Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Before starring in John Carpenter's "They Live", Roddy Piper battled post-apocalyptic frog mutants in the gonzo 1988 cult classic "Hell Comes To Frogtown".
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Too bad Roddy Piper didn't stick around for the sequels, then they could've made "Frogtown 2: What in Sam Hell?"
f o r g
you should consider updating your best list of Godzilla Movies. did you like Godzilla Vs Kong Brian? what are your thoughts?
Yeah. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is a legend in the wrestling world. #RIPHotrod
Frogs were eating people a lot.
Hell Comes to Frogtown on Tubi? Anyone?
"There's a lotta ham in this frog."
Now we now what Kermit and Piggy's offspring would be like.
Kermit was into some weird stuff I guess
Those frogs are so creepy they look like the Budweiser frogs if they came across the ooze from teenage mutant Ninja turtles. And that Sandahl Bergman's character trying to dance all sexy to get Roddy Piper to mate with the fertile women is pointless since the stipulation in her contract that deters her from getting naked not even taking off her top. And Roddy Piper gets released that he has to wear some kind of Chastity jockstrap that can explode if he Dodges the mission it's just emasculating, and he has to ride around with women in a pink PT cruiser. You probably wish he was back in the joint.
Eww
@@daniellowry660 Once he had pink he found his new kink! 😉😅
@@daniellowry660family guy also did a joke
I miss Roddy Piper. Just when everyone has the answers, he changes the questions.
Man came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and he never had any bubblegum.
Dude. 🤣🤣🤣
Remember, the Maniac loves ya.
I liked what he thought of political correctness --- I'm not Political, and I'm not correct !!!!
i want Brandon to review Roddy piper's movie, John Carpenter's They Live (1988)
"Hell Comes To..."
You have my curiosity.
"Hell Comes To Frogtown."
*Now you have my attention.*
Leave the glasses on 😍
-Piper "take your glasses off"...
I SAiD LEAVE'EM ON!!! 😡
🤣 LOL
“Wanna see a mad max and tmnt”
Me:uuuh
“Well too bad”
If it's anything like this movie, hell yeah
Now, y'see, this is the kind of movie that could use a remake. There's value under all the crap. Can you imagine what the right director and producer could do with this? Sam Raimi, maybe?
Rest in paradise Rowdy Roddy Piper
This movie is gold!
What really kills me here is that Sam's chastity belt is basically a futuristic, mechanized version of Maid Marian's in ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS.
What really kills me is that I'm watching this 2 years after it was launched, AGAIN. I've seen all these reviews about 4 times now and they are still great.
What's funny to me is it really doesn't matter that it's attached like a chastity belt, because one ounce of C4 attached to any part of a person from thighs, to torso, or biceps, is basically guaranteed to kill them, most likely would even if attached to an extremity like a hand or foot. Back when you used to be able to buy explosive rounds as a civilian, you'd see lots of stories of hunters hitting an animal in an extremity and, if the round exploded (they didn't go off very reliably in soft targets, had to squarely hit a bone to set off he primer for the charge,) it would kill animals as large as coyotes and wolves just from the effect of the hydrostatic shock and internal bleeding. Those weren't even high explosive, either, just gunpowder in the cavity in the bullet and a primer on the nose, so they didn't have the pressure wave that C4 and other high explosives create. May have just been hunters' tall tails about those bullets, though, but regardless, one ounce of C4 directly attached to a person, even one as large as RRP, is almost guaranteed to be fatal...
Legend has it if you say frogtown three times in a mirror at night, Scott Shaw will appear and file a false takedown notice
It's so magnificent to see an actor of such caliber as Rory Calhoun standing and walking.
Look at him there. On his hind legs...
My respect for people who get this reference is off the charts.
Hey now, most studios couldn't afford Cameron Mitchell to move around. He's a big star, you want him to be alive you pay big
I miss the old seasons.....and my youth.....Oh God! I've done nothing with my life!
@@pryingeyes1551
**Mushroom cloud**
No joke, Randall Frakes, the guy listed at 2:06 as co-creatting the story with the director is my older cousin. He was friends with James Cameron when Cameron was working for Coreman, and Cameron wrote Terminator on his floor before Cameron had a place to live. He has a credit in Aliens under sound mixing and told me about how the Queen's whipping tail was made with a belt, and he contributed to the screeching sound of the chestburster coming out of the woman. He also was the one to get my parents to let me watch Aliens as my first R rated movie. Um sure he wasn't biased at all lol
That's very cool! Ask him how the fuck he helped come up with this plot next time you see him.
