Second Clue: January's Mystery Movie

Clue #2: This month's film utilizes (or more likely lifts) the music of Tangerine Dream and Wendy Carlos, as well as parts of Richard Band's score to Re-Animator.

Tape Freaks Presents: January's Mystery Movie at the Trylon microcinema, Wednesday, January 4th@ 7:00pm, only $5!

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The Films of Godfrey Ho: An Introduction to The Man

When talking about Godfrey Ho, we've often referred to him as the Ed Wood of ninja movies, but that comparison gives Wood far too much credit. Ho's short but amazingly prolific career makes Wood's seem quaint. 

Godfrey Ho's IMDb page lists 149 directing credits, 30 of which were released in the year 1988 alone. He also has 121 writing credits, and more than 70 other credits. Almost 100% of these credits come during a 22 year time span. That's more than impressive, it's almost impossible! But, it's also an indication of what kind of quality we're looking at.


Many Godfrey Ho movies shoehorn in a subplot featuring American actors in suspiciously mismatched footage, wearing the most 80s "ninja" costumes you could possibly imagine, talking to each other about ninja-ing while getting everything you could possibly get wrong about ninja, 100% wrong. These subplots are completely nonsensical and full of laughable overdubbed dialogue. That isn't to say the rest of the over dubbing makes more sense, nothing said on screen matches what happens on screen.

The man himself.

Speaking of the main plots, each Ho film we watch seems to be two movies cut together in ways that could makes sense (if you ignore the 80s ninja) but always manage to fall short of that. That only makes the action scenes that much more enjoyable though because you have absolutely no idea what is going to happen. Literally anything can (and usually does) come from left field in the middle of a pretty straight forward action scene, and it's always wonderful.


And we've only scratched the surface when it comes to watching his films, but each time we think we've seen it all, he pulls out some new stops leaving us to assume it couldn't get weirder than that, surely...

First Clue: January's Mystery Movie

Clue #1: The theme for January's screening: The Films of Godfrey Ho.

While watching Godfrey Ho films we have witnessed a wedding between a ghost and vampire, ninja fights cut into movies that otherwise feature no ninja, and recurring appearances of a Garfield phone. These are a just fraction of the gems we’ve uncovered while watching Godfrey Ho movies, its high time we shared one with you!

Tape Freaks Presents: January's Mystery Movie at the Trylon microcinema, Wednesday, January 4th@ 7:00pm, only $5!

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Star Wars Holiday Special at Bryant Lake Bowl 10th Anniversary

A taste of one of the posters available!

Tonight will be the 10th Toys for Tots drive at Bryant Lake Bowl featuring the abomination that is the Star Wars Holiday Special. If you've never seen how bad this thing is first hand, this is a really fun environment watch it in. Audience members cosplay, there's booze and food on hand, plus you're in great company!

There are also two different screen printed commemorative posters designed and printed by local artists, so you can remember the horror forever and ever. Check out the fun if you can, tickets run out pretty so secure them as early as you can today!


The 10th Annual Star Wars Holiday Special Toys for Tots Benefit!, Wednesday December 14th @ Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater, doors open at 3:30, 6:30, & 9:30 (for screenings at 4:00, 7:00, & 10:00). Ticket price is a toy donation for Toys for Tots, tickets are available starting at noon!!

Detail of another poster!

Third Clue: December's Mystery Movie

Clue #3: This month's movie might be as Christmasy as a Starbuck's Holiday cup, but it's pretty universally remembered as a Christmas horror and very often shows up on holiday horror lists.

Tape Freaks Presents: December's Mystery Movie at the Trylon microcinema, Wednesday, December 7th@ 7:00pm, only $5!

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Holiday Horror: Tales From the Crypt, And All Through the House

We've recently picked up a few seasons of Tales From the Crypt and have been quickly watching through them. Both Tim and I watched the show when it originally aired but hadn't revisited it since, so we weren't really sure if we were in for a dashing of our nostalgia or a treat from our past. But not only is it really great mindless fun, but there's ton of talented people that worked on the show on both sides of the camera. Not so surprising when you see the executive producers were Robert Zemekis, Joel Silver, David Giler, Richard Donner and Walter Hill. That team had a hell of a rolodex to pull from at that time. There are episodes directed by actors (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael J. Fox, Tom Hanks), there's an episode where Tim Curry plays three different characters, Whoopi Goldberg hangs out with the Crypt Keeper after the episode she's in ends (the only time that happens so far), the whole series is packed with strange, fun, and cheesy surprises!

In the first season there's a great episode that perfectly fits this months theme: And All Through the House. The screenplay was written by Fred Dekker (Night of the Creeps, Monster Squad) and directed by Robert Zemekis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Back to the Future) and you can watch the whole thing on youtube! Grab a candy cane, suck it into a point, and enjoy:

Second Clue: December's Mystery Movie

Clue #2: This month's movie features an actor who was in two different movies that screened at the Trylon during the month of October.

Tape Freaks Presents: December's Mystery Movie at the Trylon microcinema, Wednesday, December 7th@ 7:00pm, only $5!

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