adrianeverett74 Reviews

The Nightmare Ends on Halloween (2004)

A Hellraising Battle Royal of Horror Film Icons

[18 November 2011]

Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers are both in Limbo. Freddy tries to get back to Dream World and Elm Street via Michael Myerss' limbo stated mind. He succeeds to get back into Dream World but Michael who is now technically dreaming turns on him and the fight is on. During the fight Freddy is summoned to a dingy 4 door concrete basement looking room and soon Jason Leatherface and Michael surround Freddy by entering 3 separate doorways in what looks like a 3 on 1 Handicapped Wrestling Match and soon a 4th door opens with ultra bright light blasting away behind it and in enters Pinhead, General of Hell's Army. The Showdown of a lifetime is about to begin.

Insomniac with Dave Attell (2001–2004)

Dear Dave Attell, I miss you man please come back !

[10/10 · 9 June 2011]

Ever since I watched this show I felt a kinship to Dave right from the get go. His booze and tobacco filled irreverent night time behavior is right up and down my alley. What a shame only 4 seasons were ever made. I personally feel ripped off by Comedy Central. This show was really good then Comedy Central pulls the freaking plug and Insomniac is not seen again except in Holiday Seasonal Marathons.

I wish and want Dave Attell to buy out the rights to this show and then start putting out straight to DVD and Blu Ray Box Set Seasons. With Straight To Video Episodes Dave Attell can step over the boundaries set by The FCC plus Comedy Central's Standards and Practices and really go for broke. This show is in my opinion better than what is being shown on Comedy Central save for South Park.

The Rocky Porno Video Show (1986 Video)

The Spoof you wished that didn't exist !

[3/10 · 25 April 2011]

The Adult Film Industry has a way of spoofing hit movies such as what Hustler Home Video is doing with their "Not" Series. In 1986 Bruce Seven did the unthinkable. He spoofed the Midnight Movie Classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show with The Rocky Porno Video Show. This x-rated spoof takes the whole Rocky Horror story to a lower sexually depraved level. The only real star here is Tantala Ray also known as Mistress Tantala in the S&M world. Her most famed moments cannot be mentioned here for censorship purposes. The VHS Copy is way out of print and if you are lucky enough find one in the Ebay Mature Audience Section, buy it ! If you see it on file share, download it ! With DVD and Blu Ray now the more dominant video format in existence right now, this video should be re-released in HD Format remastered and remixed for best Audio and Video from the original master tapes.

Hey Watch This (2010)

Back again and still smoking after all these years

[5/10 · 21 July 2010]

Through the 1970's on into the early 1980's Cheech and Chong kept The World stoned with their brand of comedy. Millions of records were sold, several movies were made between Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios. The party seemed to never end but all that came to a screeching halt and Cheech and Chong went their separate ways. Cheech sobered up and became a big star while Chong just stayed Chong and smoked his way through the 1990's and into the millennium.

This Live Concert taken from the Light Up America and Canada Tour gets Cheech and Chong back together again, They are older, fatter, wrinklier, grayer, yet still they are Cheech and Chong. This show was actually what they performed back in their club days in Canada before they came down to the U.S.A. and smoked everyone up.

This DVD was released the same day as it was broadcast at movie theaters across the U.S. on 4/20.

Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise (2007)

Always room for Meat Loaf

[10/10 · 29 November 2009]

Since the 1960's up to today in the 2000's Meat Loaf is still the consummate performer. When on tour He goes out night after night despite Doctor's warnings that if he does not take it easy he will kill himself. Meat Loaf is still larger than life even in his late 50s. He does not let his fans down and will go out there and deliver that powerful voice that sounds like a bomb blast.

This documentary is about the 2007 Bat III Tour and what it took to get it flying. You get moments at home, backstage, on the tour bus, and of course full blast Meat Loaf Rock N Roll Onstage Live in Concert. Watch this movie then go see the man himself Meat Loaf live and get blown away by this long lasting raging bull.

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1969–1972)

Needs an HD Total Package Overhaul Release

[10/10 · 19 October 2009]

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour was the country music answer to The Ed Sullivan Show and The Flip Wilson Show. Glen was a regular at first on The Smothers Brothers Show and was tapped to be a Summetime replacement for them on a show called The Summer Brothers Smothers Show. Well that Summetime gig turned into said Goodtime Hour and from 1969 to 1972 Glen made Goodtime TV History. One of his constant regulars was "The Guitar Man" himself Jerry Reed. In the General Store Segment of the show Glen Jerry and a banjo picker named Larry would jam out with female backup singers usually to the top hit of the day. Other performers included Ray Charles, Cher, Bobbie Gentry, Seals and Crofts, Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, and Rick Nelson.

