Oh boy, the "Borrowing Blockbusters" series is the absolute best. It's a treasure trove of trash that introduces me to some bizarre B-movies I somehow missed. Thank you very much for your work.
I used to think that waking up from a nightmare by sitting straight upright was something that only happened in films. Then I had an extremely vivid nightmare about being beaten to death and I did the exact cliched sitting bolt upright, gasp and all, before I was fully awake.
I had that happen a year or so ago as well, first time in my life and I'm 46. Can't remember what I was dreaming about but I do remember I stayed up the rest of the night.
As it turns out, the kidnapper in "Night Killer" was actually the lady's husband (can't remember if it was ex or current), who she completely forgot about due to the trauma from being assaulted. Which then makes the story dumber, because the police and the husband agreed that in order to get her memories back they would have the husband do all those awful things to her. That's somehow even worse than if it was random maniac.
@@1428elm I mean, he was explaining the majority of the plot in the video anyways, and he said the guy was another random psycho, so I didn't see anything wrong with putting a correction in the comments.
What, what, what?! I've seen Night Killer a couple of times and don't remember that explanation (which doesn't mean it isn't in there). The only mention of a husband I remember is her getting a threatening call from him before the assault. As you say, if this is the case it makes everything even sillier!
I remember dialing on the rotary ....but big cuz told me, his exact word, " when that phone bill come back yo ass gon wish it was a dream. The number had to be discontinued by then tho this was maybe '94
@@AKG74 you can actually read the book it was based off of. Much more a story about how evil *people & society* can be. The screenwriter was the guy who wrote "Ghost" with Patrick Swayze (nice guy, I've talked to him before). Wes Craven actually made a version so bloody it got an X rating when he was told to make it a horror flick.
Yeah it was a bit of a departure. I love horror but I'm not as entrenched in it as action and sci-fi and don't know it like the real hardcore fans do. Wanted to do something for Halloween though!
Truly love your content man, it's just fun to get lost in a world of movies for a bit. Thank you for painstakingly making these! I'm sure your research hours are crazy
Say what you want about the excellent Mr. Cages role choices, one thing you cant say is that he phones it in for a check. That guy gives 100% in everything he's in and i fuckin love him for it. Im so happy his career has been on the upswing recently.
You make incredibly high quality videos. I did a podcast for several years about bad horror movies so I know how difficult slogging thru some of these off brand horror movies can be. You often mention ones we discussed lol. Just wanted to say I'm happy to have found the channel/videos and please continue to produce them while you can! I wish you much success.
The weird thing with Night Killer is that Axel is revealed to be a police detective, and his whole psycho kidnapper persona was an act to get the main girl away from the real killer and to bring back her memory, since she's an amnesiac mental patient. They frame the whole thing as having been planned out by Axel and her therapist as a way to use trauma to bring back her memories. It's still really objectionable and doesn't make any sense, but I guess the *intent* was he was an actually good guy.
One thing rarely mentioned is that the greaser Driller Killer from Slumber Party Massacre 2 is Atanas Ilitch, scion of a famous Detroit family that owned Little Caesars and the Detroit Red Wings. He wanted to be a singer and a dancer, and recorded at least one album in the 80s. Last I heard he owns his own recording studio. He apparently got cast immediately after his audition.
'Beyond Dream's Door' was actually shot on 16mm film; Vinegar Syndrome released it on Blu-ray last year. However some of the film elements were lost so portions of their transfer do use an SD videotape master to fill in the missing footage.
The level of narrative mastery involved in stringing together this timeline of rip-offs puts the directors of most of them to shame. This series is beyond genius, taking the least objectionable parts of each film and injecting them with much greater significance by putting the "borrowings" in context before verbally demolishing the experience with just the right amount of bitterness at having to have sat through each one. I'm still working out which part I'm more impressed by: the fact that someone actually watched all of these or how eminently watchable the results are?
I saw that this was downloaded today and I have not been this excited for a video in a long time. These really are better than any Ken Burns BS. Awesome work.
This was great. The Theodore Rex clip could be a lead in for your next video : buddy cop movies. There's literally hundreds to chose from - lethal weapon, rush hour, red heat, last action hero, the last boy scout. We even have our own South African versions - blitz patrollie and curry and vice. Thanks again for the content.
