Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: WITHOUT WARNING

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Jack Palance & Martin Landau battle an alien hunter and mid-life career slumps in the 1980 sci-fi movie "Without Warning".
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[@bouillonjules2]

This film DID actually inspire the movie "Predator" in 1987. Sadly, Kevin Peter Hall, who played the Alien in both films (and was also in "Harry and the Hendersons as "Bigfoot"), died shortly afterwards. RIP, big man X

[@robonaught]

Kevin also played the Predator in Predator 2 then he died.

[@stephenison5703]

He did an amazing job with all the makeup and prosthetics they had to put on him for every movie and he did a spectacular job 1000% miss or rest in peace but people still will remember him📜👈🙏

[@lonewolfwildernesssurvival9443]

Yeah he had aids

[@brandonlordbaltimore5182]

​@@lonewolfwildernesssurvival9443Um yeah, we know. From a blood transfusion. However, no one felt the need to say it. 😑😔

[@lonewolfwildernesssurvival9443]

@@brandonlordbaltimore5182 you are right they never actually told as I can remember that’s how he contracted it, very sad

[@ClydeJHatbird]

Not gonna lie, it was genuinely creepy when they revealed the alien with the swinging lamp light.

[@martinguzman3995]

Clyde Kevin Peter Hall played the alien in this movie. To me It's his height that makes the alien so scary.

[@lordkrythic6246]

I felt the same way. It was really well done.

[@johnbockelie3899]

It's the alien from Balok's spaceship from Star Trek. Comedy gold.

[@killerfrank8974]

Agreed!!!!

[@hafaball]

my theory is they asked Jack Palance if he would be in the movie, he turned it down, so they got Martin Landau. Than Palance said he could do it, so the filmmakers just had them play the same role.

[@maxbrandt6]

I think you are correct on this.

[@michaelccozens]

Good theory, but that sorta seems like a lot more thought and planning than is evidenced on-screen. I'm going with Graydon pulling-off some analog proto-version of the Fappening.

[@Chamindo7]

Landau as Bela Lugosi in "Ed Wood", will always be amazing!

[@johnrunion5357]

at this point in his career laundau probably saw this phase of his work as his own ed wood years.

[@princeblackelf4265]

Palance is a consummate professional, always amazing no matter what he's stuck in

[@frederickmiller2733]

Dude this is my favorite review. Jack Palance screaming ALLLIIEEENNN followed by the Arnold sound byte is GOLD

[@GuyIncognito-mw8mr]

Then you would have definitely liked Alone In The Dark 😉

[@halberd-3291]

RIP Kevin Peter Hall.

[@tbspaceship]

To be honest I actually think the alien design/costume is pretty cool. When he's just standing still or walking slowly he has a menacing appeal to him.

[@insanelook]

agree on that.

[@prehistorichero2755]

Well at least the Predator costume is better than this.

[@gagecrawley6223]

He’s just standing there...MENACINGLY!

[@jesusoftheapes]

plus the face and mouth movement were spot on . This is a good movie !

[@dirus3142]

yeah, I think so too. He would look good in Star Trek or some other sci fi show.

[@tuckerlambing975]

As a Boy Scout, I can confirm that you find alien flapjacks quite often.

[@emsleywyatt3400]

Subjecting them to high intensity infrared should take care of it.

[@VampiresCrypt]

This movie scared the living shit out of me as a kid, then I forgot about it and caught it up again on cable on a late night and it was still as scary as I remembered it.

[@michaelccozens]

Those flying pancakes are pretty creepy. The pulsating effect especially.

[@GuyIncognito-mw8mr]

I seen it on the CBS late night movie when I was 12 😉

[@CesarDaSalad]

"If it pees you can kill it"! XD ...oh Brandon you magnificent genius you.

[@Zeropointill]

i kill for the erection

[@michaellozada1077]

"turns out, if it pees you can kill it" LOL!🤣

[@zuttoaragi8349]

That joke about The Shape of Things to Come is even funnier now that I've seen the review of it.

[@henrykujawa4427]

I'm not sure what looked funnier, a slab of concrete bouncing off Palance's head, or a huge boulder bouncing off a horse's head in Jess Franco's "COUNT DRACULA". (And they left the shots in the films!)

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

I admit, your show rules. It makes me laugh when little else does in this world. Thank you.

