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The Munsters (2022)

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Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year at B-Movie Enema!

Ah, yes… October. The weather gets cooler. The movies get spookier. B-Movie Enema celebrates an anniversary. Each year, I choose a theme for the month, and I thought it was high time to feature the works of one Robert Bartleh Cummings, better known to the world as singer/songwriter/producer/filmmaker/actor Robert Zombercrombie.

Er… I mean Rob Zombie.

Now, to get things started with what I’m dubbing Rob Zombie’s Spookshow, I think it’s important to understand that I’m not here to bash on Mr. Zombie’s films. I actually have a more nuanced take on his works. While I can say not all his movies are exactly my speed, there are a few of his works I very much like (one of which I will definitely review in a couple of weeks). The movies that aren’t really my speed still aren’t entirely worthy of the onslaught of snarky commentary the internet is oh so well known for. And speaking of… Let’s kick things off with Zombie’s 2022 take on The Munsters.

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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)

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I guess September was planned as something of a return of various subjects or actors, and in this case, also directors.

Welcome back to B-Movie Enema. I guess when I programmed what September was going to feature on the blog, I was thinking about a lot of things I hadn’t done in a bit. I had Red Letter Media come back, another killer primate movie, and some blaxploitation. So I guess it’s only fair to bring Charles Bronson, J. Lee Thompson, and Cannon Films. This week, we’re gonna learn about Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects.

Cannon is all over this blog. So much so, there’s a whole tag for Cannon Films. There are so many, I bet I have forgotten to tag some with that. Shit, I almost forgot to tag THIS review with Cannon Films. Charles Bronson, surprisingly, has not been covered as much here on B-Movie Enema. Maybe I’m worried his ghost will come back, ask me if I believe in Jesus, because I’m gonna meet ’em. I’ve only covered two of his movies before, Assassination waaaaay back in 2018, and then 10 to Midnight back in the summer of 2024. One of those movies is far better than the other. The other is a Cannon production.

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Truck Turner (1974)

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And just like that… Isaac Hayes is back, baby!

Welcome back to B-Movie Enema, and welcome back, Isaac Hayes, and especially welcome back, blaxploitation! Just not too long ago, we had a quick appearance of Isaac Hayes in Return to Sleepaway Camp, playing the chef at the camp. He was dressed just like his Chef character from South Park. That’s how everyone knew that was Isaac Hayes, aka Chef, playing a chef.

This week, though, we’re getting Isaac Hayes into the place I think most people expect him to be – blaxploitation action. Yes, it’s 1974’s Truck Turner, also known as Black Bullet. By the time Truck Turner hit screens in June 1974, Hayes was already an Oscar winner. Yeah, I don’t think many people realize that Hayes won the Oscar for Best Original Song for his “Theme from Shaft.” That was a major achievement in 1972. Most Best Original Song Oscar winners were kind of stuffy, or sappy, or, to put it mildly, very white. Shaft was a hit, though, and it signified a shift into the 70s that black folks could play in the movie sandbox too… quite well. Isaac Hayes put together a banger of a theme song for the movie, and Oscar history was made.

And that history? It wasn’t so much the act of winning an Oscar as much as Hayes was only the THIRD black person EVER to win a competitive Academy Award. The other two were Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind and Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field. It was an incredible feat.

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Shakma (1990)

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SHAKMA!!!

Welcome back to B-Movie Enema, my dear Enemaniacs! So, check it out. Last week, I revisited Red Letter Media by reviewing their 2016 comedy Space Cop. Whenever Red Letter Media comes up, there are a few things that you know are also going to be mentioned. One of those things is their panel show, Best of the Worst. When I was setting up what I was going to review, I thought this would be an excellent time to slot in a movie I’ve wanted to have on this blog for some time, 1990’s baboon out of control flick, Shakma.

Shakma is probably better known over the last decade or so than the decade before that because it was featured in one of the earlier episodes of Best of the Worst. That… That’s the connection between Space Cop and Shakma. That’s all I have to say about that.

