This movie ALMOST vanished off the face of the Earth. Thank the gods the good folks at Vinegar Syndrome saved it from permanent obscurity and cleaned it up so it's not so dark. That's kind of their specialty.
I think I speak for everyone when I say we appreciate the hell outta your work ethic. The reviews never feel tired, even if you are. I know I can rely on you to give me a 20 min reprieve from the doldrums of life. Thank you Mr Snob. Thank you
This reminds me of another horror spoof from the 90s called "The Silence of the Hams". Also, is there anything more badass than Charles Napier flippin' the bird? XD
So is the title supposed to be a play on "Psycho," a movie that came out 22 years earlier? That's... incredibly sad. Still, it seems like one joke in 50 here actually lands, which puts it head and shoulders above the SeltzBerg crimes against humanity.
There really was a sort-of Hitchcock Renaissance in the early 1980s. The man himself had recently died. The Psycho sequels were beginning. Alfred Hitchcock Presents and many of his movies were getting increased television play. Culminating in the mid 80s with the rebooted Alfred Hitchcock Presents. So it was actually a pretty relevant pop-culture reference, believe it or not.
I've never heard of this movie until now. I'm on the hunt for this. It's the ultimate background movie for a Halloween party where the attendees are predominately in their 40s!! Big Fun!!
OMG I saw this movie when I was like 11 years old and thought it was a comedy classic. And then I thought I'd just imagined the whole thing. But the killer's hummed music brings it all back. It was REAL!!! Still better than A Million Ways To Die In The West though.
14:05 to 14:08 Heres' a fun fact about The Elephant Man movie: Believe it or not, it was produced by none other than parody legend Mel Brooks who went out of his way to have his name removed from the credits in fear that people who saw it attached to the film would go in thinking it would be a comedy. He also produced the Cronenberg remake of The Fly and John Hurt being the star of Elephant Man may explain why he was so eager to reprise his role as Kane from Alien in Spaceballs.
Honestly, with Vinegar Syndrome's recent blu-ray not only having a beautiful, crystal clear restoration but ALSO featuring a less commonly seen, raunchier R-Rated cut of the film, a re-review from the Cinema Snob ala Batpussy is totally doable.
I didn’t know about this movie until just a couple months ago. Some dude at Monster Mania in Cherry Hill was looking for a dvd copy of it. How convenient for a Wakko review to come now.
You're lucky to have a (mostly) clean copy to review. I have a Brazilian VHS so darker that even correcting the brightness makes the film much more dark, so you can't see anything but the delayed subtitles :( At least I can watch how the movie sucks nicely now. Thanks Brad ^^
@@gyromurphy well I tried since I bought it, but maybe the distributor hadn't a better negative. Which is sad because the tape is rare here, along with Clerks and some other parodies
@@GasmaskAvenger What's the major diference between the version reviewed by Snob and the R-rated one? I'm really curious because I didn't know the other version existed at all
Does anyone know that song at 21:40: "Don't let me catch you messin with my baby, don't wanna see you round my girl"? I've searched those lyrics, but can't find anything :(
Messin' with My Baby by Avalon. Apparently it was made for this movie!? A channel called Phaota actually has it on TH-cam right now. Unfortunately the rest of the song is not as catchy as the chorus.
I don't think there's ANY genre more painful when done wrong than comedy.... Bad Drama and Bad Horror can often be unitentionally funny.. Bad Action lets you blank your mind and enjoy the explosions... Bad Comedy... is just awful
Cinema Snob has film and pop culture trivia knowledge I've only ever seen rivaled by the folks behind MST3K, so it's usually a safe bet that misinformation is a joke in some form.
These are probably some of the most tasteless and unfunny jokes I have ever seen. And yet, some aspects of this movie are quite clever. There was potentially something here. Really perfect snob material. Horrible film though.
