Gotta love how whenever a tribe of women in leopard bikinis shows up, we never see any leopards, as if they were all wiped out just to make the exact number of bikinis needed.
When they reached that point in their careers, after YEARS of Alimony to 5 ex-wives and child support to 10 out of wedlock kids, THEY would do ANYTHING for a paycheck!!!!!!
The thing about Carradine is that low budget film makers loved him. He could walk in, read a script once, and then take a nap or tell stories while he was waiting. Then when the director said "action!" he would deliver a script perfect, really good performance in one take. Then he would collect his check, shake everyone's hand and leave. His "one take" ability meant they saved a ton on time and film. He was really good to work with, gave quality performances no matter what shit movie he was in, and he saved money to hire. Fecking sold. Mitchell on the other hand was a pain in the ass, and had dodgy people hanging around whom he owed money to. In one movie his agent told the director not to give him any money as he would just spend it on the bookies. But when Mitchell turned up he started demanding his payment right there or he wouldn't act. So rather than slow up production the Director handed it over, and Mitchell took the entire check and handed it to some guys in a waiting car. Good actor but Gawd what an ass.
I’m not sure the director not even seeing any recent movies is the sole reason this film seems out of date. This has the stink on it of a movie that was shot years ago, possibly never quite completed, then just left on a shelf somewhere when the producer couldn’t get anyone to distribute it, until the home video market finally took off and they took whatever moldy old footage they had & cobbled something together to release on the direct-to-video market.
Every time someone asks me to do something difficult-moving, household chores-some mad scientist uses an arm-paralyzing ray on me. I am powerless to resist.
Jerry Warren is a personal hero of mine. While others talked, he did. And what he did was film people talking. He probably shouldn't have bothered but... that could be said for so many of us.
For primitive women, they definitely shave their armpits and legs. That would of been an interesting part of the movie if their personal grooming was shown and their hairstylist.
“Movies have taught us, the way to kill a zombie is to shoot it in the head with a shotgun, or cut off its head with a machete….which is also the way, to kill anything.” Mike Birbiglia .
There's no way this was shot in 1981, this looks late 60s as hell. Especially all the "scientific" equipment, although that would be more at home in a bad 50s movie.
He was my favorite character. The best part to me was the big fight scene where Melvin was looking around and clearly thinking what we all were, "what the hell is going on here?"
I knew it lol! I said to myself "If Mark does one of his cameos in this film, it's going to be the guy with curly hair and thing tied around his neck." At 10:30 I wasn't disappointed! Awesome review, as always, Mark! Please don't ever stop what you do. Your videos are among the best stuff on RUclips.
It's clear what's going on in the scene at 13:15 . You want to sprinkle in a little extra seasoning when you have a dead body marinating in a bathtub full of kool-aid. You want to "lock in" that delicious dead guy flavor!
This movie is like having a fever dream, while on mescaline. Thank you, Mark for another brilliant video! I'd still love to see you cover Ratboy... Another movie where I cannot conceive of how much blow was involved in pitching the movie to a studio
From Wikipedia: "Warren said in a 1988 interview with Tom Weaver, "I'd shoot one day on this stuff and throw it together...I was in the business to make money. I never, ever tried in any way to compete, or to make something worthwhile. I only did enough to get by, so they would buy it, so it would play, and so I'd get a few dollars. It's not very fair to the public, I guess, but that was my attitude...You didn't have to go all out and make a really good picture.""
The impro theatre skills are the cherry on top - the cutscenes with Mark embodying a character in scene are my personal highlight. It appears so easy and effortlessly, but melding the mundane with the absurd in this way is an underappreciated but absolutly legitimate artform and I'm enjoying it so much! Thanks and greetings from Berlin! 🍻
I freaking love this channel. It's one of the very few channels that actually make me laugh out loud. Mark, you are a legend and I hope you know how much joy you bring your viewers.
Detail freak tapping in to ask: new mic? Audio sounds better in a subtle way. 🤔 Also, cracking up at the first words being "get on your knees, you sinner!" really reminds me of my Catholic childhood.
I'm actually in the process of moving right now so I had to tear down my studio and set up a temporary studio in the meantime with very little sound treatment, I was worried that it would sound worse!
