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Talk about an underground cult film…

Sometime my freshman year of college, I joined a B-movie group on campus. Every week someone from the group would rent a B-movie from, which we would view in the college library media center.

My one friend came across “The” movie in a local West Coast Video; captured by the movie’s title, he decided to give the movie a try. As the story goes, he never returned the movie, nor did he ever return to that video rental store. In fact, once that movie traveled back with us to the dorms, it never left the VCR.

We watched the movie every night, sometimes two or three times a night, over the course of two years. The movie was so familiar that everyone that would frequent that dorm room (and there was quite a following) had every line of the movie committed to memory.

That was the legendary room 210 of Caldwell College, NJ.

After a while, the repeated playbacks began to degrade the quality of the VHS tape. We scoured every movie store in the area, but couldn’t locate another copy. Drastic times call for drastic measures. I used my work-study access to the communications studio to create several copies.

Even then, the quality was so shoddy. In fact, the volume was mostly white noise. This was no matter, as we had memorized every line. From that point, we’d watch the film sans volume, and chant the lines back to the video. Then I transferred to Rutgers University, and later my only copy bit the dust.

Years ago I managed to score a copy off eBay for a very reasonable price. At best that video was a fourth or fifth generation VHS copy, just as piss-poor as my worn-down copy. Even as the Internet began to boom, there was no information to be found on the film.

Even today the facts are scarce. All I do know is a Northern New Jersey film fanatic overdubbed Night of the Living Dead with his own soundtrack, in the style of What’s Up Tiger Lily. Most of the humor is based on stereotypes, but the scenarios are so outrageous that the film is gut splitting hilarious.

My latest Google search managed to produce some You Tube clips. Although the movie is not hosted in its entirety, these video clips capture some great scenes. I’m still on a hunt to procure a lossless copy.

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