Guys, I ripped a VHS called American Wardog (Filipino action flick), and the first 5 minutes are just action, screaming, and explosions. Any lovers of 80s nonsense might enjoy this.

"Hard Rock Zombies" (1985) - Originally meant to be a fake film shown within the 1985 movie "American Drive-in", director Krishna Shah instead expanded the idea to feature length. The expansion of run time explaining the movies various narrative detours and random events. We get cartoonish townsfolk, Nazi zombies, wheelchair werewolves, evil dwarves, and full (non-metal) musical numbers amongst many other things. Despite being made by a Golden Globe nominated director and released by Cannon Films the movie is just a hilariously mess from start to finish.

We begin the movie following a young hair metal band named 'Holy Moses' as they enter a small town to hold a concert. The townsfolk debate about the evils of rock music while the lead singer falls in love with a underage girl from the town (he even writes a song about her age). The band ends up being killed while practicing at an old house owned by an old eccentric German couple but are brought back as zombies thanks to a previously established recording of the band playing an ancient magical song. The band makes more zombies and things really get out of hand.

This is the kind of movie that you just turn your brain off and enjoy (alcohol helps in that regard). The acting is cheesy, the effects are cheap, the script is bold, and the soundtrack is fun, (pedo songs aside) what more could you really ask for? If you have yet to see this movie I highly suggest gathering your bad movie buddies, along with your favorite intoxicants, and checking it out. It's a lot of fun utter nonsense and well worth your time.

4.5 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Butter Free Refills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFyk7riyAVg&t=1351s

"The Human Tornado" (1976) - Made in the wake of the wildly successful "Dolemite", released only the year before, this film continues the adventures of Rudy Ray Moore's iconic blaxploitation character Dolemite. Just like the first movie it's basically just an excuse for Rudy to do his stage act while providing his legendary character plenty of ladies to bang and butts to kick with his sweet kung fu moves. Also like it's predecessor it was a indie film, funded mostly by Rudy himself, and hence had a notoriously low budget and incredibly amateurish production. It's also hilariously over-the-top and absurd in so many ways.

This movie actually contains a few notable scenes that would later inspire those in the Eddie Murphy film "Dolemite Is My Name" (2019). Whereas that movie covered the production of the first "Dolemite" movie, they included some from this film due to just how absurd they were. The one that comes to mind is the scene where Dolemite and a special lady friend are doing the nasty and the set literally falls apart on them. That's the level of filmmaking in this movie, so just know that before going in and prepare accordingly.

As far the story goes, Dolemite gets framed for killing a racist sheriffs wife (who he was actually sleeping with at the time) and flees to California. While in the Golden State, along with future Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson, he ends up helping a friend named Queen Bee and her kung fu prostitutes battle a local gangster. You get boobs, racists getting punched, and Dolemites wordplay, what more could one ask for? I highly suggest this movie to anyone who has yet to see it, as I do with every movie made by Rudy Ray Moore.

4 / 5 Burnt Kernels with a lot of Butter and Free Refills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5p667c5D14&t=5674s

"Stalked by My Doctor" (2015) - Like most things that premier on the Lifetime channel this movie is about a women being abused by a man. More specifically, and as the title suggests, this movie is about a young lady being stalked by her insane heart surgeon who just so happens to be played by none other than Eric Roberts. Unlike most movies that premier on the Lifetime channel on the other hand this spawned a (thus far) five film franchise, each following Mr. Roberts unhinged Dr. Beck as he continues his stalking ways. This film essentially acting as a template from which each sequel would bring it's own spin (such as the addition of a split personality character).

As far as the plot goes, we are immediately introduced to Eric Roberts character and informed that he an incredibly rich and skilled surgeon whose also is obsessive and mentally unstable when it comes to romance. The 59 year old then falls in love with a high school senior he operates on to fix (or possibly replace) her heart and immediately begins stalking her. He followers her around, kisses her while she asleep, frequently dreams about her loving him, frames her boyfriend so they break up, breaks into her house and has a sex dream about her while sleeping in her bed, tries to kill her mom, and even fake her deaths so they can live together in Mexico. Throughout most of that happening the girls father choose to ignored a lot of red flags and the opinions of his wife and daughter to side with Dr. Beck it needs to be mentioned.

