The VHS Strikes Back

Concluding our Halloween weekend, we have our friends the Pop Guerrillas giving their views on the Halloween franchise. You can subscribe to them on all good or evil podcast catchers.....

The Pop Guerrillas are a collective dedicated to providing spoiler-free reviews in less time than it takes to listen to a song. Music, movies, TV, comics, books and much more. They reviewed each of the 12 Halloween films in order.  Enjoy and have a happy Halloween!

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Special Halloween episode covering the 1994 cult phenomenon The Crow. Starring Brandon Lee.

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Plot:

A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility

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Heather's is an absolute favorite of our great friend and Patreon supporter Tony Farina of Indie Comics Spotlight. This cult classic originally flopped at the box office but developed a huge following after that. Directed by Michael Lehmann, written by Daniel Waters and starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty this one certainly divides opinion!

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Plot Summary:

A regular girl, Veronica, tries to survive the social jungle of high school by sticking with the three most popular girls at school who are all called Heather. As she meets a sociopath named JD, her life spirals into a continuous cycle of hate, unintentional murder and indifference, as she exacts revenge on her enemies, also known as her best friends.

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A favourite of Chris' back in the day was White Men Can't Jump. Directed and written by Ron Shelton and starring Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez and Tyra Ferrell.

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Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types.

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Finally breaking our James Bond duck with the winner of our Roger Moore poll, For Your Eyes Only from 1981. Directed by John Glen, written by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, and starring Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Chaim Topol and Julian Glover. Moore is a favourite of Chris and Dave's, but will this one stand up?

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Plot Summary: 

After disposing of a familiar looking face, Bond is sent to recover a communication device, known as an A.T.A.C., which went down with a British spy ship as it sunk. Bond must hurry though, as the Russians are also out for this device. On his travels, he also meets Melina Havelock, whose parents were brutally murdered. Bond also encounters Aristotle Kristatos and Milos Colombo. Each of them are accusing the other of having links with with the Russians. Bond must team up with Melina, solve who the true ally is, and find the A.T.A.C. before it's too late.

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Totally shagadelic episode and it's Dave's pick this week with the 1997 comedy, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Directed by Jay Roach and stars the co-producer and writer, Mike Myers. Also starring Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, and Michael York.

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Plot Summary:

Austin Powers is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortunately for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90's) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil's henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!

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If there's one thing studios love, it's to cash in a sequel on the success of an original movie. And with Chris' pick this week, Golden Harvest certainly cashed in their chips with Cannonball Run 2. Directed by Hal Needham and starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Shirley MacLaine, Jamie Farr, Ricardo Montalbán, Telly Savalas, and Jackie Chan.

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Plot Summary:

The Sheik who competed at the last Cannonball Run, is berated by his father for not winning it. So he tells him to go and win. Problem is that there is no Cannonball Run. So his father tells him to make one of his own. He puts up a million dollars as the prize. So former Cannonballers J.J. and his buddy Vince join, as does Blake and Fenderbaum and some other characters. But Blake and Fenderbaum owe a mobster some money, and the mobster owes some other guy more. He then decides to grab the Sheik and hold him for ransom so he can pay the guy back.

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The result of our sequels poll was close, but Riggs and Murtaugh are just irresistible as that perfect buddy cop combo. Directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, Joss Ackland and Derrick O'Connor. This is a favorite of both the hosts this week

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Plot Summary:

Riggs and Murtaugh are trying to take down some drug dealers but they turn out to be not run-of-the-mill drug dealers; they have automatic weapons and helicopters. Eventually, they grab one of their vehicles and find a million dollars worth of gold coins or Krugerrands in the trunk. Later Murtaugh is threatened by the men they're pursuing. That's when the Captain reassigns them to protect a man named Leo Getz who is supposed to testify in a big case. When they get to where Leo is, someone tries to kill him and that's when they learn he laundered half a billion dollars worth of drug money. He then takes them to a place he once went to and that's when the people there start shooting at them. Later when they come back with back up they learn that the men work for the South African consulate and have diplomatic immunity. They deduce that they are the ones they were looking for, but because they have diplomatic immunity they can't do anything.

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