Hell yeah! This is my favorite series on this channel. I don't know if these came from the book itself, but mind doing one on the Dollars Trilogy? The Man With No Name movies had few rip offs but the Django movies (inspired by the trilogy and Yojimbo) had many spaghetti western movies re-titled as a Django sequel, others are unofficial Django sequels that has the protagonist named Django but has nothing to do with the original, some official movies had Django in the title but it has nothing to do with the original itself. And oh yeah, there's also one with where Django and Sartana (another victim of the unofficial series curse and also just a quick introduction to his series. They're just a James Bond-ish character in a western setting, the Gianni Garko ones are the only official ones btw). Anyways... Have a nice day!
I love the Dollars trilogy, it includes two of my all time top 10s. The era's a little outside my wheelhouse (as is early Bond, but that kind of continued into it) but I'd certainly love to do it. Can never have too much Klaus Kinski or Franco Nero in my life!
I've watched Trick or Treat many times over the years, the soundtrack is awesome, but this is the first time I've heard it referred to as Ragman. I know in the UK it was Trick or Treat, though, as that was the region I was in when it came out. Totally recommend it and it's soundtrack album by Fastway (with a VERY different vocal style by Dave King, now of Flogging Molly fame).
I frickin' LOVE Brion James so much in The Horror Show that I want to have his baby! He just brought such glee to that role, and he plays off the dead serious Lance Henriksen perfectly! Hee hee hee!
I love Funny Man, it's one of these movies who's criminally underrated, I don't know why this movie never became a cult classic. I rately hear people talk about it.
I know what you mean. I find the guy himself a bit irritating. But even so it's a really interesting, fun and unusual movie that seems like it should have a bigger cult following.
Yes!! I just discovered your channel recently and what hooked me it was your writing more than anything, so sharp and for me that's what youtube is lacking in this type of videos.
I'd like to give a shout-out to two NOES clones which weren't mentioned: _The Sleeping Car_ (1990), written by Greg ( _Tuff Turf_ ) O'Neill and directed by Douglas ( _The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse_ ) Curtis, starring David ( _An American Werewolf in London_ ) Naughton, Judi ( _Weird Science_ ) Aronson and Kevin ( _Twilight Zone: The Movie_ ) McCarthy. The second is _Popcorn_ (1991), written by Mitchell Smith and Alan ( _Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things_ ) Ormsby and directed by Ormsby with Mark ( _Porky's_ ) Herrier, starring Jill ( _The Stepfather_ ) Schoelen, Dee ( _The Howling_ ) Wallace, Malcolm ( _Christine_ ) Danare, Kelly Jo ( _The People Under the Stairs_ ) Minter and Tom ( _Parasite_ ) Villard. In _The Sleeping Car,_ a journalism student (Naughton) rents an abandoned train car from an old widow and somehow wakes up her deformed husband, the ghost of a railroad engineer who turned mass murderer after being blamed for a train wreck which wasn’t his fault. While some, not all, of the jokes land in this horror-comedy, it's still worth a watch. In _Popcorn,_ a group of film students put on a festival of old, "gimmicky" horror films at a local refurbished theater. But during the event, the students start getting picked off, one by one. Could it be that the deranged _auteur_ filmmaker who supposedly burned to death _in that very theater_ almost 20 years ago has returned to wreak vengeance? This movie seems to be a spiritual predecessor to _Scream,_ and it's a wild ride! Find it. Well, that's all for now. Pleasant screams.
Might be able to clear up a couple of things re:Ozzy in trick or treat and the popularity of Shocker. I was a teenage metalhead in the 80s and as such a regular reader of Kerrang/ Metal hammer magazine. One of them, more likely Kerrang, did a few promotional features on Trick or treat in particular, for obvious reasons and I seem to remember a competition to win the soundtrack album all of which was music by the band Fastway, featuring classic Motörhead guitarist ‘fast’ Eddie Clarke. Much fuss was made about our dark leader Ozzy appearing in the movie. This was the height of the PMRC debacle when Oz wasn’t quite the tv friendly clown he is now, his appearance alone was enough for every metalhead in the country to want to see the film. Similar case with Shocker being that it had a soundtrack album featuring all new tracks by metal bands. I guess that meant the record companies wanted their cut and had a vested interest in the making sure the films were successful. Knowing that metalheads are voracious collectors and extremely loyal to their genre it must have been a no brainier, I would imagine who’s ever idea it was to market direct to the that fanbase got a big raise.
