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Luciano Pigozzi, "The Italian Peter Lorre", who worked with everyone from Margheriti to Martino, to Bava. His presence is enough to sell me on the film.
I totally thought that once the Gilligan's Island theme stopped, you were going to say "Do any of you kids even remember Gilligan's Island? Christ, I'm old." 😂😂 To be fair, that was a well placed "Hell yeah."
Alternate titles: The Abysmal Alien The Craw ua-cam.com/video/ftgAG3Vnif8/v-deo.html Fish Blood: Part II [with Charles Napier] Under the Volcano Rubber Alien Buggy Bumpers Ya Don't Spit into the Wind, Ya Don't Put Toxic Waste in an Ol' Volcano...
Luciano Pigozzi was also in Mario Bava’s incredible proto-giallo “Blood and Black Lace” with Cameron Mitchell(when he was still acting and not slumming in Euro-garbage like “Supersonic Man”)
Charles Napier will forever be 'Murdoch'. Great scene: 'Murdoch?' 'Rambo tells us where you are and we'll come pick you up'. 'Murdoch...(thunder and lightning) I coming to get YOU!'
No matter how terrible all those old flicks are - all of them are pure motion picture gold compared to the piles of dung produced nowadays by the industry.
Although the only really remarkable thing about this movie is the massive alien puppet at the end, there is so much stuff to love here: horrible acting, fun miniatures and multiple mannequin falls (aka "Operation Dummy Drop"). And not gonna lie "Off Cycle Lex" is one of my favorite burns in the history of Sick Flicks.
The “we’ve got movie sign” joke was amazing! As it was a punchline that was followed by the set up. The kind of joke that made me think “wait, what the hell dis I just miss” and then BANG! Pay off! Well done Mike. Well done indeed.
Every time I see Charles Napier all I can think of is that fantastic DS9 episode, Little Green Men. His crowning achievement in a 35+ year career. Jack Elam... no. No, I REFUSE to accept Jack Elam is in any way forgotten by society. That's a world in which I do not want to live.
If nothing else, Charles Napier did score a small role in Silence of the Lambs. I remember Jack Elam. Before he was an actor, he was an accountant. Would you have let him do your taxes?
The basic idea of a totally-not-a-Xenomorph made of living metal is awesome. The execution...? Well, an attempt was made, and it's got charm. I want whoever makes those 12 - 15 ft tall skeleton yard ornaments to do their own version of this critter, _that_ would be a Halloween decoration for the ages!
13:40 my balls... they took my balls. And my camera. He ate them, Francine. He just...he just took them and ate them. -and the camera? I SAID HE ATE THEM! They talk a lot about balls in this movie, don't they? I wonder if, since it was an Italian production, they happened to have a few references to English that they just sort of ran with. Like the only contextual swear word they knew was f*ck, they know it means sex, they know it means an expletive. But if they didn't know any other swear at all. So they just reuse it over and over.
One of these days, you'll get something with Valerie Mahaffey and get to use her thoroughly cromulent "bastard!" from the puffy shirt episode of Seinfeld. And a "denim vest guy?" Hopefully it had snaps. These guys look more like they'd listen to Steve Miller than Morris Day. That shirt has "Houseman in the streets, Boorman in the sheets" energy. "This tunnel leads straight into a mountain...", so, its a prequel to that Dyatlov Pass movie from a few years ago.
JR: Well, here we go again, King. Another Alien Rip-off. King: I don't know, JR. The average Alien rip-off is better than another Roman Reigns title match. JR: You never know, King! Roman may show up in the next Aliens flick! King: I would say the chances of Matt Hardy showing up in TNA again are better. JR: Frankly, King, watching a compilation of Broken Matt Hardy videos would be more entertaining than this adaptation of Night of the Crabs. King: Don't even talk about any crabs, JR! The ones that came with the cat are bigger than the ones in this flick!
Shout out to the title card author for not understanding how English surnames are (not) punctuated - Julia Mc. Kay 😅. Something clearly got lost in the Italian horror film actor to English name translation engine.
5 min 20 - the old guy also in Ark of the Sun God and Codename: Wildgeese 😀 Both other "Anthony M Dawson" films. Lots of model work in those films too 👌
Mike I'm old enough to remember when you had to worry about someone beating you up and taking one of those acid wash denim vests from you, thay were quite popular. We should bring those back, we could wear them with cool bandanas and carry around those switchblade combs for our beards since we're both bald. Think it over! But that got me thinking I was gonna write a welding joke too but it was pure torcher. Great video buddy!