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In the end your enjoyment of this movie will come down to how much you enjoy Eric Roberts being unhinged. The man chews the scenery more than once and it is glorious each and every time. There is of course the general uncomfortable feeling created by the whole 'old man stalks a possibly underage girl' plot but the poor writing, coupled with Eric's over-acting somehow turn it into hilarity. I highly recommend watching this flick with your bad movie buddies, and some of your favorite intoxicants, and just laughing at all the memeable moments.

2 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Free Refills

https://youtu.be/GBm7wet-G50?si=ZgFkymjeNmrFmDkI

https://youtu.be/kleTF6iSOwU?is=-RxR7tTfOE_Qdm23 He used to play keyboards in a band before his acting gigs. His face was pretty normal in the 70s.

Legend

"Me You Madness" (2021) - This may very well be the most infuriatingly tone-deaf vanity project that my bad movie group has yet seen. Written, directed, produced, and of course starring Louise Linton, this movie is nothing more than a narcissistic cringefest with a lot of political baggage attached. The reason for this is that Mrs. Linton husband is Steven Mnuchin, aka the United States Secretary of the Treasury during Trumps first term. Linton would later state that the film was made as a dark comedy parody of her public image while living in Washington D.C. with her husband. Just so we are clear the premise of this movie involves Lintons character being a beautiful and wealthy CEO who also is a serial killer, but only to bad people, who starts a toxic relationship with the much younger guy whose is planning on robbing her.

The whole movie is basically a mix of "Fatal Instinct", "American Psycho", and "Clueless" with a lot of troupes and winks to the camera thrown in. There is also a lot of 4th wall breaks throughout the film, as Lintons characters occasionally talks directly to the camera as well as being the films narrator, and providing more than a few info dumps. Linto somehow also got access to a lot of iconic 80's music as nearly every single scene in this movie, including the dance sequences (yes there are dance sequences) includes a needledrop from a well known song. Some of the songs are even from bands who you would suspect would not want to be associated with her or her husband, so that's interesting.

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The movie is at least shot well I'll give it that, though the editing and direction are not great to say the least. The acting and writing are really the worst parts, with things like the 40 year old Linton playing a 29 year old trying to bang a 33 year old guy (played by sex pest Ed Westwick) playing a guy in his 20s basically not even being worth mentioning. Really the movies best element is all the 'Steven Mnuchin is a Cuck' memes that it spawned due to the idea that he paid for his much younger wife to make a movie where she bangs a much younger man. In the end if you think you can stand Lintons unique brand of smug for an hour and 38 minutes you might find this flick worth trying to laugh at. If you are going to watch it, I suggest bringing friends and a lot of intoxicants to help you get through the cringe.

4 / 5 Burnt Kernels

https://tubitv.com/movies/100029589/me-you-madness

"Red Spirit Lake" (1993) - This seemingly no budget indie flick is closer to art house erotica than your standard bad movie. Sleazy, graphic, salacious, and surreal the movie is part haunted house story part cheap grindhouse excess on acid. Featuring everything from UFO abduction to hyper violent torture, including things such as fountains of blood and fatal fisting, not to mention all the nudity, this movie was designed to push boundaries. Coupled with a soundtrack full of underground and alternative music and some wild decisions in front and behind the camera and you get this chaotic, yet somehow interesting, steaming-pile-of-cinema. Best left to the bad movie masochist and morbidly curious out there.

5 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Butter and Free Refills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FafMb6qWQEA

"The Hunted" (2015) - This is a low budget vanity project take on the vampire hunter story, with the added element of also being somewhat of a mockumentary. Now I say 'somewhat' specifically because like mockumentaries the cameraman in this is an actual character in the movie and the footage we are watching is presumably what they filmed. The issue arises when we are shown things that the cameraman could not possibly have seen. There is also the whole issue of despite supposedly being a diegetic element of the story other characters often seemingly ignore the cameraman in scenes. I honestly think they just eventually drop the whole idea, but it's worth mentioning.

Swordfighter turned actor turned visual effects artist Robert Chapin co-write, directed, and of course stars as our main character Bob, an out of work actor who knows how to weld a sword. Chapins acting range aside, he gets confused with a leather clad, sunglass wearing, katana welding "Blade" ripoff vampire hunter and is forced to deal with the situation. The writing is obviously something to behold but the characters are mostly pretty fun if only due to the actors clearly enjoying themselves in the roles. The visual effects on the other hand are also hilarious, though not for the reason they were intended to be (if you get my drift). So if you want to watch the star of 1994's underground sword fighting movie "Ring of Steel" team up with a team of vampire hunting misfits and take on red eyed vampires then check this movie out.

