A disturbingly high number of these videos have the same kind of story: "indie filmmaker(s) put(s) heart and soul into making their picture on a shoestring budget, only to have some ruthless distributor or production company screw them out of everything." It makes me really grateful for the way the internet has been able to facilitate so many aspects of film production independently and on the cheap.

@blackdragon6

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, I noticed it too. I think indie film makers needs better legal advice and representation.

@flannelogue

5 жыл бұрын

true, but a lot of them still get screwed over now by KZread and other platforms that still find ways to cut into their profits

@night4345

5 жыл бұрын

Turns out one side having control over getting a product to the consumer means lot of power in general especially before more varied release platforms came out.

@tonypeppermint5329

4 жыл бұрын

@Coley Durham Difference is how easy it is to get the upper hand on things.

@KafanskaTV

4 жыл бұрын

@@flannelogue KZread is providing an incredibly useful platform to market your product, and to also sell it in the end. It certainly deserves it's cut. What.. should it be completely free (as it is) and take no part of advertising shown on THEIR website, using THEIR server farms running on electricity THEY pay for? Well.. if you think that, you are free to invest several million to setup a small streaming platform and run it without profit.

Ahhh yes, the Exploring series from GoodBadFlicks. The one series I'll drop whatever I'm watching to tune in for.

@townlinetim876

5 жыл бұрын

Yup. Definitely

@tidepride86

5 жыл бұрын

Abso-Freakin-Lutely!!

@G33kCulture

2 жыл бұрын

I’m usually dropping a deuce.

Most undersubbed channel on KZread!

@Melvinshermen

5 жыл бұрын

Mr.Johnny_Raincloud yes

@user-xy5eo6jn3v

5 жыл бұрын

Two words: Oliver Harper

@driftbandit889

5 жыл бұрын

501201M I agree but those are awesome

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@greenrobot5

5 жыл бұрын

I just unsubbed too, don't worry

Hearing people getting taken advantage of because they're new to the business is irritating. I'm aware that's how things still are but it's still a shame. 😑

@GigawingsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

@@sickofthelies1627 Calling someone 15 when you still using LOL unironically and capslock. I think your brain still perpetually 15 when you think scamming people is just how the world work. No need for law, police, judge and honesty eh?

@zitazeon

5 жыл бұрын

@@GigawingsVideo hes a know it all and status quo advocate. must be one of the scammers himself.

@MrYuck-ec5do

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah they really held guns to people's heads in Hollywood to do these films. Give me a break.

@ruggerosmith1167

5 жыл бұрын

Jerry Bunnell You sound terrible. To paraphrase the late, great Don Rickles, go move to the middle of nowhere and don't bother anybody.

@tonypeppermint5329

4 жыл бұрын

Damn, Jerry got KO from this thread.

My heart sinks every time you review a film you like and tell us that there is footage that has been lost for ever ☹️

Hollywood accounting claims another creative team.

@patrickmartin8854

5 жыл бұрын

I gave a thumbs down because you're correct and it sucks.

@TettaVolante

5 жыл бұрын

@@patrickmartin8854 it does nothing, it's just placebo.

FYI, the plane that crashes in the opening and that Denise was flying on was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30, which back in the day was a very popular commercial airliner. The stock footage shows the DC-9 in the livery of Hughes AirWest, which were taken over by Northwest Airlines in 1980.

What a forgotten little gem of a film. I saw it on on VHS back in the 90s because I was drawn toward the great cover-artwork. Really dark and creepy. I can also imagine, that it could have had some influence on the makers of "It Follows". The walking manifestations of supernatural STD reminded me of the silent dead people hunting the lead actress in "Sole Survivor".

Great video bud. Had no idea this movie existed. Was fun to learn about it.

Wow, I'd love to think you actually listened to me all those years ago when I suggested you do a video on this forgotten classic. I recommend it to everyone.

This "The movie is always in the red for a few hundred bucks" thing is such a common trick, and yet you can't do anything about it, it hurts.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Hollywood math is so frustrating.

@simplegarak

5 жыл бұрын

​@@GoodBadFlicks - When he used to blog, i would follow Furious D (dknowsall.blogspot.com/) a blogger that reminds me a lot of you. You should just do a search on one of his rants about "net profits" with quotes like... "You have more luck seeing Bigfoot shopping with the Loch Ness Monster in downtown Manhattan than seeing any net profits. These are the receipts with the total costs of production, marketing, distribution, and studio overhead deducted, and that pretty much sucks the box office dry." He really taught me how the business of Hollywood is so messed up and every time I watch one of these exploring videos that lesson is reinforced.

Have you seen the Australian film THE SURVIVOR which is based on James Herbert novel that came out 3yrs earlier. Slightly different but that deals with the sole survivor of an airline crash but treads similar ground. M. Night's UNBREAKABLE had to be rewritten because it was considered to close to Herbert's book.

