The 1980s had a bit of a tail when it came to B movies. This one was released in 1990 and kicks ass as a B movie. And it absolutely qualifies as a 1980s apocalyptic film. This is also one of those gems you may have never seen, which you will not forget!
So what’s the plot? In the “not so distant future” we have all kinds of police no go zones, where for some reason, kids (who are all gang members) still go to school. Oh, and it just so happens our movie’s no go zone is in… Seattle. Was Mark Lester (writer, director, Chad) from the future?
Just a thought, WTF are the gang members thinking when they go to school every day in the no go zone? Had they not figured out they could do anything else they wanted? I guess not. Honestly if they had figured it out we wouldn’t have this great movie where cyborg killer teachers hunt down and kill the gang members. Yes, you heard me right. Cyborg teachers go wild and start murdering their kids.
Who is in this fabulous film that you might recognize? Stacy Keach with a rat tail and cyborg contacts, Pam Grier, and a little bit of Malcom McDowell. Just the tip with Malcolm! Apparently he filmed all his scenes in two days and jetted off.
Other than telling you this brief summary, I will tell you nothing else. This movie is a perfect B and I shall not spoil it. In my mind it surpassed Class of 1984 (also by Mark Lester), because it threw in killer cyborgs.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary until a cyborg Pam Grier show you her robotic tatas! You can’t look away! Next week, the chaos continues and October begins. I will arrange some kind of decent October fright fest in spite of all my personal activity. I just got the house emptied, and am getting ready to put it on the market. I even packed away my lovely visage, hopefully it will survive yet another move. If not, I at least have my avatar picture…
Help Me Understand Why You Use Tubi All the Time!
Tubi and Pluto were a revolution when they started up. They now dominate ad-supported TV and combined they give people an unbelievable assortment of films which have never been so easily available. For the price of ads! Without sign ins! Tubi’s innovative ad technology in particular allowed it to overtake cable completely before the cable warlords could legislate it out of existence. It proved that capitalism can triumph over the most entrenched special interests. BY SPECIAL INTERESTS MEAN…
I love Pam’s shtick.
Is that what you call them?
never mind. different actress.
Were you thinking Pam Dawber?
Welcome to the school of CHOP!
Have we done Chopping Mall?
I have not! There are so many excellent choices for October that it might wait.
Love that one!
Me too!
This is a fun movie and you should watch it!
I’ll be watching the Giants.
I think Thursday and Sunday night football are bullshit. Monday Night Football was enough.
Give a game update later.
in case anyone is wondering, that is a completely defiled Buick Riviera the kids are driving. Probably a 1972.
I recognized that guy in the passenger seat, he was Ed on Northern Exposure
That’s it! I knew I recognized him!
A couple of nights ago when I watched this I was trying to figure out where that guy went to…
Ed? The one with the much younger, hot girlfriend?
The Keanu Reevesesque character.
There is also a Pacer, which had the back chopped off to make a mini truck. That thing is still around (and looking better in yellow), it was at the former Darryl Starbird car museum for a while.
That one asian dude with the giant hair should have been the star.
Dallas 3 and out, New York FG 3 – 0
Dallas. Phhht.
Pam Greer beats the shit out of people, and the lab guys are happy with the outcome.
English teacher spanks kids ‘Is that legal?’
Well, the coach did just break a dude’s neck.
Refs called a facemask against the wrong team.
By the way, RJ, Tubi has Runaway Train for streaming, one of my favorite ’80s movies.
Hint. Hint.
Cannon Films resurrected an idea from Kurosawa that had been languishing for 20 years.
Thanks. I am inching towards building out the schedule through November, so I can at least give advance notice on what I am posting week to week.
Kurosawa idea, but written by Edward Bunker. Also known as Mr. Blue.
7 – 3 Dallas
See, that’s what happens when AI drives a car!
Notice the cyborgs say they have to go procure another car. Oddly, the other car is an identical Taurus.