@FanboyFlicks for what it's worth, I review audio for a living and detected a slight change for the better. I hope the move is going well and your new place is fantastic!
@BarryHart-xo1oy my family sure brought the old world with them here to the new world, and my thanks to them was to leave the church as soon as I safely could 🙏🏻
Why yes, I AM a detail freak. And I am proud to be one! It started when I was nine and a half years old, and our Magnavox television went out while I was watching a Godzilla movie, and then--wait, wait, come back, I'll stop.
Katherine Victor, who plays Sheila Frankenstein-Von Helsing in this movie, was also the star of _The Wild World of Batwoman._ I challenge fanfiction writers everywhere to link these two films.
1981 was peak 70s aesthetic. It works like that most decades, the beginning of one decade is when the previous decades silliest aesthetics reach max popularity.
That that trident / pitchfork thing you kept calling a magic wand was part of a cheap kids Halloween devil's costume that was around in the 70's and 80's iirc . I think they still pop up even these days in the cheap dollar general type stores around Halloween.
ii bought this movie with my own money, on vhs, at Wal Mart.....i think when I was 8 years old. I LOVED MONSTERS, so....needless to say...this was the first time I audibly screamed th F word at the tv in front of my dad after watching it. He didnt scold me.
this film seems like the inspiration for the 1989 classic "cannibal women in the avocado jungle of death" starring shannon tweed and bill maher. as for john carradine, he was in some of the best movies ever made. "stagecoach" (1939), "the grapes of wrath" (1940), "the ten commandments" (1956) and "the man who shot liberty valance" (1962). he also appeared in such exploitation films as "sex kittens go to college" (1960) and 1986s "the adventures of taura: prison ship star slammer." he has a credit list about a mile long starring in b-pictures and big budget films and movies and tv. he's one of my favorite character actors. thanks for the review.
This had so many moments that made me laugh out loud, but the Finale with the "big payoff", the fight scene and the backup brain stuff kinda ended me. Sent me into this state of rather crying than laughing. Hilarious movie, but YOU are also just funny Mark!! Had so much fun with this one :D
Naw, see, I disagree. Dino saw a mostly naked woman tied up to a tree. It's the 1980s and he's in a group full of hairy men. So Dino saw Melvin the dog, knew it was a good excuse, and got himself away from that awkward situation. Truly a man of character. A man of class.
Two decades ago I bought this movie on a VHS tape. Watching it I developed a splitting headache and got sick to my stomach. Thinking it might have been coincidence, several weeks later I tried again and developed a splitting headache and got sick to my stomach. I was an idiot.
Watch the full movie on my channel!
The power...the power..the power!
How was this movie financed, how was it monetised and did it make profit?
No.
Oh ok oops lol
Hell no.
Gotta love how whenever a tribe of women in leopard bikinis shows up, we never see any leopards, as if they were all wiped out just to make the exact number of bikinis needed.
Once the leopards were wiped out, the women learned how to make fake leopard skin because… something or other.
I like to think once they ate all the unglates: the leopards knew they were next.
@@markiangooley The back-up brain provided them with leopard skins from The Other Side.
That is the best comment I saw today.
I love when they wear animal skin bikinis where the animal that they are wearing are from a different continent than the women are.
Man, Cameron Mitchell and John Carradine really weren't picky with their movie roles.
When they reached that point in their careers, after YEARS of Alimony to 5 ex-wives and child support to 10 out of wedlock kids, THEY would do ANYTHING for a paycheck!!!!!!
The thing about Carradine is that low budget film makers loved him. He could walk in, read a script once, and then take a nap or tell stories while he was waiting. Then when the director said "action!" he would deliver a script perfect, really good performance in one take. Then he would collect his check, shake everyone's hand and leave. His "one take" ability meant they saved a ton on time and film. He was really good to work with, gave quality performances no matter what shit movie he was in, and he saved money to hire. Fecking sold.
Mitchell on the other hand was a pain in the ass, and had dodgy people hanging around whom he owed money to. In one movie his agent told the director not to give him any money as he would just spend it on the bookies. But when Mitchell turned up he started demanding his payment right there or he wouldn't act. So rather than slow up production the Director handed it over, and Mitchell took the entire check and handed it to some guys in a waiting car. Good actor but Gawd what an ass.
