Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)

Great goofy fun!

I saw this at a "midnight movie" screening at a local "arty" movie house, and that's definitely the best way to view this goofy cult classic. Yes, the plot is ridiculous, the costumes are silly, and there are continuity errors ... but there's a lighthearted goofiness to it all that makes it fun to watch, especially with a crowd of late-night cult movie fans. After all, where else will you get to hear the line "Eat lead, Froggies!"

January 2, 2009

Terribly, Terribly, Cheesy and Funny

How many post-apocalyptic B-trash movies were made after Mad Max gave respectibility to the genre? Unfathomable.....and most are completely unwatchable. Frogtown somehow skips across the pond above the scum and provides some genuine laughs, passable action, and outlandish scenarios enough to make it a memorable if not worthwhile film to watch.

Besides...from a B-movie bomb you don't care about the plot anyway, as long as the actors make a good show of it, some stuff blows up and a few dozen dregs get wasted by fists, gunfire and explosions. Frogtown delivers, and the frogs are both comical and disgusting enough to love and hate with passion!!

BONUS: The Dance of the Three Snakes will not disappoint!! Or, rather, it will, but the actors play it to the hilt, so it's worth the wait.
April 5, 2008

Piper as Piper, watch for the stunt mats

Not only is it a movie about a guy with a bomb strapped to his crotch killing frog people, it's probably the best movie ever made about a guy with a bomb strapped to his crotch killing frog people. I uh...I don't believe that this was a remake of anything by Shakespeare, I'm not sure if there was some deeply implanted philosophical statement about the struggles of humanity, but it was a darn good guy-with-a-bomb-strapped-to-his-crotch-killing-frog-people movie. Also there's a scene where a guy falls off a small cliff and you can clearly see the mat he lands on giving a little bounce. This is the movie people with low expectations thought "They Live" was going to be. Both are worth watching for their own charms. August 7, 2007

I resemble that remark...

Actually I got to participate for 3 days in the shooting of this fiasco.
I was one of the frog guards (not credited). I got to meet Rowdy Roddy Piper who was very friendly and Sandahl Bergman who asked me where she could get some coffee. The frog puns were flying a mile a minute on the set and some were unbearable. Also note the green beer made of 7-up and Palmolive. Three nights in a warehouse was too much for me and I refused to continue in a heavy frog costume in Death Valley in May-June of 1987 even though they promised me a credit. December 4, 2006

Hell Came To My T.V. Screen When I Watched This Movie!!!

Every now and then I find a very good 'B Grade" movie at my local video store. Sadly this is not one of them. This movie is set in a Barren (no relation to me!!!) Post Apocalyptic Wasteland where Human Fertility is treasured.Judge Judy is of the opinion that "any idiot can make a baby" and I am inclined to agree with her. Then our intrepid Hero named Sam Hell goes to Frogtown in the hope of impregnating lots of women.I did grow weary of all of the women admiring this guy for his "High Sperm Cell Count" as if that is something to be proud of.If this guy lived in modern Los Angeles he would be paying Child Support to 15 different women. I give this movie 5 stars because I kind of like the look of the Wasteland that is depicted in this movie. July 24, 2005

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