Every season of Stranger Things has been 80’s influenced to say the least. A combination of Stephen King style horror and the films that raised my generation, this season has set a record number of views on Netflix. It’s also packed with so many references to the summer of 1985 that you may not have caught them all. Well, I was 13 in the summer of 1985 and I didn’t have that many friends, so I saw just about every movie there was to see in the theaters or rent. Hopefully, my lack of dating and personal contact will be able to inform you in 2019.

Here are ten things that I found this season. Some are obvious. Others — not so much.

If you haven’t watched this season yet, do it. Or don’t complain when I ruin everything for you.

1. Grigori the Russian is obviously indebted to The Terminator (1984): I’m not saying that this Russian enforcer is a cyborg or robot. But the way that he keeps coming back over and over and, well, over again is very much like James Cameron’s initial T-800. Even at the end, when he’s battling Hopper next to the high powered laser beneath Starcourt Mall, he gets facial wounds exactly like the Terminator did when it battles Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese.

2. The laser that opens the gate works much like Oscillation Overthruster from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension: The Oscillation Overthruster is “a miniature colliding beam accelerator which creates intermediate vector bosons from the annihilation of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons.” This device enables Buckaroo’s jet car to open a gateway from the solid matter of a mountain range into the eighth dimension and then back. However, our hero soon learns that alien organisms make the return trip along with him, stuck to the bottom of his car. The way that the Stranger Things Russian — and American — laser systems that open the Gate to the Upside Down work look incredibly similar, along with also taking a cue from the Flux Capacitor from Back to the Future.

3. The big bad of season 3 works totally like The Blob (1988): Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont’s visceral remake of the original 1958 classic takes the basic form of The Blob and goes completely goretastic with it, infusing the pink form of this monster with the bodies of the dead inside it, pretty much exactly like the monster that dominates season 3. Those that played too much Dungeons and Dragons — or still play too much — may also recognize the influence of monsters like the gibbering mouther, the chaos beast and the xorn on this monster as well. Regardless, the idea of multiple bodies being consumed to make one big creature is at the heart of the ’88 remake. After being hard to find for years, Shout! Factory is re-releasing this underrated classic so you can compare for yourself.  PS – the idea of the rats all converging within an abandoned mill comes directly from Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift movie adaption, but there are so many lifts from King in this story, one more doesn’t spoil the broth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvG40yNdm3g

4. The re-introduction of Billy inverts Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1984): Phoebe Cates dramatic pool scene — set to The Cars’ “Moving In Stereo” is when nearly every 12-year-old boy achieved puberty en masse in 1982; trust me, I was there. The fact that that same feeling can overwhelm the mothers of Hawkins upon the sight of Billy walking to his lifeguard post proves that The Cars and slow motion are the tropes of sexual discovery. There are Phoebe mentions throughout season 3, as she shows up when Steve stumbles into her standup at a Family Video and Dustin uses her as shorthand to describe his mythical girlfriend Suzie.

That’s not the only Fast Times reference. Steve’s descent from most popular guy in school to getting stuck working at Scoops Ahoy mirrors Brad Hamilton, who must suffer the indignity of wearing a pirate hat while working at Captain Hook Fish & Chips. Luckily, Steve never has to endure the indignity of Robin catching him on a date with Rosie Palmer and her five sisters.

5. The logo for Hawkins Memorial Hospital looks like Haddonfield Memorial Hospital in Halloween 2 (1981): There’s no mistaking the fact that the inspiration for the hospital scenes, particularly when the possessed staff of the Hawkins Post stalks Nancy Wheeler. The lighting, the hallway, the frantic elevator button pushes — I was waiting for someone to throw an oxygen tank at a demogorgon and have it bleed out of the eyes.

6. Obviously, Nancy being menaced by the mindflayer is directly lifted from Aliens (1986): It’s an iconic moment — plucky heroine just seconds away from the jaws of an unstoppable beast. James Cameron should be getting royalties for everything that he contributed to this show!

CORRECTION: The face to face xenomorph and Ripley moment is actually from 1992’s Alien 3. Thanks to Aaron Click from The Horror Drive-In community on Facebook for noticing this.

7. The entire show starts off by featuring Day of the Dead (1985): The Hawkins kids sneak into a sneak preview of this film — nice cover, Duffer Brothers, as Day didn’t open until July 17, 1985 and the show is over the Fourth of July — and the image of Lori Cardille filled my TV. I cheered — suddenly, people all over the country will be reminded of one crucial fact: all modern horror was born right here in Pittsburgh, PA. While Day of the Dead isn’t the zombie epic that Romero truly wanted to make, it’s packed with palpable fear and the feeling that death has finally come with no escape. It was also shot in my hometown, so each day, students would skip class and have Savini and the young KNB guys make them up as extras. Romero’s even better film, Dawn of the Dead, also has great influence on this season, as the idea of the supernatural intruding into the commerce of the mall also starts right here in Pittsburgh (well, Monroeville).

Want to know more about Lori Cardille? She was interviewed in the new issue of Drive-In Asylum and I painted her portrait! Grab that issue here!

8. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) is also owed way more than a thanks: A critical and commercial failure upon release, Carpenter’s goo and gore-drenched epic has gone on to be revered. Any movie that elects one of its characters to utter, “You gotta be fucking kidding!” when confronted by its monsters is going to stay in your brain. Nearly every creature in Stranger Things can trace its slimeline to this film. Want proof? What poster is in Mike’s basement? Also, how great is this poster by Gibbs Rainock?

Want more references to this film (and another sentence that starts with what)? When the kids are in Big Buy, Lucas compares New Coke to the remake. And when Billy is trapped in the pool’s sauna, that’s exactly how MacReady tried to kill the monster in Carpenter’s masterwork.

9. You’ve heard the song before that plays on the horse ride that ended up on the Russian hidden message. Yep, that’s “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two).” I only know two movie characters who have ever sung or hummed that song: HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher. Neither of those folks was very nice.

10. There are a whole bunch of movies on that marquee and those posters. If you ever need proof that 1985 was a banner year for movies, just watch Stranger Things. You’ve got Back to the Future, which is all over the last episode. D.A.R.Y.L., a movie all about a robotic kid with special powers being chased by the government. Cocoon, which promises nice aliens. Return to Oz, which transforms everyone’s favorite movie into a world of sheer nightmare starring Fairuza Balk. Fletch, which has Chevy Chase right before he became a racist unfunny pod person. And The Stuff, which proves that consumers will eat anything for dessert, even aliens that cause them to explode.

There are so many more, like Hopper pretty much saying Martin Brody’s line from Jaws, “I can do anything I want, I’m the chief of police,” as well as the whole idea of a mayor hoping that a Fourth of July celebrates deflects from the death that has visited his tiny town, to “We’ll Meet Again” being used to the same horrifying effect that it was in Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and the hall of mirrors fight between Grigori and Hopper taking cues from Game of Death, The Lady From Shanghai and The Man With the Golden Gun. Hell, you could write a book from all the Goonies and Gremlins references.

What did you catch that I didn’t? Let me know!

PS – When Robin and Steve got interviewed at Family Video, her three picks — The Apartment, Hidden Fortress and Children of Paradise are even more fuel for the fire that in geeks’ hearts for her. I could only imagine getting that interview and having to figure out which of the thousands of movies in my head are my three favorites right now!

What would be the greatest team of fictional baseball players from movies ever? While my knowledge of baseball is limited to a lifetime of scoring games and watching Major League, I did the best I could to create a lineup.

I didn’t use any real-life people who were portrayed in a film, like any of the players in Eight Men Out or The Lou Gehrig Story. Some of these players were obviously based on real people, however.

NOTE: Where I could find credits for the awesome custom cards that illustrate this article, I’ve called them out. If I used one of yours without credit, please let me know and I’ll correct my error. Thanks!

Pitcher – Steve Nebaska, The Scout: Say what you will about this player’s mental status, but anyone that throws 81 straight strikes and retires all 27 batters for a perfect game in Game 1 of the World Series? That’s who I want pitching on my team.

Image from https://youhitlikeshit.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/what-if-ricky-vaughn-had-a-1989-donruss-baseball-card/

Relief Pitcher – Ricky Vaughn, Major League: Look, I know that the Wild Thing is uncontrollable, but when it comes time to shutting down the other side, I want the best pitcher in the California Penal League, the man who struck out Jack Parkman when it truly counted.

Catcher – “Crash” Davis, Bull Durham: Kevin Costner could have been on this list twice!

Sure, he’s a twelve-year minor league vet, but Crash ends up setting the minor league record for most home runs by the end of the film. And he’s the man who is able to get Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh into shape, along with Annie Savoy, ready for the majors. I would have picked Jake Taylor from Major League, but honestly, I would probably just draft nearly every actor from that film if I could.

First Base – Jack Elliot, Mr. Baseball: Jack is nearing the end of his career when the Yankees trade him for first baseman Ricky Davis (Frank Thomas!) and only one team wants his contract: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of Japan! Luckily, Jack ends up turning around his career, wins the pennant, his coach’s respect (and his daughter) and then goes on to play for the Dodgers and coach the Tigers.

Second Base, Marla Hooch, A League of Their Own: #32 has the kind of hitting power many of the opposite sex only dream of. In my universe, she’s welcome to play with the guys.

