Torgo
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Post by Torgo on Aug 24, 2014 12:28:41 GMT -5
So I was gazing at cheap public domain sets on Amazon (because I like those cheapo movies on or off the show) and one of them had a movie I hadn't heard of starring Arch Hall Jr of Eegah "fame." I always thought that Eegah and Wild Guitar were the only two movies ol' Cabbage Patch Elvis ever made. Turned out I was wrong. So I looked him up on Amazon and it turns out that he made a total of six. Still not a whole lot, but three times the amount that I thought he had made. Curiosity struck me and I wondered how many of them were one DVD and typed "Arch Hall Jr." in the search engine on Amazon and this was the first thing that popped up... www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003TTZT9Q/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1408899236&sr=8-1Archie's a big enough cult name to carry his own complete collection on DVD! Maybe that's due to Eegah being featured on MST, I don't know, but I thought this was pretty neat. I looked these movies up on IMDB and apparently The Sadist is actually pretty good, while Nasty Rabbit is Eegah level bad. I'm actually curious enough that I'm considering buying this pack. Has anyone seen any of them? Thoughts? |
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Aug 25, 2014 10:23:16 GMT -5
I nabbed a copy of The Sadist off of YouTube, but still haven't been able to get all the way through it. It's pretty intense, but still prime riff fodder; I was reflexively snickering from the opening credits as the music behind the credits sequence is that "AHHH-eee-AHHH!" music from the end of The Sinister Urge.
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Post by dph on Aug 25, 2014 20:29:10 GMT -5
Yes, The Sadist is very intense for what I expected it to be. I expected a few laughs while I used it for background noise on while I did something else but this quickly became my main focus. He definitely doesn't attempt to play the teen dream good guy. (Emphasis on the word attempt). I'd be interested in seeing the others if their cheesy and bad. Might try to see if they're on archive.org.
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Post by foreign object on Aug 26, 2014 13:15:19 GMT -5
I bought all of the titles over time with the exception of Deadwood 76. I wish this set came out a few years ago. I love all these films. After The Sadist watch The Nasty Rabbit because that film swings to the polar opposite of the violent tense drama of The Sadist. It just so goofy and weird and jam packed with racial stereotypes, political incorrectness and low brow slapstick. I think my fav of the bunch is Wild Guitar, the typical story of a nobody becoming a big star and then finding the seedier side of the recording business at a record company run buy Arch Hall Sr. and his right hand guy Ray Dennis Steckler.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Aug 26, 2014 13:48:04 GMT -5
I bought all of the titles over time with the exception of Deadwood 76... I think my fav of the bunch is Wild Guitar, the typical story of a nobody becoming a big star and then finding the seedier side of the recording business at a record company run buy Arch Hall Sr. and his right hand guy Ray Dennis Steckler. Oh, yeah, I really dug Wild Guitar. It was one of those movies I wished MST3K had gotten a crack at. It's got everything -- a hackneyed plot, cheesy music, Arch Hall Jr., and Ray Dennis Steckler, basically everything a MSTied movie should be. An MST3K episode featuring Wild Guitar would've been the perfect companion piece for The Beatniks. |
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