10/30/2022 0 Comments I am ghost real boxing![]() ![]() Story-wise it's a slight, farcical and chaotic sideshow. However to their surprise the occupants happen to be ghosts and they have no intention of leaving. Two cops, Buford and Benny are sent to a supposedly rundown southern plantation to evict the residents of the Victorian mansion. I guess that's got to count for something. Not that I found it funny, but at least it didn't bore me. Well actually, I was somewhat amused by it. "Ghost Fever" is very corny and boisterous, but a very misguided slapstick low-budget horror comedy with little in the way laughs, but filled with constant annoyance and stupidity in the sketches. Yes, after watching "Ghost Fever" you'll see why this popular pseudonym (in placed for Lee Madden) was used. Seek it out if you DARE!!!Īlan Smithee strikes again. #I am ghost real boxing movieThen Hemsley and Avalos do a dance number and then when you are begging the movie to end there is a looooong boxing scene where Avalos boxes Smokin Joe Frazier (this scene goes on and on and has not one funny moment). Like when a mummy appears wearing shades a bow-tie and a top hat and proceeds to BREAK DANCE. You keep getting shocked by another terrible set piece. Yet, because the movie is jawdroppingly incompetent, it is cruelly enjoyable. ![]() His double takes fail, his funny faces, his "fear" of the ghosts, his physical comedy - all of it fails. Oddly though Hemsley seems to turn over lots of the movie to his co-star Luis Avalos and Avalos gives one of the worst "comedic" performances ever captured on film. One of the machines (which of course Hemsley gets trapped in) has two large hammers coming down close to the person's groin while a device is twirled into their backside (supposedly to give them rhythm!!!) Yikes. Plenty of groin and crotch humor and a truly offensive scene where they find machines in the basement of a Southern mansion that were used on slaves. ![]() The script is credited to three hacks and the script is truly awful. The director, Lee Madden was so aghast at the finished product he took his name off and they slapped on the infamous Alan Smithee credit. Hemsley had a lot of faith in this Ghostbusters-like rip-off and it tanked big time and messy lawsuits followed btwn Hemsley and the producers. MADE might be too strong of a word - regurgitated and somewhat spliced together in an editing bay is maybe more apropos. GHOST FEVER is possibly one of the greatest bad movies ever made. My question is, why didn't this movie have a cult following? Am I the only person on Earth who loves this messy treat? It is a genuinely disturbing image that was supposed to be played for laughs. His comedic performance is nothing new, but he is a good guide through a tangled web of a story that becomes completely lost in horrible direction. You have to respect a man that gives it all in a film he must have known was a complete mess. ![]() Sherman Helmsley keeps his head up through it all. I've been waiting for it to air since, but I haven't been able to experience the wonder of a film so bad I ponder how it was ever produced. It is a celebration in all that is bad in movies, but when it was on rotation in 1999, I couldn't take my pre-teen eyes off of it! There was an appealing creepiness about how truly awful the movie is. The real director of the film "Ghost Fever", Lee Madden was too ashamed to take credit for this disasterpiece. God bless the abstraction of a director, Alan Smithee. Sometimes a film can be so bad, it's totally enjoyable. ![]()
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