39:24-39:28 That's both a blessing and a curse, really. I'm all about quality over quantity when it comes to horror films. Great job, once again! This video's got me thinking: if you ever do a Halloween rip-offs movie, would it include almost every '80s slasher film ever, from no-budget schlock like Don't Answer the Phone to more major ones like The Prowler and My Bloody Valentine?
its not often the youtube algorithm shows me something I'm not subbed to that really hits. only really watch RLM for movie stuff but this is wicked bones and gave me some great bday and christmas gifts for my brother, a veritable jay bauman in terms of tastes. will check out more. subbed
@@TheBadMovieBible binged your whole channel just about in a few days. the bad movie bible is out of stock for US amazon but I did buy a to z of bad super heroes just a minute ago. I put the bell on, keep it up this channel's great!
great work man! i'm surprised the amount of these i haven't seen and i'm a big b movie horror fan would be great if you can do one about knockoff The Thing movies!
You just blew my mind with The Horror Show. I remember catching like 30 seconds of it on tv back in the early 2000’s and it stuck with me lmao. He cleaved off a kids head and threw it at someone and that prompted my kid self to change the channel
My favourite Nightmare on Elm street story is Englund received a letter from a mother saying her son had show the movie to his younger sister who was terrified and refusing to sleep. Englund had them flown out to Hollywood took them to the studio and had the girl sit with him as he had the makeup and costume put on so she knew it was all make believe.
Thanks, and yes, I think you're right about the 16mm. I nearly lost the line about it being shot on video as I couldn't confirm it, and of course so much of the material looks like 16mm. But then a lot of it looks like high end video too, there are definitely video-only colours going on at some points. I started wondering whether they had some shit-hot betacam camera or something... or maybe it was shot on 16 and edited/FXed on tape...? Either way I think I got that one wrong.
@@TheBadMovieBible I think they explain on the Vinegar Syndrome disc. Shot in 16mm and originally edited on video, so where they couldn’t find the original negs they spliced in from the old video master. It’s an easy mistake to make
Thrilled to see Sleepstalker get mention. Strange little film, but I like the atmosphere it develops in its better moments, and I have a big spot of affection for Jay Underwood, having grown up with the Not Quite Human series.
I love Freddy Krueger and Robert englund is awesome! Also he does the voice acting for scarecrow in the DC comics fighting game called Injustice 2. He did an awesome job on that as well. Ive always thought he was a really good and cool actor.
Fantastic video! This is a wonderful source of Elm Street knockoffs! I'm actually doing the same on my channel this month, but I'm nowhere near as professional as you. This really is a comprehensive list! Keep up the great work. Just subscribed.
Wonderful stuff, I had no awareness of Stones of Death, as an Australian a lot of Australian cinema passes you by. I always thought there was a great space for using indigenous myths and legends in a horror setting, glad to see it's actually happened even if it was a bit ham fisted.
Thank you once again to the TH-cam Algorithm, for blessing me and guiding my way to this video/channel. Now I can start binging and consuming with gluttonous glee of your entire backlog on CONTENT. Happy daze are here again my new friend.
The amount of research involved in finding and reviewing these gems must be enormous. Thank you! Also! I'm looking for a movie from the 80s I saw as a kid. All I can remember is a scene in which a group of kids think there's an intruder in their house at night. They sneak around in the dark and they all have weapons except for the youngest kid who has an inflatable baseball bat. Hopefully you or some other movie lover knows it!
Great video. I hated Slumber Party Massacre II when it came out but I didn't think of it as a nightmare ripoff. Maybe I should give it another try. Cool to see The Horror Show mentioned it's under rated. Whole time I watched this video, in the right hand side of the screen was a ad to rent New Nightmare. TH-cam you so silly. I do like that one too.
Oh boy, the "Borrowing Blockbusters" series is the absolute best. It's a treasure trove of trash that introduces me to some bizarre B-movies I somehow missed.
Thank you very much for your work.