@@bakomusha lol I will
Honestly? That's pretty freaking awesome.
Explains the Vasquez knock-off Centinella.
Tell him we need ascifi musical version of Paint your Wagon.
"You lost...your soul....in the Rivaaaarrrrr!"
-RIP Rowdy
Brandon made the frog lube joke. We are truly in the Endtimes.
its the truth...
Now I can see where that picture of the eye-patched Frogman wielding a chainsaw you use in a couple of videos came from. Nice...
Nice Guilala pfp
Man, the Loveland frogs really made it big after the apocalypse.
You'd think a sequel to this would have a more "The Hills Have Eyes" vibe to it.
Yeah, or those Deep Ones from that #Cthulhu & #LovecraftCountry stuff..?
It was definitely one of my favorite cheesy movies when I was in my teenage years. For me it was just fun enough, and stupid enough to make me laugh. Mind you my favorite movie of his is of course They Live.
From Frogmen to creepy zombie aliens-the Roddy Piper story
''Hell Comes to Frogtown'' is actually here on youtube, in full-lenght and for free.
It's on Tubi as well
@@thomashounsome7737 Well, that's to be expected. Tubi has a lot of weird stuff.
It's also on shudder. Which is not free but no ads. And since it was part of that Joe bob Briggs show on there is also has a version where he shows up to talk about the movie
This is the weirdest interpretation of Bucky O'Hare I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, the screenplay for this movie was written before the animated Bucky O'Hare was produced (the first comic written by GI Joe's Larry Hama I believe came out in 87). Had this been produced later, I would someone might have snuck into Roddy Piper's dialogue "Let's croak some toads". Lord knows I was thinking it.
Hahaha
I always think of Rory Calhoun as that guy who's always standing and walking.
Like my loafers?
Former gophers.
I was wondering who would get the Simpsons reference, after all these years. Kudos!
@@thebarbariansasquatch8108 it was that, or skin my chauffers
I'm glad Brandon Tenold is feeling better. Being sick in the hospital is worse than suffering through a bad post-apocalyptic movie.
What happened?
@@comixproviderftw_02 not exactly sure. I just know he had to delay the video due to a medical problem.
@@wstine79 Where did you hear that?
@@crazysilly2914 from Brandon's tweet.
@@wstine79 Oh ok.
Link please?
1:30: Sh*t, even the Reaper can't stop him.
My favorite post post-apocalypse knock off is Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. Even has Michael Ironside as the villain Overdog.
That title sounds like it was made by a computer for a Star Wars knock-off.
Great molly ringwald movie!!
WHAT? Michael Ironside as a villain? What are the odds?
"Because hey, they needed some excuse to put Sandahl Bergman in this outfit" and also needed an excuse to recreate the look of Roddy Piper's dog collar match with Greg Valentine from the first Starrcade.
The costumes for Sandahl were the right focus.
I remember watching this on an episode of Elvira Mistress of the Night, late night in the 80's .
That fight scene between Roddy Piper and Keith David went in forever...and was AWESOME!!!
Joe Bob with Roddy at the end was a pleasant addition.
Last time I was this early I forgot to put on the glasses and got embroiled in a protracted fight scene
I guess you decided not to start eating from that trash can.
"Ric Flair numbers"
I love you xD
I never thought of the connection to Fury Road. You are right, there is a similar plot here. Gotta wonder if one of the writers on Mad Max saw this film, forgot about it and subconsciously remembered it and used it as the plot for Fury Road.
The actor who played the Captain was William Smith who played the muscular heavy on dozens of TV shows in the late 1960s, 70s and 80s and also appeared in lots of exploitation movies- the last in 2020. He also played roles in some bigger budget movies including Conan's father in the original Conan the Barbarian, the leader of the Spetsnaz company in the original Red Dawn, and the bare knuckle boxer Eastwood faces at the end of Any Which Way You Can.
I remember having my mind blown the first time someone pointed out that Fury Road stole it's plot from this movie.
The classic "filmed in an abandon industrial site somewhere in a desert" chefs hands
Now we're getting into real cult movie magic. It always made sense that the last fertile man would be someone like rowdy Roddy Piper.
I can't wait until you decided to review the Frogtown sequels.
The song used for the 'Dance of the Three Snakes' sounds like it came from the video game 'Wild Snake' (SNES).
