The Double-D Avenger, Blood Shack and Warlock Moon



Recently I watched three movies from MediaBlasters with Joe Bob Briggs commentary. One nice thing about this collection is that when they put a Joe Bob Briggs commentary on a movie, you know it's not worth watching without Mr. Briggs' educational ramblings.


Grandma?

The Double-D Avenger (2001) is a cheapo shot-on-video super hero/sex comedy, which sounds fun, but the featured female attraction is 53-year-old Kitty Natividad. (Joe Bob quips "She doesn't look a day over 55" the first time she appears.) Kitty not able to do action scenes or look even vaguely attractive, so you have to wonder what the director/writer/producer was thinking. Watch this one to see how many slang words Joe Bob Briggs can come up with breasts, and for the inexplicable German biker/stripper clucking-techno dance scene that comes out of nowhere.



Blood Shack (1971, aka The Chooper) is a Ray Dennis Steckler film, and it plays a lot like Manos, the Hands of Fate (1966). A woman inherits a property with a cursed house, she walks around while overdubbed narration explains every little detail as the film kills time before a brief, nonsensical burst of action scenes and twist endings. By the second half Joe Bob begins to sound almost personally offended by how little is going on in the film.



Joe Bob dubs Warlock Moon (1975) a lost classic, which by his sliding scale means it's an awful film with a couple of good scenes. A college couple hang out at a broken down spa where mysterious things happen and little old lady lurks near a locked kitchen freezer and serves mystery meat. This is one of the more obscure "civilized cannibal" movies of the 1970's, and Briggs name checks most of them as influences, though he misses the previous year's Shriek of the Mutilated, which features nearly the exact same plot.

Posted: Sun - November 13, 2005 at      

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