Third Base, Roger Dorn, Major League: Dorn may care more for contract negotiations and reading The Wall Street Journal than going after ground balls, but when you can reach him, his experience and skills can win you games.

Art by Cuyler Smith. http://cuylersmith.com

Shortstop – Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, The Sandlot: Of all the kids to play in that mythical sandlot, only one achieved his dream of playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He only had to challenge the Beast to make it happen.

Left Field – Darryl Palmer, The Slugger’s Wife: Look, there aren’t many left fielders in movies. That said, there’s only one that I know of that was played by the same man who was Danny in Caddyshack. If he can just get his relationship with Debby right, maybe he can keep setting home run records.

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Center Field – Willie “Mays” Hayes, Major League: To be fair, I almost had Wesley Snipes on this list twice, using his character of Bobby Rayburn from The Fan.

However, Willie “Mays” Hayes gets in just for showing up at camp with no invite, waking up in his bed outside of the stadium and still out stealing every player while still in his pajamas. My brother would like me to mention that he feels that the Omar Epps version is the better ballplayer.

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Right Field – Roy Hobbs, The Natural: While Hobbs plays left field in the Bernard Malamud novel, in the movie, he’s in right. After striking out Joe Don Baker, playing a legendary hitter named the Whammer, at a carnival, Hobbs is shot by a crazy fan and doesn’t make it to the majors until he’s 34. It takes the death of starter Bump Bailey before Pop Fisher puts him in as a starter for the New York Knights, then he and his bat Wonderboy to the National League pennant. In a 2001 ESPN.com column, Bill Simmons picked Hobbs as the best athlete in sports movie history.

Designated Hitter – Stan Ross, Mr. 3000: Sure, a clerical error may have kept Stan from really being Mr. 3000, but he becomes a great mentor to the younger players on the team like Rex “T-Rex” Pennebaker. His sacrifice bunt at the end of the film shows every player that there’s no I in team.

Dan called out something important. Every team needs a coaching staff to succeed. Here’s who he picked for this one.

Image from https://youhitlikeshit.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/what-if-i-lou-brown-had-a-1989-donruss-baseball-card/

Manager – Lou Brown from Major League: Determined to create the worst team in major league baseball, thus allowing the Indians to relocate to Miami, former showgirl Rachel Phelps moves manager Charlie Donovan (Charles Cyphers, who you may know as Sheriff Leigh Brackett from the Halloween films) to general manager and brings Lou, the coach of the Toledo Mud Hens, up to the big leagues. Lou’s an old school gruff take-no-nonsense guy who commands respect and somehow turns a ragtag team in an All-Star squad.

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Coach – Pop Fisher from The Natural: Speaking of a gruff guy who you need to win over, they don’t come much tougher that Pop Fisher. Full of rough language and distrusting of Roy Hobbs, the oldest rookie ever — that said, Jim Morris played his first MLB game for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at 35 — he still comes around.

Art by Cuyler Smith. http://cuylersmith.com

Coach – Morris Buttermaker from The Bad News Bears: Notice how all of Dan’s coach picks are the grumpiest ever? You should have had him coach you at kickball. Regardless, Morris is a great pick. Played by Walter Matthau in the original film, Jack Warden in the TV series and Billy Bob Thornton in the 2005 remake, Morris takes his major league pitching experience and uses it to lead a bunch of rough and tumble kids to greatness.

Dan also mentioned that I forgot Kelly Leak from The Bad News Bears, as he’s the best overall athlete in the film.

I guess I could always add two more pitchers, just so I have a nice rotation.

Pitcher – Monty Brewster from Brewster’s Millions: There have been seven different versions of this film, but I’ve picked the iconic Richard Pryor version here. Sure, he’s better at spending money than playing baseball, but hopefully that lets us have enough money to hire my last pick.

Pitcher – Kenny Powers from HBO’s Eastbound and Down: Yeah, I cheated and added a TV show character as my final player. I could have picked Sam Malone from Cheers. But for sheer entertainment value and unpredictability, you can’t go wrong with the man they call The Shelby Sensation. Or The Reverse Apache Master. They also call him The Man with the Golden Dick, La Flama Blanca and The Bulletproof Tiger.

Have your own team you’d like to match up against mine? Post it in the comments.

UPDATE: My friend Michael McBeth sent me a team of his own and it was too good not to share.

C: Dottie Henson – A League Of Their Own

1B: Clu Haywood – Major League

2B: Tony Micelli – Who’s the Boss

SS: David “The Rocket” Durango – The Sandlot 2

3B : Jimmy Dugan – A League Of Their Own (I don’t think they ever really said his position but I do know that the character was based off of Jimmie Fox who played both 1B and 3B and Dugan hit nearly 500 home runs including 58 in 1938, lol.)

LF: Thelonius Mertle – The Sandlot (He himself said that he played with Babe Ruth and was a better hitter until he took one to the head and went blind!)

CF: Rex “T-Rex” Pennebaker – Mr. 3000

RF: Pedro Cerrano – Major League 

DH: Hamilton “The Great Hambino” Porter – The Sandlot 

P: Hayley Goodfarier – The Sandlot 2 (Softball pitcher who had a better fastball than the males)

P: Amanda Whurlizer – Bad News Bears ( Workhorse and real star of the team not Kelly Leak)

P: Rigoberto Sanchez – Trouble With the Curve (Showed up the top pick in the draft and made him look like a fool. And was scouted by Clint Eastwood!)

Scout: Gus Lobel – Trouble With the Curve

Manager: Dutch Schnell – Bang the Drum Slowly (Vincent Gardenia!!!)

Coach: Red Blow – The Natural

Coach: Jake Taylor – Major League 2

We live in a golden age of streaming media, but many of us also realized that we’re living in an era when every movie, no matter how lost, is released to great fanfare in collector friendly packaging, with limited edition slipcase and tons of extras. But there are still films that are lost in the cracks. I’m not talking about stuff like The Day the Clown Cried, a movie that will never see the light of day and has never — and may never — be released in any format. Instead, I’m talking about movies that were VHS era favorites and just never made the jump to blu ray (or even DVD in some cases).

I’m certain that I’ll miss a few films on this list — there are thousands of films that people love that I’ve definitely missed — so please educate me and let me know your favorites!

1. Rad (1986): Hal Needham may have been behind the stunts for Burt Reynolds movies and directed Megaforce, but his true success may be this film. Cru Jones is a young BMX racer who lives in a small town with Talia Shire and his sister, determined to win the heart of Lori Laughlin and conquer Helltrack. Throw in Ray Walston, Hard Boiled Haggerty and some of the best riders of the era — as well as a teenage Robin Bougie from Cinema Sewer fame — and you have a movie that was never available to rent in the video stores of my teenage years. That’s how popular it was. It’s never been released on DVD, perhaps because no one knows who has the rights.

Kevin Stecko, who owns 80sTees.com, said of the film, “I had fond memories of Rad as a kid because one of my best friends was obsessed with the movie and rented it out constantly. I bet I saw it 5 times just at his house. We had requests over the years and it’s really hard to figure out who owns the rights. That’s fairly common with movies that weren’t made by the big studios. Even though TriStar Pictures released it, the folks at Sony that I spoke to weren’t even familiar with the movie. It seems to have been forgotten by time.”

If you love Rad, you should totally check out Kevin’s site. You can even grab a sweet Helltrack or Cru Jones shirt while you’re there!

UPDATE: Vinegar Syndrome had this for sale and sold out near instantly. They have said that it will be streaming soon. You can also get it from Mill Creek.

2. The Keep (1983): Between Thief and Manhunter, Michael Mann was a troubled production, including a director’s cut that’s 90 minutes over the two hours that Mann was allotted. This tale of Nazis battling a spectral entity named Radu Molasar has never been officially released on DVD or blue in any country, yet it is available for purchase on YouTube, as well as streaming on Amazon Video and Netflix in the UK and Ireland.

One of the many issues of the film was that visual effects supervisor Wally Veevers (2001:  A Space Odyssey) died two weeks into post-production. No one knew how he planned to finish the visual effects, including the original ending that was planned. Michael Mann had to finish 260 special effects shots himself, which led to several new endings being filmed long after the movie had wrapped. Thanks to the film going well over budget, Paramount wouldn’t pay for much more, so Mann had to compromise and create the ending that’s in the film.

UPDATE: Australian label Via Vision is supposedly re-releasing this on blu ray! Grab your all region players!

3. Nothing Lasts Forever (1984): Tom Schiller directed many of the short films on the early Saturday Night Live, including “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” in which John Belushi is the only member of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players left alive to dance on the graves of his fellow castmates. This film has never been released in any format and Schiller went into commercials afterward.

It’s all about a dystopian New York controlled by the Port Authority, an underground network of hoboes who run the world, a mission to the moon on a bus with Bill Murray and more. Dan Aykroyd also appears and John Belushi would have been in it as well, but he died a few weeks before shooting began.

Warner Brothers pulled this movie from being released and never showed it anywhere. It was finally shown on TCM, where several of the online bootlegs come from, but to date, it’s never been released on any digital format.

