I honestly can't remember a single thing that happened in that series. Unless the terminator girl had sex with John Connor, but I'm pretty sure that was just a robot chicken bit.
@@MrDj232 Yeah I do find it funny that that's the only thing I remember the most as well is that robot Chicken sketch. It's pretty clear they sanitized that series pretty bad it just didn't hold up as well as it could have had it been anywhere else like sci-fi or somewhere where they could have had some decent edge to it.
I especially loved how the guards at the school were literal swat police officers, and checked to see if you had weapons in your pockets or in your car. The setting of this movie really gave off a mad max style to it. The gang cars, and motorcycles especially was what reminded me of that.
@@louisduarte8763 if they ever make a third one, because the first one just left us with us wondering, what the hell happened next? Or a remake for that matter, I’d love to see them again. Just in our present time. The armor would probably be way different too.
Oh, my father worked on this film! He was one of the set designers. When I was a kid, he took me to an old building they were dressing up for a scene once. He tells the story to this day of how he had gotten a hold of a copy of the script and approached some of the producers during a shoot. He wanted to know why a script that seemed so awful was being made into a movie and asked them about it. They said they were actually well aware it was an absurd concept with an absurd script, but they were targeting niche audiences who were into this kind of thing and expected strong direct video sales from that group. An absurd script was part of the appeal that target was into, and prior experience suggested that they wouldn't have much critical acclaim or mainstream popularity but the budget-to-profit ratio was good enough that they were confident it was worthwhile to make. So that theater-bomb return was expected, the video release was always the end goal. My father hadn't really considered it from a pure marketing perspective, but it was a well-enough paying gig so he didn't really have any complaints after that.
That's cool your dad worked on it, but I just want clarification on one thing: he actually went to the producers & said ' this killer robot teachers vs. future punks movie is kinda absurd'?
@@TheBrandonTenold That's about the gist of it. I don't think he was coming at them as a critical pushback or anything (he wasn't really in a position to do that,) he just wanted to get clarification about *why* the heck they greenlit *this* particular movie when the script was, well, like it was. Reading it left him scratching his head.
It took me way too long to work out if that equaled a terabyte. Even when I did I still doubted myself and had to google it. I was right but ………that was not the most productive ten minutes of my life.
let me get this straight: a cross between mad max, the breakfast club and the terminator? this is probably where the 80's couldnt recognize themselves anymore
Really love the staging when the teachers are in robo-arm mode. The positioning is obviously to hide the practical prosthetics effects but it's extremely well done, putting their arm out of shot but not twisting their body so much it takes you out of the scene.
Certainly helps that the effects artists actually shot those scenes themselves. This movie really feels like a feature-length demoreel for Eric Allard and his many hats as animatronics creator, pyrotechnician, effects supervisor and second unit director.
I love how there's this collection of respected and educated Brit actors like Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Tim Curry and Bruce Payne among others who said "Fuck it" and just made a career in American B-movies.
Not too long ago I bought Class of 1984 on Blu Ray which I loved and I bought this movie blind not knowing if I was going to like it and to my surprise this movie has become one of my favorite movies of all time.
4:26 "As if kids bringing guns to school is going to be a problem in the future!" Yeah, especially in the year this movie is set in. I don't see anything bad happening there!
@@richardgadberry8398 Nah, chicken. Everything is chicken. BTW, do you have any relatives that are about to pass? Would you classify them as spicy or mild?
Look into the death trailer brought out this year.. You can be killed anywhere you want, a park full of kids etc.. You get suffocated in a space age pod while you watch the world go by and then they bury the whole pod.. And don't forget the old women who used the excuse of being depressed to get medically killed becsue they would only allow her to see her family if she was going to die.. So becsue of covid rules she killed herself just so she could see her family..
Man I saw this movie for the first time as a kid. For years I couldn't think of what ot was called, until I bought one of those 10 in 1 Horror movie packs of weird and B movies. And this was one of them and when I finally got to the end part when the Teens fight the teachers I jumped up and shouted holy shit. What an awesome movie
At 13:55, what's pretty coincidental is that on top of you making the Battle Droids joke, Phantom Menace came out in 1999. This movie is called, "Class of 1999," it predicted them.
For some reason I want the Old Guy from the creepy Six Flags commercials to ram through the school fence and come out as one of these androids, stabbing people with colorful metal flags
18:01 - - Should have used a Dalek "Exterminate" voiceover. Cody kinda sounds like he's channeling Michael Pare from "Streets of Fire" (where Michael's character's last name was Cody!).
13:50 Gaming trivia fact: Battledroids was the original name for the game that became Battletech and spun off into Mechwarrior and endless other tabletop and electronic games. FASA changed the name after discovering Lucas was possessive about the word droid and had a lot more money to pay lawyers with.
I caught this late one night on cable. What a weird movie. It basically pits two competing slippery slope predictions for the future against each other. I'm not sure what the takeaway is supposed to be, if anything at all!
