Revisiting the Sunday "Bad" Movies

The Sunday “Bad” Movies started back in December 2012.  The idea was to write about the bad movies that I had been watching instead of just watching them.  It was my way of sharing with whoever wanted to read.  I would watch movies that were perceived as bad.  I would then write about them, their tropes, and what could be learned by watching bad movies.  It’s not only good movies that can teach someone how to make or understand film.  In fact, the bad movies might be the better learning experiences.  Mistakes teach much more than successes.

Every Sunday since December 2, 2012, there has been a post released.  At one point it was through my other blog.  Now it’s through this one.  Not one Sunday has been missed.  Every tenth week (aside from the first ten, where it happened on the ninth week), a franchise or part of a franchise is covered.  This week was the Mega Shark franchise.  Sometimes there are bonus posts that pop out.  This is one of them.

Three hundred weeks, I’ve been writing these posts.  Three hundred weeks, I’ve been watching bad movies and writing about them.  For the three hundredth week, I decided to revisit some of the movies from the Sunday “Bad” Movies that I had been meaning to check out again.  I put together a list of twelve movies, one from each 25 week block.  The only rule was that they couldn’t be movies that I had seen more than when I first saw them.  I watched them, and then wrote about them again, here, in this post.

I present to you the twelve movies that were rewatched for week 300 of the Sunday “Bad” Movies, in the order that they were featured in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.

Backwoods Bloodbath

Slasher movies have always been a good place to find bad movies.  So many slashers are made on a regular basis that there are bound to be bad ones.  One of those was Backwoods Bloodbath, which came from a box set in the Walmart bargain bin.  A group of friends went to a cabin in the woods where there were rumours of a monster called the Hodag roaming the forest.  Sure enough, the friends came upon the monster, and bad things started happening.  People were dying, friendships were tested, and secrets were revealed.  The box set that the movie came from is one of many that are used from time to time to fill out the schedule.  The movies fit the Sunday “Bad” Movies pretty well.  They’re usually made on low budgets with unknown people who just wanted to get together and have a good time making a movie.  Backwoods Bloodbath was no different.  It might not be the most entertaining of the slashers that have been featured, but it’s still a decent time.

Hansel and GretelGet Baked

Classic stories get updated in different ways all the time.  The Asylum is known for doing that with their mockbusters.  The movies might be rip-offs, but the stories tend to vary from the source.  They only need the name to sound like the other movie to get their audience.  Other companies do similar mockbuster stuff to try and make money off of unknowing audiences.  Hansel and Gretel Get Baked worked a little differently.  Instead of simply changing the story, it tried to give a modern update to it.  It wasn’t necessarily trying to be the original Hansel and Gretel story, but it managed to capture the essence of it while bringing the tale into a modern, stoner setting.  The forest that Hansel and Gretel were lost in became a pot farm.  The trail of bread crumbs became skittles.  The witch who made a house of candy to lure children in became a witch who grew pot to lure stoners in.  It was a great transplant that was much better than the name hinted toward.

Big Ass Spider!

Animal attack movies have come a long way since Jaws, though they still keep the same overall idea in mind.  The creatures themselves may have gotten more and more ridiculous, with flying piranha and sharks that were fused with octopi being some of the wackier highlights, but the main idea has stayed the same.  Animals attack places with people in them.  Big Ass Spider! took that monstrous animal role and gave it to a military engineered spider as it attacked Los Angeles.  The hero role went to an exterminator, and one of the more entertaining movies in the Sunday “Bad” Movies repertoire was born.  Mike Mendez directed it in the most assured manner, having fun with the story, the performances, and the look and feel of everything.  That fun came through the screen in the most infectious way.  The audience was in on how wacky the ride was.  Big Ass Spider! truly came out of nowhere and reminded me why I write the Sunday “Bad” Movies posts.  Though many of the movies might be bad, there are always gems out there that can teach people how to have a good time with movies.

