Weirdhouse Cinema: Eliminators

So we're getting the team together in the first place, because Rob, is this our first example of a a turbo team or dream team style movie of the of the genre where you have a specialist of several different kinds and they combine forces to go on a mission together. It might be it's a It's one of these genres that I think is easy to take for granted because it's such a core aspect of the Marvel cinematic universe,

from the Avengers to Guardians of the Galaxy. It's also a key part of our sort of role playing Dungeons and Dragons sense of adventure. You have a diverse group that's brought together. Everybody has their own skill set. Uh, they come from different backgrounds, different species even, and you know a lot of that's probably based on the sort of blueprint provided by the Fellowship of the Ring. Ah. Yes, so you have a warrior king and a wizard and

an elf archer and uh, well, I don't know. I guess a lot of what the various parties in The Fellowship do is is basically fight in one way or another. But that's also true of some of these dream team turbo team type movies. There are people who just fight with different Uh I don't know, weapons or specialties. You'll have like an explosives expert or somebody who has a sword. Oh yeah, good heist movie, right well, or even more to the point, a terrible heist movie will will inevitably

have this, uh this as part of the plot. You gotta bring it, you gotta have your safe cracking dude, you gotta have your heavy weapons dude for some reason, and so forth. It's a proven formula. Why question it. So what is the specific movie we're looking at to a It is a nineteen eighty six film called Eliminators. Yeah, we're going back to six with this one, a banner year for genre films, and we're also going back to

the filmographies of Peter Manougian and producer Charles band. I could be wrong, but I think Manougian is the first director we've come back to for a second film on Weirdout Cinema, though certainly we've covered multiple films produced by such names as Charles Band, Roger Corman, et cetera. And of course we've come back to different films featuring some of the same actors. Oh yeah, Arena. Manugian did Arena

the the space alien boxing movie. I don't know what you've yet monster m m A where it had like a human fighter getting into punching matches with giant squid and stuff. Uh, that was a fun one, and I'm gonna I'm gonna go right ahead and say there is no contest whatsoever. Arena was a better movie than Eliminators, though you can see the connective stissue. You can see some of this, some some more themes. You know, they're both films feature cyborgs, and both films feature star trek actors. Uh,

so they have a lot in common. Now, for those of you out there who are on the edge of your seats wondering, I know, I know, I know, But will there be boats in this movie? You can rest assured. Uh. And and if you don't believe me, you can consult one of the nine stills from the film included on the back cover of the VHS box. Uh, there is photographic guarantee there will be gratuitous watercraft in this movie. That's right, Yeah, there there are a lot of boats

in this film. Oh so many boats. About fifteen minutes in I started getting the feeling that this is going to be one of those movies where the title actually doesn't feature in the movie at all. And what do you know, my fears were well founded. In fact, the team of eliminators in this movie are never called eliminators by anyone. They never refer to themselves as eliminators. None of what they're doing could really all that easily be described as eliminating. I guess they're sort of on a

mission against a guy. Maybe they're trying to eliminate his evil doings. But overall, I would just say that the title of this movie is a more or less random word, and if you were to go by primary themes, a more appropriate title for this film would have been either Mann, droid or boats. Yes. Um, Now, if if you want an elevator, pitch that that sells you on the elimination aspect of this picture. Uh, really, the back of the

VHS box does it? Because this is what it says in a hidden fortress concealed by impenetrable jungle dwells, dr Abbott Reeves a brilliant but devious scientist who has the power to create and the will to destroy. He must be eliminated. There you go. And who is going to do this eliminating? Well, it's obviously going to take a

team off eliminateurs, I guess so. Oh. And the the poster or the front cover of the VHS tells you exactly who's doing the eliminating, because it says there's a period between all these words man, droid, mercenary, scientist, ninja, each one a specialist. Together they are eliminators. Yes, I have I have a framed copy of this poster. By the way, it is a beautiful poster. And I remember seeing the VHS box art and I remember thinking it

looked amazing like this. This encapsulates everything I wanted to see, uh in the the eighties and nineties, you know, But somehow I didn't which And I have no idea how I avoided actually watching this movie renting in at some point. Maybe maybe there was something about it. It seems slightly too grown up for me as a child, like Oh that looks cool, but I don't know, I dare not though ultimately it's a pretty pretty harmless film for the

most part. Yeah, it is rated p g Uh would you say that it has mature themes but not adult themes or the other way around? Actually, I guess i'd say it has neither. Well, I mean, there's a Erica who steals a smooch um. There are a lot of badly behaving characters. Yeah, has Also there's a lot of boats. I don't know, ready to b for boat, I guess. But yeah, but this poster is brilliant because mainly, yeah, there's some people in the background with some guns and

some knives. There's a tiny floating robot that you can barely see, but mainly the man droid center stage. It's this brilliant, just glistening uh, you know, clearly half human half machine. And then also he's like a tank centaur, like his lower half appears to just be like tank treads.

It's it's beautiful, beautiful to behold. I also like imagining the design conversation that went into the back cover of the VHS, because it's like, Okay, which of these stills from the movie should we include over the synopsis and the answer is all what all nine? All nine go on their grid of nine? Well, they did choose to go with the one they spent the most money on,

I guess in terms of effects and costuming. Now, if if we were to give of a I guess a more specific elevator pitch, I would say it goes as follows. A roboticist, a robot, a cyborg, a martial artist, and a low life river rat must join forces to take on a time traveling mad scientists intent on conquering ancient Rome with a suit of power armor and a death ray with the help of a couple of tough guys in a boat. Oh yeah, did we even mention that

this involves time travel yet? And it is? Uh? Oh boy, this is quite a time travel if you want to. If you want a time travel movie that makes transfers to feel like primer, then The Eliminators is here for you. The time travel is almost kind of an afterthought in it. Like usually with the time travel movie, what your main characters are doing is time travel, but instead the time travel is just sort of a uh an intro and an outro. Here, it's the beginning premise and then the

very code of the film. But the real travel that goes on in this movie, at least the hero's point of view is mostly is mostly by boat. It's basically a higher speed Heart of Darkness with time travel. Well, on that note, let's go ahead and have have the trailer. Let's just go ahead and listen to the entire trailer because the audio is pretty tremendous in this in a hidden fortress concealed by impenetrable jungle dwells, dr Abbott Reeves a brilliant but devious scientist with a power to create

help the mandroid from the cage Dakota any malfunctions. I had some trouble with this. It feels like a delay in the neurosenece trigger and the will to destroy memory. Then just mentally it's half human. He must be eliminated. Colonel Norah Hunter has the brains to mastermind the operation. We need a full time mechanic. My friend Fontana the river ran so there's in a movie one when he finds himself in a tight spot, someone else has to