I saw this movie as a video rental and have never forgotten it. Especially the image of the heroine sitting unharmed in her plane seat.

I never hear anyone talk about this movie...I was probably one of the few people that saw it in the theater as a kid with my aunt! Nice bit of nostalgia ;-)

The script writer for Final Destination must have seen Sole Survivor. In the original un-made X-Files script "Flight 180" by Jeffrey Reddick which would later be rewritten into Final Destination there is a scene where Sole Survivor is explicitly mentioned playing on a TV.

Honestly Cecil, your videos help me so much. I really can't thank you enough

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome :)

Back in 1989, there was a TV movie, mini-series, called DEAD OF NIGHT, with Bruce Boxlightner and Lindsey Wagner. It also dealt with a woman who had survived a near death experience. And Death sent its minions to kill her for not dying when she was supposed to.

I'm glad you covered this one! I saw it when it was released on VHS, and it is still to this day one of the only movies to legitimately creep me out.

You should do exploring Maximum Overdrive.

@patrickmartin8854

5 жыл бұрын

Stephen King turned his love of cocaine and AC/DC into a movie about zombie machines. There. Done. :-D

@NEWmr180787

5 жыл бұрын

Patrick Martin and it's fucking amazing! Awesome movie.

@zitazeon

5 жыл бұрын

@Al Worthington i just talked to my gf about remaking it today... cant make it any worse right? it was already a b movie when it came out.

@jwnj9716

5 жыл бұрын

I hate when people call it "Its so bad, its good". Bullshit, its a fun movie. For fuck sake, AC/DC is playing in the background. I guess the trailer ruined the film a bit, it tried to be serious with Halloween 3 soundtrack. Weird choice. Trucks you can call "its so bad, its good" because it was trying to be serious which is laughable.

i remember watching it on its VHS release in the 80's when i was in highschool and it creeped me outmore than any other horror film at the time. I tracked a copy down a few years ago and rewatched it finding that it still had that creepy edge

Great video man these videos always make me want to seek out and watch these films because exploring them really does add more appreciation for them

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

More of a good good flick than a good bad one, but one of my favorites every since I first discovered it at my neighborhood rental place a couple years back. Thanks for spreading the word.

ALWAYS a great day when cecil posts on youtube!

I saw this movie when I was a kid, I grew up in LA and saw the movie in Downtown L.A. At the Tower theater, ( its on the same block as the Orpheum theater that in a ton of movies, commercial and American idol) unfortunately it's closed now, gorgeous theater for sure. Saw it in a Triple bill with both Children of the corn and Madman ( I hope you do both these films too)

This video was perfect. Great editing, information, narrating, and clips. You rock.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This is an interesting movie. I remember first watching this in the mid 1980s on cable. A moody setting and creepy. Yes there are a lot of similarities to Final Destination. One of great ideas of old school horror, less is more... quite underrated and under appreciated.

There's also a similarly-themed supernatural thriller called "Passengers" (not the other film called "Passengers" with Chris Pratt - this was earlier), about the aftermath of a plane crash. I don't remember much except it was reasonably good, and it was more a drama than horror.

Couldn't agree more with the comments, man you deserve way more subscribers. For some reason 'It Follows' reminds me of this movie, I think its the way the dead people look in that kind of vacant state when they come for a victim

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Another amazing video Cecil! Sad to hear about how these people were completely screwed by the distributors IFM, & made no money from their own film, though! Still, Cecil, man, your videos on independently made films like this one, really inspire me, & get my creative juices flowing, & let me know that filmmaking is definitely what I want to do with my life.

Great to see this movie being featured. I really enjoyed it when i discovered it not so long ago in a terrible vhs quality, but it was worth it. I wonder if the creators of It Follows were inspired by this little gem?

You never fail with these videos. Damn I love this channel🤘

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Heck yeah. Love this kind of teasing out the provenance of movies. Keep it up, man.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love this movie! Love your videos!

Eberhardt was also the director of Captain Ron.

Excellent video Cecil please review The Ugly.

Definitely have to check this out. I remember seeing it in the video store way back but never got a chance to rent it. Great review yet again. Thanks Cecil.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Such a huge fan of this channel. I wish I could support more.

@GoodBadFlicks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Every little bit helps :)

Carnival of Souls, great RiffTrax episode

@simplegarak

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I wish like Rifftrax or Vinegar Syndrome and/or some others in the obscure film biz would all coordinate together. Like if Rifftrax had on their site: "Here is our riff of the movie, and here is GBF's story about how it was made." Heck I bought Nightmare Weekend purely because of Cecil. They should sponsor this man. ;)

Another one I need to check out!

