Second Viewings and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

As somebody who watches a lot of movies, I know that opinions can change over time.  Expectations going into a movie can make a difference on how a person feels while watching it.  The excitement that based upon watching a movie for the first time can cause them to forgive problems in the movie.  It could also go in the opposite direction and make them more critical of what is playing out before them.  Then there is the rewatch, an action that can drastically alter an opinion since many of the illusions of a first time watch are gone.

In order to fully dissect what makes the rewatch such an important part of movie watching culture, we must first examine the different ways in which a first time viewing can be affected.  The mindset of a person as they go into a movie for the first time can be greatly manipulated through many factors.  Some of the factors have a much larger influence than others.  The smaller factors might seem very minor; however, they still have an effect on a person prior to seeing a movie.  Thus, to understand how a rewatch can remove a lot of these factors, the factors must be known.

Major Factors

Media/Hype

Modern culture has become a barrage of advertisements pushing the capitalist ideals upon society.  That may sound obnoxious, but let me ask a question.  Do you know that Guardians of the Galaxy is coming out?  Sure you do.  The marketing team of Marvel studios has made it so that you know.  Through the announcement of the movie, the hiring of a director and cast, the trailers, and the name of Marvel, you have gained knowledge of the movie.  Many of you are excited for it.  All of these bits of information being released have built up the hype and rabid fervor for it.  Seeing a commercial for the movie while watching Big Brother or driving past a billboard on your way to work have also added into the cultural buzz for the movie.

The whole point of the media purchases, social media coverage, and news updates by studios about things that aren’t really news is to create hype around their movies.  They use the hype to create awareness and get people excited about their output.  They are heightening the expectations of their audience and hoping that the excitement will result in an influx of people going to the theater to watch their movie, and more people liking what they see.  How many people have already declared their love for Guardians of the Galaxy?  This proclamation was already being stated following the teaser trailer’s original release.  The sound of the “ooga-chaka” in Hooked on a Feeling managed to hook people in like a fish on a rod.  The first viewing for anyone within the first year of the film’s release will be drastically altered by this media assault.

Word of Mouth

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can’t always pick a good movie based on the recommendations of your friends.  Hearing about a movie from a friend is a way to discover a movie you may not have known about.  Depending on their outlook on the movie, your expectations could get higher or lower than they would have been otherwise.  These expectations are a large part of what affects a first time viewing.  If the movie does not meet the expectations, it is a disappointment.  If it surpasses the expectations, the viewing goes well.  Either way, a person is greatly influenced by their friends’ opinions.

Word of mouth is an exceptionally large factor in creating the schedule for the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  Many of the choices made in the scheduling of films has to do with what the general consensus is.  If a movie has a bad reputation, I will watch it to see whether or not I agree.  People suggest movies, saying they are bad.  If I have not seen a movie, there are very few factors upon which I can base my choices.  Word of mouth seems like one of the better ways to choose because other people say it is bad.  And the reputation that the movies garner affects my first time viewing.  I go in expecting the worst of a movie.  I hope for the best though.  But my expectations of a movie are lowered simply by being told that the movie is bad.  Sometimes I end up agreeing that the movie is bad.  Other times, my expectations are lowered so much that I end up enjoying the movie and thinking it really isn’t bad at all.  Word of mouth in this day and age tends to be much more extreme than it was in prior times.  Movies are either great or terrible.  Many of the bad movie suggestions end up being alright and perfectly watchable.  The only reason they get suggested is the hyperbole.  The hyperbole affected my scheduling and affected my first watch.

Reviews

Much in the same way as word of mouth, reviews of movies that come out prior to a film’s release can leave impressions on the potential audience that could drastically change how the film is received.  Yet, the impressions that reviewers leave upon their own audience is greater than hearing about a movie from a friend.  A reviewer watches movies professionally, whether for print, websites, or audio formats.  The general population will take their opinion on a film much more seriously than they will Bob from three houses down who says that the new Uwe Boll movie kicks butt.