One of the most memorable of episodes was the night "The Duke" himself John Wayne showed up. This was a promotional tie in for the movie "True Grit" which starred John Wayne, Glen Campbell and Kim Darby. All good things as usual came to an end and The Goodtime Hour was canceled in 72 and relegated to the vaults of CBS TV. Only recently has the series been given an a double look interest. CMT did a small but compiled version of the show showing only the best of the show and not the complete seasons. CMT filmed opening intro segments with country superstar Keith Urban, himself a Campbell fan ! Currently there has been a few minor video releases of the show on VHS and DVD as of late and it is very doubtful if the complete seasons will ever be made available to the general public on DVD Box Set or the HD Formatted Blu Ray Disc due to political red tape wrangling over copyright royalties to every song ever sang on the show.

The Wall: Live in Berlin (1990 Video)

The Walls come down

[5/10 · 4 August 2009]

It has been quoted by Roger Waters himself in 1989 that the only way he would ever perform The Wall live again is if the Berlin Wall came down and one year later in 1990 as if by fate or what not The Berlin Wall did just that, it came down ! So Waters shocked by his own words coming true lived up to his promise and The Wall: Live in Berlin was set into production. It was rumored that this would lead to a full blown Pink Floyd Reunion but sad to say that did not happen. Roger Waters instead pulled together several solo singers and 3 rock bands, The Scorpions, The Band and The Hooters and fellow British actors Albert Finney & Tim Curry. This was not going to be some run of the mill production set in some normal theater no this production was on a grand scale set up on what was known as Ploterzdam Platz aka "No Man's Land" which was the area in the wall between East and West Berlin. Because of security logistics actual remaining parts of the Berlin Wall were used as Security Fencing. The audio & video production itself was plagued from the very start by every thing conceivable but it was doctored up in post production to make it look seamless and uninterrupted. The concert was originally sold on VHS and now is available on DVD. In 2010 both the coming down of the Berlin Wall and the concert will be 20 years old and now considered a piece of world history.

The Mickey Mouse Club (1955–1958)

The Show that made millions of children happy nation wide

[10/10 · 9 March 2009]

The Mickey Mouse Club is an American Institution that has been resurrected decade after decade proving it's standing moral fiber. In the 1950s era, The Mickey Mouse Club was it for millions of children across America. You either were a Mouseketeer or you were not. This was the day and age of adjusting your dual antennas at the back of your television set to get a clear picture in either UHF or VHF. There was no digital cable or internet back then. When the mouse was on you sat and you watched till it was over. Children 5 days a week religiously tuned into see and hear what Mickey Mouse, Jimmy, Roy, and The Mouseketeers had planned for them.

With Disney nowadays being all about the Blu Ray Disc and High Def this that and the other I amazed that they have not gotten off their collective lazy rear ends and digitally restored all the episodes from beginning to end. Including all the bonus materials that currently resides in the archives of Disney Studios.

Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection (1985– )

Before MST3K there was Mad Movies

[10/10 · 5 March 2009]

I used to love watching this show back in the day ! My screwball family has been doing this kind of alternate dialog for movies way before this show was even created and that's going back to the 1960s and 70s. There is not a movie my family has screwed up deliberately. When this series came out on the non Mtv/Paramount Pictures/Viacom owned version of Nickelodeon it was the greatest thing since NBC's TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes. I wish the head honchos at Nick would get off their lazy collective rear ends and just give back the rights to this series to the creators, L.A. Connection. I too am glad that L.A. Connection is redoing the series longer uncensored and uncut but that is like trying to repaint the Sistine Ceiling in Rome.

Mötley Crüe: Uncensored (1986 Video)

Great classic video tape starring a younger wilder Motley Crue

[10/10 · 3 January 2009]

Take a step back in time to the mid 1980's when a certain bad boy rock band from Los Angeles, California lived way too fast, almost died young, and went on to survive and become rock legends. Motley Crue Uncensored is a semi rockumentary coupled with actual music videos, yes people, actual music videos, not clips as they are called nowadays.