Great review Mr C

I think this movie inspired It Follows

Great video about a film I wasn't aware existed. I've always liked the concept of Final Destination but I wasn't a fan of its intensity so this might be something I'd rather watch!

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@PlayGlow

5 жыл бұрын

GoodBadFlicks Keep up the great work, man! Love your channel!

@Grandmastergav86

4 жыл бұрын

"intensity"? 🤣🤣🤣 It's typical bland, middle of the road Hollywood fare.

It's worth it. Always.

Well, my day just got better. And also, many thanks for all the hard work you put in these videos! I can only imagine how deep you have to bury to find most of this information. I appreciate it a lot! Probably one of the best movie oriented channels!

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Yay! I need vid. And schools are closed today so I’m off work!!! Thanks, my friend.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome :)

Another great review

Thanks. I've never heard of this movie so now I'll have to find it and give it a look.

I made a modernized trailer for this last year. I adore this film and it's inspired me in many of my own films.

Dude, you make the 80s great again.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

:)

Well researched video. Nicely done.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

in Hollywood no movie ever made a profit for some mysterious reason (that reason is called creative accounting which should be supremely illegal but somehow isn't)

Cool got to watch this film.

Another hidden gem you have brought to my life. Thank you!

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

This sounds like the film The Survivor (from 1981 starring Robert Powell) In the film Powell is the pilot of a plane that crashes and he is the sole survivor. A psychic is haunted by visions of the people killed in the crash. It was based on a book by James Herbert. I dont remember much about it (other than a burnt up little girl) but it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

i've been waiting for this one

Yes!!!! Thanks for the video, man! That's 1 down, 78 films to go.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

:)

Got pretty stoked about this movie after this video and sat down to watch it. About halfway through I was kinda bored and it was nothing like he'd talked about...only then did I realize I was watching Soul Survivor, not Sole Survivor. Oops XD

You deserve more subscribers.

Highly underrated film...I just saw it for the first time like 2 years ago.

Thank you for making my day

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

:)

Good bad flicks I would love to see you do an exploring video on hollow man i think its very underrated

James Herbert's novel Survivor am fairly sure was an influence on this as well.

Sole Survivor is one of my favourite horror movies of all time. So creepy. I'm yet to see another horror film called "The Survivor" that came a year before this and also deals with a sole plane crash survivor and the dead victims appearing. I don't know if the creators of Sole Survivor even knew it existed.

Wow. I've never heard of this film before. It looks interesting.

5:15 "Everybody was very happy with the final result". Me: Okay, what got cut?

Oh Hell yeah, the Most underrated movie channel on what's- left-of- You Tube!

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I don't watch any of these movies but I love your channel... I can't figure it out but I'm not bothered by it.

For a second there, I thought you were going to explore Dean Koontz's Sole Survivor lol.

The movie looks fine, maybe I will check it out. Anyway, finally cool exploring episode about interesting flick.

"IFM offered them money up front, as well as a cut of the theatrical profits..." Oh God, I know where this is going. Seriously, with so many predatory studios screwing producers and filmmakers out of their profits, it's a goddamn miracle that any of these wonderful old horror movies were made.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Its so sad as I look into more and more of these, only to find out so many have been screwed over.

I'll definitely check it out! THANKS MAN! :)

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Eberhardt must have loosened up after this, as for 'Night of the Comet' he let Robert Beltran completely rewrite the character. Originally it was a cholo gangster with a heart, but Beltran reworked it as a hardworking man looking after his mother. In fact Hector not being a stereotype is part of what makes the film work. Plus Beltran impersonating Burt Reynolds at point.

Woooo. New Video!

Have you seen Dragonslayer (1981)? That could be a cool video. Also love your channel!

THANK YOU! SUCH A GREAT MOVIE. One of the best thrillers I’ve seen for the last couple of years. Such a pity this terrific actress lost interest in the movie industry. I love her. Feminine and cute but still strong and persistent, not very pretty but so sexy. I hoped that she found her success in TV or maybe not so popular films, but… Director is also great. And music is perfect.

Any chance of you exploring The Monster Squad? Greatest movie of all time!

I've heard of this but never saw it. I also confuse it with a similarly named move from 2000.

Sole Survivor looks GREAT if you see one of the HD transfers, and it looked great in the theater.

I wonder how many of these ‘sole survivor ‘ movies took inspiration from James Herbert’s “Survivor” novel from 1976.

Maximum Overdrive would a perfect good bad flick episode, considering that Stephen King was high on cocaine during filming and that the cinematographer lost an eye after they blew up the truck stop. A piece of shrapnel hit him in the face and sued the production company.

Any chance of you doing an Exploring video on Dan O'Bannon's The Resurrected or the movie Screamers?

@DrQuagmire1

5 жыл бұрын

he already did a review of "Screamers" a couple of years ago

I get a It Follows vibe too

Just looking at these excerpts, this is visually way above the usual fare featured on this channel.

