B Movie Breakdown

This week on the podcast we delve yet again in the world of killer kid movies. We have watched quite a few in the past, including the next level psycho antics of The Paperboy, but none have ever been banned from a country before. That’s right, this weeks movie, Mikey from 1992, was actually banned in the UK. It stars Brian Bonsall, of Blank Check fame, as the psychotic little maniac Mikey. Mikey is a trouble child who goes from one adopted family to another and when things don’t go his way Mikey is ready to play. This kid is not only super crazy, he also video tapes and watches the murders he commits. Unlike most of the kids in these killer kid movies, Mikey is insanely smart and very quick on his feet when it comes to planning and killing on the fly. So while schedules have been a little crazy as of late, we still managed to get a brand new episode up. Though, this one was quite impromptu and only features Corey along with past guest Pat.

Yes, I know….where have we been? We took last week off unannounced and this week only a half episode! Well in this half episode we give you a small update as far as when we will return and some upcoming movies we will be taking a look at. Stay tuned and fear not faithful listeners, we will be back next week on June 11th!

With the recent release of the all new Godzilla movie, we here at B Movie Breakdown decided why not flip through the vast Godzilla library and choose one of the classics. The film we chose was Godzilla Vs Megalon, the one Godzilla movie that wasn’t even meant to be a Godzilla movie. It was actually meant to be a vehicle for Toho’s answer to Ultraman, Jet Jaguar, but when test audiences wanted nothing to do with Jet Jaguar they decided to throw Godzilla and Gigan in the mix to spice things. As for the film itself, when the undersea nation of Seatopia sends the gigantic god Megalon to destroy the world above – and it’s up to Godzilla and a size-shifting robot, Jet Jaguar, to defeat him. You can tell this movie was put together at the last minute, but the ending fight sequence is well worth watching this entry in the Godzilla universe. Also, we were joined by two special guests, Nick Tyranno and Alex Simotes.

This week on the podcast, we learned that Gina doesn’t get to pick a movie for a while. The movie she chose was the 1992 sci-fi flick ‘Freejack,’ starring Emilio Estavez and Mick Jagger. Yes folks, Mick Jagger is one of the top billed actors in this movie. Bounty hunters from the future transport a doomed race-car driver to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a dying billionaire. When he escapes he becomes a Freejack and must….find out….keep running…stop the evil….well if you’ve seen this movie you will also feel the same way. This movie is not only awful and boring, but it spend almost two whole hours telling a story, or lack there of, just to completely throw it away in the last minutes of the movie! It’s been a while since we’ve watched something so frustrating and hard to sit through.

This week on the podcast we witnessed The Battle Of The Tough Guys in 1989’s ‘No Holds Barred.’ Not only was this Hulk Hogan’s first film as the lead, it was also the first film ever put out by the WWE themselves and you could tell. Apparently re-written by Hogan and Vince McMahon, this movie is one insane scene to another. Hulk Hogan plays Rip ,the World Wrestling Federation champion, who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for. Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his network. Rip refuses and this drives Brell crazy. Still looking for a way to raise ratings, Brell initiates a show called “The Battle of the Tough Guys”, a violent brawling competition where a mysterious man, Zeus, wins the competition. From here its an all out war between Brell & Zeus vs Rip!

After a week off we are back with an all new episode of the podcast! This week on B Movie Breakdown we watched ‘The Peanut Butter Solution’ from 1985. This movie has easily broken into the ranks of one of the best worst movies of all time. Yes folks it’s that insane….Troll 2/Mac & Me insane. SO many crazy and absurd things happen in this movie that we had a hard time figuring out where to start. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses a potion, given to him by two ghosts of recently deceased hobos, to get his hair back. Little does he know, too much peanut butter can cause things to get a bit hairy. But this movie has so much more going on that just this hairy situation. There are so man WTF moments in this movie that we won’t spoil them here, so head over to YouTube and watch the movie for yourself and then come back here and check out Episode 75!

Hey everyone! Sorry this post is late but things have been a little hectic over here at the BMB Headquarters. But fear not faithful listeners we are still here and ready to bring you a whole new batch of wild and whacky episodes of the podcast you know and love. We didn’t plan on taking this week off, but life happens and we had to postpone the recording of Episode 75: The Peanut Butter Situation due to some unforeseen circumstances. So Corey, Gina, & Ryan will all be back on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 with a brand spanking new episode of B Movie Breakdown. If you want to watch the movie before you listen to Episode 75, you can find the movie in full on YouTube, just search ‘The Peanut Butter Solution.’ This movie, like a lot of them, was requested by a fan of the show; so if you have a movie you would like us to breakdown, let us know!!

This week on the podcast we take a break from the usual format of discussing some B Movie of the past or present. Each of us have made a list of 3 of the worst movies we have ever seen. The films on the lists are all on there for many reasons, whether the amount of disappointment retained from it or it just being so unbearably bad these films rank low in our minds. What we want you, the listener to do, is to tell us your top 3 worst movies of all time and we will read them all off on the next episode of B Movie Breakdown.

This week on the podcast we punish the guilty with the 1989 comic book movie, The Punisher starring Dolph Lundgren. While Dolph is mostly recognized for playing Ivan Drago in Rock IV and He-Man in Masters Of The Universe, it seems most people forget all about his role as The Punisher. A Marvel character that, to some, never got the best treatment on film and to others they really like the Thomas Jane one. While we here at B Movie Breakdown do enjoy all of the Punisher movies to date, this honestly has to be our favorite. It has that great 80s action feel and truly does the character justice for the most part. Yes, we know he doesn’t where the famous shirt and the acting isn’t the greatest, but it deserves more credit than people give it. It’s crazy violent, full of swearing, and is just enough ‘over the top’ to not be absurd. Yeah it has some cheesy dialogue, but thats the charm of an 80’s action movie, right?

This week on the podcast we watched 1994’s ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, starring Academy Award winners Matthew McConaughy and Renee Zellweger. After all these years, the legend is still buzzing about in the backwoods of Texas. While the film begins with the typical teens lost in the woods horror movie trope, the rest of this movie is beyond any other in the series. It goes onto suggest the Sawyer (or as IMDB says Slaughter) Family has actually been doing the dirty work of some sort of Illuminati organization this whole time. Not only does it give us that, but also now Leatherface is some sort of transexual and has a brother named Vilmer (McConaughy) with a robotic leg. While this movie is over the top and awful, Matthew McConaughy actually delivers one hell of a performance. The last 10-15 minutes of this movie are so confusing and messy, it leaves you with about a billion questions left unanswered.