New York FG, 7 – 6
Fuck
Exactly
13 – 6 Dallas
Dallas is only winning because it’s early. They’ll choke like pantomime William Shatner in the 4th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCUA9Bh_I10
I don’t know how it works, but the FreeTube app is still ad-free despite google cracking down on adware browsers. Brave has fallen, the AdBlock browser for Android has fallen, but somehow the FreeTube app works. And not with blacking out and muting ads and autoskipping when the option becomes available, the ads simply have no effect. I don’t understand it. Maybe it’s a honeypot from google to… do what, exactly? I have no idea. Channel the truly dedicated to not quit using youtube, maybe. But I won’t pay those censorious Marxists a cent.
The YouTube downloaders still work too.
Brave still blocks ads for me on youtube, tubi and amazon prime.
Same, and on most sites. It is a battle as Brave overrides the latest technology. YouTube has not won.
Rubber Pam Greer nipples!
Nice all around make-up appliance work.
It really was! I have not looked to see if the same crew was used for Class of 1984. That would be my assumption, is that Mark Lester probably carried a lot of the crew with him. In Class of 1984, a teacher saws off the arm of one of the punks with a table saw. Great effects!
I miss most of these because I’m usually at work Thursday night, but I want to thank you RJ, this is a great feature for the site.
Glad to have you! Hopefully you will skyve off work a little in October. I found a few new movies for you, in addition to the older stuff.
Evil libertarians will cut The Department of Educational Defense!
Cyborgs Local Union #1011101
I like the cast. Pam Grier?(hubba hubba) Stacey Keach and Malcolm McDowell.
Winner.
I can’t wait to eat it.
goddamit. WATCH it.
Brings a new meaning to “consuming media.”
Riiiight.
*puts Aloysious on a list*
Is wanting to eat Pam Grier list worthy?
What amazes me is Pam acted in this film a year and a half after a doctor told her she had cancer and would only live 18 more months.
She looks amazing and did beat cancer, and is still with us.
You wanted to consume it. Makes sense, you logical beast.
Late the game…
No qualms here because even not in the space sector that the FAA magically gobbled up, Whitaker has be a complete failure.
He is backing the fines because of the extreme shortfalls in budget mismanagement in the ATO (Air Traffic Organization) and the GAO report highlights all of this. He is hoping to levy these fines to fill in the holes of these shortfalls.
14 – 9, Dallas
Dallas choking in 3… 2… 1…
I hope so, but their defense is playing well….
Inconceivable!
Harris in a joint news propaganda event with Zzzzelensky together? I mean..are we elevating the VP to something that it has never been? Somewhere in the bowls of the newsroom, someone must be crying out.
Also, FEC while a bullshit regulatory body if I were to not expose my libertarian cred…is completely silent? People have to be waking up to this.
Russia buys 100K in Facebook ads: RUSSIAN COLLUSION!!!!!!!!
Ukrainian PM campaigning in PA for Harris: *crickets*
VP Whack A Mole.
There’s a mosquito loose in my room making welts on my person and also my mouse cursor is less sensitive in the vertical direction than it is in the horizontal, and personally, I blame the Jews.
Dad ate the tacos I’d prepared last night, ate them right off the plate I put away in the fridge with saran wrap.
The Jews did this.
You can’t understand the diffculty. I can pan left and right with my cursor just fine, but up and down? INHIBITED.
You are mistaken. The Ukrainians have crippled your mouse. They want $100 in cash to restore it to working condition. Zelensky thanks you in advance for your cooperation.
Don’t do it! It’s a scam! Always the misspelling. It’s Zelenskyyy.
The tie in?
The 2000 year old man did a bit about saran wrap
A song for 1999.
THE song for 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblt2EtFfC4
I was dreaming when I wrote this
Forgive me if it goes astray
But when I wrote this this morning
I could have sworn it was judgement day.
This movie looks wonderful.
I just got back from dinner and will queue up the movie for later viewing.
Thanks RJ!
You are welcome! You will enjoy. It really held up well and has great pacing. And the cars are amazing, I can’t believe they were just minor set pieces after putting in all that effort of questionable customization. He must have gotten them from other productions.
