I had the pleasure of visiting the set at Pinewood and interview the creature fx guys. Years later I became friends with the amazing Bill Hootkins through my radio work...so sad he passed away far too soon. This was a great movie, and the creature fx guys later went on to lead the work on Farscape and many other great sci-fi to shows and movies.
Besides Brad Dourif playing Chucky. This is his second best villain in his career. Dude didn't get the respect he should have in Hollywood. Played a great psychopath no matter what he played in.
After watching this film, I could easily see Stephen Norrington doing a DOOM film back then. And having Brad Dourif playing some Betruger-like villain in this hypothetical.
I have this on DVD but I didn't know how gimped it was. You left out Yutani randomly yelling out "Shroyuken!" in one action scene, lol. Pretty entertaining movie still despite the editing.
Quick fun facts: David S. Goyer and Stephen Norrington worked togther on Blade. They apparently didn't like each other or rather Norrington always put Goyer down. Wonder how true that is since Brad Dourif's "Agent of Chaos" monologue is strikingly similar to Heath Ledger's Joker in "The Dark Knight", which was written by Goyer. Also, Brad Dourif was supposedly Tim Burton's first choice to play the Joker in 1989 Batman.
Honestly this movie is awesome. All actors are good, effects still hold up, some cheesy sound effects here and there but I believe that was intentional, just like the callbacks to other movies like Terminator, Aliens, etc. And of course, Brad Dourif is the cherry on top.
Interesting to see Richard Brake here. He's probably more familiar today as Joe Chill from Batman Begins, the murderer of the Waynes. He's also the Night's King in Game of Thrones. That scene of him and Brad Dourif spitting was hilarious.
I love your channel! It's like the complete opposite of CinemaSins. Cinema Sins shits on movies and u point out the good things! Keep it up. You will be a big hit one day I just know it.
"I just hope the director's cut gets an official release at some point in the near future" . . . . . 9 years later we finally get it! Well it was technically less than a decade so that counts as near don't it!
I never understand when an unrated version of a film gets almost no releases. Nightmare on Elm Street 5 and Scream both suffer from not having their gorier moments anywhere but laserdisc
It does make you wonder what TF goes threw the minds of studio execs sometimes. Like I keep wondering who was the coked out asshole that thought adding that horrible POS CG scene of the monster at the end of The Thing (2011) was a great idea when it had all the potential to measure up to The Thing (1982). Like I would truly love to know who okayed those decisions so I could keep an eye out for them so I could kick them in the nuts if I ever came across them. Oh yeah, and to ask him what drugs he was on at the time to ruin what could have been an amazing movie. And then I'd kick him in the balls one more time, so hard I'd break my leg (it'd absolutely be worth it).
@@dsandoval9396 That entire movie's practical effects scenes were literally thrown out after spending millions on them, not just a single scene, but ALL OF THEM. Not sure who was acting Exec at the time, but pretty sure he faced some kind of jail sentence for destroying the footage against director's wishes before the movie was altered & bombed.
I've been watching your videos for two years now and I've got to say, you make some of the most informative and high quality videos I watch. I am a huge fan and you will always have my support. Keep being awesome
Mitch Hedberg Thank you! I appreciate the support. Always glad to know the folks who have been around for years. Thanks for sticking around, it means a lot. :)
ON YT!?! Oh wow! I've only seen the US version. Of course, your comment is years old so I doubt it's still on YT but I think it's worth looking for. Even the US version was pretty damn good, I can only imagine how much better the director's version will be.
I watched it uncut as a kid, I loved it and still remember the underwear scene as one of the most memorable scenes I have ever seen. Yutani was awesome! Thanks for making this video
Stephan Norrington, helped to create loads of brilliant animatronics on Return to Oz 1985. Elstree film studios. ( all CGI now) I loved his vibe . Then I worked on “Split Second” with him where he created the Killer. Rutger Hauer. Was the Cop. P.S Mr Hauer had his own personal espresso machine, in his dressing room
THIS is the most 90's movie ever made. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the scope, the script, the depth of some of the main characters and how well realized this nightmare corporate tech company building was. Of course it could've definitely benefited from some cuts and a bigger budget. Their were some sequences that were very well done with the animatronics, and whatever puppet they used was always done well within the scale of the other actors on-set. The lighting was well done and it explored some concepts I've never really seen done. It was however, a shameless "borrower" of many cliches, but it did have at least one pretty compelling villain orchestrating the whole thing. It was nice to see some acting chops on "most" of the main characters, though the ending is a bit anti-climactic. Its also two hours long and somehow doesn't feel like its two hours long *edit* I didn't realize I was clearly watching the directors cut and it is the version I would recommend watching.