In those days, most people had like five TV stations. It was a different economy where distributors were desperate for content, so they would release anything. But unlike TH-cam, content was expensive to create. In the 70s, it was grindhouse theaters and drive-ins. In the 80s it was VHS. A lot of people were well aware that they were turning out nonsense, but it was their job, and they had fun with it. Like most slackers, they didn't feel much incentive to put more effort into their job and make it into actual work.
I get the feeling that they weren't making fun of pedophilia, so much as.... the director put his fetish (Creepy Old Men and Teenage Girls) into the film and passed it off as a joke. "Fetish passed off as joke" happens a lot more often than you'd think in creative works.... See Totally Spies where literally each episode is "What Transformation based Fetish happens to the girls this time? Hypnosis? Muscle? Furry? Dollification?" That said the whole... "Being scared of a Flasher until you notice he has a big dick" joke was kind of funny and the only thing that kills it is that it comes after an attempted rape....
For next year, in the final week of Musical March in September, bridging into Halloween Season may I suggest 1966's The Ghost in The Invisible Bikini, a useless "madcap" horror movie spoof starring Boris Karloff and featuring musical numbers by Nancy Sinatra and Bobby Fuller.
When I saw the title card for this my first thought was horror movie or children's Halloween movie. A bad parody movie is something far more sinister and evil than either of those....
I wish you would stop simply catering to fan demands by reviewing popular movies like this one and instead cover movies that had a timely though tenuous connection to films being released now...wait, Andrew Dice Clay is in this, and in the recently released A Star Is Born? AWESOME!! Good job, Snob, I knew you wouldn’t let us down!
I feel like the reveal would have worked and been funnier if Mitchell was in the room when the killer was caught, one of the ones taking the mask off, cut to the reveal, cut back and he's no longer with the rest of the cast
Holy heck, you're right! There is no way that line was a coincidence! "As blank as a fart" is not an established idiom. In fact, if you Google it, there are only 654 results, most of which are referencing "Fire Walk with Me." While the reason for doing so may be debatable, it's all most certain that Lynch/the actor derived that phrase from this movie!
Hot wings Oreos? Can't imagine why they're NOT being sold here in the states. With a title like "Wacko," it makes me think that the movie will be bashing on Michael Jackson, much like how Wired bashed John Belushi. The killer looks like my version of Halloweenie, and this was long before Phelous made HIS version. 3:44- I wish this WAS that Power Rangers episode where they fight the pumpkin monster that raps. 6:58- Great, he's turning into Charles Brady from Stephen King's Sleepwalkers. 11:26- Terrific, and horror spoof with a school shooting. 14:08- This movie drops more pointless shit than a Seth MacFarlane production. 14:57- Worst Law & Order: SVU cold opening ever. 19:47- You're not the only one. Wacko is on the same level of "WHAT THE FUCK?!?" as Saturday the 14th.
I can’t wait for him to review the porn spoof of this, Whack Off.
Bushwacked
Porn spoofs. I remember when he used to review those.
gooooood times
ExplorerDS6789 Im still waiting for him to review The Scooby Doo XXX Porn Parody.
I'm still waiting on Mighty Morphin Rump Rangers with Linkara.
"Incest razorblade Dad" sounds like a really underground Norwegian black metal band.
or a New Jersey basement grindcore band
Or a really terrible title for a kids movie
Gives me shot on shiteo vibes.
You know what this movie was missing? Madea
It was missing Bushwacked! IT'S IN THE TITLE!
BUSHWHACKED
"this movie isn't very good"
this is the best possible one-line review of this movie.
This movie ALMOST vanished off the face of the Earth. Thank the gods the good folks at Vinegar Syndrome saved it from permanent obscurity and cleaned it up so it's not so dark. That's kind of their specialty.
Where the hell would we be without Brad? My god man you are single handedly saving youtube. Carry on you amazing man
Greydon Clark, the man who brought us a movie about a mutant cat that pukes up a smaller mutant cat. Bless his heart.
“ he really did chop up my big sister , Pam with a power lawnmower ...” man, I can tell by her voice how devastated she is ...