Spoilers

I am a big fan of knowing as little as possible when watching a film for the first time.  I like to let a film play out the way it is intended to, allowing the twists and turns to come to me unknown.  I like to discover the end of the movie at the end of the movie, and not before I’ve even sat down to watch the movie.  The reasoning behind this is that if I know the ending, I spend the whole movie trying to piece together how the movie gets from Point A to Point B.  It takes me out of the movie.  A movie is meant to be watched as a story, not dissected before the story has had a chance to play out.  Suspense and tension are ruined by knowing the results beforehand.  Twists and turns are no longer surprising.  If a main character dies, you don’t pull for them in the same way that you would not knowing about the death.

A first viewing is supposed to be about seeing something fresh.  Having a movie spoiled for you can greatly affect your mindset while watching a movie.  It kills anything that the movie is trying to build in terms of a tone or feelings.  Because you know the ending, you don’t get as invested in what is going on.  It makes that first time watch have less of an impact than if there was no foreknowledge.  Since you don’t know the entire story, you cannot re-experience what you already know.  You can only wonder when the bit that has been spoiled will happen.  It ruins the experience.

Known Property

Is a movie a remake, reboot, prequel, or sequel?  Is it based on a tv show, book, toy, game, or reality?  All of these things can affect how a person perceives a movie going into it.  Some of the issues of movies being a known property are that the story is already known and nostalgia may take over the viewers’ senses while watching the movie.  The nostalgia is the bigger factor in changing a viewer’s impressions of a film.  They remember something from their past and feel the desire to relive that moment in time.  Sometimes it makes them more forgiving because they get to feel like they did upon first experiencing the property.  Other times, if the property is changed too much from what they loved, they claim that someone is trying to insult their memories.  This outlook is because it brings back the feelings of those memories prior to seeing the movie, and thus a viewer will go into the movie with unrealistic expectations about what it will be.

There are also the opposite instances in which the audience goes into a movie expecting the worst because what the property is based on is not something that they liked in the first place.  That does not mean that they hated the source.  It only means that they expect the worst out of the new addition to the property.  Sometimes the movies end up being exactly what was expected.  Other times, they far surpass the expectations and end up being beloved movies.

Minor Factors

There are a few smaller factors when it comes to a first time watch.  Many of these minor factors are things that would still exist in a second watch and not be changed at all after watching a movie for the first time.  I’ll quickly list some of them and give a brief description of how they affect a first time watch, second time watch, or any watch thereafter.

• Time of Year – For theatrical releases, people have different expectations at different times of the year.  They expect the good, meaty, dramatic stuff and the large scope adventures to be near the end of the year.  They expect mindless, fun, action-based stuff to be during the summer.  And they expect bad movies to be in the winter.  Having a movie not fitting that loose framework can drastically change how a theatrical audience perceives a film.
• Mood – How a person feels when they watch a movie is important to what their outlook on a movie will be.  If you are sick, it will have an impact on your joy in watching something.  If you are depressed, you might not feel up for a raunchy comedy.  Your emotional state at the time of going into a movie can have a deep impact on how the movie affects you.
• Alertness – Much like with mood, how tired you are can change your feelings on a movie.  If you are wide awake, you can focus more on the movie and get a better understanding of the material.  If you are tired, important plot points and subtlety may fly right over your head and go unnoticed.
• Similar Movies – Having seen similar movies around the same time as the movie you are watching can make you feel burnt out on that kind of material.  You can only watch so many action movies where Bruce Willis saves the world before feeling like you don’t want to watch A Good Day to Die Hard.
• Title – You can’t judge a book by its cover, as much as you may want to.  In a similar vein, you can’t judge a movie by its title, but you do.  Hansel and Gretel Get Baked sounds like a ridiculous name.  The movie is still good.  You might think it won’t be because of the title.
• How You See It – The size of the screen, the people you are watching it with, the temperature of the room you are in, how comfortable the seating is… All of these things involved in how you watch a movie have an impact on the viewing itself.  They are things that can both distract and enhance the viewing of the movie.