Well, the cyberpunk genre is often considered to be a commentary on corporate domination, government corruption and society in decay. But honestly, I think the intention of this movie was to have street punks against pseudo-Terminators while blowing a lot of stuff up lol
@@robwalsh9843 "But honestly, I think the intention of this movie was to have street punks against psuedo-Terminators while blowing a lot of stuff up" Yup, and that's when the movie's at its best in my opinion.
I vote for Nemesis. That actually was playing in the theater near me, but I couldn't get to go see it. Which sucks because when I finally saw it on cable, I would have LOVED to see that in theaters.
@@robwalsh9843 And then they did the sequels and changed from actor to actress, and I guess the budget dropped. And hell, Thomas Jane is in the first one!
It's quite amazing how we thought the future would be in the 1970s and 80s. Just look at the movies that are set in 1999 or the year 2000. So so very wrong and of course dated. Although I don't recall hearing Prince's song, 1999 all that much in 1999.
It's funnier when they make movies now based on the 70s or 80s and get everything wrong. They are dealing with stuff that already happened yet they still mess it all up.
There's actually a term for "the datedness of something that was once meant to seem futuristic. " Zeerust. Buck Rogers and all the 50s and 60s raygun science fiction is a good example.
They were not “conceiving the future” based on anything. They were just telling a story . What is funny even today the safest place a kid can be is at school..
Hey Brandon, since you're doing killer robot movies here's some recommendations: *EVE OF DESTRUCTION - Gregory Hines manhunt a female Terminator with a self-destruct nuke. *CHOPPING MALL - Jim Wynorski on haywire mall security robots; plus with Kelli Maroney, Barbara Crampton & Dick Miller. *DEADLY FRIEND - Wes Craven on a brain dead girl next door Kirsty Swanson with an android chip goes batshit crazy in the neighborhood; plus, the coolest kill with a basketball and a WTF ending.
I definitely remember seeing this on one of the fuzzy channels late at night. Along with gems like Species and an episode of Bleach on Adult Swim which I still remember vividly.
The first "Brandon's Cult Movie Review" of 2022, and wow was it a blast. I gotta say, this looks like hell of a fun movie. The Action, the effects, and even the cheesy dialogue make this movie one I should keep an eye out for.
It was an old school that had been shut down, so it was cheap to film there. This movie had always amused me since I used to live a few blocks from where it was filmed and the whole thing is full of locations I recognize.
One of the best movies I ever saw. In Russia, it was a hit in Video Markets (with one-voice dub, it was fantastic). In Russia it isn't a cult classic. It is the true classic. Alongside Commando, Last Action Hero and other movies that Americans don't appreciate. How can you laugh at such fantastic movies?
Because it’s not that great of a movie? It’s definitely a cult classic, but not a “true” classic. Just because it’s considered a “true” classic in Russia, doesn’t mean it is elsewhere.
@@thetowerofbabble6307 I love Commando, because as someone who has played role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons for decades, I see it as an example of a player with a character who is so overpowered he keeps derailing the game master's plot. GM: Okay, the bad guys have kidnapped your daughter and left behind a guy who tells you you have to go to a Central American country and kill its current leader so the previous El Presidente can come back and regain power. OP player: I kill the bad guy. GM: What? OP player: I kill him. I'm gonna rescue my daughter. GM: OK, you kill him. You run outside to see the bad guys driving away with your daughter. OP player: I get in my Jeep Cherokee and chase them. GM: They've wrecked the engine. It won't run. OP player: I push it so it rolls down the hill. GM: OK, you catch up with the bad guys. They beat the snot out of you and put you on a plane with a guard headed for El Presidente's country. OP player: I kill the guard, climb out through the front landing gear, jump off as the plane is taking off, then go to find my daughter. And so on . . .
I remember renting Class of 1999 on VHS back then. It was a very entertaining movie for sure. The lead actor, Bradley Gregg also played in Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Phillip (the guy that made puppets).
"Class of 1984" featured Michael J. Fox in a supporting role. "Class of 1999" features a guy who resembles Eric Stoltz, who was the first actor to play Marty McFly in "Back to the Future", before the role was recast with Fox.
I remember when this film premiered as an HBO World Premiere film on Friday night back in the day. This is when films were fun and didn't take themselves seriously, just entertained you.
That scene where the kid gets pulled through the wall has been stuck in my head for years. I could never remember what movie that scene was from until I saw this today. Thank you, Brandon. I finally have closure.
That police officer death in the Blob was an original death scene. They copied that scene cleverly in this movie and was suggested by a makeup artist to actually do that pulling kid through wall scene in this movie. The same artist had worked in the Blob . Honestly this scene has been stuck in my head as well since childhood .It has totally screwed With my mind till today.Was shocked when I first saw it at the age of 10 in 1992. The first time I watched this movie.Two more movies have the same death scenes . One is Thirteen Ghosts and another is the found footage movie Pyramid which came out in 2014.