Ben Covarrubias Reminded me of a girl asking a guy to a sock hop or something 😆
She says it like a kid in a Christmas movie where Santa turns out to be real (So... 80% of Christmas Movies) saying "But I really did Santa Claus"
She should be, that was her favourite lawnmower.
I think I speak for everyone when I say we appreciate the hell outta your work ethic. The reviews never feel tired, even if you are. I know I can rely on you to give me a 20 min reprieve from the doldrums of life. Thank you Mr Snob. Thank you
absolutely blessed comment
Even when he’s talking normally he sounds cynical....that takes talent
Neal Maxwell everyone always say I pissed because of my natural tone. So I say it's more a born gift for Brad.
After all the crappy movies he's seen I can't blame him.
He came out the womb cynical
He starts from a base line of total, all-encompassing cynicism, and it goes up from there.
This reminds me of another horror spoof from the 90s called "The Silence of the Hams". Also, is there anything more badass than Charles Napier flippin' the bird? XD
So is the title supposed to be a play on "Psycho," a movie that came out 22 years earlier? That's... incredibly sad.
Still, it seems like one joke in 50 here actually lands, which puts it head and shoulders above the SeltzBerg crimes against humanity.
It might be, Psycho 2 came out the same year I believe
Isn't it sad that having two percent of jokes land makes it a relative success?
Psycho is a classic. It's timelessly spoofable.
There really was a sort-of Hitchcock Renaissance in the early 1980s. The man himself had recently died. The Psycho sequels were beginning. Alfred Hitchcock Presents and many of his movies were getting increased television play. Culminating in the mid 80s with the rebooted Alfred Hitchcock Presents. So it was actually a pretty relevant pop-culture reference, believe it or not.
@@dreamlandnightmare High Anxiety's Psycho spoof scene is amazing.
If somebody would've ask EG Daily about the movie wacko I bet you anything she probably wouldn't remember her experience on the movie set.
Can't wait for Brad to review Yakko and Dot next.
I've never heard of this movie until now. I'm on the hunt for this. It's the ultimate background movie for a Halloween party where the attendees are predominately in their 40s!!
Big Fun!!
"You guys watch Joe Don Baker movies?"
"Oh look, just get back to work, temp-boy!"
This is an absolute masterpiece of a film
E.G Daily the voice of Tommy Pickles interesting
ahh yes
Or Pee-Wee's lady friend in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
She was a pop singer
billyjoelfan100
Dooooottttttiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!!!!!
And a Hooker in Dutch.
16:17 That's the first time I've seen a car seat eject sideways instead of straight-up imagine that in a Bond movie over a cliffside
16:18 when you realize you won 10 cents in the lottery
I LOVE Brad's reaction whenever a movie manages to make a joke land on him, that smirk he makes on the camera is priceless! I mean times like 13:12
Wait, there's a Scary move 5? I didn't even know there was a 4.
I'm gonna go stare at the wall and think about things for a while.
4 is pretty funny, at least to me. 5 is just awful.
Jake Mitchell I agree. 4 is alright, 5 is an atrocity.
Well there's at least one reassuring thing about this movie: it's comforting knowing that bad spoof movies have been around for decades.
OMG I saw this movie when I was like 11 years old and thought it was a comedy classic. And then I thought I'd just imagined the whole thing. But the killer's hummed music brings it all back. It was REAL!!!
Still better than A Million Ways To Die In The West though.
14:05 to 14:08
Heres' a fun fact about The Elephant Man movie: Believe it or not, it was produced by none other than parody legend Mel Brooks who went out of his way to have his name removed from the credits in fear that people who saw it attached to the film would go in thinking it would be a comedy. He also produced the Cronenberg remake of The Fly and John Hurt being the star of Elephant Man may explain why he was so eager to reprise his role as Kane from Alien in Spaceballs.
Honestly, with Vinegar Syndrome's recent blu-ray not only having a beautiful, crystal clear restoration but ALSO featuring a less commonly seen, raunchier R-Rated cut of the film, a re-review from the Cinema Snob ala Batpussy is totally doable.
