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Rectuma (2003)
One of the funniest Godzilla parodies I've ever seen
What happens when someone's ass breaks loose and goes berserk in Los Angeles? You have one of the best movies based on Japanese monster movies there is. Rectuma is very tight, and the comedy is right on the money. Director Marc Pirro knows his genre, as practically every Japanese monster movie cliché is exploited in this movie, right down to the twin fairies who sing the narration and a Japanese monster fighter who speaks out of sync (noticed by everyone in the movie except him). Pirro also throws in a few non-genre bonuses, like a detective who thinks she's Jodie Foster. The actress who plays this part does an uncanny Jodie Foster impression. In fact, she even LOOKS like Foster. There also is a creepy lab assistant who looks and sounds EXACTLY like Bela Lugosi's Igor character from Son of Frankenstein. Sure, this is low budget, but I got more laughs out of this movie than anything the Farrelly Brothers or Wil Farrell have done recently. I saw this at a movie night at a friend's house with about 15 people, and everyone laughed their asses off. Get it? Asses? Ass movie? If you want a very clever comedy with gags that hit the target practically every time, I urge you to see this! If you don't think it's one of the funniest movies you've ever seen, then I suggest you go watch something more your style, like possibly an episode of "Friends."
A Polish Vampire in Burbank (1983)
A very clever little film
I knew of this film years ago. When I was about 12 a few friends and I got together and ran this. I thought it was a charming little movie. Then I did some research and found out that it was made in someone's back yard with a home movie camera, and I was even more fascinated by it. Today I look around and see all these people making their own movies with video cameras and putting them up on websites like youtube and I have to look back at A Polish Vampire in Burbank and realize that this was one of the first 'do it yourself' movies. I just found it again recently and although the movie looks a bit dated today, it certainly takes me back to a time when individual movie making wasn't that common.