[@chrishill2798]

Jack Palance & Martin Landau starred in Alone in the Dark (82) - along with Donald Pleasance (Halloween) & Dwight Schultz (Murdock on A-Team) - Directed by Jack Shoulder (Nightmare on Elm Street 2, The Hidden)

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

Al that needs is... with Kevin Bacon and the circle would be complete. :)

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

Perhaps, I was making a reference that six degrees of Kevin Bacon game. :)

[@matthewdunham1689]

The Hidden. CLASSIC

[@johnw8578]

Is that the movie with The Bleeder? And other escaped killers from a mental institute?

[@chrishill2798]

@@johnw8578 yes :)

[@menslady125eif2590]

"AaaaLiEeEeEeEeEeEn!" Oh, my gosh! He just ran in!

[@MrDogsledder]

Leroy Jenkins!!!!

[@phataguilar1724]

Lmao Palance is GOLD in this

[@michaelccozens]

At least he's got chicken.

[@TsunogaiDanshaku]

Well, I have only one thing to say. "AaaLiiiEeeEEeeEeEn~!"

[@meesalikeu]

Owen Garrett leeeerrrrroooooyyyy jenkins

[@matthewdunham1689]

Exactly

[@angerymechanic661]

Lol

[@phataguilar1724]

LMFAO!!!

[@phataguilar1724]

Holy shit I love this Movie Palance is Gold in this Lmao

[@AdrianMcCauley]

"Alieeeeeeeeeeen!" Hahaha new ring tone!

[@gordons-alive4940]

I'm surprised none of the reviews of this movie I've seen, the fact that they are warned, and fairly early in the movie, never gets mentioned. One of the main characters reads it on the bathroom wall and talks about it. It's kind of cryptic, but still a warning!

[@JFTC709]

As Brandon pointed out, the alien hunter looks like the Balok dummy from Star Trek TOS, but the disk parasite things also look like the parasites from the season 1 episode "Operation - Annihilate!"

[@Targisvear]

I still kind of find Jack Palance more menacing in the cologne ad at the end than in the film lol.

[@GuyIncognito-mw8mr]

Ripley’s Belive It Or Not ! 😜

[@gaillewis5472]

My sisters and I just watched this together and howled with laughter. Nice job, Brandon.

[@Penfolduk001]

You ever seen the film "Hawk the Slayer" with Jack Palance as the villain?

[@homelesshannah50]

Did you ever see him play Rasputin when he hosted Ripley's Believe Or Not? He was full on BATSHIT onscreen it was freaking me and my brother out. He was like WTF with Palance

[@Enshohma]

Meanwhile, back at the Character Actor Saloon!

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

This has always been one of my cult favorites; ever since I first saw it on late-nite cable in the 80's. Then I bought it on dvd in NYC back in 1998 or so. Still watch it every now and then like Phantasm and From Beyond.

[@throb9]

With cameos by Ralph Meeker, Neville Brand, and Sue Ane Langdon, no less.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

That's depressing.

[@troyschulz2318]

Ralph Meeker's final acting role to boot.

[@henrykujawa4427]

I knew I saw Neville Brand. I'm not sure he was ever good in anything he ever did... other than the time he played Al Capone.

[@plasticweapon]

negative nellies.

[@briefcaseblues6061]

I was 5 in 1980. I remember those disc used to freak me out, bad dreams and shit.

[@henrykujawa4427]

Worse than the similar-looking creatures in that 1st-season STAR TREK episode!!

[@dalekinnear9709]

I don't care what anyone says. I love this movie. I first saw it in the early 80s on regular tv back when CBS still had their late night (11:30 pm after the news) lineup of shows (Columbo, McCloud, etc) as well as movies like this.

[@alandhopewell]

That's when I first saw it.

[@henrykujawa4427]

I lost tons of sleep staying up to videotape reruns of the various NBC Mystery Movie series. Until CBS decided to ruin it by putting on a news show at 2 AM, resulting in whatever was on before that getting CUT TO RIBBONS.

[@ThatIsALakeSir]

ironically there’s also another movie aired only once on CBS named without warning, but it is instead an alien invasion

[@tmrezzek5728]

8:25 - Shout-out to the great RALPH MEEKER (left; starred in Kiss Me Deadly and Paths Of Glory) and NEVILLE BRAND (right; starred in Stalag 17, Birdman Of Alcatraz, and Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive.) Props to Greydon Clark: Meeker had suffered a stroke and--because Clark admired Meeker's body of work and wanted to help get him back on his feet--put him in the film.