"A treasure trove of trash" 😂👍😂.
You should be careful with the B word. Jojo fans are everywhere.
Thanks, buddy!
@@TheBadMovieBible I host many bukkakes every week.
Excellent alliteration there!
The movie “Shocker” is basically the rated R version of “Ernest goes to Jail”
Wtf
... I'm listening
I used to think that waking up from a nightmare by sitting straight upright was something that only happened in films. Then I had an extremely vivid nightmare about being beaten to death and I did the exact cliched sitting bolt upright, gasp and all, before I was fully awake.
I had that happen a year or so ago as well, first time in my life and I'm 46. Can't remember what I was dreaming about but I do remember I stayed up the rest of the night.
thats hilarious hahah! lol thats the funniest thing ive read for ages. you should have more nightmares.
@@nepntzerZer Id laugh if you died😂😂int that funny
That happened to me recently, I was in the passenger seat of a car falling off a cliff and when I hit the ground I popped up
I don't sleep on my back ever, but I have kind of belly-flopped violently awake. It is not nice.
"If I die. Does my mum get a refund"
Ok that's a pretty good quote
As it turns out, the kidnapper in "Night Killer" was actually the lady's husband (can't remember if it was ex or current), who she completely forgot about due to the trauma from being assaulted. Which then makes the story dumber, because the police and the husband agreed that in order to get her memories back they would have the husband do all those awful things to her. That's somehow even worse than if it was random maniac.
Spoilers bro
@@1428elm I mean, he was explaining the majority of the plot in the video anyways, and he said the guy was another random psycho, so I didn't see anything wrong with putting a correction in the comments.
Just being a smartass I'll probably never watch any if these movies lol
What, what, what?! I've seen Night Killer a couple of times and don't remember that explanation (which doesn't mean it isn't in there). The only mention of a husband I remember is her getting a threatening call from him before the assault. As you say, if this is the case it makes everything even sillier!
I like to think it was her currant husband
- His whole schtick is like raisin the dead
Nothing can beat the "GARBAGE DAY!" one liner in horror films. xD
Here's something that most people forget: Freddy had 900 phoneline. He'd tell scary stories.
I remember dialing on the rotary ....but big cuz told me, his exact word, " when that phone bill come back yo ass gon wish it was a dream. The number had to be discontinued by then tho this was maybe '94
Was it 976-EVIL ?
2:34 - I felt that "oh shit..." when you saw DeCoteau's name in the credits, lmao
Exactly! '@__@'
“Italy went nuts” best bar graph I’ve ever seen
Thank you for your comedic content!
Deadly Friend (1986) wasn't SUPPOSED to be a rip off of Nightmare, but Wes Craven was basically bullied by the studio into making it one
Yep
Never knew that and that's one of my favorite movies
Has the best basketball decapitation scene in cinematic history.
Yeah, it was like two completely different movies stiched in to one weird movie. It turned from a warmhearted teen movie to a killer robot movie.
@@AKG74 you can actually read the book it was based off of. Much more a story about how evil *people & society* can be.
The screenwriter was the guy who wrote "Ghost" with Patrick Swayze (nice guy, I've talked to him before).
Wes Craven actually made a version so bloody it got an X rating when he was told to make it a horror flick.
16:50 BRO.
WHAT THE HELL.
😭😭🤣🤣
HE LEGIT RAN AROUND THE CAR FOR 20 SECONDS SCREAMING
It's just that scary! 😓
Wasn't expecting this particular genre to appear on your show, but you never know with you! Can't wait for what comes next.
Yeah it was a bit of a departure. I love horror but I'm not as entrenched in it as action and sci-fi and don't know it like the real hardcore fans do. Wanted to do something for Halloween though!
@@TheBadMovieBible You absolutely could have fooled me.
Truly love your content man, it's just fun to get lost in a world of movies for a bit. Thank you for painstakingly making these! I'm sure your research hours are crazy
Thanks Christopher. The research is indeed time consuming but always a pleasure!
its suddenly dawned on me that I'm completely addicted to your channel, great work
Thanks kindly!
Percival Rubens' The Demon is also one of these knockoffs, even though it predates NOES and it has the villain wearing a glove with razor blades 😳😊
Say what you want about the excellent Mr. Cages role choices, one thing you cant say is that he phones it in for a check. That guy gives 100% in everything he's in and i fuckin love him for it. Im so happy his career has been on the upswing recently.