Very good review! This movie looks awesome and very funny! I have to watch it! I'm from Germany, and this is one of the rare cases, that a violent movie was in my country released uncut, but not in the U.S. Mostly it is the other way around. Many violent action- and horror-movies are only released cut in Germany, because the uncut versions were indexed or even seized. Our authorities are not really tolerant to movies. :( But thank God for the internet! :D And for Austria, our also german-speaking neighbour country, which doesn't have that problem! We import the most uncut DVDs from there. PS: Sorry for my bad English. I'm still learning.
I love everything about this movie: the cast, the sets, the story, props... Cushing, Lee and Price were the old guard, I regarded Dourif, Combs and Campbell as the new generation.
If you consider requests, I have a few: Carnosaur Videodrome Trancers (and sequels) The Slumber Party Massacre A Nightmare on Elm Street Series Sequels Proteus (1995) Hercules in New York One-Eyed Monster
I remember watching this on TV on a Saturday afternoon and having no idea what the hell I was seeing. Had never heard of it before. I think I even finished the movie.
GoodBadFlicks yeah like my parents store, but people would rather have 200 copies of "a walk in the clouds" than a section dedicated to Italian giallos and another to anime.
Just to give a update about the cut and uncut, the uncut movie is on RUclips but I won't post the link but it shouldn't be to hard to find it's like 1hr and 50 something mins.
I love this movie! I showed this too my friend and half way threw the movie he said "TURN IT OFF THIS SUCKS!!!" I couldnt beleive it so I just went too the end of the movie where the death machine falls from the top of the building onto the cop. He laughed his ass off. HOLY DONUTS!!!
very late, but this video is how i found your channel! absolutely love this movie, the names are fun references for the horror authors and the story i found very engaging and filled with tension. I know most people don't recommend piracy, but i acquired the full director's cut and the movie as a whole is amazing fun. Would love for it to get an official release, and keep making great videos
Update for those who don't know, this was released on blu ray in Germany. It's a 3 Disc Limited edition, 1 x Blu ray, 1 x Dvd, 1 x CD soundtrack. It is the directors cut, with English audio and German audio. Worth getting if you can find it, but unfortunately extremely limited.
Wish Stephen Norrington would come back to directing , I love Blade & The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , think all the feuding with Sean Connery on the set off TLOEG put him off directing a movie again,such a shame cos he is very talented ..BLADE is easily in my top 5 fav vampire flicks , btw gr8 vid as per =)
I remember renting this film back in the day. I thought it had a decent story, just hampered by its low budget. Thanks for the thorough look back at this one. Somehow, you manage to keep finding these great nostalgic gems.
Great review! This is one of my favorite films, it's always nice to hear people talk about it. Fun fact: you think the US dvd release is bad? A French dub was released on VHS in Canada, and it somehow managed to be ten times as worse. I bought a copy of it for fun a few years ago, and pretty much every scene that isn't an action scene is missing! Dante doesn't even get an introduction with Cale; he just randomly shows up and kills Ridley. It's the weirdest thing. Read that Hardware was one of your personal faves, i hope to see you talk about it soon! I first heard about it because Death Machine kept getting compared to it, and laughed a lot when i recognized Hootkins as the gross neighboor, haha.
Thank you for doing this film justice, I have always liked this movie and thought it deserved positive credit. I love Yutani's reference to Street Fighter when he is firing his gun at the Warbeast. Arrrrukin!!
I had no idea there was a good cut of this movie in existence!! I just have the VHS that I bought because of Brad Dourif! It is so severely flawed, but there is so much to love, which honestly surprised me (I've seen almost all of Brad's 90's movies, and WOW). I have GOT to find me that director's cut. We could always sense that the movie was so close to being good, but it looked like it got edited by a Death Machine. This explains so much. PS I met Brad at a Con and he is a total sweetheart. My Favorite Actor!!
What I remember most from this film was how the Death Machine was completely immune to every caliber of bullet under the sun, but the cyborg guy could hurt it with his clumsy punches.