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

Low budget movies are a mainstay in the Sunday “Bad” Movies and none have connected with me better than this action horror comedy about Jesus Christ’s second coming being as a hunter of lesbian vampires in Ottawa.  That’s a lot to take in, yeah.  Nothing was taken seriously throughout the run of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.  There were one-liners.  There was sexuality.  Jesus teamed up with a lucha libre wrestler.  It was a goofy, fun time.  Sometimes a name is all that it takes to be included in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  This was one of those instances, back in the second year of the blog series.  However, the movie was much more than just a name.  Many bad movies use their name as a way to get people in because the quality of the movie won’t do that otherwise.  This one was different.  The name definitely got the audience, but the movie itself was as entertaining as the name.  It was worth the watch.  It was worth the rewatch.  Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter was one of those movies that looked bad from the outside, yet had the delicious filling.

The Coed and the Zombie Stoner

The Asylum might be known for their mockbusters and their animal attack movies, but they have others that they put out as well.  Some of them include sex comedies.  This one tied the sex comedy genre in with the popularity of zombies and marijuana in the movies and television of the time to create something interesting.  It wasn’t always entirely successful.  The first half of the movie was a drag with bad jokes, and terrible characters.  When the zombie outbreak happened though, the filmmakers had enough fun with it that there was some entertaining stuff.  The characters became slightly more interesting, many of them due to the effects of the zombie virus or the cure.  There was one really sour note it hit, however, with some gender related issues.  The second half brought about the rewatch.  The first half almost tanked what ends up being a fun enough outing from The Asylum.

Tracers

Taylor Lautner has never really been a respected actor.  He was Sharkboy, but people mostly know him for his role of Jacob in the Twilight movies.  That franchise did a lot to tarnish the reputation of the people involved.  While Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson bounced back, Lautner never quite got that.  The closest he came to a respectable performance may have been this parkour infused crime action movie from 2015.  In it, he played a New York City bike messenger who owed money to some Chinese loan sharks.  To make the extra money back, he joined a group of parkour criminals.  For what it was, the movie was pretty entertaining.  The action moments were fun.  The characters, though not all that memorable, had good chemistry with one another.  And it was brought together by Lautner’s physicality.  If there’s any way for him to find success outside of Twilight, the utilization of his physical prowess is the way.  Tracers was a decent outing for him, and may have been one of his best performances.  It was included in the Sunday “Bad” Movies because of his presence, but rose above most of the other stuff because it was a decently made, decently enjoyable film.

Robo Vampire

Sometimes the titles of movies lie to you.  There were no robo vampires in this martial arts film from director Godfrey Ho.  The film revolved around a Chinese drug dealer using hopping vampires to go up against commandos who had a RoboCop type of soldier working for them.  There was also a kidnapping story involving a drug cartel and the mercenaries sent to save the kidnapped.  If those sound like two completely separate stories that could have been different movies, Robo Vampire sure felt that way.  It was two different movies combined to create one final product, and it was as messy as might be expected through that treatment.  There were other weird things in there too, including a vampire with a gorilla face, and its love with a ghost woman.  This was exactly the kind of movie that should be featured in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  It was poorly put together with random story elements and bad acting.  But it was entertaining too.  That’s a sign of something special.

The Apple

An interesting anecdote about this movie is that after the negative reception of the premiere, director Menahem Golan considered jumping from his hotel balcony to his death.  That was an undeserved reaction.  The Apple was a rock and disco infused musical from 1980 that told an Adam and Eve kind of story through the music industry in the futuristic 1994.  There was some great music in there, particularly from the protagonist character of Alfie.  His love steeped ballads were some legitimately good tunes.  The other stuff was fun, too, though sometimes, such as the Coming For You song, the message was way too on the nose.  The religious allegories worked as well.  They were heightened in the way that some musicals do for creativity purposes, yet they landed within the story being told.  Regardless of what people thought about The Apple when it first premiered, it has had a lasting impact as a fun musical of the time when it was made.  Canon Films did their thing and they did it in the most entertaining way possible.

Killer Condom

There’s an assuredness to Killer Condom that makes it stand out among many of the movies with ridiculous concepts.  The people behind it knew exactly what they were getting into with a story about condoms attacking the genitalia of the guests at Hotel Quickie in New York.  The performances played things fairly straight while the story was pretty gay.  There was much comedy to be mined throughout, which made for a highly entertaining horror comedy about a gay detective digging into where the condoms came from and why they were out there in the first place.  This was one of those movies that was included in the Sunday “Bad” Movies based on the ridiculous premise alone, and ended up being a solid B-movie that I would recommend to anyone, knowing they likely won’t see it.  Offensive, funny, and an all-around good time at the bad movie dinner table.

