The Exterminator Movies - The Cinema Snob

The Cinema Snob reflects back upon The Exterminator series, starting with the first film in 1980, and the 1984 Cannon Films sequel Exterminator 2 .
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Writer/Creator: Brad Jones
Title Card: Shaun Millington
End Screen: Nick Michalak, www.ravensfilm.com
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[@SpeedyEric1]

#ReleaseTheBuntzmanCut

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[@Rob1976x]

@@uvalavramoviz6993 I feel ya there. I ordered one in 2x. But I cut down on my drinking so in a few months after getting it it,LL be too damn big

[@justaguy7230]

Thanks for an awesome vid Snob, love ya man!

[@sbstoner]

I will try and keep a look out for those movie titles Mr. The Snob. Do you have a list of things you need by the way? Would love to knock a couple off the list for you.

[@daverindone655]

Not embarrassed to admit (but I should be) that I had the poster to E2 hanging in my room as a teen, wrote a fanboy sequel and even had John as wrestler in the glory days of e-fedding.

[@brianhebert6152]

John Eastland vs. Paul Kersey must have been a five-star classic!

[@claytongoode5715]

"An arrest warrant was put out for Paul MacCartney..." I've never wanted to see a movie based on a punchline so badly.

[@Rob1976x]

LMAO, that was funny as hell.

[@Thraim.]

He finally snapped because people kept praising him for Beatles songs he didn't even write.

[@spraragen88]

Technically he did have an arrest warrant out for him in Japan, he got busted for bringing in half a pound of pot. If he was anyone else, they would have given him 7 years in jail.

[@MrSomebodyStrange]

@@spraragen88 The film would go like this: it would start with the arrest and release of McCartney, then a bunch of time skips where he doesn't visit Japan for 40 years, and in the end there would be the most shocking plot twist to the most boring film ever - the whole time, from arrest to modern days IT WAS BILLY SHEARS

[@eldridgecharles1313]

" Serves them right for thinking they could survive an 80's car chase " Damn, I miss the 80's

[@jonathanwright8025]

1985 (novel). The Specialist - Jack Sullivan, a veteran of two wars, becomes a rough assassin after the Mafia and/or the USSR kills his wife. 1980. The Exterminator - John Eastland, a Vietnam veteran becomes a vigilante after his friend his murdered by a gang. 1974. The Punisher - Frank Castle, a Vietnam veteran who becomes a vigilante after the Mafia kills his family. 1972 (novel). Death Wish - Paul Benjamin, a middle aged CPA becomes a vigilante after his wife is killed and daughter put in a vegetative state by a random mugger. Doesn't have a cool name though. 1969. The Executioner - Mac Boland, a Vietnam veteran becomes a vigilante after the Mafia kills his family.

[@Rob1976x]

I watched this on patreon but hell I'm going to watch it again. Brad is a man who can entertain with his voice and wit.

[@DrakeKnight99]

That's why hes one of the very small list, just 2, of people I still watch from TGWTG. The other being Doug Walker

[@Mathadar]

Love his voice and coverage of niche films.

[@mrblonde609]

Gamers without internet in 2000: Game's too hard. Game magazine: You want the cheats?

[@Master_Yoda1990]

Im convinced that Roger Ebert just doesn’t like action and horror movies.

[@mamawray]

That's why Siskel was there: to tell Roger Ebert to stop throwing shade at a whole genre and just enjoy the films for the entertainment that they are.

[@mamawray]

That said, it's more fair to say that he hated slasher flicks, especially of the "dead teenager" variety. He didn't even like the first "Elm Street" movie, or The Thing (1982) which is unreal to me. They are only the scariest goddamn movies of all time, I-M-not-so-humble-O. Basically Ebert liked horror FILMS not movies e.g.: Nosferatu, The Shining, (probably) Psycho. And those are good, obviously, but The Thing? HOLY SHIT. Same goes for action movies. He loved every single Indiana Jones movie, which have plenty of blood, but its more like an old-fashioned Errol Flynn-type swashbuckler adventure, than some gritty 1970s stuff like Death Wish. In fairness, there is a reason they call them "exploitation movies". I think a better term for them would be "Violence Porn" and Ebert just didn't like porn. I mean, I* do, but I easily recognize that its not for everybody.

[@Master_Yoda1990]

MG Wray yeah I definitely got that vibe off him, the stereotypical old man that likes the classic motion pictures over new movies. Yeah, it’s not for everyone, however I think a reviewers/critics job is to evaluate cinematography and the quality of the film over their taste of the genre. Maybe Ebert should’ve stuck to the genres he was used to.

