Posts in My Year of Flops II
Exploiting our Archives: Assault With a Dead Weapon Case File #149/My Year of Flops II #46 Dead Heat (1988)

It’s Lethal Weapon meets Tales from the Crypt, only shitty, in 1988’s Dead Heat, a spooktacularly disappointing zombie buddy cop horror comedy from Shane Black’s brother.

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Drug Panic at the Disco! Case File #148/My Year of Flops II #45 Avenging Disco Godfather (1979)

Rudy Ray Moore’s improbable but glorious career as a cinematic leading man came to an exquisitely, and characteristically insane end with the gloriously bonkers, PG-rated 1979 anti-PCP disco horror musical The Avenging Disco Godfather.

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John Travolta's Southern-Fried Mid-Life Crisis Case File #142/My Year of Flops II #39 The Poison Rose

John Travolta month continues with an exploration of one of the many terrible films he’s released this year, The Poison Rose, a Southern-fried Chinatown for Dummies that casts Travolta’s cliched PI as a young whippersnapper with a thick mane of chestnut hair who gets mixed up in a mystery involving sinister powerbroker Morgan Freeman and a Peter Lorre-like creepy doctor played by an unrecognizable Brendan Fraser

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