[@homelesshannah50]

Oh shit that was Neville!!! Don't forget about That Darn Cat and the Twilight Zone episode that got banned for 54 years

[@robertstewart9658]

The film has a stellar cast of seasoned veterans. The wife was a big Landau fan which was one reason we went. You didn't even mention Neville Brand, Sue Ann Langdon and Ralph Meeker.

[@HerveAttia]

I saw this movie in theaters in my country France in 1980. I was 12. it was the decade of horror movies. Same year came "howling" and more. Yes, it is a B or Z movie but it was so well done for a budget of $150k and with this awkward amazing cast!! I loved this movie so much. In 2000, 20 years after, I was happy to find a DVD copy made from a old VHS tape. Now, with social media and huge youtube platform, the movie has became a Cult Classic well deserved with a blu-ray version.

[@Jel01975]

Oh my fucking god I watched this when I was like 10. I thought it was a dream and then WHAM! Brandon reviews it. 👍

[@alexives9274]

this film is a under rated masterpiece atmosphere is so on point it makes it scary something a lot of new horror movies miss.

[@henrykujawa4427]

You'd NEVER guess from all his movies that Jack Palance had a REALLY great sense of humor... or, would you?

[@plasticweapon]

i would.

[@robw2327]

This movie creeped me out as a kid.

[@jaredsamples6969]

Have you thought of reviewing Sweet Home? It's a 1989 Japanese horror film that got a wonderful Famicom video game adaptation, which got a spiritual successor in Resident Evil.

[@r.d.nibblets9133]

Oh yes yes YES! PLEASE do "Critters"!

[@The1uptriforce]

i will forever remember palance for running at an alien yelling alien

[@RHGarciaApr85]

You need to review Alone in the Dark (1982)

[@trevorblanco]

What Brandon does takes real talent, so impressed.

[@Tohofan122]

Did Cabin In The Woods (2011) take inspiration from the gas station scene? I know Cabin In the Woods was a spoof but damn thats actually pretty cool they did that.

[@michaelccozens]

Eh, I kinda doubt it. The whole "cryptic warning from an old local dude" thing is pretty standard in the genre. I'm not sure Stephen King can write a story without invoking it.

[@andrewsreed03]

I saw 'Without warning' on TV during the early 80s when I was very young and it scared me. It's still not a bad movie to add to a cult collection.

[@lashebawinston4906]

Yes, I saw it when I was a kid, too, along with Dark Night of the Scarecrow.

[@logan_garrett1972]

Great review as always Brandon. Another movie where Jack Palance and Martin Landau play whackos (along with Donald Pleasance!) is Alone in the Dark from 1982 which I think is actually a pretty good little movie. Just a suggestion for a future episode.

[@LoneWolf81684]

Kevin Peter Hall was also the giant mutant bear monster in Prophecy(1979) before Predator.

[@tyrantgregcagkaiju71]

And Harry from Harry and the Hendersons.

[@oldturntables8215]

And harry and the hendersons. Man he was getting work.

[@skylx0812]

Really? Wow, that guy sure can punch the hell out of a sleeping bag.

[@davidroarty7192]

Rick Baker(before he won 7 oscars for best makeup from seven different movies ) was the one designed the Alien hunter makeup for Kevin Peter Hall in this movie, including Harry from Harry and the Hendersons(1987) and which Rick Baker won his 2nd oscar best makeup after winning his first oscar win for the werewolf transformation in An American Werewolf in London(1981), the other oscar wins for Baker included, Tim Burton's Ed Wood(starring Martin Landau), The Nutty Professor(1996), Men in Black(1997), How The Grinch Stole Christmas(2000), and The Wolfman(2010)

[@jamescampbell39]

The flying flapjacks from Operation Annihilate Classic Star Trek episode.

[@LSOK38]

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!!

[@andreiiiksavvv6054]

Is that the one where spock went blind?

[@skylx0812]

Be long and pointy. ...or something 🖖

[@timberry4709]

15:14 - - "If you're going to shoot...shoot. If you're going to talk... talk."

[@BigB932]

These cheesy movies were fun back in the day when you are ten years old. Salem's lot was one that freaked me out a bit

[@dbel1980]

I used to watch this on the creature double feature when I was a kid. was one of my favorites​!

[@williamcrowe2576]

Another Greydon Clark film to look into is Angel's Revenge (a.k.a. Angel Brigade and 7 Angels). That movie not only has Jack Parlance, but also features cameos by Jim Backus and Pat Butram.