Still can't believe MPAA had to watch the whole movie to give an R rating
I didn’t know about this movie until just a couple months ago. Some dude at Monster Mania in Cherry Hill was looking for a dvd copy of it. How convenient for a Wakko review to come now.
A slasher spoof so far ahead of its time, it came out six years before Pumpkinhead!
You're lucky to have a (mostly) clean copy to review. I have a Brazilian VHS so darker that even correcting the brightness makes the film much more dark, so you can't see anything but the delayed subtitles :( At least I can watch how the movie sucks nicely now. Thanks Brad ^^
Try watching it on a CRT TV. The transfer of video from coaxial or composite to HD TVs sometimes sucks. It'll be dark or extra pixelated.
@@gyromurphy well I tried since I bought it, but maybe the distributor hadn't a better negative. Which is sad because the tape is rare here, along with Clerks and some other parodies
Now it's on Blu Ray and the picture quality was given a complete overhaul.
Not to mention, its an even naughtier version than what the Snob reviewed.
@@GasmaskAvenger What's the major diference between the version reviewed by Snob and the R-rated one? I'm really curious because I didn't know the other version existed at all
@@phantomzone2725 some profanity and some really risque jokes were snipped from the old PG version AFAIK
It's impressive how that detective fired ~15 rounds from that revolver... at nothing. Those kids' ears would be ringing for a week.
Hoooooly shit!!! I saw that movie in the theatre when it came out! And of course it's just as bad as I remember it...
OK, the marching band playing the theme from "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" is actually really funny.
And of course the Hot Wings Oreos are Japanese...
Was honestly expecting wasabi Oreos in that case LOL!
@@theblocksays There are, in some other video
No, George Kennedy, you're far too good for this film!
Rob Schneider is too good for this film.
Joe Son's still alive, still time to make Mitchell Unchained.
The UK did a better 80s horror spoof with Bloodbath at the House of Death, IMO.
That wasn't a good film despite the comedy pedigree it had staring in it.
@@Gambit771 still better than this piece of shit, mind you.
@@GasmaskAvenger I agree.
So, Brad... will next week's episode be National Lampoon's 'Student Bodies'?
BuddyL it wasn’t a National Lampoon movie but by God I want a Snob review of this forgotten gem!
Is that the one where they have the crazy janitor that pees in the trash can?
That's the one! And the killer who disguises his voice by speaking through a rubber chicken.
It's actually a better comedy horror parody than Wacko. Then again, it doesn't take much to make to make a better comedy than Wacko.
Does anyone know that song at 21:40: "Don't let me catch you messin with my baby, don't wanna see you round my girl"? I've searched those lyrics, but can't find anything :(
Messin' with My Baby by Avalon.
Apparently it was made for this movie!? A channel called Phaota actually has it on TH-cam right now. Unfortunately the rest of the song is not as catchy as the chorus.
If we're going to touch on bad spoofs, we need a snobbing of Ricky 1
I don't think there's ANY genre more painful when done wrong than comedy.... Bad Drama and Bad Horror can often be unitentionally funny.. Bad Action lets you blank your mind and enjoy the explosions... Bad Comedy... is just awful
Can't imagine how the pitch meeting for this went
Wasn't that Andrew Dice Clay, not Sam Kinison? Or is this a joke going way over my head.
It was Clay. I think he just got mixed up.
He knew who it was (ergo, the "Ford Fairlane" reference later on). It was a joke.
Aah, thank you for the explanation.
Cinema Snob has film and pop culture trivia knowledge I've only ever seen rivaled by the folks behind MST3K, so it's usually a safe bet that misinformation is a joke in some form.
I'd like to know what the joke was because Clay and Kinison are nothing alike. Aside from comedians who occasionally starred in movies?
14:51 OMG is that Dottie from Pee Wee's Big Adventure!?