Remote Control

Meta horror has become a big subgenre of horror since the release of Scream in 1996.  Horror fans like to revel in the tropes of their favourite movies.  They know how predictable the situations can be.  There’s something about a movie that can play with those expectations, pointing out its own story while being an entertaining story in itself.  Remote Control was a few years before that popular trend hit, and was forgotten about because people weren’t ready for that kind of commentary in their horror yet.  It was a 1988 horror movie playing on the tropes of 1940s and 1950s science fiction horror, and commenting on itself throughout.  There was a video tape that was causing people to murder each other, and the movie on the video tape involved people watching a video tape that caused them to murder each other.  As the movie went on, the audience saw more of the movie on the video tape, and it was playing out very closely to what the actual movie was.  The main cast worked well together, having a lot of fun with the concept, and that bled right through the screen.  There might be a good number of movies now that play on similar ideas, though maybe not the old sci-fi stuff, but Remote Control should be in the conversation as much as any of them.  It’s a solid addition to the subgenre.

The Lair of the White Worm

Bram Stoker is mostly known for Dracula.  He has some other works as well, and The Lair of the White Worm was based on his novel that shared the name.  It may not have been the most faithful adaptation, taking major liberties with the material to make it a strange horror comedy.  There were some psychedelic dream or hallucinatory images mixed among the snake and worm puns and visual gags.  It was a movie that wasn’t afraid to go off the rails into the weird while also keeping itself interested in the low hanging fruit of the snake jokes.  Even with this dichotomy, it blended together in a highly entertaining, if not altogether good, movie that brought to life one of the most poorly received Stoker works.  The film was included thanks to a suggestion, and quickly became a favourite.  It is the reason the Sunday “Bad” Movies exist.  Movies such as The Lair of the White Worm show that entertainment can trump the overall quality of a film.  Having a good time is as important as smart writing with a message for the audience.  There was no message here.  It didn’t matter.  There was some good stuff in the acting, and some interesting stuff in the dream sequences.  The jokes were funny, if dumb, and the movie ended up being solid fun.

Buffalo Rider

Biopics usually hold themselves for the higher quality performances and award seeking filmmaking.  For the most part, at least.  Movies like Ray, Walk the Line, and The Theory of Everything take well known personalities, and give them a film to show everyone what their lives were like.  Buffalo Rider took a lesser known person in Buffalo Jones and told his story of saving as many buffalo as he could from the hunters of the prairies.  The thing is, it forgot the quality in putting the movie together.  It played out as though a bunch of nature documentary footage was stitched together with a loose story thread.  The narrator even sounded like he came from a documentary.  He stated what was happening on screen right before it happened or while it was happening.  The footage that was shown was captivating in that the danger looked real because it was real.  A man was mauled by a cougar.  Two bears were fighting.  A buffalo kicked a wolf.  That was all real and happened in the movie, as well as a bunch of buffalo hunting.  Animal cruelty wasn’t cared about during the movie.  The one outright good thing about it was the theme song.  It was catchy, and easy to listen to.  Buffalo Rider was a strange movie to watch the first time.  It was just as strange upon rewatch.

Going through these twelve movies was a trip down memory lane that only helped to remind me why I write about bad movies on a weekly basis.  Backwoods Bloodbath was during that nearly ten week period where I was choosing movies based on what I was watching anyway, rather than picking movies specifically for the blog.  Hansel and Gretel Get Baked was a movie that I watched with a couple other people in a “live” viewing through Twitter, and we were all surprised by how good it actually was.  Tracers was one of those movies where I scheduled it, then realized that it probably didn’t deserve to be in the Sunday “Bad” Movies when I watched it.  And then there was Buffalo Rider, which I made a big thing within my friend group at school.  Each movie that was chosen for this post meant something to the blog.  Each was an important part of making the 300 weeks something special.

The Sunday “Bad” Movies has had a long and interesting life, and it won’t be stopping any time soon.  There are plans going forward for a few more bonus posts, particularly leading up to the sixth anniversary.  Did you know I have a novelization of The Swarm?  That’ll be a post at some point.  And I still need to get on that review of The Disaster Artist that I promised around the time of the fifth anniversary.  Plus, there could be some other stuff coming up.  Who knows?  I don’t, so how could you?  Anyway, next week will be back to a normal week for the Sunday “Bad” Movies with Airborne being covered, so make sure to come back for that.  See you then.