pick up the pieces. Fucci the Ninja. He has the martial skills to destroy his enemies the mandroid, more machine than man. His special powers will determine whether or not they survived. We got robots, we got cave Man, we got Kung Fu. What is this anyway? Some kind of damn comic book. It is the most perilous journey any one of them has undertaken, and once they reached their destination, they face the most awesome power on earth. You don't understand. Soon I shall rule the world. M It will take

all their combined skills to defeat him. Each one is the ultimate specialist in his field. Together they are the eliminators. I haven't checked out this trailer yet, but I got to imagine it's pretty enticing because this is, like many of the movies we talked about on the show, clearly a marketing first, kind of kind of creative project. I had the poster for this movie before I ever saw the movie. In fact, that the poster was a gift from a friend, but I understand why he gave it

to me. It is a it It encapsulates so much feeling. It's got the feeling of these movies from that there. It's not like a coherent genre, but it's like a vibe of eighties movies. That includes other ones we've talked about like metal Storm, The Destruction of Jared Sin. This this isn't that kind of bucket and has those kind of feelings coursing through its arteries. Well you know, it is produced by by Charles Band. It is an Empire

International picture. And speaking of I'm now remembering, of course, Charles Band was our first director that we came back to for second helping. Uh because he did he did both Transfers to and metal Storm, The Destruction of Jared Sin. So my apologies to Sir Charles Band on that one. But uh yeah, let's this is This is an Empire International picture. It is a born out of Charles Band's Empire,

as was the director Peter manougi in Um. We talked about Peter manouge In previously on the Arena episode uh Born nine. He directed a segment in their second feature, Empire International second feature, the anthology film The Dungeon Master.

That was his first directional credit, following work as an assistant actor on a string of Band directed films, as well as Galaxy of Terror, and he was a production manager on several other films, including Humanoids from the Deep and a lovely little thriller that they filmed on on Tybee Island in Georgia, The Slayer. Are you joking with Lovely?

This one always looked gross. Um, it's mostly lovely. Like it's it's a better film than you then you would think that The Slayer, Um, the monster that is prominently featured on some of the material barely shows up like shows up right at the end. It's is mostly an attempt to to do a kind of like psychological horror picture. And I don't know if you have any connection to Tybee Island, have you ever been there? Then maybe maybe

that that helps grease the wheels a little bit. Manougian directed a string of Empire International pictures, uh including uh Arena, which we already have covered on the show the eliminating or eliminators rather not be eliminators that we're talking about here, and then he would transfer into the full moon era of the Charles Band Empire as well with Seed People. Uh so, uh yeah, definitely definitely a Charles Band guy at this Manugian and the same can can definitely be

said for the writers on this film. Danny Bilson born nineteen fifty six and Paul DeMeo, who lived nineteen fifty three through two thousand and eighteen. Uh. These two got their start very mention the Charles band camp with such pictures as Transfers. Um. Also they did eighty nine Arena and the They later got into video game writing and recently um they wrote the screenplay for twenties to five Bloods, directed by Spike Lee, which was released after Demo's death.

Oh wow, that's really upward dark. Yeah yeah, so interesting assent there. Uh. You know, you may start out doing monsters and uh and cyborgs, but who knows, who knows where your career will take you. So familiar cast of of behind the scenes characters there. Let's get into the actors on this baby, because this is it's a pretty pretty fun group that they put together. Well, Rob, I know this is not the order you had it in, but I feel like there's we have an obligation to

begin with our man droid. Yes, before before I even talk about who plays the man and right, I also have to point out something that they kept bugging me a little bit while watching it, as they call him a mandroid, but android already means mandroid, Like that's the man of man Uh, so it's kind of pointless to change it to mandroid or if you were to change it even more and make it human roid, I don't know. Well, I mean, I think it's very confusing because so android

means in the form of a man. But I think then I think because android was used in like science fiction to refer to robots that are in the form of a man, then it just got shortened to like droids in Star Wars, and then people just started thinking droid mint robot. But really it means like it's a shortening of the word meaning form of a man. So then you have to add man back on to it in order to say, oh, but this this droid is like a man. It's part man's that's a It's a

beautiful circular etymology. At any rate, our our man droid in this picture is played well, I mean, he's mostly human. The human part is played by Patrick Reynolds Born And you know, you'd be forgiven for not being all that up on the acting career of Patrick Reynolds. This is probably his most prominent role, though he pops up in mostly small roles and some uncredited roles on various films

and TV shows. Prior to this, including Robert Altman's Nashville Hair Airplane, Pumping Iron, and Zanna Do Wait, who is he in Pumping Iron? I think he's just himself uncredited. I haven't seen Pumping Iron, but maybe he's standing in the background in a gym or something like. That's the sort of caliber of roles he often had, I think earlier, or you know, for much of his career. He's just kind of he's just kind of hanging out. I mean, is he is he pumping? Is he like in the

the gym with Arnold Schwarzenegger feeling the pump? I mean, maybe he's He doesn't seem like super beefy in this film, but he seems pretty cut, like he seems like like maybe he he frequented the gym's. So the interesting thing here though about Patrick Reynolds is that he is the grandson of R. J. Reynolds, who lived eighteen fifty through

nineteen nineteen, the founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Now, Patrick Reynolds was himself a smoker for many years, but he quit in ninety five, and he became a prominent anti smoking activists around the same time and founded the Foundation for a Smoke Free America. Uh so it really ultimately most notable as an anti smoking activist who was

also once a mandroid. Yeah, when I google him, he comes up as an anti smoking guy, and then it's got a little section of his Wikipedia page where it's like he was also in some movies where he played like a robot. Well, this is it, and you know it's uh, it's it's been pretty influential. There's a movie that I did see when it came out in an eleven from Steven Kostanski. It's kind of a sci fi sort of a comedy, kind of like a dry comedy. It's called Manborg h And it has a character that's very,

you know, very clearly inspired by Mandroid. Well, throughout this movie, I kept mixing up the words man, droid and man borg, probably because of the existence of that movie, which I don't think I've ever seen. But yeah, he's he's a borg, he's a man, he's a droid, he's annoyed, he's all of the above. All Right, who do you want next, Joe Pick pick a member of our adventuring crew. Well, I feel like after that we got to pick our other main hero which has got to be Denise Crosby

playing Colonel Norah Hunter. Right. Yes, Denise Crosby born ninety seven, best known to Trek fans as Tasha Yare on the first season of Star Trek the Next Generation. I think she gets killed by a like sentient puddle of mud. Yeah, some sort of black ooze. Right. Uh so she she ends up dying, but then she ends up coming back

playing a character named Celia I think or Sella. I don't remember this character, but this is um This would be Tasha Yar's half Romulan daughter, possibly from an alternate timeline. I'm not not certain on that she also plays the mother, though in the original movie version of Pet Cemetery she does. Yes, I also have to This is an admission I have to make. I've been working much of my life under the assumption that she was rock legend David Crosby's daughter,

but she is not. She's not related to David Crosby at all. Her father was Dennis Crosby, son of Croon or Bing Crosby. So, uh you know, so somehow I kind of switched that around. I'm like, okay, famous music family. Uh, let's let's switch it over to David Crosby instead, and like to the point where I would look at her and I would be like, yeah, you can see the resemblance. You can see the David Crosby a little bit. Just imagine her doing a duet with the son of Steven Stills. Yeah.