And my guess is that Carradine only read his lines and not the rest of the script
@@JamesGriffinSpiteHouse After listening to those other lines being delivered, I don't blame him.
Hahahaha
Andrew Dugganwho is another fairly big name.
I mean yeah.
If you're going to be crossing an ocean in a hot air balloon, a raft seems like a good idea to pack for the trip.
Yep. My thought exactly. Seems logical. But a tornado over the ocean? Hmmm. Maybe.
And bring a dog of course. Because dogs love heights and rubber rafts!
That would be like handing oy parachutes to people boarding a plane.
@@HappyCynic No, it would be like packing emergency rafts onto a plane.
@@Vrikrar I mean... real planes often DO have emergency rafts... so....
I’m not sure the director not even seeing any recent movies is the sole reason this film seems out of date. This has the stink on it of a movie that was shot years ago, possibly never quite completed, then just left on a shelf somewhere when the producer couldn’t get anyone to distribute it, until the home video market finally took off and they took whatever moldy old footage they had & cobbled something together to release on the direct-to-video market.
I thought the same. I can't figure it out because the youngest people - who would help date the movie - have no info available about their birth year.
That's a good hypothesis, but the hair and fashions are early 80's or late 70's.
@@gregoryl.levitre9759 More like early 70s with bellbottoms and hairstyles.
It might be old with Dino sporting that Angela Davis hairdo. Or is he aiming for Linc Hayes on 'Mod Squad'?
Every time someone asks me to do something difficult-moving, household chores-some mad scientist uses an arm-paralyzing ray on me. I am powerless to resist.
Much like the ants in Whitest kids you know.
I'd love to see you edit yourself into an entire movie
"eventually middle age hits and his back gives out" 🤣
see.... this is why the doctor needed fresh DNA donors. the previous ones just... reached the end of their life spans.
Jesus Christ, did John Carradine ever say 'no' to ANYTHING?!
He was starting to get senile by the 1980s; Fred Olen Ray was able to get him to appear in films he or his estate would have declined.
Gotta respect the grind.
No is not in the great John Carradines vocabulary!
He would have picked your nose for five bucks.
Only Cameron Mitchell had lower standards.
So this is where they got the idea for the tv show Lost.
Ironically this movie makes more sense.
still makes more sense than Lost since they had written no story and made up random stuff for every new episode
Haha still no idea what's happening 😂
Jerry Warren is a personal hero of mine. While others talked, he did. And what he did was film people talking.
He probably shouldn't have bothered but... that could be said for so many of us.
The Island of Doctor Moreau meets Frankenstein meets a particularly gobbledygook rich dream
That is a very accurate description...eerily so.
It's like if a 10 year old storyboarded "the coolest movie ever" in crayon.
For primitive women, they definitely shave their armpits and legs. That would of been an interesting part of the movie if their personal grooming was shown and their hairstylist.
Primitive? I thought it was mentioned they were aliens. Maybe some species without axillary hair.
Some types of people aren't hairy.
@@gregoryl.levitre9759 Hate to break it to yah buddy. but women have underarm air...All of them. Leg hair too.
@@claytonjacobs4098 some types of people aren't hairy.
Hot air balloon and tornado. Is that how the Wizard got to Oz?
“Movies have taught us, the way to kill a zombie is to shoot it in the head with a shotgun, or cut off its head with a machete….which is also the way, to kill anything.” Mike Birbiglia .
Can you be killed by a stake through the heart?
Well, who wouldn't that kill!?
🔥 works well
To bad the lizard people won’t surface to test this
What movie is that from?
Well, Zombieland taught us to always give the zombies the double tap.
The movie that dares to say, "Hey Manos, hold my beer!"
They were consuming a controlled substance WAY harder than beer when they made this movie.
There's no way this was shot in 1981, this looks late 60s as hell. Especially all the "scientific" equipment, although that would be more at home in a bad 50s movie.
That is an island landing raft, this is it's sole function.
Obviously a proper island departure raft is an entirely different watercraft
Island-landing rafts are disposable, one use only. 😑☝🏻
I'm just glad they rescued Melvin the dog at the end
He was my favorite character. The best part to me was the big fight scene where Melvin was looking around and clearly thinking what we all were, "what the hell is going on here?"
The only character worth caring about. He was a good boy.
