Author: The MooCow

Hey everybody… Jonathan Moody here back again. Sorry it’s been so long. I’ve been busy and a lot has happened in my personal life but finally I sat down and wrote this out for you all. Cause I know how much you all enjoy these (whoever actually reads these) but here it is finally. And now the MooCow can get rest easy! Anywhoo this latest IFC episode we did was the Dolph Lundgren film, “Retrograde” which I was so excited to do. I hadn’t seen it but thought we hadn’t done a Dolph flick yet we gotta find something cheesy and hopefully fun. Cheesy it was. Fun ehhhh not as much. But thankfully I had Paul Presenza and Michael McGlynn joining me. This was Michael’s first and hopefully wasn’t his last episode on Indie Film Cafe.
Here’s the story from Wikipedia:

When a deadly microorganism threatens to wipe out the entire human race, the only hope for the future of mankind is to send a special team of soldiers back in time to prevent the virus from ever coming into existence. The year is 2204. Humankind is under attack from a fast-spreading super-bug that now threatens to destroy the very fabric of human civilization. The only hope lies with Captain John Foster (Dolph Lundgren) and his elite squad of genetically resistant soldiers. Captain Foster’s mission: travel back into the past, and ensure that the first infection never happens. Now, as Captain Foster’s team races to save the world, they realize that their actions in the present could yield dire consequences for the future.

So yeah that’s pretty much the story in a nutty nutshell.

As for the film itself it starred as I said Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV “I must break you”, I come in Peace “and you go in pieces) he didn’t really have any good memorable lines in this movie. Also stars Silvia De Santis (I am David, The Gambler who wouldn’t die, Shadows in the sun, and more); Joe Montana (Not the Football Player but the actor in The Bounre Identity, Helen of Troy, Legionnaire, and more); And Martial Artist/Actor Gary Daniels (The Expendables, Tekken, Astro, and more). With a cast like that I kind of expected it to be better than it was.

The director was Christopher Kulikowski. He has directed movies like Aurora, Pluripotent (which is a short). And The Reckoning (which is also a short). The writers were Christopher Kulikowski as well as Tom Reeve, who wrote George and the Dragon and Diggity’s Treasure, and as well as Gianluca Curti who wrote I Gilda, Bad Inclination, and A Bunch of Bastards. The cinematography was shot by Carlo Thiel who also shot A Thousand Oceans, Trouble no more, and Streak.

The movie itself was your typical most likely made for SyFy type of flick. A low rent boring Terminator but on a ship. Now Terminator on a ship sounds like it could have been really cool but sadly these guys don’t really know how to make that in to a cool thing. The acting isn’t completely atrocious but we have seen better acting. The lighting, the sound all of it was competently done and so that usually gets a few high marks and praises but with a budget of approximately 2 Million dollars it should have been competent.

Michael is one of those people that looks past a lot of flaws because it’s more indie than a Hollywood movie but still damn they really didn’t know how to make this one better. If you listen to our review of it you will hear some pretty honest thoughts on it. Paul and I usually just expect better especially when you actually have a decent budget. It just makes us respect the movies that cost 500 dollars a lot more. Maybe too many cooks spoiled the soup in this one.

Well with that being said now comes the fun part where I let you know what we all rated it and what it ranks up on the ladder of stink next to. First off Paul and I gave it a 6. Meaning we didn’t hate the movie really but we have seen a lot better. And Michael was kind enough to give it a 5.5. That’s still in the meh range. Which is a Total Stink Score total of 17.5, and a Stinky Average of 5.8.. Do we recommend this movie? Probably if you are a Dolph fan and you haven’t seen it yet. Or you just need something in the background. On the Ladder of Stink it’s the only one there. This is the first and probably won’t be the last 17.5

Anyway thank you all for checking this one out… we’ll try not to keep you guys waiting for so long next time. I mean we have so many more to catch up on. This was all my fault. I totally apologize. Anyhow… The MooCow is about to tell you guys how you can find it and if there’s any kind of merch for it… take it away, Moo Cow…

Moo everyone, glad to be back! So, we gots trailerage for dis film right HERE. You can also view the moovie for freebies on YOUTUBE, as well as Tubi. Grab yerself a DVD or Blu Ray copy at Uncle Amazon! Or for you cheapskates out there (and I one of you!) you can pick it up cheeeeep re-sale at Ebay. So CineMaterial.com has a bunch of different digital posters, if u want them, as does Movie Posters 2.com; MoviestillDB.com has posters and pics from the moovie as well!The Action Elite did a write up on this flick that was pretty good, and so does Spiral of Hope, and Ramboraph4life does a video review. Dats about it for schwag, folks, but I did find a podcast review at the Ultimate Dolph Guide.

