Saturday Night Live regulars Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon, Mark McKinney and Colin Quinn all came together to try and make a movie out of what had once been, until now, a five-minute sketch about two guys dancing to Haddaway’s “What Is Love.”

John Fortenberry has been an editor for eight years at producer Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video before making this film.

Steve and Doug Butabi (Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan) are two brothers who spend most of their lives dancing, getting rejected and trying to get into the Roxbury, a famous Los Angeles nightclub.

It may be a simple film, but a great cast is along for the ride, like Loni Anderson and Dan Hedaya as their parents, plus Dwayne Hickman (Dobie Gillis!), Richard Grieco, Jennifer Coolidge (who was in nearly early late 90’s comedy, it seems), Michael Clarke Duncan and Chazz Palminteri.

In his book Baby, Don’t Hurt Me, Kattan claimed that he was pressured by producer Lorne Michaels to have sex with Amy Heckerling so that she would direct the film. He must have held out, because she only produced it.

That said, Kattan also claims that Will Ferrell didn’t speak to him again until the 23rd season of Saturday Night Live due to his relationship with Heckerling. Kattan alleged that Ferrell said “I got all your messages, but I didn’t call you back because I didn’t want to talk to you.”

Thomas Schlamme directed the first “I Want My MTV!” ad campaign, as well as specials for Amy Grant, Robert Klein and Bette Middler — and two ABC Afterschool Specials, The Gift of Amazing Grace and Can a Guy Say No? — before directing movies like Miss Firecracker and this movie. He’s pretty much worked in television ever since.

It’s one of the first movies that Mike Meyers was in, here starring as Charlie MacKenzie, a beat poet who frequently gives beat poetry speeches about his love life. His best friend Tony — Anthony LaPaglia, who is wonderful here, with Alan Arkin as his police captain — thinks he really just can’t commit.

But what if he meets the perfect woman, played by Nancy Travis? And what if she might be a murderer? Well, then we’d have a movie.

While this movie is a trifle, it’s still fun. You get Phil Hartman as a tour guide, Steven Wright, Charles Grodin, Michael Richards, Amanda Plummer and Debi Mazar all turning in great performances and a decent soundtrack, too.

Oh yeah — the place where they go for their honeymoon? Yeah, it’s the Dunsmuir Estate from Phantasm.

New Guinea, Germany, Singapore, Portugal, Australia, America and beyond, no country is safe when Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi have their cameras rolling. Paolo Cavara, who helped make Mondo Cane, had moved on to make other films, including Black Belly of the Tarantula and Plot of Fear.

This time around, their journey takes us through vivisections, lynchings, tranvestitites, sex clubs, alligator hunts and a trip to a mortician’s school. Everything in this consists of cutting room footage of the first film, including a scene where a monk sets himself ablaze that was totally faked with the help of special effects wizard Carlo Rambaldi.

As the mondo had grown beyond their film, this time Jacopetti and Prosperi go abti-establishment, even laughing about how the dog scenes in the original movie kept them off screens in England. They’re increduous and probably desensitized over all that they have seen.

You can watch this on Amazon Prime and Tubi.

Oh Lightning Video, you bringers of filth and ruin. In addition to giving us VHS versions of The Wild Beasts, The House of the Yellow Carpet, the Michael Pataki-directed Cinderella, The Killer Is on the Phone, Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold, Necropolis, Dark August, Footprints on the Moon, Superstition and more also have us this mondo of sorts.

Billed as “a riveting expose about the personalities of murderers and their motives,” this movie covers three topics: the McDonalds’ restaurant massacre, President Reagan’s assassination attempt and serial murderer Henry Lee Lucas.

Murder porn, as they call it, is passe these days, on 24/7 in so many homes. But in 1985? Movies like this and The Killing of America blew minds.

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Romolo Marcellini was all over the mondo fad, creating films like Taboos of the World and Macabro. Here, his camera explores the emancipation of women in the Far East.

That said — none of these stories are true, all shot like a mondo but obviously scripted stories.

Akiko Wakabayashi — Aki from You Only Live Twice — and famous Malaysian actress Lakshmi appear, after all.