But hey, already famous families are coming together to make eliminators. I like it. Um. Now it's worth pointing out that Denise Crosby here has been in a lot of TV, including the likes of Madmen, Red Shoe Diaries, The X Files. Do you remember her on X Files? Huh? I did watch X Files. I don't remember what she was on their. Well, she showed up, she was on she was on The Magicians, and she's still active today. Um. In this she plays

a very serious and attractive cyborg scientist. Um. And you know, it's kind of a I feel like it's also kind of a genre deluded version of Kathleen Turner's Joan Wilder character in Romancing the Stone. But you know, she does a good job with what she's given here. Well. I like about her character that she has random expertise in like everything. So she is she's a colonel, but she's also a scientist and a roboticist who invince robots that

go to other planets. But then at other points in the movie we also find out that she's an expert in boat repair, Roman history because she like can can read site read Latin and oh and when and then uh, well spoiler, we're gonna have to talk about this later. There there happened to be some Neanderthals who time travel in this movie, and when she sees them, she's just like, they look like Neanderthals, And I'm like, how would anyone today know that? But this is a scientist syndrome from

one of these eighties action movies. You just have a scientist and they don't just have expertise in their subject area because they're a scientist. They're just general purpose smart person and they know everything. Well. It's very Dungeons and Dragons in that respect, right, it's just do an intelligence check and then she nails it, natural love it, or maybe it's just indicative of I don't know, whatever educational path she was on and gave more well rounded education.

You know, you don't just get your subject area, you also get a little bit of everything. You get. You get the humanities you you can site read Latin. You know what a neandertal looks like. For some reason, All right, who do you want next? You want our rogue or do you want our warrior class? Oh? God, well, which

is which? No? I know which is which? At least from a moral point of view, we gotta go rogue because I think we're going in recruiting order, right, So we start with man droid, and then we go to scientists. That's Dennise Crosby, Colonel Nora Hunter, and then we go to rogue. But in this case it's a it's a special breed of rogue. It's a water rogue, that's right. The character Harry Fontana, played by Andrew Prine born six Prian is an American actor who was it seemed to

have been active from nineteen so pretty long career. There a lot of work TV work in the sixties, a lot of Westerns naturally, and in nineteen seventy one he started in as the title character in Simon King of the Witches, a movie about hippies and warlocks that was kind of deceptively promoted at the time as a satanic shocker. In the wake of the Manson murders. Yeah, I've never seen that one. Yeah, it's it's said to be a far tamer film than the marketing would have had people believe.

But it's still weird, still has a following, and I'm to believe it's one of the reasons that Rob Zombie cast him in The Lords of Salem in twelve. You know, he brought in a lotta movie, Yeah, a lot of brought a lot of people in from which movies and uh uh put together quite a cast. Now, the rest of Primes filmography is kind of all over the place. He he pops up in Gettysburg in nineteen sixty two, is the miracle worker. You know, both mainstream, largely well

regarded films of their time. But he was also in Charles B. Pierce's nineteen seventy six slash of the Town That Dreaded Sundown, as well as the nineteen seventy three Spanish horror film Hannah, Queen of the Vampires a k. Crypt of the Living Dead. Now, The Town That Dreaded Sundown in case that went by anybody out there, That was by the same writer and director as the Boggy Creek movies, one of which we've covered on the show before I've seen it. I'm not a fan of the

Town That Drifted Sundown. I think it's kind of a bummer. M well. He. He also appeared in Alan Rudolph's film Terror Circus, a k A. Nightmare Circus. I haven't seen that, but um, Alan Rudolph can be a very interesting filmmaker, so maybe I should give it a shot. Mm hmm. Now Prime continued to be in what can only be described as all sorts of TV uh. He pops up in six Ft Under Weird Science, the TV series Baywatch Nights, Doud Star Trek, Deep Space nine, the Next Generation Mattlock Murder.

She wrote Freddie's Nightmares, plus much much more. In this film, he plays low life river rat Harry Fontana, a character who seems to me to be very much in the in the post Romancing the Stone trope of a cantankerous rogue, much like Michael Douglas's character Colton in that film which came out earlier, and it seems like we see this

in a number of films post Romancing with Stone. Romancing with Stone was supposed to be a bomb and ended up being a huge hit, so you know, everybody was going to get in on that a little bit and get some sort of a sweaty uh you know, kind of greasy um rogue character to pilot a boat and have a woman fall in love with him. I think you see it here. You also seem to see some version of it and Cannibal Women in the Avocata Jungle of Death, starring Bill Maherr as the sort of rogue

e boat captain. It would seem to me that a lot of this has got to draw from the Indiana Jones tradition, but just not quite managing to nail the lovable nous of Indiana Jones. Right. Yeah, if you can't get the chemistry quite right for your Indiana Jones character, you end up with that with the Michael Douglas character. And if you're and then if you're aiming for that, you can't quite It's kind of like a game of telephone, where by the end of it, what do you have?