[@charlesbullghost5491]

Red head David played a deputy in Rambo first blood. Later he discovered Rambo is a Vietnam War hero.

[@stephenison5703]

I remember watching this on me TV and it didn't let me down, but like you said compared to that POS home video things this is a masterpiece 💯%👍

[@ginapazienza9349]

I just saw this in a mini horror marathon, it was 35mm but faded.

[@IhadToputAnameinHereSomewhere]

i remember being entranced by the poster since i was little and saw the VHS at blockbuster

[@TorontoJon]

Jack Palance probably killed those animals with one-arm push-up's. :)

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

These vids are helping me get through my detached retina surgery recovery. I thank you.

[@kelleycondon6504]

Tim Burtons Edd Wood was one of my favorite movies when I was younger and mostly because of Martin Landou's performance as Bella Logosi I remember the Halloween scene with the kids tricker treating making me laugh my ass off

[@Lukiel666]

This movie was my introduction to B horror movies. Been a fan ever since.

[@MrAlumni72]

Wait - not only Palance and Landau, but Cameron Mitchell ... AND Darby Hinton?!? How did this no win any Oscars?? Just checked imdb - add Ralph Meeker, Larry Storch, and Neville Brand to that list.

[@zeezerzam]

I want Jack Palance screaming ALIEEEEEEEENNN as my ringtone

[@Zosima45]

the Jack Palance commercial at the end! CLASSIC

[@jaivonpyatt6905]

This movie "Without Warning" is one of those type of movies that does the Aliens comes to to Earth to hunt humans for sport is very original for it's time. Hell this movie had done this before the infamously well known Predator series did it. And for an add bonus the Alien in this movie & for the Predator series is played by the well famous suit actor Kevin Peter Hall

[@alphawoolf5981]

Great video as usual, but you missed another Hollywood old timer. The guy next to Martin Landau in the bar is Neville Brand, who carved his own place in horror movie history in Eaten Alive directed by Tobe Hooper. Without Warning is a pretty cool movie with a lot of star power.

[@nobertosanchez647]

AAALIIIEEEEEN!!!!!!

[@filometor9936]

It was nice the allusion to Martin Landau´s performance in Ed Wood. Congrats for you increase of Patreon supporters, you deserve it.

[@66cuda]

thank you, this was one I saw the commercials when I was a kid and no one believed me about this film

[@jaivonpyatt6905]

This director of this film seems to know every world famous actors & have them along with two Academy award winning actors Martin Landowner & Jack Paulance to be in this movie.

[@Jeffrey314159]

It is a just a slasher film crossed with bits of ALIEN. Those frisby monsters the alien throws are the facehuggers.

[@coleslaw9181]

Not really.

[@pheonix5597]

Oh bullshit you idiot, those living frisby creatures aren't so similar to the face hugger in Alien. They're their own thing. Please!

[@henriquebitencourt5253]

And Alien is just an slasher version of Planet of the Vampires,what is your point

[@docsdomain]

Yay a new video from Brandon Tenold!!!! Time for a bad movie and some scathing jokes.

[@dcb1138]

7:31 "Mynocks.....chewing on the power cables again"

[@stephenclark6236]

"Come on, kill me, I'm here! Come on, do it!" -- Me halfway through this movie.

[@wolfe440]

I love your videos man! I remember binge watching your B movie reviews back in 2017 made me super into B movies, and I guess I went a little deeper than I probably should have-anyway, after discovering “A Black Christmas,” and watching the whole movie online, I fell in love with it. I’m a big fan of “A Christmas Story,” and I believe you said the same director was behind “A Black Christmas”? That aside, I really liked it, and then one day my father found it on Demand and said we should watch it since I talked about it all the time, saying it was an example of “one of the great horror movies” (i’m really into the horror genre, if you haven’t guessed already). I was a bit nervous since he seemed set to tear it apart, but I agreed to watch it with him and see what he thought of it. Long story short, we couldn’t make it even halfway through the film; he said it wasn’t even bad enough to be a “it’s so bad it’s good movie.” He said it was simple...this movie was just BAD. Honestly, in the end of it all, I kinda agreed with him. “A Black Christmas” is a B movie for sure, not really the greatest. I say that because I watched “Silence Of the Lambs” for the first time afterwards...and I don’t think I can go back to B horror movies ever again. All the same, “A Black Christmas” is still somewhat of a guilty pleasure for me, especially considering all the great horror movies it inspired. So yeah, it’s important, but not really as wonderful as you give it credit for. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, though. But Billy doesn’t have anything on Hannibal. Poor Billy.