Same. 😁
Oh, hi Mark!
Anyway, how's your sex life?
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YOU’RE TEARING ME APART LISA!!
Mark IGNORED you hahahha
Yeah that joke has reached its limit man.
“The power, the power”.....”pull the string, pull the string”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"...glove!"
“Hardcore hammocking” 😂😂😂
In my mind: Proto-planking.
The way Frankenstein forced them on the island is right out of the kid's show, H. R. Pufnstuf.
Hello fellow pufnhead.
Also, Lidsville.
I knew it lol! I said to myself "If Mark does one of his cameos in this film, it's going to be the guy with curly hair and thing tied around his neck." At 10:30 I wasn't disappointed! Awesome review, as always, Mark! Please don't ever stop what you do. Your videos are among the best stuff on RUclips.
😂😂😂😂 mark was seamless with that edit.
I laughed so hard at 13:22 “how’d ya lose the eye?” that I was sent into a coughing fit.
I have invented a power! It makes one's foot fall to sleep whenever they sing out of tune!
It will revolutionize life as we know it!
Damn you! Damn you to off-key HELL!
(heehee)
‚Hey Dino, checkout the old man. Okay, he’s an old man, alright‘ got me, couldn’t stopp to laugh 😂
Also, if IMDb is correct, Ms. Frankenstein is played by the same woman who had the title role in the aforementioned "Wild World of Batwoman".
There's at least 3 actors from "Wild World of Batwoman" in this film: Katherine Victor, Steve Brodie and G.J. Mitchell.
Oh yes. Loved her in Teenage Zombies
@@RichardX1 I can’t believe RiffTrax apparently didn’t notice that.
Also, when you're in a hot air balloon, you have the equivalent of a burning stove over top of your head.
Wow 😮
But at least you can't steer your aircraft!
@@toweypat💀💀💀
They tried having Carradine say "Vallowink een hees grandfaddah's feetschtopps." but his dentures kept flying out so "Powah!" it was.
'Whaaat?'.
Vootshteps, vootshteps!
@@phantomofkrankor3665 Oh yeah!
In terms of his acting portfolio, John Carradine is the man with a PhD in nuclear physics who works at the university as a custodian.
"I'm not even sure if this is even suppose to be in the movie" 😂😂😂
It's clear what's going on in the scene at 13:15 . You want to sprinkle in a little extra seasoning when you have a dead body marinating in a bathtub full of kool-aid. You want to "lock in" that delicious dead guy flavor!
This movie is a perfect example of what people can do with some filming equipment, no sleep, no script and a LOT of drugs.
Sort 9f like The Acolyte.
Frankenstein's monster looks like Phil Hartman's Frankenstein from SNL skits.
I was really hoping Tonto and Tarzan would join the fight.
The hammock manoeuvre is just a more intense plank hold for the ultimate ab workout.
I love how the magic wand and teeth come straight out of a cheap Halloween store lol
This movie is like having a fever dream, while on mescaline. Thank you, Mark for another brilliant video! I'd still love to see you cover Ratboy... Another movie where I cannot conceive of how much blow was involved in pitching the movie to a studio
Don't do drugs, kids...because apparently it's really boring.
“You! You are a Sinner! That’s What you Are!”… I love it when a priest sound like a 8 year old making fun of another kid lol
I think he was supposed to be joking in the movie, though Jerry Warren doesn't make it clear
Isn't that all priests?
@@johnmcintosh8673 that's a preacher, not a priest (Mark went to Catholic school, dunno why he didn't know the difference there)
@@BGNOLA just replying to OP., bur thank you for the update on religion.
@@johnmcintosh8673 glad to help.
Waiting for Mark to insert himself into a scene is what keeps me coming back for more.
From Wikipedia: "Warren said in a 1988 interview with Tom Weaver, "I'd shoot one day on this stuff and throw it together...I was in the business to make money. I never, ever tried in any way to compete, or to make something worthwhile. I only did enough to get by, so they would buy it, so it would play, and so I'd get a few dollars. It's not very fair to the public, I guess, but that was my attitude...You didn't have to go all out and make a really good picture.""
I remember when this was "dog of the week" on Sneak Previews with Siskel and Ebert
It's hard to believe this movie was released in the same time period that Siskel and Ebert were on TV.