You have? You have Andrew Prin playing this um It's likable, but not nearly as charismatic character, but but still a lot of fun. Like this is a performance that has a lot of roguish energy and it's I I constantly enjoyed watching to see what Prian was going to do with his face next, Like what kind of weird um uh cell he was going to give on things? He also had kind of ah for some reason, I was thinking he had kind of John Karradine vibe to. It's

something about his sort of lankiness. Oh yeah, okay, I was thinking a much less creepy James Woods. Yes, yeah, I think that's that's spot on as well. All right. That leads us to the final member of this party, not counting the robot that flies around. We'll discuss that in a bit, But we have the character Cougie, played by Conan Lee, who also served as fight choreographer on the picture. He was born in nineteen fifty nine Chinese

American action movie actor and stuntman. Um He was born born in China, but uh you know, grew up in New York if I'm remembering correctly. The same year as this picture, eight six, he appeared as a Change Sing gang member in Big Trouble and Little China Chang Sing. Those are those are the good guys, right, They're the guys who Victor Wong recruits. Yes, Now, Conin Lee also had roles in jim Kata uh Ninja in The Dragon's

Den that would. In that one he appeared alongside hiro Yoki Sonata would not to of course, become a major not only Japanese film star, ban international film star. He's also done some voice work and some directing and writing. Um. He also appears in the Fred Ollen Ray movie from nine six Armed Response that starred David Carradine Lee Van Cliff, Mako, Ross Hagen, Dick Miller, and Michael Berryman. So quite a cast there, that's a that's a full on captain's platterer. Yes,

you're getting the sampler, all deep pride alright. A couple of bit players of note that will this will become more important important in a bit. But we have the the actor Peter Schrum playing Ray, who is the primary henchman in this picture. Essentially, Um, what would what would you say? Uh? Because he's the Darth Vader of this movie. I'm not sure. Not the Darth Vader he would be. Um, he's the m hmm, what would you say? He's sort

of the Clarence Bodicker of this movie. I mean, except he's like this, this large beefy guy with the big red Beard who wears a vest and he he's kind of bumbling but murderous at the same time. And uh, and the main the main bad guy does force lightning to his crotch. Yes, he played Santa Claus in Transfers. Uh. I don't think it was the real Santa Claus, just a Santa Claus. And he also played Lloyd in Terminator too.

Now if you don't remember Lloyd, Lloyd is the character who pulls a shotgun on the eight hundred, and the eight hundred steals a shotgun, right so, Arnold Schwarzenegger spends the rest of Terminator to wearing Peter Shrum's sunglasses and carrying his shotgun who wore at best? I don't know, Some say Lloyd I don't know, but but but who who does he work for? In this movie? Ray the Henchman works for the big bad of eliminates abbott Reeves played by really Detrice. Oh yes, how can I skip?

Roy to Trice? Um? Yeah, Roy to Trice is great in this Uh. He lived through twenty seventeen. Quite a legendary voice. Game of Thrones audio book fans will recognize him as their beloved narrator and the I think he had like a Guinness Book of World Records record for like the number of characters voiced distinctive voices in a given audiobook performance. Oh that's interesting. Yeah, I have listened to some of those audio books, by the way, and

he does a good job, though occasionally. I don't know if this has been corrected in subsequent editions or anything, but in the ones I listened to, some errors got through. I remember there was at least there were at least a couple of points where he referred to Geoffrey as

Jeffrey and it was just in there. Now. His George R. Martin connections seemed to go back to Beauty and the Beast, the TV series This is the one with Ron Pearlman in it on that played the character Jacob father Wells, and I think at one point he even wrote an episode of the show, so he must have he must have gotten gotten along quite well with George R. Martin. His last role was playing the Pyromancer character on the Game of Thrones TV series, small part, but memorable now.

He was also in a wide array of projects throughout his long career. This is always a fun When he dubbed Harvey Kitel's voice and Saturn three, which is came out it's very much and I think Kirk Douglas is in that one. And Uh, basically it's an evil scientist character. And Uh. The story has has always been that the director decided he didn't like Harvey Kyitel's voice like he sounded to you know, New York Uh in the picture

to be a mad scientist. And depending on who's telling the story, either they just decided to dub him over or they wanted Kytail to come back in and do his own dubbing, but he wasn't available. I'm not sure how it went down, but we end up with uh, with Roy's voice and Harvey's appearance. He was also noted notably uh in Amadeus. He played Leopold Mozart. In that Oh, Mozart's dad, imperious and threatening even after his death. Yeah, at any rate, it makes for a great British goateede villain,

which he certainly is to a t in this picture. Ohhh, but lest we forget my favorite character in the film, we cannot we cannot leave out by You Betty, Yes, um by You Betty is a character that like when she first shows up, it's just well, we'll get to it. She's she's tremendous. You just don't expect this to be a major character in the film, and then she comes back and you're delighted to have more. Uh. Played by Peggy Mannix for nine A spirited performance from a long

time TV bit player. She also has done a lot of theater work and I think has been very much involved in like storytelling, uh sort of ventures. Um. I think this might be her most notable acting role, though. I mean she's popped up as a bit player in number of things, Like I think she she shows up on Seinfeld at some point. By you, Betty's the heart

and soul of this movie. Just just a ray of sunlight. Um. Another thing I caught though when I didn't notice it until the final credits were rolling when the movie was over, but Rachel actually called it out. She pointed, she said, hey, look John Carl Biekler, and sure enough, special effects, makeup and eliminators by John Carl Biekler. I think he also did some effects for Arena, unless I'm remembering that wrong.

And this is a guy who did a whole bunch of special effects for movies of this type throughout the eighties, but he also directed some movies of his own, including The Original Troll and Friday Thirteenth Part seven, the one with the Psychic Powers. Good catch, Good catches there. Rachel um I do generally mentioned the music on this The music is nothing really to write home about in this picture.

It's fine. It's it's you know, heroic and everything. But it comes to us from Bob Summers, who also did scores for The Boogins, Uh, the Annihilators, and worked in the music department on scores for such films as Sideways, Night of the Comet and Metal Storm, Destruction of jared'son Yeah, the one in Only, which is similar scores, I think, you know, very heroic, but also kind of generic. I'm not gonna lie. I thought the music and this one

was was pretty weak. There's a lot of uh, kind of kind of plinking one note MIDI versions of of like I don't know, the two thousand one of Space Odyssey theme and and stuff like that. Yeah, so sometimes I may say, hey, this score deserves a special edition vinyl release. This this score does not deserved a special edition vinyl release. Special edition MIDDI. Maybe maybe one of those junior size cassettes, but not the full size cassette. Okay, you want to get into the plot, let's do it. First.

