One Was Enough

 

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PIRANHACONDA-2012-2 gigantic snake things terrorize a Hawaiian island where a low budget horror film is being made. Some gang also holds some of the cast & crew hostage. Everybody runs around, surviving or getting eaten. Michael Madsen is a snake hunter who has an egg. The special effects are terrible. It premiered on The Syfi channel.

Director Jim Wynorski did a re-make of THE GIANT GILA MONSTER after this mess.

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Corman Killer Robots

 

CHOPPING MALL-1986-At Secure-Tronics Ltd., Suzie (Barbara Crampton) and Alison (Kelli Maroney) and their brain dead friends drink beer and have sex in a furniture store in a shopping mall where some security robots have gone haywire after an electrical storm. The group run around exploding propane tanks, shooting guns and being picked off one by one until only Alison is left (well sort of). 

Dick Miller is a janitor named Walter Paisley who's electrocuted. Paul Bartel & Mary Woronov have a pre-credit appearance and Mel Welles, Gerrit Graham, Ace Mask, Arthur Roberts and Angus Scrimm have small roles. There's nudity, an exploding head and one jerk saying "Let's send those fuckers a Rambo-gram”. The 'bots say things like "Thank you. Have a nice day" after killing. 

This Concorde release was co-written and directed by Jim Wynorski who a couple of years later re-made Roger Corman's NOT OF THIS EARTH with Maroney and several other Chopping Mall actors.

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You are not dying. I am dying...

NOT OF THIS EARTH-1988-This is remake of Roger Corman's classic 1957 Sci Fi story was supposedly redone on a bet between Corman and director Jim Wynorski. It follows the original story fairly closely and even uses much of the dialogue. 

Mr. Johnson (Arthur Roberts), an alien from the war torn far off planet Devanna comes to Earth seeking blood. With mind control he forces Dr. Rochelle (Ace Mask) to set him up with daily transfusions of blood for this is what the inhabitants of his home world need most. He engages the doctor's nurse Nadine (Tracy Lords) to assist in the procedure and she  goes to live in his house with him and his chauffeur Jeremy (Lenny Juliano). Of course there are a few things that are different. Most notably that original star Beverly Garland didn't do her snooping around in a bikini or have a topless sex scene with her policeman/boyfriend Harry (Roger Lodge). And instead of inviting 3 male bums back to become victims Johnson hires 3 cartoonish  hookers. Also a topless "stripper o gram" dancer. It features a chase scene from another Corman production. Ok fun as remakes go.

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Corman Giant Size Monsters

DINOCROC VS. SUPERGATOR-2010-More made for TV giant reptilian junk courtesy of Roger Corman and the SyFy channel. A genetics lab working to grow bigger food sources is used by an evil industrialist Jason Drake (David Carradine; the only reason I checked this out) to create a giant crocodile and a giant alligator. A sheriff (John Callahan), his daughter deputy (Amy Holt), a hunter (Rib Hills) and an undercover FBI agent (James Burns) try to stop the scaly pair. Somehow the gang gets the two giganto-reptiles together and they fight each other until they are blown up. The fight is nothing but a computerized update of the famous overused stock footage from One Million Years BC. 

The director Jim Wynorski (under the pseudonym Rob Robertson) has been making mostly direct to video soft core nudie movie takeoffs (THE HILLS HAVE THIGHS, THE BREASTFORD WIVES) and cheesy giant reptile craziness under many fake names for years now and also co-wrote this using the name Jay Andrews (I don't really blame him...)

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