Comments on: X-Treme Teens (2001)

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:03:45 +0000

Correction: BORIS KARLOFF not BELA LUGOSI

My mind was thinking Boris Karloff, but somehow I typed “Bela Lugosi.” Sorry!

Prine’s actual nickname for the woman who played his “wife” was “Boris Karloff” (which is actually funnier if you can picture what she looked like).

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:51:21 +0000

Great review! I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. You nailed it. I also worked on the film and was both amused and tortured by its low budget constraints… Romanians speaking phonetic English and not really knowing what they were actually saying, etc. etc. You missed some of the misspelled signs though! Darn the military. If they are going to try to keep people out of a secret area, at least they should spell it correctly!

The outtakes of Andrew Prine (not really the nicest person) trying to act with the stone-faced woman who was supposed to play his “wife” were also hilarious. Sometimes he would just sit there and stare at her in stunned amazement. His nickname for her was “Bela Lugosi”. She didn’t really look the part of the wife. But maybe that’s the best they could come up with in the Eastern Block; a rough looking woman who looked old enough to be Prine’s grandmother wearing hair that looked like something one of the Three Stooges would have worn. Too funny!

But honestly, what can you expect on this shoestring budget? This movie was made for less than one steak and lobster lunch on a McG movie! (And in defense of what you call “the sausage factory” I still am amazed they made a movie even that entertaining with so little funds).

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:51:02 +0000

I was just nosing around your site some more and read your review of TOTEM. This is kind of a long story but I was working in the post-production department at Full Moon and they needed to pad the running time on TOTEM, so they bought that stock footage from THE VIKINGS (I think you can actually see Tony Curtis at one point) and asked me to bang out some “meaningless narration” that would sound like it was explaining the whole shebang but wouldn’t really explain anything at all. And so I did.

I remember James Black (the narrator) reading over it and saying “This doesn’t make any damn sense!”

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:19:48 +0000

Hey, don’t worry — I’m coming to understand exactly how challenging it must have been to put together a coherent movie via the Kushner-Locke sausage factory. We ain’t hating the playah.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:29:31 +0000

This is the first review I’ve ever seen of this movie and I couldn’t agree more — and I’m the assh*le who co-wrote it!

Y’see what happens when you have four days to rewrite somebody else’s script and the director has to pay you out of his own pocket because Charlie Band won’t pony up any dough? Ah well, it kept me in ramen noodles and potatoes for a little while…

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:56:22 +0000

Yes, the few glimpses we get of the goggles in action look a lot like the output of Geordi’s visor from TNG.

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:02:55 +0000

“And there are a few lines here and there to show that they toyed with echoes of Roger Corman’s X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes (1963).”

Indeed. Especially with the whole, “he can’t turn the goggles off” thing. (“I can still see!”)

BTW, judging by that one image, it look less like X-Ray vision and more like Predator-vision. ^_^