The home video market was booming in the late 1980's, and if a movie had a decent cover for its VHS packaging, a catchy title, and some exploitative elements, chances were it would end up on a video store shelf near where you lived.
Most of it was crap, of course, but even some of the crap was entertaining. And while the getting was good, and the producers had a few bucks to throw around, they could reel in some fairly well-known actors.
World Gone Wild was a favorite of mine. Not a good picture, I assure you, but I always thought it was fun and entertaining.
World Gone Wild is a post apocalyptic thriller that owes a bit of debt to Mad Max. Bruce Dern is a stoned-out spiritual leader of a commune-type village in your typical burned-out wasteland. Michael Paré is a rogueish pretty boy good guy wanna-be hero, and 80's queen Catherine Mary Stewart is his prospective squeeze. Enter Adam Ant and a crew of blank-eyed religious minions who wish to take the tiny paradise from the hippies in their blissful ignorance.
Soon you have all-out war between the fanatics and the fuckups. It's reasonably entertaining, with enough action, humor, and buffoonery to warrant an hour and a half of drunken fun. The lameoid metal theme song only added to the tasty cheese factor of World Gone Wild.
Ah, the 80's. An innocent time to watch dopey crap like World Gone Wild, and it really wasn't that hard to convince yourself that you were having a good time.
A lot of this stuff has unfortunately never been made available on DVD. It's a shame, especially since there is so much dogshit out that that isn't even worth a second of your precious time. World Gone Wild is one of the casualties of the movie distribution wars, and I have no doubt that many would applaud the situation. Those of us who have a taste for this sort of thing find it to be a deplorable situation.
World Gone Wild is, fortunately, currently on You Tube. It's a fairly crappy print, but, hey, it's not like we didn't squint through plenty of tapes that had been cruelly misused by negligent renters back in the days of yore.
Most of it was crap, of course, but even some of the crap was entertaining. And while the getting was good, and the producers had a few bucks to throw around, they could reel in some fairly well-known actors.
World Gone Wild was a favorite of mine. Not a good picture, I assure you, but I always thought it was fun and entertaining.
World Gone Wild is a post apocalyptic thriller that owes a bit of debt to Mad Max. Bruce Dern is a stoned-out spiritual leader of a commune-type village in your typical burned-out wasteland. Michael Paré is a rogueish pretty boy good guy wanna-be hero, and 80's queen Catherine Mary Stewart is his prospective squeeze. Enter Adam Ant and a crew of blank-eyed religious minions who wish to take the tiny paradise from the hippies in their blissful ignorance.Soon you have all-out war between the fanatics and the fuckups. It's reasonably entertaining, with enough action, humor, and buffoonery to warrant an hour and a half of drunken fun. The lameoid metal theme song only added to the tasty cheese factor of World Gone Wild.
Ah, the 80's. An innocent time to watch dopey crap like World Gone Wild, and it really wasn't that hard to convince yourself that you were having a good time.
A lot of this stuff has unfortunately never been made available on DVD. It's a shame, especially since there is so much dogshit out that that isn't even worth a second of your precious time. World Gone Wild is one of the casualties of the movie distribution wars, and I have no doubt that many would applaud the situation. Those of us who have a taste for this sort of thing find it to be a deplorable situation.
World Gone Wild is, fortunately, currently on You Tube. It's a fairly crappy print, but, hey, it's not like we didn't squint through plenty of tapes that had been cruelly misused by negligent renters back in the days of yore.
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