There’s also a Thai kickboxer who gets hooked on opium and a monkey that can’t stop itching. I’m making it all sounds way better than it is. Sorry.

You can watch this as a bonus feature on Severin’s Mondo Balordo blu ray.

This year, Severin released Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection, a collection of 31 remastered films on 14 discs. This movie appears at the center of it and if you know nothing of the story of Adamson — somehow a man who could work with both Colonel Sanders and Charles Manson — get ready to have your mind blown out of the back of your brain.

Beyond his 1995 demise, murdered by live-in contractor Fred Fulford and buried inside his home, Adamson’s life is of extreme interest to me, as it should be anyone coming to this site.

The son of silent film star Denver Dixon and actress Dolores Booth, Adamson was involved in movies from the age of six, as he acted in his father’s 1935 film Desert Mesa.

After helping his father make Halfway to Hell in 1961 and meeting Sam Sherman, the two would join with Dan Kennis to create Independent-International Pictures, the makers of movies like Satan’s Sadists and the astounding Dracula vs. Frankenstein. They’d go on to recreate — rip off, really — the Blood Island films in the U.S., as well as movies in the stewardress — well, he invented that category — western and biker genres, often shot at Spahn Ranch.

This film hits on everything I love and I couldn’t have been more overjoyed watching it. I’ve been holding off, needing something to look forward to and this was more than worth that wait. Alien conspiracies? Murder? Go-go dancing? Shady characters? Stuntpeople? Carnival Magic? This has all of that and so much more.

Outside of a movie where George Eastman, John Saxon and Santo team up to battle Adolfo Celi, Telly Savalas and Christopher Lee to save Edwige Fenech, Marisa Mell and Caroline Munro from being horribly murdered, I can’t think of a film that I more want to watch again and again. While the movie of my dreams will never be made, I am deliriously happy that this exists.

You can get this from Severin.

Albert T. Viola — yes, the same man who wrote, directed, produced and starred in Preacherman — completed the American version of this film, known as A Fool’s World in Italy. There, it was directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero, who also made the mondos Africa Sexy, Orient By Night, Sexy Nudo, Sexy nel Mondo, Universo Proibito and Superspettacoli nel Mondo. He would go on to make So Sweet, So Dead.

Imagine a world “throbbing and pulsing with love, from the jungle orgies of primitive tribes to sin-filled evenings of the London sophisticate.” Now imagine those very same words coming out of the mouth of Boris Karloff.

Here are just some of the folks you will meet and sights you will see: a dwarf singer, bodybuilders, bedouin pimps, Japanese models for rent, Indian exorcists, people who can’t stop smoking, Jehovah’s Witnesses, lottery players, a clone of Valentino, high end rich dogs, a Boreno version of Romeo and Juliet, cults, nightclubs, Luna Park, London after hours and so much more.

You can get this — along with The Orientals — on blu ray from Severin.

Edie Somner (Kat Foster) is married with children yet on the edge of divorce and dealing with the ups and downs of her husband’s career when she decides to stop accommodating everyone else and bring some type of meaning to ger life. That’s the story behind the first movie from writer, director and producer Amy Miller Gross.

The need for Edie to get more out of her life may be lost on me, as I’ve never made $275,000 a year, much less run up a decorating bill like that. As a result, her issues — she never gets to write what she wants and gives up so much of her life to everyone else — is lost on me. Wake up at 3 AM and write about movies all night like I do, I guess.

I really shouldn’t put my mindset into this film. So how about this: there are some pretty funny moments in this film, including a scene where the AirBNB guests that the Somners have staying in their home are staging a large orgy when Edie comes home blasted on NYC’s finest cannabis and her husband does Molly with his potential new boss.

Larisa Oleynik (10 Things I Hate About You, The Secret World of Alex Magic, The Baby-Sitters Club) is in this, as is Mark Linn-Baker (yes, Cousin Larry from Perfect Strangers).

If you know want to know what it was like to be rich and dealing with issues in New York before the tribulations of 2020, this movie has you covered.

Accommodations is now streaming Amazon, Fandango Now, GooglePlay, iTunes and MovieSpree.

DISCLAIMER: We were sent this movie by its PR company. That has no bearing on this review.