{"id":238,"date":"2007-12-16T03:04:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T09:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:59:34","slug":"screaming-ape-to-stuff-stockings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"SCREAMING APE to stuff stockings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><em>Hay<\/em>-oh! [Insert\u00a0rim shot and <strong>Ed McMahon<\/strong> chortle here.] Okay, that <em>was<\/em> pretty rude, but how else could I have started this post given the movie in question? Yes indeed, the first episode of <strong>BrainSmart Productions<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>THE ADVENTURES OF THE SCREAMING APE<\/strong> has arrived just in time for everybody&#8217;s favorite gift-giving season. Keep an eye out for it at a local business (read: <strong>Exile on Main Street<\/strong>) near you:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"THE ADVENTURES OF THE SCREAMING APE (BrainSmart Productions)\" alt=\"THE ADVENTURES OF THE SCREAMING APE (BrainSmart Productions)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog%20Art\/cu_screamingape_dvd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In this highly demented <strong>Jason Butler<\/strong> comedy, a sloth of a man named Charles (<strong>Thomas Schrepfer<\/strong>) has a falling out with his girlfriend Wendy (<strong>Julie Grubich<\/strong>) which results in a major temper tantrum and an encounter\u00a0with a\u00a0cackling gypsy (<strong>Ania Hrezuch<\/strong>). Her scorpion sting bestows upon Charles a heroic alter ego called the Screaming Ape, whose dubious super powers and ridiculous costume appear when the host achieves a woody. (I can&#8217;t believe I just wrote that.) The gig also comes with an angry\u00a0sidekick named Ghost (<strong>Bill Turner<\/strong>)\u00a0that can be summoned by yelling &#8220;Ghost!&#8221; Hijinks ensue, crime is thwarted, a sequel is threatened, and Charles never seems to learn a thing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The DVD-R presents the 39-minute <strong>SCREAMING APE<\/strong> alongside a chapter menu, an all-star BrainSmart commentary track that sounds like it was recorded at <strong>Mike &#8216;n&#8217; Molly&#8217;s<\/strong> even though the bar scenes were shot at <strong>The Brass Rail<\/strong>, and a preview section\u00a0with <strong>WAITING FOR GODOT<\/strong> and\u00a0trailers of JB&#8217;s other long-form C-U movies: <strong>THE TEETH OF THE BOTTLE<\/strong>, <strong>THORAXX II<\/strong>, <strong>WEREWOLF CEMETERY<\/strong>, and <strong>THE SECOND ADVENTURE OF THE SCREAMING APE<\/strong>. I believe this marks the first time any of\u00a0it has appeared on disc apart from <strong>THORAXX<\/strong>, and this <strong>WEREWOLF<\/strong> promo <em>does<\/em> contain footage from Episode 4, a.k.a. the climax we&#8217;ve been awaiting for too dang long.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">If you don&#8217;t pick one up from Exile, then slip\u00a0JB a ten spot and a PBR for a copy when you see him and <strong>Ann\u00a0Fitzgerald<\/strong>\u00a0at the bars this week. They need the dough to put that other shaggy monster\u00a0show to bed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-U&#8217;s very own Screaming Ape sounds off on a brand-new DVD-R of his first escapade, THE ADVENTURES OF THE SCREAMING APE, from BrainSmart Productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos-du-c-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}