Squirm

Yesterday I looked through this blog as if it was written by a stranger, it had been so long since I'd posted. And then I made the mistake of mentioning Warrior of the Lost World to my husband, so we ended up watching that again. With MST3K. Alvy Singer!

Then we tried to watch the 80s comedy Gorp, which was sold to me by my husband as "It's got Dennis Quaid! You like Dennis Quaid!" Well, Dennis Quaid, usually a cutie, was looking very much like Chet from Weird Science here, and for a comedy, it wasn't funny. Well, there was one funny part, when Fran Drescher said, "I'm Evie, and I do fuck." But that was the only part, so we turned it off.

But wait, isn't the title of this post "Squirm?" Yes, it is. Another movie we watched with MST3K enhancement, Squirm was filmed a couple of hours from where we live, in Port Wentworth, GA. Now, I've never heard of Port Wentworth, despite living in this area on and off my entire life, but my sources tell me it's basically in Savannah.

Now, if there's one thing I do know about Savannah, it's that they are eaten up with ghosts up there. And according to IMDb, Squirm director Jeff Lieberman said that the house where they filmed was one of the most haunted in Georgia. The trouble is, I couldn't find anything about the haunting online. What to do?

That's why I'm posting about Squirm. I'm hoping someone from Port Wentworth, or someone who worked on the movie, will come along and tell me the ghost story of the house in Squirm. Because I love me a ghost story. Won't you please help this ghoul out?

P.S. As B-movies from the 70s go, Squirm is actually good enough to watch without robot commentary. It's rare when that happens, isn't it?

Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell

Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell is now one of my favorite MTS3K episodes. I love so many of the lines, especially "Steve's wearing his hood!" and "Potatoes are what we eat!" The only trouble is that my mind always tries to make sense of the movies I watch, and it's an effort to just give up and let the badness wash over me, focusing only on the MSTies. Guess I'll just have to practice some more.

Cam you believe they made four Deathstalker movies? God, I miss 80s video stores.

Mitchell with MST3K commentary

Oh, Joe Don Baker. It's not your fault or your character's fault that Mitchell didn't work. I find your "aw shucks" thing you've got going on endearing, especially in the scenes with Linda Evans. But the story built around you is too flimsy. The female characters' hair isn't 70s enough. You really did your best, though; I mean, Mitchell is way better than the cowboy movie, was it Final Sacrifice? Yeah, you tried too hard in that one to make "go ahead on" into your "make my day." It's too bad you don't see how Joel and the 'bots actually make Mitchell into the movie it was always meant to be. And even though I think there are too many fat jokes in the commentary, since you're not even that fat by today's standards, I have to share with you, since we're having this talk, that my favorite lines are when the MSTies sing their own version of the theme song:

Mitchell, Mitchell
Eeeeeeye on the sammich!
Mitchell (veins cloggin')
Mitchell (heart poundin')
Mitchell!

It's just unfortunate that I've put this movie on so many times to fall asleep to that I'm conditioned not to watch the last 30 minutes.

Joe Don, do you like Joel better or Mike? I like Mike. He just seems more open and sincere. Hey, remember that episode of Growing Pains when Mike Seaver (different Mike) runs for school office and has a bunch of campaign buttons made up that have the misprint "I Lick Mike?" No? Well, it wasn't that good of a show. I digress. Maybe you'd have liked this version of Mitchell better if Mike Nelson had been starring. Oh well. I hope we can still be friends. We'll always have Joysticks.