# "It Came From Hollywood" (1982) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-hollywood-1982/444528 "2008-04-08T23:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-hollywood-1982/444528/1 "2008-04-08T23:05:59Z")
> **[IMDb: Ratings, Reviews, and Where to Watch the Best Movies & TV Shows](https://www.imdb.com/)** > > IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. Get personalized recommendations, and learn where to watch across hundreds of streaming... I hadn’t seen this in years so I went looking for it to watch. For those of you not in the know, it’s a clipshow style movie with skits by contemporary comedy actors including John Candy, Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner. It’s a sort of homage to the b-movie. I used to own the film on vhs that someone had recorded off telly and I must have watched it 20 times. I still remembered most of the dialogue even after 15 years. A few things I noticed on watching it again. Much of the dialogue in the modern skits is quite adult, references to handjobs etc. The modern skit bits seem mostly dated and dull to me now while I can better appreciate the effects in the older films. Sure some of them were terrible (Plan 9 et al) but some of the films they show clips from were great for their time (The Day The Earth Stood Still). I don’t know if this film was an inspiration for MST3k but it contains similar humour. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-hollywood-1982/444528/2 "2008-04-08T23:07:46Z")
“Eek! A brain!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-hollywood-1982/444528/3 "2008-04-09T02:03:06Z")
I love it. It was a staple at my Bad Film Festivals (which I was doing long before MST3K, as were other people. The idea of riffing on bad films has multiple roots.) It was released on VHS, but I understand that the trouble of getting permissions has kept it from DVD release. I still have my copy that I taped off the TV. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-hollywood-1982/444528/4 "2008-04-09T02:35:25Z")
It was inspired by Harry and Michael Medved’s _The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time_ and its sequels. It was less interesting than the Medved’s books. I was quite disappointed by it. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-hollywood-1982/444528/5 "2008-04-09T02:53:20Z")
I taped it the last time it was on one of the movie channels. I used to love it when I was a kid but either it or I haven’t aged well. A companion piece of sorts is 1984’s [Terror in the Aisles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_in_the_Aisles), a clipfest of horror films narrated by Donald Pleasance and Nancy Allen. I have that floating around on VHS somewhere too. I have next week off; maybe I’ll schedule a little double feature. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-hollywood-1982/444528/6 "2008-04-09T03:03:56Z")
If you can find it, **Zacherly’s Horrible Horror** is another great clipfest of bad movie moments, including some stuff it’s hard to find elsewhere (outtakes from **Killers from Space** , for instance) > **[Horrible Horror (Video 1986) ⭐ 7.2 | Comedy, Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134729/)** > > 1h 50m | Not Rated Zacherly (John Zacherle) was one of the original horror hosts, first on CBS, then on New York’s indy station WPIX (where he hosted **Chiller Theater** ) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-hollywood-1982/444528/7 "2008-04-09T03:44:54Z")
Another good one is [The Best of Sex and Violence](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196373/), a collection of trailers from B-movies from the late 60s and early 70s. I suspect most of the movies are really bad, but some of the trailers are hilarious!