Thundercrack! 1975 The ULTIMATE cult movie

Here is a review of the 1975 film Thundercrack!
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[@DavidDunneUK]

Thanks very much for the shout out, John. You did a great job in describing what is a pretty indescribable movie- which is of course, why it’s so unique! I saw it around 1996/1997 and I’ve never forgotten it. Would love to hear more from Barry about his interactions with the people involved. I am gonna have to order that blu ray!

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

No problems David, I thought your description was spot on!! Yeah I know I said it a few times but it's hard to talk about the film because its so subversive!! I'm surprised the video didn't flag up at all 😱😱🤣🤣 so would I David....I would have loved to talk with cast even for 10mins.....never mind actually KNOWING them!! 😱😱👌👌 it's a cracking blu Ray David 😁😁👍👍

[@barrymoore4470]

@@MondoChelloveckMovies John, my friend Melinda McDowell (played Sash in 'Thundercrack!') has watched and enjoyed your upload, and has expressed interest in writing to you. She has asked me if submitting comments on this page would be the best way to do that, or if she could reach out to you through another avenue. If you approved, I could convey your email address (as accessed through your channel's homepage) to her. I would want to make sure you were comfortable with that before conveying that information to her.

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

@barrymoore4470 wow Barry!! This is incredible 😁😁😁👍👍👍 of course it would be amazing for Melinda to leave comments and also an email would be great as well 😊😊👍👍 the whole journey into this one of a kind film has been a thrill.....from the Scala! Documentary to getting Thundercrack! On blu ray and now to be speaking directly to Melinda a cast member with the help of your good self has been such an amazing experience 😊😊👍👍 thanks again Barry mate I really appreciate it 😊😊😊👍👍👍

[@richardfowler5163]

Great review John. Remember buying the DVD when me and the missus went to Amsterdam many many years ago. Upgraded to the Synapse Blu when it first came out. Another one to look out for is, for me, the better film is 'Singapore Sling'. Crazy, twisted Greek film, that I think Vinegar have just released on 4K and Blu. Another B&W slice of utter mayhem, degradation and "WTF have I just watched?" These films are certainly a time capsule to behold, keep in the collection to be handed down to future filum heads.

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Cheers Richard 😊😊👍👍 ill keep an eye out for that one!! If its better than Thundercrack then that's one for me mate!! 😁😁 can you imagine of they were made today!! 😳😳🤣🤣 thanks Richard, appreciate thr recommendation mate 😁😁👍👍

[@kingcormack8004]

I was at the premiere at the San Francisco Art Institute. Marion Eaton received a standing ovation. Kuchar told his famous anecdote about writing the screenplay "on both sides of the page". Curt pointed out some continuity problems, like the Berkeley Farms milk carton in the kitchen scenes. For some reason I think it opened with Sally Cruikshank's "Quasi at the Quackadero" but I could be mixing up 2 separate dates.

[@barrymoore4470]

That is a memory to cherish, for sure! Did you know Curt from the Art Institute? He had graduated by then, but George was teaching there by that point, and Curt I think maintained close ties to the place for the rest of his life. I regret I never had the opportunity to meet Curt, nor Marion Eaton.

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Thanks for sharing this experience KingCormack 😁😁👍👍 it's amazing to hear all these first hand accounts of people's experiences with this film!! 👌 I don't think that's happened at all with any other film I've talked about mate 😁😁 I've just searched for Quasi on KZbin and it's there 😊😊 I'll take a look at that (it seems a fun little watch 🤩) thanks once again mate! Appreciate you taking the time out to comment 😁😁👍👍

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

@barrymoore4470 yeah isn't it Barry 😁😁👍👍 I can imagine you would have really enjoyed Curt & Marion's company Barry 🤩🤩👌👌

[@barrymoore4470]

@@MondoChelloveckMovies Everyone I've ever met who knew Curt remembers him as such a fun and creative person--his former associate Rocky Ross (whom I've not met), in the 2009 documentary 'It Came from Kuchar', describes how Curt could literally charm the pants off you. Curt himself avidly documented his daily life to an extraordinary degree, constantly writing, drawing (he was a gifted cartoonist and painter), photographing, and filming--a treasure trove for future scholars of his legacy.

