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Before Broken Lizard and the Farrelly Brothers there was/were The Zuckers (plus Abraham) to burst the bounds of taste and political correctness with this often-imitated smorgasboard of skits, parodies and general silliness. Samuel L. Bronkowitz’s valedictory triumph was directed by TFH Guru John Landis.

State of the art monsters and cheeky humor made John Landis’s comic horror film a must-see in the summer of 1981. David Naughton plays the star-crossed grad student attacked by a werewolf but it’s Griffin Dunne’s star-making turn as a wise-cracking zombie that gives the movie a hot foot. Rick Baker’s Oscar-winning makeup effects are…

John Landis was the natural choice to talk about this middling post-Thalberg Marx Bros. movie. Can you guess why? Because it has Charlie Gemora in a Gorilla Suit! Groucho introduces the now iconic, W.S. Gilbert-inspired song “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”. This is the one where the boys save a circus from bankruptcy. Kinda topical, except…

John Landis spills on what he thinks (not much) of the ridiculous reissue trailer for his first movie, Schlock! — which, as John has reminded us over and over on Trailers from Hell, has to be Great because it stars a guy (John!) in a (Rick Baker!) gorilla suit! Nuff said!

Director John Landis’ raucous satire of early sixties college life was a real game-changer when it was released in 1978, creating the template for a decade’s worth of politically incorrect comedies to come. The movie’s not-so-secret weapon was the film debut of Saturday Night Live star John Belushi as prototypical slob, John “Bluto” Blutarsky. In a bit of…

Michael Winner’s cynical, violent Vietnam-era western pits stoic lone Apache Charles Bronson against a colorful posse of rapists and murderers led by Jack Palance and a really good cast. “The scream of his victims is the only sound he makes!” was the ad line. TFH Guru John Landis was actually there on the set to…

When AIP released the US version they retitled it Godzilla Vs. The Thing, which was represented on the poster by a giant question mark with tentacles! Apparently Mothra was considered too wussy to be a credible adversary for Big G, who had just come off a grudge match with a ratty-looking gorilla billed as (but…

John Landis’ 1992 film is a noiresque hybrid of vampires and mobsters with Anne Parillaud as the conflicted bloodsucker with a heart of gold and Robert Loggia as the ethically challenged mob boss who winds up sprouting fangs. The late, great Don Rickles brings some Casino-esque humor to his role as a crooked lawyer.

For his first original screenplay Stephen King created the titular creatures of Sleepwalkers, twilight monsters similar to vampires and werewolves who require the life force of virgins to survive. TFH Guru Mick Garris’s first major studio movie features cameos from Clive Barker, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, Joe Dante, Mark Hamill and Stephen King himself.

Ok, we’d never heard of this one either. But controversial Japanese director/artist/poet Sion Sono has quite a following on the festival circuit for themes including love, family, lust, religion and the perverse phenomenon of upskirt photography. His first cut was six hours long, but was trimmed by two hours at the request of the producers….

Most of the voluminous cameo roles in TFH Guru John Landis’s landmark rock comedy were performed on studio sound stages, but the death defying car crash stunts were shot right on the streets of Chicago. This is the premier movie of those generated by Saturday Night Live. The preview version was shorn from 148 minutes…

Too Out There for producer MGM, which released it through a subsidiary company, this wild and wooly multiple-murder perversity is director Paul Bartel’s most fully realized movie, a zonked-out psychosexual thriller beautifully shot by future director Andrew Davis. Lucille Benson is a memorable Aunt Martha in one of the great cult movies.