You make incredibly high quality videos. I did a podcast for several years about bad horror movies so I know how difficult slogging thru some of these off brand horror movies can be. You often mention ones we discussed lol. Just wanted to say I'm happy to have found the channel/videos and please continue to produce them while you can! I wish you much success.
what was the name of your podcast?
The weird thing with Night Killer is that Axel is revealed to be a police detective, and his whole psycho kidnapper persona was an act to get the main girl away from the real killer and to bring back her memory, since she's an amnesiac mental patient. They frame the whole thing as having been planned out by Axel and her therapist as a way to use trauma to bring back her memories. It's still really objectionable and doesn't make any sense, but I guess the *intent* was he was an actually good guy.
I'm 15 minutes in and I can't stop thinking about the gang at redlettermedia sitting down and watching/reviewing all of these.
One thing rarely mentioned is that the greaser Driller Killer from Slumber Party Massacre 2 is Atanas Ilitch, scion of a famous Detroit family that owned Little Caesars and the Detroit Red Wings. He wanted to be a singer and a dancer, and recorded at least one album in the 80s. Last I heard he owns his own recording studio. He apparently got cast immediately after his audition.
I didn't really expect another one of these so soon. I'm glad to see it!
Dont panic deserves an award based just on how that guy danced around with a shotgun.
38:30 "Boogie-Phobia" I thought that was someone who is afraid to dance 🕺 🤣 😂
"In this Freddy is a zombie, and has a sidekick" - WHAT?
How I love Funny Man. His performance always cracked me up.
I’m so glad this series is getting noticed now. Great work as always! I’m looking forward to the inevitable Rambo-rip off’s episode.
Thanks Seven, me too. It's been a really good few months. (And Rambo is indeed an inevitability!)
Thank you bad movie Bible...Was hoping for an episode like this since I found your channel!!
'Beyond Dream's Door' was actually shot on 16mm film; Vinegar Syndrome released it on Blu-ray last year. However some of the film elements were lost so portions of their transfer do use an SD videotape master to fill in the missing footage.
Great channel mate. Love the writing and delivery. Congratulations on making this a success, as i know it will be. All the best.
Thanks very much, kind of you to say.
Love your content, thank you for doing what you do! Recently got Superhero Movies A To Z in the mail and can't stop flipping through it!
Cool! Double thanks for the support!
The level of narrative mastery involved in stringing together this timeline of rip-offs puts the directors of most of them to shame. This series is beyond genius, taking the least objectionable parts of each film and injecting them with much greater significance by putting the "borrowings" in context before verbally demolishing the experience with just the right amount of bitterness at having to have sat through each one. I'm still working out which part I'm more impressed by: the fact that someone actually watched all of these or how eminently watchable the results are?
Love this take, thanks for the support!
6:19 Your dedication to the craft is inspiring.
I saw that this was downloaded today and I have not been this excited for a video in a long time. These really are better than any Ken Burns BS. Awesome work.
This was great.
The Theodore Rex clip could be a lead in for your next video : buddy cop movies. There's literally hundreds to chose from - lethal weapon, rush hour, red heat, last action hero, the last boy scout. We even have our own South African versions - blitz patrollie and curry and vice.
Thanks again for the content.
Thanks for the tips. I've done some research on a possible future Lethal Weapon video and these look like prime contenders!
@35:49 "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."
I can't believe I missed the opportunity to do something with that clip. How did I not think of it?
@@TheBadMovieBible Love the channel amazing content glad I subbed!!
This was just fantastic! I'm gonna have to check more of your content out :).
This is one of the best most informative and knowledgeable niche movie channels.
Glad I found it. You will have a bajillion subs in no time.
Hell yeah! This is my favorite series on this channel. I don't know if these came from the book itself, but mind doing one on the Dollars Trilogy? The Man With No Name movies had few rip offs but the Django movies (inspired by the trilogy and Yojimbo) had many spaghetti western movies re-titled as a Django sequel, others are unofficial Django sequels that has the protagonist named Django but has nothing to do with the original, some official movies had Django in the title but it has nothing to do with the original itself. And oh yeah, there's also one with where Django and Sartana (another victim of the unofficial series curse and also just a quick introduction to his series. They're just a James Bond-ish character in a western setting, the Gianni Garko ones are the only official ones btw). Anyways... Have a nice day!
