11/29/2006

Recently, I heard a radio station having a weekend of “one-hit wonders”- you know- bands or individuals who only had one hit song, then went back to the obscurity they had come from. So, I thought about blogging about something similar- movies that we only got to run once on the Svengoolie show. The way that often happens is- we will sometimes get a special deal from a distributor for a movie that comes with commercials already in it- that we can only run once(sometimes twice.) If we think it might be entertaining for you guys, we’ll take it- though it’s tough to prepare and record a lot of material for a show that will only air one time. I thought I’d mention a few of the “one-hit wonders” that only aired once on the show. Let’s see if you caught any of these in their single showing… Last year, we had a couple fairly amusing movies, right about this time of year. The first- “Jack Frost!” Now, this was not the heart-warming, feel-good film with Michael Keaton reborn as his son’s snowman- oh, no. This was about a serial killer, caught in an accident with a chemical truck, who is transformed into- a killer snowman! He kind of becomes a flash-frozen Freddy Krueger, spouting one-liners as he offs his victims. He can transform to water, then refreeze- so, he can seep into places. The carrot-nosed killer terrorizes a small town and its sheriff- and, affords the male viewers a quick scene of the lovely Shannon Elizabeth taking a bath (sorry, guys, it’s pretty “pg”!) What ends up being his undoing? SPOILER ALERT! DON’T READ IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE IT AND BE SURPRISED !!!- okay, while some people are logging off- the killer snowman is done in by- what else?-antifreeze! Har-de-har-har. But wait- there’s more- we also got one run of its sequel- “Jack Frost II: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman!” In this one, the stressed-out sheriff from the original movie is finally convinced by his wife to take a vacation to calm his nerves- to a tropical island! However- the anti-freeze mixed snow killer somehow ends up reconstituted and- get this- can survive tropical temperatures! So- he goes after the sheriff for revenge! On the island, he even spawns these little killer snowballs with nasty sharp teeth. Boy, I hope you caught that one!!! If we didn’t have the Universal stuff, I’d be begging to get both these “chillers”- get it?- back… I’m kinda having fun with this…I think I’ll blog about more “one-hit wonders” tomorrow- meanwhile, if you remember any of them- drop me a line at svengoolie@wciu.com!