4. Eyes of Fire (1983): A preacher is exiled, so he and his followers make their way to an isolated forest where they are tormented by the spirits of the dead. If this movie sounds a lot like The Witch (or The VVitch) to you, you aren’t alone. This was released on the Vestron Video label and poorly made DVDs were issued in Thailand and Brazil, but it’s never made the jump to the modern era. That’s surprising in the wake of Robert Eggar’s film’s success. We love this movie so much, we reviewed it twice — Eyes of Fire.

You can now get this from Severin.

5. Elves (1989): I’ve made it one of my missions in life to get more people to see this completely bonkers film. Who wouldn’t want to see a movie where an alcoholic ex-cop becomes a mall Santa before being drawn into a conspiracy of the Third Reich being reborn via incest and elves? Every holiday season, I hold out hope that this is the Christmas that I get what I really want — Elves on a blu ray or DVD packed with extras. I’ll even sit in on a commentary track, if need be.

6. Blackout (1985): This made for HBO murder mystery had a VHS rental box that pretty much screamed at you, “Rent me!” Pretty much an American-made giallo film, it also inspired a real-life murder, when Ed Sherman killed his pregnant wife and used air conditioning to slow the decomposition of her body to aid his alibi. That doesn’t explain why this has never been released on DVD or blu ray. It seems custom made for a label like Shout! Factory.

7. The Thunder series (1983-1988): Perhaps I am the only person who cares about Mark Gregory this much, but if labels like Severin and Ronin Flix have taught us anything, it’s that more people than just me have a craving for Italian junk films. These Fabrizio De Angelis directed films might be inspired — let’s just say ripped off — from Rambo, but they achieve a zen-like magic of their own. We know the white man is going to screw over Thunder. But that’s just the set up to the carnage that we all want to see.

8. The Astrologer (1975): An auteur project by director, producer, psychic to the stars and actor Craig Denney, this is a movie about an astrologer who goes on an adventure to find jewels, then becomes a celebrity and makes a movie called The Astrologer that he watches within the film The Astrologer. The entire soundtrack was stolen from the Moody Blues, who get credited for the film, which may be why this was only released on VHS and has never been seen again. This is one of my dream movies to be released. AGFA has shown it in theaters, so here’s hoping for a legitimate blu ray soon!

9. Endgame (1983): This Joe D’Amato post-apocalyptic treat is pretty much the epicenter of my movie obsessions. Made in Italy, ripping off Mad Max and Escape from New York and starring Al Cliver, Laura Gemser and George Eastman, it’s a game show to the death with blind ninjas led by psychic children, fishman mutants who want Black Emanuelle all for themselves and more violence and bloodshed than thirty lesser films. This is on Amazon Prime now, but there’s no reason at all that a label isn’t releasing this right now. I’d offer to do the commentary track, but I have ten hours of things to say about it, which is like six times more than its running time. T his one is, without argument, the best of the post-apoc era that we rounded up with our September 2019, month-long tribute. Watch this movie.

You can get this now from Severin!

10. Spookies (1986): This movie played on USA and video for years, but a legit American release has eluded this sewn together combination of a film being re-edited by people who had nothing to do with the original footage. Sure, I have a French blu ray of it, but that’s not good enough. I demand that Vinegar Syndrome goes crazy and releases this with twenty different slipcovers and an air freshener that smells like muck man farts.

UPDATE: The folks at Vinegar Syndrome heard my dark prayers and this movie was released as part of their Black Friday sale this year. Buy it here!

You know — if you’ve read any of my lists — that I can’t stop at just ten movies.

11. Meet the Applegates (1990): Between Heathers and Hudson Hawk, Michael Lehmann directed this movie that was stuck in turnaround hell for a long time before finally coming out on VHS. Trust me — it’s bonkers. A tale of humanoid bugs being co-opted by capitalism and a transgender Dabney Coleman who tries to set them straight and blow up the world? Why wasn’t this a blockbuster?

12. Son of Dracula (1974): Freddie Francis directed a horror comedy with Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson — playing seven of his songs? If I didn’t see this inebriated at 4 AM at a drive-in, I wouldn’t believe it were true. I got my copy at a convention, so hopefully you’ll do the same. I love the idea that this movie even exists because it gives me ton of fodder to discuss and make people’s eyes glaze over in casual conversation.

13. American Tiger: This is another reason our site exists: for me to go on and on about this Sergio Martino directed blast of filmed in America ridiculousness. If you see one movie where Donald Pleasence plays a Southern preacher who is really a warthog with a son whose sex games turn into murder and people have sex in the shower with gymnasts who leave their jeans on, let this be it. This was released in Germany, but never in the US on DVD. I’m dreaming of Severin releasing this!

UPDATE: Cauldron Films is releasing this!

14. The Haunting of Julia (1977): You’d think Mia Farrow would realize not to have a kid by now. One part cautionary tale of watching your kids while they eat and another warning people of bad relationships with one side of the supernatural, this strange effort showed up on Shudder for a month before fading back into the eldritch fog of DVDs you can only buy at conventions. Also known as Full Circle.

UPDATE: You can get this now from Shout! Factory.

15. The Paperboy (1994): Do you like The Bad Seed? Would you like to see a Canadian version where a young boy tries to set William Katt on fire and suffocates an old woman with a plastic bag? Bad news — this perennial VHS rental favorite is not available on DVD.

16. Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984): Have I ever told you how much I love Pia Zadora? Oh — only thirty times today, you answer. Here’s thirty one, dear reader, because this time Pia is a high school student (she was 31 years old at the time of filming) who falls for an alien rock star while avoiding a chainsaw-toting Michael Berryman, battling a sea monster and singing with Jermaine Jackson in a scene that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

UPDATE: You can get this from Vinegar Syndrome.

17. Blue Monkey (1987): Sandy Howard directed the U.S. sequences of the Gamera films before producing The Devil’s Rain!, Meteor, Angel and Vice Squad amongst others. This was part of a three-picture deal with Howard and RCA-Columbia home video which also produced the Freddie Francis and Ken Wiederhorn co-directed film Dark Tower and Nightstick, a made for Canadian TV effort that have both not be released to DVD. Originally called Green Monkey as those creatures were thought to have been behind the AIDS virus, at least this movie has John Vernon in it. C’mon, Vinegar Syndrome! You’ve already released Angel and Vice Squad sets this year! Put this one out!

UPDATE: This is getting released by Dark Force Entertainment.

18. Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby (1976): This TV movie is completely insane. It takes a film that was a modern classic and presents a sequel that scrapes the bottom of the barrel and just shoves it in your face, which means that I love every single minute of it. Only Ruth Gordon returns, with Mia Farrow being replaced by Patty Duke. Honestly, there are so many made for TV movies that demand to be on DVD and blu ray!

19. Song of the South (1946): There are movies that should be released on DVD. And then there are some that shouldn’t. Let’s face it — the world is a much different place in 2019 than it was in 1946 (although even then, audiences reactions upset Walt Disney so much that he left the premiere and lead actor James Baskett was unable to attend that premiere because Atlanta was a racially segregated city). But this has never been released in any home video format in the United States, yet it has been released in the UK, Japan and Thailand.

20. Little Darlings (1980): Tatum O’Neal and Kristy McNichol compete to see who can lose her virginity first. It sounds like it’s going to be a summer romp — and it is — but it’s also fraught with gravitas. It’s been on TV hundreds of times, but it’s never been released on DVD. That may be because of licensing issues with its soundtrack. While the original VHS release has all of the songs, the second release replaces John Lennon’s “Oh My Love,” Supertramp’s “School” and The Bellamy Brothers’ “Let Your Love Flow” with cover versions. Little Darlings sometimes shows up on iTunes and Amazon, but then goes down just as fast. Interestingly, Lionsgate announced that they would be releasing this and then canceled it.

I could go on and on (now it’s 20 films!) as there are so many more films, like Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Kindred (released by Synapse), I Was a Teenage Werewolf, the Joan Jett and Ray Sharkey starring film deBeat-e-o, A Matter of Degrees starring John Doe of X, and Rocktober Blood, which is shocking to me, particularly when Vestron has been licensing out their name to make a new series of blu-rays. Then there are the obscure rock favorites of R.D Francis: the infamous Rock ‘N’ Roll Hotel (that was never even released on VHS), It’s a Complex World (outside of the director’s 2010 vanity press that since gone out of print), and the Ricky Kasso-inspired bioflick, Ricky 6 by the writer behind The Craft.

Did I miss anything? Of course I did. Please let me know your favorite movies that haven’t been released on DVD!

Thanks to Kevin Stecko, Bill Van Ryn, R. D Francis, Shaun Casper, Jennifer Upton, Jennifer Contino, Craig Edwards (who suggested Get Crazy (which is now being released by Kino Lorber), Paul Andolina and Dustin Fallon for their help with this article.

For some reason, the new Child’s Play and Annabelle Comes Home will arrive in theaters just a week apart, quite possibly making this the first time that two movies starring killer dolls go head to little head at the box office. However, they’re but two of the haunted dolls that have wandered across the silver screen to horrify us over the past few years.

So many of these possessed dolls have a debt to The Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll,” written by Charles Beaumont (actually, ghostwritten by Jerry Sohl) and the legend of the Key West-based Robert the haunted doll (about whom the Robert series of low budget doll horror were based)

Here are ten — in no particular order — and if we missed one you love, let us know!