Hey everybody! Jonathan Moody back again! And boy do I have a badddd one for you guys, one that was really rough. And I have a bit of a story to go with it. But we will get to that later. I had to pick a movie that I knew was going to be bad but I wasn’t quite sure how bad til we all watched it. What is it you ask… “Devon’s Ghost: The Legend Of The Bloody Boy”. How bad was it? Well just keep reading and you will find out, and check out the latest episode of Indie Film Cafe!. For this I had to get Paul Presenza and Joe Turek to join me: Joe joined us a lot for Season 6. That is awesome! And we always appreciate when he comes out to review with us. 

Here’s a synopsis for it on IMDB: 

When the Canyon High School reopens under the administration of Mr. and Mrs. Walker, the students recall Devon Anderson, a boy that killed his parents and vanished. On the first day of class, there is double homicide and Symphony, her boyfriend Craig and her friends Josh and Genesis believe that Bloody Devon is back, but the police believe in a copycat. The sensationalist reporter Miller also attributes the murder to Devon. But Devon is really back with his baseball golf and he wants to play killing people.

There was a few things they left out that I’m obviously going to talk about but before then here is my little story: back when I was a young lad I use to work at a video store and we would see movies that were coming out before they came out. I don’t mind screeners I just mean we would see posters of flicks and I saw the one for Devon’s Ghost and you had to color me intrigued. 

First off it was a movie that looked cool on the poster. I mean it was a dude in a baseball uniform. So I assumed Devon was a young teenager who was murdered. Nope… he was a child who died. And he came back as a teenager. I get it… Jason did that too but it still confused the hell out of me. Devon’s powers or whatever you wanna call them or were too easy for him. He could disappear and reappear whenever he wanted to. He could touch you. He could almost do whatever he wanted. 

We had some former Power Rangers in this flick… Karan Ashley (The Yellow Ranger) and Johnny Yong Bosch (The Black Ranger) were in it so the martial arts looked cool but made no sense. Why did these teenage kids all just knew Karate? Like they were black belts? It would have been cooler had Devon been a Karate Student who died and came back and he came after the karate kids who let him die. But they went with baseball. No lie Devon looked cool with the bat but then why all the Karate… Power Rangers, I know.

I usually like to torture Paul with movies about high school students but there was one character and her voice that drove Paul absolutely bonkers! And I loved every minute of it! If he can torture me with Neil Breen and Nick Zed it’s only fair I torture him with high school teen movies. This one didn’t even make much sense tho. Even Joe was rolling his eyes at the convoluted storyline.  

Karan Ashley was one of the writers and Johnny Yong was one of the directors. I think what the biggest problem was too many people probably had too many ideas and they all gelled them together instead of figuring out a more cohesive story line that everyone could follow along without saying, “Hey… how did he get there” or “Wow how can she do that?” Which is a big problem in low budget film making. There is a DVD with commentary and I am pretty sure that will explain some of it. Problem is you should have this figured out wayyyy before.

Well it is time for the scores on the Stinkometer and this one is going to be easy because everyone agreed this was an – 8 is pretty high up on the Ladder of Stink. And makes it a total of 24 which Jesus Christ its tied with a lot of them… including: Alien VS Hunter, Baby Ghost, Jolly Roger, Mutant Vampire Zombies From The Hood, Robot VS The Aztec Mummy, Sextette, Snow Shark, The Forbidden Zone, Cemetery High, and Sinsister Urge. Phew! That is a big group of stinky movies to be associated with. 

Well that’s it for this episode. I will be back to talk about the next one. All in all I am happy I own it and will probably listen to the commentary track at some point. As for the DVD Paul is going to be able to tell you how to get your hooves on it. Take it away Moo-Cow…

Well, its generally not a good sign that I had to go to MUBI to find a trailer, but there it is. In fact, the only place I cud find it streaming is MUBI, which stinks. As far as physical media goes, well there ain’t mooch out there but you can git yer hooves on a DVD copy from Amazon and…that’s about it. It WAS on Oldies.com, but it is OOP. If yer lucky you can find a copy on Ebay . Certainly, there ain’t no blu ray to speak of. As for schwag, there are moovie posters on Wayfair, Walmart, and Posterazzi.com, and that’s about it. There is a LiveJournal review HERE, and it pops up on Horrible Horror, The Movie Dumpster, and the No Such Thing as a Bad Movie podcast. Black Horror Movies.com also has a review. And if you wanna watch it for free it is at Dailymotion.com.