The Mega Shark Franchise (2009, 2010, 2014, 2015)

With every summer comes people’s fascination with summer themes.  The great outdoors becomes a big thing as people flock to forests and nature to go camping.  They get to spend time outside with their family and friends.  They bond around the campfire and drink some cold ones.  Another popular destination in the summer is the beach.  People love going for a swim in the natural waterparks of the world.  Lakes, rivers, and oceans become gathering areas for people looking for a cool reprieve from the summer sweats.  A small dip in the water can wash away the heat that has been bothering the masses.

Movies and television pick up on this desire in the summer, particularly when it comes to beaches.  People want to be in the water to escape the warmth of the sun, and entertainment does the same thing.  Water becomes a major point for a bunch of movies.  And when it comes to action and horror, the water becomes a frightening thing.  There are creatures lurking in the water that people don’t notice when they’re simply gazing across the waves.  Giant squids could be hiding in the deep, dark areas waiting upon an unsuspecting victim to strike an attack.  More commonly in movies, though, sharks become the focus of the threats within deep waters.

Over the past three years, there have been three major shark films released theatrically.  Just a couple weeks ago, The Meg came out.  It saw Jason Statham and an international cast of characters going up against a megalodon.  Last year saw 47 Meters Down and the year before saw The Shallows.  All three of these movies were commercial successes, capitalizing on people wanting to see water-based movies that might put some frights into them.

Theatrical releases aren’t the only ones bringing sharks to people’s viewing screens.  There are many more television movies and direct-to-video movies coming out on a regular basis that use sharks as a terrifying villain.  Or, at least, as the foil for the main characters as they try to stop the destruction they cause.  There have been schlocky B-movies about sharks such as Sharknado, Avalanche Sharks, and the recently released Santa Jaws.  Few of them become long lasting franchises.  Aside from the Sharknado movies, the only others that come to mind are the Two-Headed Shark Attack series and this week’s topic, the Mega Shark franchise.

The first film in the franchise was Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.  Released direct-to-video in 2009, it saw a group of scientists and military personnel going up against both a megalodon and a giant octopus.  They needed to stop both creatures and keep the waterways of the world safe.  When a research accident freed the two prehistoric creatures from a glacier, Emma MacNeil (Debbie Gibson) teamed up with her old mentor Dick Richie (Mark Hengst) and Japanese scientist Seiji Shimada (Vic Chao) to stop the animals.  They started working for the military under Allan Baxter (Lorenzo Lamas), and things escalated to a final battle between the shark and the octopus.

There was the potential for something great to come out of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.  Two giant creatures battling it out for control of the oceans while the military fought to try and stop them is a concept that could lead something fun.  Yet, that’s what was missing.  There wasn’t as much fun as there should have been with the concept.  None of the actors were having fun with their performances.  They were stuck in the most standard character types possible.  There was no room to bring anything interesting to what they were doing.  That could be on the writing or the direction.  Whatever it was, without the actors having fun with their performances, it was tough to have the same sort of fun watching the movie.

The other major fault with Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus was keeping the creatures apart for as long as they did.  The megalodon and the octopus were on opposite sides of the world for such a long time, terrorizing their own areas, that the story was basically cut in two.  The characters were going back and forth between the two areas, not spending enough time on either threat.  There was potential for something much greater, and it was wasted in the writing of the conflict.

Many of the problems were improved in the first sequel, Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus.  After facing an attack by the megalodon that killed everyone on his ship, Lieutenant Terry McCormick (Jaleel White) started working for Admiral Calvin (Robert Picardo).  They were going to use McCormick’s sound technology to capture and kill the megalodon.  Their plans would need to be altered when Nigel Putnam (Gary Stretch) captured the Crocosaurus and accidentally let it free in the ocean.  The ragtag group had to stop both creatures from causing disaster throughout the world.