The idea of combining Terminator with "How do I reach these kids" movies is something I didn't know I wanted Like when the fat girl has to drop out of calculus team because her mom needs her to work to support her 7 siblings the teacher breaks her back with his knee and tells her she'll never get another chance like this if she drops out of calculus
As a ten year old watching this movie on late night cable, it really tripped me out especially the full fledged firefight scene between the gangs and the insane Terminator-esque battle at the end.
Yup. The movie should have ended with the robots blowing up the entire school with everyone in it, then, the final scene shows them headed for the next school. The End ?
Yeah it's hard to feel bad for alot of these characters deaths to be honest especially the first one. The student with the gun was going to shoot a teacher (he didn't know it was a robot).
So, it's Westworld meets To Sir With Love meets Breakfast Club? Also, why are there futuristic murderbots but people are driving Crown Vics and KLR 650s?
Stacy Keach must be the only actor alive who could rock that abomination of a "hairstyle" and yet look decidedly worse once he turns to FACE the camera!
Terminator meets Dangerous Minds, but where Michelle Pfeiffer plays the Terminator. One part I noticed on slow play was when they blew up one of the robots, you can see an old Polaroid camera as part of the pieces flying away.
Kennedy High School is south of Seattle. According to the map, maybe they caught Lincoln High School, but mostly they blocked off Green Lake, Wallingford, and especially Ravenna. They wouldn't be catching bad high school kids. It would be filled with with joggers with dogs, cyclists, college professors & students, and older upper middle class households. Not many Pam Grier Robots.
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs It's been so long since I saw this film that I forgot that it was actually shot in Seattle and not Vancouver for Seattle. After your comment I had to check IMDb. The High School was Lincoln.
I’ve spent the last two weeks watching your videos while I have been sick and I have to say this has been arguably the best time I’ve had while being sick lol yes you need to do a Blaxploitation movie Hell I wish you would do the howling! I just will have to send a Patreon to get this done lol
Aah, Tracy Lind, one of my favorite b-movie crushes. Also Ed from Northern Exposure and the kid vampire from Near Dark. Never had a crush on those, though.
Oh Darren Burrows is the brother. His dad is the late great Billy Drago, a legend amongst B-movie villain actors! Seriously has Brandon ever done a Billy Drago movie!?
Thanks for another great review. And thank you for keeping your content so consistently funny, entertaining, and genuine. Please keep up the excellent work!
16:42 "Oh no! Bullets at point blank range! My one weakness!" 18:03 Exterminate? What do they think they are, Daleks? And if there's a perfect time to review a Blaxploitation flick, it's February.
I do like that the apocalyptic war-zone schools of the wasteland Future are actually better equipped than a lot of inner-city schools today. Humanity; boldly out-doing our most pessimistic prognosticators since, well, pretty much ever. Wait, Stacy Keach was just a weird human? They seemed to be setting-up a "the "human" commander was a secret android all along" Alien-Ash twist pretty heavily. Did they forget?
I was born in 1981 and graduated in 1999. I remember watching it a pre-teen and I was keenly aware that I’d be graduating in the Class of ‘99 and that this could be my future… but it felt very unlikely.
Yes he did one of the three I asked for. I gave him the options of zeiram, gall force Eternal story, and of course the one he went with class of 1999. Thank you for doing it.
Goddamn I HATE youtube for flagging so much of Brandon's stuff, I would've loved to have seen a version of this review with the songs he wanted to use!😭😡
…not too far off from my hometown’s school in the early 90s, we had violent gangs and it looked like war zone around where the school was built granted it was built on the site of a dilapidated stadium and adjacent to where a huge fire destroyed multiple blocks 20 years before, but still looked like that!
This sequel baffles me to no end. The original was a fairly gritty and mean spirited film about unruly teenagers and unlawfulness becoming the norm in schools. So why not follow it up with ROBOTS?!
I liked Class of 1999 II where Sasha Mitchell's character becomes a Teacher and everyone thinks he's a Robot but he's in fact just crazy after the events of this film.
Well this movie came out in 1990 back when there were a slew of terminator knock offs. You should review "Nemesis" I did like the film though, there has always been a charm to late 80s and early 90s sci-fi.
@@Henrik_Holst Nemesis is awesome, but Nemesis 2: Nebula is surprisingly decent - it is essentially The Terminator meets Predator as we have female bodybuilder Sue Price in Africa fighting a time-travelling cyborg that looks like Skynet decided to copy Predators... Or as the fans used to call it the "Predinator".
Ah, for the good old days when 1999 was THE FUTURE!
Ah for the good old day when 1960 was the future
With a cover like that why didn't you make a GI Joe reference?
Or when the Decepticons sieged Autobot City in 2005
Yeah. I got this movie as part of the Lionsgate 8 Movie Pack and I love it. And don't diss Pam "Foxy Brown" Grier.
Thanks dude, I haven't seen this one in some time.
1999 was 22 years ago?
