The Blood & Bath Movie Review
The Blood & Bath Movie Review 2006
Meet The Feebles (1989 New Zealand)
Directed by Peter Jackson
Meet The Feebles was director Peter Jackson’s second movie, sandwiched in between Bad Taste and Dead/Alive. This movie can best be described as The Muppets all grown up and suffering from the ill-effects of adulthood. This movie is referred to by many critics as a “gross out comedy,” but it’s really not all that gross compared to some of the other movies we’ve reviewed.
The plot? Yes, oddly enough there is a plot. There’s a show called The Fabulous Feebles Variety Hour, the Feebles are basically animal puppets, and so are all of the crew, director, producer, etc. During the course of rehearsal and the events leading up to air time we learn about the characters. The star of the show is Heidi The Hippo, who has an eating problem. Whenever things don’t go Heidi’s way she runs crying to Bletch, the Walrus producer, who is having an affair with his Cat secretary. Meanwhile there are other cast members with their own personal problems, such as the Rabbit with AIDS, the ex-Vietnam vet Frog who is addicted to Heroin, and a Rat that directs porno movies on the side.
Oddly enough, the most accurate thing about this movie is the behind-the-scenes goings on that are such a big part of Hollywood. If your children ever dream about running away to Hollywood and becoming stars, make them watch Meet The Feebles. Although there’s not a whole lot of ground breaking originality in the script, this movie is a major visual freakout. This would be a great movie to watch on acid. The music isn’t all that brilliant, but I did enjoy the song One Leg Missing.
Rating: One full thumb up the butt
Tracy (Never Had A Nickname) McCall
Head Writer,
Singer, Songwriter,
Attorney at Log
Paulie Family Productions
The Janitor (2003, USA)
Directed by Andy Signor and TJ Nordaker
This is one of the most absolutely wonderfully awful movies I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of them. Andy Signor, who co-wrote and co-directed, plays Lionel. Lionel has been a janitor since the age of seven, and he lives along with his janitor partner, Mr. Growbo, in the janitor’s closet of a large corporation (rent free). Lionel takes his job seriously, and he has no tolerance for anybody that doesn’t treat him with proper respect, which is pretty much everybody.
Lionel kills a hell of a lot of people in this movie, all in pretty spectacular ways, and that’s pretty much where all of the seriousness ends. This movie is incredibly funny in so many ways. There’s the bad acting and the even worse special effects. There’s the cameo appearances by Lloyd Kaufman of Troma. There’s the nudity. There’s Lionel’s boss, who has an unusual fixation about STDs. There are no dull moments in this movie.
Eventually Lionel is offered a job as the janitor of a sorority house, which leads to an amazing plot twist and an even more amazing ending.
There are so many wonderful scenes in this movie. There’s the painting with the leg scene, the severed head scene, the destroy the semen scene, and so on. None of these scenes are quite what you would expect from any other movie with similar scenes, and the extra cheesy acting and special effects made me laugh from start to finish.
Rating: One full thumb up the butt
Tracy (Never Had A Nickname) McCall
Head Writer,
Singer, Songwriter,
Attorney at Log
Paulie Family Productions
Street Trash (1987, USA)
Directed by Jim Muro
Another absolutely wonderfully awful movie. Wonderfully bad acting and wonderfully bad special effects (with the exception of the exploding wino scene) really push this movie over the top.
A liquor store owner discovers a crate hidden away in his basement. The crate is full of pint bottles of Tenafly Viper, a mysterious liquor that was deliberately tainted by the government. The liquor store owner decides to sell Tenafly Viper for $1.00 a bottle, and with a price like that it’s not long before every wino in the neighborhood is buying it up. However, one sip of Tenafly Viper and you immediately begin to melt (with the exception of the wino that explodes for no apparent reason) into the most delightfully colorful mess of paint.
If you live in Portland, Oregon, this movie will remind you of Dignity Village. If you live in Northeast Portland, you’ll swear they filmed this movie at one of those wrecking yards out by the airport.
This movie contains the famous Severed Genital Football scene, which alone is worth the price of admission.
Rating: One full thumb up the butt
Tracy (Never Had A Nickname) McCall
Head Writer,
Singer, Songwriter,
Attorney at Log
Paulie Family Productions
The Magic Christian (1969, UK)
Directed by Joseph McGrath
What can I say? The Magic Christian ranks right up there with Dr. Strangelove and The Party as one of my favorite Peter Sellers movies. Peter Sellers plays Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world. Ringo Starr plays a homeless person named Youngman who gets adopted by Sir Guy. Together they set out putting the snobbish upper class of England in their places by spending huge amounts of money to set up the most bizarre events and circumstances.
Their biggest set up of all is The Magic Christian, the newest and most elite of all luxury liners, and only the elite upper class are allowed the privilege to pay a lot of money to sail on her maiden voyage. And Sir Guy and Youngman certainly take them all for a ride.
There are a lot of cameos in this movie including: Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan, John Cleese, Roman Polanski, Keith Moon, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, and Yul Brenner. This movie is fast paced, and if you’ve never seen it before you’ll be flying by the seat of your pants trying to keep up with it.
