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-Well, Darcy's statistics show

that if you make it through the third movie

you have a better than 50/50 chance of surviving

the whole marathon.

-And where exactly do you get these stats from?

-Never mind. Statistics show. -Okay.

-And that's why we have saved this movie.

We should have started the Nightmareathon with it,

because there would have been shrieks of joy all over America,

but we needed it. We needed it.

It's like a cinematic energy drink.

It's like three quarts of black coffee.

It's like a case of Jolt cola.

Just the yearning for this movie

is enough to cause people to drive 10 hours

through the night to get to the theater.

You know what I'm talking about? -[Laughs]

I do, because I know the schedule.

-Well, I'm talking about "Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell."

-Hell yeah! -It's got blood.

-Lots of it. -It's got muscle.

-It does. -Yeah, it does.

It's got a bodybuilder. -It -- Yes.

-He says -- yes. Does it have hell?

-I think the haunted house is a substitute for hell.

-So there you have it, "Bloody Muscle

Body Builder in Hell," a Japanese classic.

Where's Yuki? Is Yuki here?

Come on out here, Yuki!

Come on. Yuki Nakamura, ladies and gentlemen.

[Cheers and applause]

The Yokohama cowboy. -Tokyo.

-The Tokyo cowboy.

Yuki, how old were you when you first saw

"Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell?"

-I haven't ever seen this movie.

-Yuki, every Japanese fanboy has seen this movie.

-No. [Laughter]

-Okay, then we won't reminisce about the movie.

Thank you, Yuki.

-Toshisuke Kanazawa.

-What? -Toshisuke Kanazawa.

-Who is that? -Famous bodybuilder.

-Okay, well, this bodybuilder is an actor -- Shinichi Fukazawa.

You've heard of the great filmmaker Shinichi Fukazawa?

-Nope. -No?

-Toshisuke Kanazawa.

-Okay. Yuki, we'll talk at the next break.

Watch the movie.

We're going to expect some in-depth commentary.

That wouldn't be possible for me because of the language

barrier, so...

-You want me to analyze this movie?

-Yes.

-Okay. -Yay.

[Laughter]

-Meanwhile, I'll just say that besides being famous in Japan...

[Door closes -Yuki actually said

it's not famous in Japan.

-The movie's not famous in Japan?

Um, it's got a 6.4 on IMDb.

"Slumber Party Massacre" just has a 5.6.

-I feel like that's because only like

10 people have seen it, but, you know, go ahead.

-Okay, Darcy. I'll --

I'll have you know that this movie comes out of

an international subgenre called Evil Dead DIY.

Have you heard of that?

Normally when we talk about influential horror films,

we focus on "Night of the Living Dead,"

"Halloween," "Friday the 13th."

But internationally, the most popular one is "Evil Dead."

And the reason is the backstory is so good on it.

All those other films were financed by guys

who had real 35mm equipment.

They had experience making movies,

but "The Evil Dead" was just three dudes from Detroit.

So fanboys in like rural Germany say,

if three guys in Detroit can do this,

four guys in Dresden can do this,

and they make copies or homages to "Evil Dead"

or rip offs of "Evil Dead,"

really, more than any other movie.

This is the one that people try to copy

when they're making their first feature.

And it started just as soon as "Evil Dead" was released.

You had "Frostbiter." These are just in America.

You had "Winterbeast," you had "Savage Harvest."

"Demon Wind" is kind of one of them.

You know, we had that on the show. "Chill Factor."

In Italy, you had the seven "La Casa" films.

In Germany, you had "Black Past."

In New Zealand, you had "Dead Alive."

-Yeah. -Uh, in -- in China, you had,

um, "Chinese Ghost Story."

And also in Japan, you had "Evil Dead Trap."

And they were all extremely low budgets,

sometimes shot on video fanboy projects,

and they would do their best to get --

They would always get the words evil dead

into any advertising or promotion for their movie.

