Hell Comes To Frog Town (1988)

Hell Comes To Frog Town (R) - Review

"You are One Weird Dude."

Sam Hell, the last sterile man in the post frog-alyptic wasteland of America, is forced by commando female nurses into a quest to rescue some fertile women from the slimy clutches of the mutant amphibious denizens of Frogtown. You see after the last nuclear war the birth rates have bottomed out, sterile US citizens are the norm and Hell's gotta do his duty to single"handedly" get the good ole USA back into fighting shape, if he can get past all the 6 foot frogmen.

Roddy Piper (Hell) broke out of his WWF stereotype in 1988 with the release of both the SciFi masterpiece They Live and campy cult classic Hell Comes To Frog Town. The latter defines BMovie nirvana, a low budget riot of fun with everything you need from 1980s midnight movies: cornball dialogue with amazing over acting, a much better plot and leading man than anyone was expecting, far superior makeup effects than the obvious low budget should allow for and just a touch of that genuine 80s sleaze to go along with its ample braun and distorted brains.

Hell Comes To Frog Town is the midnight junk food that you do not need but relish completely from start to finish.

7 Dances of the Three Snakes out of 10 (GOOD)

Brain Damage (1988)

Brain Damage (NR) - Review

"DARE to Stay Off Parasites"

From the Midnight Movie madness of Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case) comes Brain Damage, the simple story of a boy (Brian) who has a cartoonish parasite symbiotically attached to the back of his neck that feeds Brian's brain addictive hallucinogenics in order to keep itself well fed on fresh human brains.  Alymer is the little creature and star of the film.  It talks, it sings, it tells jokes and it feeds the protagonist enough drugs to blow his mind and keep it blown.  Dark humor and icky gore abounds, it can almost be seen as a gonzo "horror of drugs"after school special, though most kids will enjoy it too much for it to succeed.  As low browed as it is low budgeted, Brain Damage might cause you to lose some braincells as you wonder what were the filmmakers smokin' when they thought this up (and subsequently thank them for it).

6.5 Hokey GoodOld Fashioned Special Effects out of 10 (GOOD)