Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Brad Dourif Month Continues with a Rerun of this Piece on His Epic Turn in 1991's Body Parts

At the request of a very special patron, I take an affectionate look at the wonderfully preposterous Body Parts, a 1991 horror movie from the screenwriter of Near Dark and The Hitcher about a worst-case scenario when receiving a transplant: Murder Arm, a debilitating ailment that makes you want to murder everyone you meet.

I'm Finishing My Book The Fractured Mirror So I'm Rerunning Pieces on Traumatic Kid's Films: First Up, The Peanut Butter Solution

Two of you generous weirdoes paid me one hundred dollars to watch and write about the famously fucked-up Canadian kid’s movie The Peanut Butter Solution, which is, indeed, fucked up, albeit in a most delightful way.

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Manos: The Hands of Fate Proved Conclusively That NOT Everyone Can Make a Movie, But Everyone Sure Can Try!

One of you generous weirdoes paid me one hundred dollars to finally get around to experiencing the exquisite madness of Manos: The Hands of Fate, a Mystery Science Theater 3000-roasted camp classic and popular contender for worst film of all time that was everything I hoped it would be and more.

The VelociPastor is the Killer Dinosaur Pastor Movie We Want and Need

One of you generous souls paid me to see a movie about a priest who turns into a vengeance-crazed dinosaur when he’s angry. No, it’s not a documentary.

3000 Miles to Graceland is Vulgar Trash Unfit for a King

One of you kindly sadists forced me to watch a movie that asks us to buy Kevin Costner as the kind of demented fuck who would "stick a live snake up a woman's coochie." Is Costner convincing as such a dark, lost soul? Read and find out!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #227 The Traveling Executioner (1970)

One of you generous weirdoes paid me to experience the fascinating, pitch-black 1970 character study The Traveling Executioner, with a never-better Stacy Keach in the title role.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #206 Lurkers (1988)

One of you generous weirdoes paid me to see a very strange, obscure movie called Lurkers.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #177 Batman Beyond "Lost Soul" and "Hidden Agenda"

Bruce and Terry square off against the bat-suit and a whole new pack of Jokerz as I continue my trip through the trippy cult cartoon Batman Beyond.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #163/My World of Flops Perving Out in the Jungle Case File #171 Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1984)

In honor of the late Tanya Roberts (who we’re absolutely certain is dead this time), we take a nostalgic look back at her 1984 vehicle Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, an inexplicably PG-rated colonialist wet dream that puts the T&A into “Tarzan knockoff”

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #154 Somebody is Waiting (1996)

My patron-funded jaunt through the filmography of disgraced former Noxzema pitch-woman Rebecca Gayheart continues with a look back at the dreary 1996 coming of age youth gone wild melodrama Somebody is Waiting.