[@barrymoore4470]

Really enjoyed your review, John, and you did a great job of tact in introducing the film without setting off any KZbin alarm signals. It's certainly not a film for everyone, but those who appreciate it tend to like it a lot. I'm aware of at least three other feature-length productions Curt directed, 'Peed into the Wind' and 'Lunch', both from 1972, and 'Sparkle's Tavern', his follow-up to 'Thundercrack!', shot mostly in 1976 but not fully edited and released until years later, in 1984. 'Sparkle's Tavern' is the sole film among these three I've seen, in a rare VHS transfer that was gifted to me some twenty years ago. It retains much of the cast from 'Thundercrack!', starring Marion Eaton, George Kuchar, Melinda McDowell, and Phil Heffernan (who played Chandler in the earlier film under the alias Mookie Blodgett). It's a gentler, more fantasy-oriented story, highly sexually suggestive without ever becoming explicit, and also shot in black-and-white--Curt also wrote the screenplay for this one. Curt specialized in shorts, almost all of them shot in black-and-white (Melinda tells me he loved the look of black-and-white photography), and among these I've seen 'PornograFollies' (the first of his films I ever saw) and 'A Visit to Indiana' (both from 1970), 'Confessions' and 'Ronnie' (both from 1972), 'Boggy Depot' and 'True Blue and Dreamy' (both from 1973), 'Nudes: A Sketchbook', 'Naughty Words', and 'Stinkybutt' (all from 1974), and 'Loads' from 1980, the latter highly explicit and probably Curt's masterpiece. a truly unique film in cinema history. All these I've seen via VHS transfers, except for 'PornograFollies', which I saw at a film club screening in 1988, and found utterly fascinating, a vision of a vaudeville revue, the kind you might have gone to in the Thirties, where every act has a sexual or scatological component. I knew I wanted to learn more about the man behind this singular film, and that started me on my journey of eventual friendship with George and Melinda. Thanks again for the shout-out and probing review, John!

[@MadMartysMovieReviews-gv6hk]

Excellent vid John,sounds like I'd like Thunderstruck(😅)....sounds like a bag of craziness 😊

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

X that by 10 Marty and your nearly there!! 😱😱😁😁 yeah can't recommend it enough! Put it this way you won't see another one like it 😵‍💫😵‍💫🤩🤩👍👍

[@stuoxen]

Love your videos, John. Keep it up, Hen!!

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Thanks Stu 😁😁👍👍 appreciate you saying that mate! It's always great to hear!!! Thanks again Stu 😊😊👍👍

[@Coastlinefx]

Thundercrack (1975) has now been passed uncut by the BBFC according to the Website. Maybe the "Bunny Game" (2012) might follow but i doubt HMV would stock it? Have a nice weekend John.

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

It's unreal (but great) to think that Thundercrack has been passed uncut mate!! 😱🤩 Bunny Game 🤔🤔 maybe that might struggle!!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫🤣🤣 Bunny Game is such a strange one as the main star is the actual person that this happened to 😱😱 yeah can't see many people stocking that! Ebay would definitely not list it, cheers for watching mate 🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍

[@altohippiegabber]

I have the massive SCALA book by Jane Giles and thanks to your plug of her documentary I just ordered the SCALA Doc Blu-ray! I already have Thundercrack on DVD and it is wicked fun but I do not feel the need to upgrade it to Blu-ray (even though I have Bat Pussy on blu-ray)

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

The book seems one that would be a great thing to look through, the documentary is fascinating mate 👌👌🤩🤩 Thundercrack might come out in the UK so I would hold on if you were ever going to upgrade, as in the future you might save some cash mate 😁😁👍👍

[@GeeVanderplas]

I bought Thundercrack on dvd many years ago. It looked weird and interesting so I thought to give it a go. Boy was it weirder and stranger (and more explicit) than I'd ever imagine! Cucumbers and gorillas and pickle jars 😅

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

I thought the same Gee 😳😊 but after watching the whole film I really found myself enjoying it immensely🤔 👌👌 yeah the story behind the pickle jars was great and the line "Didn't your mother ever teach you how yo pickle properly" was so funny!! A cult thrill ride 😁😁👍👍

[@Raymond_Marble]

Bought the blu ray after seeing your earlier video about it, John. Definitely not for everyone but I thought it was hilarious. Thank you for another great recommendation.