1. Annabelle from The Conjuring films: Possibly — and hopefully — the only real doll on this list, Annabelle has shown up in both The Conjuring films, as well as three of her own spinoffs (she also makes cameo appearances in Aquaman and The Curse of La Llorona). According to Ed and Lorraine Warren, a student nurse was first haunted by the doll in the late 1960s before the Warrens removed the doll and placed it in their museum.

2. Chucky from the Child’s Play films: I don’t care what the new movie says. Chucky will always be the spirit of serial killer Charles Lee Ray, living on forever in the body of a Good Guys doll. Across six of the original films, one new reimagining and a planned TV series, Chucky has brought nothing but terror to anyone who owns him.

3. Brahms from The Boy: Talk about a movie that hit out of left field. 2016’s The Boy presents a ridiculous concept — that an old couple has been raising a porcelain doll for years — and runs with it. It worked so well a sequel is planned for this year.

4. All of the dolls from Dead Silence: James Wan really loves scary dolls. Between the Billy puppet in Saw, Annabelle in the aforementioned The Conjuring films and this movie, he’s made millions off of them. Well, maybe not millions off this one, as it’s pretty much a forgotten horror film out of the late 2000s. You should check it out — it’s actually pretty great silly fun.

5. All of the dolls in, well, Dolls: Well, I do know someone who loves haunted dolls more than James Wan. Charles Band. Across this film and several others — like Tourist Trap — he’s exploited the fear that possessed inanimate objects can incur.

6. The many, many puppets of the Puppet Master series: Spoiler warning. We’ve been working on a Puppet Master week for a long time. It’s taken months because there are just so many of these films, between the original series, the reimaginings and the cross-overs with Demonic Toys. If you are a doll and evil, Charles Band loves you — he also made Blood Dolls. How many doll movies can he make?

7. The hoodoo dolls from the first two Tales from the Hood films: These dolls are ready to do more than upset you with their remembrance of America’s racist — that’s putting it lightly — past. No, if you cross them or their owners, they’re ready to end your life.

8. The walking doll in Asylum: Between a tailor’s dummy suddenly coming to life and the dolls at the end of this film — that spray out human fluids when crushed — Asylum is not the movie to watch if you have pediophobia or the fear of dolls.

9. Fats from Magic: When the commercials aired on TV for this movie — I was only six years old at the time — I covered my face and ears and screamed, hoping that the ventriloquist dummy wouldn’t find and kill me. It’s a good thing I never saw this movie when I was young. I probably would have never gone to sleep.

10. The Zuni doll from Trilogy of Terror: This made for TV movie was made all the way back in 1975, but the story of Karen Black being menaced by a tribal doll — who comes back for the sequel — sticks in your memory.

Here are some of the many movies that I didn’t put on the list:

Pin: This movie has ended up on so many of our ten movies lists, but that’s just because I want more people to learn about this insane bit of Canadian cinema, where a CPR dummy presides over the incestual relationship of a brother and sister.

Dead of Night: One of the first portmanteau horror films and an inspiration for the Amicus studio, one of its stories is all about a ventriloquist being controlled by his dummy.

Love Object: This 2004 film has a man slowly being taken over by his love interest — a rubber sex doll.

Pinocchio’s Revenge: Can you guess the killer in this 1996 opus from the same director as Night of the Demons and Witchboard?

Dolly Dearest: Denise Crosby is menaced by several girly dolls that have been taken over by a Mayan spirit in this Child’s Play clone.

Devil Doll: A 1964 British effort where a murderous doll tries to take over a ventriloquist. Notice some kind of trend here?

The Pit: I have no idea why we haven’t gotten to this piece of strange cinema yet, in which a twelve-year-old boy and his evil (and perverted) teddy bear lure people into an open pit full of creatures that want to eat humans.

Black Devil Doll from Hell: An evil doll seduces a church lady? Again — how have we not had this movie on the site yet?

Poltergeist: While not specifically about dolls, that one scene — you know the one — was almost enough to get on this list. Clowns + dolls + evil entities = nightmares for every child in the summer of 1982.

Joey: Before Roland Emmerich came to America, in which a young boy thinks he connects with his recently deceased father via a toy phone before being attacked by an evil doll named Fletcher and then getting telekinesis. If you think I didn’t just hunt this movie down, you don’t know me.

May: May’s only friend is her doll that she keeps in a glass case. Maybe she should have kept it that way, as humans only disappoint her and end up dying.

The Devil’s Dolls: This is the kind of movie that not even a RedBox can talk me into renting, based on the legend of Guatemalan worry dolls.

The Doll Master: A South Korean tale of a doll maker’s doll never leaving his side leads into a modern tale of a doll that earns a soul and decides to get revenge for her maker.

Amityville Dollhouse: Once you run out of ideas — or outright lies — for Amityville films, it’s time to do a haunted dollhouse full of evil toys.

Finders Keepers: A SyFy movie all about a ten-year-old killing his family and his spirit going into the body of a young girl’s doll.

Attack of the Beast Creatures: Maybe having more of the doll from Trilogy of Terror could make for a better movie.

Ragdoll: A Ted Nicolau short about a voodoo doll that ended up being put into Devil Dolls, a portmanteau of possessed doll films produced by — you guessed it — Charles Band.

Doll Graveyard: Charles Band ups the ante and produces and directs this one, which starts with an abusive dad forcing his daughter to bury four of her dolls — an African warrior, a German soldier, a baby and a samurai — in a grave. When she falls in and dies, he buries her and then, well…you know what happens next.

Attack of the Puppet People: A Bert I. Gordon feature where an evil scientist invents an army of miniature death machines.

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker: When you run out of evil Santa ideas, again, turn to evil dolls.

Heidi: If you’re like me — and haunt Walmart hoping to find scraps of physical media — you’ve probably encountered films like this, that fool people into thinking it’s an Annabelle movie.

Triloquist: A Dimension Extreme movie where a vengeful dummy gets revenge for two orphans from the writer and director of the original Leprechaun.

Small Soldiers: Sure, it’s not the supernatural that brings these army soldiers to frightening life, but everyone seems to forget it on their list of evil doll movies.

Xtro: This movie has pretty much everything in it, including an Action Man — the British G.I. Joe — and a clown teddy bear coming to life. Those are probably the least strange things that happen.

The Dollmaker: We covered this horror short — about dolls helping people deal with grief — earlier this year.

That’s not counting movies with mannequins. But patience — that’s another list we need to get to. What did we miss?

Linda Blair has been our focus all week long, so this is an opportunity to discuss some of the films we’ve covered before this weeklong celebration of her work.

Linda started her modeling career at the age of five, appearing in catalogs for Sears, J.C. Penney, and Macy’s, as well as seventy commercials and many print ads. She also began another love her life, training and riding horses, at this young age.

Linda’s first acting roles were on the soap opera Hidden Faces, as well as the films The Way We Live Now and The Sporting Club. Her big break came when she was selected from a field of six hundred other actresses to play Regan MacNeil in 1973’s The Exorcist, a role which led to a Golden Globe and People’s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a nomination for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. There had been rumors that the filming of the movie led to her having a nervous breakdown, which she and the filmmakers denied.

I see Linda’s acting career as fitting into several themes. There’s the possession variety, which finds her cast in films like The Exorcist II: The Heretic, Repossessed and Witchery.

Then, there’s the next phase that Linda moved into post-Exorcist: the abused woman. Starting with the controversial TV movie Born Innocent, she found herself often cast as a put-upon woman, forced to endure the trials of the system, men and even her fellow sufferers of abuse. That film itself was so controversial, it was one of the main reasons for the Family Hour being enacted and incendiary scenes from it were removed for nearly a decade.

Within this second cycle, you can fit in films like Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, Airport 1975 and Sweet Hostage before we move into the exploitation phase. Despite the perceived failings critically and financially of The Exorcist II: The Heretic, Linda remained a bankable name and used that to continue being cast in films.

Chained Heat, Red Heat and Savage Streets are the next level of the abused woman, but now Linda reaches a point in each film where she can’t take it any longer and retaliates against the system and people who have abused her. I’d point to these films as the highlights of this phase, which stretches from 1981 to 1996. Sure, she was nominated — and won — worst actress in the 1986 Golden Raspberry Awards, but did any of those geeks get to shoot people with a crossbow and fistfight Sybil Danning and Sylvia Kristel? Nope.

Beyond her work in film and television, Linda has also done some pretty amazing things. An animal lover since childhood, she took a year off from acting in 1977 and competed on the equestrian circuit under the pseudonym Martha McDonald. Since then, she’s fought for animals and children with PETA, Feed the Children, Variety, the Children’s Charity and other organizations, as well as being an early spokesperson for teen HIV/AIDS awareness.

A strict vegan who co-authored the book Going Vegan!, Blair also established her own charity in 2004, the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation, which works to rescue abused, neglected and mistreated animals, a cause we can all get behind here. Linda still appears in film, too. She was in 2016’s The Green Fairy as well as numerous TV appearances.

Seeing as how this week has featured over twenty Linda Blair movies, it’s difficult to pick just ten. But these are the ones that I would show if I were curating a film festival of her work.

