Today we celebrate the comedies that weren't funny, the dull adventure stories, mysteries that made no sense.
MARTHA QUINN?! I am stunned. It's like running into an old high school chum in the mall. If you are fortunate enough to be too young to remember the 1980s, you should know that (when it first started on cable) MTV used to play music videos. No, seriously. That's why it was called MTV. Music Television, you see. Rock groups like Aerosmith and Van Halen would perform a song to some sort of little skit or light show or miniature movie. (Maybe someday someone will revive the concept but YouTube has pretty much made it obsolete,)
They had VJs, hosts who would sometimes do interviews and remind you to stay tuned, and the cutest of these was a gal just out of college named Martha Quinn. Now, this was before mandatory breast implants, collagen injections and full-face reconstructions, so Martha looked like a real human being, a pleasant young woman you would feel comfortable sitting and chatting with. Millions of pot-smoking metalheads had serious crushes on her. Imagine my surprise to find her in this crappy movie.
BAD CHANNELS is just barely watchable, and not really worth the effort. Well, if you're a dedicated Blue Oyster Cult fan, the band (or some of the band still using the name) does contribute two songs (the rest of the soundtrack made no impression on me). Plot? An alien takes over a radio station, starts covering the place with fungus, and teleports babes who were listening to the broadcast into the studio; he shrinks them so they fit into little test tubes, who knows why? Because the DJ is notorious for his on-air pranks, nobody listening gives any credence to his warnings over the air... okay, except for a local TV reporter (that would be Martha), who actually saw the UFO come in for a landing.
The special effects are mighty poor (the robot serf isn't as well done as the droid from the Power Rangers); I don't mind if the budget is low, as long as some imagination or flair is shown. The jokes aren't funny and the attempt at suspense falls flat.
You know, even the title doesn't make sense. Who refers to radio stations as channels? BAD RECEPTION might work better. I see through my exhaustive research that our little Martha also appeared in TAPEHEADS and CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIETOWN.
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