Episode #38 - G-Men From Hell
Oscar: “A few months back I went on a comic book kick and picked up a copy of Madman by Michael Allred. The volume I picked up had a crossover from Allred’s other comic, G-Men From Hell. About a week later I stumbled across this movie adaptation that I had no idea existed. And that’s my story.”
Oscar: William Forsyth! (0:00)
Andy: Bobcat Goldthwait?! (0:00)
Oscar: Gary Busey is in this!
Andy: This is a pretty awesome cast. (0:01)
Andy: This should either be paired with Detour or Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. (0:04)
Jackie: Was this shot on film? (0:05)
Andy: It feels like they raided a Halloween Store for the set.
Jackie: This feels like an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark. (0:05)
Jackie: This is a fairly low budget movie. Like they spent all their money on the cast.
Oscar: Yeah… Robert Goulet is their special effects. (0:06)
Jackie: This feels like it was filmed in a living room.
Andy: This is Bobcat’s living room.
Oscar: This feels like the local public access show hosting movies.
Jackie: Could you just see the beams of the set?
Andy: I don’t know. I’m getting over it. (0:07)
Oscar: I think we found our Bobcat. (0:12)
Andy: Hey Oscar, can we become G-Men?
Oscar: Yeah.
Andy: I’ll be the dude in the black fedora.
Oscar: I’ll be Mattress. (0:18)
Aaron comes in!
Aaron: These are Battlefield Earth camera angles. (0:21)
Andy: Hey! Wait a minute! That’s Lebowski! (0:21)
Aaron: This is like TV music. Was this a made-for-TV movie?
Andy: Hey, it’s Bunny Lebowski. (0:23)
Jackie: What is this guy’s deal?
Andy: They couldn’t afford Cheech Marin.
Aaron: Or George Lopez.
Jackie: He’s dressed like a ladybug. (0:26)
Oscar: This looses some of the effortless cool of the comic books. (0:27)
Aaron leaves!
Jackie: So the comic books are better than this, yeah?
Andy: I don’t know, these camera angles are fun.
Jackie: Yeah, but…
Oscar: The comics are a lot more deadpan than that. (0:32)
Jackie: You know what this feels like? An episode of Ghost Writer.
Oscar: Or Mathnet.
Andy: Nah, this is too over the top for Mathnet.
Jackie: Yeah, I’m gonna stick with Ghost Writer. (0:33)
Aaron returns!
Andy: This is all based on an episode in the comic?
Oscar: Yeah.
Andy: So you know what happens next?
Aaron: The camera straightens itself out? (0:35)
Jackie: Now it feels like we’re watching Pete & Pete.
Andy: Maybe that’s the red plaid. (0:39)
Andy: This movie is falling apart very fast.
Aaron: It’s collapsing on itself. (0:43)
Oscar: Mrs. Lake has an excellent apartment. (0:48)
Andy: Robert Goulet? In a Mustang? (0:50)
Stacey: It takes some serious effort to get a soldering iron to do that. (0:54)
Andy: By the way, Goulet’s last on-screen role.
Aaron: He’s dead?
Oscar: Yeah he died about a year ago.
Andy: I wonder what that means that his last on-screen role was the Devil.
Oscar: I hope that means he’s the Devil. (0:57)
Oscar: There are few things in the world more terrifying than Gary Busey’s smile. (0:59)
Aaron: Snob Creek? Awesome. (1:02)
Aaron: Day for night?
Oscar: Nah, I think that’s actual night.
Aaron: I like how they have all that steam coming up.
Andy: They drove by the dry ice factory. (1:08)
Oscar: He looks like that one Myth Buster. (1:15)
We’re more or less quietly watching the end of the movie.
Aaron: It’s like any other direct-to-video. I’ll sort of casually watch it if it’s there, but immediately forget about afterward. It’s not something I’d blog about, necessarily. 1 Unintentional Reference to the Flintstones
Stacey: It’s called G-Men From Hell. What did you expect? 1 Frozen Demon
Andy: Perfume was better. 3 Tisks
Oscar: A lot of what makes Allred’s comics so cool is its deadpan absurdism. This movie doesn’t have a deadpan bone in its straight-to-video body. That said, William Forsyth is a pretty good Crept. 2 Spotted Jumpsuits
Jackie: Like a combination of Ghost Writer and Are You Afraid of the Dark?. 1 Blonde Wig