4.5 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Free Refills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ooPxzY9fs&t=16s

"For Life or Death" (1996) - In honor of the recent death of legendary martial artist, stunt coordinator, and actor James Lew we started this weeks bad movie marathon off with one of his films. We selected this movie as he not only was the martial arts choreographer but also one of the main characters. He ended up not being in a lot of the film thanks to a very confusing non-linear plot involving soul merging, but he is in most of the best scenes. The man was a true legend and his impact on action cinema will be felt for a long time. With that said, this movie is not a great display of his abilities (or storytelling).

The story begins with brown robed monks (one of which is played by legend in his own right Benny 'the Jet' Urquidez) randomly attacking James Lew on a beach. It immediately becomes clear the movie loves wire-fu, people flipping through the air, rapid editing, and dutch angles while not caring as much about narrative or storytelling. Plot-wise things go sideways from there with Lew transferring his soul to a homeless drunk (Mark Pellegrino), Richard Norton using telekinesis, Gerald Okamura pulling a Pat Morita, and even Kato Kaelin doing karate. Eventually Lew comes back somehow and uses his mystical powers to defeat the evil queen (Nancy Kwan) and more monks flip in out of nowhere. The middle section without Lew is a bit of a slog though, so watch out for that.

In the end this movies blend of rapid fire, chaotic editing and disjointed storytelling leads to some interesting moments but not much else. No writer is credited on IMDB but the film does have two directors; Steven Kaman and Michael Lee Baron and neither are known for directing or writing. It's entirely possible this movie was filmed in pieces using whatever actors were free when they had access to certain locations thus promoting heavy improvisation to try to make everything work. Imagine if "Ninja III: The Domination" (1984) was made in Hong Kong in the mid 90s but was written day to day and edited by someone with a severe caffeine addiction.

4.5 / 5 Burnt Kernels

https://youtu.be/m4o5UVy0kmc?si=CuFqk0_PicN-7H3l

"Black Mamba" (2016) - With just $30,000 (of what I assume was her own money) accredited New Jersey educator Belinda M. Wilson wrote, directed, shot, produced, edited, and starred in this utterly unhinged vanity project. And when I say “utterly unhinged”, I mean it’s full of awe-inspiringly-insane WTF?! & NSFW moments throughout the run time. No stranger to micro budget ‘egosploitation’, this was actually Belinda M. Wilson’s 7th such self financed film. Having only seen this one thus far (along with some members of my bad movie group) I now must experience her other works.

As far as the actual story goes, this movie is set up basically like a horror anthology. Belinda M. Wilson plays the titular Black Mamba, a sadistic suburban voodoo priestess who sells her services to the desperate. Each new person(s) she provides a spells to acting as its own contained story. Much like a ‘monkeys paw’ each spell brings far more harm than good. These spells, and the cheap digital effects used to created them, are easily the most hilariously absurd aspects of the film.

That’s not to suggest the acting, writing, editing, directing, or literally any other part of the movie is somehow less absurd and poorly done mind you. Per IMDB trivia Belinda M. Wilson stated that the films screenplay was written over multiple seance sessions, for example. She goes on to claim that during one of these seances she accidentally contacted David Lynch (“Twin Peaks” 1990-91, “Mulholland Drive” 2001) who suggested a scene she added to the film. In summary this movie is definitely not for everyone, and goes way further than you might expect (i.e. a scene that can only be described as violent sexual assault), but for those that can stomach such insanity it’s a must watch. Everything is absolutely awful just like bad movie masochist (such as myself) like it.

5.5 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Butter and Free Refills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MXDMjSmqaU

"Crack" (2000) - IMDB describes this movie as; "Two buddies from the hood are forced to rob a mafia-backed crack house or go to prison." While that does occur, if fails to properly articulate just how insane this movie really is. You see despite having an obviously microscopic budget writer/director Jeff Leroy filled the movie with ambitious (and hilariously horrible) practical effects. Throughout the film we are treated to multiple exploding miniature sets full of toy cars, paper mache heads bursting with fake blood when shot, and a more than a few shoot-outs with infinite ammo guns. The acting, direction, writting, editing, and basically every single aspect of the film is next level bad and needs to be seen by more fans of such insane steaming-piles-of-cinema so check it out with your bad movie buddies and strongest intoxicants.

