{"id":16939,"date":"2024-10-28T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16939"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:06:36","slug":"netherworld-1992-david-schmoeller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16939","title":{"rendered":"Netherworld (1992, David Schmoeller)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zombie conspiracy movie with lots of birds and boobs, from the director of O.G. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3505\">Puppet Master<\/a><\/em>, this videotape was very popular with some teens I could mention who were stuck at their great aunt&#8217;s house.  The wannabe-<em>Phantasm<\/em> flying stone hand never looked extremely cool, and holds up even worse in HD, but the birdies have never looked better.  The stone hand facehugs a would-be rapist using its barbwire grapples and maybe transforms the guy into a bird, and we&#8217;re off.<\/p>\n<p><em>These red-crested cardinals and a cockatoo get carted into the background of every room\/scene:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/nether1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Verbose young man Corey arrives at his late dad&#8217;s estate and meets the staff, including lawyer Robert Burr (a doctor in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9061\">Return to Salem&#8217;s Lot<\/a><\/em>), Anjanette Comer who runs the place (she starred in <em>The Baby<\/em> with Arletty from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16936\">Messiah of Evil<\/a><\/em>), and her hot young horsegirl daughter who is constantly hitting on Corey (naming her &#8220;Diane Palmer&#8221; was probably supposed to spark some <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11856\">connections<\/a> I didn&#8217;t catch at the time).  The horsegirl says to stay away from the feather-eared bird people at the brothel next door, but her mom is one of them.  Corey got a note from his late dad saying someone named Dolores can help resurrect him, and guess where Dolores hangs out.<\/p>\n<p><em>The director appears onscreen, at left, as if to say &#8220;don&#8217;t take any of this too seriously&#8221;:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/nether3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Corey keeps acting confident as he blunders around, way over his head, risking his ass to save the father he never met.  He gets it on with his dad&#8217;s girlfriend while guest star Edgar Winter blows a sax solo.  Anjanette maybe tries to kill him, but gets blinded by Dolores.  The alliances are confusing&#8230; and the meaning of the stone hand&#8230; lotta good birds though.  Zombie Dad gets almost-resurrected, intending to inhabit his son&#8217;s body, but Corey fights back at the last minute and dad turns into a zombie muppet eclectus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zombie conspiracy movie with lots of birds and boobs, from the director of O.G. Puppet Master, this videotape was very popular with some teens I could mention who were stuck at their great aunt&#8217;s house. The wannabe-Phantasm flying stone hand never looked extremely cool, and holds up even worse in HD, but the birdies have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,239,962,100],"class_list":["post-16939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-birds","tag-full-moon","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16959,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions\/16959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}