Louis Haumont thank you kind traveler! I hope you are from this dimension and not some alternate Sliders dimension. I really could use those millions of subs :)
ok so I commented on leviathan so here is what I have to say about death machine. My story about the movie death machine is rather simple at first. I must first tell all of your reading this that I am a science-fiction and movie fan across-the-board anything from terminator to Star Trek. I don't know when I formed this memory but when I was a kid I knew of a movie that had a scene in an elevator with robotic claw/hand things... Cut to a few years later when I was at my grandmothers apartment in Boston for the weekend and she took me to the local Blockbuster. I was searching the isles like I normally would do on every Friday or Saturday evening to find the VHS copy of death machine which rather prominently features metallic claws. Being a kid at the time I can't remember how old are you immediately snapped into I must have this mode and convinced my grandmother to open up a blockbuster account that very afternoon and with heavy anticipation could not wait to get back to her apartment to watch the movie. Unfortunately the guys would have it that I would not watch the film that evening when I put the VHS tape in the player all I got was the opening credits and then of course static. Not to be outdone when I arrived home the following Monday I told my dad I had to order a movie called definition as I had found out when I found the VHS cover at Blockbuster that weekend. Two weeks later (back then ordering a movie to own took much longer than today) my DVD copy of the film arrived and all my god I'll never forget the first time I washed the movie all the way through it was simply amazing. While not amazing and Oscar worthy this film holds a special place in my heart as well as my childhood and to be honest as a science-fiction fan the design of the main creature the voice of Chucky as the bad guy and of course the overall story and or idea of this film make it as far as I'm concerned a must watch for any fan of cinema new or old. I mean seriously look at the creature effects in this film and tell me you wouldn't shit your pants if you saw this in real life. Anyway great video review and again I have subscribed to you from your leviathan video which is equally impressive. Cape Cod, MA - Qapla!
My man, as much as l love the exploring series. These GoodBad flicks episodes are phenomenal. Going through your backlog recently has my girlfriend on a kick to rewatch or see these types of l movies. I've been a happy feller.
@@GoodBadFlicks she is for sure. I kinda wish there were a streaming service for all of these movies with that particular...."charm" that you highlight well. Im finding some of it really inconvenient to see.
7:58 "Holy Donuts!" I fucking lost it at that part. It's a shame there was never a proper director's cut release, but if there ever is, I'll definitely check it out.
You are every bit as funny as MST3K. I just discovered your channel a couple days ago and I've been laughing all week. Plus, You've inspired me to watch a couple of these old gems for the 1st time in my life.
Great review as always. I love this movie. Grew up on it and a huge fan since I was 14 (year it was released) I still own the ex-rental vhs and have it dvd. Still waiting for a ultimate directors edition that's not aimed at the German Market. They don't make epic movies like this anymore. Grungy,kool cyber punk movies.
One of the first movies I owned on DVD back when the players were moderately affordable and only single layer (yes, I'm talking predating the Matrix DVD release). Such a great film. Wish I still have it :(
I loved this movie! The loser guy who gets transformed into a cybernetic super soldier goes in so hard when he jumps the death machine in the elevator and takes it on in hand to hand combat when he ran out of ammunition.
Young Rachel Weisz, Brad Douriff ,one of the most under-celebrated actors off all time(except by genre fans) and the always amazing Richard Brake FTW I loved this movie
While the U.S. cut was released on LD, P&S, the uncut letterboxed version was released on LaserDisc twice in Japan. The first release is your typical 3 sided affair for a film of this length. The second release, however, [MGLC-99136] takes up just one disc, holding the record of longest running time for an NTSC LD: 61 minutes 3 seconds on each side. This was accomplished by using CAA65s for each side. In English with (out of picture) Japanese subtitles.
Fun fact the Dante character was suppose to have a completely different look but the director and producer were too scared of Brad. Also I don't think he was acting or given any lines. He made up his role as he went along.
Just letting interesting parties know that Death Machine did indeed get a 3-Disc (Blu-Ray, DVD and soundtrack CD) collectors edition release not too long after this video was released. It's the 2 hour long version with proper wide-screen and cleaned up visuals. It seems to have been produced and sold primarily in Germany but has an English audio track, and isn't too difficult to get a hold of over the internet. The distributor commissioned some great front cover art for it as well. It's kinda expensive, but that's just how these things tend to roll. I jumped it because this has turned into one of my all-time favourite movies, waiting for it to turn in the mail!