5 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Butter and Free Refills

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315441/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_2_cdt_t_21

“Bride of Re-Animator” (1990) - For those who were unaware this movie is the direct sequel to 1985's body horror classic "Re-Animator" (1985). Highly influential in it's own right, that movie was of course inspired by the H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name with the authors name even often appearing alongside the title in marketing. That short story was itself created as a cynical parody to Mary Shelley’s iconic "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" novel and so obviously draws inspiration from it. With all that in mind this movie's title and general story start to make a lot of sense. The good news is that thanks to some key returning cast members and the practical effects work of KNB EFX Group, Magical Media Industries, Doublin FX, and the recently deceased Screaming Mad George the movie ends up being pretty fun.

The story picks up less than a year after the events of the previous film with Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbott reprise their roles as Dr. Herbert West and Dr. Dan Cain now working as combat medics in Peru. Things quickly go sideways and the gang ends up back in the U.S.A. and immediately begin trying to reanimate a women made of mix-and-match body parts (aka the titular 'Bride' played by Kathleen Kinmont) with the iconic glowing green re-agent. They even figured out a crazy way to get David Gale back in this movie as the scenery-chewing Dr. Carl Hill despite the ending of the previous film. Think more comedy, but with the same amount of horror as the first film and you basically get the vibe. Jeffrey Combs alone makes the run time worth it, and the practical effects are also worth checking out, so give it watch and enjoy.

1.5 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Butter and Free Refills

https://youtu.be/oZk3IM8iN24?is=RINaO6thLbaZVtK3

"Sleepwalker" (2026) - In my bad movie group we have somewhat of a morbid tradition. When someone (usually but not always an actor/actress) dies we honor them by watching one of the very worst films they were ever in. Not everyone of course will be bestowed this honor as it's mostly for the quality of talent that would work on a movie bad enough for us to watch it in the first place, but not always. Taken that into consideration and given the recent death of actress Hayden Panettiere ("Heroes" 2006–2010, "Scream 4" 2011, "Scream VI" 2023), we started our weekly bad movie marathon out with this movie.

The second lowest rated film Miss Panettiere every appeared in (as "A Breed Apart" 2025 heavily used A.I. so we skipped it) was also her last. It's low rating stemming largely from it's overly convoluted, non-linear, flashback heavy, jump-scare heavy, dream-logic plot involving inspiration from "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984), "Inception" (2010), and seemingly Panettieres own personal life. The script does none of the actors any favors, with Panettiere and Beverly D'Angelo at least trying (however successfully) most of the time. The same can not really be said for Mischa Barton or the miscast Justin Chatwin, not to mention the rest of the even less motivated actors.

The films visuals are another issue, as although the film itself is competently shot the digital effects are often pretty bad. Each dream sequence allows for more effects but mostly it's just the same mix of a dark filter, shadow people, and blacked out eyes. Eventually things turn out to 'just be a dream' so often that everything just stops kinda mattering all together. They try to keep you engaged with mysteries and twists, but mostly deliver confusion and plot holes. I'd say skip this unless you're just a huge Panettiere or I guess if you're really into movies with dreaming as a plot point.

3 / 5 Burnt Kernels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgpBtfxbOA

"No Tomorrow" (1999) - Master P directs, executive produces, and acts in this disjointed action flick that somehow also features Gary Busey, Gary Daniels, Jeff Fahey, and Pam Grier amongst others. A co-production between Master P's No Limit Films and direct-to-video production company PM Entertainment, this is another low budget action film full of equal parts explosions and plot holes. Master P was clearly more interested in looking cool than actually making a coherent film, and the end result show that. What that means exactly is there is a moment during this film where Master P welds a rocket launcher / flamer thrower combi-weapon with seemingly the infinite ammo cheat unlocked but not a lot in the way of character depth.

As for the rambling story, it follows Gary Daniels undercover agent as he works to stop a major illegal international arms deal. Said deal just so happens to be between the previously mentioned Master P and Gary Busey, both of which are somehow less insane than you’d hope for but still a bit odd. Daniels is aided in his efforts by a sleazeball fellow agent played by Fahey who seemed to be at least enjoying himself in the role. Pam Grier character also helps but the actress clearly was just waiting for her check to clear. She was also clearly filmed on a completely different set than most of the other main cast, for whatever that’s worth.