[@bamavon]

Am I the only one that kept expecting the long haired guy to come out of the RV and yell SHAZAM?

[@deckofcards87]

This movie's cover art is epic

[@parisgreen4600]

If you want another good Jack Palance performance, check out "Panic in the Streets" from about 1950. I think it was his first major role. It's about a plague outbreak in New Orleans, and it has fellow scary guy Richard Widmark as the hero.

[@VampiresCrypt]

This movie was also before Predator and when I think about it the plot is similar! Please Brandon also do a review on the X-Tro trilogy !!!!

[@vegtable8559]

Just found your channel, brother. Sorry, I'm late to the party! Love the content! Thanks!

[@GanonGhidorah]

7:57 - wow...This was the first time I saw this episode, yet all day at work, I was thinking about "Critters" and when Brandon was going to review them.

[@jasoncase9481]

Hey Brandon Tenold This decent low budget B Science Fiction horror movie is credited as the inspiration for the Blockbuster science fiction horror action movie Predator.

[@Emulous79]

Palance and Landau were also in Alone in the Dark. What a nutty pair!

[@chriskittinger2735]

"Starring in the Shape Of Things To Come must have hit him pretty hard." I see what you did there...

[@emfs9522]

Just found your channel. Thank you for making this isolation a little more tolerable.

[@dallasdandigitalproduction393]

Great Mennen commercial at the end.lol. That film looked really goofy. What a cast.

[@michaeldublg]

Hey Brandon, it's Michael from Phoenix Arizona. This one made me laugh out loud three separate times. Thumbs up!

[@kewrock]

So, the budget was $150k. Landau and Palance got 75k and Rick Baker got 19k for the alien head. That means this movie was shot for 56 thousand dollars. That is beyond low budget, even for 1980.

[@jetfire851]

I'm disappointed that you didn't play the clip of Jack Palance getting conked on the head with a styrofoam rock when you said that "The Shape of Things to Come" hit him hard.

[@davidj.thompson]

Yeah! I was thinking that, too.

[@p0laris74yt8]

That would've been hilarious.

[@eyeoftheredgiant]

ok tbh but without warning is a good title

[@BBnanner]

I've come from a bleak future where civilization is dominated by bloodthirsty mutant cyborgs. A world of suffering and misery. I've come to 2017 to save the world by convincing you to review the movie Wild Zero, averting the horror to come. Only you can save us all, Brandon! Do it for the children!* * not the bloodthirsty mutant cyborg children, they're pricks

[@AceOfHeartz4]

BBnanner you sound a lot like a steins gate character

[@BBnanner]

Wolf ofDimensions A who?

[@AceOfHeartz4]

BBnanner it's a sci fi anime. A character from that is very similar to what you said.

[@BBnanner]

Wolf ofDimensions oh. I was going for a Bustah Rhymes ELE intro effect actually

[@marcellorenatto]

you ara wrong pal, I'm from the future and the Corona Virus will destroy the world

[@garyhall331]

that commercial at the end lol after every line he sounds like he was gasping for air

[@RyllenKriel]

That bar didn't have "beer or pool" it actually has a pool of beer to swim in and drink at the same time.

[@snoo333]

love the commentary. very funny stuff. thank you

[@od4361]

Jack Palance & Martin Landau...

[@deadNightwatchman]

Saw this as a kid, scared my younger, gullible self. Later, after watching Predator, I saw the parallels, too. It's like "somebody" knew this movie and thought: "I'm gonna do this again, just... better." BTW, in Germany the movie's called "die fliegenden Teufel" = the flying devils.

[@j.e.pouccoui3]

5:01 Fun Fact: Larry Storch Also Voiced The Joker In 2 Episodes Of "The New Scooby Doo Movies".

[@hsatin20]

Dude, great add on of the skin bracer commercial. That commercial used to creep me out when I was a kid

[@hankmessaros1835]

Dude you are the greatest, keep it going, love these videos

[@craigsmall9564]

“Hell Raiser puzzle box”. Lol.

[@axelwulf6220]

Maybe tell reason why it was nominated so many times was the amount of character actors it had

[@harnois75]

One of the first films I saw on VHS when video rental shops were a new thing.

[@randypanthegoatboy7114]

For a second, when I saw the title, I thought it was the 90s Without Warning.

[@rjmacready8830]

My three brothers would always laugh our asses off at Palance's colgne commercial.