I've got to say that once we meet up with Bob (aka Snake Squeezer) the movie suddenly feels like a low rent Romancing the Stone for a while. Also of course I remember Jack Elam... oh wait, that is because I'm old... shit.
Awesome review. I was getting strong Area 51 video game vibes in the scene with the toxic waste drums. Pretty good for a film that could have ripped off zombie, cannibal and alien movies all in the same film. Missed opportunity I say.
If anything it feels more like a “Lost” ripoff before Lost happened than a Alien one I thought I missed something when watching the video but I love the cash grab for trying Also the Gilligan's island theme took me out(and I do know what gilligan island is, I used to watch it with my mom growing up in the 2000's)
Margheriti was a very good director who just got stuck making low budget stuff. He was up there with guys like Mario Bava (who had the same fate) amongst the greats of Italian genre cinema.
Open question because I'm trying to remember a movies name. But I can't but I remember what it's about. It's about a group of college students that go to a cabin in the middle of nowhere with their professor. In the middle of winter then a killer starts to kill them off one by one. Then when the main girl is killed it shows her waking up as the they arrived at the cabin. Then she sees things happening like it did at the start of the movie. So basically it the entire movie was a dream or premonition that was about to happen that she seen. I'm trying to remember it because if I remember correctly it had some interesting kills in it. But for the life of me I can't remember it's name. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
For a moment I misread the title & thought it was Creatures From The Abyss, which makes this movie look like a masterpiece & is a true guilty pleasure of mine & worthy of a Sick Flicks episode.
That looks like a very interesting movie. Charles "Star Trek"/"Rambo" Napier in it? How low did he sink so that he appeared in an Italian rip-off movie? And why does he suddenly sound like Peter Graves at some moments? I admire the sense of realism that the film shows in the beginning. What impresses the authorities? A good-looking woman - "Go out and show some cleavage!" It is so not woke one wants to quote that line at an assembly of politically correct people. It was astonishing to see that we had to wait for so long for the titular alien, and even then, for some time we saw only a giant claw. Which finally led to my personal "Christ, I'm old!" moment. When you mentioned the words "giant claw", I had to think of a cheap monster movie of that title from 1957. And I thought: Does anyone here even remember "The Giant Claw"? Christ, I'm old! Finally, the titular alien appeared and indeed checked all the rip-off boxes that there are. A film worthy of appearing in the Sick Flicks series. Thank you, Mike!
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FUN FACT: Charles Napier did the growls for the Incredible Hulk TV show in 70s/80s
(insert 'The More You Know' graphic here)
This is one of the rare "fun facts" that was genuinely fun. 🙂
@@mikezazworsky 😂
Grrrrrrrr
The "Hell yeah" double entendres never fail to crack me up. The clip is perfect. Exactly the right tone and expression on the guy 😆
Luciano Pigozzi, "The Italian Peter Lorre", who worked with everyone from Margheriti to Martino, to Bava. His presence is enough to sell me on the film.
"snake squeezer" and "milk the snake" are both good potential user names * writes in notebook *
Snake squeezer? "Hell yeah!" 😀
I totally thought that once the Gilligan's Island theme stopped, you were going to say "Do any of you kids even remember Gilligan's Island? Christ, I'm old." 😂😂 To be fair, that was a well placed "Hell yeah."
I know 90% of the do you kids even remember. Christ I'm old.
Alternate titles:
The Abysmal Alien
The Craw
ua-cam.com/video/ftgAG3Vnif8/v-deo.html
Fish Blood: Part II [with Charles Napier]
Under the Volcano
Rubber Alien Buggy Bumpers
Ya Don't Spit into the Wind, Ya Don't Put Toxic Waste in an Ol' Volcano...
Haha!
The "alien" was nuts. A lobster technocreation made from the finest in industrial plumbing and KY.
Whats Kentucky have to do with anything?
😎
Oh hell yeah this one’s a guilty pleasure for me. Gotta love those cheap miniatures and Charles Napier going nuts
Napier is a gift in this one.
I maintain that Napier is a gift in everything.
Now Eli Roth’s character reference in Inglorious Basterds finally makes sense.