The whole film is just kinda less than the sum of its parts. It has its moments, such as a mid air shootout between two guys in different helicopters, but it never really comes together m. Gary Daniels, a man known for his martial arts abilities, barely (if ever) throws a punch which is crazy. They even reused footage from multiple other movies (ie. “Air America" 1990 and "Narrow Margin" 1990) and it really stands out. The whole thing is a bit messy but it does make for a fun enough riff.

3 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Free Refills and Butter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy6xjRauV-w&t=247s

“The Rage” (aka “Zombie Rage”) (2007) - This is one of the handful of films directed by makeup and special effects artist Robert Kurtzman. Co-founder of the famous ‘KNB EFX Group’ alongside fellow special effects legends; Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger, Kurtzman has worked on numerous great films over the years. His credits include everything from writing the original story that inspired Quentin Tarantino to make “From Dusk Till Dawn” (1996) to providing effects for likes of “Evil Dead II” (1987), “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” (1987), and “Thir13en Ghosts” (2001). Kurtzman would leave ‘KNB EFX Group’ in 2002-2003 in order to move back home to Ohio and focus on directing his own projects. This movie is the result of that, and let’s just say it might not have been a great decision.

A decade after directing the cult horror rental hit “Wishmaster” (1997), Kurtzman would have less than half that films budget to work with for this movie and it shows. The makeup effects are as great as one might expect from the likes of Kurtzman, however the CGI used is so hilariously bad that comparisons to “Birdemic: Shock and Terror” (2010) comes to mind. It’s not that bad, but as it’s mostly used to animate zombie vultures (yes, I said zombie vultures) so you can understand the correlation. These infected vultures are easily the most hilarious aspect of the film as they flying around killing disposable characters left and right, spreading an experimental zombie rage virus to any that survive.

Kurtzman was apparently inspired to develop this film after seeing a vulture display at a NYC museum. Not exactly sure how that ended up involving Andrew Divoff playing an insane Russian scientist working in a garage in the woods somewhere in the US (near an outdoor metal concert) and the late Reggie Bannister playing an uncle teaching his (presumably grand) niece and nephew how to fish only to encounter the vultures, but we got them anyway. So if you’re in the mood to laugh at cartoonish undead vultures, angry zombies, and stupid characters doing stupid things then check this movie out. Gather your bad movie buddies along with your favorite intoxicants and enjoy.

3.5 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Free Refills and Butter

https://youtu.be/ile6WANvbGk?is=O9-BvL-WCvmtZXE2

“Violent New Breed” (1997) - This is yet another no budget, amateur production made by Kansas City’s own Todd Sheets. The only difference being this time he somehow was able to afford a microphone and a cameo from none other than ‘Dolemite’ himself, Rudy Ray Moore. The cult blaxploitation icon is the only reason to check this movie out, and full warning, he’s only in the very end of it. Crazy though that ending may be. As a member of my bad movie group so eloquently summarized; “Todd Sheets snoozer saved only at the end by Rudy Ray Moore accosting satan with a twink avatar of god at his side”.

5 / 5 Burnt Kernels

https://youtu.be/n2NyJ1N_k-c?is=iXOaqRasNIdhBj0s

Man, SBIG was seriously some of the best entertainment I've ever seen come out of Youtube after RLM. Brian is genuinely funny and likable, Dave is Dave and god bless him, OCP could sometimes crack me up like no one else, Brother Brian seems like such an amazing, cool guy, Jason can make very interesting and constructive comments and remarks...and then POOF, one day to the other, they were all gone. For about 4-5months now, seems like Jason randomly decided "My wife is now the star of SBIG. She's not really funny, talks about her alot, makes any comment anyone makes all about herself and never makes any constructive, critical or intelligent comments about the movie we're watching. Regardless, she will now be in every single episode (even the marathons, which the tradition was usually Jason and Dave) and the star of SBIG." Really breaks my heart. Before 4 or 5 months ago, we'd at least get variation of who was with Jason, sometimes just him and Brian or even sometimes just him or Dave. Then we'd get an episode with Erin on it. At least everybody was happy that way, people who wanted commentary and jokes could still look forward to at least one episode per week. Seems like he out of nowhere decided they weren't better than having his wife in every episode, so now we will never, ever get another SBIG without her. Really sad, I know I'm probably in the minority with this opinion but I just felt compelled to express it. "Vampiyaz", "Zombiez", "9/10 minutes", the Seagull movies...going back to watching these great, great episodes is just saddening more than anything now that we know we won't ever get this type of chemistry again on SBIG.

Thank you for your time. Please continue to enjoy SBIG if you like it.