Now that I have highlighted a lot of the factors that can have an effect upon a first viewing of a film, we can begin to look at how a second viewing can be much more effective in discovering whether or not you truly like something.  Most of it has to do with those major factors.  Why does a lot of it have to do with those things?  It’s simple.  Those major factors that I outlined in some detail all have an impact on the expectations of a viewer going into a movie.  Upon a second viewing, these expectations have been removed from the equation.

Going into a second viewing takes away the expectations that are put upon a viewer as a result of the factors I listed above.  Many of the minor factors remain.  Your mood will always affect how you view something.  The movies you watched around that time will always influence how much you appreciate the movie, especially if you’ve seen a bunch of similar movies.  How alert you are will always matter when it comes to your focus on the movie in front of you.  These factors can never be removed from the equation.

However, the media hype, the word of mouth, reviews, and spoilers no longer matter when you are rewatching a movie.  You know what the movie is from experience and can better appreciate the good or bad aspects of it.  No longer are you a victim of outside influence upon how much you should or should not like a movie.  The only influence remaining is your own influence based upon your first viewing.  With this in mind, a second viewing is an easier way to discover how much you actually like a movie.

It is easier to change your own opinion on something than to make up your mind based upon the outside sources telling you what you should or should not believe about a piece of art.  You are more willing to tell yourself that you were wrong about liking or disliking something than you are to toss aside the opinions of the masses.

I have learned this lesson a few times throughout the history of the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  Most recently, Jason Goes to Hell is a movie that I have grown to appreciate a little bit more upon a second viewing.  During the first viewing, I found it to be a strange bastardization of the slasher subgenre, melding science fiction into the horror in a way that didn’t seem right for the Friday the 13^th franchise.  The idea of Jason Voorhees switching bodies after being brutally murdered, only to find a way to come back into his own body seemed like a dumb idea.  I absolutely detested the movie.  On a rewatch, I still found most of the story dumb.  But I found that I could appreciate the fun of the craziness in the movie and I had a good time watching it.  The movie goes out of its way to become unrealistic ludicrousness.  It was a viewing that changed my outlook into liking the film.

The magic of rewatching something is discovering that your opinion on it can drastically change without having the influences of other people tickling at your brain.  It’s similar to when you stop caring what other people think about you.  You can begin enjoying what you enjoy without taking into consideration what everyone else thinks about it.  You can find those things that you missed the first time and love the movie for those bits and pieces.  Or you could discover that it doesn’t work on a second viewing because you know the twist ending.  Who knows?

In the end, the second viewing is the viewing where you can truly find your feelings about the movie.  Yet, with the amount of new movies being released every year, and the desire to watch these movies, it is sometimes difficult to find time to rewatch movies that you don’t immediately love.  The most significant viewing of a movie has seemingly been eliminated for the most part because of an oversaturation in the film market.  That’s another discussion for another day, though.

Yes, this was long.  I still have some notes:

• I mentioned the movie Hansel and Gretel Get Baked in the post, so I thought I should link to its post.
• I also mentioned Uwe Boll who directed House of the Dead, which was covered in the Sunday “Bad” Movies a while back.
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is the second Friday the 13^th film to be covered in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  The first was Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.
• An actor named Richard Gant was in Jason Goes to Hell.  He was also in a movie called Ed.
• What are your thoughts on second viewings?  Do you only give movies you like a second watch?  Does your opinion of a movie ever change during a second viewing?  Comment below with your thoughts.
• Jason Goes to Hell was suggested by @ThatStevenC.
• If you have a movie you would like to see me cover for the Sunday “Bad” Movies, leave the title in the comments, or tell me about it on Twitter.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

Something I’ve thought of doing for a few weeks now was a running commentary of one of the movies as I watch it.  I’m not talking about an audio commentary.  I have nowhere that I would be able to record one of those in this house.  Add to that, I don’t have a particularly good radio voice.  I don’t want to irritate all of you with that experience.  Instead, I am going to do a written commentary as I watch this week’s Sunday “Bad” Movie, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.

