This was landiss first film, writing, directing, and starring, and while ostensibly a sendup of all kinds of bmovies, homages abounding, landis breaks ground on characteristics that will carry on through decades of his films to follow. Schlock is a 1973 american lowbudget horror comedy film, written, directed by and starring. Something, such as merchandise or literature, that is inferior or poorly made. The story of tom savini 2015 3headed shark attack 2015 dont let go 2019 the scorpion with two tails 1982 the tenant 1976 paperhouse 1988. The monster falls for a beautiful woman who mistook him for a dog when she was blind. Go ask alice 1973 directed by john korty, usa for a lonely girl, drugs provide an easy road to popularity and access to the depths of despair. Schlock definition of schlock by the free dictionary. Schlock is a 1973 american lowbudget horror comedy film, written, directed by and starring filmmaker john landis. John landis as schlock befriends a blind girl, eliza garrett roberts.
The debut film of john landis the blues brothers, animal house, who also wrote and starred in the lowbudget comedy horror. We start off with kong island 1968 a mistitled italian film that fails to deliver an island or a 25foot tall antihero, but it does offer weaponized, mindcontrolled apes and mute jungle girl clad in animal skins. Science fiction, horror, and fantasy film 19021982. A quiet suburb southern california is being terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. The image measures 1910 2964 pixels and is 706 kilobytes large. The image measures 1406 2000 pixels and is 2268 kilobytes large.
Schlock 1973 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Keep in mind that the movie is very early work from a young director with largely inexpereinced cast, but if you can look past that its a real gem. July 2015 schlock is a prehistoric apeman who falls in love with a teenage blind beauty and terrorizes her southern. Schlock 1973 john landis and rick baker in schlock 1973 schlock 1973 see all 94 photos. A homicidal beast, who is the missing link between ape and man, goes on a violent rampage in a small town, wreaking havoc and killing picnickers for. The scifi and horror movies of the 1950s sparked a trend that continues even today of downright silly titles, ranging from attack of the killer tomatoes. For quite some time as i watched it, i could not make heads or tails out of john landis 1973 extremely lowbudget feature film debut schlock. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango. Schlock 1973 a small town is terrorized by the banana killer, which turns out to be the missing link between man and ape.
Shot over twelve days on a microbudget, schlock launched the careers of both landis and legendary sfx artist rick baker men in black, videodrome. Schlock 1973 fantastic movie musings and ramblings. Apr 03, 2009 a short sequence from the 1973 file, schlock. High resolution german movie poster image for schlock 1973. Comedy, horror, science fiction 1973 add to watchlist. Its over the top and full of ideas, often derivative ones, but the shameless tone is what makes it schlocky its the opposite of reserved and grounded. Schlock 1973 is a comedy, horror movie starring john landis and saul kahan.
Rick baker, special effects artist, contributes some makeup work on the ape in this film, and hed go on to do some great work. A quiet suburb southern california is being terrorized by a. Anchor bay entertainment provides a sharp and clear anamorphic widescreen 1. This special engagement of schlock is presented by the american genre film archive in celebration of art house theater day, september 23. Writing excuses with brandon sanderson, dan wells, mary robinette kowal, and howard tayler. Ovalkwiki the official schlock mercenary encyclopedia. Infamous antidrug madefortv movie starring jamie smith jackson as the teenage alice and william kirk out shatner as dad. The blob 1972, raptor 2001, fangs 2002, return of the killer tomatoes. The list contains the best, new and most relevant schlock movies ordered by relevance. Jun 26, 2014 claaaaaassic scene from john landis 1973 camp masterpiece, schlock. Completed in 1971, schlock was the feature debut of john landis and remains one of his more interesting pictures. A homicidal beast, who is the missing link between ape and man, goes on a. The movie, made in 1973 on a paltry budget, features a number of elements that would eventually become something better than this initial offering. Even a generation raised on ec comics and mad magazine thought trog was awful, but one future hollywood bigwig made his feature debut with a comic sendup of it with john landis schlock, on bluray from arrow video.
