AMC is bringing the heat this “Fear Friday” (known to yours truly as “Extremely Crappy Movie Firday Nights”).
A QUADRUPLE FEATURE.
Kicking things off is Halloween 4. Not the best of the series, but far from the worst. It’s followed swiftly by Halloween 5, a wonderfully horrid movie.
THEN, AMC kicks it up a notch.
Pinata: Survival Island. THIS Movie is SOOOOO aweful, SOOOOO completely terrible, it ranks ALONE in being the ONLY MOVIE I have NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE IT THROUGH!
I have tried. 5 TIMES! Each has resulted with me snoozing on the couch. I even recorded the thing and tried to watch it in the daytime to stay awake. No help.
However, for all of that, it has one of the BEST opening 5 minutes of any crappy movie, EVER. Explaining how the Pinata Maker was some holy man for each town, and attempting to convince you pinata’s actually have some religious purpose. THEN it describes this town cursed by an evil, and with the last of the towns water supply, they pleaded for the pinata-holy-man-priest-dude to save them. So, he takes the LAST of the town’s water, and makes this clay ‘pinata’, and takes the evil from everyone’s heart and puts it into this evil pinata, where it is buried and sealed away. (presumably till the teens release it, I’ve never made it that far) Then a ‘good pinata’ is made, they break it, and everything is made better.
Listening to the narrator SO SERIOUSLY go over all the details without once breaking into a chuckle….he better have got an award for that…
Anyway, watch those first five minutes for the most ludicrous backstory ever made. Then shut it off, there’s nothing worthwhile to follow.
Somehow, AMC then pulls a classic to follow.
Alright, the classic Universal Monster movies are all classics for a reason. Then you started getting the sub-par sequels. THEN you started getting the B rate “Insert name here meets insert name here” films. FINALLY, you got left with the “House of” crapolla’s.
Here, you get Fankenstein, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Hunchback, Dracula, AND the Wolfman all tossed together onto the screen at once in a contrived plot only meant to get them all together.
Even so, it’s good classic fun.
And, for those of you in Utah, UEN is airing Unknown World.
Apparantly a 1950’s version of “The Core”. Don’t know much about it, myself.