I consider myself a movie buff who has seen a ton of weird movies most people haven't even heard of but till 2014 I didn't even know this movie existed.
Awesome movie. I go the Taiwan Laserdisc signed by Richard Brake (showed on my channel) as well as the movie poster. I haven't gotten Brad to sign it yet.
I had the pleasure of visiting the set at Pinewood and interview the creature fx guys. Years later I became friends with the amazing Bill Hootkins through my radio work...so sad he passed away far too soon. This was a great movie, and the creature fx guys later went on to lead the work on Farscape and many other great sci-fi to shows and movies.
Farscape! Love that show.
Besides Brad Dourif playing Chucky. This is his second best villain in his career. Dude didn't get the respect he should have in Hollywood. Played a great psychopath no matter what he played in.
No way. Exorcist III
Don't forget Spontaneous Combustion, it's a hard third, but easily some of his best over the top acting!
@@VerdeMorte That film is so damned bizarre and funny :)
You think THAT'S amazing?! Dude was actually up to play the Scarecrow in 'Batman 3' at one time! =)
After watching this film, I could easily see Stephen Norrington doing a DOOM film back then.
And having Brad Dourif playing some Betruger-like villain in this hypothetical.
this movie also has so many references to video games and pop culture of the 80ties and 90ties, a true gem !!!!
dude, thanks for this channel, Death Machine is one of those forgotten, underrated, but AWESOME movies I would've never seen if not for you
I have this on DVD but I didn't know how gimped it was. You left out Yutani randomly yelling out "Shroyuken!" in one action scene, lol. Pretty entertaining movie still despite the editing.
Two of the actors here(Martin McDougall and John Sharian) played ship captains in The Fifth Element.
Brad Dourif is absolutely bonkers in this movie and it is a thing of beauty.
Quick fun facts: David S. Goyer and Stephen Norrington worked togther on Blade. They apparently didn't like each other or rather Norrington always put Goyer down.
Wonder how true that is since Brad Dourif's "Agent of Chaos" monologue is strikingly similar to Heath Ledger's Joker in "The Dark Knight", which was written by Goyer.
Also, Brad Dourif was supposedly Tim Burton's first choice to play the Joker in 1989 Batman.
Honestly this movie is awesome. All actors are good, effects still hold up, some cheesy sound effects here and there but I believe that was intentional, just like the callbacks to other movies like Terminator, Aliens, etc. And of course, Brad Dourif is the cherry on top.
Interesting to see Richard Brake here. He's probably more familiar today as Joe Chill from Batman Begins, the murderer of the Waynes. He's also the Night's King in Game of Thrones.
That scene of him and Brad Dourif spitting was hilarious.
Anything with Dourif is just gold. He is easy on the eyes as well❤. I loved this movie.
I'm a bit distracted that Brad Dourif looks like Tommy Wiseau in this movie (though Death Machine came out way before The Room)
TheGirlWithTheMonsterMovieTattoos YOU ARE TEARING ME APART. oh hi mark
I love your channel! It's like the complete opposite of CinemaSins. Cinema Sins shits on movies and u point out the good things! Keep it up. You will be a big hit one day I just know it.
This guy notes the flubs as well but does it with a humorous tone, and he does point to the good qualities the films have.
+100 bonus points for using those awesome old Thundercats outtakes.
Ian Fay Samo-flange? :)
Ramey, Carpenter, and Ridley S.
That's cute.
Kids, please don't use dirty underwear to bandage open wounds.
"That Hansel, he's so hot right now" * Will Ferrell voice
"I just hope the director's cut gets an official release at some point in the near future"
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9 years later we finally get it! Well it was technically less than a decade so that counts as near don't it!
This was a pretty good movie. It was on Netflix last year. Hopefully they put it back into circulation. Brad Dourif was perfect.
I never understand when an unrated version of a film gets almost no releases. Nightmare on Elm Street 5 and Scream both suffer from not having their gorier moments anywhere but laserdisc
It does make you wonder what TF goes threw the minds of studio execs sometimes. Like I keep wondering who was the coked out asshole that thought adding that horrible POS CG scene of the monster at the end of The Thing (2011) was a great idea when it had all the potential to measure up to The Thing (1982). Like I would truly love to know who okayed those decisions so I could keep an eye out for them so I could kick them in the nuts if I ever came across them. Oh yeah, and to ask him what drugs he was on at the time to ruin what could have been an amazing movie. And then I'd kick him in the balls one more time, so hard I'd break my leg (it'd absolutely be worth it).
