HARD ROCK ZOMBIES - Paul Sabu - "Shake It Out!" (1985)

For once, we get an honest poster, because "Hard Rock Zombies" the movie, is just as shitty as this poster! Welcome back to The Dungeon!

 Paul Sabu is the guy responsible for the music! Paul is the son of the legendary jungle boy Sabu known for his roles in "The Jungle Book," and "The Thief Of Baghdad," etc.

Paul also wrote the music for the classics "Ghoulies II," and "Meatballs 4!"

 This is E.J. Curse as Jessie, the bass player and lead vocalist for the band! E.J. had his own hair band called Silent Rage!! He comes across as a cross between Freddie Mercury and Freddie Prinze!

 As far as I can tell, the fictional band in the movie doesn't even have a name, they're just a hardworking, hard rock band! This club they're playing in holds about 40 people, and the song they're playing is probably the best one in the movie. Here's an abbreviated version of "Shake It Out!" It's 9000% better than anything KISS ever did!

 And out of that 40, half of them are groupies!!

 On the road again, what could possibly go wrong?

Well, it was 1985, so they had to make a stupid video! It was mandatory!

 Speaking of bad videos, here's a YouTube video from an MTV Headbanger's Ball that featured a band called Silent Rage. doing a song called "Rebel With A Cause!" The quality of the video is so bad, I can't tell if it's the same band or not! The song is bad enough, so it must be! Lots and lots of hair, that's for sure!

You can see for yourself, that their career is not going so well!

 Then they meet these Nazi midget guys, and their whole life goes to Hell real quick! (But not really quick enough for me!!)

 The Nazi midgets make sure the band puts on an electrifying performance!

 Then why not? Hitler himself shows up!

 And it just gets weirder and weirder!

 Time to get up close and personal with Grandma!!

 Yeah, this family has some real issues that go back a few generations!!

Nice record collection rivals my own!!

The moral of this story with no morals is:

Never, Ever Pick Up Hitchhikers!!

I admit I had to bail at the end, but the only decent version I could find to watch for free was in what else, but German? Interesting! I also found another version to watch but it was going at about time and a half, so everybody and all the songs sounded like they were on helium, but when DVD's are going for $19.80 and $17.99 on Amazon and eBay, and you want to see a classic 80's hot mess like this, you take what you can get!

FLESHEATER / H&G Films Ltd., Hinzman - 1988

The tagline for this $60.000 production goes... He lived, he died, he's back, and he's hungry! The simple story line goes like this... A group of teenagers are taking a hayride and the tractor driver comes across a human grave, inside is a zombie! Now, the teens are falling victim and becoming zombies themselves and eventually there are zombies everywhere!

This is the production of the first zombie you see at the beginning of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, Bill Hinzman. There's a tombstone tie in with the original.

Here are the pile of teens on their way to a picnic site. Boy, talk about a great place to have some of that there teenage fun, WOW!

Weird freakin' place to put a latrine!!

Bill, who was in the coffin, finds two teens in the barn and decides to join in on the fun!.. KILL BILL!!!

The first guy Bill kills turns into a zombie and returns the favor with another tractor pilot!

Here's a nice shot of Bill as checks out the teen scene... Hey, you guys wanna play?

Then, some of the live teens find their two friends, well, kinda... DEAD! But, not for long.

This is Terrie Godfrey as The Dispatcher, one of her four acting credits.

Good old Bill wanders into this gal's bedroom and offers to give her a nice neck rub!

One of the teens tries to convince this 'non-zombie believer' that there are a bunch of zombies chasing them around!

This Dracula dude at a Halloween party chugs down a cold beer, just before he dies!

This is probably the creepiest scene as this zombie comes at the teens while a lamp swings back and forth, creating an interesting effect.

The local yokels bring their rifles out for a little zombie target practice!.. YEE-HAW!!

And, they top the whole thing off by shooting a little girl zombie!! Ahhh, the eighties!

Bill gets the last word!.. Nuf' said!!.. Okay, we're back Wednesday with even more wild and weird stuff, just for you'se!

TWIN PEAKS - David Lynch - Pilot Episode (1990)

Tonight's Saturday Night Special is the pilot for the wowser David Lynch TV show from 1990 called "Twin Peaks!" Personally, I always knew about "Twin Peaks," but missed it the first go round, my daughter had just turned one, if you know what I mean! So I got this copy, and so now, I'm hooked, and I'm going to binge watch the whole series most likely!

And I did not know until I started writing this, that a new 25 years later continuance story of "Twin Peaks" is due to be on TV in a couple of months, but since I don't think it's a channel I get, I'll have plenty of time to watch these original episodes in the meantime!

These opening shots are great!

"Twin Peaks" is obtuse, so any tribute to it like this should be too!

Your first introduction to Laura Palmer!

If you have no clue what this all about, and you see this shot, does it make you want to see this show?

If not, it should!

Looks like a postcard!

TENSION!!

Now I'm hungry!

Damn! I had a crush on Peggy Lipton forever, and she looks just as good as she did in "Mod Squad" some 20+ years earlier! I just saw she will also be in the new version, so now I'm going to have to watch it for sure!

I truly hope they can re-create the feel successfully in the new version!

It's just a hunch, but I will bet you dollars to doughnuts there will be feet shots in the new version too!

It's about 20 degrees out, and this gal is walking on a bridge in a dirty negligee! I really want to get this done right now so I can watch the next episode!

The always amazing Russ (Tom Thumb, West Side Story, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Human Highway) Tamblyn is Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, and he is also going to be in the new 2017 version! He was cracking me up here!

You want to talk about being distracted?

Okay! No Shit! This is my favourite shot for 2017 so far!

"Gas Farm?" Sounds like a Spinal Tap song!

And this is my second favourite shot!!

Okay, somebody get me some coffee!!