@@KasumiKenshirou it's the last 50s b-movie.
@@KasumiKenshirou I would've loved to have seen it in a Times Square grindhouse with an audience of winos
Yep, this was the last DOTW they would do on that show.
"middle age hits and his back gives out" story of my life
A few people with a dog in an airballoon go to an unhabitated island is basically the beginning of Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island.
The impro theatre skills are the cherry on top - the cutscenes with Mark embodying a character in scene are my personal highlight.
It appears so easy and effortlessly, but melding the mundane with the absurd in this way is an underappreciated but absolutly legitimate artform and I'm enjoying it so much!
Thanks and greetings from Berlin! 🍻
I freaking love this channel. It's one of the very few channels that actually make me laugh out loud.
Mark, you are a legend and I hope you know how much joy you bring your viewers.
I lost it at the line "Back in the lab Sheila fills out an order from for a new wig."
Detail freak tapping in to ask: new mic? Audio sounds better in a subtle way. 🤔 Also, cracking up at the first words being "get on your knees, you sinner!" really reminds me of my Catholic childhood.
I'm actually in the process of moving right now so I had to tear down my studio and set up a temporary studio in the meantime with very little sound treatment, I was worried that it would sound worse!
@FanboyFlicks for what it's worth, I review audio for a living and detected a slight change for the better. I hope the move is going well and your new place is fantastic!
@@FanboyFlicksWas this film harder to watch than the others? You said it took you longer, but was it even more painful to watch?
As someone who grew up in a Roman Catholic family,l can understand that.
@BarryHart-xo1oy my family sure brought the old world with them here to the new world, and my thanks to them was to leave the church as soon as I safely could 🙏🏻
Even the dog looked confused by the "fight" scene.
Dog: I don't know what's happening but I'm happy to be a part of it!
it's always a good day when a new WMWM video comes out
Mrs. Frankenstein needs the chemicals to make that hairpiece match. Makin' me crazy!!
Man, that Melvin the dog. What an actor.
I've had fever dreams that made more sense than this film.
Why yes, I AM a detail freak. And I am proud to be one! It started when I was nine and a half years old, and our Magnavox television went out while I was watching a Godzilla movie, and then--wait, wait, come back, I'll stop.
Katherine Victor, who plays Sheila Frankenstein-Von Helsing in this movie, was also the star of _The Wild World of Batwoman._ I challenge fanfiction writers everywhere to link these two films.
She was in Teenage Zombies too, which this movie is kinda a remake of
"Fanfiction" would require the movie to have fans.
@@KasumiKenshirouWhat a Burn!
Still waiting for my backup brain to kick in.
The final battle in this is way more entertaining than any Marvel movies have ever done.
The fight/struggle scene looks like it's going to turn into a damce number.
That would have been a great way to end the movie. Like The Life of Brian.
The problem with watching your videos while I’m unable to sleep is my laughter keeps waking my husband up.
“Why don’t you do it yourself you old bastard” lol can’t stop laughing at that
There must have been a Victoria's Secret somewhere on that island.
I used to play bass for Incoherent Circus of Random Shit.
Would love to see you drinking a nice strong beer on a collab with SBIG!
For a minute there I thought Dino was being played by Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady in the Brady Bunch.
My mind was all, "Pork chops and applesauce"
This movie does seem squarely in the early to mid 70s, not 1981.
1981 was peak 70s aesthetic. It works like that most decades, the beginning of one decade is when the previous decades silliest aesthetics reach max popularity.
@@nobo1982Why is that??
@@nobo1982 Same with 1961 was peak 50s aesthetic, look at West Side Story, for example.
@@fernandomaron87 The Wanderers is really about how the 50s ended with the Kennedy assassination.
It could've been a 50s drive in movie plot-wise; it's pretty much a remake of Jerry Warren's 50s movie Teenage Zombies
Is this film different people's acid trips all in 1 single film?
Welcome back, tooooo the show....I love it man. Great stuff.
That that trident / pitchfork thing you kept calling a magic wand was part of a cheap kids Halloween devil's costume that was around in the 70's and 80's iirc . I think they still pop up even these days in the cheap dollar general type stores around Halloween.
yeah, I had one as a kid in the 70s
Arm guy has mid-70s James Caan vibes.
