Bad Channels

1992

Comedy / Horror / Music / Sci-Fi

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 34% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 34% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 1634 1.6K

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Plot summary

An alien determined to capture human females takes over a radio station to do it.

Director

Ted Nicolaou Photo
Ted Nicolaou

Top cast

Tim Thomerson Photo
Tim Thomerson as Dollman
Sonny Carl Davis Photo
Sonny Carl Davis as Peanut
Paul Hipp Photo
Paul Hipp as Dan O'Dare
Alex Bookston Photo
Alex Bookston as Mr. Baker
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
737.24 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 16
1.34 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 40

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 5 / 10

Amiable nonsense.

Here's a sci-fi / horror B flick for the MTV generation, a positively goofy and cartoonish piece of lightly entertaining trash. Paul Hipp stars as "Dangerous" Dan O'Dare, a controversial radio disc jockey doing a marathon at isolated station KDUL. Well, along comes an alien, a bipedal monstrosity with a hilariously oversized head and a faithful robot. The alien (Michael Deak) takes over the station, and puts into a motion a plot to kidnap and shrink hot young woman by hypnotizing them with rock video styled visions."Bad Channels" has to rank as one of the silliest things that Full Moon produced. If one is looking for "cheese ball" entertainment, they could do worse than this. The various rock acts are passable, with Sykotik Sinfoney rating as the WTF highlight. This act dresses in various costumes and plays some pretty absurd stuff. All of the creature and makeup effects are pretty tacky, but that may only add to the appeal for some in the audience. That robot has to be seen to be believed.The cast is basically okay. It is cool to see MTV VJ Martha Quinn in one of the leading roles, as ace reporter Lisa Cummings. The cast includes other familiar faces as Aaron Lustig, Ian Patrick Williams, Michael Huddleston, and Sonny Carl Davis. Sexy co-stars Charlie Spradling, Daryl Strauss, and Melissa Behr give it all their all as they dance away in what they think are these rock videos.The truly worthy component is a score by the veteran rock band Blue Oyster Cult. Folks do have to wait through the closing credits for the best joke in the movie, a cameo by a Full Moon franchise character. As always, it's a pleasure to see this actor in anything.Five out of 10.
Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 5 / 10

Cheesy and corny in an entertaining way...

I had never heard about this 1992 horror sci-fi comedy titled "Bad Channels" before now in 2023, as I happened to stumble upon the movie by random chance. And of course I opted to sit down and watch it, on account of it being a movie that I hadn't already seen.Writers Charles Band and Jackson Barr put together something definintely unique and strange here. But it was working out in favor of the movie, because the storyline was so corny and cheesy that it was actually a fun movie to watch.I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but the actors and actresses put on good performances to bring their characters to life on the screen.The special effects in "Bad Channels" were actually working out well in favor of the movie. Some of the special effects were pretty bad, but still worked out fair enough as they were so bad that they became fun to behold on the screen. And then other effects were rather nicely made, such as the creature seen towards the end of the movie.If you enjoy a sci-fi horror comedy that doesn't take itself particularly serious, then give director Ted Nicolaou's 1992 movie "Bad Channels" a chance. I was definitely entertained by this cheesy early 1990s movie.My rating of "Bad Channels" lands on a five out of ten stars.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 6 / 10

Full Moon strangeness

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