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That entire movie's practical effects scenes were literally thrown out after spending millions on them, not just a single scene, but ALL OF THEM. Not sure who was acting Exec at the time, but pretty sure he faced some kind of jail sentence for destroying the footage against director's wishes before the movie was altered & bombed.
I've been watching your videos for two years now and I've got to say, you make some of the most informative and high quality videos I watch. I am a huge fan and you will always have my support. Keep being awesome
Mitch Hedberg Thank you! I appreciate the support. Always glad to know the folks who have been around for years. Thanks for sticking around, it means a lot. :)
I can't help but love this movie. It's so corny it's hilarious.
I remember seeing the vhs box for this every time I went to the video store. Never rented it, but was always drawn to the cover art.
Just watched the director's cut here on YT in English. Great B movie.
ON YT!?! Oh wow! I've only seen the US version. Of course, your comment is years old so I doubt it's still on YT but I think it's worth looking for. Even the US version was pretty damn good, I can only imagine how much better the director's version will be.
Doesn't even be deserve to be called "B movie". It's way better.
@@dsandoval9396 it's still on yt, I watched it literally 3 days ago lol
that iggy azalea joke was classic
hearing that sick techno beat from the cyborg made me listen to nine inch nails after watching the video
I watched it uncut as a kid, I loved it and still remember the underwear scene as one of the most memorable scenes I have ever seen. Yutani was awesome! Thanks for making this video
That part where he rips his underwear out from under him must be where Zoolander got it.
Margot Williams you're right! Btw i love the practical effects in this movie.
Hey Didn't Deadpool rip his underwear off too?
+Erika Hill probably xD
Abe Simpson did it first.
6:48 now I realize why this seemed familiar, it was shown as "Warbeast" on Sci-Fi Channel back in the day.
Stephan Norrington, helped to create loads of brilliant animatronics on Return to Oz 1985. Elstree film studios. ( all CGI now) I loved his vibe . Then I worked on “Split Second” with him where he created the Killer. Rutger Hauer. Was the Cop. P.S Mr Hauer had his own personal espresso machine, in his dressing room
Always happy to see a new goodbadflicks episode has been uploaded
bigredcap :)
THIS is the most 90's movie ever made. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the scope, the script, the depth of some of the main characters and how well realized this nightmare corporate tech company building was. Of course it could've definitely benefited from some cuts and a bigger budget. Their were some sequences that were very well done with the animatronics, and whatever puppet they used was always done well within the scale of the other actors on-set. The lighting was well done and it explored some concepts I've never really seen done. It was however, a shameless "borrower" of many cliches, but it did have at least one pretty compelling villain orchestrating the whole thing. It was nice to see some acting chops on "most" of the main characters, though the ending is a bit anti-climactic. Its also two hours long and somehow doesn't feel like its two hours long *edit* I didn't realize I was clearly watching the directors cut and it is the version I would recommend watching.
1:32 Someone should tell James Nguyen that this is how you film a boardroom sequence.
Doug Glassman slr pnls
And not have them applaud endlessly?! Come ONNNNN!
;)
Very good review!
This movie looks awesome and very funny! I have to watch it!
I'm from Germany, and this is one of the rare cases, that a violent movie was in my country released uncut, but not in the U.S. Mostly it is the other way around. Many violent action- and horror-movies are only released cut in Germany, because the uncut versions were indexed or even seized. Our authorities are not really tolerant to movies. :(
But thank God for the internet! :D
And for Austria, our also german-speaking neighbour country, which doesn't have that problem! We import the most uncut DVDs from there.
PS: Sorry for my bad English. I'm still learning.
jay666KJ I'm with you, Manhunt is awesome
gabe6550 Thanks! I was shocked to find the german version was the uncut one. Usually its the other way around
Your English is fine.
I found this channel three days ago best thing ever
I love everything about this movie: the cast, the sets, the story, props... Cushing, Lee and Price were the old guard, I regarded Dourif, Combs and Campbell as the new generation.
Holy Donuts!
