At the UCON primary, we were asked for a list of movies under consideration.

Here is the list of movies that were watched for the time period that ended up as the UCON 2024 Primary:

Acid Rain
The American Astronaut
The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes
Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
Creature from the Haunted Sea
Devil’s Express
Full Metal Yakuza
Guardians
I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle
Journey to the Center of the Earth
King Dinosaur
Megafault
Mirage Man
Neil Stryker and the Tyrant of Time
Official Exterminator 4
Ozark Sharks
Rebirth of Mothra
Scorpion Thunderbolt
Shocking Dark
Sorceress
They Call Me Macho Woman
The Thirst
Trog
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
Vampz
Video Demons Do Psychotown
The Witch’s Curse
Zombie Planet
Zombie Werewolves Attack!

If and when any of these movies end up in a CMP final show, it is likely (albeit not guaranteed) that the show in question will be CMP 7.

For those of you who wish to vote remotely, but not via Zoom Poll, here are the Google Forms links:

LOL –

Misteaks WERe Made –

Because I Could Not Stop For Death… –

Wardrobe Dysfunction -

WTF?! –

Featured Creatures –

Didn’t See That Coming –

Nobody Was Kung Fu Fighting –

Worst Acting –

Worst Picture –

[EDIT]: I am leaving these links here, but votes have already been tallied

Here is the Zoom link for the CMP UCon Primary 2024:

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The show starts at 6 PM Eastern, and the earliest anyone will be let in from the waiting room is 5:30 PM.

There will be clips involving bigfoot and Captain America, but do you ever see them in the same place at the same time? You do not! Interesting….

I’m watching my way through Dustin Wayde Mills’ oeuvre this year, and I will say that RIP: Rest in Pieces has a more traditional plot shape than your usual DWM movie.

A mook is on the run from the cops. He stashes a satchel, and then something bad happens to him. So bad we don’t even see it. The mook survives just long enough to tell his boss that the satchel’s been stashed in the old school, but not any more detail than that. Unfortunately, the old school has a bad reputation, and as the boss notes, the mook “didn’t beat himself to death.”

The boss has several people who owe him favors, however, and he dispatches these five people (three women and two men) to find his satchel. If they return with it, all debts are forgiven.

Much violence ensues.

RIP is in black and white, and DWM has some nice composition and use of shadow throughout the movie. I don’t really miss the color. We’ve all seen enough black and white movies to recognize the shade of blood, especially when it’s coming out of someone’s head or dripping from a ripped-off limb.

My favorite moment in the movie is when one of the women is identified as The Princess of Perrysburg, the preferred madam of the local criminals because her girls are clean, not like those floozies from Toledo.

There are definitely times when the movie is trying a bit too hard with its dialogue. When it works, it works.

Client: “Are you leaving?”
Cleaner: “The hard part’s done now.”
Client: “What am I supposed to do?”
Cleaner: “Stop. Killing. Women.”

And when it doesn’t work, it’s just trying.

Woman: “Eat shit!”
Man: “I would … just to see where it comes from.”

Here is the Zoom link:

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Please remember the usual caveats:

One vote per Zoom device.
Early arrivals get to hang out in the Zoom room until at least 6:30 PM Eastern.
Any snacks you consume are your own problem.