Just a little bit of warning before I get underway with this post.  This will probably be a long one.  I’m sure I can get out a lot of writing in a commentary form.  If it’s “too long; didn’t read,” I completely understand.  I hope you’ll stick around though because I feel like this is going to be an interesting experience in the history of the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  Without further ado, here is my written commentary for Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.

Poutrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead begins with the classic Troma presentation card.  That same card has been featured twice before in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  The first time was when Chopper Chicks in Zombietown was featured.  The second time was for the movie Monster in the Closet.  That makes this the third Troma film included in these posts.  It will not be the final Troma film featured.

Having seen the movie before, I can better appreciate how Poultrygeist’s opening scene sets up what the movie will be.  It introduces the characters of Arby (Jason Yachanin) and Wendy (Kate Graham), who are both named after fast food chains.  They are dry humping, and eventually having sex, in a Native American cemetery.  Whilst in the middle of making love, hands emerge from the graves and one puts a finger in Arby’s butt.  This is the kind of humor that will remain throughout the runtime.  It’s not particularly funny at all.  It more goes for the lowest level of sex and gross out jokes.  There is also a reference to the Native chief from The Village People being buried there.  References to well-known things will also be a big part of the movie.  At the end of the scene, a character enters the graveyard masturbating.  He ends up having a corpse sodomize him to death in a gory fashion, which helps to establish one of the other two main aspects of the film.  A lot of the movie will be bad humor and gore.  There’s still one more element to establish, but I’ll write about that soon.

After the opening title pops up, it is revealed that a new fast food restaurant called American Chicken Bunker has been built on the cemetery.  Many movies and television shows involve buildings that are constructed atop burial grounds.  Most notably is Poltergeist, a movie that is clearly an inspiration for the title of Poultrygeist.  Protestors are angry about the new chicken restaurant.  These protestors include Wendy, who joined CLAM (College Lesbians Against Mega-Conglomerates) while she was away at college for a semester.  The comedy in the movie is already wearing thin five minutes in.

Upon learning about Wendy’s experimentation at college, Arby becomes upset and breaks into song.  That’s right.  Poulltrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is a musical.  A gory, unfunny comedy, with musical sequences scattered throughout.  Yachanin’s singing is mediocre, however the music gives a break from the obnoxious forwardness of the crude humor that has been present.  The crude humor is still present throughout the first song (Revenge is a Dish Best Served Fried).  That hasn’t changed at all.  Yet, in musical form, it feels less abrasive.  The music helps to make the jokes bearable, and there is some clever phrasing through the fast food puns interspersed throughout it.

There are a few more characters that get introduced in the next portion of the film.  Denny (Joshua Olatunde), Jose Paco Bell (Khalid Rivera), and Carl Jr. (Caleb Emerson) are all employees at American Chicken Bunker.  They hire Arby as a new employee and notice some strange things happening with the chickens and eggs that may or may not lead to danger later on in the film.  We are also introduced to Humus, the cook.  Each of the characters fits some sort of stereotype.  Most of them are racial stereotypes.  Carl Jr. is a southerner.

Ron Jeremy shows up for a minute to shout about how the American Chicken Bunker is located on an Indian burial ground, as if we didn’t already know that.  Thanks, Ron Jeremy.

One of the next customers is Jared (Joe Fleishaker).  He is Poultrygeist’s attempt at making fun of the Subway spokesman that many people have probably forgotten about in the eight years since this movie was released.  He eats one of the weird looking eggs that were found in American Chicken Bunker and needs to use the washroom.  When Wendy comes into the restaurant to confront Arby about working there, you hear Jared’s farting the entire time.  Is that funny?  Not at all.  What is even less funny is Arby’s fantasy about having sex with Wendy and her friend Micki (Allyson Sereboff), only for it to be revealed that Arby is sexing up a cash register.