Thing I noticed in this movie shows you the title right right at the top. I don't know if this is the version I was looking at or what, but why is the title so dim? It's like they were showing the movie an energy saver mode? Yeah, I I had the same experience during the early stage of this this movie. I was actually wondering, is this is this an an energy saver mode? Did I buy a bad television? Yeah? What's going with my TV? Yeah? It's it's very grimy

and uh and dark at the beginning. Luckily, it's not going to take us too long to be in a boat about in broad daylight, where we'll spend most of the picture. But yeah, they're early stages of this are a little grimy. So while the credits roll, we get some background imagery and some scenes going on. We see a terminator face just this straight up roop off the

terminator with the red eye, uh, surrounded by fire. And then we see a fighter pilot like in one of those little uh oh, I don't know what do you call it? The bubble top? Uh? Pilots seat uh and he's screaming, may day, may day, I'm going down. And then we see some ancient Roman soldiers and there there's spears and we're in the little leather skirts and they're fighting a battle against some enemy equipped with lasers. Yeah, so it's already just confusing, as I'll get out what

what is happening? Right? What could this all mean? Well, we're about to find out. So the credits montage dissolves into some kind of darkened laboratory with electricity arking all over the place. This is the zap room, and we meet to scientists. We've got We've got Dr Takata played by Tadashi Horino, who is a kind hearted elder scientist who's apparently elated at the success of whatever experiment they

just pulled off. And then on the other hand, you've got Roy Detrice playing Dr Abbott Reeves, a sadistic, mad scientist with Rutger Hower hair. Also half of his face is kind of melted, and just from moment one he is like a gentleman to evil. You know, I think nothing illustrates how rushed this movie feels more than having a mad scientist character named Abbott. Reeves like, well, that's

the best you could come up with. There's so many, you know, sardonic names you could devise, but you go with with Reeves, which of course brings to bhind like Steve Reeves and Superman and so forth. It just doesn't sound evil enough. I agree. But but but Roy to Trees is going for that evil flavor with Gusto. Rachel and I were talking about it and we figured out that he's he's playing this role basically half as Donald Pleasants and half as Rutger Hower. Okay, that's a that's

a good mix if one can achieve it. But on the other hand, you've got Dr Takata, who is he's like a good guy, but for some reason, he has just taken a job at the Institute for Twisted Cruelty Studies under Dr satan Here and I don't know why. But putting that aside for the moment, so what happens in the scene, Well, Takada is like the experiment worked, and Reeves says, only if he brought proof. So Takata is trying to celebrate, but Reeves is just trying to

He's just ordering him around. He's like helped the men Droid from the cage at once, So they open up some kind of chamber and out pops our man droid. For the film, how to describe what this guy looks like? He's he's half of his head is like, uh, is a terminator head? Yeah, you have half a terminator head,

red eye glaring. The rest of his body is kind of you know, hodgepodge of of armor, like sort of power armory looking stuff that I guess is supposed to imply that he's he's actually robot underneath all that stuff. I think. So his left arm is like a mega

man arm. It's like a gun for an arm. The man droid he comes up to Reeves, He hands over a plastic prop shield and roy jitrices Alton, Yes, first centuries centurion shield no less magnificent uh and and let I would have thought, Okay, how would he know this? Why does this mad scientists know things about ancient Rome? And he's able to identify artifacts. But I think this

actually doesn't make sense because he's apparently obsessed with ancient Rome. Yeah, we find out much later in film that he is a connoisseur of these items. I don't know why he is he just is you know, he's kind of a you know, a megalomaniac clearly, and he he likes the he likes the shine of of the Roman Imperial period, and uh, you know that's why he at some point decides, I want to use time travel technology to go back in time and conquer ancient Rome and become their ruler. Yeah,

what's the big deal, I'm just a Caligula enthusiast. Yeah. Oh but yeah, I guess we're kind of burying the lead now. So the weird thing is, did you also get the feeling that the movie is maybe trying to be a little bit coy about what the deal with the experiment was, like building up to a reveal later on, But it doesn't work because like, obviously it was time travel and they sent the man droid back to like shoot Roman soldiers and steal one of their shields. Yeah, yeah,

it feels like that might have been the case. Like they're trying to leave you guessing, but we we all know, we all know it's time travel. Wow, what was the experiment? How did he get this shield? Why are their cavemen running around scenes of Roman soldiers? I mean, it's it's time travel. What else could it be? You're running a Westworld park. I mean, that's the only other possible explanation. Meanwhile, Dr Takada, he's over here showing his sensitive side because

Roy Detrees is doing his megalomaniac thing. But Takadah, he's like, he wants to know how the mandroid feels. And the mandroid says he can barely remember, except he he knows on his journey he saw flashes of memories. He says, I was in my plane going down again. So our man droid is haunted by horrible memories of a plane crash that are rippling through his borg brain. And uh, and then Roy Detrees does something I was just trying to figure out. He like plugs himself into a tube

of some kind. Is he supposed to be on some kind of dialysis or is he is he like part robot at this point and plugging himself into recharge. Well, he also has a like he has all these wounds on his face too, right, Like he's he's using mad science to read who from something. But I don't think we're ever quite I told what it was, right, He's just he gets a little better each time we see him. Takada wants to send the man droid off to heal and be repaired. You know, he tells him, you've done well,

my friend, because he is a kindly scientist. But then immediately Reeves is like, no, destroy it, make it suffer, and to uh, Takata is like, but you know his his brain is half human. It's he's alive. You can't do that. But Reeves says, since when have we ever been concerned with compassion? What compassion was ever shown to me? And then you get a good like burned face reveal he's kind of dabbing at his his burns. Now the whole thing with the mandroid having these visions of being

in a like a World War two plane crash. Uh, that means they bone jacked him, right, Like these guys are bone jackers. Yes, yes, they got the meat, but the meat was damaged. Thus, then I guess the meat was damaged. That's why you make a man board, right, a man droid? You or did they just aside, no, we need a we only need to use part of the meat and create the mandroid. We need a man droid for our various time travel uh uh? Thefts well, apparently they don't need him that long because Reeves roy

Detres is like, no, destroy him. So Takada is like, okay, well I'm I'm gonna have to set the Mandroid free so he you know, he conspires with them. He says, we will escape this place tonight, and the Mandroid says, I'll need my mobile unit. And the mobile unit I love the mobile unit. How to describe the mobile unit? Rob When I say mobile unit, what words come to your mind? Oh? Um, well, now it is clearly going to be um like a tank centaur situation. You know

it is this um. I don't know what the words would have have brought to mind previously, but I knew where we were going because I've seen the poster. The mobile unit is one of these effects that really, this

is fabulously done. This looks amazing, It looks great. At the same time, the rest of the picture is cheap enough to where like, this effect looks a little hokey, even though the effect itself, I think looks looks extremely solid, It looks very good, but it also looks really unintentionally funny.

And the reason I would put it there is they came up with a really quite good special effect, but they filmed it in such a way and edited it in such a way that like you see it moving in awkward ways, like he so it's a guy on tank treads like he's a tank centaur. He takes his legs off and plugs his torso into this tank thing.

But then when you actually see him moving around on it, it looks like it would be more efficient for him to just use his legs because he's really like gets stuck rolling around on stuff and then tries to do a three point turn and it's really funny. Yeah, yeah, it's I mean, it's kind of like when a child is like, no, I want to take my scooter and the parents like, oh god, this is gonna take even longer it would. It would be easier if you walked.