[@quesoblanco444]

That is ridiculous, he liked Ghost of Mars, Anaconda, Congo and Speed 2:Cruise Control. Please stop trafficking in absurdities.

[@Master_Yoda1990]

Queso Blanco oh hello, it’s not inaccurate, although my wording may be off, he didn’t like extreme horror or action, things with a lot of blood and violence, things almost pinochle in horror now, he liked some camp in his movies. You’re list is a good example and a lot of people don’t like that in action and horror, that’s why his views often conflicted with the main audience, the list you presented were mostly flops, where as most of the movies he hated everyone else loved, like hellraiser, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm street, Death Wish, and Child’s Play, most of which were successful theatrically.

[@mathieu4204]

Steve James was so cool, he deserved his own franchise instead of playing sidekick in most of his roles.

[@tommytwostep9753]

Poor Steve James!!! He saves our hero two times and gets fileted for his trouble

[@sonnysantana5454]

the black roller skater is a real NYC club hopping character who was well known through out the late 70's and very early 80's

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

hears the name "Mc Bain" shouts *MENDOZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!*

[@eijiniizuma6184]

"Ice to see you"

[@heartysquid]

Do one thing for me...get Mendoza

[@matthewstoneback9]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[@Snake4985]

"The darkest 'Will It Fit?' episode since Sleepaway Camp" lol

[@glennhay5628]

one of my favorite action movies of all time. dirty, grissly, and genty is awesome.

[@silvervalleystudios2486]

And the best part about it, no long wait for it to come out on VHS. Movies like this were made for VHS.

[@anton1990]

I love whenever Brad drops a Night Court reference!

[@jasonjimerson7046]

Yes! I want the Sheetz! Their chicken appetizers are great and their Dr. Pepper BBQ sauce is fire!

[@fww7675]

Don't forget the Boom Boom Sauce!

[@The_Baecon_King]

Sheetz is awesome ! I wish they would expand more in the u.s. their Wisconsin Cheese Bites are awesome

[@adorablecreature79]

Sheetz is from my hometown in Altoona PA!

[@Clay3613]

Shout Factory needs to get the rights to Exterminator 2 for the original cut.

[@richardpietroski9263]

Second best war flashback. Dancin' its on of course being first.

[@Niinkai]

Well, Mission Kill and Code Name Vengeance were directed by David Winters. For some reason.

[@themoviedealers]

He must have been a dancer.

[@prairiehawker]

I saw The Exterminator in the theater on its initial run. A couple of years later some theaters ran it as a Double Feature with Vice Squad, starring Wings Hauser and Season Hubley

[@evilways1227]

Christopher " I WANT MY NINJA!" George? Automatic 5 stars.

[@Emulous79]

He of the slow-motion-death-while-shrugging.

[@tommytwostep9753]

Christopher George is the orig J.G. Wentworth... "Its your black ninja...and you need him now!!!!!"

[@evilways1227]

Where's his Oscar for this?

Fun fact: Samuel L. Jackson appears in the first film as an uncredited extra.

[@Emulous79]

Oh yeah! I wonder where he is in it?

[@SAPProd]

FINALLY, I now know the identity of “The Paper Chase Guy” that Joel & The Bots could never answer. Maybe they should have riffed on this instead, he would have been more memorable!

[@Agent57000DM]

"BAD MOTHERS! BAD MOTHERS!"😂

[@SAPProd]

Agent57000DM “And the Bad Fathers Who Love Them! Today on Donahue!” 😂🤣

[@daverindone655]

Anderson - yet, a bit of a hothead (with a gambling problem)

[@TheRealNormanBates]

“Like.... what wall... _maaan?”_ “MEGA weapon! MEGA weapon! MEGA weapon!”

[@richardgadberry8398]

ANY FRUIT TO DECLARE?!

[@mamawray]

@ 1:51: I think we all need to admit: that stunt jump with the explosion behind it is EPIC. I want to know who that stuntman was, and I want to see an interview with him just talking about his career and specifically that stunt. Did they shoot him up there in a kind of catapult? Did he launch from a spring board? How far did he fall? Did he land on an inflated mat or in a pool?

[@sonnysantana5454]

the thing was that the movie reflected more of a mid to late 70's nyc look

[@elieeee6]

Wait wait wait wait wait you’re telling me McBain is a real movie?. Meenndozaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@greedycapitalist8590]

I remember reading a review of the first movie in a comic when I was a kid, and just a bit too young to go to the pictures and see it. It was years before I saw both films in a video library and rented them. Worth the wait though, those 80s action movies were such good fun.