Cut back to Jared who explodes in the bathroom.  Or, I should say, has explosive bloody diarrhea, poops out an unseen chicken monster, and has a skinnier version of himself tear out of his stomach.  I don’t know what to say about that.  At all.  I have no idea what I can possibly say about that.

Then my favourite song of the movie starts.  It’s called Slow Fast Food Love, and I’m sure the rest of the movie will be downhill from here.  This is only twenty minutes into the movie.  The movie is nearly a hundred minutes long.  I’m about a fifth of the way through.  There’s something about the music throughout Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.  The songs are more inspired in their humor.  There is some thought put into the entirety of every song that isn’t put into the jokes outside of them.  The songs seem carefully written.  And they are catchy, even if the singing is bad.  All of this is especially true of Slow Fast Food Love.  Instead of being the obvious sexual jokes, the song is filled with puns and fast food metaphors which make me chuckle.  Having Arby sing about wanting Wendy’s breasts, legs, and thighs is a much better joke than, for example, the humping of the cash register.  The song works, whereas the unsung jokes do not.

After the song concludes we are introduced to the human villain of Poultrygeist.  His name is General Lee Roy (Robin L. Watkins), and he owns American Chicken Bunker.  He also wants to sing a song.  We get a song almost right after a song.  This song is titled Generous General and is General Lee Roy defending himself and his corporation against the questions of the protestors outside his restaurant.  It’s a simple back and forth that moves the story forward in an entertaining but not completely pleasing way.  Like I said, some of the singing in this movie is bad, and Sereboff’s vocals might be the worst of them all.  Having her sing a portion of this song is irritating.

If you thought that Poultrygeist couldn’t get stranger, you’re in for a treat.  Arby meets a version of himself from the future, played by Lloyd Kaufman.  While that is happening, Jose Paco Bell is masturbating into some chicken slop in front of Humus.  An evil chicken pushes Jose Paco Bell into a grinder and he is killed.  Everyone accuses Humus of killing him.  The Arbys hear the sound of the death but do nothing about it.  Instead, old Arby sings a song.

Old Arby is Lloyd Kaufman, the guy in charge of Troma.  Aside from the two movies I’ve watched for the Sunday “Bad” Movies that he has produced for Troma, he was also in two other ones.  Those movies were Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned and Big Ass Spider!  Kaufman and Yachanin sing a song called Longing to Live/Waiting to Die.  The song has some Irish influence, I’d say, and isn’t too bad.  Again, the vocals aren’t great, but the song is still a good time.  The Arbys are talking about their troubles in life, their struggles, and their goals.  It means something and that’s all that matters.

General Lee Roy wants to keep the restaurant open after the death.  This leads to Arby selling Sloppy Joses, and talking to one in the kitchen.  The Sloppy Jose is actually Paco Bell.  Paco foretells what is going to happen because of the burial ground and the angry chicken, and right before saying how to defeat the evil, General Lee Roy eats him.  Okay.  So that happened.

The next scene involves beastiality and necrophilia as Carl Jr. decides to have sex with the raw chicken that killed Paco Bell.  Not that he knows it killed Paco Bell.  This doesn’t end well for Carl Jr. as the chicken attacks his penis in a wild display of blood and green slime.  Blood and green slime are a big part of the movie as can already be seen.  If you aren’t into that kind of thing, I think you should stay away from Poultrygeist.  That’s what a lot of it is.  This chicken sex does lead to one of the most interesting visuals of the film.  When Carl Jr. runs into the kitchen, making a mess of what Humus just finished cleaning, he demands help.  Humus shoves the mop handle up his butt and out his penis to remove the chicken.  We see Carl Jr. from the front with the mop sticking through his crotch and it is a well done practical effect.

