Episodes
Friday Oct 27, 2017
Evils of the Night (1985) VHS Movie Review
Friday Oct 27, 2017
Friday Oct 27, 2017
Evils of the Night (1985) VHS Movie Review
Movie Details
The runtime is 84 minutes, rated R and was released October 1985. The tagline for this film was “Alien vampires have just landed from outer space... in search of the one substance they need to survive... TEENAGE BLOOD!”. This movie was also titled “Demon’s Night” in France.
Synopsis
Vacationing teens are systematically kidnapped and taken to a strange, rural hospital, run by a mysterious group that needs their blood.
Director: Mohammed Rustam (as Mardi Rustam)
Writers: Mohammed Rustam (as Mardi Rustam), Philip Dennis Connors (as Phillip D. Connors)
Starring:
Neville Brand as Kurt
Aldo Ray as Fred
Tina Louise as Cora
John Carradine as Dr. Kozmar
Julie Newmar as Dr. Zarma
Karrie Emerson as Nancy
Bridget Hollman as Heather
Budget: $190,000 (estimated)
Production Company: Mars Productions
Distributors: MPI Home Video, Vinegar Syndrome and Gorgon Video
Friday Oct 13, 2017
Urban Legend (1998) VHS Movie Review
Friday Oct 13, 2017
Friday Oct 13, 2017
Matt and Steve discuss a Scream rip-off that's pretty good. Watch academy award winning Jared Leto and the Noxzema Girl in this 1998 slasher!
Directed by Jamie Banks. Starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Michael Rosenbaum and Loretta Devine.
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) VHS Movie Review
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Matt and Steve sit through a Chuck Norris box office bomb! It's also one of Cannon Films last pictures, BOO!
Directed by Aaron Norris (Chuck's baby bro)
Starring: Well...Chuck Norris of course, Aki Aleong, Yehuda Efroni and Roland Harrah III
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Ladyhawke (1985) VHS Movie Review
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Matt and Steve do their best to make it through Matthew Broderick's stupid ramblings. Why is this 80's fantasy so liked?
Directed by Richard Donner
Starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Cool World (1992) VHS Movie Review
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Matt and Steve discuss an early 90's reject of half animation and live action. Matt loves this film! Steve on the otherhand thinks it's Ralph Bakshi giving Paramount a giant middle finger. Stick around for an Aids PSA starring EVERYONE from the 90's!
Directed by Ralph Bakshi and starring Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger and Gabriel Byrne.
Friday Oct 06, 2017
Creepozoids (1987) VHS Movie Review
Friday Oct 06, 2017
Friday Oct 06, 2017
Matt and Steve discuss Creepozoids from 1987. Ever thought about what you would do in 1998, six years after World War III reduces the planet to rubble and kills almost everything on earth!?! Me neither but I guess we wouldn't have to sit through Godzilla with Matthew Broderick, that's a positive....right?
Directed by David DeCoteau
Starring Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins and Ashlyn Gere
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Starship Troopers (1997) VHS Movie Review
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Matt and Steve discuss this classic Sci-fi Action film from 1997, Starship Troopers, for their first VHS movie review. Remember kids, the only good bug is a dead bug! I'm doing my part....What about you?
Film Details:
Starship Troopers is rated R, has a runtime of 129 minutes and was released in the US on November 7, 1997.
Starship Troopers was based off a Science Fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein and an unrelated script called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine.
Taglines include:
-Genocide doesn't compare to this.
-In Every age there is a cause worth fighting for, but in the future the greatest threat to our survival will not be man at all. Now the youth of tomorrow must travel across the stars to face an enemy more devastating than any ever imagined.
-Since the dawn of his existence, Humankind has ruled the earth. But now the rules are about to change.
-Prepare for Battle
-The paratroopers of the future are here... and their enemies aren't HUMAN
-A new kind of enemy. A new kind of war.
-When you battle 6 trillion enemies that will eat you alive, there are only two rules... EVERYONE FIGHTS. NO ONE QUITS.
-The only good bug is a dead bug
-Mankind just became an endangered species
-Forget the insecticide, bring on the nukes!
-You can't step on these ones
-They Came to Our Planet, They destroyed our cities, But on November 7th, They'll learn, They messed, With the wrong species.
-This Fall, Tristar Pictures takes you to the front lines of the next frontier.
Director: Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Hollow Man)
Writers: Edward Neumeier (RoboCop) and Robert A. Heinlein (Starship Troopers book)
Stars:
Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico (Sleepy Hollow and Tarzan and the Lost City)
Denise Richards as Lt. Carmen Ibanez (The World Is Not Enough and Wild Things)
Dina Meyer as Dizzy Flores (Johnny Mnemonic and Saw)
Jake Busey as Ace Levy (The Frighteners and From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series)
Neil Patrick Harris as Carl Jenkins (How I Met Your Mother and Gone Girl)
Clancy Brown as Sgt. Zim (The Shawshank Redemption and Pet Sematary II)
Michael Ironside as Jean Rasczak (Total Recall, Top Gun and Scanners)
Synopsis: From the bridge of the Fleet Battle Station Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with shrieking, fire-spitting, brain-sucking special effects creatures, acclaimed director Paul Verhoeven crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein’s classic sci-fi adventure.
Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, and Michael Ironside star as the courageous soldiers who travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species. “Sensationally exciting! Like Star Wars, it’s ground zero for a new generation of thrill seekers!” Entertainment Weekly
Box Office:
Budget of $105 million (estimated)
Opening Weekend in the US was $22 million
Gross USA was $54.8 Million
Cumulative Worldwide Gross was $121.2 million
Company Credits:
Produced by TriStar Pictures and Touchstone Pictures
Distributors are Buena Vista and Columbia TriStar Home Video
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
About Analog Jones and the Temple of Film: A VHS Movie Review Podcast
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Learn a little about Matt and Steve, the creators of Analog Jones and the Temple of Film.