NY FG, 14 – 12 Dallas
Do you have the Cal score?
My internet is out.
Gangbangers going to class? Teachers killing kids? Not The Substitue?
Correct on all counts.
Derpy should really be here to see this, but he is probably watching hurricane reports and preparing to shelter.
Stay safe, Florida Glibs!
The Sub is set in a Miami, I believe.
I can’t remember who here turned me on to “Onara Gorou,” but thank you. The first episode is the secret short tonight. I found a whole set with English subtitles.
There needs to be a crossover with Oshiri Tantei.
I always forget this is where the cool cats hang out late Thursday! R.J. and MLW, bringing the heat!
I’ve got four crazy days coming up, but I’m getting ever-confident in my stickin’ abilities. Pie and I, flipsides in the twi’night sky. Work is hysterical and I must create with the experience. I plan to write about the origin of the idea, and short (true) stories of my progression through it all. The stories are nearly infinite and well-worth exploring onto the page.
I intend to add pics of my other adventures to give y’all something to look at as well. My biggest challenge to tackle? Ignoring the medical “training” and getting comfy with the “digging” all the other phlebs and donors want when blood ain’t flowin’ quickly. Just dig and push and prod. They wanna get out ASAP with their money, so they don’t give a shit. Huh. I find myself once again in a land where characters and stories surround me. Imagine what I’ll get once I build my rep.
I’ll have to find some horror films with needles in them for October…
Nightmare on Elm Street 3, American Mary?, Reanimator
Infection
People are ever so terrified of them. (Rightly. I am glad I can’t *remember* convincing a child it was proper for a stranger to stab them with a needle. For “medical reasons.” Fuck. I don’t want polio. Give me that shit. I’m just glad I don’t remember.)
Nurse Ratched seems the most non-jump ‘scary.’ For your bag, Hellraiser is the obvious one, but a. I’ve never seen it, and b. even I know it has nothing really to do with needles. c. (I think.)
I have a good spatter of blood on my left shoe and have cleaned up blood for many, often not (really) my fault. It ain’t *as* often as one would think, but I’d say a daily occurrence to some degree.
It’s also a good moral victory for us: Everyone gains in this contract for blood. (Plasma.) I ‘get’ to “stick” them. This is a perfect opportunity for me to add fun for me and all.
The antagonist in Hellraiser is Pinhead, so those are pins, not needles.
Sat in a meeting today for relocation of our radar and one of the sites proposed is where my cousin-in-law had built a ‘barn’. I say barn, but really its a mini warehouse. Airport officials were not pleased at the development in the area. We rejected said site proposal.
Apparently FAA dude met my CIL when surveying the land and we chatted for a bit after the meeting.
The Eric Adams charges seem like bog standard NYC real estate corruption to me. This is a setup to go after Trump in October, because no doubt he’s been involved in dozens of shady things over the decades.
“Look, the Democrat mayor is facing DECADES in prison. So it’s totally not political that we’re going after Trump for all of his past dealings.”
I can buy the ‘coming after me cause of [insert x]’ argument but gonna need to back that up cause policy of the city says otherwise.
I’ll start by pointing out these are federal charges. Followed up by pointing out that this is the type of thing the corporate press and the Ds normally assure you is not a big deal, and finally you’re racist to even suggest that it is.
I find it very suspicious that he was the darling of the party… and then he complained about all the illegal immigrants.
Suddenly the FBI is everywhere.
Why not? I think we’ve crossed over to Berea territory already.
You are a treasure R.J.
*Salutes
*Goes to bed
Long, long weeks ahead sir. But once I move into the new stately R.J. mansion, there will be room for visitors. Which is good.
This is true
Boom, on all of this. I can’t join with the film at the momo, but all is appreciated. From your take to others’ and more. October will be a fascinating (monstrous) Decision Time for you…Best of luck, onward and always.
Takin’ it to the hoop, is Chafed.
Watched Biden on the View. I’m not sure which is worse. A weak barely conscious senile president. Or the president of the United States [government, ok Boudreaux?] appearing on a daytime talk show of nattering hens.