But but yeah, it also comes back to the basic premise we've discussed before, like, no matter how good your monster costume is, or in this case, your your your half tank cyborgs centaur costume happens to be if you just shoot it in broad daylight, you're not doing it any favors, agreed. But anyway, they get caught while they're

trying to escape, and unfortunately the kindly. Doctor Takata is killed in their escape attempt, but before he dies, he tells the Mandroid that he must go and find a scientist named Colonel Hunter, and if he finds Colonel Hunter, he can he can have all the answers. So then there's a big escape sequence where he's rolling around on his tracks and he's trying to get out of the

compound and then we meet here. We get our first meeting with Ray the Hinchman, who when when Rachel and I first saw him, we were like, oh, it's Cringe Shaw from Barky Creek because he's got he's got a big red beard. Uh. And he's dressed kind of like a like a bayou guy but not quite in like just the shirtless with overalls like Cringe Shaw. But he's halfway there and he uh, and he's on sniper duty. He's trying to like shoot the man Droid with this

big weird gun that has these three red scopes on it. Yeah, like that the gun looks like it's some sort of futuristic device, you know, it's it's a it's very much like a sci fi sniper rifle. But there's nothing else about Ray that that suggests science fiction, Like, he's just this bearded dude. Uh, you know, might be just a trucker that was making a shipment to the Mad Science Lab and was hired on the spot Ray looks like a guy who would own a food truck called wild

Bubba's Boot and Balls. Yeah, yeah, very much though, and and you know, looking at him, you know that he owns a boat. Well. Anyway, the mandroid escapes, he parks his mobile units somewhere in the jungle, puts his leg units on, which is great. This is a great sequence. Like it said again, they just really thought out this mobile unit thing. Yes, uh, and then he he walks out of the jungle and then next thing, we're just immediately into some place that looks like a modern art museum.

This is where we meet Denise Crosby and she's there doing science again. This is Colonel Hunter, Colonel Nora Hunter, and she's doing tests on a robot prototype that she has developed called Spot. Yeah, and Spot is um not as great an effect. I mean, he's just a little robot. It's it's neat, it's not you know, it's not the worst robot effect I've seen. But he looks a little hokey, and later on in the picture, especially when he's flying around,

it really just looks real bad. So SPOT is an acronym. It stands for Search, Patrol and Operational Tactician. And I think what they're going for is because they've got a Mandroid, they've got like a gritty uh you know, a gritty assassin bot that shoots torpedoes and lasers and stuff, they wanted to also have a cute robot in the vein of like short Circuit or R two D two right that this guy's not cute. I mean this is it's very forced, much like the name of the creature, and

it's it's just their little um reconnaissance robot. But she's doing tests with Spot and then meanwhile man droid and filtrates the perimeter. Apparently he's in disguise. I'm saying that with scare quotes here, because his disguise is he's still a Mandroid, but he's wearing like an alligator skin fedora and a rain poncho. Yes, yeah, he looks very very suss as the kids say, kind of Phantom of the Opera asked rather hilarious. Actually, in fact, it's even funnier

when he takes the stuff off to reveal him. So he you know, he meets Denise Crosby and he's like hello, and she's like who are you? And he uh. This is after he is, by the way, knocked out some security guards by spurring green gas in their face. But then he comes up and she's like, oh, who are you? What's going on? And then he removes his fedora and his poncho to clearly, this is supposed to be like a gasp borg reveal, but we've already seen him, so

we know what he looks like. She's acting very surprised. But are we supposed to believe that people don't notice that half of his face is a terminator as long as he's wearing the hat. Like later in the movie he hides the terminator half under bandages, but he's not doing that here. He's just this is a half terminator, but he's wearing a hat. Well, I guess we're just supposed to imagine that his head was it just the right angle throughout all of this so we could see

the terminator stuff that she could not. Well, So he explains the backstory that we've already seen. He talks about his you know what happened before he was borned he he remembers crashing a plane and he says his body was taken up river. And then he says, when I woke up, I saw this, I think, referring to his droid body and uh and she and she starts looking at the technology that he has been outfitted with, and she says, your arms, your leg units, it's my work,

all of it. So we find out that the man droid is actually based on technology that was originally intended for peaceful uses in space exploration. And uh so, so Dr Reeves is not only an evil, mad scientist, he's also a thief who has been stealing the intellectual property of Denise Crosby to make unholy Man droids in the jungle. Yeah, I mean, once he goes back in time to uh what is it for first century? Uh CE or or

b C. I'm not I remember him. Like, once he goes back, clearly he has all the copyrights, all the trademarks. Oh well, that's a good point. I didn't think about that. I mean, he's probably just bringing stuff back with him just to just like he's bringing super soakers and he's just like Nope, I invented it, clearly. But here we also find out the doctor Reeves is like borging himself as well, because Denise Crosby says, but Reeves died five years ago, and the man Droids says, no, he prolonged

his life through grafting and transplants. All right, So that explains what's going on and what what we continue to see going on with Dr Reeves. But then I liked how so she's like, well, what's going on with your head? So he just sits down and she starts she opens up his head and starts working on it, like soldering his brain chips while he's sitting there awake, and he's like ah, and he he hallucinates some Roman centurions and uh. And then they eventually agree that they've got a team up.

They've got to form a turbo team to go on a mission to the jungle to stop Abbott Reeves from doing whatever he's doing. So this is the first hint of the team. The Turbo team begins. He begins with two team partially assembled. But before we get to the jungle, I thought, when there was a really funny scene where they're driving in a car in whatever city, Dennis Crosby was working in UH and there is a car jacking attempt where a guy like busts out the window and

tries to steal her robot spot Um. And before before he busts out the window, he's like, hey, you need some body work, and the of course mandroid is very confused by this. He's like, are you talking to me? And she's like no, he's talking about at the car. Then the guy breaks the window tries to grab her robot, and then the man droid gets out of the car and like shoots torpedoes at these random carjackers, and he delivers the first of this movie's several absolute clunker comebacks.

