Friday, August 16, 2013

GIRLS NITE OUT (1982)

Rough around the edges, low-budget slasher set on a college campus about a serial killer that's stalking coeds during a lame radio station sponsored scavenger hunt...while wearing a bear costume.  That might sound silly, but it's not too bad.  Better than that shitty poster above would lead you to believe. The kills come at a brisk enough pace, there's a bunch of different characters and their behavior is so wacky that it's hard not to be entertained.  Sadly though there's zero nudity or overly gruesome kills.  Most of the violence is suggested or done completely off screen.

Another bizarre touch (besides the bear suit) is the addition of Hal Holbrook who has pretty much zero interaction with the cast.  From what I've read, all of his scenes were shot in one day and then just edited into the movie!  Example: in the campus cafeteria some students are informed by the waitress that Hal paid for their food.  They look up and say thanks.  Cut to to a shot of Hal nodding his head.  Hahaha.

Your average movie watcher would probably hate GIRLS NITE OUT (it currently sits at 3.5/10 on IMBb), but i thought it had a certain charm to it and I wouldn't be against watching it again.  One unique thing I did notice was this film didn't have a Final Girl.  You don't see that very often.
Hey, it's that hot chick from THE BURNING.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? (2000)

Slacker/stoner comedy about a pair of slacker stoners who wake up after a wild night of partying to find their kitchen stocked with chocolate pudding and their car missing.  Now these two stoners (Ashton Kutcher and Stifler) have to find their car because not only is it their car, but their girlfriends anniversary presents are inside.  During their quest they have all kinds of wacky adventures and meet a wild cast of bizarre characters including a transsexual stripper, a cult of bubble wrap wearing alien worshipers, hot chicks, nerds, Kristy Swanson, Andy Dick, a shit-talking Chinese drive-thru speaker box, Fabio, a weed smoking dog, peacocks, jocks, Zoltan, aliens, more aliens, a Super Hot Giant Alien and many others.

For being over a decade old DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? is surprisingly well dated.  The humor is still funny and the story is so simple that it'll probably hold up for another hundred years.  Ashton and Stifler make a good comedy team.  My biggest complaint is since the film is PG-13 there's barely any weed smoking and zero nudity!  What kind of stoner movie only has a dog as it only weed smoker?!  Even without any nudity or smoke, DWMC is definitely worth watching.  I've seen it dozens of times and I still laugh. And theeennnn?