Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 23 - TROMA -
Double feature
WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show Hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, trashy treasures, street levelness, life, culture and stuff.
In this episode Adam and Mark take on two
Troma classics where the schools teach readin’, writin' and radiation! and the
beaches have become battlefields... the waves are a war zone! Listeners and
losteners brace yourselves for Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986) and Surf
Nazis Must Die (1987).
Class
of Nuke 'Em High (1986) - When Warren and Chrissy notice some
strange things happening around their high school, when the pupils start acting
and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a nuclear plant
worker. They begin to suspect that something is going on at the nuclear plant
next door. Though the plant officials deny that there are any problems, Crissy
gives birth to a bloodthirsty mutant who immediately begins eating everyone in
the school. Will Warren and Chrissy be able to stop their killer kid?
Factoids
- The Monster is never seen in a full shot as the
entire costume was never finished. They only had bits and pieces that were used
as a puppet (hands, face, legs etc.)
- When Dewey lands on the pavement in the opening
scene, the first man to walk up to him is a shocked, bearded man, played by
Troma co-founder and producer Michael Herz in his only on-screen
performance ever.
- When Chrissy goes to the hospital, you can hear over
the loudspeaker "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard". These are the
names Moe, Larry, and Curly take in certain episodes of the Three Stooges. -
From the short Men
in Black; which was released September 28th, in 1934.
- Spike (Bob Prichett) has mop strings hanging from
his left shoulder. Certainly a reference to Toxie.
Links
Surf
Nazis Must Die (1987)
- When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in
the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty
revenge. Possibly the best title ever... An earthquake leaves
the California coastline in ruins and reduces
the beaches to a state of chaos.
A group of neo-Nazis led by Adolf
(Brenner), the self-proclaimed "Führer of the new beach", takes
advantage of the resulting chaos by fighting off several
rival surfer gangs to seize control of the beaches. Meanwhile, an oil
well worker named Leroy (Harden) is killed by the surf Nazis while jogging on
the beach. Leroy's mother, "Mama" Washington (Neely), devastated by
the loss of her son, vows revenge. After arming herself with
a handgun and grenades, she breaks out of her retirement
home and exacts vengeance on the Surf Nazis. For, amongst other things,
the excellent synth soundtrack by Jon McCallum, for having a character called
"smeg",for the hilariously obvious shock shots of the sky, surf and
the bunker area, and for the immortal line "taste some of mommas home
cooking Adolf", this films deserves 10 out of 10.
Factoids
Surf Nazis Must Die was criticised by reviewers as boring and hard to follow, and its acting, dialogue, and camerawork were widely panned. Janet Maslin wrote "Not even the actors' relatives will find this interesting." Roger Ebert stated that he walked out of the film after 30 minutes.
Links
Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg5IsQKBE4g&t=6s
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