If you consider requests, I have a few:
Carnosaur
Videodrome
Trancers (and sequels)
The Slumber Party Massacre
A Nightmare on Elm Street Series Sequels
Proteus (1995)
Hercules in New York
One-Eyed Monster
How about Mind Hunters for being Saw before the movie was even a concept?
5:48 The most 90s martial arts removal of patterned boxer shorts ever! Raaaaarrrrr!!
"GET. ON. MY. LEVEL." Comedy gold. Couldn't stop laughing on that part
metallifreak27ify thanks! :)
I remember watching this on TV on a Saturday afternoon and having no idea what the hell I was seeing. Had never heard of it before. I think I even finished the movie.
The uncut version of the movie in English is actually available on RUclips.
Yep. All two hours and two minutes of it. And its fantastic!
Yes!
It's amazing how much they accomplish with the atmosphere and feel of the movie with just a USD 6.5 million budget
I saw this movie once, in the 90s at a friends house, then completely forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me!
I remember seeing this on the self at Blockbuster. You remember Blockbuster, yes?
rob theberge I had the exact same thought when seeing that box cover. Blockbuster, oh how we miss thee. :P
rob theberge I remember them, they put all the cool mom & pop video stores out of business
GoodBadFlicks yeah like my parents store, but people would rather have 200 copies of "a walk in the clouds" than a section dedicated to Italian giallos and another to anime.
I miss Blockbusters. Heck, I miss going to any of the video stores on Fridays and renting movies for the weekend with family.
Just to give a update about the cut and uncut, the uncut movie is on RUclips but I won't post the link but it shouldn't be to hard to find it's like 1hr and 50 something mins.
Just go to my channel and you should see a movies playlist.
I love this movie!
I showed this too my friend and half way threw the movie he said
"TURN IT OFF THIS SUCKS!!!" I couldnt beleive it so I just went
too the end of the movie where the death machine falls from
the top of the building onto the cop. He laughed his ass off.
HOLY DONUTS!!!
Diabolik DVD sells an uncut English audio three disc collector's edition set.
I know I got it it has the Blu-ray & the Soundtrack :)
Man, this is one of my favourite Sci-fi spoofs. I love it so much!
5:48 - When the guy is pulling his underwear from his pants, I’m surprised you didn’t make a Zoolander joke.
very late, but this video is how i found your channel! absolutely love this movie, the names are fun references for the horror authors and the story i found very engaging and filled with tension. I know most people don't recommend piracy, but i acquired the full director's cut and the movie as a whole is amazing fun. Would love for it to get an official release, and keep making great videos
Update for those who don't know, this was released on blu ray in Germany. It's a 3 Disc Limited edition, 1 x Blu ray, 1 x Dvd, 1 x CD soundtrack. It is the directors cut, with English audio and German audio. Worth getting if you can find it, but unfortunately extremely limited.
That shark joke always gets me XD awesome video as always
Jimmy Bailey thanks!
the holly donut got a good chuckle out of me
"more like the aarp" awesome dry sarcasm! I love your humor, keep it up!
Wish Stephen Norrington would come back to directing , I love Blade & The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , think all the feuding with Sean Connery on the set off TLOEG put him off directing a movie again,such a shame cos he is very talented ..BLADE is easily in my top 5 fav vampire flicks , btw gr8 vid as per =)
***** Thanks! Yeah, he got hosed after LoEG. He is a good director, I hope he comes back as well
Aw yeah some more Goooood.... BAAAD? Flickssssssssssssss
Yes! You finally got to this movie. Awesome movie in my opinion. I hope you do Moontrap and Dark side of the Moon next.
Havoc800 Thanks! Moontrap should be later this year
I remember renting this film back in the day. I thought it had a decent story, just hampered by its low budget. Thanks for the thorough look back at this one. Somehow, you manage to keep finding these great nostalgic gems.
***** Thanks! Its a skill :)
actually, I'm amazed it only had a 6 million budget. it looks and feels much higher budget
Great review! This is one of my favorite films, it's always nice to hear people talk about it.
Fun fact: you think the US dvd release is bad? A French dub was released on VHS in Canada, and it somehow managed to be ten times as worse. I bought a copy of it for fun a few years ago, and pretty much every scene that isn't an action scene is missing! Dante doesn't even get an introduction with Cale; he just randomly shows up and kills Ridley. It's the weirdest thing.