It sounds like the music in Conan the Barbarian when they steal the jewel from Thulsa Doom.
Frog comin on to Piper and all I can hear in my head is Al screaming "No Peg NOOOOO" 😂
Interesting that you mentioned the Kirk vs Gorn fight from Star Trek during the Piper and Toady fight scene since both battles took place in the same shooting location.
I'm still waiting for the sequel Hell Comes to Dogtown starring skinny Piper.
They've actually made (at least) 3 more: Return to Frogtown (1991), Toad Warrior (1996), and Max Hell Frog Warrior (2002).
RJ Kizer also directed the American sequences in Godzilla 1985. No matter how hard he tries Brandon just can't escape the Godzilla connections.
‘80s version of the Kirk/Gorn fight in what strongly appears to be the same location.
But is better choreographed, and with better costumes and effects.
The frog creature effects are really impressive for the non-existent budget. They really do look great.
I agree
Predator fx guy made them.
@@philyeary8809
Yep, that would explain it.
I can't imagine being able to get someone like that for a low budget movie nowadays.
Then again practical effects are dying art. I'm so glad to see true director still using them over everything being CGI.
This has made my day, I needed that Snarky Canadian to make me laugh.
That opens with the great William Smith, physically scariest psycho in film history.
"I said leavem on!!!!" bahahha comedy gold..I really hope someday Brandon gets to star in a b rated horror flick and then gets to do the rundown on his show
There's my life before I saw this movie and then there's life after I watched Hell Comes to Frogtown.
It's truly life changing.
Feels like a birthday miracle having brandon make a video on my birthday
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! It's mine as well.
Happy birthday!!!
@@parjai97 thanks
I have loved this film for many years. Between Hot Rod Rowdy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, the great special effects, and a just good enough story I really enjoyed it.
This showed up on the bottoms of your playlist for cult movie reviews and if I wasn't scrolling all the way through to make sure I seen everything I wouldn't have found it. I got no freaking notification and I am belled up! I'm super pissed. Glad I found this. You're awesome
So, to keep Sam Hell in line, the authorities have to force him to wear plastic y-fronts that neither GI Joe or Action Man would touch with a ten-foot cattle prod tied to a twenty-foot barge pole - that has the ability to electrocute your nadgers. Still, more dignified than what Hulk Hogan had to put up with on The Secret Agent Club.
I actually had the chance to meet Roddy Piper in the later stages of his life, my father was a paramedic and he’d get into car accidents a lot near our house, one time I was doing a kind of ride along and I got the chance to talk with him, he’s an interesting guy even when drunk.
Wow I remember watching this movie decades ago and really loving it, mostly because the frogs were done really well for a low budget movie at the time, plus Roddy Piper was always goofy fun.
I lost it on finding out the director is still directing movies in 2019 even though he died in 2003. Brandon, making death funny for years…
I first heard of this movie from one "Teddy Rubskin", in fact I've heard of the whole franchise from that UA-camr. Yeah this movie really looks like a true cult classic. Also gotta dig those make-up and practical effects.
Roddy Piper was an absolute treasure, RIP.
Roddy Piper was badass, really dig you outro music!
I actually really loved the practical effects in this movie. I like how most of the frogs look slimy and wet. ALSO do you think you could review Magic (1978) with Sir Anthony Hopkins?
Well to be fair, the eye poke was indeed an in-ring staple of Roddy. It was kind of a signature for him, just like the low blow for Flair and the back rake for Hogan. A subtle nod, I say
Man haven't seen this movie since Cable only had 100 channels and Rhonda Sheer was "Up all night."
Oh my fucking god. Those creature-effects are just fucking amazing. My god. They still hold up even to this day! Those frog-people just look like real mutants. And the fact, that Steve Wang only needed 12 thousand dollars to make these amazing effects that still looks good while the guys spend 25 million dollars to get rid of Superman's mustache in "Justice League" and make him look like a PS2 character, speaks loudly for practical effects. If I would make horror- or science-fiction-movies, I would definitely would make my effects myself. And they would be 100 percently be practical, so I would found my own special-effects-studio.
You are the reason I just watched this on Pluto tv when I saw it in the 80s section. Thanks for the recommendation Brandon 👍🏼
The algorithm has been evil by hiding your channel from me. I don't know what freakish thing I searched that caused it to appear, but after this review.....I'm glad at whatever happened.