The Videos include

Take Me to the Top and Public Enemy Number 1 both of which are amateur shot, rather short in length, with commentary by Motley Crue while they go on and on about something or other that happened during the making of the videos. The more pro shot videos are as follows,

Live Wire, Looks that Kill, Too young to fall in love, Smoking in the Boys Room, and Home Sweet Home

Electra Records Home Video originally released Motley Crue Uncensored on VHS and Laserdisc back in the day and has declined in recent years to release this on DVD and Blu Ray. Hopefully one day they will until then I suggest you go on Ebay and buy an original copy if you can find one.

Night Court (1984–1992)

The Greatest Comedy Show in the 20th Century ever !

[10/10 · 16 November 2008]

You cannot get any more funnier than Night Court ! Harry Stone and his crew of legal eagles at Manhattan Criminal Court Part 2 really took everyone by surprise every Thursday night. There was always something going on in that court room. The accused ran the gamut of society. Hookers, Weirdos, Transients, The Pope, and Wiley Coyote. Star Trek Conventioners were all dragged in for starting a fight on which generation was best and finally a ghost of a falsely accused man was actually brought on trial.

There was no limit as to what could and usually did happen on Night Court. NBC and Reinhold Weege made magic with this show. Too darned bad Warner Bros. only released two full seasons of the show on DVD. I just wonder why they just didn't clean up all the episodes and put them in one big box set and call it "The Complete Docket" ? This show made me have some respect for the law but with a laughable point of view. Whenever I have been in a real court room I still expect to see Bull come out and say his usual line "All Rise, Manhattan Criminal Court Part 2 is now in session. The Honorable Harold T. Stone presiding." Then see him go stand next to Rozz who was his fiery assistant Bailiff who kept the peace with her fists and her street smart mouth.

Dan Fielding had to be the most sexist pig of an Assistant D.A. who if not chasing down the hookers he sent to jail for sex favors was after Christine Sullivan when she came on the scene as the new longest lasting public defender.

Art The Janitor, poor soul, was always having to fix something in the building which was by that time a century or more old. His worst problem came with the infestation of roaches.

Buddy who is Harry's biological dad became a somewhat welcome edition to Night Court. He was crazy once but he's "Feeling a lot better now".

Charles "Mac" Robinson who's job was to call the next case always did so by feeding into Judge Harry's goof ball style. He married a girl he met in Vietnam as a soldier named Quan Li.

9 full seasons and a devoted fan base keep Night Court going well into the 21st Century. Who knows maybe after this mini reunion on 30 Rock NBC will get on the ball and do a full blown Night Court Reunion Movie of the Week. It is about time we the fans were given our return to the craziest court room in America.

Bebe's Kids (1992)

"We don't die, We Multiply !"

[5/10 · 28 September 2008]

Robin meets Jamika and her son and her friend's rowdy hell bent for leather children, Bebe's Kids ! A visit to a fun park turns into pandemonium and then a last minute trip to Vegas turns out the lights on the strip. Everywhere Bebe's Kids go they use their war cry like a flag "We don't die, We Multiply !"

This movie is based on a short comedy skit by late great comedian Robin Harris. Originally there were four Bebe's kids but for the movie there are three. It was funny for it's time and is one of Paramount's most under marketed animated movies of all time. Even today on DVD it is discontinued as Paramount Execs really don't know how to cater to African American Movie Watchers.

If you want to find a near mint condition copy on either VHS or DVD for cheap try Ebay or your local Video Outlet's Previously Viewed Shelf.

The Howard Stern Show (1990–1993)

Before E ! there was WWOR TV

[10/10 · 18 September 2008]

The late 1980's and early 1990s were the time live in. Especially if you had cable or big dish satellite and could pick up WWOR TV New Jersey 9 out of Secaucus. Howard Stern back then unleashed his adult brand of radio and TV humor that would be recognized later from E and Howard TV OnDemand.

This version of The Howard Stern Show was on the level of Public Access. It had that cheap budget on the fly kinda feel with a bit more lean towards Party Time and Rock On all night long.

The Howard Stern Show was sponsored by Snapple Ice Tea and this helped introduce it's pitch lady Wendy Kauffman "The Snapple Lady" to the rest of the world.

Today ownership rights of the master 3/4 inch video tapes keep changing hands and there is no possibility what so ever of this show ever coming to DVD and Blu Ray Disc unless Alpha Blue or Anchorbay Entertainment gets hold of them.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

Makes you wanna go back to school

[10/10 · 6 July 2008]

Peter O'Toole is Arthur Chipping a Latin Teacher with strict adherence to detail and thoroughness in helping young minds grasp the meaning and definition of Latin words and phrases. He is seen as being cold and unfair and not in touch with the times. But upon meeting Stage Actress Singer Katherine Briskit (Petula Clark) not only at a late supper after a performance of London is London but at an Amphitheater in Greece his closed minded world starts to open up.

