Curse II: The Bite (1989)

Now this idea I can get behind. Clark's hand gets bitten by a radioactive snake, and then his hand starts to turn into snake head and only Jaime Farr has the cure! My first thought, this poor dude can't catch a SpiderMan™ break and just become SnakeMan™, saving the world from evil scientists with his snake powers. But alas, as the title suggest, his bite is more curse than gift. Curse 2 (no relation to Curse 1) could be awesome, and I probably would've thought it was more awesome if the end wasn't so awesome! I'm watching, enojying, and then the whole end scene happens and all I can think is "YEAH THATS WHAT IM TALKIN BOUT SNAKES-GUTS_DID THAT GUYS EYEJUSTFALL OUTOH MAN IT DID SNAAAAKES" I promise I'm a sane man. So I offer you two options...1) Find this film on VHS somewhere, get some friends over and watch it. There are plenty of great scenes throughout, like the road full of snakes and radioactive-snake-dog. OR 2) You can skip and just watch the end scene which I have so generously put below for you, our dearest of readers. You'll also get a sample of the great synth score, sounds like it was right out of a Full Moon picture production. I'll catch you up if that is case: so now Clark's hand is cut off, and he escaped from the weird religious family and he's on his (ex?)girlfriend's car while the police and Jamie Farr are en route. How they conclude they are going to a construction site was beyond me, but they figured it out. Anyways, less talk, more snake guts:

And some other cool things I found on the Internet:






Jamie Farr was from MASH, you idiot, jeez.

Society (1989)

Holy sweet mother of incredibleness. Brian Yuzna's Society really surprised me because I hadn't seen it until recently (thanks to our Mr. Smallberries) and frankly I'm glad I didn't see it sooner. This would have really screwed up my brain if I had seen it as a kid. Much of that screwing comes via awesome effects by Screaming Mad George who's done work on greats from Predator to Big Trouble in Little China to Progeny and so many more.




Yuzna's debut follows young Billy who although seemingly has a bright future in society, can't help but feel like something is up with his family and certain schoolmates. After a few really effed hallucinatory-like episodes, Billy starts to believe that he isn't crazy (as his therapist would like him to), especially after his sister's ex plays him a pretty perverse, violent, incestuous audio tape of his family. See below.



Anyways, I don't want to spoil too much, because I recommend everyone check out this twisted body horror epic. If you've seen any of Yuzna's other work, either writing or directing (From Beyond, Re-Animator) you'll be familiar with his capability to mind rape your brain cells, and then blame you because you're watching his movie. The last act of Society is a long time coming, but when it gets there, it's nuts, and really caps off the spirit of '80s indulgence...I won't say much more, but tease you with the following screen caps.

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