thats why Josh is going bald.
sorry Josh
Nobody in the RLM studio is safe
That’s bodyshaming!
@@XxDemon23xX Josh has been going bald for 15 years.
11:44 Reminds me of Sam Neill losing his mind at the end of In the Mouth of Madness
Jay is really embracing his inner Seth Green's character from "AirBorn"
Jay is in the throes of his mid life 90’s grunge stage.
Oh man, I'm so glad you did this one! It's such a cinematic lump of weirdness, more people should know about it!
I must've seen this on cable 5 times when I was a kid. But I totally forgot it existed! Thank you gentlemen.
you brought back memories, i loved small soldiers and mouse trap as a kid.
Don't know if you guys read these, but I just wanted to say I hope you're doing okay. Been watching you guys since 2009, a lot of laughs. I care a little.😢
Me too! worried
Omg this movie brings back some very weird memories from my video store days
Gotta say, I wouldn't have even heard of those movies if not for the folks at RLM, especially Jay.
One of my current faves, Dark City, is one I first heard about in this channel.
Cheers!
Thanks for reminding me that I haven't seen the majestic piece of art that is Dark City in a couple of years. I need to fix that asap.
They never did a video on dark city, right? I think everytime they release a Re:View it was that or event horizon as the number 1 comment/request
@@heyyoitsmebrian they mentioned it a couple of times, usually favourably, but never did a Re:View on it.
@@GeneralUile well we definitely need to flood every video now with a comment of
"Dark city Re:View next!"
dark city is one of my top favs hell yea
I love this depraved sickening film, so glad they are covering it!!
"What seest thou else
In the dark backward
and abysm of time?"
- The Tempest
“Don’t @ me!” probably got the biggest laugh from me
my cousin just stole my pain meds but who cares when jay can make me laugh my pain away💀
I'd love to see a Re View for Possession
Oooooopoo, that’s a tough one. They definitely alluded to it….
I’m personally digging Jay’s Alan Wake look
Needs more flair
Jay is turning into Ian McCollum from the Forgotten Weapons channel. Weird.
One thing I expected them to mention was the possible inspiration on Neil Hamburger.
The slicked down hair, the glasses, the suit, not raising his shoulders, the overall sweatiness....
Hard to believe it's not at least a reference point.
Holy crap, that's a throwback. I remember being fascinated by this movie when I was just beginning to be a writer. The title, alone, I loved and before I even saw it, I would literally draw my own logos of the title and create my OWN plot, based on that title (for a new, young writer, that title has all the self-indulgent, nihilistic weirdness necessary to create whatever you want out of it lol). When I finally did see it, I thought it was terrific, but ever since, I swore I was the only person who'd ever heard of it for years. lol I think I even *still have* a page in an old notebook from back then, with my own logo for the title. lol
This goes without saying but I just wanna praise RLM's consistent commitment to integrity and actually putting out high quality content. These guys spend the majority of their content drawing attention to unseen, underrated or simply completely forgotten indie films.
They could easily choose to upload the most baseline lowest common denominator trash appealing to political fearmongering or only focusing on the most popular releases of today. Instead, they choose to bring emphasis to the weird and unseen.
How many fantastic (and not-so fantastic) b-movie directors have now garnered a cult following thanks to RLM's influence? So many!
This is the strangest Star Trek Game Show I’ve ever seen..
It's pronounced Star Track. It's a filthy show.
That movie was so wild. Glad to see you guys do this one. I saw it when it was released on VHS back in the early 90's and the only people I knew who had seen it was me an my buddy.
I have waited so, so patiently for this movie to hit bluray. It'll happen, someday.
i got the dvd a years back, about time someone discusses this classic
So this is one of those "90's" movies all the kids are talking about?
Thanks for this! I'd never heard of this film before. Now, I've got to watch it.
Thank you for bringing this movie to my attention. It is amazing writing, acting, and lighting.
Awesome.
Whoaaa! FUCK YES! I love Re:View but I feel you guys never cover enough truly hidden gems. This is what I'm talking about. Bill Paxton is bat shit bonkers in this film. I love it so much I paid 50 dollars for an out of print dvd. Now make a video about Parents (1989). I know Jay's a fan and more people need to know what a great character actor Randy Quaid was before he became a nutjob.
The Dark Backward, a position known as the Craigslist hookup.
"A moth walks into a Pediatrist's office..."
Thank you for talking about this movie! Super undervalued nowadays
Jay’s transformation into Jodie Foster is nearly complete.
With Jodie Foster's head and wearing stuffed shirts like Michael Meyers, he will become the ultimate -movie- serial killer.
I am genuinely worried about Jay sometimes.
Love jay and josh reviews. This looks great, added to the watchlist!
This is one of the movies I was sooo hoping you guys would eventually talk about. Bill freakin' Paxton! This is easily the performance he should be most known for.
Hey guys that Dune Part 2 thing was pretty good…
YES! My dark prayers have been answered! Thanks, RedLetterMedia!
Edit some months later: I finally snagged this on DVD and sat down to watch it. Bravo boys on floating another gem out there. This is an instant top ten for me. It's honestly got some great themes and ideas.
I really recommend if you can watch this by any means do it. It was an absolute joy.
Sadly, this is no longer on Tubi. Sadness. 😔
Thanx guys for introducing me to this beautifull piece of art. It reminisced me of the French film: Delicatessen....from the same year!