Tommy Koenig Movies
Mel Brooks does it again with this send-up of vampire films. That Leslie Nielson plays the great blood-sucking count gives viewers a good idea as to what they are in for. This Dracula takes himself very seriously despite the fact that he's a bit of a klutz with a tendency to slip in the bat guano that adorns his castle floor. Staying very close to Bram Stoker's original story, Brooks also pays sly homage to other major vampire film classics, including Nosferatu. Though silly but subtle gags abound in this outing, Brooks has taken great care to recreate the late 19th-century atmosphere in rich detail and harkens back to Hammer horror movies popular during the '50s and '60s. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNicol, (more)
- 1986
Once upon a time, National Lampoon was on the cutting edge of satire and scatology. By 1986, the magazine was on its last legs, a doddering shadow of what it once had been. The performers in the 86-minute review National Lampoon's Class of '86 give it the old college try, but they're hampered by scads of hit-and-miss material. This video was labelled "adults only", though it's hard to imagine anyone over the age of 15 who will be amused. The title Class of '86 is only half right: it has no class, but it certainly deserves to be eighty-sixed. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1985
- R
Goofy medical students have all kinds of rip roaring fun pulling crazy pranks such as scaring first year students by pretending to be cadavers. When the hijinks accelerate, the dean of the school tries to stop them. Filled with vulgarity, sexist and bathroom humor, the film's director Rod Holcomb, not wanting to take responsibility for the film, billed himself as "Allen Smithee," the official pseudonym of the Directors Guild. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Parker Stevenson, Geoffrey Lewis, (more)