Read that Hardware was one of your personal faves, i hope to see you talk about it soon! I first heard about it because Death Machine kept getting compared to it, and laughed a lot when i recognized Hootkins as the gross neighboor, haha.
Brad Dourif is awesome, I'll have to check this one out, I'll hope for a directors cut and try and wait for that though.
It's here. and it's on YT
Ah, Brad Dourif...it just ain’t a B movie cheese classic unless he’s in it. Or Lance Henrickson. Those guys define this genre and I love em.
5:45 that dude trying not to laugh. so great.
Hootkins played Porkins in Star Wars and was also a great character actor. He passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2005, I believe.
Thank you for doing this film justice, I have always liked this movie and thought it deserved positive credit. I love Yutani's reference to Street Fighter when he is firing his gun at the Warbeast. Arrrrukin!!
TheNorthernwolfman thanks!
Here's a film right up your alley, 976-Evil from 1988. It was directed by Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger himself! :)
The Infomaniac hell yeah!
The Infomaniac Always a classic.
+GoodBadFlicks review 976-evil an don't dial that number lol
Good movie 👍 during the boring OJ freeway chase on tv when I saw they weren't going to shoot his ass 😛 I watched 976-Evil instead 😀
I had to pause the video after near/far future. Couldn't pay attention cause I was laughing so hard!
monica Smith :)
Grover! 😂
That moment was possibly the hardest I've ever laughed at a RUclips vid.
I had no idea there was a good cut of this movie in existence!! I just have the VHS that I bought because of Brad Dourif! It is so severely flawed, but there is so much to love, which honestly surprised me (I've seen almost all of Brad's 90's movies, and WOW). I have GOT to find me that director's cut. We could always sense that the movie was so close to being good, but it looked like it got edited by a Death Machine. This explains so much. PS I met Brad at a Con and he is a total sweetheart. My Favorite Actor!!
What I remember most from this film was how the Death Machine was completely immune to every caliber of bullet under the sun, but the cyborg guy could hurt it with his clumsy punches.
This scene with ripped child arm in the bloody sink haunt me for years. Great movie
That bearded guy clearly thought he was Orson Welles.
I've known about this movie since I was a kid, and was always curious, but now I actually want to see it.
Hey I'm from the near future, and have travelled to this month of 2015 to tell you that you'll soon have millions of subscribers :).
Louis Haumont thank you kind traveler! I hope you are from this dimension and not some alternate Sliders dimension. I really could use those millions of subs :)
Umm...bad news. Your number of subscribers came up short. AND...there's a killer plague.
ok so I commented on leviathan so here is what I have to say about death machine. My story about the movie death machine is rather simple at first. I must first tell all of your reading this that I am a science-fiction and movie fan across-the-board anything from terminator to Star Trek. I don't know when I formed this memory but when I was a kid I knew of a movie that had a scene in an elevator with robotic claw/hand things... Cut to a few years later when I was at my grandmothers apartment in Boston for the weekend and she took me to the local Blockbuster. I was searching the isles like I normally would do on every Friday or Saturday evening to find the VHS copy of death machine which rather prominently features metallic claws. Being a kid at the time I can't remember how old are you immediately snapped into I must have this mode and convinced my grandmother to open up a blockbuster account that very afternoon and with heavy anticipation could not wait to get back to her apartment to watch the movie. Unfortunately the guys would have it that I would not watch the film that evening when I put the VHS tape in the player all I got was the opening credits and then of course static. Not to be outdone when I arrived home the following Monday I told my dad I had to order a movie called definition as I had found out when I found the VHS cover at Blockbuster that weekend. Two weeks later (back then ordering a movie to own took much longer than today) my DVD copy of the film arrived and all my god I'll never forget the first time I washed the movie all the way through it was simply amazing. While not amazing and Oscar worthy this film holds a special place in my heart as well as my childhood and to be honest as a science-fiction fan the design of the main creature the voice of Chucky as the bad guy and of course the overall story and or idea of this film make it as far as I'm concerned a must watch for any fan of cinema new or old. I mean seriously look at the creature effects in this film and tell me you wouldn't shit your pants if you saw this in real life. Anyway great video review and again I have subscribed to you from your leviathan video which is equally impressive.
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My man, as much as l love the exploring series. These GoodBad flicks episodes are phenomenal. Going through your backlog recently has my girlfriend on a kick to rewatch or see these types of l movies. I've been a happy feller.
Oh also ....
