Thursday, July 17, 2008

DR. HORRIBLE WOULD NEVER APPEAR ON THIS LIST: If the awesomeness of Dr. Horrible has you in the movie musical mood, you're primed for the Ten Scariest Movie Musicals of All Time. Some of these, such as The Wiz, Sgt. Pepper's, and Can't Stop the Music, are painfully familiar to fans of the genre of bad movie musicals, but how have I never heard of Skidoo?

Skidoo it turns out is "an astounding LSD musical comedy directed by Otto Preminger" in which Groucho Marx plays god and Jackie Gleason plays a mobster. Apparently it was on TCM a week ago, but has never been released on DVD or VCR. But here's the trailer, featuring the endorsements of Timothy Leary (who viewed the film as a way for the kids to turn their parents on to the joys of drugs), Sammy Davis Jr. ("It is the gassiest, grooviest, swingiest, trippiest movie you have ever seen"), Groucho, and a host of others and here's a clip of Ralph Kramden on acid. With Dark Knight opening tomorrow, I guess it is noteworthy the cast also includes the original Joker, Penguin, and Riddler. And with Brett Favre dominating sports headlines, it is also interesting that the film features an appearance by the Green Bay Packers and former NFL star quarterback Roman Gabriel. Does anyone have a copy of this on DVD or VHS I can borrow, please.

I've seen clips from The Apple before (1994 sure looks like it will be scary), but I have to catch the whole thing (I love the reading by the trailer VO, calling it "a special experience in movie-going entertainment.") I think Wall-E would have been a very different film had he scavaged a copy of this film.

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