You're the one who will need body work? Well, he had, he has damaged processor at this point that's been established. He can't be expected to really come up with any singers on the spot. His Zinger circuits are badly in need of repair. Area. Well, so, anyway, I think they go down to Mexico where they're supposed to be finding a way to UH to take a boat up the river to find Abbott Reeves. So they're gonna need a

boat and a guide. And this is where we get to our Cantina scene, a tremendous scene, a real milestone in the movie. Um, how do you even begin here? I mean, so this is where we meet our I was gonna say bounty hunter, but he's not a bounty hunter. Our our mercenary, our guide, our river rat, one of our new turbo team members. This guy is Harry Fontana. This is uh, what's his name, Andrew Prine. Yes, he's a slimeball river rat with long hair and a five

o'clock shadow. And it's a real kind of Tim Thomerson sort of role. Yeah. In fact, it's funny that you say that. It's my understanding that Tim Thomerson was was originally offered the role, like he was originally who they wanted in this role, but for some reason that didn't work out inter inter um prime. And you know, I have to say, I think Thomerson would have been too

likable in the role. I think I think Thomerson has is just his charisma is a little a little more wholesome somehow, And I like that we have a more proper river rat on our hands here. But also, but he's not the only thing in the scene. The scene also has this weird bar tender who had What was going on with that guy's accent? It was so he you would expect him to have, I guess a Mexican accent. This is in Mexico, but he's sort of halfway has

a Scottish accent. The one thing that vaguely made me think of is the the old black and white film Wages of Fear, which I think we have memory serves, revolves around like a bunch of ex pats. You know, they're kind of stuck somewhere in South America. I think, um, and uh, you know, they're trying to sort of scheme their way out, like so maybe there's a certain certain uh dash of that flavor added to this picture. I'm

not sure. But then, of course, into my favorite character, by you Betty, who saunters into the bar surrounded by a gang of obsequious, cowardly Frenchman and by you Betty is apparently a rival river rat, so you've got Harry Fontana your main river rat. And then by you Betty, she is a different riverboat guide who is not happy that Fontana is stealing her business. She accuses him of undercutting I'm not sure exactly what she thinks the problem is.

But maybe it's that people, you know, people are paying to ride in his boat instead of paying to ride in her boat because he charges less money. Yeah, I think that's that's the case. Anyway, she she has an informed and bio Betty. I have to say, bio Betty feels kind of like a like an Amy Sedaris character, Like like this could be an Amy Sedaris character. That's the best way I can describe it. By you. Betty is a. Yeah, she's a She's a tough, violent Cajun

woman who enjoys threatening and punching people. And uh, there's there are a number of things that make me think that the makers of this movie believed that Louisiana is located within, uh like the forested part of southern Mexico because it has Cajun river guides. And then Ray the Crnshaw henchman, he's plausibly a Louisiana guy too. He like he's got a very crawled ad kind of energy. So I don't know what's going on. But where we go to next is is great, Like it feels like something

out of a Popeye cartoon. Because Denis probably is entered. She needs to hire a riverboat guide, and so how are you going to determine this? So are you gonna look at the resumes? No? No, She just comes in and says, hey, I need the toughest guide to this river. And I guess Bayou Betty. You know she's she's she's all about action. She she puts her money where her mouth is. She hauls off and slugs her own French henchman in the jaw and then just a big fight

immediately breaks out. Everybody in the cantina starts punching each other. People are slamming glass bottles and smashing each other of her tables. Why I don't know, but it's great. But not Harry Fontana. Now he he ducks behind the bar, helps himself to a little free alcohol, and waits till everybody has kind of fought themselves into a stupor. Uh, and then smashes a bottle on the back of Bio Betty's head. Now he's the clear winner, he claims the business. Right,

he out skunked them all. He proved his worth worthiness by being a coward and a thief. Yes. Uh. And then from here, for the next approximately thirty six hours, this movie becomes the saga of boat. Yeah. Yeah, it's just there's there's boats chasing each other, running for people falling out of boats, people climbing into boats, stuff exploding next to boats, boats exploding. Uh, just any variation on the theme you might be looking for eliminators has it.

And then you think the boat chase is over, and then the next scene is like the characters start talking and then a new boat chase starts. But that's kind of great because so after the cantina scene, I was like, oh my god, I love by You Betty. I was so afraid she would just vanish from the movie here and that would be all the by You Betty we get.

But middle stretch of the movie is mostly like so it's Harry Fontana, the river rat, trying to figure out what it is that that that the band droid and Denise Crosby or after you know, he's like do you want gold? You want diamonds? What are you doing here?

And then meanwhile by You Betty is chasing them in a fleet of boats with armed henchmen, all apparently so she can have their fair Like she's hunting them down with all these weapons so so that she can convince them to ride into her boat instead of is yeah, I mean she must be. She must be working up to wanting to cut off the treasure, because that's ultimately what Fontana is all about. Too. He's like, he thinks

this is about gold. This is about, you know, something from some other jungle adventure movie, some sort of ancient treasure situation, and he wants a cut of it. That's that's where he's going to really excel. But of course they're all wrong. This There is no gold. This is a this is a mission of elimination. Uh not not not treasure hunting. Right, but along the way we get

lots of boat stunts and boat chases. Oh and then I thought was part of the scene is Harry Fontana learning valuable lessons about overcoming sexist attitudes, because at one point they're they're trying to fight off Bayou Betty's henchman, and uh, somebody needs to drive the boat. And Denise Crosby's like, I can drive the boat and he's like, you can't drive it. You're a woman. So he um. But then the man Droid like shames him into relenting.

The man Droid literally yells at him that's wrong. Uh. And then the same pattern is repeated with fixing the boat's engine. Uh he he doesn't know what he's doing. But Denise Crossby comes in she can fix it, which she does by grabbing out of his hand what looks like a bottle of white wine. I think it's supposed to be liquor, but it's like yellow colored, and then she pours it into the engine somewhere Yeah and yeah, somehow fixes it with what seems to be to the

alchemy or something. I don't know. She fixes it if it starts again. Like nobody has ever said to me, Are you haven't trouble getting your car to start? Have you tried pouring just alcohol on the motor? That seems to work? It works in this one film I saw.

There was one part where I didn't understand what was happening, But like that they are driving and Fontana keeps wildly, like causing the boat to veer back and forth instead of driving it in a straight line, and they're like, ease up, and then he goes, this is what you

hired me for. And I don't know what that means or why any of it's happening, but anyway, there are a bunch more boat chases is eventually, uh, the man Droid has to intervene to get them to escape by you Betty's goons by shooting a torpedo at Betty's boat. And then of course Fontana is like, whoa wait a minute, I saw you shoot a torpedo out of your arm. And then he gets the man Droid reveal, like he takes off his poncho and it's he's a man droid, um.

