John (An American Werewolf in London) Landis brings his flair for mixing horror and humor to this darkly funny tale (written by Frailty’s Brent Hanley) about a reserved middleaged man (Cheers’ George Wendt) who likes to kidnap and kill people, stick them into an acid bath, dress their bones up in clothes and treat them as his imaginary “family”. ( Read more... )

In the wake of Saturday Night Live’s success, there were a bunch of sketch filled anything goes comedies during the mid to late 70’s. Some of them include The Groove Tube, Prime Time, Tunnelvision and this classic. It was written by the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, who would later go onto make Airplane! and The Naked Gun ( Read more... )

Oh how the mighty have fallen! John Landis directed this god-awful comedy the same year as Blues Brothers 2000, but it wound up going straight to video two years later ( Read more... )

Director John (An American Werewolf in London) Landis brings his patented sense of humor to this entry about a cop (Brian Benben) tracking down a mysterious deer woman who seduces her lovers then tramples them to death with her hoofed feet. Cinthia Moura is breathtakingly beautiful as the titular Native American beastie whose top half is 100% ( Read more... )

This hilarious sketch comedy film was sort of a sequel to Kentucky Fried Movie.  That film’s director, John Landis directed some of this film’s segments, which also feature humorous vignettes from Joe Dante, Peter Horton, Robert K. Weiss and Carl Gottleib.  Steve Forrest and Sybil Danning star in the film’s titular linking device, a send-up of 50’s ( Read more... )