"Off-cycle Lex Luger"...You kill me...again
Luciano Pigozzi was also in Mario Bava’s incredible proto-giallo “Blood and Black Lace” with Cameron Mitchell(when he was still acting and not slumming in Euro-garbage like “Supersonic Man”)
"Volcano Exorcism" is a helluva album title.
That sounds like the morning after Taco Tuesday.
Or a completely bananas Syfy movie...
Darkthrone album title...lol
That or a really disturbing sex act
It’s the lost Event Horizon Footage 😂😂
I like mannequins falling, too. Those flailing limbs, that heedless twisting. Every movie should have them!
It may be silly, but damn is it fun to watch.
The floppy limbs ALWAYS set me off laughing.
Especially when an arm falls off and then is magically in place again in the following shot. "Zombie Holocaust", anyone?
6:01 Refugee from Dexys Midnight Runners (about to come on Eileen. Hell yeah!) 😂
Charles Napier will forever be 'Murdoch'. Great scene: 'Murdoch?' 'Rambo tells us where you are and we'll come pick you up'. 'Murdoch...(thunder and lightning) I coming to get YOU!'
Actually, he will forever be the country music guy with the RV in "Blues Brothers". At least to me.
“Lead singer and drive the Winnebago.”
@@gregevans6044You're gonna look funny eating corn on the cob with no f*ckin' teeth!
I said, "continuity is hard." in a silent room. My coworkers just stared. 😅
No matter how terrible all those old flicks are - all of them are pure motion picture gold compared to the piles of dung produced nowadays by the industry.
There's a lot of the same old stuff for horror movies nowadays. All jump scares and no hardcore gore with the exception of Terrifier movies.
I’m so thankful for Lynda, Lance, and Danny always putting in their two cents!😂😏
lol I don't think I laughed that hard in at least a week when she said, "Don't touch me you snake squeezer!"
Also yes to Jack Elum. Very similar. lol
Lord help me @1:58
I thought we were gonna have a Devilfish ballsack-
flashback 😂
This movie is currently streaming on Screambox hopefully it will come to Shudder soon. Oh great news Mike I am feeling much better.
Glad you’re better!
13:16 is giving me Hell of the Living Dead flashbacks...
Thank you, Sick Flicks!
What this movie really needed was a post-credits scene of the alien rising from the lava and saying straight at the camera, "I'll be back!"
Jack Elam doesn't get enough shout outs in the modern world. Helluva an actor.
Very true.
The Jack Elam reference was completely out of left field. Outstanding.
"I wanted to make a welding joke, but all the best ones argon"...
Goddammit (affectionate), Horror Geek...
Charles Napier was such a great character actor. I think of Rambo 2 personally.....
Although the only really remarkable thing about this movie is the massive alien puppet at the end,
there is so much stuff to love here: horrible acting, fun miniatures and multiple mannequin falls (aka "Operation Dummy Drop").
And not gonna lie "Off Cycle Lex" is one of my favorite burns in the history of Sick Flicks.
"Sweet, volcano cam, I lava this show!" You kill me
The “we’ve got movie sign” joke was amazing! As it was a punchline that was followed by the set up. The kind of joke that made me think “wait, what the hell dis I just miss” and then BANG! Pay off! Well done Mike. Well done indeed.
Haha! Glad you liked that one.
Hells YEAH I remember Jack Elam. One of the greatest TV character actors of all time. RIP.
The last time I saw a chopper land on the ocean, Jaws II ate it.
10:57 We’re with the band. We’re the Good old boys 😂
Every time I see Charles Napier all I can think of is that fantastic DS9 episode, Little Green Men. His crowning achievement in a 35+ year career. Jack Elam... no. No, I REFUSE to accept Jack Elam is in any way forgotten by society. That's a world in which I do not want to live.
That tunnel with chains hanging looked really cool. Like Pinhead's summer house. Too bad the climax didn't happen there.
I liked this walkthrough of “scary lobster dude”, thank you :)
I've got nothing on the flick but I like the Mike Lange quote, I miss that guy.
Get in the fast lane Grandma, the bingo game is ready to roll!
12:40 You asked this before but I'll say it again; I remember Jack Elam... as the wacky doctor from 'The Cannonball Run'. 😁
If nothing else, Charles Napier did score a small role in Silence of the Lambs. I remember Jack Elam. Before he was an actor, he was an accountant. Would you have let him do your taxes?