And so in 1995,

you had this phenomenon in Japan called V cinema,

which was shot on video movies,

and you also had the beginnings of what they call J-horror.

Um, there were three movies, all with the title,

uh, "Scary True Stories,"

"Scary True Stories one, two and three,"

and anthology films that were shot on video.

And that started the you-can-make-a-movie craze

in Japan, and when Shinichi Fukazawa saw

"Army of Darkness" in the theater,

he said, "That's it. I'm making my own movie,

and I'm going to be just like Bruce Campbell

and I'm going to kick the hyenas of zombies in my movie."

And so the idea for "Bloody Muscle

Body Builder in Hell" was born.

And, um, Darcy, do you remember where you were when

you first experienced "Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell?"

-Why, yes, I do. It was in my kitchen.

I had set it on in the background

because I knew we were doing the show.

-Okay. When was that? -Like a week ago.

-Okay, well... -We go way back.

-We all have our memories of our first experience

watching "Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell."

And you were in your kitchen?

-I was multitasking. -Okay, but it's a classic.

-Why don't we introduce it and then we will ask

the audience if it's a classic.

-Okay, good idea.

What we have here is the sensitive story of Shinji,

who just wants to pump iron.

Only his former girlfriend

Mika ask him to take her to a haunted house left to him

by his dad, Naoto,

because she wants to write a story about haunted houses along

with a very somber paranormal investigator named Mizuguchi.

What Shinji doesn't know is that the house really is haunted

by his own father's ex, because 30 years ago,

his dad's girlfriend was trying to kill him,

so he had to stuff her under the floorboards,

and she's still mad about it.

Once the three amateur investigators get to the house,

Mizuguchi says some bad energy dialogue,

and then a clock flies off the wall and knocks him out.

But when he wakes up,

he wants to go back inside and confront the ghost,

which makes the ghost happy

because she wants to kill him and take over his body.

Fortunately, Shinji's dad eventually appears on the TV

in the house [laughing] and tells everybody what's going on

and that they will need to use total dismemberment

to get rid of the angry ghost zombie.

Sure, we've seen it before,

but have we seen it with a severed head

that attaches itself to a foot and a hand

so it can hop around and headbutt people?

I think not. And those Drive-In totals are

Two dead bodies, one beast,

10 gallons of blood, one ghostly girlfriend

from Hell, one ghost photo,

one nail through the wrist, wall clock to the cranium,

butcher knife licking, blood spurting,

poorly-planned body disposal,

ominous-presence summoning with grunting,

creepy baby doll that delivers the murder weapon

for no apparent reason, butcher knife to the chest,

cursed necklace swallowing, butcher knife to the neck,

multiple attempted strangulation,

axe flinging, eye gouging, neck biting,

exploding torso, head rolls, eyeballs roll,

arms roll, hands roll, legs roll,

feet roll, heart rolls, gratuitous bicep curls,

gratuitous flexing, dismembered head fu,

dismembered foot fu, Dismembered hand fu, barbell fu.

Driving-In Academy Award nominations for

Asako Nosaka as Mika

for not being afraid to punch the ghost, and for explaining

that woman has mistaken you for your father.

Masahiro Kai as the psychic Mizuguchi,

who dismisses Shinji plan to make the house

into his personal gym by sneering, "What a good idea.

Training in a haunted house sounds like a good hobby."

And to Shinichi -- Shinichi Fukazawa

who stars in a double role,

writes, directs, edits, runs camera,

does the special effects, for painting the walls red

and for saying "my weapon is my muscles" and "groovy."

Three stars. Joe Bob says check it out.

And as far as I know, this is the first movie

to feature postmortem kung fu by a dismembered corpse.

-Yeah, that is the most awesome part of the movie.

-And people always say we should show

more martial arts on the show.

So here we go!

-This does not count as martial arts.

-It's, uh, what is it?

It's more of an art film, I guess.

-No, no, no.