WTF? Did anyone involved in this production genuinely think any of the "humor" was funny or at least amusing and not actually painful?
These are probably some of the most tasteless and unfunny jokes I have ever seen.
And yet, some aspects of this movie are quite clever. There was potentially something here. Really perfect snob material.
Horrible film though.
They were probably all stoned out of their gords and thought it was really funny. What, you thought the laughing gas scene was staged? :)
someone was definitely working out some sort of personal trauma involving incest.
It was the 80's, we didn't know any better back then. Hell, we thought all kind of creepy, really non-PC stuff was funny.
We were barbarians.
In those days, most people had like five TV stations. It was a different economy where distributors were desperate for content, so they would release anything. But unlike TH-cam, content was expensive to create. In the 70s, it was grindhouse theaters and drive-ins. In the 80s it was VHS. A lot of people were well aware that they were turning out nonsense, but it was their job, and they had fun with it. Like most slackers, they didn't feel much incentive to put more effort into their job and make it into actual work.
one of my favourite films. It got me through my childhood. Wont hear a bad word said against it
"my own son little Dick."
- "Hmm" not-laugh of contempt. -
The reaction this film as a whole deserves.
Ahh Charles Napier Duke Philips himself no less and the original voice of Sheriff from Squidbillies
Mathieu Leader Disappointed there were no bears that sang for him and drank moonshine til they puked.
Mathieu Leader
All hail Duke! Duke is life!
This movie is a masterpiece. Joe and George are stupendous.
That's how you know that this film is no Airplane, when it can't even make pedophilia funny.
I get the feeling that they weren't making fun of pedophilia, so much as.... the director put his fetish (Creepy Old Men and Teenage Girls) into the film and passed it off as a joke. "Fetish passed off as joke" happens a lot more often than you'd think in creative works.... See Totally Spies where literally each episode is "What Transformation based Fetish happens to the girls this time? Hypnosis? Muscle? Furry? Dollification?"
That said the whole... "Being scared of a Flasher until you notice he has a big dick" joke was kind of funny and the only thing that kills it is that it comes after an attempted rape....
Okay, that made me laugh far harder than it should have. Which automatically makes it better than the movie.
A snob episode a day keeps the stress away
For next year, in the final week of Musical March in September, bridging into Halloween Season may I suggest 1966's The Ghost in The Invisible Bikini, a useless "madcap" horror movie spoof starring Boris Karloff and featuring musical numbers by Nancy Sinatra and Bobby Fuller.
Oh my god! Are you going to snob a nightmare on Elmo's street too this spooky time of year?
@12:40 " bet i know where this scene is going...now i know all 4 writers have the same cocaine dealer"- lol
When I saw the title card for this my first thought was horror movie or children's Halloween movie. A bad parody movie is something far more sinister and evil than either of those....
When are you going to review the prequel _Yakko_ and the sequel _Dot?_
Another quality review by the snob.
Good times.
It's a shame that nobody tried to give us Travolta Man the Movie...
That would be "Amazon Women on the Moon". Assuming that we are talking about Joey Travolta, the cool one.
I bet this movie would have been a classic if David Lynch had directed it.
5:03 the son looks like one of the characters from blark and d
son 😂😂😅😅😂😂
I am surprised they made a Mitchell version of Boo : A Medea Halloween
Happy Thanksgiving from Canada!
I wish you would stop simply catering to fan demands by reviewing popular movies like this one and instead cover movies that had a timely though tenuous connection to films being released now...wait, Andrew Dice Clay is in this, and in the recently released A Star Is Born? AWESOME!! Good job, Snob, I knew you wouldn’t let us down!
Wacko makes Student Bodies feel like a comedy gem in comparison!!
Did he just shoot 15 shots out of that revolver
Oh yes, 1982, the year of that seminal classic . . .
Mazes and Monsters. lol
This is one wiggity-wiggity wack movie
Darn tuting
It's a bird, It's a plane, It's....Travoltaman!!!!!