Aside from being a disgusting gore-filled scene in the movie, the point of the Carl Jr. scene was to cause all of the fried chicken to get infected with the possessed chicken and burial ground evil.  The green slime and blood went all over some buckets of chicken that were soon to be handed out to the protestors out front of the restaurant.  As much as I dislike most of the humor and think the movie is crude just to be crude, there is a story being told and it’s told fairly well.  Each scene means something to the story and pushes it forward.  The songs highlight emotions and character stuff, but the rest of the movie still fluidly moves toward an endpoint.  That aspect of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is admirable even if I don’t like the movie as a whole.

This is about halfway through the movie’s full runtime and is the turning point of the film.  All of the protestors, except for Wendy, eat the chicken and go into the restaurant.  They are no longer raging against the corporate machine because the chicken tasted so good.  Micki is no longer a lesbian.  Instead, she is role-playing mother and baby with General Lee Roy.  The party doesn’t last long as everyone who ate the chicken quickly begins to throw up green slime.  To prove that there is something wrong with the chicken, Wendy coaxes General Lee Roy to eat some.  He immediately needs to use the washroom and he lays an egg in the toilet.

I would like to note that In the Hall of the Mountain King plays while General Lee Roy fights the chicken zombie monster thing that hatches from that egg.  This song is used in a large number of movies and television shows.  It’s always an enjoyable song and it gets stuck in my head for hours.  I love it though.

People begin turning into zombie chickens.  Carl Jr. becomes one.  General Lee Roy becomes one.  Strangely, nothing seems to be happening to Micki, even though she was the first person to eat any of the infected chicken.  The unnamed background employees even become chicken zombies.  Then the General Chicken decapitates Denny because why not.  I feel like the movie is going to devolve into mayhem now, for the remainder of the runtime.

In another interesting visual, the employee chickens cut up a random person into small pieces and serve him in a bucket to some other chicken people.  I say interesting in that I appreciate the reversal of positions between the people and chickens in the fast food setting.  It’s basically saying that what we do to chickens is as bad as what these chickens are doing to us.  That sentiment is true, though it’s not going to persuade me to stop eating chicken.

The four remaining main characters Arby, Wendy, Humus, and Micki try to escape but get pinned down by a restaurant full of chicken zombies.  Luckily old Arby shows up and shoots all of the chicken zombies.  As he is about to kill the General chicken, Denny shows up and bites off his nose.  Then young Arby kills Denny.  That’s about ten seconds of the movie.  And the characters aren’t even safe.  Outside, there is a horde of chicken zombies ready to enter the restaurant.  Wendy solves the problem by turning the open sign to closed.  The chicken zombies leave.

Old Arby calls young Arby a dumbass and dies.  Micki acts like a dumbass and goes outside into the horde of chicken zombies while wearing a chicken mascot suit.  She sees a Native American guy.  Carl Jr. chicken zombie is still alive, decapitates some woman whose daughter is missing, then fights with Arby.  Arby stops fighting Carl Jr. and demands to know how to defeat the monsters.  Carl Jr. says alcohol.  Arby kills Carl Jr.

This is becoming a lot of me just relaying exactly what is happening in the movie.  That’s because there isn’t much else to write about at this point.  Everything is plot right now.  There’s no depth to it.  It is death, fight, death, blood, fight, dumbass, death, and more blood.  The songs disappeared a long time ago.  Characters are dying all over the place.  And there’s about ten or fifteen minutes left.

Micki returns to the restaurant, finally having transformed into a chicken zombie.  I mean, she was the first person to eat the infected chicken.  She should have already turned.  She is more than the other chicken zombies though.  Micki chicken has a vagina that has a chicken head that comes out of it and tries to attack Wendy.  I guess that could be why it took her so long to transform.  Old Arby also turned into one of the monsters, and young Arby must fight both monsters while making sexually suggestive references like getting one chicken off and choking the chicken.

Why did Humus just drink a bunch of meat steroids, Hulk up, have her eyes pop out of her head, then fall on the floor?  That was odd.