That is a fertile ground.
I love the Dollars trilogy, it includes two of my all time top 10s. The era's a little outside my wheelhouse (as is early Bond, but that kind of continued into it) but I'd certainly love to do it. Can never have too much Klaus Kinski or Franco Nero in my life!
I've watched Trick or Treat many times over the years, the soundtrack is awesome, but this is the first time I've heard it referred to as Ragman. I know in the UK it was Trick or Treat, though, as that was the region I was in when it came out. Totally recommend it and it's soundtrack album by Fastway (with a VERY different vocal style by Dave King, now of Flogging Molly fame).
Liked the deadpan delivery, as well as the nightmare detective shout-out. Subscribed.
The Horror Show looks awesome! Thank you for introducing gold to us!
Aka House 3
I frickin' LOVE Brion James so much in The Horror Show that I want to have his baby! He just brought such glee to that role, and he plays off the dead serious Lance Henriksen perfectly! Hee hee hee!
I love Funny Man, it's one of these movies who's criminally underrated, I don't know why this movie never became a cult classic.
I rately hear people talk about it.
I know what you mean. I find the guy himself a bit irritating. But even so it's a really interesting, fun and unusual movie that seems like it should have a bigger cult following.
Skeletons freaked me out as a kid, but after seeing that one attack a car, I'm no longer afraid
Yes!! I just discovered your channel recently and what hooked me it was your writing more than anything, so sharp and for me that's what youtube is lacking in this type of videos.
Which of course, doesn't surprise me that you wrote books.
Thanks very much!
I'm so glad you singled out Trick or Treat right away. Great underrated movie.
Brion James could've simply eaten a hamburger in a movie and he still would have looked terrifying.
I'd like to give a shout-out to two NOES clones which weren't mentioned: _The Sleeping Car_ (1990), written by Greg ( _Tuff Turf_ ) O'Neill and directed by Douglas ( _The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse_ ) Curtis, starring David ( _An American Werewolf in London_ ) Naughton, Judi ( _Weird Science_ ) Aronson and Kevin ( _Twilight Zone: The Movie_ ) McCarthy. The second is _Popcorn_ (1991), written by Mitchell Smith and Alan ( _Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things_ ) Ormsby and directed by Ormsby with Mark ( _Porky's_ ) Herrier, starring Jill ( _The Stepfather_ ) Schoelen, Dee ( _The Howling_ ) Wallace, Malcolm ( _Christine_ ) Danare, Kelly Jo ( _The People Under the Stairs_ ) Minter and Tom ( _Parasite_ ) Villard.
In _The Sleeping Car,_ a journalism student (Naughton) rents an abandoned train car from an old widow and somehow wakes up her deformed husband, the ghost of a railroad engineer who turned mass murderer after being blamed for a train wreck which wasn’t his fault. While some, not all, of the jokes land in this horror-comedy, it's still worth a watch.
In _Popcorn,_ a group of film students put on a festival of old, "gimmicky" horror films at a local refurbished theater. But during the event, the students start getting picked off, one by one. Could it be that the deranged _auteur_ filmmaker who supposedly burned to death _in that very theater_ almost 20 years ago has returned to wreak vengeance? This movie seems to be a spiritual predecessor to _Scream,_ and it's a wild ride! Find it.
Well, that's all for now. Pleasant screams.
Thank you, Scream Weaver! 👍💀👍
Yay, love these videos! Please keep them coming. Can't beat these obscure bad movie lessons.
I'm 47 years Old and I have NEVER Woke up from a Nightmare or Bad Dream the way they do in the Movies, not even close.
As a metal head myself, I loved Trick or Treat. Plus Gene Simmons from kiss is also in there. \m/
And he's really good! Apparently he was offered the role of Sammi Curr but thought he could do something interesting with the smaller DJ role.
Some of the best content on YT. Should have so many more subs.
Thanks very much Chad. It's a journey but things are going in the right direction!
I enjoyed your video. Thanks. I was expecting to see Beyond Bedlam up there, but maybe that’s too bad, even for this list.
