Stinker Madness - The Podcast for Bad Movie Lovers

Prelude to Universal Soldier

Brought to you by Universally Older - the one stop pharmaceutical line of products for the aging badass. JCVD approved!
This week Jackie pulls the metaphorical trigger on Roland Emmerich and Jean Claude Van Damme's first appearance on Stinker Madness. Plus Dolph Lundgren shows up for the fourth time in Universal Soldier. Can this be a good movie? Probably not....
Also this week we release a new segment that we hope you enjoy. It's called Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor and is a stalwart drinking game in our social network (the real life kind, sorry Tweeters). The rules are simple; pick someone famous and decide if they would make a good neighbor or a bad neighbor. It doesn't matter how much you like the person, even people you like may make bad neighbors (talking to you William Shatner) and people you dislike may make great neighbors (talking to you Kobe Bryant). Be sure to reach out to us with your thoughts on each weeks pick by hashtagging #GNBN.
Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor Entries:
Dominic Torreto (Fast & Furious Franchise)
Maj. Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) - Delta Force
John Wick
Streaming Do's and Don'ts
Blood Surf - Netflix
Hercules vs Moloch (Conquest of Mycenae) - Netflix
DNA - Netflix
Curse 2, The Bite - Youtube
Cruel Jaws (Jaws 5) - Youtube

American Kickboxer 2 - Most elaborate Wobby-H ever conceived

American Kickboxer 2 is a one of a kind achievement in horrendously bad acting, awful dialogue, poorly performed stunts, and incredibly stupid plot. It really is a perfect storm in bad action movies. With this combined tour de crap, it becomes a laugh a second tornado of awesomeness. This is too rad to ignore.
Essentially, a rich family's child is kidnapped and the mother has to recruit two tough guys from her past to rescue her. Sounds simple right? Well lets try this again. The owner of a successful plumbing company has a slightly mentally handicapped child who gets kidnapped by action guys. She contacts her tough guy ex-husband and her tough guy ex-lover and explains to both of them that they have an 8 year old child and that she's been kidnapped. The two tough guys then proceed to fight each other more than bad guys until a hooker tells them that a warehouse that stores guys who don't actually work there and just have upstairs "Fight Club" also contains the kidnapped child. At that point they end up having to fight each other to the death, when a pothead frees here by using cockroaches. Movie ends with an implied three-way. Wow.
A completely awesome terrible movie because of its flaws for sure. Highly recommended viewing.
Individual Ratings:
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The Wraith - Ghosts of Vengeance drive sweet rides and like boobs

Charlie Sheen, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid and Nick Cassavetes do battle with making sense as The Wraith and vengeance storm Arizona.
This movie is sweet. It's a real brainbuster as to why this isn't a more widely known film. If you were born as a male from 1975-1985 and you had seen this film at about the age of 11, it would have easily been your favorite film. Its got everything you could want: sweet cars, racing, cool guys, explosions, boobs, and a sprinkling of some magic baloney. We can only figure that because there's 4 sets of boobs in it that most parents wouldn't let their children see it. Well guess what, now we're all adults and this movie should be a big deal. If you haven't seen this, stop what you're doing and go watch it. It's for you.
We really can't praise this film enough and highly recommend it.
We really can't praise this film enough and highly recommend it.

Prelude to The Wraith

Presented by Barret Jaxson and the Dodge M4S.
Its finally time to review the most awesome concept car movie of all time, 1986's The Wraith. This film stars Charlie Sheen, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid, Clint Howard, Nick Cassavettes and the Dodge M4S. Sweeeeeeet! Vengeance always demands a K-Car. Thanks Lee Iaccoca!
Streaming Do's and Don'ts
The Nun - Netflix
Surf Nazis Must Die - Netflix
The Kentucky Fried Movie - Shoutfactorytv
Day of the Dead - Netflix

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - An Unfortunate Must See

Russ and Roger go beyond in this under-whelming tale of how LA is tough on people, I guess. It's really a tale of people having banter that doesn't work for the viewer and then boning. Nothing happens in the film until 90% of the way through. We say less banter, more boobies.
We'll just go ahead and say that this was a massive disappointment. We were hoping for some really far out zany business with a nice backdrop of solid chests. Unfortunately, its mostly just music video, party, banter, music video, party, banter, tame boning, music video, banter, party, wedding, credits. This formula equals a sum of boring for 3/4 of the film. The pacing and writing seem to try to shock the viewer but I can't even imagining in 1970 that this film was shocking. Its as if you are told that people can be gay and then the person telling you this looks at you as says "Aren't you shocked? You must be shocked? That's SOOOO shocking" while you look at this person and wonder if they've ever been outside. How naive did Russ and Roger think people were in 1970? People have sex and do drugs?!?! Whoa...
Either way, it's not good and not worth a repeat viewing if you have already seen it and ready to try again. However, this movie is important in the grand scheme of being a bad movie fan and we feel it is a must view.....ONCE.
Individual Ratings:
Over the top action:Cheesy effects:Horrendous acting:Laugh-out-loud-ability:Ridiculous stunts:Gratuitous nudity:Memorable one-liners:
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Prelude to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Coming soon from Stinker Studios - Vampires and Vixens, the Russ Meyer movie they didn't want you to see!
We prepare this week for the rated X Russ Meyer classic, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Jackie recently saw "Life Itself", the documentary about Roger Ebert and now she thinks Beyond the Valley of the Dolls may be the greatest thing to ever exist. Sam and Justin have already seen it and are on shaky ground. Who will be rewarded? Hopefully YOU, dear listener!
Streaming Do's and Don'ts
Hot Boyz
Wolfcop
Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead
Hawk's Vengeance
Special Guests - The Thurman and Lala Podcast
Sean and Steve from The Thurman and Lala Podcast join us in studio to discuss how you can spot a bad movie within minutes of it starting. These very funny guys are completely worth checking out if you like a helpful of good laughs on your Mondays.
Listen to The Thurman and Lala Podcast:
Thurmopolis

