Gentlemen,
Last week some of us watched a movie that on the surface seemed so exciting. A sorcerer played by Bull from Night Court traps a computer scientist from 1985 and makes him pass 7 tests before he will let him go? or die himself? I’m already confused. Well it turns out that most of these tests are simply solved by pressing the pew pew laser button on his magical computer wrist band. And one of the tests was literally going to a WASP concert. The movie was saved a little by extended aerobics sequences and some PG-13 80’s nudity.
It’s also possible that we watched the wrong movie, this movie has two alternate titles and there was another ‘Dungeonmaster’ from 1984
This week we will be watching “Miami Connection” a lost treasure from the 80’s that I wouldn’t have even known about had it not been re-released by Drafthouse films. It follows an rock band who are also ninjas as they try to fight drug lords in 1980’s Miami… or something like that
The Dungeonmaster (originally Ragewar: The Challenges of Excalibrate and Digital Knights) is a 1984 American anthology horror-fantasy film produced by Charles Band, and is split up into seven distinct story segments, each written and directed by a different person: Dave Allen, Band, John Carl Buechler, Steven Ford, Peter Manoogian, Ted Nicolaou and Rosemarie Turko. The film's theme was influenced by the popularity of Disney's 1982 film Tron and the roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons.
Principal photography began in 1983 but the film was not completed until 1984. The film features an appearance by the heavy metal band W.A.S.P.. The film is known for the line of dialogue "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"[1] A sequel to the movie was shot and edited in 1988, but never completed.[2]