1. The Exorcist: Any list of Linda’s films has to include this, perhaps one of the most frightening films of all time. I rewatched it this week and even at nearly fifty years of age, it remains as brutal and uncompromising as it was the day it was released. It’s disquieting just how different the young girl at the beginning and end of the film are in comparison to the beast that the demon inside her reveals. Often imitated — hell, we did an entire list of possession films that we love — this movie remains never truly duplicated.

2. The Exorcist II: The Heretic: I love that this movie knew what it’s audience wanted and gave them exactly the opposite. Where the expected would have made everyone rich and happy, this movie instead insanely and bravely and loudly screams in your face, declaring that it will exactly what it wants to be. Instead of a failure, I see this as a memorable success.

3. Born Innocent: In so many of the abuse cycle of Linda’s films, she’s often the girl no one wants, thrown away by parents and the system, forced to survive however she can. This is perhaps the darkest nadir of those films, as by the end, there’s no redeeming her. The horrors that she has survived will only be revisited on others, probably by her hand.

4. Summer of Fear: I’ll say this for Wes Craven. I like his movies that no one knows way better than the ones people celebrate, like this example from his days of made for TV movies. Actually, I can point out numerous TV movies that are way better than any horror movie you will see in a theater this year. Here, Linda plays Rachel, who slowly learns that her cousin is anything but the innocent child that she appears to be.

5. Ruckus: Your eyes do not deceive you. The poster above has the art from Blastfighter, not this film.  It kind of makes sense, as they both fit into the First Blood framework, even though Ruckus beat that film to the screen by two years. Linda may be a supporting role in this film, but it’s a rare opportunity for her to play a strong woman who isn’t beaten down.

6. Chained Heat: You can literally see the scumminess of this movie just from the poster. That’s not false advertising — this one is packed with exactly the kind of behavior that gives exploitation films a good name, as well as sparkling dialogue and big name talent — well, in my world — like John Vernon and Sybil Danning.

7. Savage Streets: Take a gander at that box art and tell me: How could you not rent this movie? John Vernon is in another of Linda’s films and this time, she leads a gang of women out for revenge in a movie that feels like it doesn’t belong in our reality. If you ever visit my house, there’s a 100% chance I’ll ask if you want to watch this movie.

8. Grotesque: I still don’t even know what to make of this movie, where Linda Blair and Tab Hunter face off with punks while a literal monster waits to finish off anyone who survives. It’s an utterly baffling film that not enough people talk about or have explored. It’s time to change that.

9. Witchery: Sooner or later, Linda had to make an Italian horror film. Sadly, she made one with Fabrizio Laurenti instead of Lucio Fulci. Or Umberto Lenzi. Or Bruno Mattei. Or even Claudio Fragrasso. The mind boggles at what those masters of the absurd would have done with Ms. Blair’s talents at their disposal. Why this never happened makes me wistful and sad about the way reality can never live up to one’s fondest wishes.

10. Prey of the Jaguar: This movie crosses off so many of my personal movie loves — a superhero movie that no one knows, a ripoff of The Punisher, an obscure star (Maxwell Caulfield) in a role he’s ill-suited for, Paul Bartel showing up and Linda Blair in a trenchcoat — that I assume that I am the only person who would ever care about this movie. Who else is it made for?

I skipped plenty of great Linda Blair movies, but we’ve covered tons of them this week. Take a look through our site and keep up to date with our handy Letterboxd list.

Dario Argento was born in 1940, the son of Sicilian film producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian/Italian photographer Elda Luxardo. His career as a film critic started when he was still in high school and continued when he skipped college to work for the newspaper Paese Sera. At the same time, he started as a screenwriter.

The first film he contributed to was Scusi, lei è Favorevole o Contrario? (Excuse Me, Are You for or Against?), which was written, directed and starred comedian Alberto Sordi. The next year he wrote Qualcuno ha tradito before really hitting his stride with four movies in 1968.

Oggi a Me… Domani a Te! (Today It’s Me… Tomorrow You!) was the directorial debut of Tonino Cervi, who co-write the film with Argento. This spaghetti western was titled Today We Kill… Tomorrow We Die! is the US. That’s the genre that Argento found his first major success in, as he co-wrote Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West and Robert Hossein’s Cemetery Without Crosses (although Hossein claims Argento had nothing to do with this film).

In 1970, Argento directed one of the two most popular films amongst casual audiences: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. At this point, Dario achieved not only Italian fame, but an international audience and the title of “Master of Horror.” Despite trying to leave the genre in 1973 — after completing the animal trilogy of films which define giallo — with the comedy/drama The Five Days.

After a two year hiatus, Dario returned with a tightly wound, incredibly artistic giallo Deep Red that was seen as a return to his true form. Then, he would shift from direct giallo to the supernatural — Deep Red flirts with it — to craft the second film he’s best known for, Suspiria. After this film, audiences are somewhat split on the quality of his work. I’d argue that there are several great films to come, ending with 1987’s Opera.

Many of Argento’s efforts in the 1990’s and beyond are derided, as the feeling is that he’s either become too mainstream or has continually repeated himself time and again. Notable exceptions are The Stendhal Syndrome and Sleepless, but many people just show up to his films to pay tribute to the man who pretty much owned Italian horror for much of the 1970’s.

Keep in mind — this list of ten films comes directly from the author and appears in no set order. Your mileage may — and should — vary. We welcome your thoughts, critiques and constructive criticisms.

1. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage: All giallo past 1970 owes a blood debt to this film, a retelling of Frederick Brown’s The Screaming Mimi. The red herrings, the foreign hero who becomes involved in a murder to the point that he or she becomes a detective, the violent deaths, the music, the fashion, the lurid neon red blood and the twist endings all start here, despite the genre also finding root in the novels of Edgar Wallace and in the films of Mario Bava, particularly The Girl Who Knew Too Much and Blood and Black Lace.

2. The Cat O’Nine Tails: Blind puzzle master Franco “Cookie” Arno (Karl Malden), his niece Lori and a reporter Carlo (James Franciscus) become involved in a series of murders that concern a gene that you can point to people becoming evil. While slow and a bit too full of comedy, there are true moments of horror here.

3. Four Flies On Grey Velvet: This movie — featuring a camera that records the last images that a dead person sees — didn’t play in America until nearly 20 years after it was made. It’s intriguing but doesn’t hint at where Argento came from or where he was going to go.

4. Deep Red: If the only scare that Deep Red had was the inhuman puppet that runs toward the camera near the end of the film, it would be one of the scariest movies ever made. It compounds that terror with Argento’s trademark face through glass kill and an overwhelming sense that death is coming for everyone in the film.

5. Suspiria: Despite the criticisms directed at Argento in his later career, we must always remember: he is the man who made this movie. There has never been a more absolute horror movie, where the image supersedes the story, where real witchcraft feels imbued into every second of every flickering flame. This is what magic looks like.

6. Inferno: I love Inferno nearly as much as I do Suspiria. Perhaps it’s the scope of the film. Maybe it’s the sheer insanity and lack of reality. Or it could be that Mario Bava was also behind the lens, adding his master’s touch to this second battle against the Three Mothers.

7. Tenebre: I’ve gone on record several times about how Tenebre is my favorite giallo of all time. It’s literally the last word on the genre, as slavish to its tropes as it is willing to subvert and destroy them. This is the ultimate version of Argento’s continuing theme on the ability of fiction and artwork to destroy as well as save.

8. Phenomena: I am beyond an advocate for this film. I’m an evangelist. It ranks among the strangest films I’ve ever seen, a movie that combines a girl who can control bugs, a police detective that uses them to solve crimes and a mastermind who uses their son for murder. It also has a deeply personal note of Argento’s life woven into it, as the story Jennifer tells about her mother leaving is the true story of Dario’s life.

9. Opera: Argento claimed that this was his most difficult movie to create, thanks to technical problems that delayed production, lead actress Vanessa Redgrave dropping out, the stress of working with actress Cristina Marsillach, Argento’s producer father Salvatore dying during filming and the end of his romance with Daria Nicolodi (who must receive her proper credit for the writing of several of Argento’s biggest successes). What emerges, however, is a dizzying work of intensity with some of the most over the top death scenes in Argento’s filmography, including a scene where Nicolodi is shot through a keyhole and her head explodes.

10. Sleepless: This was Argento’s return to form and while it’s imperfect, you can still sense his brilliance around the edges, particularly in the opening multiple murders on a train car.

There are several other films that were aided and abetted by Argento, beyond the films he’s directed himself, that I’d like to call out:

Demons and Demons 2: If you want horror movies to be fun and mindless — and who doesn’t sometimes — allow me to recommend either of these films. The first, in particular, feels like a middle finger in the face of growing censorship and attacks on so-called video nasties. It’s everything everyone ever warned you about when it comes to demonic horror. While Lamberto Bava directed, you can sense Argento’s sure hand on set.

Dawn of the Dead, Two Evil Eyes and Martin: Argento would produce the first, as well as create an Italian cut or Martin called Wampyr and a Dawn re-edit that was renamed Zombi — complete with music by Goblin — that would soon be copied by Lucio Fulci (I’d say improved) and the rest would be gore history. These two masters of horror would collaborate several times throughout their careers, even splitting Two Evil Eyes in half to each tell their tales.

The Church: Nobody took the flag of Italian horror and tried to keep it alive longer than Michele Soavi, keeping its traditions alive until 1994. This Argento produced and written film — he’d also work with Soavi on the unhinged La Secta — is often referred to as Demons 3. That’d be good. However, this movie is great.