Goodbye Mr. Chips is an MGM musical remake of the 1939 movie also from MGM. During this time musicals were out and the Hollywood studio system was in total shambles. When it premiered in New York Los Angeles and London the musical numbers were left intact but when it came to the local main street theaters world wide it was sans songs therefore making the movie shorter and gaped to the max.

Thanks to MGM/UA Home Video under Ted Turner in the late 1980's early 1990's when VHS and Laser Disc were the main home video formats of choice the musical numbers were re-instituted and the gaps closed. Laserdisc though was the only format chosen to view Goodbye Mr. Chips in the Widescreen Letterbox Format.

For awhile now the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was only available on the original out of print Vinyl and Cassette Tape and can still be found today on Ebay.

Thanks to the wonderful people at Film Score Monthly.com in 2006 the soundtrack has been digitally remastered and remixed into a 3 CD set featuring the completely reconstructed score, the original 1969 general release album score, and narrated sequences source music and interviews a plenty. You also get 1 unused song which is a real lost gem, "Tomorrow with Me" by Petula Clark which would have been chosen in place of "You and I" before hand.

This movie is both a classic musical and a real tribute to educators everywhere. I most certainly would buy this movie if Warner Bros. MGM and Sony would put their money where there mouth is and get this film restored from all master film sources and put it on both DVD and Blu Ray with all the bells and whistles put back into place with all the extras you can find and stuff into a release.

The Buccaneer (1958)

Paramount really dropped the ball big time !

[10/10 · 5 July 2008]

During the whole Pirates of The Caribbean Trilogy Craze Paramount Pictures really dropped the ball in restoring this Anthony Quinn directed Cecil B. DeMille supervised movie and getting it on DVD and Blu Ray with all the extras included. It is obvious to me that Paramount Pictures Execs are blind as bats and ignorant of the fact that they have a really good pirate movie in their vault about a real pirate who actually lived in New Orleans, Louisiana which would have helped make The Crescent City once again famous for it's Pirate Connections. When the Execs at Paramount finally get with the program and release this movie in digital format then I will be a happy camper. Paramount Pictures it is up to you to get off your duff and get this film restored now !

The Call of the Wild (1972)

Good Movie for Dog Lovers and Heston Fans alike.

[5/10 · 4 July 2008]

Jack London's The Call of the Wild is a perennial educational classic which is used in public schools today across the United States. Charlton Heston's character John Thornton at first is a real hard head in the beginning as a man bound and determined to find "Old Yellow Moon" which is a gold mine fortune deep in Yukon Indian Territory. His hateful attitude towards Buck at first is intolerable but as the relationship between man and dog builds Thornton's hardheadedness gives way to love and devotion.

The copyright to this movie keeps falling in and out every video labels hands just about every year or so. The transfer is horrendous as it has no doubt been transferred from a first generation video tape print over and over again to it's current DVD print. Personally I wish The Weinstien Brothers Bob and Harvey would buy out the copyright to this movie and all of it's film elements and get this movie fully restored on their Miriam Collection DVD Label in a 1 or 2 disc Special Edition featuring any extras that might actually exist somewhere in some film vault waiting to be discovered.

42nd Street Forever: XXX-Treme Special Edition (2007 Video)

The Golden Age Revisited

[10/10 · 10 June 2008]

Back in the day when 42nd Street New York was sleazy and easy and not Disneyfied to the sky, these kind of movies ruled 24/7/365 and 366 on leap year of course.

Back in the 1970's and early to mid 1980's New York City's most memorable road was the home to the derelicts of society. A mesh mash of flotsam and jetsam mixed together.

All the one room movie houses on 42nd Street showed cheap budget horror and shock films or "Grindhouse Cinema" to the lay man. They also showed porno films ! All the films were hardcore and had actual dialog and story lines to follow. This was called "The Golden Age of Adult Cinema" but it all came to an end in the mid to late 1980's when the home video format war between Beta and VHS was swiftly won by VHS.

Adult Film Distributors stopped sending out 35 millimeter reels to these theaters and a majority of them either went video projection or deliberately withheld what adult reels they did have in their possession and played them over and over till they were far beyond repair.

