The director of "Terminator 3" and "U-571" came up with the story for (and directed) "Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers," a sort of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures" set in a funeral home. Two surfer bros have to work for the summer at a mortuary for their mob- connected uncle where The Riddler also works/has created a serum to bring the dead back to life. They reanimate a mafia Don and things get nuts.
Here's the trailer!
I love the look on the dumb surfer's face when he yells, "Awesome!" at the :56 mark. His expression somehow encapsulates the attitude with which I want to live life.
The box art is great! Boxes with the cast painted all bursting out of a vehicle are tops.
In 1986, the director of "Lone Wolf McQuade" produced a college sports film in response to "Revenge of the Nerds" called "Jocks." Here is the awful trailer:
The film stars a dude named Scott Strader, and as best as I can tell, this was his last movie. One of my idols, Perry Lang of "Spring Break," also appears alongside Ogre from "Revenge of the Nerds," that guy who played Frog in "Colors," Richard Roundtree, a dude you'd recognize from "Angels in the Outfield," a young Mariska Hargitay, and fucking Christopher Lee as a Dean at the college. DRACULA, you guys...
Plus, check this out: Future mega-director - and Weird Al look-alike - Tom Shadyac ("Ace Ventura," "Liar Liar," "Bruce Almighty") plays a shithead jerk-prep in the movie, which focuses on a team of tennis players, who are the only successful sports team on a campus where Dean Count Dracula desperately wants a win. So he sends Roundtree and his tennis players to the tennis nationals in Las Vegas, and the boys get in trouble cause they drink beer and like wearing sweaters cut off above their bellybuttons and totes dig ladies.
It's stupid fun, has a scene set in a lesbian bar filled with aggressive biker women who get sprayed with a fire extinguisher, and barely makes any sense -- like you taped over your older brother's copy of "Porky's" and spliced in footage of college students faking being drunk by a lake and playing ping-pong in 1985. Worth it all for the great scenes focusing on Ogre.
And there's a DOPE song called Power Play in it by Jimmy Osmond. PLEASE listen to it here:
Here's the super-sessy movie poster (NO ONE in this poster is in the movie):
And the original VHS box front:
And the VHS box back:
The film was released on DVD a while back and has gone out of print, thus it has become way more pricey than it deserves to be. Save your cash and pick up the delightful "Too Cool for School" DVD package, which includes "Jocks" and a BUNCH of other great, goofy films from that era. I'll get around to talking about them all here. Check out the set's box art:
Oh, and the film has the most tame wet t-shirt contest in the history of drunk teens, which features ZERO wet t-shirts and ZERO nudity and a LOT of unapproving head-shaking and frowning. Just say no to wet t-shirts.
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