Bock Bock! Ok folks, this moovie is egg-actly what you might expect from something called Attack of the Killer Chickens, in that , well, its a moovie where, ummm, some killer chickens…attack. And boy do these bad eggs attack! :=8O And naturally this provides the MooCow with plenty of opportunities to do some bad dad chicken jokes, which he will take full advantage of! Check out our Latest Podcast Episode on Indie Film Cafe, where you’ll find Moody, the MooCow, and special guest co-host Just Jenn challenge the pecking order and cluck about this wild, fun, feather-brained flick!

Let’s just post the IMDB summary of this film, shall we?
It’s the dawn of a new age…a chicken age. Humans have been the dominant species for far too long. The chickens have come to roost and they’re not clucking around. An invasion of catastrophic proportions has taken place and the weak humans of earth do everything they can to survive in this crazy chicken world. With Genoveva Rossi, Brendan Fletcher, David Naughton, Lloyd Kaufman, John Dugan, Artie Pasquale, Edward X. Young, John Link, and Rocco George.

Now TELL me that does not sound like a fun time?? And for the moost part, it is a fun time, very silly, very weird, but also a lot of yucks! Or is that yolks?? Yes, there are parts where the film lags and the comedy sort of lays an egg, but in its totality I have to say this was a rather cute film from Ms. Genoveva Rossi. This film began its life in the incubator as a short film in 2015, then jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire as a full-length feature film in 2022, albeit in a sparse hour and 3 minutes – which is kind of a good thing in that these chickens don’t come home to roost for too long before they wear out their welcome. The fact that this comes from Cluck Cluck Productions gives you an idea of where these folks are coming from with this moovie.

For those of you who do not know, Genoveva Rossi is an actress, director, producer and writer who has been in the indie film business for quite a awhile, involved with such moovies as Jack ‘O’ Slasher, Jesus, Daughter of God, Attack of the Brain People, Death House, Mr. Bones, Shakespeare Shitstorm, among udders, as well as a bunch of TV shows, including Tales from the Dark, The Walking Dead: Dead City, and Gravesend. She is also a model and writes for UKHorrorscene.com in A Life in Blood: Tales of a Horror Queen and Genoveva Rossi’s Screaming Corner in The Digital Dead UK on-line magazine – truly a Renaissance lady of moooltiple talents!

But there is an equally interesting backing cast as well. We all know David Naughton from American Werewolf in London and Hot Dog…the Movie, but there is also Uncle Lloyd Kaufman from Troma fame, Brendan Fletcher from The Revenant and Night Hunter, Artie Pasquale from the Sopranos and Sicilian Tale, Edward X. Young from Bite School and Mr. Hush, and good ol’ John Link from Ironbound Vampire, Play-Mate of the Apes, Invasion of the Reptoids, and Killer Clown Meets the Candy Man. That’s a whole hen house full of talent!

Well, the scores are in for this wackadoodle flick, and here’s cow the eggs hatch: both Moody and the MooCow were charmed by this moovie’s plucky wit, each awarding the moovie 6’s, while Just Jenn felt the moovie had egg on its face, awarding it an 8.5, giving Attack of the Killer Chickens a Total Stink Score of 22.5, that’s a Stinky Average of 7.5! Fairly stinky, but not exactly a rotten egg! on the Ladder of Stink this moovie ranks right up there with Crater Lake Monster, Cornman, and Won Ton Ton: the Dog That Saved Hollywood! That’s a tasty carton of eggs! ;=8)

We gots a trailer right HERE! Not sure about a streaming site yet, but you CAN pick up the DVD from Uncle Amazon!, as well as from the personal website of the band Jesse and the Hogg Brothers, who play moosic on the film, and french Ebay – sorry, Freedom Ebay. There is not mooch schwag that I know of, which is a real shame because this cow would proudly own a Killer Chicken coffee mug or tee shirt. There is a digital version of the kewl poster on Moviepostersdb.com. Cannibal Video on Youtube does a review, as does Crispycinema, and Now Its Dark, and you can find a fun video from the Northeast Film Festival where they interview several folks, yolks, and chickens from the movie! Grossmoviereviews also has a review on their website. And there is a Facebook page as well! Ooops, looks like it is available to stream on Prime too!