What’s your favorite Argento film? Did we miss something? Let us know.

I realize that this list is going to be controversial. After all, there are hundreds of bands that could be picked for this list. Me, I’m only picking ten. Yes, I could have picked your favorite. It wasn’t with any bad intent. It may have even been ignorance on my part. Actually, make your own list. Send it to me. I’d be happy to feature it here on the site.

1. The Hong Kong Cavaliers from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: Few movies have made as big an impact on me as this one. There’s such a great scene in this movie where the band is playing and Buckaroo halts their raucous rock and roll to ask, “Is there somebody crying?” That’s a rock star. It’s even better that Perfect Tommy, Rawhide, Reno Nevada, Pecos and New Jersey (he doesn’t perform in the movie, but claims to “play a mean piano”) all double as adventurers.

2. Eddie & The Cruisers from Eddie & The Cruisers and Eddie & The Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!: The movie of Eddie Wilson’s band flopped on release, but found new life on cable and thanks to the success of John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band’s song “On the Dark Side.” It’s a tribute to what director Martin Davidson feelings on the last thirty years of rock and roll. Let’s forget that this late 50’s band sounds like Bruce Springsteen and concentrate on how great this movie — and their music within it — is.

3. Dragon Sound from Miami Connection: Has there ever been a better brand of multiethnic orphans who all do martial arts and then play synth rock? No. There has not.

Friends through eternity, loyalty, honesty.
We’ll stay together, through thick or thin.
Friends forever, we’ll be together.
We’re on top ’cause we play to win.

4. Sing Street from Sing Street: I haven’t seen a movie — nor a band within — that best expresses the 1980’s longing for love and music video fame so perfectly as Sing Street. Of course, Conor starts a band to impress a girl. But he also grows closer to his brother, learns about music beyond just what is on Top of the Pops and finds his own confidence and rebellion. And yeah — he gets the girl.

5. Steel Dragon in Rock Star: Yeah, this retelling of Tim “Ripper” Owens joining Judas Priest is only so-so. But the band — made up of Jeff Pilson from Dokken, Jason Bonham and Zakk Wylde can’t be beat. Oh yeah — McNulty from The Wire is in it too!

6. The Carrie Nations from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: Quite literally the very first band I put on this list, the band that Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert batshit insane not-a-legal-sequel revolves around is my favorite movie band of all time. “The oft-times nightmarish world of Show Business” is tough. But it ain’t as tough as The Carrie Nations.

7. The Blues Brothers from The Blues Brothers: Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi went from blues rock dilettantes before they debuted this act on Saturday Night Live. By the time their album, Briefcase Full of Blues, and John Landis directed comedy hit the big screen, they’d formed a legit supergroup with members of Booker T and the MGs, the Bar-Kays and Blood, Sweat and Tears, with guest appearances by Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles.

8. The Fabulous Stains from Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains: There are movie punks. And then there are The Fabulous Stains, rising up against the bitter nothingness of their Pennsylvania steel town only to learn that it’s really no fun to be a rock band on the road. Sure the ending is way too bright, but this movie is everything. Oh, and let’s not forget the Looters, with actor Ray Winstone, which is actually the Professionals, featuring guys from the Clash. Oh, and Metal Corpses, which is actually Fee Waybill and the Tubes.

9. DEATHGASM from Deathgasm: Much like Sammi Curr in Trick or Treat, for the members of DETHGASM, Rikki Daggers is the key to the dark powers of Hell. As a metalhead who repeatedly endured torture in grade and middle school, this movie speaks to me on a level that I can’t even convey. This is why you really start a band — to get eldritch abilities.

10. The Juicy Fruits/The Beach Bums/The Undeads in Phantom of the Paradise: Crossing through each decade of pop music, this same band keeps appearing in DePalma’s masterstroke. Their song “Goodbye, Eddie, Goodbye” is a savage indictment of the music industry and its stars, like little Eddie Mitty who killed himself to not only save his sister’s life, but to become an angel in the eyes of the record buying public. It’s also catchy as hell.

Also, we couldn’t just keep this to ten bands.

11. Spinal Tap from This Is Spinal Tap: Spinal Tap achieved the impossible. For a movie that so willingly slaughters the reputation of metal bands, it was wholeheartedly embraced by the very bands — and their audiences — that it took the piss on. I’ve watched this movie literally hundreds of times — and listened to their albums many times more — and always discover new joys within.

So many people jumped in on an initial Facebook post about this topic — 136 comments — that I decided to let them help out. Thanks to everyone for pitching in and I’ve given you credit below. Here are just a few of the bands that they mentioned.

“Asian” Dan Hooven: The Lone Rangers from Airheads (also mentioned by Bill Comer). Allan Stallard also brought up The Sons of Thunder in this same movie, who were played by the band The Galactic Cowboys.

Brian Lengyel: CB4 from CB4.

Rob Brown: Uptown Girl from Stepbrothers.

And DuJour from Josie and The Pussycats (and yes, Adam Cicco, they count as a band too).

And Rob was on a big roll, we so mentioned Dewey Cox from Walk Hard.

Ken Cellupica: Wyld Stallyns from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (also mentioned by Adam Cicco and Dave Sutkowski).

Remy LaVey: Cassandra from One Crazy Summer.

Emily Fear: The Sleez Sisters from Times Square.

She also mentioned Loveburger from Can’t Hardly Wait.

Darryl Grandy: The Oneders from That Thing That You Do!

He also mentioned NWH from Fear of a Black Hat.

Ted Williams (who is a legit rock star and was in Pittsburgh metal legends Eviction): The Mystery from Satisfaction.

He also brought up the band in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which is Reeves Nevo & The Cinch. That’s David Brandt, the ex-husband of director Amy Heckerling, as the frontman.

PS – Ted kind of goes above and beyond just writing in — he’s also an actor and has appeared on numerous TV shows like Gotham. Here he is, on the left, on the show The Outsiders as part of the Shay Mountain Band.

Jesse Forney: Stillwater from Almost Famous (also mentioned by Anthony Ruttgaizer).

Anthony Urias: Another band from Stepbrothers, Boats ‘n’ Hoes.

Anthony Ruttgaizer: The Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Ruttles from All You Need Is Cash (also mentioned by Jesse Forney).

Sex Bob-omb from Scott Pilgrim vs The World.

Crucial Taunt from Wayne’s World.

Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate from Coming to America (Bill DeJoseph also mentioned them).

The Barbusters from Light of Day (KenBurch also brought these guys up; look for a young Trent Renzor in the other band The Problems in this film; also Anthony raised the issue of how many fake bands Michael McKean has been in).

And he also mentioned Otis Day and the Knights from Animal House, who went on to be a real band.

Andy Stowell: The Ain’t Rights from Green Room.

He also mentioned Hedwig and the Angry Inch from the film of the same name.

And That’s My Bike from Reality Bites.

Adam Cicco: Marvin Berry & the Starlighters from Back to the Future.

And he also brought up Citizen Dick from Singles.

Dave Sutkowski: Sonic Death Monkey from High Fidelity.

Bill DeJoseph: Jimmie Moore from The Wedding Singer.

Paul Andolina: Easy Action playing Solid Gold in Blood Tracks.

Mike McBeth: Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes from Star Wars.

Patty Panico (Sam’s mom!): The Commitments from The Commitments.

The Sorels in Streets of Fire (you can also mention Ellen Aim and the Attackers).

And speaking of Michael Paré from Streets of Fire, he returns from his work in Eddie and the Cruisers as religious rocker Colin Gramercy in Raging Angels.

Finally, hey — I almost forgot Jesus and the Brides of Dracula from Under the Silver Lake.

And Bogart Peter Stuyvesant (real life musician Jordan Christopher), the faux-Jim Morrison in Angel, Angel Down We Go.

And, we can’t forget the lost Third Dimension from the lost, 1983 rock flick, Rock ‘N’ Roll Hotel featuring Judd Nelson and Rachel Sweet.

Does anyone remember the Banana Convention? It was Greg Brady’s first band — before the Silver Platters and before the Brady Six “broke up” for Greg to “fit the suit” for the new Johnny Bravo. The band never performs in the episode “Where’s There’s Smoke” (January 1971), but we do get to hear Greg’s song “Till I Met You” (yes, the clowns and beanstalks song). From left: that’s Johnny and Phil (actors Robert Jayson Kramer and Gary Marsh on guitar/bass, we think) and Tommy Johnson (drums), and Greg Brady. You need to know more? Then visit the awesome wordpress site, “Every Episode of the Brady Bunch Reviewed,” which provided the photo.

Drummer Tommy Johnson, aka actor Craig Huxley, became a go-to keyboardist and synth player whose film score work includes Rocky (1976), Battlestar Galactica (1978) and Planet of the Apes (2001). Huxley’s IMDb bio makes for a fascinating read. Remember the “sound” of V’ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture? That’s Craig . . . and his invention, known as “The Blaster Beam” (You Tube). Speaking of Star Trek: that’s Huxley acting in the third season of ST: TOS “And the Children Shall Lead.”

And it all began with the Banana Convention. Rock, on Tommy Johnson. Rock on. And Greg Brady is still rockin’ in 2021 with the Barry Williams and the Traveliers with “My Home Town.”