So, Micki chicken and old Arby chicken are trying to kill Arby and Wendy.  Arby decides that’s the right time to flashback to a lot of stuff in the movie, including all the reasons that alcohol would kill the monsters, Wendy and Micki topless and making out, and two seconds before when Wendy and Arby stumbled upon a keg of beer.  It’s a humorous flashback, though it isn’t at all necessary.  I like the gag anyway.  Coming out of the flashback and discovering that Wendy killed the monsters is a good punchline to it as well.

The horde outside comes inside.  Arby says “Humus, didn’t you die?”  The response of “No time to explain” got a chuckle out of me.  In the final fifteen minutes or so, the movie has toned down the crude humor, and pushed forward these other jokes that work much better than the obnoxious poop and sex jokes of the rest of the movie.  I’m having a good time in the climax.

A song!  The three heroes find the child they were looking for and get trapped by a chicken monster in the storage room that happens to be filled with hatching eggs.  Arby confesses his love for Wendy.  She accepts it.  And then the chicken monster breaks into a song.  I think the song is Murderous General.  That means that the General Chicken wasn’t killed by old Arby.

Remember what I said about the crude humor being gone?  Forget that.  The General Chicken dies because he has gas, farts, and explodes.  And the day is saved.  Yippee.  At least one of the characters agrees with me that it was anti-climactic.  Oh, it was the Paco Sloppy Jose that made him fart and explode.  And now we get a bunch of sandwich jokes.  I am unimpressed by this scene.  So unimpressed.

It’s a good thing this movie is racist because when Humus takes off her robe, she is wearing a bomb.  You know, because she’s Middle Eastern.  She martyrs herself to destroy the rest of the chicken zombies while Arby, Wendy, and the little girl escape.  And we get to see an explosion.  And I’m pretty sure I just remembered what the final moments of the movie are.

They drive away.  The little girl lays an egg.  The car crashes.  It explodes.  Yeah, that’s what I remember.  The re-used car crash from Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.  It’s something that Lloyd Kaufman apparently uses a lot in his movies.  I haven’t seen too many of his movies so I couldn’t tell you for sure.

The final credits have a song called Poultrygeist that I don’t really care for.  There are also clips of the chicken zombies doing the Thriller dance because a comedy with zombies has to include that.  It’s like a requirement.  And then we get a slowed down version of Slow Fast Food Love because it’s the best song in the movie and has to be used as much as possible.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is done.  98 minutes of people making sex jokes and racist jokes and puns.  About half an hour of it was actually entertaining.  The other hour and eight minutes was tough to sit through.  I did it anyway, for this post.  I have no plans of ever returning to this movie.  Then again, that’s what I said the first time I watched it.

This is the longest post I’ve ever written for the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  I’m not sure it was a good idea to write about the movie the way I did.  Writing it while watching it makes the experience take longer.  When that is done with a movie that I don’t particularly like, it feels kind of excruciating.  I’ll have to think long and hard about if I’m ever going to do a written commentary on the movie again.  It seemed like a good idea when I started.  Now, I’m not so sure.  If you think it’s a good idea, put that in the comments section.

This is about to get longer because of these notes:

• Troma produced two movies that have previously been featured in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  The movies are Chopper Chicks in Zombietown and Monster in the Closet.
• This is Lloyd Kaufman’s third Sunday “Bad” Movie acting role.  The other two were Big Ass Spider! and Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned.
• Jamie Greco appeared in Poultrygeist.  He was also in Glitter. 
• Also in Poultrygeist was an actor named John Karyus who was in The Summer of Massacre.
• Casey Smith appeared in Poultrygeist and was also in New Year's Eve.
• If you want to see more posts like this, comment below.  You can also comment about whether or not you like Poultrygeist.
• Do you have suggestions for future Sunday “Bad” Movies?  Suggest them to me on Twitter or suggest them in the comments.