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My second New World Picture. I'm kind of surprised that there isn't an existing thread already for this.
I stayed up very late to watch this wacky film back when I was 12. This would have been its network tv premiere vs. cable. This will be an important distinction later in this post.
At that age, I didn’t yet have an appreciation for just how much of a cheese fest this movie is. David Carradine and Playboy Playmate Claudia Jennings (He-LLOOOOOOoooo!!!) are range guides in a post-apocalyptic future. Don’t mess with ‘em, particularly when they whip out those nifty pexiglass swords of theirs. Richard Lynch is suitably slimy. Seriously, this movie is crazy.
Flash forwards a few decades. I’m married with at least one very young child. My wife’s best friend from college and her husband are fast friends of ours. They’re also our kids’ godparents and vice-versa. We had recently purchased our first DVD player, and I had acquired the Deathsport DVD. After we get our kids to bed, I recommend we watch Deathsport, since both our guests are into martial arts and the movie features Carradine. Big mistake. I should’ve previewed the movie alone. Everything was kind of okay (in terms of cheesy entertainment), until the scene where Claudia is stripped bare and ‘tortured’ in the midst of all those mysterious lit up tubes, Corman-style. Remember that I stayed up to watch the (heavily edited, obviously) network premiere. Needless to say, that scene was most definitely NOT shown on regular television.
Yeah… that was the end of THAT viewing… and the looks I was getting from my wife and the lady of the visiting couple most surely would have killed me had I not stopped the film.
Thanks, Roger… thanks a lot…
My second New World Picture. I'm kind of surprised that there isn't an existing thread already for this.
I stayed up very late to watch this wacky film back when I was 12. This would have been its network tv premiere vs. cable. This will be an important distinction later in this post.
At that age, I didn’t yet have an appreciation for just how much of a cheese fest this movie is. David Carradine and Playboy Playmate Claudia Jennings (He-LLOOOOOOoooo!!!) are range guides in a post-apocalyptic future. Don’t mess with ‘em, particularly when they whip out those nifty pexiglass swords of theirs. Richard Lynch is suitably slimy. Seriously, this movie is crazy.
Flash forwards a few decades. I’m married with at least one very young child. My wife’s best friend from college and her husband are fast friends of ours. They’re also our kids’ godparents and vice-versa. We had recently purchased our first DVD player, and I had acquired the Deathsport DVD. After we get our kids to bed, I recommend we watch Deathsport, since both our guests are into martial arts and the movie features Carradine. Big mistake. I should’ve previewed the movie alone. Everything was kind of okay (in terms of cheesy entertainment), until the scene where Claudia is stripped bare and ‘tortured’ in the midst of all those mysterious lit up tubes, Corman-style. Remember that I stayed up to watch the (heavily edited, obviously) network premiere. Needless to say, that scene was most definitely NOT shown on regular television.
Yeah… that was the end of THAT viewing… and the looks I was getting from my wife and the lady of the visiting couple most surely would have killed me had I not stopped the film.
Thanks, Roger… thanks a lot…
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