Grizzly 2 Electric Bugaloo

 

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GRIZZLY 2: REVENGE-2020-In Yellowstone park, a giant killer grizzly bear is on the rampage after it's cubs are killed. Samantha Owens (Deborah Raffin) is in charge of bear management and wants Nick (Steve Inwood), a park ranger, to capture the bear alive. Bouchard (John Rhys-Davies), a French Canadian mountain man sets traps. Meanwhile Eileene Draygon (Louise Fletcher) throws a rock concert with acts that look like they are auditioning for Gary Numan. 

Despite getting top billing, Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern and George Clooney are only in one scene. Deborah Foreman, Ian McNiece, Timothy Spall and Jack Starrett are also in it. 

This production which features a silly bear puppet, began filming in Hungry in 1983 (Sheen, Dern & Clooney were relatively unknown then which explains their small roles) when the producer quit the production because of lack of funds. Somehow the co-producer Suzanne Nagy found a backer and principle photography was completed. However the entire film languished incomplete while Nagy and her crew worked on it (a working print was posted to Facebook and remained there for years). Finally, in the beginning of January 2020, the film was completed and released. I don't think it was worth the wait....

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Mama Mia!

MAMA DRACULA-1980-Peter von Blood (Jimmy Shuman), a nerdy self possessed professor is invited to attend “The World Blood Congress” by Countess Dracula (Oscar winner Louise Fletcher) herself. Vladamir, her grunting pale driver takes him to the castle where he’s nearly bitten by twin gay vampires. He’s saved by The Countess, who tells Blood she stays young by bathing in the blood of virgins but in the decadent modern world virgins are not easy to find. Someone named Nancy Hawaii (Maria Schneider from LAST TANGO IN PARIS) shows up to become the new mama. The director Boris Szulzinger (TARZOON: SHAME OF THE JUNGLE) thought this Belgium-France co-produced nonsense was funny I guess….

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