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Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
They say that you can’t judge a book by it’s cover. Well, can you judge it based on it’s name? If so I’m sure Hell Comes to Frogtown is something worthy of my time. If the insanely dumb title doesn’t sucker you in, then allow me to explain why this is piece of cinematic trash is absolutely worth a watch.
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Man, these Frogs are so much better for being folks in suits over computer cartoons...
Great review, Egg! I'd mention the fact that this flick also stars Sandahl Bergman!
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I've been meaning to rewatch this and Dead Heat.. I miss the era of the American auteur.
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I wasn't sure if I should have posted this review here, but man we talk about movies and shit so much in the forums I figured why not. Plus I figured Rowdy Roddy's Piper's infinite radness would restore balance to the site after seeing Black Barney review that CG Baby Movie....
On a serious note, I fucking love these shitty B grade Post Apocalyptic films from the 1980s. Which ones do you guys love the most and what I should track down immediately? The bar can't go too low. I live for this shit!
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Warriors of the Wasteland a.k.a. The New Barbarians. Our hero drives around after the apocalypse in The Homer:Egg Shen wrote: On a serious note, I fucking love these shitty B grade Post Apocalyptic films from the 1980s. Which ones do you guys love the most and what I should track down immediately? The bar can't go too low. I live for this shit!
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So all I can recall of Cherry 2000 is that Melanie Griffiths is in it, she has red hair, and in spite of that isn't the titular character, and that according to my daughter there is a guy with an awesome pair of shorts in it.
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Hardware's another good one. Great 2000AD sort of vibe. 1990 release so just at the tail end of the era.
Not exactly straight post-apocalyptic, but you definitely want to check out the recent Death Race 2050. It's made in that 70s/80s straight to video style and has all the right beats to include all the silly gratuitousness. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. On Netflix last I checked.
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Egg Shen wrote: I wasn't sure if I should have posted this review here, but man we talk about movies and shit so much in the forums I figured why not.
The first time I came to F:At the front page showed Will Smith with a review of Hancock. Caught me off guard, but it was cool nonetheless. That was just shy of 10 years ago. So there's plenty of history with "other things trash" on the site.
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Egg Shen wrote: Plus I figured Rowdy Roddy's Piper's infinite radness would restore balance to the site after seeing Black Barney review that CG Baby Movie....
Yeah, this was needed to cleanse the site.
Ya know, I used to think that resume-gate was the lowest point in F:AT's history, but nah, it's got to be Barney trying to convince us to watch that Baby Movie.
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1990: The Bronx Warriors, Battletruck, Blood of Heroes, Cherry 2000, Damnation Alley, Deathrace 2000, Deathsport, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Megaforce, Prayer of the Rollerboys, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Warriors of the Wasteland
And as a bonus, here are the epic shorts from Cherry 2000:
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1. If women ruled the military, combat vehicles would be painted pink.
2. After the apocalypse, all women will have hairstyles from 1980’s MTV.
3. The best possible thing to yell when you burst into a room brandishing two shotguns is: “EAT LEAD FROGGIES!”
Also, I noticed in the credits that the screenplay is by Randall Frakes. Thinking this name looked familiar I looked him up on the internets. Turns out this is a man with a varied and interesting career. Not only did he write the screenplay for this gem and for ROLLERBLADE, but he also penned the novelizations for TERMINATOR and TERMINATOR 2 as well as doing “Special Visual Effects” for ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and, “Synthesizer Effects” for ALIENS. What a strange and wonderful world we live in.
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