[@boscopit]

Steve James was always great! RIP! He was even a Baseball Fury

[@Joorum]

The whole "You couldn't do this movie/show today" comment is the most annoying recurring phenomenon in KZbin comments at this moment, even surpassing the constant meme comments such as "Nobody: -Absolutely nobody:", ": Exists" and "People be like:".

[@joshnickerson83]

Look up any "Married... with Children" clip, I guarantee you about 90% of the comments are that.

[@wjzav1971]

@@joshnickerson83 Ikr People like to pretend that it was less oppressive back then but forget that the Simpsons were considered edgy when they started out.

[@rebornkusabi7264]

It really is because the only correct answer to that stupid comment is "Yes you can". Even the most regressive, exploitative film can be packaged and sold and make a profit in todays climate because it turns out- the average movie-watcher doesn't give a shit about that, just "is the film entertaining to me: yes or no?"

[@FrenchPaul1988]

Don't forget the "can we get.../we already have ... at home / ... at home:". Probably the worst meme comment of all IMO.

[@Assimandeli]

@@FrenchPaul1988 The worst thing about funny KZbin comments are the unfunny people who think repetition is funny. Back in the day, memes used to die and go away before they got old. Now they are in constant loop.

[@carlosmontesinos1544]

'Culture Clubber Lang' is one of your finest pieces of work, Brad

[@SangTheCryptek]

When the creepy bald senator came in for the girl, I could only picture Danny DeVito and think, "So anyways, I started rapin'."

[@randalgraves6979]

I saw Danny too. Lol

[@cthulhupthagn5771]

@@randalgraves6979 I saw him until Brad said "Jay Sherman" and now I can't bot

[@tommytwostep9753]

I can't look at him the same again!!! Thanks alot!!!!

[@TheWaffleman54]

I just thought of him as Frank Reynolds whenever he always mentioned stuff about "Bangin' dirty whores!"

[@PuppetDungeon]

Used to watch these on bootleg VHS with my buddy Anthony every weekend. By far some of the most entertaining cheese out at the time.

[@Myfacewhen1]

Do you want the sheetz, Brad?

[@ChrisAnonymous]

I can listen to Brad all day while im at work and never get bored

[@mamawray]

@ 6:00. The pacing makes me think that the producers recognized that there wasn't enough money to shoot everything in the script, and so they wisely cut anything involving character development to make sure that the truly essential elements of the story (i.e. the murders) were preserved.

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

Yes! I grew up with these two movies. I loved them, especially the 2nd one!

[@mst3kharris]

From MST3K S05E01, “Warrior of the Lost World”: Annoying Motorbike: (about the approaching police) Very Bad Mothers! Very Bad Mothers! Joel: Like Joan Crawford?

[@HossTheSlop]

"It's the Paper Chase guy!"

[@matthewmccoyd2578]

15:25 Now I'm just imagining the meme of Doomguy showing Rapunzel how to use a gun

[@orcwarchiefreviews]

Loving the double pack movies features I feel like I'm in a drive-thru got to make some popcorn

[@80sHorrorCentral]

Brad's reviews always make me laugh lol. Dude is a legend 😂

[@anthonydaniel9534]

A Cannon Group movie with troubled production???!!!??? Surely you jest, kind sir!!!

[@pentelegomenon1175]

Death Wish 3 is incredible though, does Exterminator 2 even come close really?

[@unclepatrick2]

Some how I missed these films. I was in High School in the 80's and had cable and a VCR but I never watched it.

[@sadekx5251]

Classic flicks. They don't make them like that anymore.

[@theangryholmesian4556]

And thank goodness because movies like this are nothing but glorified copaganda.

[@HiperPivociarz]

Disappointed this isn't a story about a retired old Dalek, who goes on a vigilante spree after the Doctor kills his friends.

[@themoviedealers]

"They had to move shooting from New York to LA to save money..." Dammit, I KNEW I recognized that fucking alley!

[@911jdc]

OMG, that was REALLY Roger Grimsby from the real channel 7 Eyewitness News in NY!

[@themoviedealers]

As Mara Wolynsky would say, we're number one.

[@mackgerry]

Heard this years ago. The mafia boss put through the meat grinder in The Exterminator was a jazz drummer and drummed for Bill Haley and the Comets.

[@kencoakley3959]

This is my favorite Action film of all-time. The first time I saw this was at a drive-in with Escape From New York in 1981. I had seen ads for it in the paper and it looked like a Horror movie. Then when the movie started i thought the friend was going to be The Exterminator.

[@brandonleague3641]

I actually remember seeing Exterminator 2 on TV with my Dad when I was VERY young. Maybe 9 or 10?