The two major weaknesses of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus were rectified in Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus.  First, there was the fact that the movie was actually fun.  Instead of having average people go up against the two creatures, the characters felt like fully formed characters.  Terry McCormick was a man grieving over his wife who died in the opening scene of the film.  He wanted revenge against the megalodon that killed her, and would do anything to exact it.  Nigel Putnam felt like a con artist version in Indiana Jones, and that worked to an exceptional level.  Having the two of them play off of each other was more chemistry than any two characters from the first film had, bringing that fun factor to the characters.

Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus also had a story that tied the two creatures to each other in a stronger way.  Instead of simply being two creatures doing their own thing and being brought together for a final fight, the two were nearly always together.  The Crocosaurus was laying eggs along the coastline, while the megalodon was attracted to the eggs.  Both creatures were in the same vicinity nearly the entire time, which added a conflict between the animals.  It was one storyline instead of two that seemed completely apart from one another until the end.

There was only one story in Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark, yet there was something missing from the movie.  The megalodon came back, and Rosie Gray (Elisabeth Rohm) was going up against it in the military’s new Mecha Shark.  Her husband, Jack Turner (Christopher Judge) was in the control room of the base bship monitoring her vitals as she chased the megalodon to its breeding grounds off the coast of Australia.  When the Mecha Shark was put into emergency mode, the military had to stop both the megalodon and the Mecha Shark from destroying Sydney.

The story wasn’t too bad in Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark.  The military had learned their lesson in the previous two films and were now taking preventative measures.  They were building tech that would be better able to counter the giant creatures that came back from the dead.  A giant mechanical shark had been built to go up against the megalodon were it to return.  And return it did.  The breeding grounds element was interesting, adding a motivation for the megalodon beyond a feeding frenzy.  The husband and wife team was an interesting element too, bringing added stakes to anything that would happen.  All of the elements of a fun shark movie were there.

Yet they fell apart in the two lead performances.  There was little to no chemistry between the husband and wife team.  Christopher Judge and Elisabeth Rohm both seemed like they didn’t want to be there.  They weren’t having a good time with the material, and they didn’t have any rapport with each other.  Both of them worked better with the disembodied voice of the Mecha Shark’s computer system.  The problems were alleviated a little bit at the end when the goofiness of the Mecha Shark on land was brought into the fray, but it couldn’t solve the problems within the rest of the movie.  It was still a step above Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, but it was far below the standard that Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus had set.

Mega Shark vs. Kolossus would try to recapture the magic of the second film, and for the most part, it did.  A new megalodon was roaming the oceans and Admiral Titus Jackson (Ernest Thomas) was obsessed with taking it down.  Meanwhile, Moira King (Amy Rider) was trying to find some Russian red mercury, and came across a doomsday device called Kolossus.  With both a giant shark and a giant doomsday device causing destruction throughout the world, a face-off in the Black Sea was inevitable.  Private tech mogul Joshua Dane (Brody Hutzler) enlisted the help of Dr. Allison Gray (Illeana Douglas) to help him get into the conflict and capture the megalodon before Jackson’s warships could kill it.

The fun of Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus returned with the fourth entry in the franchise.  The characters felt fully formed.  Titus Jackson was solely focused on destroying the megalodon.  His focus turned into a fatal obsession.  Joshua Dane was a great tech mogul character, perfectly charismatic for his role.  Allison Gray was played well as a woman who wanted to help, but didn’t necessarily like the reasons she was being forced to help.  She wanted to study, not kill, and people were pushing her in ways she didn’t want to go.  Then there was Moira King who wanted nothing more than to stop the doomsday device that she had been a part of releasing.  The four main characters, as well as the people who supported them, were all realized as characters, which made it easier to care about what happened to them.

Each of the stories intertwined as the monsters approached each other.  Moira, Allison, Joshua, and Titus kept overlapping in their quests to take down their respective monsters.  Though the Kolossus and megalodon didn’t meet until the third act, they never felt like two separate stories because the threads intertwined throughout the film.  The characters would meet each other, work together for a bit, go their separate ways, and then come back together.  It was decent storytelling that worked to make things a little more fun.

Perhaps the difference in the Mega Shark franchise had to do with the director.  Christopher Dougles-Olen Ray directed both the second and fourth entries.  They were the two best entries.  He seemed to have a better sense of what the movies should be than the other two directors who worked on Mega Shark movies.  He made sure the actors were having a good time in their roles, and that the roles were actual roles.  His installments were more entertaining, being the reasons to watch the franchise.