Quiet now, children. Papa Mark is going to tell us another story.
What Happened to John Carraidinew? He went from being a Legendary Actor to appearing a floating head in Crap like this in his old age.
Same thing that happened to Bela Lugosi, I guess. Even legendary actors have bills to pay.
@@Vox-Multis These actors ned to retire a lot earlier than thy do.
@@SnarkierThan-U-R Like I said - bills to pay. You'd be surprised how little even the most iconic actors made from the movies that made them famous.
@@Vox-Multis Carradine had a lot of kids and four wives' worth of alimony to cover.
Maybe he just liked working. There have been a few actors that just enjoyed staying busy and took whatever roles filled-up the year.
Please please don’t ever stop doing these movie reviews ❤
Jheez! So glad Marvin made it…..
I thought the women were cooking Melvin the dog at first. LOL.
That brain is clearly made out of ground beef!
ii bought this movie with my own money, on vhs, at Wal Mart.....i think when I was 8 years old. I LOVED MONSTERS, so....needless to say...this was the first time I audibly screamed th F word at the tv in front of my dad after watching it. He didnt scold me.
Why would he care, he let you buy this movie after all
I’m sure he understood. lol
Dino, Mark and Melvin
On a routine expedition
Met the greatest tornado ever known
Worthy of song…
this film seems like the inspiration for the 1989 classic "cannibal women in the avocado jungle of death" starring shannon tweed and bill maher. as for john carradine, he was in some of the best movies ever made. "stagecoach" (1939), "the grapes of wrath" (1940), "the ten commandments" (1956) and "the man who shot liberty valance" (1962). he also appeared in such exploitation films as "sex kittens go to college" (1960) and 1986s "the adventures of taura: prison ship star slammer." he has a credit list about a mile long starring in b-pictures and big budget films and movies and tv. he's one of my favorite character actors. thanks for the review.
The “Mr. Full Ass” edit is gold😂
"Hard-core hammocking..." --reminds me of my youth!
"I hope you're following all this cos I'M....not."
Why do his friends start grabbing him every time his hand gets paralysed?
That's how they did emotional support in the '70s. I mean, 1981.
...guilt?
Well, they didn't seem very interested in impregnating the women...
Fun Fact
Melvin the dog
was player by a young Chuck Norris!
Seagal vs. Frankenstein:
Who you got?
Environmental Shamalan wins.
Game over... Eye open. Cut. Credits.
When I saw John Carradine at the beginning I just said "Okay -here we go."
With everything going on in my country, I really needed this tonight. Thanks, man!
Ha, at 10:48 I was like “ that dude looks a lot like you”
This had so many moments that made me laugh out loud, but the Finale with the "big payoff", the fight scene and the backup brain stuff kinda ended me. Sent me into this state of rather crying than laughing. Hilarious movie, but YOU are also just funny Mark!! Had so much fun with this one :D
Mark, you got me again! When you inserted yourself seamlessly into the movie, i thought "that guy in the yellow shirt looks sooo familiar" LOL
I loved the wig.
This film was mentioned on Siskel and Ebert's show as one of their Dogs of the Week or Stinkers of the Week or something.
I didn't know Morrie Kessler was in show biz before he opened his wig shop. You learn something new everyday.
".... cut them in half with a machine-gun?" Now WHY didn't WE think of that.
LEGEND!
Naw, see, I disagree. Dino saw a mostly naked woman tied up to a tree. It's the 1980s and he's in a group full of hairy men. So Dino saw Melvin the dog, knew it was a good excuse, and got himself away from that awkward situation. Truly a man of character. A man of class.
Stuck on an island…first thing we do is abandon the raft!
Two decades ago I bought this movie on a VHS tape. Watching it I developed a splitting headache and got sick to my stomach. Thinking it might have been coincidence, several weeks later I tried again and developed a splitting headache and got sick to my stomach. I was an idiot.
Leopard fur bikini wearing Amazon smoking a skull bong is now my partner's chosen Halloween costume.
@18:12. This scene is so hilariously stupid. 😅
Today I learned that, due to my lack of a backup brain, I'm not a scientist.
" I hope you're following all of this, because I'm not"
Holy sh*it, they dragged Cameron Mitchell of Tums Festival fame into this!