Holy crap, I graduated high school in '99.
Holy crap, I'm old.
Me too 😩
Hey, '96 pal.
I was ten years old when this came out. Move over sonny, it's my turn at the bingo table
'91 and a thanks to Israeli art students and Gelitin B
Get off my lawn.
The guy who played the robot coach actually got to BE a Terminator in The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
I honestly can't remember a single thing that happened in that series. Unless the terminator girl had sex with John Connor, but I'm pretty sure that was just a robot chicken bit.
Patrick Kilpatrick. He's been on Star Trek DS9 and a bunch of cult movies.
@@MrDj232
Yeah I do find it funny that that's the only thing I remember the most as well is that robot Chicken sketch. It's pretty clear they sanitized that series pretty bad it just didn't hold up as well as it could have had it been anywhere else like sci-fi or somewhere where they could have had some decent edge to it.
@@MrDj232 What I remember about that show was that's where my crush on Lena Heady began.
@@robwalsh9843 also seen him as a villain on Walker, Texas Ranger and Criminal Minds
Speaking of movies set in the future: You should do Soylent Green since it is set in the year 2022.
And we now have all these foods claiming to be made from plant matter. Hmm...
Soylent green is people
Aaarrrrgggghhhhhh
Dam.
Well they didn’t quite predict how grim it would be
I’m ready to eat some soylent green, with Biden’s damned inflation I haven’t eaten in 3 days.
I especially loved how the guards at the school were literal swat police officers, and checked to see if you had weapons in your pockets or in your car. The setting of this movie really gave off a mad max style to it. The gang cars, and motorcycles especially was what reminded me of that.
If school shootings do get worse, THAT'S where things will end up.
Yeah, I mean now you have to go to the airport and buy a ticket to get that kind of treatment!
@@louisduarte8763 if they ever make a third one, because the first one just left us with us wondering, what the hell happened next? Or a remake for that matter, I’d love to see them again. Just in our present time. The armor would probably be way different too.
@Stevie Wolfe Road Warrior or the titles named Mad Max? Road Warrior was severe oil shortages that would eventually lead to nuclear war.
@@s.b.4875 They actually made a third one - sort of. "Class of 1999 Part 2: The Substitute"
Oh, my father worked on this film! He was one of the set designers. When I was a kid, he took me to an old building they were dressing up for a scene once.
He tells the story to this day of how he had gotten a hold of a copy of the script and approached some of the producers during a shoot. He wanted to know why a script that seemed so awful was being made into a movie and asked them about it. They said they were actually well aware it was an absurd concept with an absurd script, but they were targeting niche audiences who were into this kind of thing and expected strong direct video sales from that group. An absurd script was part of the appeal that target was into, and prior experience suggested that they wouldn't have much critical acclaim or mainstream popularity but the budget-to-profit ratio was good enough that they were confident it was worthwhile to make. So that theater-bomb return was expected, the video release was always the end goal.
My father hadn't really considered it from a pure marketing perspective, but it was a well-enough paying gig so he didn't really have any complaints after that.
That's cool your dad worked on it, but I just want clarification on one thing: he actually went to the producers & said ' this killer robot teachers vs. future punks movie is kinda absurd'?
@@TheBrandonTenold That's about the gist of it. I don't think he was coming at them as a critical pushback or anything (he wasn't really in a position to do that,) he just wanted to get clarification about *why* the heck they greenlit *this* particular movie when the script was, well, like it was. Reading it left him scratching his head.
"One million mega bites" Good ol' 90s, when that was considered "Lol, can you imagine that?"
Tell me about it. I got 4x that hooked up to my PS4 and I'm pretty much out of room
It took me way too long to work out if that equaled a terabyte. Even when I did I still doubted myself and had to google it. I was right but ………that was not the most productive ten minutes of my life.
Dude imagine how many Optimus prime brains we could put in that
"Been spendin' most their lives
Livin' in a robot's paradise"
let me get this straight: a cross between mad max, the breakfast club and the terminator? this is probably where the 80's couldnt recognize themselves anymore
A movie so 80's it only could've came out in 1990.
One of the more underrated b-movie horror films this was actually all around a good film in my opinion
I enjoyed it too but I was only 15 when I watched it :-)
Well, as good as a rediculous, over the top bad movie can be.
YES!! This one and Return of the Living Dead Part 3.. Two of my favorite movies from the early 90s.
I like this movie.
Really love the staging when the teachers are in robo-arm mode. The positioning is obviously to hide the practical prosthetics effects but it's extremely well done, putting their arm out of shot but not twisting their body so much it takes you out of the scene.
Certainly helps that the effects artists actually shot those scenes themselves. This movie really feels like a feature-length demoreel for Eric Allard and his many hats as animatronics creator, pyrotechnician, effects supervisor and second unit director.
I was HOPING you'd do the "tried to kill me with a forklift" reference, and sure enough, my wishes were granted.