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Space Cop (2016)

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Ah… It’s good to be back from camp.

We spent the entire summer out in the great outdoors, but it’s time to get back to serious business here at B-Movie Enema. And since it’s time to deal with serious, very grown-up business, I think we should look no further than Red Letter Media. Wait… Really? They’re our serious business?

Last time we looked at ol’ RLM, it was for their 2010 horror comedy Feeding Frenzy. Back then, they were still largely known as the guys who did the Mr. Plinkett reviews. They wouldn’t have actual sustained success as a YouTube channel until Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman created their review show Half in the Bag, which, in itself, rolled into other popular shows, the most popular of them all being Best of the Worst. Through these shows, this is where Rich Evans would gain most of his popularity.

Evans, a guy who was largely in the Plinkett reviews as the on-screen portrayal of Harry Plinkett, and reprised that in Feeding Frenzy, was maybe a little understated and shy early on in his Best of the Worst appearances. However, whether by way of him really kind of becoming one of the more common panelists on the show, or through Stoklasa’s constant belittling and lampooning, Rich Evans would become a major figure on RLM. This would often lead to him being the guy I think most viewers might say they appreciate even more than Mike and Jay, the obvious faces of the media company. And so, he got the chance to create another character, the title character of this week’s featured film, Space Cop.

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The Final Girls (2015)

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And so we have arrived at the end of B-Movie Enema’s Camp Crappabuttawipe…

2015’s The Final Girls comes to us from director Todd Strauss-Schulson, making his second big-screen feature film. Strauss-Schulson comes from a comedy background, having previously made A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. In the four years between those two films, he largely worked on sitcoms. The Final Girls most definitely is something of a love letter to 80s slasher films that took place at a summer camp, but it’s also a comedy and has something a little more going for it than the typical slasher genre film. So it makes sense that he’s helming this film.

I think the horror element definitely comes from the writers, M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller. While these two are partners in real life, they are also writing and producing partners. They also created the TV Series Queen of the South, which ran for 62 episodes over the course of five years. Miller, though, is the one who is clearly bringing the heart to the film’s concept.

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Hell of a Summer (2025)

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We’ve only got a couple more weeks of Camp Crappabuttawipe here at B-Movie Enema. But, you know what? It’s been a hell of a summer, hasn’t it?

Yeah, we’ve had franchises, comedies, a star-making laugh riot, and an incredibly endearing coming-of-age movie at a girls’ camp. But we’ve most definitely had a lot of slashers. I mean, that’s what you expect whenever you see a movie that is going to take place at a summer camp, right? Some guy going around and hacking and slashing frisky counselors.

Well, very clearly that’s what Billy Bryk and Finn Wolfhard expect because these two young actors got together to make a film in 2022 that we’re going to cover this week – Hell of a Summer. The origin of this movie actually began after the two Canadians met on the set of Ghostbusters: Afterlife. At the time, Wolfhard was roughly 16, and Bryk was around 20. After hanging out and chatting about the movies they like, they realized, fairly quickly, they had similar senses of humor. They decided to make a slasher with some humorous nods to Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead.

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Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)

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It’s time for a palette cleanser here at Camp Crappabuttawipe, my Enemaniacs!

We’ve had a bit of a rough patch here, guys. I think the only way to get B-Movie Enema back to feeling good about, well, life, is to revisit a classic from my childhood. Like with Ernest Goes to Camp, this movie, concerning a group of campers, is one I watched a TON as a kid. It’s time to bring out the Peanuts gang and talk about Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown.

This was chosen for the Camp Crappabuttawipe summer theme, not because it’s crap or something I wanna wipe-a my butt-a with. No. This was chosen because I dearly love this movie and knew, at some point, I needed a pick-me-up if things got dire during this summer. I finally needed my buddy Charlie Brown to come off the bench and pitch me a shutdown inning before things got out of hand with bad movie after bad movie.

And, trust me, after Return to Sleepaway Camp, I needed Chuck to help me out.

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