He’ll reform Lex Luthor by forcing him to watch Moment by Moment on a week-long loop.
EddieHawkinsII Lex then jumped off a skyscraper and never bothered anyone agian.
Are you doing a video on student bodies?
I almost bought this movie the other day but instead bought Brainstorm, The Dark Power and Sleepaway Camp. Thanks for the review.
1:29 Douchey McNitpick here. That's a DVD cover, not a movie poster.
So now we know what Uncle Fester did during the time he had lost his memory.
Haha, that ending sign scene had me laughing way too much.
Is the flasher played by King Kong Bundy?
17:40 the laughing gas scene no 80's comedy could do without. I assume that's because the writers all inhaled that stuff, too.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't horror comedy introduced in the 80s? Don't remember any horror comedies being made, during the 70s.
Hard to believe that. Things were a lot scarier back then.
George Kennedy. You won an Oscar for Cool Hand Luke. That's really sad. Almost as sad as Cloris Leachman appearing in Lake Placid 2.
When are you going to review meet the feebles?
Gotta say, I really have been enjoying finding Joe Don Baker movies. I don't know why.
So, did anyone adressed the elephant in the room at 20:00 ( I am sorry)
never mind what he is shooting at.....what the hell type of revolver is he shooting? he pulled a lumis and a john wayne at the same damn time
One of these days I've gotta head outta state to meet all the cool TH-cam guests at a convention, no one hits Florida 😂
Could you do a review of Slaughter High? I think it's fascinating that the actor playing the lead villain committed suicide after the film.
6:06 Is that Mr. Mordin?
Student Bodies is one of the best parodies of all time.
9:45= JOHN WAYNE GACY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE???
This makes Scary Movie look like a masterpiece.
16:38 is that someone dressed as the second doctor from doctor who?
14:50 that was a nice reenactment of Jayson and Lauren Boeberts first date
For the month of October, if you could squeeze in a review of Offerings (1989), that'd be great :)
I feel like the reveal would have worked and been funnier if Mitchell was in the room when the killer was caught, one of the ones taking the mask off, cut to the reveal, cut back and he's no longer with the rest of the cast
"Mitchell...My hearts pounding."
I love Student Bodies- can you do that one?
Ooh does he have a funny mallet that make funny joke sounds when he wacks his enemies to death.
OMG "I'm as blank as a fart" was in Fire Walk with Me! Did David Lynch have a guilty pleasure?
Holy heck, you're right! There is no way that line was a coincidence! "As blank as a fart" is not an established idiom. In fact, if you Google it, there are only 654 results, most of which are referencing "Fire Walk with Me." While the reason for doing so may be debatable, it's all most certain that Lynch/the actor derived that phrase from this movie!
Love this movie. Just got it on bluray!
What's the outro song?
That's the wackiest thing I've ever hoird
Hot wings Oreos? Can't imagine why they're NOT being sold here in the states.
With a title like "Wacko," it makes me think that the movie will be bashing on Michael Jackson, much like how Wired bashed John Belushi.
The killer looks like my version of Halloweenie, and this was long before Phelous made HIS version.
3:44- I wish this WAS that Power Rangers episode where they fight the pumpkin monster that raps.
6:58- Great, he's turning into Charles Brady from Stephen King's Sleepwalkers.
11:26- Terrific, and horror spoof with a school shooting.
14:08- This movie drops more pointless shit than a Seth MacFarlane production.
14:57- Worst Law & Order: SVU cold opening ever.
19:47- You're not the only one.
Wacko is on the same level of "WHAT THE FUCK?!?" as Saturday the 14th.
I had the same thought when I rented "Jacko", a movie about a killer pumpkin-headed creature, or something.
Also, a movie with an incestuous father wanting to bang his own daughter. Is there anyone else thinking about Trump?
You should review student bodies or slaughter high. Those seem like good fits.
2020: I'll definitely be at wizard world 2018
I went back in time to go, it was fun
The guy at 15:30 is comedian andrew dice clay