Monster of the Day #3029

Cult Cinema Classics hasn’t (gasp) added a monster movie in the last day or two. They did add the goofy Vincent Price proto-Giallo The Bat, but there’s no monster there. Still fun, though.

As it turns out, though, there are like, I don’t know, dozens of movies on YouTube from sources other than CCC. If you’re looking for a prime slab of ’80s cheese, you can’t do much better than Neon Maniacs, about a group of interdimensional killers who are basically what you’d get if you threw the Village People and the Garbage Pail Kids into the Brundlefly machine and then gave them a dark, gritty reboot. If anyone does give this a look, I’d suggest afterward checking out the Good Bad Flicks video detailing the film’s troubled production history, which is quite interesting.

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Beckoning Chasm

I remember seeing this, I think, back when I had Prime. It was profoundly baffling, to the point where I wish the film had been less terrible.
Ericb

What’s with the samurai armor?
Beckoning Chasm

As Ken said, they’re like the Village People. They have an Army Guy, a Caveman, a Samurai, and a whole bunch of other “types.” There’s no real explanation for it, it’s like they put the makeup on the actors and said “Just grab anything from the costume room.”
Eric Hinkle

Sounds like the creative process that went into a lot of the Three Stooges shorts.

And wow but the Goblin Samurai up there has one humongous schnozzola. Maybe he’s related to Jimmy Durante? “Ahhh, I’m mortified! Now I gotta commit harakiri. Wotta world, wotta world!”
bgbear_rnh

Now I am trying to recall the cheapy slasher/ghost film I watched recently where there was a samurai ghost/killer and all I can think is that the “actor” had the costume and sword.
Ken_Begg

Ah, Blood Beat. Also on YouTube, also a winner.
Gamera977

I watched it last night. And I didn’t think it was that bad. I mean not ‘Manos’ or ‘Monster A-Go-Go’ bad. The director had a vision. A bunch of goofy weirdos killing teen-agers. And the movie gave us a bunch of goofy weirdos killing teen-agers. I mean the Good Bad Flicks video was interesting in how they kept running out of money and interrupting production but the results were at least watchable if not all that good. I did find the whole ‘the director made a horror movie because they were popular’ funny. I mean would he have made a romantic comedy with lots of mutant maniacs if that had been popular?
And I liked the Nostromo hat Paula was wearing. It’s funny to see an in type of joke you’d see constantly in modern movies in one made that far back. And Paula was just friggin’ cool in any case, I think she killed more maniacs than the rest of the cast of the movie put together.
The Rev.

Blood Beat certainly gets points for some interesting ideas, and is fitfully entertaining, but is definitely worth watching just for the last 15 or so minutes where it goes completely off the rails.

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