Hooooboy, where to begin with this mess?? :=8O So, it would appear that 4 hot air balloonists and their mangy mutt crash land on a hidden island because of THE POWER, generated by one John Carradine, who has THE POWER, and he uses THE POWER because…well, because he has THE POWER. I mean, if you had THE POWER you’d use THE POWER too, wouldn’t you? To make things visually interesting (because there ain’t nuttin’ else in the ‘plot’), there is a tribe of furry bikini clad white women running around and smoking all of the drugs out of some plastic skulls and getting down to boogie every now and then. Oh, also Cameron Mitchell is around, so you know yer getting ‘quality’. Oh Jerry Warren, will you ever make a cowpetant moovie?? Check out Moody, the MooCow, and special guest co-host Joe Turak as they barely escape with their lives on the LATEST IFC PODCAST EPISODE!

Yep, this is the man who gave us Wild World of Batwoman (1966), Teenage Zombies, and a host of udder cinematic duds, and if anything this one is mooch, mooch worse. And to make things even moore tortuous, he’s brought back a bunch of the ‘stars’ from that flick to haunt us here too, including Katherine Victor, Steve Brodie, Richard Banks, and George Mitchell Andre, because, you know, we’re just gluttons for punishment. Robert Clarke from Hideous Sun Demon is here too.

As a festering cherry on the top of this massive cow flop, we also have the disembodied head of John Carradine mumbling incowherently about THE POWER, because…well, see above. Toss in just bad acting, poor direction, dime-store FX, and a nonsensical narrative, and, well, you get this. Folks, this is really, really BAD.

So, the story goes that after the terrible flop that was Wild World of Batwoman, and the subsequent lawsuits which emerged from it, Jerry Warren was just kickin’ back, living on his ranch, and not making moovies AT ALL, u know, like he should be, when suddenly -some nitwit told him about the new VHS craze, and cow cheap moovies were popular again and cud make money because every mom and pop video store bought up everything they cud – and so he decided to have one moore go, and this is what the world got. Somecow he even managed to cowvince Katherine Victor, who knew better, to come back and work for him. Warren re-cut it for video to remove some of the crappier footage for syndication, but, uh, it didn’t make it any better. A sequel was planned, for some reason, but ol Jerry kicked the bucket in 1988, thus saving humanity.

Shoulda been a 30. Shoulda been. But nooooo – Moody and the MooCow did their stinky duty and awarded 10’s for this Warren stinkfest, but Joe Turak found some room in his heart to only give it a 9.5, giving Frankenstein Island a total Stink Score of 29.5, which is a Stinky Average of 9.8. Oh the humanity! :=8O On the Ladder of Stink this ties the likes of Curse of the Mummy Cat, and Geteven as wretched smelly stinkers that ALMOOST made it to Stinky Heaven, juuuuuust 1 tiny step short!

Welp, we got yer trainlerage right HERE. U can find this stinker for free in a variety of places, including Youtube, , Tubi Pluto TV, and the Rifftrax version is on Prime. it can also be floating around on the Internet Archive. You can buy the DVD from Uncle Amazon, but boy howdy it aint cheap. Better to get it from DVD Party.com, or Sinister Cinema. It sometimes pops up on the re-sale market as well, in places like EBAY. If you can only stomach the Rifftrax version, which we totally udderstand, you can get it right from the SOURCE. Get an original 13′ x 30′ Australian Daybill poster of the film And find the digitals at Moviepostersdb! Oh yeah, Etsy has a tee shirt too! So does OnLoan.co and they can do sweatshirts and hoodies too! And of course git yer Frankenstein Island coffee mug at IcePosters.com!

Movie Mausoleum covers this flick on Youtube! You can also find a review on Senseless Cinema! For a whole retrospective of all things Warren check out The Films of Jerry Warren. Finally check out the film on Gruesome Magazine.com!

