OK - all you movie-geniuses - I need to find the name of an old movie. I want to say it came out in the late 70's, early 80's. It was a horror-satire. The main thing I remember is that it kept an on-screen body count. I know, not much to go on, but hopefully it will ring a bell for someone.
lexine, that oddly sounds like
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth,
which coincidentally starred Buffy's Julie Benz and Danny Strong. But that was released in 2000.
Did the movie you're looking for have a plot point about lawnmower-themed murders?
Nope - this pre-dates all those movies. I have tried searching for it, but am not coming up with specific enough information.
Horror parodies from after the first (American - the Italians beat us there at least twice) rash of slasher movies:
Student Bodies
Saturday the 14th
Pandemonium
I also think there might have been one called
Thursday the 12th
but that might have just been the original title of one of the other two.
Hah - Student Bodies sounds right. I'll have to google and check it out.
Sounds like that's the one, with the onscreen body count.
Now you've got me trying to remember which cheesy horror movie had the hero escape over a chasm or pit by swinging on the boom mike that had dropped into frame from above.
Watching
Aliens.
Then watching
Predator.
As I've never seen either, and both have good reviews, it seems like a better plan than the questionable
AvP..
Hey, was
Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth
even remotely as good as its awesome title implied it should have been?
I love Aliens with a deep and abiding love that knows no bounds. Ripley...Hicks...Hudson...Apone...Vasquez...and the evil that is Paul Reiser.
I finally saw
Mean Girls
and
Shrek 2
-- I can't remember the last airplane round trip where I wanted to see both movies. Enjoyed
Mean Girls
more than I was expecting (I'm on record as a sucker for the
sudden plow-down-by-vehicle
gag), and
Shrek 2
a bit less. I do prefer the original, but I think it would have been better served with a bigger screen, better audio, or at least fewer distractions. I do feel the need for an side-joke list.
I'm a bit leery of the last two cast members, but the rest strikes me as amazingly cute.
Sir Ian McKellen ("Lord of the Rings") has signed to voice the spring-loaded character Zebedee in a computer-animated version of the kids television classic "The Magic Roundabout."
McKellen joins a voice cast including Jim Broadbent ("Iris"), who will play Brian the Snail, and Joanna Lumley ("Ella Enchanted"), who is set as Ermintrude the pink cow. Pop stars Robbie Williams (news) and Kylie Minogue (news) will play Dougal the shaggy dog and Florence the girl, respectively.
Cute enough for 90 minutes, though?
Robbie Williams as Dougal? Robbie fucking Williams as fucking Dougal? Jesus, way to rape my childhood...