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Monique Junet from "Better Off Dead," herself…Diane Franklin. I had the honor to meet her early May during Texas Frightmare Weekend, and she guided my testicles…TENTACLES for an amazingly lovely professional photo op. She was also in "The Last American Virgin," although if I saw that one first when I was a preteen,…

They were one of the tightest-sounding bands I had heard during my Australian classic rock phase of geekdom several years ago. Picked up a IRS CD of "Human Frailty" used at Zia Records and immediately remembered that movie "The Hidden" upon track one. I recalled "Back of the Breadline" in a one-line post, but it was…

"Doo-be-do-doo—wop-wop, say what, yeah!"

Hunters & Collectors' "Back on the Breadline."

I do have a lot of these movies on DVD already, too. I can understand not double-dipping on "From Beyond," as it was already top-notch. But having the R2 disc of "Phantasm 2" from years ago, Scream have got some new extras worth getting little, brown and low to the ground for. And if they got Lou David to participate…

"TerrorVision" is spiritedly campy fusion of bad 1950s monster movie and hyperreal 1980s sitcom, cheesy but so much fun to watch. All of the performances are pitched broad but feel so liberating, and the Hunger Beast monster is an amazing creation. I saw this on VHS as a boy because of my mad love for Diane Franklin…

Jon Gries is also in the currently-released 1986 horror/comedy "TerrorVision" as the original Wyld Stallyn alongside the future Princess Joanna…and Mary Bland and Bud the C.H.U.D. go out swinging! At least there are a handful of fresh extras on that release, including a commentary with Gries, Diane Franklin and Ted…

It's a shame "Summer Girl" isn't out on DVD…she's a fatherfucker in that one, too. And not in the bearded Peaches sense!

That would be AWESOME! From "Bad Boys" all the way to "John Dies at the End." You don't have to shout "Amen," just scream "MEDIC!!!"

"What about that time with Barbara DeVillebis in the high-jump pit?"
"It was YOU."
"Oh, yeah!"

Brett Ratner, stop trolling…you've had way too much to drink, the Kleenex has all been used up and that DVD of "The Last American Virgin" is on its last spin!

Why can't we consolidate all the Brett Ratner news into one complete project? Let's have this take place on a farm, set this during MTV's rise to prominence as documented in the "Big Butt Book" and have Jackie Chan pining for Diane Franklin's unrequited affection as she falls for Chris Tucker?

Great, just great…dig it! And if you haven't had the chance, go check out the DVD of "More Brains," the feature-length retrospective on the making of this movie which is pretty damn funny in spots.

Diane Franklin won my heart the first time I saw "Better Off Dead" in elementary school, and it took me longer than I hoped for to catch up with "The Last American Virgin." I actually consider her performance in "TerrorVision" to be a hilariously subversive lampoon of multiple 1980s fashions, and she had great comic…

I've been on a real Diane Franklin high recently spurred on by multiple developments in the cult cinema circuit. A recent biography she wrote about her 1980s career is rich with warmth, insight and integrity about how she came to prominence as a "babe," an informative labor of love from a woman I have to admit I…

Speaking for myself, I found the documentary well-done in regards in that there's a surprising poignancy in some of the interviews and quite a lot of frank, varied discussion that adds to the cult legend of the band. I wasn't able to grow up with The Replacements, but when I was in high school, by some serendipity I…

Speaking for myself, I found the documentary well-done in regards in that there's a surprising poignancy in some of the interviews and quite a lot of frank, varied discussion that adds to the cult legend of the band. I wasn't able to grow up with The Replacements, but when I was in high school, by some serendipity I…

Mrs. Franklin recently put out a book that acknowledges her legacy as an 1980s siren and does a nice job of tracing her career-long decade. She'll be remembered for all time as either Monique Junot, which was one of my favorite teen-movie characters of all time, or as Karen from "The Last American Virgin," one of the…

Mrs. Franklin recently put out a book that acknowledges her legacy as an 1980s siren and does a nice job of tracing her career-long decade. She'll be remembered for all time as either Monique Junot, which was one of my favorite teen-movie characters of all time, or as Karen from "The Last American Virgin," one of the…