-It's a "Last Drive-In." Film is what it is.

-That it is. -Yeah!

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-You did it, Yuki!

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-If you've watched any Asian horror,

then you know that that is how the ghost approaches you.

He comes over your shoulder.

But now that the psychic Mizuguchi is knocked out,

and that guy is grim.

uh, let's take a minute

and review the production history

of "Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell."

Shinichi Fukazawa got the idea for the movie in 1995

when his father told him he was planning

to demolish his old house in Tokyo.

He had just seen "Army of Darkness."

He was a huge fan of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell,

and so he started writing an Evil Dead DIY script

that he planned to shoot on 16mm,

but he couldn't raise the money for 16mm,

so he switched to 8mm

giving us that familiar fuzzy image

that we know so well from classics

like "Things" and "Sledgehammer."

And the problem with 8mm millimeter is there's no way

to review the film's progress while you're working.

So he shot most of the movie only to discover

that the photography was no good and he had to start over.

-Aww. -Now even more broke

than he was the first time, he started working weekends

and whenever he could put together a cast and a crew.

And it took seven years to recreate that footage

that he'd already shot.

-Oh, no. -But he was still broke.

So it took another seven years to process the footage

to digitize it for DVD release, to edit it, to add effects.

So he finally had what he considered the finished film

in 2010, but nobody wanted to release it.

So he self-released it on DVD in 2012

and it sold out immediately.

-Well, how many DVDs?

-I don't know how many DVDs.

-Oh. Well, sold out immediately

doesn't mean a lot if they only made 30 DVDs.

-Well, I'm sure it was more than 30,

but, you know... -Like, 35?

-Well, at least -- probably at least 50.

-Alright. -But at any rate,

the movie finally got its official release in theaters

in 2014, but only in Japan.

And then an international DVD came out in London in 2017.

And then the film finally got

its American release on DVD in 2022.

This means the guy worked on this movie

for 17 years just to make it,

and then 10 more years just to market it.

So it's based on an '80s movie.

It's conceived in the '90s, it's completed in the teens.

It finally sold into all territories

of the world in the '20s.

So I actually think that's commendable.

-I agree, it's super commendable.

-Commendable that he never gave up.

-Right, he kept on rolling.

-Yeah, he did. Back to the movie.

[Laughter]

The problem for a filmmaker

who needs 27 years to get his work to the fans,

is that it limits how many films you can make in a lifetime.

-Yeah, but the Japanese are known for, like,

living a really long time.

-It's true, they're the third longest lived people

in the world, but behind, um, Hong Kong and Macau?

So 85 1/2 years is the average life expectancy

if you live in Japan.

-Wow. Do they know why? -Yeah, they eat a lot of fish.

Fish. Fish is the answer.

-That can't be the only reason.

No, it's fish, it is. That's why --

that's why you should always take your fish oil every day.

And oh, wait, you can't. You're vegan.

-Yeah, no animal products please.

I don't think they kill the fish to get the oil out.

-Of course they do. -Let's say they don't.

You know, because I take that stuff every day.

They don't kill the fish.

-Oh, my God, you're right.

They just take a tiny little exacto knife

and make an incision.

Gently scrape out the omega three fatty acids,

and then they -- they sew the little fishy back up

and release them back in the wild.

-Okay, Darcy.

-That's why you have so many herrings swimming around

with surgical scars.

-You can be so sarcastic when I'm wrong.

-Aww. I'm sorry.

I'll be more just joyous when I tell you you're wrong.

-Thank you. -You're welcome.

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-Do I really need to say it?

No CGI was used in the making of this movie.

-What?! [Laughter]

-This is a little different type

of paranormal investigator we got here.

And once he gets possessed and zombified,

his first instinct is to knee Shinji in the nuts.

Or should I say she

because this is actually the Laughing demon girlfriend.

And you know Shinichi Fukazawa

as the bodybuilder is trying really hard

to look like Bruce Campbell in "Evil Dead."

