Wizard of Pink Floyd… or Dark Side of the Rainbow
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Wizard of Pink Floyd… or Dark Side of the Rainbow
CLASS OF 1984
Streaming on Amazon Prime
Mark L. Lester’s film is a quasi grindhouse, neo exploitation classic which, while kind of a modern reworking of The Blackboard Jungle and owing no small debts to Death Wish, The Warriors, and Mad Max (the first film), is still very much its own beast.
Timothy Van Patten is off-the-nuts as the psychopathic Stegman and makes one wonder why he never became a bonafide Hollywood star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tlM1gvzOsk
Salami!
The Van Patten clan owned hollywood for a while
Tim is directed soon to be released Franklin
HIGHWAY TO HELL (1991)
Streaming on Amazon Prime
The trailer sums it up rather nicely, showcasing the goofy, campy, schlocky goodness that lurks within every frame of this “forgotten” gem from the 1990’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6AeScDSe68
Okay, I’ve seen a lot of CYNTHIA ROTHROCK joints in my day, mostly because back in the late 1980s and into the 1990s martial arts cinema was hard to come by in the burbs and small towns. One had to make do with JCVD, Seagal, and DTV fare starring Rothrock, Blanks, Wincott, Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Speakman, and Richard Norton.
How I never managed to see UNDEFEATABLE is beyond me.
This final fight is bonkers.
I also, to the best of my knowledge, have never seen a Godfrey Ho film, either. According to the Wikipedia entry on him, he was like the Ed Wood of martial arts films.
I am on the fence about tracking this joint down because if ithe entire film isn’t as great as this climactic fight, it might be a disappointment…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvuGqr-u2Y
PS
I still have never seen Gymkata, either!
Not sure how these books have flown under my radar for so long…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_Movies_(book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_Movies_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_Movies_3
A quick blurb about the author from his Wikipedia entry:
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Peary)
Peary's Cult Movies trilogy, along with other touchstones such as Michael Weldon's Psychotronic Video magazine and books, helped establish a foundation for critical analysis of low-budget genre movies. As the Austin Film Society wrote,
“There is what we might consider the Danny Peary faction. An excellent writer, Peary lionized a particular kind of “cult" criticism in his multiple volumes of the Cult Movies books. Never dismissive, Peary celebrates these films for their unique qualities and their advocacy of outsider voices. Peary is a fan of the subversive and the humanistic and the books are essential reading for anyone interested in what lies just outside the bounds of the canon.”