BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

Hilarious stunts and dazzling special effects by Richard Edlund highlight this tale of a 2,000 year old sorcerer rounding up young, nubile victims for human sacrifices. Carpenter once described this film as a "Chinese Wizard of Oz" and you can clearly see how he was influenced by MGM's 1939 masterpiece. Big Trouble in Little China is also full of countless movie in-jokes, parodying everything from Akira Kurosawa's Ran to Carpenter's own Starman to the climatic duel between Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in Roger Corman's The Raven.

And now for those drive-in totals from MonsterVision host Joe Bob Briggs: "We have: Fifty-seven dead bodies. One kidnapping. Four motor vehicle chases. One wheelchair chase. One white-slavery ring. (No, wait a minute--YELLOW slavery ring.) One machine-gun massacre. One machete battle. Multiple blue finger-flame. One zombified levitating 2,000-year-old man with really bad fingernails. Exploding building. Exploding temple. Knife to the forehead. One ocean of chained skeletons. One palace of golden Buddhas. Poison gas. Nine Kung Fu scenes. Four stars."

The preceding was brought to you by the most excellent drive in host, Joe Bob Briggs and Monstervision on TNT. Watch it every Saturday night.

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