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Hi David 👍 glad you liked it 🤩👍 it's a funny one to recommend as I could see why people wouldn't care for it but if you like the wild and crazy side of Cinema then its totally worth it 😁😁 it is hilarious and the story of the guys wife at the Barbecue 📛📛 tragic as it was I couldn't help laughing 🥴🥴🤪🤪 thanks David appreciate this comment 😊😊👍👍

[@carl3035]

Great upload and review John, even with how hard it was to talk about. As I mentioned previously I'm back on the physical media collecting train again, and between you and Rockgod2004 iv pretty much picked up everything spoken about fot the last few months which is awesome (bank disagrees) including Thundercrack, which has now jumped up the list as I was unsure. Very much looking forward to getting it on at the weekend, cheers 👍👊

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Cheers Carl 😁😁👍👍 yeah when you see it, you will know that going further would have led into problems with KZbin or gave important spoilers (mainly the crazy back stories to Gert's husband and also the guy's wife who died, just think they were do mad!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫🤪) haha glad you are back collecting, sorry your broke though 😉🥶😁) let me know how you find Thundercrack Carl 🤩🤩👍👍

[@turntheblueiris4626]

Given what goes on in the film, Thunderstruck by AC/DC, kinda fits as a title...Smelly cucumber anyone?

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

I can see what your saying! 😁 I always call it Thunderstruck which is still quite fitting 🤪👍👍

[@ice9snowflake187]

I was an art-school friend of Curt McDowell. I've been trying to get a look at Curt's earlier film, "PornograFollies", that I supposedly have a scene in, and several of my friends are also in.

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Oh wow!! That's amazing to hear 😁😁👍👍 what year would that have been? Did you know any of the cast of Thundercrack? They seem to have been a pretty close bunch 👍 thanks again for sharing this mate 😁😁👍👍

[@ice9snowflake187]

@@MondoChelloveckMovies I attended the San Francisco Art Institute with Curt between 1968 and 1970, and we were in touch sporadically after that, until his passing in about 1986. I met most of the people involved with Thundercrack, and I knew Curt's friend, Ted, who was in it, but I wasn't in that "close bunch" at the time, as I was no longer living in the San Francisco area when he made the film.

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

@ice9snowflake187 fascinating 😊😊👍👍 I must admit until I saw the scala documentary I'd never heard of Curt, but after watching the film and all the supplements I'm really keen to find out more about his movies 🤔🤩 thanks again for this info I really appreciate that 😊😊👍👍

[@barrymoore4470]

'PornograFollies' was the first Curt McDowell film I ever saw, at a screening in 1988, when I knew he was sadly no longer with us. I found the film fascinating, especially enjoying the contributions by Ted Davis (as the master of ceremonies), Ainslie Pryor, and Carla Cooper. I was really eager to learn more about Curt and his legacy from that point on, with 'Thundercrack!' clearly being his magnum opus.

[@ice9snowflake187]

@@barrymoore4470 I knew Ted Davis, and Ainslie Pryor. Carla Cooper and I are still good friends. I was filmed for a scene in that "movie", but I don't know if it was in the final cut, or whatever. I sorta appeared to eat a sandwich with my but, or something like that.

[@cheekster777]

Thank you John.

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Thanks for watching Cheekster 🤩🤩👍👍

[@markstewart515]

Good video John

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Cheers Mark, really enjoyed this filum mate 🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍

[@warpartstudio7061]

I bought this film, I watched this film.....and my Solicitor will be in touch with you 😂 I keep having Gorilla flashbacks!!

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Well Tris you need yo get on your wedding dress as Medusa is coming for you!! 😁😁👍👍

[@warpartstudio7061]

@@MondoChelloveckMovies 😂😂😂

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

@warpartstudio7061 🙊🤪🤪👍👍

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

Interesting Review mate I won't lie I've never heard of this film before

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

I hadn't myself until a month or so ago Andy, but wow did I enjoy it 🤩🤩👍👍

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

@@MondoChelloveckMovies will definitely check it out when I can mate 👍

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

@andylikesstuffchannel yeah it's a great and very unusual watch Andy 🤩🤩👍👍

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

@@MondoChelloveckMovies if I learn something different I didn't know I'm happy mate

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

It's great to discover gems like this by accident but wow was it a happy accident 🤩🤩👏👏

[@saraprestwood]

Oh yeah I did got back from cruise 🚢 in April

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Great Sara 🤩🤩👍👍 did you have a good time? 😁😁👍👍

[@saraprestwood]

@@MondoChelloveckMovies I did

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

@saraprestwood 😊😊👍👍

[@XFile2708]

Sounds a bat-shit crazy film lol not one to be giving a watch too when the kids are about then? 😂

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

Ermmm 🤔 not really Marcus 😱😁😁👍👍