He's got the exact denim shirt and the whole wardrobe,

but if I was going to pick an actor,

I would say looks more like a skinny Martin Sheen.

And, you know,

I was trying to think of another movie that is written,

directed, edited, acted, special effects done by the same person.

And I did think of one, and it's also from Japan

and it's one of our most hated films

here at "The Last Drive-In." -Oh.

-People still write in to say never --

[laughing] should never show that again.

-Yes, they do. -And that movie is

"Tetsuo: The Iron Man." -They're wrong!

-[Laughs] No, they're not. -It came out really --

It came out in 1989,

and I think Shinichi Fukazawa had to see that movie.

Right? -Of course.

-Okay. Yuki, you're still here?

[Door opens] -Yes, I'm still here.

-Alright, we're getting to this serious

beat the crap out of one another dogpile part of the movie.

So I want -- I want to demonstrate

some things, and you know judo.

-No, I do not know judo.

-Yuki, you're Japanese. You have to know judo.

-That's a stereotype. -Ooh.

-Yuki, I know for a fact everybody in

junior high school in Japan has to take two years of judo.

-I went to special non-judo junior high.

-That is very disappointing, Yuki.

-I do not enjoy being kicked in my face.

-Okay, then I will do the "Bloody Muscle" fu

training myself.

-Okay, alright.

-Thank you, Yuki. -Good job, Yuki.

-Did I hear Dave Sheridan back there?

Is Dave Sheridan -- Bring Dave Sheridan out here.

-What?! -You know --

Whoo! -Hey, Dave.

-Who let you in? -You know, some kind of

kung fu, right?

-I know like all kinds of fu.

-Yeah, okay. You'll do. Dave, you're -- you're the guy.

You're going to be the guy in the martial arts sequence.

Thank you. -Can I keep this red cup?

-Thank you, Dave. -Alright.

-You can be dismissed now. Okay.

-[Laughs] -Yuki is the only Japanese dude

I ever met who seems to have DNA for Brooklyn.

You know? I mean, back to the movie.

Roll the film.

-You should be careful with your cultural assumptions, man.

-Japan teaches judo in school. It's like P.E.

Nobody needs it, but everybody has to take it.

-Well, I could definitely see how martial arts

would be way more useful than P.E.

-Well, what isn't more useful than P.E.?

-[Chuckles] Algebra.

-Well, good choice. -[Laughs]

-Why -- Why do we have to know the value of pi, right?

-Because everyone loves pi.

-Everyone loves P.I.E pie and everyone hates P.I.

pi and P.E.

-Man I wished my school taught martial arts.

-Well, what did you have instead of martial arts?

-Um, not really -- We played kickball.

-Kickball? -Yeah.

That comes in handy, too.

-Didn't you tell me you played baseball at the Y.

-I did. That's not P.E., though.

That's for fun.

-At least that involved a weapon, though.

-Oh, true. [Laughs]

-I wonder why we don't see more baseball bat murderers,

actually.

-Because it takes too much time to swing it.

You know, what it is good for is bashing in the head

after you kill the guy.

-Wow. That was disturbingly specific.

-Yeah, well, I do this for a living.

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-Yuki, go!

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-Okay, Dave, now, what we're going to do

in the next 10 minutes is I'm going to tell you

some things that could save your life.

-I'm all ears.

-Dave Sheridan, ladies and gentlemen.

[Cheers and applause]

-We found Dave passed out on one of the picnic tables outside.

So glad you could make it, Dave.

Comedian, producer, actor, podcaster,

Officer Doofy in "Scary Movie."

Sheriff Lincoln in "The Walking Deceased."

What's your next project, Dave?

-Uh, my next project is a movie that, uh, James Hong wrote,

and it's called "Keepers of the Fifth Kingdom."

He also stars in it, 95 years old.