And then there are more boat chases, this time with Ray you know, our Crnshaw guy. And basically for the rest of the movie, they're just on the mission with various little vignettes and boat things happening. Uh. So maybe we could just go a little bit less seen by seeing here and describe some of the standout vignettes from the mission. I'd say one of the big ones, of course, is meeting our final member of the turbo team, Kuji the Ninja. Yes, who is um? Is he supposed to

be the son of the good scientists from earlier. Yes, he's the son of Dr Takata, right, and so he's he's he's on on location here, I guess for vengeance. This is a vengeance mission for him, and do they do. They explicitly say he's a ninja. Yeah, I don't remember it. Kung fu is alluded to by Fontana, but I mean it's it's clear that Couji is very good with weapons and fighting. There's a big, big fight scene that takes place. Oh yeah, he's got an unlock. Yeah, now, Rob, what

did you make? There was one part where where I was like, what is going on? But it was when the Turbo team is captured by the caveman from the Geico commercials uh and this is this is the part where Ginese cross they get captured in Denise Crosby's like they look like Neanderthals. Um, But of course we we figure out that they are. They are here for some

reason because they have been brought here through time travel experiments. Yeah, that's that's really all I had to go on, Like he must have retrieved some Neanderthals and just like let them go, or they escaped and on their living wild or maybe he he is like, well, I'll just introduced them into the area and they'll sort of serve as a buffer between me and any you know, people that

show up to mess with my science. I don't know, um, but they're there, and uh, and the makeup effects, though I'm not sure how accurate they truly are regarding Neanderthals. It's pretty good basic cave you know, it's pretty good cave man makeup. They look pretty good. So they're they're played more for comic relief, I think than a serious threat. Well, anyway, a bunch of other stuff happens. We we find out

some things about Man Droid's past. He at one point, Denise Crosby like dives into a crashed plane to retrieve a family photo. I think this was the plane that the man who Mandroid was before he was Droid. Id uh, you know that this is the plane he flew and his family photo is in there. And so some more things happen, but eventually we get down to the final confrontation with Abbott Reeves with roy De Trees, who is now a full on cyborg himself and nearly invincible. You know.

They shoot stuff at him and he just easily deflects it. It's it seems like he's unbeatable. How will they ever defeat him? Yeah, yeah, he's he's fully powered. He's blasting everything. He has a what is that? What does he referred to a special weapon as it um is an ion destroyer or an ion reverse or um. Oh there's the thing where he says it will turn the atoms in your body inside out. I like that, so of course

we see it, dude, nothing of the sort. He just kind of this The cyborg gets blasted with it a few times, and you know, it's just sort of typical robot and gets hit with a laser gun sort of affair. Uh So, I'm not really believing him all that much on the claims regarding this weapon, right, But our our

heroes fight through his hinchman. But then of course Abbot reeves in the end, escapes into his time machine and we find out his plan is to travel back in time to ancient Rome and crown himself the cyborgs Caesar. So can our heroes save history from being borgified? Well, at first it looks like no, because he already gets into the time machine and he leaves, and they're like,

he's gone. We can't stop him. But oh wow, oh wow, this ending, yeah of Fontana basically saves the day, right because they're like, look, it's too late, he's already gone back. And then they see the date there on the time machine controls and Fontana just starts like hitting the machine, essentially vandalizing the machine. And then something happens. Well you can say what it is, Well, do we want to

spoil this terrific and yes we do. UM. So basically, uh, instead of going back to uh you know, first century uh C E or b C every get which instead takes him way back, like like all pretty much all the way back, uh you know, not not you know, primordial ooze level, but to the silurian Um time period. So send him all the way back to to a time when there's nothing to conquer, nothing to to to overpower. Um and uh, and we we get this wonderful scene where he we see the time machine is crashed in

this primordial landscape. Uh. He gets out of it, and then he's like no, because he quickly realizes that he has gone far too back in time. There's no way back, and now he's the king of nothing. It's a pretty killer ending. I should have looked into this before we started recording. I don't know if there would have been breathable atmosphere at the time. Well, he's all sideboarded up at this point, right, So Okay, so he can be

he'll he'll be fine in a CEO two atmosphere. Maybe, I don't know, who are we to doubt the scene that we we witness here. I mean there would be some things to rule over, right, I mean mostly marine organisms. Yeah, it's something. I mean, you know something about babe. By day two he might have gotten over into like all right, it's it's all right, Reeves, it's not too bad. We're you know, the Caesar of slimes with the fish, the Caesar of fish. Uh, so we have that going for

us least. That would have been a great scene. Actually he goes to the water's edge and there are these weird fish creatures and he's just like kneel before me. That would have been good. So it's quite it's quite an ending. And it's one of these where like our heroes save the day essentially by vandalism and kind of through the technicality, like basically the villain one, but they found a loophole in his victory. So I would say overall this was not a very good movie, but it

was a goobery good time. Yeah, it's uh, this one's a lot of fun. It's real dumb. But in a in a wonderfully watchable since so I highly recommend it um now. We watched it as part of the the excellent shout Factory Sci Fi Movie Marathon DVD set, which also includes Arena and two films that I have not seen America three thousand and the Time Guardian. I haven't seen them either, so no comment. I think Carrie Fisher's in one of them. I think she's in the Time Guardian,

but that's all I know about now. Shout Factory also put out Eliminators on Blu Ray, and and eighty eight Films did a combo Blu Ray DVD release in I'm not sure if Eliminators is streaming anywhere at the moment as of this recording, but I think it has popped up on places like Prime in the past, so you know, if you're if you're looking out on to be or in places of that of that nature, you're bound to

see it pop up eventually. All Right, we're gonna go and close it out, But of course we'd love to hear from anyone out there if we have any uh Eliminators fans out there. Uh, certainly if you saw this movie back in the eighties, we'd love to hear from you. Uh. If you want to check out other episodes of Weird House, Cinema comes out every Friday and the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast feed were primarily a science podcast, but on Friday's we put aside all that serious stuff and

we just focus in on a weird motion picture. Huge thanks as always to our excellent audio producer Seth Nicholas Johnson. If you would like to get in touch with us with feedback on this episode or any other to suggest a topic for future just to say hello, you can email us at contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. And one more thing I have to say. Before I was really familiar with this film at all, I heard a sample from it on the track sci Fu is um off the Wax Factor album SSI Fu.

I know this is an artist that now goes by the name of Pete Sasquax that's s A s q W a X, and he's put out a ton of great content over the years. Most of his work is currently on band Camp, and I think you can still access si Fu the album on Apple Music, but he may be putting it out on band Camp in the future as well. UH. For all of his links. Check out his link tree on his Instagram page. He is

again Pete Sasquax. That's p E t E s A s q w a x. I reached out to him and he gave us to go ahead to play part of sci Fu is um here. Uh. It has a lot of great samples in it, including just a real gym of a sample from eliminates anyway anyway, some kind of costumes, comic books, comic books, comic books, comic books.

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