The BIG ONE is . . . the infamous Sacrifyx who perished after completing their album, The Dark Book, that, when played backwards, can open the gates of hell, in The Gate.

And our thanks to Malcolm Frank Thompson of Melbourne, Australia’s 98.7 RPP FM (be sure to check out his ’60s progressive rock retro-show “Under a Paisley Sky”), after reading our list, reminded us we forgot Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx fronting Arsenal in Rock of Ages.

And, one of the best-written faux bands — with one of the best original soundtracks — comes courtesy of one of the first reviews R.D Francis came to write for the site: The Relentless from American Satan.

Then, in the mother of all lists of fake bands from movies, I turned to my friend R.D Francis, who has written all manner of articles on metal bands in movies and 70’s soft-mainstream rock. His lists kick some major ass and are presented in their entirety:

Films and TV Series

1. Rocktober Blood  — Billy Eye Harper and Head Mistress
2. Trick or Treat — Sammi Curr
3. Black Roses — Black Roses (really Lizzy Borden and King Kobra)
4. Terror on Tour — The Clowns (really The Names)
5. Hard Rock Zombies — Holy Moses (really Silent Rage)
6. Still Crazy — Strange Fruit
7. Prey for Rock & Roll — Clam Dandy (with Gina Gershon!)
8. Get Crazy — Reggie Wankers (Malcolm McDowell does Elton John!)
9. Danny Collins — Danny Collins (Pacino does Neil Diamond? Yes, please!)
10. Not Fade Away — The Twylight Zones (from The Soprano‘s team!)
11. Velvet Goldmine — The Wylde Rattz
12. Breaking Glass — Hazel O’Connor and Breaking Glass
13. Tapeheads –– The Swanky Modes
14. The Suburbans — The Suburbans (The Romantics in blue leather)
15. Hard Core Logo — Hard Core Logo (Actor Hugh Dillon fronting Canada’s Swamp Baby)
16. The Rocker – Vesuvius
17. The Dead Pool – Johnny Squares
18. Splitz — Splitz (featuring Robin Johnson of The Sleez Sisters from Times Square)
19. Hail Caesar — Hail Caesar (actual Anthony Michael Hall’s band Hall of Mirrors)
20. Rockin’ Road Trip — Cherry Suicide

Films That Are Going Deeper:

1. Linda, Linda, Linda — Paranmaum (actually Jap-punk band The Blue Hearts)
2. Bandwagon — Circus Monkey (indie rock comedy)
3. I’ll Be There — The Love Rats (Craig Ferguson lip-syncs The Only Ones)
4. Concrete Angels — Concrete Angels (Beatles fantasy flick)
5. Coming to America — Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate
6. Ghost World — Blues Hammer
7. Blame It on the Night — Chris Dalton (faux Mick Jagger, in a story written by Mick Jagger!)
8. Lovelines — Racer and the Firecats (T&A “Battle of the Band” romp)
9. Hard to Hold — Jamie Roberts (which is actually Rick Springfield, both on screen and musically)
10. The Loveless – Vance (aka Willem Dafoe, which is actually Robert Gordon of the Tuff Darts, but Gordon also acts in the film; Dafoe was also musician-rocker Johnny Harte in Roadhouse 66)

More TV Bands:

1. WKPR in Cincinnati — Scum of the Earth
2. Happy Days — Leather and the Suedes (Suzi Quatro!)
3. The Incredible Hulk — Lisa Swan (MacKenzie Phillips)
4. Wonder Woman — Hamlin Rule (Martin Mull)
5. Wonder Woman — AntiMatter (Rick Springfield)
6. Happy Days — Johnny Fish and the Fins (Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids)
7. Lavern and Shirley — Lenny and the Squigtones (Nigel Tuffnel from Spinal Tap and Peter Criss from Kiss!!)
8. CHiPs — Moloch (Donny “Ralph” Malph from Happy Days goes “Kiss”)
9. Song of the Succubus and Rock-a-Die Baby — Moon (Kim Milford from the Jeff Beck Group!)
10. Cotton Candy — Cotton Candy (TV movie; Ron Howard)
11. This is Bad News — Bad News (British “Spinal Tap”)
12. Full House — Jesse (Katsopolis) and the Rippers
13. The Monkees (obviously)
14. The Jolly Green Giants from The Monkees
15. Gilligan’s Island — The Mosquitos
16. I Dream of Jeannie — Jeannie, Boyce and Hart (who wrote Monkees’ tunes)
17. Pop Rocks — Gary Cole from The Brady Bunch movies as “Dagger” fronting the Kiss-esque Rock Toxin
18. Law & Order: TOS — Wutan, featuring John Doe of X; faux-Nirvana dupe Krisis; Tommy Vega (Gary Busey/washed up new wave rocker); No Bozo Jam (punk rockers); faux Billy Idol knockoff Clarence “C Square” Carmichael (Sebastian Roché from CW’s Batwoman)
19. Law & Order: SVU — Derek Lord (Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead); Vampyre Sacrifyce; ’80s hair metaler Jared Black and Black Plague, the husband of the Pat Benatar knockoff Ricki Austin
20. Law & Order: Criminal Intent — A faux Dee Snider and Twister Sister knockoff with Jordie Black and Twisted Strands (Joan Jett is his ex-wife, and “MTV jock,” Sylvia Rhodes) — none of the Law & Order franchise rockers are heard in the episodes

Cartoon Bands:

1. Josie and the Pussycats
2. The Archies
3. The Groovie Ghoulies
4. Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
5. Rock Roll from The Flintstones
6. Jet Screamer from The Jetsons
7. The Banana Splits
8. The Bugaloos
9. The Simpsons — B-Sharps and Sadgasm
10. The Muppet Show — Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem

P.S: Sam’s Notes: Here are still more . . .

All of the bands from A Mighty Wind
Autobahn from The Big Lebowski
Hangman’s Joke from The Crow
Big Fun from Heathers
The Tim Capello Band from The Lost Boys
Conner4Real and The Stylez Boyz from Popstar
Gown in Hot Rod
The Outlaw Boys in Neon Maniacs
The Vicious Lips from Vicious Lips
Tony Coca Cola and the Roosters from Driller Killer
The Horndogs and The Sapphire Sisters in Summer Camp Nightmare (scene on You Tube)
Ivan and the Terribles in Motel Hell
Electric Haze from More American Graffiti (actually Doug Sahm of Texas’ Sir Douglas Quintet)

Whew! Thanks everybody for your help! Want more bands in movies? Then check out our list of ten band cameos in movies. For tons of info on bands such as all of the above, we always use Rocklopedia Fakebandica.

Hey, don’t forget about our “Rock ‘n’ Roll Week I” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Week II” round-ups overflowing with links to rock n’ roll flicks of all sounds and sizes. Oops. We’ve since done a “Rock ‘n’ Roll Week III,” wee rocker.

UPDATE (February 15, 2022): Thanks to a recent Facebook and Twitter post, there are some great updates to this list.

Eric Wrazen added Electric Apricot from Quest for Festeroo and Crisis of Conformity from Saturday Night Live.

Aaron Hudak shared Camel Lips from Serial Mom.

Bradley Steele Harding gave us Diaper Rash from Hardbodies.

Gigi Graham added Desperate Teenage Lovedolls from Desperate Teenage Lovedolls.

Christopher Bickel, who directed The Theta Girl and Bad Girls told us “I’m a huge fan of fake movie bands which is why I put fake bands in all of my movies.” The Theta Girl has the Truth Foundation and Terrycloth Stiletto and Bad Girls has Christmas Tits and Poltergasm.

Terry Thorne sent these bands: The Phynx from The Phynx, Oscar Drill and the Bits from Shock Treatment, Mystery from Detroit Rock City, Harold and the Hangups from Hello Down There and Flame from Slade in Flame. He also let us know that The Blue Hearts aren’t actually in Linda Linda Linda, but the girl group in the film named themselves Paranmaum, which is Korean for The Blue Hearts. (I’m a huge Blue Hearts fan).

I saw a Twitter thread that asked, “What can I talk about for 30 minutes with no prep?” The answer, for me, is easy. Movies. Lots of movies. Get ready for 10 movies that I can, have and will go on and on and on about.

1. Yor Hunter from the Future: I basically started this site just so I could discuss this movie with more people. I’ve never seen a movie so colossally insane on so many levels that isn’t an art movie. Yor starts the movie by killing a stegosaurus, drinking its blood, proclaiming that it’s time to cut off the choice meats and then dooms an entire civilization — the first of many — through poor decisions and not paying attention. Once, I watched this movie six times in a row and went into a near drug-like state where I saw the face of several of the saints and martyrs.

2. Trick or Treat: When people say, “That movie was totally heavy metal,” chances are they have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about. That’s because they haven’t seen this movie, a film that features Sammi Curr intoning, through backmasked messages to Skippy from Family Ties, “No false metal.” You know who wanted to become a rock star and come back to my old high school and use lasers fired out of my guitar to murder people at a concert? Me. You know who was the fat geek wishing Sammi Curr or Glenn Danzig or Henry Rollins would come fuck up his tormentors? Me. This movie is lived in, loved and forgotten by way too many. Seriously, get me started on this one and prepare for HOURS of theories on how great it is.