And then, uh, after that, I'll be in "Stream"

with our very own Felissa Rose.

It's Tony Todd, Bill Moseley, Danielle Harris,

and it's made by and produced by the people

that did the "Terrifier" movies.

-Okay, that's enough interview.

Now, what we're going to do here, Dave,

is we're going to practice martial arts techniques.

Stand up, Dave. -[Grunts]

We're going to practice martial arts techniques

to be used whenever you're confronted

with a dismembered ghost zombie

who leaves body parts lying around.

So look at what we got to choose from here.

We've got hands, legs, arms, various internal organs.

So you're being eaten, you're being devoured.

These are the only available weapons.

Which one do you go for?

-Um, I have to go Karate Kid and sweep the leg.

-Oh, no, no, no. Rookie mistake.

Look how -- look how unwieldy this is.

Look how heavy it is, first of all,

especially if the guy was working his quads in the gym.

And as soon as you raise it up, look at all this.

Look at all the stuff your opponent has to work with.

Well, let me -- so let me demonstrate.

Go ahead and, um, uh, hit me with that leg.

-Uh, I'm not gonna hit you too hard.

-Yeah, okay. -Alright.

-[Groans] -Okay.

See, Dave.

-Um, alright, get up, get up.

I need to show you other ways

you can get the crap beat out of you.

So here's one that'll put you in the hospital.

Here's the -- let me get -- let me use this.

Alright. -Okay.

-It doesn't matter how big the body part is,

you can use anything. Where does the big toe go?

That's the big question here.

Where does the big toe go?

If we're -- Agh!

-Big toe always goes to the eye.

-[Groans] -If you forget, you can always,

uh, recite the martial arts rhyme.

Don't want to die toe to the eye.

Say that, Dave. Don't want to die

toe to the eye. -Don't want to die

toe to the eye. -Or you can say toe to the eye,

I won't die.

Go for it. -Toe to the eye, I won't die.

-Okay, or toe to the eye, don't make me die.

-Toe to the eye, don't make me.

-Yeah, okay. Close enough.

Okay, Dave, before we go back to the movie,

do you see this... -We can go back to the movie.

We don't have to keep doing this.

-...you see this left elbow?

-Yeah. -Okay.

Now, let me ask you,

do you have any comedy club gigs coming up, Dave?

Because we can promote one. Actually, like next week

I'm gonna be at East Schaumburg --

[Groans] God, that's my nuts!

-That's too much.

See, the elbow has no offensive value.

It's only use is as a distraction

so that you can knee people in the nuts.

So shake it off, Dave. Let's -- let's -- let's review

what we've learned today. -Okay. [Groans]

-Arm over leg. -Arm over leg.

-Toe to the eye. -Toe to the eye.

Elbow for the nuts. -Elbow for --

-Repeat that after me, Dave.

Arm over leg, toe to the eye, elbow for the nuts.

-Arm over leg, toe to the guy,

elbow over -- [Groans]

-Wrong, Dave. You need a lot more classes

before you can do this stuff.

Now you are no longer working for the Wayans brothers,

Dave, so suck it up.

What was the name of that comedy club again?

We can name -- we can go ahead

and name the comedy club before we,

uh, before we go back to the movie.

I'll. be in East Schaumburg --

-Alright. -[Laughs]

-See, the leg can be used

when it's combined with a diversionary tactic,

so very good work, Dave.

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-So, Shinichi Fukazawa stole from everybody,

but he mostly stole from Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell,

right down to saying groovy and dressing like Bruce

and doing all -- all the babies, like sayonara,baby.

Um, I love the random claymation that shows up from time to time.

I think he must have gotten that from "Basket Case."

He has elements of "Hellraiser," "The Thing,"

"The Incredible Hulk" when he busts out of his clothes.

"Return of the Living Dead," "The Skull Man,"

and of course, "Evil Dead."

Also, I thought the psychic was very reminiscent

of Roddy McDowall in "The Legend of Hell House,"

which was a very popular movie in Japan.