The summer isn’t only about the outdoors and beaches.  Those are some of the big things that people do in the summer, but they’re not all.  The summer is also about having good times and having fun.  Shark movies, which come out of the beach concept, need to also play by those rules.  They should be good times or fun, if not both.  The horror of them might not be good.  As an audience, however, it should be a good time getting frightened by the horror.  It should be fun watching the heroes team up to take down the threat before them.  A shark movie should be fun.

These notes might be fun for someone:

• Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus was suggested by @PsychOfFilm.
• The Sharknado series was mentioned in this post.  Here’s the post covering the first three films in that franchise (week 190).  The Two-Headed Shark Attack franchise was also mentioned.  Here’s the post for Two-Headed Shark Attack (week 7) and the post for Three-Headed Shark Attack (week 165).
• Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray directed two of the Mega Shark movies.  He also directed Two-Headed Shark Attack (week 7) and Three-Headed Shark Attack (week 165).
• Debbie Gibson and Matt Lagan were both in Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus and Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark.
• Ozzie Devrish was in Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark and Mega Shark vs. Kolossus.
• Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus was the third Sunday “Bad” Movies appearance for Gerald Webb who had previously popped up in Two-Headed Shark Attack (week 7) and Sharknado 2: The Second One (week 190).
• Gregory Paul Smith is another third timer after being in Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus.  He was in Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (week 84) and 6 Guns (week 247).
• Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark featured Terry F. Smith, who was also in The Human Centipede III (week 180) and Sandy Wexler (week 231).
• If you watch movies by The Asylum, you might have noticed Christopher Karl Johnson.  He had already been in two Asylum movies in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  They were Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (week 60) and Nazis at the Center of the Earth (week 73).
• Four actors from Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus were in Transmorphers: Fall of Man (week 130).  They were Jay Beyers, Dana DiMatteo, Russ Kingston, and Dean Kreyling.
• Michael Teh showed up in Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, after having previously appeared in Sharknado (week 190).
• Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (week 190) had a Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus actor as well, in Lorenzo Lamas.
• Still going, Jonathan Nation was an actor from Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus who was also in 6 Guns (week 247).
• Finishing off Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, there was Vic Chao from American Ultra (week 261).
• Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus featured two people from 8213: Gacy House (week 60): Michael Gaglio and Rachel Riley.
• Two actors from Sharknado (week 190) also made appearances in Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus.  They were Tiffany Cole and Willie R. Malloy.
• John A. Lorenz from Rise of the Zombies (week 16) showed up for a bit in Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus.
• One of the actors in Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus was Robert R. Shafer, who you might recognize from Zombeavers (week 142).
• Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus had an appearance from Dylan Vox, who was in Showgirls 2: Penny’s from Heaven (week 170).
• And ending the Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus stuff, we have Sarah Lieving from The Beast of Bray Road (week 176).
• Bermuda Tentacles (week 96) and Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark shared two actors: Steve Troublesome Castillo and Patrice Gibbs.
• One of the people in Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark was in 8213: Gacy House (week 60).  That was Sylvia Panacione.
• Natalie Pellegrini from Sharknado (week 190) and Christopher Judge from Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (week 190) made appearances in Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark.
• Mega Shark vs. Kolossus saw Patrick Bauchau return from Big Ass Spider! (week 61).
• Finally, Chris Clanton had roles in both Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark and The Human Centipede III (week 180).
• Have you seen the Mega Shark movies?  What did you think of them?  What do you think of shark movies?  Should they be fun summer movies?  All of this can be discussed in the comments section.
• The comments section and Twitter are good places to let me know about movies that you think I could be watching for the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  You could be like PsychOfFilm and be listed as one of the people who suggested something.  Hit me up.
• When I watch bad movies, I like to share bits and pieces of them with people on Snapchat.  If you want to see that sort of thing, add me (jurassicgriffin).
• There will be another post coming out this week since it is week 300 right now.  That’s right.  There’s a bonus post coming soon.  I’ll link it here once it’s up.
• Now for the most important part of the post that’s not everything that came before this point.  What is coming up next week with the Sunday “Bad” Movies?  After a big franchise, I decided to take it down a notch with another suggested movie.  Airborne, a movie involving roller blades.  That’s what will be coming up next Sunday.  See you then.