Megaforce - Deeds not Words...what deeds??!?!

We complete Carl's Inaction in Action trilogy with one of the most ridiculous movies ever made. The leaders of the world have confirmed the existence of Megaforce. They are then hired by a crusty old man to blow up his helicopter.
We all feel that Megaforce is absolutely necessary if you love bad movies. Sam has it in his Hall of Fame. It's required viewing. If you haven't seen this please take 99 minutes and watch this on YouTube. Its a great time and the laughs never stop coming.
One of the greatest debates of all time is what does Megaforce actually do? What do they accomplish? What is this movie about? What happens? There are as many theories to the answers of these questions as there are about the meaning of life.
Individual Ratings:
Over the top action:Cheesy effects:Horrendous acting:Laugh-out-loud-ability:Ridiculous stunts:Gratuitous nudity:Memorable one-liners:
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Furious 7 - Bad Movie Field Trip

I think you may not need us to tell you whether you should view this film or not, because you've already seen it. Everyone on Earth has already seen it. This movie is a bigger deal than The Beatles, Moses, and Channing Tatum's undies rolled into one. So instead here's just some general thoughts.
The Fast and The Furious franchise is maybe the best thing that Universal has ever given the world. Its single movie viewing experience that has a little bit for everyone. People from all walks of life love this shit. You could find yourself sitting next to the Mayor or a homeless man in the theater and at one point you'll give either of them high-fives. We should drop these movies out of airplanes instead of bombs and there would be peace.
It should be noted that Justin gave bad info in this episode. The movie does NOT have an 87 Metascore. It's at 67. Which is pretty high. Everyone forgets that they are watching a movie that makes no sense and has terrible acting. And it doesn't matter. That's a good thing for bad movies.
However, we all agree that this may be our least favorite Fast/Furious movie of the last 4. It has sped up footage, action that you can't tell what's happening, the one- liners are poorly thought out and not creative and has the least amount of ridiculousness over the other films. But it's still a total do if your the only person left on the planet who hasn't seen it.
Individual Ratings:
Over the top action:Cheesy effects:Horrendous acting:Laugh-out-loud-ability:Ridiculous stunts:Gratuitous nudity:Memorable one-liners:
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Prelude to Megaforce

Brought to you by MegaB.U.T.T. - the elite force that takes over saving the world when Megaforce is just too busy doing nothing.
It's time to complete Carl's Inaction in Action trilogy with the tour de force that is Megaforce. Barry Bostwick and team must do........something? Sadly, there is no Streaming Do's and Don'ts but instead we've got some great tools to use to watch and record online movies free and legally.
Playon Playlater - The first online DVR, record movies directly from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube, and many many more. Cost is $19.99/year. Check them out at http://www.playon.tv/playlater
Upflix - Android and iOS app for daily updates Netflix catalog. Each day you will get a notification of what comes up on Netflix. Completely free and very useful. There is a ton of stuff that comes out that you don't even get to know about because Netflix just decides to show you about 1/10 of their online library at one time. http://www.upflix.net/
Two great Reddits for finding excellent bad movies on YouTube. http://www.reddit.com/r/badMovies/ and http://www.reddit.com/r/fullmoviesonyoutube
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Year 1: Year in Review: Part 2

Here you go. The very best of the worst in the last year of watching bad movies. Between the 3 of us we watched over 400 bad movies in since we started this podcast (top that, HDTGM!) and these are the very finest of them. You MUST listen to the episode if you are looking for some of the greatest bad movies that you could possible watch. Stop what you're doing and listen to this show and then watch the films. Who needs to work?
Jackie's 4 though 1 Best Bad Movies
4. Spiceworld
3. Flash Gordon
2. Teen Witch
1. The Beastmaster
Sam's 4 though 1 Best Bad Movies
4. Ninja III: The Domination
3. The Beastmaster
2. Showdown in Little Tokyo
1. Deadly Prey
Justin's 4 though 1 Best Bad Movies
4. Bad Taste
3. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
2. The Wicker Man
1. Deadly Prey
We hope to see you all again in April of 2016. Get to the chopper.