3. Conquest: To be fair, I could speak on nearly any Lucio Fulci movie for way more than half an hour. But Conquest is a special beast, a movie filled with non-stop fog, one willing to kill off its main character nearly off-screen and attempt to off its other hero with an undersea crucifixion before he’s saved by a pair of dolphins. You may wonder — is this really a Fulci movie? And then you realize it starts with werewolves ripping a woman into pieces. Also: it’s the only barbarian ripoff cycle film that I can think of that has its main villainess nude for nearly the entire running time.

4. Phenomena: Sure, Suspiria is amazing. I can discuss Tenebre at will. But if you want to hear me go deep, bring up this truly odd movie. It may take me half an hour to even summarize its plot: a school is haunted by killing when a girl who can control bugs — with a famous absent father — comes to study there, but she luckily makes friends with an old man who has a chimp that helps him solve crimes. Also: a boy with Marfan syndrome lives below an ancient mansion and eats children. It also begins with a girls head going through a window, just in case you thought that Dario Argento forgot that he made a pact with the devil to include just such a scene in every movie he’d ever make.

5. Amityville II: The Possession: This is the most Italian movie ever made in the U.S. and yes, I’m counting Contamination. It’s also filled with lunacy and grimness, presenting a world where a priest cares so little for his flock that he takes the phone off the hook before a ski trip and dispenses with the hints of incest most 70’s horror features to outright put it in your face. And in the midst of all this, poor Diane Franklin is beset on all sides by terror. Man, Diane Franklin features into nearly all of my cultural touchstones like The Last American Virgin. Better Off Dead, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and more, so I could do a half hour just on her.

6. Cathy’s Curse: This movie taught me that when kids get possessed in Canada, they tend to screw with old people, grow impolite and get potty mouths when their eyes aren’t glowing while they teleport all over the house and blow up vases. If I think about this movie any longer than thirty seconds, I get instantly excited about it and feel the urge to cold call random people and try to convince them to watch it.

7. Battle Beyond the Stars: Once I saw this movie, I realized that it was somehow even better than Star Wars, the movie that it’s ripping off. Did George Lucas have the vision to have John Saxon as a cyborg or Sybil Danning as a Valkyrie in a ship shaped like fallopian tubes? Nope. Nor did he have a group of aliens that eat a hot dog and psychically all taste it. And we haven’t even discussed George Peppard being in this pastiche of The Magnificent Seven.

8. Endgame: In a better world, this Joe D’Amato movie would be out on blu ray and celebrated by trash film lovers. This way better than The Running Man film was made years before that movie and features scum movie saints Laura Gemser, Al Cliver and George Eastman in a tale of game shows, mutants and blind ninjas being controlled by a kid with mental abilities. Nine billion stars, Sam says check it out.

9. American Tiger: If you get into a conversation with me for long enough, we’ll probably try to sell one another on a movie that the other hasn’t seen. You may have seen every Sergio Martino movie, but chances are you haven’t seen this: a movie where a gymnast who pulls a rickshaw gets messed up with a televangelist warthog, his son’s sex games, murder and an ancient Asian sorceress. Bonus points for a shower sex scene where our hero leaves his jeans on!

10. Lemora: This is another movie that more people need to watch and get obsessed about. Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith stars as Lila Lee, a singing sensation in her church whose mobster father calls to see her one more time before he dies in the Lovecraftian town of Astaroth, which is filled with vampires. I can’t even believe that this is a real movie and I’ve watched it many times.

Certainly, there are many more movies that I could go on and on about. This site proves that. But these are the ones I feel like chatting about now. Want to know more? Let’s gab!

I’ve just spent an entire week watching Andy Sidaris movies. Fourteen of them to be exact. By the end, I felt that I had learned some new things about life. Special lessons, if you will. And while I’m in no way ready to join the ranks of L.E.T.H.A.L. ( Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and Law), I do feel that I owe sharing these learnings with you, dear reader.

1. You can have sex any time, no matter what kind of danger you’re in. Seriously, in every single Andy Sidaris movie, the world could be ending, a friend could be in mortal peril or a team of killers could be bearing (or baring, for that matter) down on you and there’s still time to make a magical sandwich. Put condensed milk on the waffle. Do some aardvarking. You know what I’m talking about. And I think you do.

2. Men have no idea how to shoot guns. Leave it to the ladies. Starting with Malibu Express, I learned that no man can ever shoot a gun, no matter how big it is. This is true for every single hero in the Sidaris universe.

3. Enemies are just friends you haven’t gotten along with yet. Roberta Vasquez is Pantera, an evil agent, in Picasso Trigger before she becomes L.E.T.H.A.L. agent Nicole in Guns. Erik Estrada is the sinister Jack of Diamonds in that film before he turns babyface in Do or Die. Ava Cadell starts as an evil woman in Do or Die and then she ended up becoming a DJ/sexologist in the other films. Buff Bagwell and Julie Strain both got it together and turned sides. Sidaris referred to this as “cleaning up their dossiers.” You’ll call it a life lesson worth following.

4. Be careful of remote control vehicles. Anything can be a bomb. Remote control boats. Remote control planes. Remote control helicopters. And frisbees! Watch out for frisbees! And teenagers on skateboards too!

5. Killing is an art form. This gets said so many times in Andy’s movies, but it’s totally true. If you’re going to off someone, don’t just use a knife. Use a miniature helicopter like the bad guy in Hard Hunted. Use a cane that has a bazooka in it. Use a laser guidance system and a blow-up doll, like the Professor does in Seven. Remember — if it’s not worth doing right, it’s not worth doing at all.

6. You don’t need the latest in technology. Despite having the latest in gadgets, the girls and guys of L.E.T.H.A.L. don’t feel the need to be slaves to the latest and greatest tech. Neither does bad guy Kane in Do or Die. The dude has a Vic 20 or Commodore 64 at best, even though this movie was shot in 1991. You can still achieve great things without being a slave to the latest and greatest gimmicks.

7. There are only four cities that matter: Honolulu, Dallas, Las Vegas and Shreveport, Louisiana. Yep. If a city isn’t good enough for an Andy Sidaris movie, it’s not good enough for me. That’s why I’m moving to the big island.

8. Hot tubs are awesome. Other than going to the gym, every Andy Sidaris movie needs, nay, demands a hot tub scene. Now I feel that the fact that I don’t have access to one is a major detriment. Life is meaningless without waterjets.

9. Everyone deserves sex with Playboy level girls, even Pat Morita. The former Mr. Miyagi was 59 when he made Do or Die. Yet he still got to have a major league boffing with Carolyn Liu’s Silk in that film. Wax on, wax off indeed.

10. Dress for success. The men and ladies of L.E.T.H.A.L. know how to glam it up in their evening wear, but when the opportunity for beachfront spy games — and sand-strewn lovemaking — rear their head, they know how to dress appropriately. That is, if dressing appropriately means spandex and Body Glove gear.

Seriously, I love Andy Sidaris movies. If you haven’t been keeping up this week, we invite you to check out all of the films that we covered:

• Stacey
• Seven
• Malibu Express 
• Hard Ticket to Hawaii
• Picasso Trigger
• Savage Beach 
• Guns
• Do or Die
• Hard Hunted 
• Fit to Kill 
• Enemy Gold
• The Dallas Connection 
• Day of the Warrior
• Return to Savage Beach

You can also look up our list on Letterboxd.

How amazing is it that Baskin-Robbins used to make movie based flavors? Some of them make sense, as you can totally see people ordering these flavors. And some of them are for movies that quickly bombed in and out of theaters, leaving behind only orphaned ice cream flavors that perhaps no one wanted. Scoop it up and dig him, here are ten that we found.

1. Condorman Crunch from Condorman: Disney had high hopes for Condorman, but it didn’t make enough money for a sequel. But kids in the summer of 1981 had a chance to get a cone filled with ice cream named for this superhero spy spoof.

2. Can’t Stop the Nuts from Can’t Stop the Music: Of course 1980 was the year of the Village People. It was also a year or so past disco’s shelf date, so one imagines that not many got a cone of this.

3. Lunar Cheesecake from Men in Black 3: Did you love the film? Then you’ll probably kinda like the ice cream!

4. All sorts of stuff for Captain America: Show me the kid that wanted a Hydra Force Sundae and I’ll show you a maniac. Hydra are basically Nazis, right?

5. Monte Carlo Stripe from Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo: I have no idea what goes into Monte Carlo Ice Cream. Has anyone out there tried this flavor?

6. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Electro milkshake from The Amazing Spider-Man 2: One imagines that Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko wanted nothing to do with this ice cream. That said — those are some crazy colors!

7. 0031 Secret Bonded inspired by James Bond: The flavor to this 1965 spy craze ice cream is now top secret. But trust us — it existed.

8. All manner of X-Men items for X2: Of course, we all remember that time that Wolverine couldn’t control his berserker rage and a Berry Rampage ensued.

9. Fantastic Love Island from the Bollywood film Gori Tere Pyaar Mein:  Even India isn’t safe from flavors that tie-in to movies.

10. Bewitched ice cream: Alright, I know, it’s cheating. But isn’t a Bewitched ice cream much cooler than a Shrek or Minions cone?

What did I miss? What’s your favorite movie flavor?