Dallas Cowboys 20, New York Giants 15 🙁
Sad tidings. Lost my aged avatar and namesake kitty tonight. 17 is a pretty good run for a male cat but still I feel bereft. We tried so hard to keep him on this side of the turf but he had other ideas. I made him comfortable with his favorite blanket and a heating pad but couldn’t even pet him because I can’t kneel and get up anymore. Three cries so far for my best cat ever.
Sorry to hear it. 17 years is a long time to have a companion at your side.
I am sorry. Condolences to you, and hail to Festus. A fine feline.
He was the bestus. He was a good, good boy. Last cat. I can’t care properly for them anymore.
I’m sorry to hear both news.
Looks like a very sweet kitty.
He imprinted onto me as a kitten. The first cat that ever owned me as his and his alone. Like I said, bereft.
I’m sorry Festus. I had a 17 year old who had a stroke and other serious stuff. We put her down. The sense of loss can be terrible.
Thanks for the condolences. It’s been a rough bit.
Uffda. I’m so sorry to hear that Festus. Amazing how attached you can become to a cat. Dogs are easy. We are both pack animals.
Bonding with a cat is the next level. One of life’s great injustices is how different the lifespans of dogs and cats are from ours.
Awww. So sorry, Festus.
I’m so sorry, Festus! I now know what it’s like to have a cat claim you completely as his own, and I know it’s going to hurt someday when he’s gone. 😢
*pours out some milk for the homie*
Sorry buddy.
Sorry Festus. Just went through that with Fluffy.
One more time:
Javier Milei letting the UN have it
https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1839098892161253689?s=19
Remember when the US had principles? And balls?
“In this very house, that claims to defend human rights, they have allowed the entry of bloody dictatorships, like those of Cuba and Venezuela, without the slightest reproach.
“In this very house, that claims to defend the rights of women, it allows countries that punish their women for showing skin, to enter the committee for the elimination of discrimination against women.
“In this very house, there has been systematic voting against the state of Israel, which is the only country in the Middle East that defends liberal democracy, while simultaneously demonstrating a total inability to respond to the scourge of terrorism.”
Insert Archer quote here.
The Mexican Ron Swanson is the best Ron Swanson.
He is fantastic.
I remember watching this movie! The best part is when the enraged teacher cuts off the arm of one of “punks” with a table saw. Actually, that’s the only part of the film that I remember. Mid 80’s, drugs, drink what have you.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
TALL EARLY CANS!
Morning.
Good morning, homey, U, Sean, and Evan!
I’ve dragged myself into the office.
I should not have stayed up until 130 in the morning.
Ooh, yeah. That could make for a rough day. Hope you’re well Dewed, and please be careful on the way home!
No, the store was out of Diet Dew, I had to go with Diet Coke or risk decaffination.
Black coffee for the win.
You misspelled ‘loss’ there, Ted.
Can’t find your coffee gloves?
Coffee disagrees with me.
Argumentative beverages are best saved for long lunches.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=K33mMjsjbdA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K33mMjsjbdA
Sorry, Ted, but YouTube’s gotten so agressive with ads that I can’t watch it.
Happy Friday!
Go get an abortion today!!!! It’s downright American!!!
Wooo!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nk2iNjLYuk
🎶🎶
Mornin’, y’all. Day 1 of four consecutive 11-hour shifts. Add an hour of unpaid lunch and commute both ways, and it’s a 13-hour trot. Gotta admit, time has NEVER moved faster in a single job I’ve ever had. It’s shocking how fleet of foot the hands are goin’ ’round.
@Festus: I’m sorry for you and kitty. I’ve never been the sole imprinted one, nor caretaker, of the pets I grew/grow up with. I’m sorry I can’t imagine how hard losing a 17-year companion must be. I’m also sorry I didn’t get those years you did with her. Impossible to buy that time shared. Remember it fondly.
Keep it up Evan! Long days but sounds like you are really enjoying the work.
Morning all! It is Friday at last.
Evan, go earn that cash.
Festus, my sincere condolences.
+1
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