B Movie Breakdown

Of all the stories and of all the characters and of all the premises that could be capitalized on, perhaps Dream Warriors is one of the best. You want a concept maximized to its fullest potential? Dream warriors gives you  probably one of the best examples. We often talk about movies in relation to the alien/aliens paradigm and Dream Warriors is nightmare's aliens. More battles. A more involved villain. A bad guy truly owning himself and clear heroes. Dream warriors is incredible.

Freddy is known for terrorizing your dreams, but what if Freddy was just getting the hang of this undead spirit demon thing? What if Freddy was more infatuated with horrifying the real world than giving you nightmares? What if Freddy behaved more like a demon possessing a mortal vessel than the monster he would grow to become? You would have the second Nightmare on Elm Street, that's what. Let's get in to it.

What is a dream? A hope? A fantasy? A nightmare? All of the above? Well, when our pal Freddy is involved, only the latter applies. The B Movie Breakdown is about to be sleep paralyzed by the child of a 1000 maniacs starting this week with Mr. Kruger's inaugural outing, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Instead of watching pure trash like we have been known to do, we are reveling in cinema's finer things by revisiting one of the greatest, wildest and most widely known properties horror has to offer. So pound that fifth pot of coffee and get pumped, we've got a monster to battle.

At the height of the "War On Drugs" and the "Just Say No" campaign emerged Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, an animated made for television special that brought together all of our favorite cartoon characters to teach us the horror's of drugs. With an intro from President George H.W. Bush and first lady Barbara, it became very clear who the driving force behind this film truly was and who foot the bill to get all of these cartoon characters from so many different studios under one roof. Did this film succeed with its grueling tale of the young doped up Michael or did it make it seem that if you do drugs all of your favorite cartoons will come to life and hang out with you? We all know the true answer.

250 episodes ago we had a dream. A dream that involved watching terrible, terribly awesome and/or lesser known movies of the past and present. But to what end? Why would anyone volunteer to do this to themselves? Would it be to watch movies so you wouldn't have to, or would it be to give hidden gems the attention that we thought they truly deserved? Perhaps it would be all of the above. But you know what wasn't on the mind of one the cohosts? Do you know what thought was never present in this man's mind all those years ago? That not only would he watch one movie named Munchie, that he would be subjected to its sequel. Never in a million years did he expect to watch anything with Munchie in the title, yet here we are, 250 episodes later with Munchie Strikes Back. What kind of a world is this? What kind of a movie is this? Perhaps you should consult the greek titan Chronus, evidently he knows a lot. Unlike the first movie, Munchie Strikes Back expands on "Munchie lore"- something this cohost, again, could never predict happening. But as we find out in this film, Munchie is behind several horrible occurrences on this Earth, why not add another episode of this show to the list?  Fucking Munchie.

Last week on the podcast we found a movie that not only tortured us, but it also broke us as human beings. Mr. Boogedy is somehow remembered so fondly and loved by many who saw it as youths, yet we here at the B Movie Breakdown wish it had never been made. So, after witnessing such an abomination we have decided that the next logical step is to truly dig our own graves for your entertainment by discussing none other than Bride Of Boogedy.

From After School Specials to the Disney Sunday Night Movie, this week we dive into the world of TV movies; which were a huge deal in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Disney seemed to perfect the family friendly type of tv movie, making some that people still love today. Well, Mr. Boogedy seems to be one of them and we just cannot understand why. Mr. Boogedy is only 45 minutes long and it literally broke us more than any other garbage movie we have watched in the past. If you want to torture yourself, you can find Mr. Boogedy in full on YouTube. You have been warned. 

Welcome to our first ever After School Special episode and boy did we pick the perfect one to start with. Originally airing on October 23, 1987 as part of the ABC Afterschool Special, The Day My Kid Went Punk tells the tale of eenage musician Terry, who hopes to distinguish himself from "the crowd", by becoming a punk rocker. Please let us know what you thought of this episode on social media or our email, as we plan to do plenty more of these in the future!

About 220 episodes ago we discovered Feature Films For Families with The Buttercream Gang and now Feature Films For Families has graced this show with its presence yet again by bringing us 1988's On Our Own. Feature Films For Families does here for orphans what they did for gang problems of the 90's with The Buttercream Gang, which is to say not very much. Just like TBCG, we highly recommend checking out On Our Own in full on YouTube; the ending is definitely one that will have you scratching your head for days.