Thanks robotic genie
Robotic genie: your welcome
I remember this being on Cinemax alot. Kind of a "Robocop meets Dangerous Minds" movie.
Except when the drone asks for the pass and shoots the offender the CEO is actually happy about it in this one.
Malcom McDowell will appear in anything, won't he? At least when he does he usually brings an entertaining performance.
John Saxon is probably the king in that. But, it is pretty close.
@@demonkingbadger6689
Actually, Eric Roberts is the undisputed king of Will Appear in Anything. Go look at his imdb page.
I love how there's this collection of respected and educated Brit actors like Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Tim Curry and Bruce Payne among others who said "Fuck it" and just made a career in American B-movies.
Don't forget Lance Henriksen
@@Estorium And Michael Madsen.
Not too long ago I bought Class of 1984 on Blu Ray which I loved and I bought this movie blind not knowing if I was going to like it and to my surprise this movie has become one of my favorite movies of all time.
4:26
"As if kids bringing guns to school is going to be a problem in the future!"
Yeah, especially in the year this movie is set in. I don't see anything bad happening there!
The foreshadowing is strong here
Hell, this year, some kids are grinning along with the rest of their families, all of them stroking their oiled semi-autos on Xmas cards!
"I wouldn't want this video to get flagged."
"This footage flagged by Toho."
....you know it is only a matter of time.
Totally :=)
Sadly movies like this never get the love they deserve. Nowadays people are TRYING to make movies like this and failing miserably!
If you want a movie set in 2022, I’d recommend Soylent Green (1973)
Isn't that people?
@@richardgadberry8398 Nah, chicken. Everything is chicken. BTW, do you have any relatives that are about to pass? Would you classify them as spicy or mild?
Look into the death trailer brought out this year..
You can be killed anywhere you want, a park full of kids etc..
You get suffocated in a space age pod while you watch the world go by and then they bury the whole pod..
And don't forget the old women who used the excuse of being depressed to get medically killed becsue they would only allow her to see her family if she was going to die..
So becsue of covid rules she killed herself just so she could see her family..
This film really gives me the vibes of something 2000AD might have published in the 80s.
That's a compliment, by the way.
Great and criminally underrated sci fi horror thriller film.
Man I saw this movie for the first time as a kid. For years I couldn't think of what ot was called, until I bought one of those 10 in 1 Horror movie packs of weird and B movies. And this was one of them and when I finally got to the end part when the Teens fight the teachers I jumped up and shouted holy shit. What an awesome movie
At 13:55, what's pretty coincidental is that on top of you making the Battle Droids joke, Phantom Menace came out in 1999. This movie is called, "Class of 1999," it predicted them.
For some reason I want the Old Guy from the creepy Six Flags commercials to ram through the school fence and come out as one of these androids, stabbing people with colorful metal flags
18:01 - - Should have used a Dalek "Exterminate" voiceover.
Cody kinda sounds like he's channeling Michael Pare from "Streets of Fire" (where Michael's character's last name was Cody!).
13:50 Gaming trivia fact: Battledroids was the original name for the game that became Battletech and spun off into Mechwarrior and endless other tabletop and electronic games. FASA changed the name after discovering Lucas was possessive about the word droid and had a lot more money to pay lawyers with.
As a member of the class of 1999 I can say this move is as accurate as a documentary.
I caught this late one night on cable. What a weird movie. It basically pits two competing slippery slope predictions for the future against each other. I'm not sure what the takeaway is supposed to be, if anything at all!
Well, the cyberpunk genre is often considered to be a commentary on corporate domination, government corruption and society in decay.
But honestly, I think the intention of this movie was to have street punks against pseudo-Terminators while blowing a lot of stuff up lol
@@robwalsh9843 "But honestly, I think the intention of this movie was to have street punks against psuedo-Terminators while blowing a lot of stuff up" Yup, and that's when the movie's at its best in my opinion.
"Bloodstains...purple stuff...hey look sunny D" omg had me rolling dude! Great vid!
Stay snarky, BT!
I find funny that They didn't name this "class of 2000", like for some reason "1999" was just about right, futuristic enough to not be cliche.
I'd say that this is a cross between Westworld and The Blackboard Jungle.
BTW: you should definitely do an Albert Pyun cyberpunk movie someday.
MOTHERBOARD JUNGLE
I vote for Nemesis. That actually was playing in the theater near me, but I couldn't get to go see it. Which sucks because when I finally saw it on cable, I would have LOVED to see that in theaters.
@@JnEricsonx Nemesis is a legitimately good shoot 'em up. I always forget how great the action is in that movie.
@@robwalsh9843 And then they did the sequels and changed from actor to actress, and I guess the budget dropped. And hell, Thomas Jane is in the first one!
@@robwalsh9843 Also one of The Matrix was inspired by. In this particular case the agents are very similar.
It's quite amazing how we thought the future would be in the 1970s and 80s. Just look at the movies that are set in 1999 or the year 2000. So so very wrong and of course dated. Although I don't recall hearing Prince's song, 1999 all that much in 1999.