The question you may be asking though is,

if his big turning point is the discovery

that his muscles are his greatest weapon.

Where are they?

You know, he falls quite a bit short

of being a professional bodybuilder.

And the reason may be he was so overworked

and he got so little sleep while working on the film

that he lost 27 pounds

right before he started shooting his scenes.

So anyway, Darcy, what's your verdict on the film?

-It's super fun and you don't need

to read the subtitles to enjoy it.

-Okay. -Bonus.

-How are you holding up marathon wise?

I'm ready to go 10 more movies.

-Well, we don't have ten, but we do have, um, I don't know.

-Didn't we have 13 on the original marathon?

-Yeah, and I tried to get 13 for tonight,

but we don't have that this time.

We have several, but -- -I'll take several.

-Um, but you just told me you got a DM from your Patreon site

at The Last Drive-In." -I did indeed.

This is from Christopher Windsor of Ansley, Nebraska.

-Okay. "Hi, Joe Bob.

I keep hearing you talk about wanting

questions about movies instead of the sappy fare

that you usually get." Which is true.

-Yes. -"So here's one for you.

Please explain the difference in 'Gas Pump Girls' movies.

I've heard you mention it a few times,

but didn't understand what you were talking about,

but it did make me go check out 'Gas Pump Girls..."'

-Yeah. -..."and now it's one

of my favorite flicks.

I'd love to hear some trivia about it

from the indisputable expert.

Thank you, and the drive-in will never die.

Christopher Windsor, Ansley, Nebraska."

Okay, Christopher, when you say explain the difference

in "Gas Pump Girls" movies,

there's only one "Gas Pump Girls."

There can be only one "Gas Pump Girls,"

and that's the 1979 flick starring Kirsten Baker

and Huntz Hall that was filmed in Sacramento.

And I believe we have a photo here somewhere, uh,

of the actual service station.

It's still in business today,

but if you're talking about all the great softcore TNA

drive-in movies of that era, I would recommend

"Beach House, "Spring Break,"

"Losing It," "Zombeavers,"

uh, "Return of the Living Dead."

Uh, TNA was kind of a crossover with horror.

Uh, "Squeeze Play," and that was the first film

that made money for Troma.

Uh, "Hard Bodies," "Private Lessons."

There were so many I'm sure I'm leaving out a lot of good ones,

but Darcy and I were talking recently about

why they're not making those anymore.

-Yeah, we totally need to bring it back.

I would love to make one.

-Yeah, I know you want to do that.

And because you dig the genre. -I really do.

It's just like a lot of fun,

playful nudity mixed with comedy and not hardcore porn.

It's just fun.

-Remember "The Student Nurses... -Yeah.

-...and "The Student Teachers?"

I think there were three of each.

-Of course. Roger Corman started the whole trend.

-And I want to remind everyone

that tonight is partly a tribute to the late, great Roger Corman,

because our first movie was his, "Slumber Party Massacre,"

and our last movie will be his.

But right now we're going to take a short break.

I'm Joe Bob Briggs with Darcy, the Mail Girl

in Coweta County, Georgia,

where it's so hot you can sweat 150 pounds of fat

off a 100-pound hog, reminding you

that the drive-in will never die.

Secretary in a medical office says,

"Doctor, there's an invisible man in the waiting room."

Doctor says, "Tell him I can't see him."

[Laughter]

Okay, joke in honor of Roger Corman.

-Okay. -The best way to live

a long life,

eat a meatball a day for 100 years.

[Laughter]

-True. [Laughs]

-Okay, Moses comes down from Mount Sinai.

He's carrying the stone tablets.

The assembled multitudes gather around to listen to his wisdom.

And Moses says, "Well, I've got good news and I got bad news."

The good news is I got him down to 10.

The bad news is adultery is still in.

[Laughter]

-Oh.

-I love how proud you get.

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