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Thanks! She sounds like a keeper :)
@@GoodBadFlicks she is for sure. I kinda wish there were a streaming service for all of these movies with that particular...."charm" that you highlight well. Im finding some of it really inconvenient to see.
7:58 "Holy Donuts!" I fucking lost it at that part.
It's a shame there was never a proper director's cut release, but if there ever is, I'll definitely check it out.
Michael Urban Shout Factory needs to get on this
You are every bit as funny as MST3K. I just discovered your channel a couple days ago and I've been laughing all week. Plus, You've inspired me to watch a couple of these old gems for the 1st time in my life.
Thank you very much!
Great review as always. I love this movie. Grew up on it and a huge fan since I was 14 (year it was released) I still own the ex-rental vhs and have it dvd. Still waiting for a ultimate directors edition that's not aimed at the German Market. They don't make epic movies like this anymore. Grungy,kool cyber punk movies.
One of the first movies I owned on DVD back when the players were moderately affordable and only single layer (yes, I'm talking predating the Matrix DVD release). Such a great film. Wish I still have it :(
Exploring Hardware
trustobey1016 one of my all time favorite movies
The actor killed in the elevator in Death Machine gets killed by the robot in Hardware😁 he played a creepy little sicko in Hardware 🤐
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I just found this channel today.. Amazing work, my friend.
Josh Marland Thanks!
My first watch of your channel was the review for Phantasm. and after that I started looking for more. And let me just say, I am a huge fan.
the extended cut of this is so great lol
2:27 - “It even has his name spray painted on there.”
Um, no it doesn’t. That’s clearly painted with a brush, not a spray can.
holy donuts
I loved this movie! The loser guy who gets transformed into a cybernetic super soldier goes in so hard when he jumps the death machine in the elevator and takes it on in hand to hand combat when he ran out of ammunition.
'So that's where I left the Eeeeeeee!' God damn it. That had me laughing like a dumbass for a solid ten minutes.
Loved the Aliens reference.
Young Rachel Weisz, Brad Douriff ,one of the most under-celebrated actors off all time(except by genre fans) and the always amazing Richard Brake FTW I loved this movie
I thought the War Beast looked like something built on Scrapheap Challenge.
Great film seen it when I was much younger, still holds it own today.
for those of you that don't know Brad Dourif is the voice of Chucky
I laughed the whole time!!!! Get on my level....brilliant man!!!
M Pesce Thank you! :)
While the U.S. cut was released on LD, P&S, the uncut letterboxed version was released on LaserDisc twice in Japan. The first release is your typical 3 sided affair for a film of this length. The second release, however, [MGLC-99136] takes up just one disc, holding the record of longest running time for an NTSC LD: 61 minutes 3 seconds on each side. This was accomplished by using CAA65s for each side. In English with (out of picture) Japanese subtitles.
Fun fact the Dante character was suppose to have a completely different look but the director and producer were too scared of Brad.
Also I don't think he was acting or given any lines. He made up his role as he went along.
Where did you get this information? Would love to see behind the scenes material and interviews. Does that exist?
Just letting interesting parties know that Death Machine did indeed get a 3-Disc (Blu-Ray, DVD and soundtrack CD) collectors edition release not too long after this video was released.
It's the 2 hour long version with proper wide-screen and cleaned up visuals. It seems to have been produced and sold primarily in Germany but has an English audio track, and isn't too difficult to get a hold of over the internet. The distributor commissioned some great front cover art for it as well.
It's kinda expensive, but that's just how these things tend to roll. I jumped it because this has turned into one of my all-time favourite movies, waiting for it to turn in the mail!
It's on YT even (and still not deleted as of 05/31/2024)
I consider myself a movie buff who has seen a ton of weird movies most people haven't even heard of but till 2014 I didn't even know this movie existed.
I uploaded this movie today,
long version and best quality
Ceti Couldn't find it on your channel
Awesome movie. I go the Taiwan Laserdisc signed by Richard Brake (showed on my channel) as well as the movie poster. I haven't gotten Brad to sign it yet.
Holy crap... I've actually seen this one before and I recall the box art being in Blockbusters every time I went to one as a kid! XD
This look insane, now I HAVE to see this!
Another classic.. Another older classic that is similar (I need to watch again) is "Hardware" starring Dylan McDermott.
Morgan Hanson Hardware is an all time favorite of mine.