Cheers. And you're right about Beyond Bedlam. I watched it but absolutely hated it. No good clips and nothing to say about it.
Might be able to clear up a couple of things re:Ozzy in trick or treat and the popularity of Shocker.
I was a teenage metalhead in the 80s and as such a regular reader of Kerrang/ Metal hammer magazine. One of them, more likely Kerrang, did a few promotional features on Trick or treat in particular, for obvious reasons and I seem to remember a competition to win the soundtrack album all of which was music by the band Fastway, featuring classic Motörhead guitarist ‘fast’ Eddie Clarke. Much fuss was made about our dark leader Ozzy appearing in the movie. This was the height of the PMRC debacle when Oz wasn’t quite the tv friendly clown he is now, his appearance alone was enough for every metalhead in the country to want to see the film.
Similar case with Shocker being that it had a soundtrack album featuring all new tracks by metal bands. I guess that meant the record companies wanted their cut and had a vested interest in the making sure the films were successful. Knowing that metalheads are voracious collectors and extremely loyal to their genre it must have been a no brainier, I would imagine who’s ever idea it was to market direct to the that fanbase got a big raise.
I love "Trick or Treat"!!! I saw it in the theater when it came out and dressed like Sammi Curr for Halloween in 1986!!! I was 14....
How sweet, fresh meat!
*Dark meat
Thought I was watching Joblo for a sec!
@@DNOstalgia lol my thoughts exactly
@@DNOstalgiaJoBlo Horror to be exact lol.
Welcome to Prime Time, Mitch!
I love videos that archive these weird knock offs that would've been lost to time. Great stuff!
How awesome, I've been waiting for another of your uploads and yet again, never cease to be amused and entertained. Love your content!!
Fantastic video. Been looking for most of these :)
39:24-39:28 That's both a blessing and a curse, really. I'm all about quality over quantity when it comes to horror films.
Great job, once again!
This video's got me thinking: if you ever do a Halloween rip-offs movie, would it include almost every '80s slasher film ever, from no-budget schlock like Don't Answer the Phone to more major ones like The Prowler and My Bloody Valentine?
I love Trick or Treat, great soundtrack too. Glad to see it up 1st!
And OMG Dream Demon! Love this too, really underrated
Oh yeah I was waiting for some sweet sweet horror content this month :)
its not often the youtube algorithm shows me something I'm not subbed to that really hits. only really watch RLM for movie stuff but this is wicked bones and gave me some great bday and christmas gifts for my brother, a veritable jay bauman in terms of tastes. will check out more. subbed
Thanks, man!
@@TheBadMovieBible binged your whole channel just about in a few days. the bad movie bible is out of stock for US amazon but I did buy a to z of bad super heroes just a minute ago. I put the bell on, keep it up this channel's great!
Thanks man. Because of you i got a lot of movies to watch.
great work man! i'm surprised the amount of these i haven't seen and i'm a big b movie horror fan would be great if you can do one about knockoff The Thing movies!
You just blew my mind with The Horror Show. I remember catching like 30 seconds of it on tv back in the early 2000’s and it stuck with me lmao. He cleaved off a kids head and threw it at someone and that prompted my kid self to change the channel
My favourite Nightmare on Elm street story is Englund received a letter from a mother saying her son had show the movie to his younger sister who was terrified and refusing to sleep. Englund had them flown out to Hollywood took them to the studio and had the girl sit with him as he had the makeup and costume put on so she knew it was all make believe.
I love your channel brother happy I found your channel fantastic review keep up the fantastic work
Cheers, Chris!
What an interesting format and your voice is soooo soothing and pleasant...Subscribed! Glad I've found you!
Thanks kindly!
Great video. FYI Beyond Dreams Door was shot on 16mm.
Thanks, and yes, I think you're right about the 16mm. I nearly lost the line about it being shot on video as I couldn't confirm it, and of course so much of the material looks like 16mm. But then a lot of it looks like high end video too, there are definitely video-only colours going on at some points. I started wondering whether they had some shit-hot betacam camera or something... or maybe it was shot on 16 and edited/FXed on tape...? Either way I think I got that one wrong.