The basic idea of a totally-not-a-Xenomorph made of living metal is awesome. The execution...? Well, an attempt was made, and it's got charm. I want whoever makes those 12 - 15 ft tall skeleton yard ornaments to do their own version of this critter, _that_ would be a Halloween decoration for the ages!
8:06 Weekend at Brewskis 😂
The welding joke was great.
13:40 my balls... they took my balls. And my camera. He ate them, Francine. He just...he just took them and ate them.
-and the camera?
I SAID HE ATE THEM!
They talk a lot about balls in this movie, don't they? I wonder if, since it was an Italian production, they happened to have a few references to English that they just sort of ran with. Like the only contextual swear word they knew was f*ck, they know it means sex, they know it means an expletive. But if they didn't know any other swear at all. So they just reuse it over and over.
"Bob! Where are you?! Jesus!" 😂😂😂
And the mannequin falls are hilarious! Although not quite Zombi Holocaust.
Yeah, ZH remains the standard for falling mannequin scenes
This movie was custom-made for your narration Mike. A brilliant script!
One of these days, you'll get something with Valerie Mahaffey and get to use her thoroughly cromulent "bastard!" from the puffy shirt episode of Seinfeld.
And a "denim vest guy?" Hopefully it had snaps.
These guys look more like they'd listen to Steve Miller than Morris Day.
That shirt has "Houseman in the streets, Boorman in the sheets" energy.
"This tunnel leads straight into a mountain...", so, its a prequel to that Dyatlov Pass movie from a few years ago.
""I"m Bob, formerly John Boy from The Waltons and never starring in What About Bob.""
5:15 -- I'm glad TVs no longer require metering and constant adjustments so they don't explode.
Would love to see a Masterpiece Theatre style parody presentation of the, "Greatest Moments in Horror Film Acting"!
Also, YOR'S WORLD! HE'S THE MAN!
Haha! I would love to do it.
JR: Well, here we go again, King. Another Alien Rip-off.
King: I don't know, JR. The average Alien rip-off is better than another Roman Reigns title match.
JR: You never know, King! Roman may show up in the next Aliens flick!
King: I would say the chances of Matt Hardy showing up in TNA again are better.
JR: Frankly, King, watching a compilation of Broken Matt Hardy videos would be more entertaining than this adaptation of Night of the Crabs.
King: Don't even talk about any crabs, JR! The ones that came with the cat are bigger than the ones in this flick!
I love Jack Elum. He was down at the stables shoveling horse sh.......
And when he met Bronson he was shy one horse.
Love it! I literally have to see every Alien rip off made. They’re all just so much fun! And I loved the double “ Bastard” !!
I would gladly sacrifice this movie to the volcano just for thirty seconds of the lost Event Horizon footage
I once worked with a manager who drank on the job.The Bud can placement was priceless
19:54 "We're gonna need a lot more hemp before we're through."
"I wanted to write in a welding joke here, but all the good ones...Argon." In case you missed it.
Like it how the gun just melts at 15:38 !
I remember Jack Elam as the bumbling comedy sidekick in Support Your Local Sheriff.
Shout out to the title card author for not understanding how English surnames are (not) punctuated - Julia Mc. Kay 😅. Something clearly got lost in the Italian horror film actor to English name translation engine.
Sleazy volcano pick up line: "Hey baby, I lava you so much. You're a real hot piece of ash."
5 min 20 - the old guy also in Ark of the Sun God and Codename: Wildgeese 😀
Both other "Anthony M Dawson" films. Lots of model work in those films too 👌
When you said Amazon basics Michael Biehn I laughed so hard My entire gym stopped. Well done.
I don't think I've even heard of this one. Can't wait to get bloody.
When the local volcano needs an exorcism, you have some serious problems. It is time to relocate somewhere else without the possessed volcano.
The "actual snake" jokes made me laugh out loud! 😂
That dude that parachuted into that alligator farm on Faces of Death reference😂...that was a rough way to go😅
3:39 Carlton Banks? looks more like Uncle Phil. That main actress reminds me of Patricia Arquette.
Mike I'm old enough to remember when you had to worry about someone beating you up and taking one of those acid wash denim vests from you, thay were quite popular. We should bring those back, we could wear them with cool bandanas and carry around those switchblade combs for our beards since we're both bald. Think it over! But that got me thinking I was gonna write a welding joke too but it was pure torcher. Great video buddy!
Hahaha!
