<![CDATA[io9: albert pyun]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: albert pyun]]> http://io9.com/tag/albertpyun http://io9.com/tag/albertpyun <![CDATA[The Post-Apocalyptic Dance Sequence That The Road Somehow Left Out]]> When you've survived a post-apocalyptic world of cannibals and evil gangs, there's nothing left to do but have a 1940s-style dance routine. For some reason, this sequence didn't appear at the end of The Road, so we're including it here.

The awesome dance routine, of course, really comes from the very end of Radioactive Dreams, directed by the great Albert Pyun. Philip and Marlowe have been trapped in a fallout shelter for the past 15 years, with no entertainment other than classic noir detective stories — hence their names and their determination to be Bogart-esque. They have launch keys to one of the last remaining nuclear missiles, so in addition to the cannibals wanting to eat their uncontaminated bodies, they also have gangsters and "disco mutants" chasing after them. It's not much of a spoiler to say they prevail, and succeed in teaching all the mutants how to dance properly. And of course, this movie has classic 1980s post-apocalyptic mutants, with the punk hair and KISS makeup.

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<![CDATA[Come To Post-Apocalyptic Boston For The Eastern European Charm, Stay For The Sewer Mutants]]> Welcome to the streets of post-apocalyptic Boston, Massachusetts: the plague hit so hard, the buildings look Bulgarian and the cars are all Yugos. It's just one of the charms of Adrenalin: Fear The Rush, including a great sewer mutant fight.

Made by the great B-movie master Albert Pyun, Adrenalin: Fear The Rush was filmed in Slovakia but takes place in Boston, where a plague has the city walled off and quarantined. As Reelviews puts it:

Attention to detail is not exactly Adrenalin's forte, either. All of the police cars in Boston look like Yugos and have the word "Policia" stamped on them. Why "Policia" instead of "Police"? Who knows. Who cares. One character apparently comes back from the dead without a word of explanation. Other characters are still around, alive and kicking, after getting riddled with about a dozen bullets. If I tried to list all the holes, inconsistencies, and other obvious problems with this movie, it would take me the rest of the week to write this review.

Christopher Lambert and Natasha Henstridge are cops, investigating a slew of nasty killings. And then they discover that something is lurking in the sewers:

And here's a glimpse of Henstridge taking down the sewer mutant, in an awesome, bondage-escaping, gun-toting scene:

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<![CDATA[How To Reattach A Severed Robot Head]]> Rutger Hauer finds a severed robot head on the ground, and helps it get a new body, in this hilariously unconvincing sequence from Omega Doom. Too bad Robot Blade was using that head as a soccer ball... and he's pissed.

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<![CDATA[Kevin Sorbo Gives Good "Sleazy Guy"]]> As you might have noticed from his guest spot as the sexist 1960s Middleman last year, Kevin Sorbo is really good at playing a sleaze. Here he is as a TV personality/hunter in Never Cry Werewolf. More Sorbo sleaze below.

You really do have to admire Sorbo's willingness to poke fun at himself, screaming into the phone about his lousy ratings and then turning on a dime to hit on the random chick who gets his autograph.

Meanwhile, Sorbo is also starring in B-movie auteur Albert Pyun's new movie, Tales Of An Ancient Empire, and he's doing some of his silliest, funniest work ever. Watch him hitting on his half sister while demanding money to help them find out the truth about their father and save the kingdom:


"Sweet girl." Heh. You can tell Sorbo enjoys his work.

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<![CDATA[How To Get Root On Angelina Jolie's Brain]]> Could this be the greatest Angelina Jolie moment ever? Long before she starred in Wanted — before Hackers, even — she played a cyborg named Cash Reese in 1993's Cyborg 2, directed by the great schlock-meister Albert Pyun. Here are some of our favorite moments from the film, including a scene where a lady hacker gets root on Angelina's brain by talking to her about cream. Oh yes.


Other great moments in our little clips reel: Angelina freaks out because she's been injected with a liquid explosive, and it turns out if she gets too far away from her creators, she goes haywire. (This is according to her mentor Mercy (Jack Palance) who appears in this scene as lips on the TV screen. And yes, it's Palance that Elias Koteas is calling "hot lips," not Jolie.) She also beats the crap out of an Asian fortune-teller/hacker, and then gets roped by the aforementioned lady hacker, who wears garter belt and stockings to go cyborg hunting. (Who wouldn't?) [IMDB]

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<![CDATA[The Midget Mafia Of Atlantis Demands A Woman-On-Woman Cage Match]]> Supermodel Kathy Ireland descends into a netherworld of tinsel hair and woman-on-woman brawls to the death, in Alien From L.A., which may be schlockmeister Albert Pyun's masterpiece. And then the squeaky-voiced Kathy gets drugged and sold to the local mob boss. Maybe I missed the explanation for why Atlantis — a Blade Runner-knockoff dystopia built around a crashed spaceship at the center of the Earth — has a super-Mafioso in Kabuki makeup? The gangster, incidentally, is played by Deep Roy, best known as the Oompa Loompas in Tim Burton's Willy Wonka and the pig-brained ventriloquist's dummy Mr. Sin, from Doctor Who.

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<![CDATA[Captain America Teaches English Lessons — With His Fists]]> The Red Skull sounds like Tweety Bird with a fakey Italian accent in this awesome clip from the original live-action Captain America movie. All the Skull wants is some English lessons, but instead Captain America kicks his ass, only to wind up strapped to a silly-looking Nazi rocket. The scene ends with the obligatory villain self-amputation, one of my favorite action-movie cliches. With Marvel working on a new Captain America film, this is the perfect time to celebrate the little-known original, with another clip after the jump.

Albert Pyun, also known as "king of the hacks," made Captain America around 1990-1991, but the film's financing fell through halfway through production. It wound up going direct to cable and home video. Pyun is best known for the Van Damme vehicle Cyborg, as well as the Andrew Dice Clay movie Brainsmasher: A Love Story. Who doesn't love a brainsmasher?

Captain America has that classic B-movie thing of being alternating between lightning-fast movement and snails-pace navel-gazing. It zips through World War II in the first 20 minutes, including the experiment that turns Steve Rogers into the Captain. And then we have a hilarious montage of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s with newspaper headlines, followed by explorers discovering Steve frozen in an iceberg. Then the movie slows to a crawl, with about an hour of Captain America adjusting to our modern era and hanging out. Meanwhile, the Red Skull has gotten a little less red, and kidnapped the President of the United States, with plans to implant a mind-control device into him. Which leads to this scene, which actually is pretty awesome:
Anyway, this is just the latest in our series of movies Marvel Comics would not want you to see.

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