@@TheBadMovieBible I think they explain on the Vinegar Syndrome disc. Shot in 16mm and originally edited on video, so where they couldn’t find the original negs they spliced in from the old video master. It’s an easy mistake to make
I have always thought that Wes Craven got the knife glove idea for Freddy from Percival Rubens' dire The Demon.
Thrilled to see Sleepstalker get mention. Strange little film, but I like the atmosphere it develops in its better moments, and I have a big spot of affection for Jay Underwood, having grown up with the Not Quite Human series.
I saw it on Joe Bob Brigs one night
I love Freddy Krueger and Robert englund is awesome! Also he does the voice acting for scarecrow in the DC comics fighting game called Injustice 2. He did an awesome job on that as well. Ive always thought he was a really good and cool actor.
"Fake Freddies emerged all over the world."
I lost it there 🤣🤣🤣
As someone who wants to get into B-movies, you've made the search for places to start MUCH easier. Thank you for introducing me to a new hobby.
Fantastic video! This is a wonderful source of Elm Street knockoffs! I'm actually doing the same on my channel this month, but I'm nowhere near as professional as you. This really is a comprehensive list! Keep up the great work. Just subscribed.
This is a criminally underrated, beautiful channel.
Seems right that Claudio Fragasso was responsible for making the bad film even badder than it would've been.
This is the artists speciality!
"The clinical term is 'boogiephobia'" belongs on a Parliament album.
Wonderful stuff, I had no awareness of Stones of Death, as an Australian a lot of Australian cinema passes you by. I always thought there was a great space for using indigenous myths and legends in a horror setting, glad to see it's actually happened even if it was a bit ham fisted.
You failed to mention Bad Dreams (1988) with Jennifer Rubins. Cult classic! cheers
It's in there, around a third of the way through I think. It's about the only 'grownup' movie I covered this time!
Great to see another Borrowing Blockbusters!
This is the first I've ever heard of Trick Or Treat having an alternate title.
When 'Funny Man' came on I thought, 'That looks like Jimmy Saville.' Now that would be really terrifying.
@17:17 17th birthday cake is 2 candles on 2 Coke cans...
...Congratulations! & don't forget: Every Day Is Halloween!
(Side note ~ thanks for helping raise me, Freddy Kruger & the Farm Fresh VHS rental section)
Woah weird timing, Night Killer was featured on RLM’s annual BOTW Halloween episode that came out yesterday.
Oh cool, I haven't caught that episode yet.
I was about to comment on the dinojammies, then you did. Excellent work
Thank you once again to the TH-cam Algorithm, for blessing me and guiding my way to this video/channel. Now I can start binging and consuming with gluttonous glee of your entire backlog on CONTENT. Happy daze are here again my new friend.
Another high quality banger of a video Rob. Qudos
Cheers buddy! This one was a little out of my comfort zone but as fun as always.
Another great video, great job Rob, keep 'em coming 👍.
Thanks for the support Colin!
The amount of research involved in finding and reviewing these gems must be enormous. Thank you!
Also! I'm looking for a movie from the 80s I saw as a kid. All I can remember is a scene in which a group of kids think there's an intruder in their house at night. They sneak around in the dark and they all have weapons except for the youngest kid who has an inflatable baseball bat. Hopefully you or some other movie lover knows it!
Great video. I hated Slumber Party Massacre II when it came out but I didn't think of it as a nightmare ripoff. Maybe I should give it another try. Cool to see The Horror Show mentioned it's under rated. Whole time I watched this video, in the right hand side of the screen was a ad to rent New Nightmare. TH-cam you so silly. I do like that one too.
I absolutely love what you’re doing please keep it up
Thanks Tim, no plans to stop any time soon!
Oh, well now I understand why David Cronenberg was in Jason X... thanks!
Out of all of these Freddy knockoffs only 3 of them had major theatrical release. That being The Horror Show, Bad Dreams, and Shocker.
And here I thought I knew most of the Nightmare on Elm Street knock-offs...
Just in time, as I've only recently discovered this channel.
I forgot all about that garbage day scene for like a decade until I saw this. Omg
Popcorn (91) was a flick worth an honorable mention for sure.
I remember the Dream Demon wedding decapitation from when I was a kid, freaked me out. Didn't know what it was called until now