Hey Mike….. all the TVs in the facility were from budget versions of magnavox… They were MAGMAvox 😂
20:27 so worth the price of admission!
I've got to say that once we meet up with Bob (aka Snake Squeezer) the movie suddenly feels like a low rent Romancing the Stone for a while.
Also of course I remember Jack Elam... oh wait, that is because I'm old... shit.
Yes! Cant get enough of this sort of dreck.
Awesome review. I was getting strong Area 51 video game vibes in the scene with the toxic waste drums. Pretty good for a film that could have ripped off zombie, cannibal and alien movies all in the same film. Missed opportunity I say.
Dark Helmet + A Tar Bucket = Alien from the Abyss.
13:28 he’s a qualified pilot, badge says so 😂
With the Jack Elam references I was hoping for a Dr. Nikolas Van Helsing clip. 😀
"off cycle Lex Luger" hahaha amazing
Gotta love multiple titles. I have a copy of this called Alien From the Deep. For a second, I thought someone ripped off its poster.
You need a ball cap or white tank for the "continuity is hard lines." Or maybe some gigantic Bruce Lee aviators.
A double Linda Day George, 2 Lance Hendrickson & your Jim Ross is definitely getting better.
If anything it feels more like a “Lost” ripoff before Lost happened than a Alien one
I thought I missed something when watching the video but I love the cash grab for trying
Also the Gilligan's island theme took me out(and I do know what gilligan island is, I used to watch it with my mom growing up in the 2000's)
7:22 Magma PI 😂
Napier is always fun, the girl is cute, and we can't go wrong with Ted Rusoff! The only thing missing is Donald Pleasance.
Even just from what you could show in this, I actually was genuinely digging a lot of the camerawork here. Some really good angles.
Margheriti was a very good director who just got stuck making low budget stuff. He was up there with guys like Mario Bava (who had the same fate) amongst the greats of Italian genre cinema.
Open question because I'm trying to remember a movies name. But I can't but I remember what it's about.
It's about a group of college students that go to a cabin in the middle of nowhere with their professor. In the middle of winter then a killer starts to kill them off one by one. Then when the main girl is killed it shows her waking up as the they arrived at the cabin. Then she sees things happening like it did at the start of the movie. So basically it the entire movie was a dream or premonition that was about to happen that she seen.
I'm trying to remember it because if I remember correctly it had some interesting kills in it. But for the life of me I can't remember it's name. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
That off cycle Lex Luger joke actually made me laugh out loud.
Haha! Glad it worked for you. Made me laugh too! :p
For a moment I misread the title & thought it was Creatures From The Abyss, which makes this movie look like a masterpiece & is a true guilty pleasure of mine & worthy of a Sick Flicks episode.
Yep, always liked Jack Elam....but I could never catch a fly in my pistol barrel the way he could.
Yes, I remember Banana Republic and Jack Elam because I am also old.😊
Cool rexiew of Alien from the Abyss. It look like a fun low budget Italian Alien knockoff movie to watch. Great video!
Thanks for the fun video, with all those weird references I am old enough to get.
Hahahah! lots of old references on this channel for sure. :p
The aliien looks like something from an Robot wars ripoff without the wheels.
Hear comes Santa Claws!
Lance Henriksen's input was invaluable.
He DOES look like Jack Elam - at least in his older age.
Linda was working harder on this one the crew did on the alien 😂😂 but I love it!
4 mins 40: We've got a "Kenny" in the house! 😉
Jack Elam, "Eye Guy"!😵
That looks like a very interesting movie. Charles "Star Trek"/"Rambo" Napier in it? How low did he sink so that he appeared in an Italian rip-off movie? And why does he suddenly sound like Peter Graves at some moments?
I admire the sense of realism that the film shows in the beginning. What impresses the authorities? A good-looking woman - "Go out and show some cleavage!" It is so not woke one wants to quote that line at an assembly of politically correct people.
It was astonishing to see that we had to wait for so long for the titular alien, and even then, for some time we saw only a giant claw. Which finally led to my personal "Christ, I'm old!" moment. When you mentioned the words "giant claw", I had to think of a cheap monster movie of that title from 1957. And I thought: Does anyone here even remember "The Giant Claw"? Christ, I'm old!
Finally, the titular alien appeared and indeed checked all the rip-off boxes that there are. A film worthy of appearing in the Sick Flicks series. Thank you, Mike!