Rating: One full thumb up the butt
Tracy (Never Had A Nickname) McCall
Head Writer,
Singer, Songwriter,
Attorney at Log
Paulie Family Productions
Meet The Feebles (1989 New Zealand)
Directed by Peter Jackson
Meet The Feebles was director Peter Jackson’s second movie, sandwiched in between Bad Taste and Dead/Alive. This movie can best be described as The Muppets all grown up and suffering from the ill-effects of adulthood. This movie is referred to by many critics as a “gross out comedy,” but it’s really not all that gross compared to some of the other movies we’ve reviewed.
The plot? Yes, oddly enough there is a plot. There’s a show called The Fabulous Feebles Variety Hour, the Feebles are basically animal puppets, and so are all of the crew, director, producer, etc. During the course of rehearsal and the events leading up to air time we learn about the characters. The star of the show is Heidi The Hippo, who has an eating problem. Whenever things don’t go Heidi’s way she runs crying to Bletch, the Walrus producer, who is having an affair with his Cat secretary. Meanwhile there are other cast members with their own personal problems, such as the Rabbit with AIDS, the ex-Vietnam vet Frog who is addicted to Heroin, and a Rat that directs porno movies on the side.
Oddly enough, the most accurate thing about this movie is the behind-the-scenes goings on that are such a big part of Hollywood. If your children ever dream about running away to Hollywood and becoming stars, make them watch Meet The Feebles. Although there’s not a whole lot of ground breaking originality in the script, this movie is a major visual freakout. This would be a great movie to watch on acid. The music isn’t all that brilliant, but I did enjoy the song One Leg Missing.
Rating: One full thumb up the butt
Tracy (Never Had A Nickname) McCall
Head Writer,
Singer, Songwriter,
Attorney at Log
Paulie Family Productions
The Janitor (2003, USA)
Directed by Andy Signor and TJ Nordaker
This is one of the most absolutely wonderfully awful movies I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of them. Andy Signor, who co-wrote and co-directed, plays Lionel. Lionel has been a janitor since the age of seven, and he lives along with his janitor partner, Mr. Growbo, in the janitor’s closet of a large corporation (rent free). Lionel takes his job seriously, and he has no tolerance for anybody that doesn’t treat him with proper respect, which is pretty much everybody.
Lionel kills a hell of a lot of people in this movie, all in pretty spectacular ways, and that’s pretty much where all of the seriousness ends. This movie is incredibly funny in so many ways. There’s the bad acting and the even worse special effects. There’s the cameo appearances by Lloyd Kaufman of Troma. There’s the nudity. There’s Lionel’s boss, who has an unusual fixation about STDs. There are no dull moments in this movie.
Eventually Lionel is offered a job as the janitor of a sorority house, which leads to an amazing plot twist and an even more amazing ending.
There are so many wonderful scenes in this movie. There’s the painting with the leg scene, the severed head scene, the destroy the semen scene, and so on. None of these scenes are quite what you would expect from any other movie with similar scenes, and the extra cheesy acting and special effects made me laugh from start to finish.
Rating: One full thumb up the butt
Tracy (Never Had A Nickname) McCall
Head Writer,
Singer, Songwriter,
Attorney at Log
Paulie Family Productions
Street Trash (1987, USA)
Directed by Jim Muro
Another absolutely wonderfully awful movie. Wonderfully bad acting and wonderfully bad special effects (with the exception of the exploding wino scene) really push this movie over the top.
A liquor store owner discovers a crate hidden away in his basement. The crate is full of pint bottles of Tenafly Viper, a mysterious liquor that was deliberately tainted by the government. The liquor store owner decides to sell Tenafly Viper for $1.00 a bottle, and with a price like that it’s not long before every wino in the neighborhood is buying it up. However, one sip of Tenafly Viper and you immediately begin to melt (with the exception of the wino that explodes for no apparent reason) into the most delightfully colorful mess of paint.
If you live in Portland, Oregon, this movie will remind you of Dignity Village. If you live in Northeast Portland, you’ll swear they filmed this movie at one of those wrecking yards out by the airport.
This movie contains the famous Severed Genital Football scene, which alone is worth the price of admission.
Rating: One full thumb up the butt
Tracy (Never Had A Nickname) McCall
Head Writer,
Singer, Songwriter,
Attorney at Log
Paulie Family Productions
The Magic Christian (1969, UK)
Directed by Joseph McGrath
What can I say? The Magic Christian ranks right up there with Dr. Strangelove and The Party as one of my favorite Peter Sellers movies. Peter Sellers plays Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world. Ringo Starr plays a homeless person named Youngman who gets adopted by Sir Guy. Together they set out putting the snobbish upper class of England in their places by spending huge amounts of money to set up the most bizarre events and circumstances.
Their biggest set up of all is The Magic Christian, the newest and most elite of all luxury liners, and only the elite upper class are allowed the privilege to pay a lot of money to sail on her maiden voyage. And Sir Guy and Youngman certainly take them all for a ride.
There are a lot of cameos in this movie including: Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan, John Cleese, Roman Polanski, Keith Moon, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, and Yul Brenner. This movie is fast paced, and if you’ve never seen it before you’ll be flying by the seat of your pants trying to keep up with it.
Rating: One full thumb up the butt
Tracy (Never Had A Nickname) McCall
Head Writer,
Singer, Songwriter,
Attorney at Log
Paulie Family Productions
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