Hey everybody! Jonathan Moody back again to talk about the nunsploitation flick, “Sister Wrath” or as I’d always known it as, “Nun Of That!” We’re still going to call it Sister Wrath from now on because that’s how it’s known on the streaming sites. So because it’s so much fun I had to rope Paul and John Ward… 2 atheists to discuss this film, with me, a Christian. This was the perfect movie for us to chat about in that respect. And you’ll understand why. But first here is the IMDB synopsis for it:

Nun of That is an action-comedy that follows Sister Kelly Wrath as she transforms from a nun with a simple temper problem to a vengeful killer. After being gunned down in an alley, she ascends to heaven to receive training from some of the great figures of religious mythology (Moses, Gandhi, and Jesus himself). She is then set back to Earth to join the other members of the Order of the Black Habit, a group of supernatural vigilante nuns as they seek revenge against the mob.

Yep that pretty much covers the plot of the movie. It’s got a lot of different genres in one. First off it’s an action flick. Lots of guns. Lots of kills. Then it’s a comedy with lots of laughs and goofiness. And it’s also.. a musical? Yes there is a musical number that Jesus Christ sings up in Heaven. Probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. The more I think about it, it’d def gives me vibes of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.

The film was written and directed by Richard Griffin. I had known Richard for.a long time. He use to be a frequent guest on my Independent Corner Radio Show. We even did a Nun of That episode where the cast and crew came on and chatted about the making of the movie. That was really cool. Richard is also known as the director of Atomic Brain Invasion (Which we will be covering in Season 8), The Disco Exorcist (Which we will also be covering at some point), Frankenstein’s Hungry Dead, and many more films. His production company has continued to produce lots of low budget indie fun for.over 2 decades.

The star who plays Sister Wrath herself, Sarah Nicklin, has made a really big name for herself. She has been in a ton of flicks including The Retaliators, Pretty Boy, Blood Pi, and she can also be seen in a movie I can’t wait for… Slashercise. Alexandra Cipolla who plays Sister Pride has been in a few other projects including The Trees have eyes, Parts Unknown, and a horror comedy called Groundhog. And Michael Reed plays Jesus Christ and the Devil in the film. Michael also has had a prolific career with movies like Bride of Satan, Wild Boar, and the film 6:45 coming out through Regal Cinemas.

Let’s get one thing clear… this is a cheesy film. But it’s a cheesy film that knows it’s a cheesy film. Doesn’t try to mask itself as anything but cheesy and to me that makes the comedy and campiness so much more fun. Do I like the title, “Sister Wrath” or the title, “Nun Of That” better… honestly I prefer Nun Of That. That title cracks me up. There’s something about puns and nuns that I love. And this def had a lot of all of that. Not none of it.

It seems that some people on Letterboxed wasn’t a huge fan of it while others completely seemed to get it. It’s one of those movies that people maybe divided on. Some people may not find the movie humorous while others might actually be offended by it (I don’t see how someone could get offended cause once they see a nun with a gun on the cover they should know what they are getting themselves in to). I think the biggest strength the movie has it’s over the top goofiness. Cause if it were a completely straight movie it wouldn’t have worked.

And with that being said here are the scores for the stinkometer. Did it get up high or cruise on by? Well I of course gave it the lowest score. I’ve seen it in a bunch of times (Tho it had been a while) and gave it a 2. John Ward gave it the next lowest which is 2.5. And Paul gave it a 3.5 making it a stink total of 8 on the ladder of stink which isn’t a lot of stink. 8 is tied up with Let Us Prey, Arcade, Hey Stop Stabbing Me, A Better Place, and Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter (funny how the two ones that have Jesus in them are so low).

Well another episode is done and talked about. I think if you didn’t get a chance to listen to the episode please do. I think you all will get a kick out of the the things we say. Paul will post all of the links and how to get some schwag for it if you want. But until my next write up hope everyone has a great day. Take it away Moo-Cow….

Well, here is a trailer for the film. It is also haunting the corridors of TUBI. You can also stream it on PRIME and Hoopla. You can buy the Nun of That version on DVD from Amazon, but its pricey. It also shows up on the re-sale market in places like EBAY, if you can find it.If you don’t mind sending your moolah overseas, you can get it from DVD Planet as well.So far, no blu rays are forthcoming. While Sister Wrath comes up empty in the poster department, you can buy yerself a 27″ x 40″ poster from AMAZON. Sadly, I cud not find any other shwag for this film. Bloody Good Horror does a pretty good review of the moovie, as does MovieSteve and Geek Legion of Doom.