Roller Gator is one of my favorite Rifftrax.
I saw this before, but I still need to see the sequels... I think Roddy's best work is as Da Maniac in It's always Sunny in Philadelphia.
I'm so glad weird movies like this are made. Some pretty impressive stunts from Rowdy Roddy Piper RIP
Just saw In Search of Darkness: Part 2, it was awesome seeing you in that one, Brandon! =D Also, I really hope you're gonna review Immortal Combat someday, that one is actually a fun movie, not only do you have Roddy Piper but you also have Sonny Chiba and Meg Foster in it! And a very young Chris Jericho in a fast cameo as a henceman =)
It had my favorite in in it..
“That’s not a plan. It’s a plot to get me killed..”
Awesome job! Huge Roddy Piper fan, and your right, those frog costumes look pretty good!
This finally explains why that grunt Zoanoid in "Guyver 2 Dark Hero" looked like a frog... got to love recycling old practical effects!
Hey Brandon!
I DARE YOU....to review Rollergator. I first learned about the movie when Rifftrax riffed it. It's batshit insane, so it should make for a great review!
You should do Cherry 2000 someday.
Pretty sure William Smith's death trying to shoot Sam as he walked away was a homage to Smith's death in Rich Man Poor Man book 2
Crutch explosive, now I know where Red dwarf got it from
"There's a lotta ham in this frog." just broke me, thanks for the laughs Brandon. :D
I watched this film for the first time 5 days ago! Loved Roddy Piper as an actor! R.I.P.....
There is a neighborhood in Saint Paul, Minnesota called Frogtown.
The outro music is always fun, but hearing it sped up is even better.
I'm shocked you didn't mention William Smith. Apart from anything else, he starred in Andy Sidaris' 2nd film, "SEVEN", which featured a scene swiped by "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK".
i remember when Allison Pregler, still going by Obscurus Lupa at the time, had to take down her reviews of the Frogtown movies
she replaced the footage with poorly done MSPaint art and, honestly, i thought it was a massive improvement!
it just added to the surreal nature of the entire experiance
i never understood why the take down was issued - i actively sought out these movies after her glowing review - i had never heard of them before her review
There hasn't been this much ham in a frog since Miss Piggy pegged Kermit.
This movie is a guilty pleasure for me. It's like Mad Max meets Killer Klowns from Outer Space. It doesn't take itself seriously and it's a joy to watch for it's silliness. I got a huge chuckle out of this one considering it had one of my favorite wrestlers from the 80's and two actors from Conan the Barbarian in it whom I admire a lot. The frog makeup was pretty cool for a low budget movie and they were hilarious.
Definitely one of my favourite late night TV classics. Good mix of hammy acting and action. The cast look like they actually had fun making it.
I just saw a video about the punk frogs (TMNT characthers), and THIS video shows up. Darmn, roddy piper was an utter badass on this one!
The best part is the bottle busting over Rodney Pipers head.
Also please review They Live and Ice Pirates. I know you've got a busy schedule but there's a lot of material in both movies to work with.
Edit also Deathstalker 2, a sequel and a Jim Winorsky film.
2:02 Hey, HEY, hey..... Roddy himself INSISTED that it was his TWIN BROTHER who starred in this movie!
Greatly appreciate your work man! Binged your stuff and and I enjoy seeing videos I'd pass by growing up. Was wondering if anyone knows what the song at the end of his videos is called? Google can't seem to identify it.
Update: Mathew Bailey, Proctor.
Funny when you just flashed that picture of Robert Z'Dar I thought about pillows for some reason.
Watched this with my dad when we found it at the video store. Good times.
How have I not seen this movie? My formative years were filled with bizarre VHS rentals.
Last time I was this early, there wasn't a Frogtown.
I have been hoping to see you do this for some time. It's one of my favorite flicks from USA Up All Night.
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Roddy Piper is always enjoyable to watch. It's wild. Can't say the same about Return to Frogtown. They changed so much that I don't know why they kept Sam Hell and Spangle as the main characters.
So nice to see a real video and not a advertisement, ty.
Beating that bubble gum like a dead horse XD
So glad you covered this, such a weird fun movie.
The thumbnail artwork gives me vibes from that one Chainsaw man panel.
Where the hell did this one come from lol. I feel like I would've absolutely loved this one as a kid lol. These looks like some random weird shit I would catch on HBO at night and love it lol!
Now I'm super hyped for your Roller Gator review