I heard it all damn year.
It's funnier when they make movies now based on the 70s or 80s and get everything wrong. They are dealing with stuff that already happened yet they still mess it all up.
There's actually a term for "the datedness of something that was once meant to seem futuristic. "
Zeerust.
Buck Rogers and all the 50s and 60s raygun science fiction is a good example.
They were not “conceiving the future” based on anything. They were just telling a story .
What is funny even today the safest place a kid can be is at school..
I remember that Simpsons episode Bart was like, he's like some unstoppable never giving up guy.
I love how this movie turns into a 2-Player CO-OP side scrolling shooter at the end.
Hey Brandon, since you're doing killer robot movies here's some recommendations:
*EVE OF DESTRUCTION - Gregory Hines manhunt a female Terminator with a self-destruct nuke.
*CHOPPING MALL - Jim Wynorski on haywire mall security robots; plus with Kelli Maroney, Barbara Crampton & Dick Miller.
*DEADLY FRIEND - Wes Craven on a brain dead girl next door Kirsty Swanson with an android chip goes batshit crazy in the neighborhood; plus, the coolest kill with a basketball and a WTF ending.
Took me a while to find Chopping Mall but I finally got the Zombies Ate My Neighbors reference at least.
Man, I would have loved to attend a school like that - the "school zone" looks pretty much like the music festivals I used to visit.
Scary thing is we might actually get robot teachers in the future. 😨 🤖
Hopefully, they'll be as homicidal as the ones in this "film", LOL!
Or SWAT teams guarding school entrances.
Pretty sure some of the teachers now a days Are robots
the same way they are already making AI girlfriends
We already have them
That haircut on Stacy Keach is so astoundingly hilarious
With his eyes, I was surprised he WASN'T one of the robots!
I definitely remember seeing this on one of the fuzzy channels late at night. Along with gems like Species and an episode of Bleach on Adult Swim which I still remember vividly.
The first "Brandon's Cult Movie Review" of 2022, and wow was it a blast.
I gotta say, this looks like hell of a fun movie. The Action, the effects, and even the cheesy dialogue make this movie one I should keep an eye out for.
It is a fun (if derivative) b-movie.
@@TheBrandonTenoldlooks interesting if cheesy. I saw Stacy Keach play Macbeth on stage in 1995. This is a..different role
@@arieljacobsegalDude's got range.
I was genuinely surprised they filmed this in Seattle instead of Vancouver.
It was an old school that had been shut down, so it was cheap to film there. This movie had always amused me since I used to live a few blocks from where it was filmed and the whole thing is full of locations I recognize.
@@danheidel Do you know of any other films that were shot there?
This is basically Seattle now.
@@kf7721 LOL actually this Seattle is much cooler. The real place is much more depressing.
If they had filmed it in Vancouver, they probably would've tried to pretend it took place in New York or LA.
One of the best movies I ever saw. In Russia, it was a hit in Video Markets (with one-voice dub, it was fantastic). In Russia it isn't a cult classic. It is the true classic. Alongside Commando, Last Action Hero and other movies that Americans don't appreciate. How can you laugh at such fantastic movies?
I'm an American, and I love Commando and The Last Action Hero!
Because it’s not that great of a movie? It’s definitely a cult classic, but not a “true” classic. Just because it’s considered a “true” classic in Russia, doesn’t mean it is elsewhere.
@@thetowerofbabble6307 It's a classic there. That's all that matters.
Alright. Was just trying to explain why it may not be popular in America.
@@thetowerofbabble6307 I love Commando, because as someone who has played role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons for decades, I see it as an example of a player with a character who is so overpowered he keeps derailing the game master's plot.
GM: Okay, the bad guys have kidnapped your daughter and left behind a guy who tells you you have to go to a Central American country and kill its current leader so the previous El Presidente can come back and regain power.
OP player: I kill the bad guy.
GM: What?
OP player: I kill him. I'm gonna rescue my daughter.
GM: OK, you kill him. You run outside to see the bad guys driving away with your daughter.
OP player: I get in my Jeep Cherokee and chase them.
GM: They've wrecked the engine. It won't run.
OP player: I push it so it rolls down the hill.
GM: OK, you catch up with the bad guys. They beat the snot out of you and put you on a plane with a guard headed for El Presidente's country.
OP player: I kill the guard, climb out through the front landing gear, jump off as the plane is taking off, then go to find my daughter.
And so on . . .
I remember renting Class of 1999 on VHS back then. It was a very entertaining movie for sure.
The lead actor, Bradley Gregg also played in Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Phillip (the guy that made puppets).
I knew I knew his face but couldn't place it, ty 👏
He was also in Stand By Me as River Phoenix's older brother
He had one of the most visually uncomfortable deaths I've seen in a horror flick.
"Class of 1984" featured Michael J. Fox in a supporting role.