On this DVD you get 46 trailers total from the Golden Era. One is actually from the 1970's but the rest are pure 1980's. A small majority of the trailers star "The Hedgehog" himself Ron Jeremy. You also get the late great John Holmes and Lisa DeLeeuw before they died of Aids ! Also be on the lookout for the Puerto Rican Mancrusher Vanessa Del Rio. She is hotter than chili peppers and cayenne red pepper mix !

WCW Worldwide (1975–2001)

Beginning of the end

[3/10 · 15 April 2008]

This Worldwide was the cheap man's version of what the NWA under Jim Crockett Junior and Jim Crockett Promotions made back in the 1980s on the localized "Big 3" Stations during the Saturday Morning/Afternoon Wrestling Craze. When Ted Turner got his hands on Crockett's failed version of NWA he turned it into World Championship Wrestling and proceeded to drop all NWA references all together. NWA World Wide and NWA Pro Wrestling were relabeled with the WCW logo and moved off the road to Disney/MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida and eventually became nothing more than recap shows for WCW's Nitro, Thunder, and Saturday Night. Worldwide was officially the last WCW program under Turner to air the weekend of the WCW buyout from Vince McMahon and WWF. Today the entire NWA World Wide/WCW Worldwide Video Tape Archive along with the entire NWA/WCW Video Tape Library in general lay in the vaults of WWE Headquarters in Stamford,Connecticut.

WCW Worldwide (1975–2001)

In the beginning

[3/10 · 15 April 2008]

NWA World Wide Wrestling originally was a small time pro wrestling show filmed out of the TV studios of WRAL and WPCQ in Raliegh and Charlotte, North Carolina respectively from 1975 till 1983. World Wide Wrestling moved into larger Coliseums under Jim Crockett Promotions lead by Jim Crockett Junior and his brother David Crockett. The shows were filmed during the week, edited to one hour, transmitted to the local "Big 3" stations, and finally shown on TV across America. By decades end the NWA was in dire straights as Jim Crockett tried to compete with Vince McMahon who during the 1980's broke from the traditional "Wrestling Territory System" went and turned WWF into a big time corporate sports entertainment company making deals with MTV USA Network and NBC. And he systematically slaughtered the competition with his WWF Product. Jim Crockett Promotions eventually sold out to Ted Turner and World Wide Wrestling survived under Ted Turner and Eric Bischoff as they moved the show off the road to Disney MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. World Wide from then on became a shell of it's once great self and was then finally turned into what WWF Superstars of Wrestling eventually became a "Recap Show". World Wide Wrestling was officially the last official broadcast program of WCW the weekend that followed the buy out of WCW from Time Warner/AOL to Vince McMahon and WWF.

Repo Men: Stealing for a Living (2001– )

"If you can't afford it, don't buy it !

[5/10 · 7 April 2008]

Vince Pastore aka "Big Pussy" from HBO's The Sopranos hosts this show on TLC showing you what happens when you don't pay up. Daytime, Nighttime, Anytime, Repo Men and Women are America's most highly paid legalized and licensed thieves. If your monthly car or truck or boat payment is due and you have been blatantly late on the payments you might as well kiss it all goodbye as it has been officially repossessed.

During this series hearts are broken and unpaid vehicles of all shapes and sizes are reclaimed for banks. Vince Pastore is a naturally fit host for this show. When invited Vince has ridden shotgun in reclaimed cars and trucks. Every time a boat is repossessed and Vince is invited he always plays up to the demise of his character Big Pussy. I think it is funny how he always gets so faked out nervous around boats on the show.

This show is now in it's third season and could go for four if the ratings keep up. Check your local cable company or satellite provider for details.

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

Have a Twinkie, Snappa Head !

[10/10 · 5 March 2007]

Bobby Black of The Black Plague has been killed and his groupie Zuzu Petals has gone missing. Only man can solve this case and that's "The Rock and Roll Detective" Ford Fairlane !

20th Century Fox had no idea what they were in for when making this movie. Desite poor audience attendance and bad movie reviews, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane has gone on to become a "Cult Classic"like 20th Century Fox's 1975 never will die midnight movie classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This was Dice Man at the peak of his career, at his very best. Dice's comedy concert movie "Dice Rules" was the pinnacle of the peak and from then on Dice simply plummeted to the bottom having now to re-launch his career from scratch all over again. Watch it on VH1, Dice Undisputed.