I never seen soul survivor but I can tell you that there was a film even before that one back in 1981 produced by the same producers of mad Max in the Road warrior called the survivor. Which was based on a novel, the theme is the same only with a pilot who suffers survivors guilt in a major plane crash that must be seen to believed, it’s one of the best special effects I ever saw utilizing a real jet that has been gutted and on the crane. This is an Australian film with a British actor, and it has pretty much death scenes like final destination. This film was shot Anamorphic,and it’s an absolutely beautiful looking horror film, you should look it up, I’m gonna look forward to watching Soul Survivors.

@lascheque

5 жыл бұрын

I agree , the australian "The Survivor" (starring Robert Powell, Joseph Cotten and Jenny Agutter!) is great, and I am a little surprised that Cecil didn't mention it in his (albeit great) video.

Great video! Also, it's DP - not DoP

This movie scared the shit out of me as a kid. I got it on vhs

Are you sure she isn't a superhero like Willis in Unbreakable? I love knowing all those obscure movies which I remember in the video stores but never got the chance to see them. Thanx!!!

No mention of the film produced based on the James Herbert book; The Survivor. Similar (ish) story line. Think it was released a couple of years before hand.

Please do a video for Altered States!!! Excellent video today

I have never heard of this movie but the remake is on some streaming services.

Suggestion for a film to review: 1983 horror film "Eyes of Fire". The film's a bad trip with terrified homesteaders, mud people, a tree bound devil, etc. When I first heard of Vvitch, I thought it might be a loose remake of this film.

Carnival of Souls (the movie) from 1962, was essentially a DIRECT ripoff of the Twilight Zone episode called, "The Hitch-Hiker" from 1960, about a woman driving cross-country who keeps seeing a hitchhiker everywhere she goes. He is DEATH. She was killed in a car crash and he keeps appearing everywhere to take her away (she doesn't know she's dead). "Sole Survivor" is more based on the Twilight Zone episode called, "Twenty-Two" from 1961, about a woman hospitalized and who keeps having a recurring nightmare in which she is led to Room Twenty-Two, the morgue, by a nurse (who represents death). She's scared that if she leaves the hospital and goes on a flight, that the plain will crash. As soon as she leaves the hospital and goes on the plain, it DOES crash.

Talking about shooting yourself in the foot. The distributors screwed over all the people that made a smash hit. But in doing so ensured that no more smash hits would be made by those people. If they treated them right they could have had a string of profitable films.

This one's hard to find. 50 dollars on Amazon! Ouch. Might have to wait a little while til I find it cheaper than that.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know it at the time but I just found out its OOP, hence why its so pricey. Damn shame, its such a good movie. I hope they print up more

Oh I thought this about Sole Survivor with William Shatner which was the Six Sense before the Six Sense.

Found this movie one day while going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. Nice to see a more in depth look at it.

Recently found your channel and have fallen in freaking love with it! I've never really dove into cinematography, but I'm learning a crapton about it just from your videos alone. The video on Event Horizon actually put me into a frenzied research on whether your point on Warhamer 40k had inspiration drawn from it. I do have a question though... I don't know if you've ever been asked this, but can you put a video out on the movie Dragonheart? I grew up with that film and absolutely loved it. I kind of just want to know what went so damn wrong with the sequels. Why they were just..... disgustingly bad.

@GoodBadFlicks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you are enjoying the videos :) Haven't done Dragonheart yet. The sequels were just DTV that were there to capitalize on the original. They also had a fraction of the budget

@naoura4939

5 жыл бұрын

@@GoodBadFlicks Hey, thanks for the quick reply! I had figured it was capitalization by the producers, but didn't know about the budgetary constraints (should have guessed). I'm guessing the reason the writing suffered so much was due to the push from the producers for quick releases?

Thom Eberhardt's Directions are great. same good at [Night of the Comet]. I'm so sad he Turn around to comedy flicks.

The movie Soul Survivors was trippy.

Movies I'd love to see an Exploring of on: The Pom Pom Girls, The Deadly Spawn, Street Trash, Basket Case, The Burning, Abby, Rudy Ray Moore/Dolemite, Goodbye Uncle Tom, Orca, Grizzly, Day Of The Animals, Kingdom Of The Spiders, Squirm, Axe (1977), The Child (1977), The Pit (1981), Don't Answer The Phone, I Drink Your Blood, Cooley High, Miami Connection, Scum 1977 and 1979, Savage Streets, Class Of 1984, Suburbia, Tenement (aka Game Of Survival), Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky, Rituals, Deathdream, Horror Express, Stone (1974), and Johnny Got His Gun. In addition, I'd love to see an Exploring of the history of the companies Crown International and American International Pictures.