"Class of 1999" features a guy who resembles Eric Stoltz, who was the first actor to play Marty McFly in "Back to the Future", before the role was recast with Fox.
Yep, credited as Michael Fox and the token Brit in that one was Roddy McDowall
I remember when this film premiered as an HBO World Premiere film on Friday night back in the day. This is when films were fun and didn't take themselves seriously, just entertained you.
That scene where the kid gets pulled through the wall has been stuck in my head for years. I could never remember what movie that scene was from until I saw this today. Thank you, Brandon. I finally have closure.
There’s another scene like that with a police officer, or someone like that in the 1988, ‘The Blob’ movie.
That police officer death in the Blob was an original death scene. They copied that scene cleverly in this movie and was suggested by a makeup artist to actually do that pulling kid through wall scene in this movie. The same artist had worked in the Blob . Honestly this scene has been stuck in my head as well since childhood .It has totally screwed With my mind till today.Was shocked when I first saw it at the age of 10 in 1992. The first time I watched this movie.Two more movies have the same death scenes . One is Thirteen Ghosts and another is the found footage movie Pyramid which came out in 2014.
@@babarshah9038 Creepshow 2 came out the year before and it had a similar scene (in "the raft") .
The idea of combining Terminator with "How do I reach these kids" movies is something I didn't know I wanted
Like when the fat girl has to drop out of calculus team because her mom needs her to work to support her 7 siblings the teacher breaks her back with his knee and tells her she'll never get another chance like this if she drops out of calculus
As a ten year old watching this movie on late night cable, it really tripped me out especially the full fledged firefight scene between the gangs and the insane Terminator-esque battle at the end.
I can't stop laughing at the "ball gag and nipple clamps" comment. You are awesome, Brandon!
Fun fact: The electronic dance music artist Messiah sampled the beginning monologue to make the classic rave track There Is No Law.
I watch this year's ago when I first subscribed to Netflix. I loved it for its ridiculousness.
I gotta side with the robot teachers as the true protagonists. Those students are out of control and killing each other already.
Yup. The movie should have ended with the robots blowing up the entire school with everyone in it, then, the final scene shows them headed for the next school. The End ?
@@varanid9 If I remember right the third movie in the series mixes 1984 and 99. A vigilante teacher using weapons built by Megacorp.
The 2nd film starred Sasha Mitchell from Step By Step
Robo-spanking. That's how they disciplined unruly kids in my day.
Yeah it's hard to feel bad for alot of these characters deaths to be honest especially the first one. The student with the gun was going to shoot a teacher (he didn't know it was a robot).
So, it's Westworld meets To Sir With Love meets Breakfast Club? Also, why are there futuristic murderbots but people are driving Crown Vics and KLR 650s?
I often cheer on the killer robots in movies... but never more than in this one!
Get those squishy human punks!! :D
Thank you for this. Love this cheesy classic Class of 84 also had a very young Micheal J Fox
Always a treat when Big BT drops another cult movie review on us. Thanks for all your hard work, big guy :)
Aw hell yeah, Brandon saw my comment :) That's a pick-me-up for sure.
4:20 well, mostly due to the auto being band by federal that kids can't bring auto into school. Makes the semi-auto kids smug.
Stacy Keach must be the only actor alive who could rock that abomination of a "hairstyle" and yet look decidedly worse once he turns to FACE the camera!
Good to have you back Brandon. I can never thank you enough for these review :) it's always fun discovering new cheesy movies with you.
I mean, I was only gone for a couple weeks, but thank you!
@@TheBrandonTenold Yeah, I realized that after I posted this^^' sorry, for some reason it felt longer than that.
Terminator meets Dangerous Minds, but where Michelle Pfeiffer plays the Terminator. One part I noticed on slow play was when they blew up one of the robots, you can see an old Polaroid camera as part of the pieces flying away.
More like Terminator meets One Eight Seven.
Kennedy High School is south of Seattle. According to the map, maybe they caught Lincoln High School, but mostly they blocked off Green Lake, Wallingford, and especially Ravenna. They wouldn't be catching bad high school kids. It would be filled with with joggers with dogs, cyclists, college professors & students, and older upper middle class households.
Not many Pam Grier Robots.
The main exterior school set was done on a school in Wallingford. I was living just south of there, at the time of filming.
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs It's been so long since I saw this film that I forgot that it was actually shot in Seattle and not Vancouver for Seattle.
After your comment I had to check IMDb. The High School was Lincoln.
this is like a grimdark version of Disney's recess
I’ve spent the last two weeks watching your videos while I have been sick and I have to say this has been arguably the best time I’ve had while being sick lol yes you need to do a Blaxploitation movie Hell I wish you would do the howling! I just will have to send a Patreon to get this done lol
A blast from the past, I remember watching this on VHS back in my Jurrasic period lol
Darren E Burrows (Ed Chigliak from Northern Exposure), the son of perennial bad guy Billy Drago, was also in this.
Yeah he was the older brother that got the drugs shoved down his throat.