[@edwardtoyebo9690]

Trivia. The man who plays the pedophile Senator also was the star of Miracle Whip TV commercials. I am just now conjuring the lurid connection between the two.

[@AshGCG]

I bought this film from my local video rental shop way, way back. I think I thought it was The Terminator, which probably wasn't even out to rent at the time. No one ever accused me of being bright!

[@tetrapharmakos8868]

Exterminator is the greatest film ever made and probably the pinnacle of human artistic achievement. Unfortunately I only have the sequel in Big Box.

[@AdaWongLover5]

Only in the 80s could a shlubby guy like Robert Ginty be an action hero. I kinda miss that.

[@theangryholmesian4556]

That is one of the things I give 80's action flicks credit for.

[@joshlanham1244]

After a shitty shift at work this puts a smile on my face thanks Snob

[@destoker]

At 7:46 i was thinking:" Did the Ghetto Ghouls stole the General Lee from the duke boys?"

[@johnnysizemore5797]

Cannon was always my favorite Company when it came to Action Movies(especially Chuck Norris one's!......yeah i watched All of Walker Texas Ranger, why do you ask?) so It's nice to see 'em getting their due....

[@TheTruth61989]

anything with Steve James is a watchable

[@SwaggyG_2102]

I wonder who would play the role of John Eastland / Harry Anderson if The Exterminator movie were to be remade...

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

I’m leaning more towards Finn Wolfhard in about 8 years

[@SwaggyG_2102]

@Gary Hall Sorry, I thought Harry Anderson was the protagonist of The Exterminator without doing much research. I'll change it back. But I have seen IT, still surprising how the guy who made Robot Chicken played Richie in the 1990 version of IT.

[@scottbuckley823]

I love he tracks the gang down with in the first 20mins no fucking around in the 80's

[@guillaumebabey4484]

Finally we reach the point where there is a Jean-Marie Pallardy connection with a Cinema Snob episode!

[@darthnecrosis1705]

Robert Ginty looks like an off brand Roddy Piper.

[@markabboud8564]

His little-known brother Randy Piper

[@daverindone655]

"Rodney the Piperr"

[@pentelegomenon1175]

As much as I like Piper I must sadly insist that it is the other way around.

[@wingsandash]

He looks like the love child of Paul McCartney and Harry Anderson, as per the referrences.

[@darklink1113]

Thank you brad, great review

[@docthemetalfreak]

You know i wondered for a long time why a part 3 never happened. But after learning everything about part 2 I get it. Hopefully tho they will never reboot this starring Michael Cera playing the exterminator.

[@SparkyMarkyMark23]

Awesome👏🏻😎🤩Low Budget Action Double Feature!

[@KyleRobots]

"Cabaret is only KINDA like Exterminator 2!"~Cinema Snob's official review!

[@wildside316]

MVP is a fairly underrated actor, imo.☺

[@scottbuckley823]

The way Deblasio runs New York this'll be real life soon

[@grapeshot]

Yeah especially since he lets his thugs in blue do whatever they want.

[@scottbuckley823]

@@grapeshot or let criminals out of prison and loot, or placing pedos in hotels close to playgrounds or let shootings go up 277%. yeah it's police that are the problem.

[@grapeshot]

@@scottbuckley823 yes you are right the police are a problem they hire their full quota of racists, sadists sociopaths and psychopaths. And without a doubt they are the nation's biggest gang.

[@macdeus2601]

I'm very disappointed in you. I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find someone bending over backwards to turn a video full of jokes about a dumb, ridiculous movie into an argument about politics.

[@theangryholmesian4556]

@@scottbuckley823 1. Covid precautions are applied to non violent incarcerated individuals and/or people who were close to finishing their sentences anyways. There has not been a significant spike in crime in cities or states where this has been applied. 2. Sex offender =/= pedophile. Technically sex workers and people arrested for public urination are sex offenders. Please show me some evidence good sir! And finally: when the police stop killing people and brutalizing them I'll be more inclined to listen.

[@kyleOWillFixIt]

I remember Nam.... The heat, the jungles... Of course I was there 50 years after the war, but still...

[@Rahshu]

15:52! Brad is in the background on the right! Holy shit!

[@cenobitecenobite7380]

The movie feels like one Takeshi miikes lesser movies probably why it was a hit.

[@eldridgecharles1313]

I also like how in old reviews, people say "Critics back then..." And I remember it was pretty much just 2 guys bad mouthing anything that wasn't made my Speilberg

[@BWMagus]

Are you saying there weren't a shitload of critics writing for magazines and newspapers across the country?

