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Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)

For the first time ever, So That Happened took our show live!!

On September 22nd, 2017 we hosted our first LIVE Double Feature movie night at Altones in Jewett City, CT.  We showed Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) followed up by Bullitt (1968) while recording this episode in between!

This episode features special guest Dwayne Eldredge from S.C.E.N.E. Productions.

Take a listen while we cover a few of our high and low points of Gone in 60 Seconds!!

Keep an eye out on our Facebook page for more upcoming movie nights, where YOU can join us!

Gone in 60 Seconds stars H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia, Jerry Daugirda, and was directed by H.B. Halicki.

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Girlfriend From Hell (1989)

“The inventor of the condom– now God’s bounty hunter- is tasked with tracking down and capturing the Devil, who has possessed the body of a high school wallflower in order to feed on human souls via sex.”

We went into this one with no expectations, and we were TRULY not disappointed!!

Girlfriend From Hell is a classic late 80’s pizza night movie that stars a few people that went on to do much, much better things.

Swan and Bill cover the movie, and briefly touch on popular television including Supernatural, Walking Dead, and Twin Peaks.  

Take 40 minutes and let us in our ears!!  While we were gone a few of our friends started some other casts; take a few minutes and check them out!

Girlfriend From Hell stars Liane Curtis, Dana Ashbrook, Lezlie Deane, and was directed by Daniel Peterson.

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New Year’s Evil (1980)

“During a New Year’s Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year’s strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered – and she will be the last one.”

What we have here is a classic money grab based on the slasher theme of the 1980’s brought to us by the wonderful duo of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, better know to the world as the faces of Cannon Films from 1979-1985 where they churned out such quality films as The Apple, Breakin’, Breakin’2: Electric Boogaloo, Lifeforce, Hercules, and Otello to name just a few.

This gem features fun mental patients, exciting motorcycle chases, nurses with questionable morals, mysterious champagne, confused young men wearing tights inappropriately, and a really really cool halloween mask.

Have a listen and see what we thought of it!!  This time Swan and Bill are joined by the marvelous Jessi!

New Year’s Evil stars Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, and Grant Cramer and was directed by Emmett Alston.

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Joey (1986)

“Due to conflict with his hard drinking father, who is a working class former musician, a talented teenager runs away from home and seeks to start his own musical career.”

Yeah, that basically sums it up. There’s a smashed window and some other hijinx, and some terrible acting as well.

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Ad-Libs, and the Silhouettes have performances in this movie, so it’s got that going for it.

Joey stars Neil Barry, Frank R. Lanziano, James Quinn, and Ellen Hammill and was directed by Joseph Ellison.

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Queen of the Damned (2002)

“The Vampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the queen of all vampires.”

…Late nineties angry numetal, a love story, a showdown, gothy angst, OH MY! IT’S GOT IT ALL!!

This one haphazardly smashes together the plots from the a handful of Ann Rice novels that Warner Brothers managed to acquire the rights to, nearly completely diverts from the storyline of the novels, AND was given the screenplay treatment by a pair of TV Movie writers!

AND JONATHAN DAVIS ON VOCALS!

Oh yes, Swan and Bill really DID watch this movie.

Queen of the Damned stars Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, and Vincent Perez and was directed by Eduardo Rodriguez.

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Fright Night 2: New Blood (2013)

“By day Gerri Dandridge is a sexy professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. So when a group of high school students travel abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in Gerri’s chilling web of lust and terror. Charley and “Evil” Ed must stop Gerri from drinking and bathing in the blood of a “new moon virgin,” which just so happens to be Charley’s ex-girlfriend, Amy. They enlist help from Peter Vincent, the vampire hunting host of a reality show called “Fright Night,” to drive a stake through Gerri’s plan and save Amy from a fate far worse than death.”

…Yeah, that’s basically it.

This one smashes together the plots from the original Fright Night and the Fright Night remake, yet maintains no continuity and also throws in the Elizabeth Bathory legend as well for extra flavor!

Lend us your ears and spend some time listening to us gripe.

Fright Night 2: New Blood stars Will Payne, Jaime Murray, Sean Power, and Sacha Parkinson and was directed by Eduardo Rodriguez.

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Dead Alive (1992)

“A young man’s mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.”

…Wow, way to undersell it.

This movie is one of Peter Jackson’s greats, before the Lord of the Rings trilogy happened and cemented him as a “serious” film maker. Dead Alive (aka Braindead in every territory except for North America) was his follow up to “Meet The Feebles”, which is highly recommended if you’ve not seen it.

This film held the record for the most amount of fake blood ever used, so there’s that at least.

This one is a short episode, Swan and Bill have been on a break for a while and we’re welcoming you back with this wonderful masterpiece.

Dead Alive stars Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, and Ian Watkin, and was directed by Peter Jackson.

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We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993)

“Four fun-loving dinosaurs take a trip to New York City, courtesy of Captain. Neweyes. The time-traveling alien is intent on bringing some joy to the lives of the children of the Big Apple. After eating a potion to boost their smarts and cuddliness, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops Woog, Pterodactyl Elsa and Hadrosaur Dweeb hit the town! But trouble soon arrives when Neweyes’ evil brother hatches a devious plot.”

…What?  …What the fuck did I just read?  …It doesn’t get any better when you watch this movie.

This movie was so upsetting that we even brought some special guest hosts to discuss their views on the film.

Come on and join us for this one! Swan and Bill discuss the parallels between Dinosaurs and North Carolina’s HB2, and also have a fairly in depth conversation of great film trilogies.

Thanks for listening, So That Happened loves you.

We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story features the voice talents of John Goodman, Charles Fleischer, Walter Cronkite and Martin Short and was directed by the team of Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells, Dick Zondag, and Ralph Zondag.

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Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (2015)

“It’s 25 years later, and Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations”

Wait… is that what happened here? Naked women, long haired men without shirts, lots of samurai action, Tommy Wiseau being himself.

Swan and Bill struggle to see if there is a plot inside of this miraculous masterpiece.

We’ve been gone for a while, but the wait was worth it!

Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance stars Matthew Karedas, Mark Frazer, Bai Ling, and Tommy Wiseau, and was directed by Gregory Hatanaka.

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Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

“An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman’s body.”

Oh, but there’s so much more!

Ninja movies, meet Flashdance, meet the Exorcist, meets Poltergeist… This is one of the fantastic films produced by The Cannon Group in the 80’s during the Golan Globus era, so you KNOW that it’s just epic!

Spend an hour with us, we’ll make it worth your time!

Ninja III: The Domination stars Shô Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey, Jordan Bennet, and David Chung and was directed by Sam Firstenberg.

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