After kidnapping the girl and fleeing kingkonglike onto the roof of a gym, he gets involved with the army. The monster falls for a beautiful woman who mistook him for. Schlock mercenary the comic space opera by howard tayler. High resolution movie poster image for schlock 1973. Schlock 1973 article 2291 by dave sindelar viewing date.
My go to example of great schlock is dark man, really nice mix of wacky and melodramatic that makes it severely entertaining. Check out this behind the scenes look at bad boys for life read more. A small town is terrorized by the banana killer, which turns out to be the missing link between man and ape. Released 1973, schlock stars saul kahan, joseph piantadosi, eliza roberts, john landis the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 20 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic, which. The mighty prehistoric ape schlocktropus has emerged from hiding to embark on a full scale rampage across a quiet southern californian suburb. Landis went out and shot the extra scenes in which schlock visits a movie theater and destroyed a car in one day. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing schlock near you. Claaaaaassic scene from john landis 1973 camp masterpiece, schlock. Schlock pictures and movie photo gallery check out just released schlock pics, images, clips, trailers, production photos and more from rotten tomatoes movie pictures archive. In this hysterical spoof of early monster movies and missing link science fiction films, john landis pays homage to the. As the bodies pile up with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene a group of. In fact, if it could be the entire definition of the word schlock, it would be. This includes cgc, pgx and cbcs graded comic books. Now you can add the 1973 john landis directed schlock to the list.
Schlock 1973 john landis synopsis, characteristics. A homicidal beast, who is the missing link between ape and man, goes on a violent rampage in a small town, wreaking havoc and killing picnickers for bananas. Financial analysis of schlock 1973 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. M4ufree schlock 1973 full movie, schlock 1973 a monkeytype monster falls in love with a blind girl, which thinks that hes a giant dog. John landis first movie ever stars himself as the schlockthropus who has gone one a murdering rampage until he falls in love with a blind girl who thinks hes a dog. Before the gonzo sketch mishmash the kentucky fried movie, the mainstream hollywood darlings animal house and the blues brothers, and the popular horror comedy an american werewolf in london, a 21yearold john landis gave us schlock, now available as a limited edition region free bluraydvd mediabook from german. Southern california is being terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave.
The bravados classic western, full movie, gregory peck, english free full western. Read famous quotes from schlock, 1973, directed by john landis, with saul kahan, joseph piantadosi, eliza garrett. Movies like schlock 1973 funny man 1994 fear in the night 1972 simon killer 2012 dead before dawn 3d 2012 smoke and mirrors. Furry schlockthropus man wakes up after 20 million years and kills picnickers for their bananas. Watch schlock 1973 full movie free online streaming tubi. Halloween 4 the night he came home full movie duration. A sometimes hilarious, but more often merely silly spoof of sciencefiction and. Not only is it the name of the main character, but it perfectly describes the film as well. Trolls world tour, like a boss and recommendations for easter and passover. The debut film of john landis the blues brothers, animal house, who. As the bodies pile up with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene a group of teens stumble on the guilty party.
Schlock is a film directed by john landis with john landis, saul kahan, joseph piantadosi, eliza roberts, year. Overview of schlock, 1973, directed by john landis, with saul kahan, joseph piantadosi, eliza garrett, at turner classic movies. A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange wadsworth family. It was his first mention of see you next wednesday, a nonexistent film whose title is taken from a random line of dialogue in 2001. An uproarious pastiche of monster movies, packed to the gills with irreverent humor and biting satire, schlock is the outrageous missing link between the creature features of yesteryear and its. I mean, i understood that its a good oldfashioned spoof of good oldfashioned monster movies, sure, from. Schlock 1973 pg 03011973 us comedy, horror, science fiction 1h 20m user score. This is just one of many funny scenes in the great. The recommendation service has sorted out offbeat, rough, exciting, suspenseful, scary and humorous films and tv shows about with schlock, danger, deadly, blood, gory, rivalry, escapades, gore, supernatural and heroes plots mostly in horror, scifi and action genres shot in usa, japan, canada and other. Written and directed by john landis his first film. The wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaperclad, bottlesucking baby.