[@eldridgecharles1313]

@@BWMagus oh they were. But I was mainly referring to Roger Ebert

[@theangryholmesian4556]

Are critics not entitled to their opinions? True critics can be a bit harsh on certain kinds of movies but still.

[@NodDisciple1]

Had to see this after seeing the Cine-Masochist review these films. I wanted to see the Snob's take on these films.

[@justinwilliam4644]

Steve James is out of American ninja 2, which is frikken awesome!!! He's in the first one and others I think but not into them

[@brerkris]

Nice! A brilliant episode. The Exterminator was always lulz.

[@chrisdooley6468]

Frankie was awesome in Banshee. One of his best roles

[@danielvandersall6756]

The mercury thing is an early version of an explosive round--when the bullet hits the body it slows, the mercury drop hurls forward and blows the end off the bullet. Extremely nasty...

[@thEannoyingE]

Trivia note: the military helicopter in the Vietnam sequence in the opening, is in fact the same helicopter used 2 years later in Twilight Zone: The Movie.

[@kobathedread]

I can see a bit of Simon Phoenix in the MvP performance. Defo what Snipes was looking at.

[@gordongee6459]

New to the Channel love the show !

[@declanhandley-byrne4335]

Since it was picked up by Cannon, the Exterminator 2 could've been given the subtitle of "Electric Boogaloo"

[@EternalGuardian07]

36:15 MEGA WEAPON!!!

[@madizzle90]

The title made me think that this a Terminator ripoff.

[@codybishop7526]

That movie is called Terminator. No really, it’s a ripoff movie from Cambodia or some Asian country and it’s called, Terminator.

[@kencoakley3959]

Except The Exterminator came out four years before The Terminator. Although when I was in High School in 1985 I mentioned this movie to people and they would say "I love Arnold schwarzenegger" just like when I said I like Patti Smith they would say of Scandal? The woman from Scandal was named Patti Smythe.

[@macdeus2601]

Oh, so that's why everyone from New York never goes anywhere without a flamethrower. You'll be dead in ten minutes if you go outside in New York without one.

[@jekblom123]

Waaaaait wait waitwaitwaitwait... you're telling me that McBane was a real action movie... and Christopher friggin Walken was in it??

[@SpeedyEric1]

Steve James was awesome in the American Ninja film series. BTW, are you ever gonna review The Executioner Part II? 22:26- Reminds me of the trailers to the theatrical cut of Justice League.

[@MabuseXX]

Great

[@declanhandley-byrne4335]

"One of 'em was still alive even though the rats had eaten off half his face." To quote the Craig "Vincent Dawn" Golightly: "OH MY FUCKING GOD"

[@jerseyvoid3123]

Mega weapon!

[@bujilou]

YESSSSSS

[@JW666]

The Exterminator is one of my favorite movies & one of my favorites in the vigilante-genre. Deathwish is a good movie, but I actually prefer The Exterminator than Death Wish. Also, the opening and the closing music to The Exterminator is awesome, especially the closing music, doesn't need a re-dub! The 2nd movie is ok, wasn't great like the 1st movie.

[@michaelthomas5433]

A punisher-like hero who rides around in a garbage truck? So that's where the idea for Ravage 2099 by Stan Lee came from.

[@kingfish4575]

I had to look up the bullets too 😆

[@polreamonn]

We need more Mario Van Peebles.

[@timd3469]

I believe Robert Ginty is exactly what I would look like if I tried to star in a movie.

[@atlanime]

It's the "Paper Chase Guy"!

[@RandallFrequentFlyerFlagg]

I remember seeing a VHS copy of Exterminator 2 in a video rental place back when I was a kid. Between the box cover art and a title similar to “Terminator,” I thought that it would be some kind of awesome post-apocalyptic action movie. I’m glad that I never rented it. I would have been so disappointed with what it actually is. Still, the cover art was awesome.

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

Imagine that, The Critics not liking The Exterminator, pretentious Snobs, no offense, but the Abstract Nature of Editing with a Flame Thrower of The Exterminator 2: Electric Boog-A-Loo and they Canonize it, Dance Party

[@Ko700el]

When i saw Ginty i wanted to start shouting Ninjaaaa where are you Ninjaaaaaa Ninjaaaa i know that you are here Ninjaaaaaaaa come out Ninjaaaaaa

[@zetetick395]

Ladies and gentlemen, the worlds most 70s TV news set! 11:21 '@_@' BeeGee in Exterminator 2 is the NICEST character in all of movie History, he's such a sweet fella!)

[@Seanatonin]

Robert Ginty? as in Hawaiian Heat's Robert Ginty? *hears Hawaiian Heat's theme* I miss 80s Dan.