Backwoods Terror Action Double Feature: Abducted & Abducted II- The Reunion

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[00:00:39] Serenity. Mystery. But not least. To keep me in here. Until you let me touch you. My parents have money. Who the fuck needs money out here? You lost it.

[00:01:08] Doesn't look good. I'll make a couple more passes over in Windlaw Valley and then I'm shutting her down. I'll let you inside the cabin. I want you to let me out of here. I'll shoot you.

[00:01:41] Into a forest of shadows.

[00:01:44] Your camping trip with terrifying nightmares of the worst time.

[00:02:54] Maybe I'll just keep you off like some big stud ram. I don't have any bullets. I'm gonna slice you open like the poor pig you are. No. No. It's survival of the fittest. I don't want nothing to do with this. I came here for one thing. That head. And only the strong will survive.

[00:03:23] On their fear. On their fear. List imagination. I know what to do now. To save their friend.

[00:03:53] We shall become friends. We don't need to be friends. My. He's headed down to the rainforest. Jan Michael Vincent. I can kill a man. The toughest lady abducted too.

[00:04:37] Sometimes we get so deep into conversation. That we have separate segments worthy of their own place in the sun. Here is a reshuffled mini episode. Hello all. Hello all. Going to all kinds of obscure cult movies.

[00:05:01] I love doing nothing more than just bringing just, just obscurities just to light. You know, every movie needs a voice. Even if it's a movie one doesn't care for. Lo and behold, I just decided, you know, even when I first began this podcast, I'm going to just talk about those movies you've seen at the video stores or mom and pop. You know, thrift shops, but never bothered with. But we're still curious about it.

[00:05:29] And using my online resources, I found copies of course. Especially because a lot of these movies are just so hard to find. And I decided to, you know, tackle the abducted films. You know, they're probably best known for being 80s exploitation movies that didn't go all the way. And that's for the better. Like, again, you got a city girl, you know, going for a jog in the Canadian Rockies.

[00:05:58] And then being chased by a crazy mountain man who, you know, kidnapped. And, yeah. Then you got the outdoors man father coming to the rescue. It's interesting how this got a PG because you totally can tell.

[00:06:25] It's like, this guy is rapey, but doesn't ever act on it for, thank God. And I'd say this is an average movie. I do find it interesting how both these movies played on USA Network's, you know, Up All Night show. And the filmmaker, Boone Collins himself, has gone on to all kinds of other B movies and TV films. Like, Escape to Grizzly Mountain.

[00:06:56] You know, other stuff that has, coincidentally, Dan Haggerty and Jack Michael Vincent, you know, who are in one of these movies each. And I was just always curious because I would just see, you know, hey, Spy the Guy did Butcher Baker, Nightmare Maker, Spirit of the Eagle, all kinds of adventure, spy and horror films. Just like, okay, cool.

[00:07:24] You know, I respect anybody who can wear multiple hats and do all kinds of genres. And both these movies go really fast. Roberta Weiss is a decent heroine. Maybe you could call her a queen queen. She's been in stuff like the movie version of The Dead Zone, guest starred on stuff like the new Mike Hammer. And Charles in Charge is still occasionally acted every once in a while.

[00:07:54] But yeah, all together, just, this is just one of those movies where you're just like, okay, this is weird, but I'm gonna hang with it. And, and, for Haggerty Completus, you could do worse. You know, he, you know, Grizzly Adams, he's always was that kind of mountain man hero guy.

[00:08:20] And, there's lots of decent stunt work, scenery. You can definitely find it on some of those third party video sites. It'll probably come up if you want to look for it. Uh, but, that leads us to the sequel, which, you know, again, you know, that comes out a decade later. And, uh, unlike the first, which was at cons, abducted to the reunion.

[00:08:46] Uh, basically, it was basically a related and theme only kind of movie. And it's like, see, I'm cool with that. Cause, uh, basically, you know, it's the same premise. Uh, but, instead of Vern, this time the bad guy is Brad, you know.

[00:09:18] And, basically, three female campers get, you know, terrorized. But, Dan Haggerty's back as Joe Evans. Screen Queen, Debbie Rokan, is really good here. She's always good, but, unfortunately not every horror fan knows who she is. Cause she's often in more indie or obscure kind of movies. There's a decent action-adventure element, but you could easily put these in horror as well.

[00:09:45] This is rated very, very lower, but I found this way more better shot. Way more engaging and, uh, definitely an enhancement. And, it's got an R rating. It was basically, blink and you miss nudity. I guess it was a little intense, but I didn't see too many bloody results. It wasn't too bad. But, nonetheless, um, yeah.

[00:10:14] Just, both these movies, you know, they're fine. They're just kind of average. But, uh, Rachel Bianca, one of the actresses, even went on Howard Stern back in 95 to promote the movie. Uh, of course, it was more of a derogatory game she had to play with Howard back then. Uh, hehehehe.

[00:10:36] Uh, altogether, I mean, uh, it's even funnier how the movie was actually supposed to be way more sexual in nature with people going skinny dipping. But because there was bad weather, they never filmed it and that's okay. Anyway, it's, again, these are just engaging movies that just, uh, uh, go-to adventure films.

[00:11:04] Uh, and, uh, I don't expect anything else really. Like, people will like some good cat and mouse, you know, backwoods alley terror, and just, you know, fun, good versus evil. And, uh, altogether, I mean, if you're a cult movie guy, it's gonna be definitely your kinds of movies to check out, even if they don't deliver in all areas.

[00:11:32] Uh, but, yeah, I, I had fun looking them up. I wouldn't have gone out all the way, you know, to spend a fortune on them. But, hey, you know, these are kind of a lost art on how to make a low budget, you know, multi-genre kind of movie. Because there's mystery, there's action, there's adventure, there's horror. What else do you want in backwoods kind of material like this?

[00:12:01] And it doesn't feel cheap. It also, neither one did. And kind of a mythic, missed art on how to make just a fun kind of Sunday night kind of movie. While also just showing how claustrophobic the woods can be, especially if you're trying to escape from some hostile forces.

[00:12:29] Orange King Phillips was really good as the villain in the sequel. And I liked how there was some helicopter action as well. It made more stakes, it made more barriers to have to, you know, people try to, you know, escape. And I think a lot of times people just don't provide themselves enough things to do.

[00:12:56] And these movies got the job done. It's just they're not gonna appeal to every kind of crowd. But based off what I've described, you should know who you are and where, whether this would or would not appeal. So, thank you for listening. If you're gonna find these obscurities, you can definitely find them on some of the interwebs. If not, yeah, if you're, especially if you're more of a slasher or action adventure nut,

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