Aah, Tracy Lind, one of my favorite b-movie crushes. Also Ed from Northern Exposure and the kid vampire from Near Dark. Never had a crush on those, though.
I shipped Ed and Marilyn on Northern Exposure.
Oh Darren Burrows is the brother. His dad is the late great Billy Drago, a legend amongst B-movie villain actors! Seriously has Brandon ever done a Billy Drago movie!?
Lawrence Kasdan was the executive producer? The guy who wrote Raiders of the Lost Arc? Small world.
I’m waiting for a review of Insemenoid. I can’t BEAR the terror.
Thanks for another great review. And thank you for keeping your content so consistently funny, entertaining, and genuine. Please keep up the excellent work!
Yeah, Class of 1999 II was _almost_ saved by it's twist in the film. Almost....
16:42 "Oh no! Bullets at point blank range! My one weakness!"
18:03 Exterminate? What do they think they are, Daleks?
And if there's a perfect time to review a Blaxploitation flick, it's February.
I do like that the apocalyptic war-zone schools of the wasteland Future are actually better equipped than a lot of inner-city schools today.
Humanity; boldly out-doing our most pessimistic prognosticators since, well, pretty much ever.
Wait, Stacy Keach was just a weird human? They seemed to be setting-up a "the "human" commander was a secret android all along" Alien-Ash twist pretty heavily. Did they forget?
How have I missed this movie? I'm glad you found this and covered it. I'm gonna have to go find a copy to watch for myself.
You know, I don't remember watching this movie, but I really had the feeling that I have watched it before.
You too??
11:40 Like chucking a Luchador like a lawndart.
Such a great flick. Thanks for the vid
So glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks of that MST3K bit when forklifts are mentioned.
class of 1999 is midnight hbo gold, i remember they would play toxic avenger after this movie a lot
I was born in 1981 and graduated in 1999. I remember watching it a pre-teen and I was keenly aware that I’d be graduating in the Class of ‘99 and that this could be my future… but it felt very unlikely.
Blaxploitation films would be awesome! Coffey, Blacula, Cooley High. So many possibilities
Yes he did one of the three I asked for. I gave him the options of zeiram, gall force Eternal story, and of course the one he went with class of 1999. Thank you for doing it.
Well, I guess I know what i'm adding to my monthy "Insane movie" night.
I love that I can always find obscure shit like this on tubi. They've also got the second one, and Class of 1984 👍
Really? It’s on Tubi?
@@marcoantoniosalazarmatamor9496 Yes! They're all on there. I love tubi 👍
Goddamn I HATE youtube for flagging so much of Brandon's stuff, I would've loved to have seen a version of this review with the songs he wanted to use!😭😡
Damn I love this movie, watched it on Cinemax constantly back in the day! Love your channel, I want to see some Beastmaster please.
It seems to have perfectly predicted Seattle in 2020.
I love this movie, some schools are actually this bad
“Bionic tetas huh?” I will never stop loving Canadian pronunciation of Spanish. More please sir 😂
Saw this movie the year it takes place, 1999. Lol! It was on Showtime.
…not too far off from my hometown’s school in the early 90s, we had violent gangs and it looked like war zone around where the school was built
granted it was built on the site of a dilapidated stadium and adjacent to where a huge fire destroyed multiple blocks 20 years before, but still looked like that!
This sequel baffles me to no end. The original was a fairly gritty and mean spirited film about unruly teenagers and unlawfulness becoming the norm in schools.
So why not follow it up with ROBOTS?!
I think you answered your own question. Why NOT follow it up with ROBOTS?! lol
Liked the sequel but the idea of him being the original scientist's son was a odd decision.
The 80's formula
Add the following: Robots, ninjas, South American drug cartels, weird multicultural punk gangs, etc.
My grandparents describing how their daily trip to school was like 3:35
I never really cared for this one, but Stacey Keach was fun in it.
He's always good, even if, as here, the movie sucks.
He will always be Papa Titus to me.
I have no clue how you didn't do this movie years ago but I'm glad you finally did it 👍
I remember seeing this in the theatres. Good times.
I liked Class of 1999 II where Sasha Mitchell's character becomes a Teacher and everyone thinks he's a Robot but he's in fact just crazy after the events of this film.
Well this movie came out in 1990 back when there were a slew of terminator knock offs. You should review "Nemesis"
I did like the film though, there has always been a charm to late 80s and early 90s sci-fi.
Nemesis is golden! Never seen any of the 4 sequels though.
@@Henrik_Holst Nemesis is awesome, but Nemesis 2: Nebula is surprisingly decent - it is essentially The Terminator meets Predator as we have female bodybuilder Sue Price in Africa fighting a time-travelling cyborg that looks like Skynet decided to copy Predators...
Or as the fans used to call it the "Predinator".
Golly, I don't remember hearing about killer robo-teachers when I was 15!
Coolest Canadian ever. Thanks for keeping us laughing