Low-Carb Movie Plots

Machete is a 2010 Exploitation Action Film written, and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis.   According to Rodriguez, the origins of the film go back to Desperado. He says, "When I met Danny, I said, 'This guy should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Dam, or Charles Bronson, putting out a movie every year and his name should be Machete'.   The rest is Hollywood history.  The film stars Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, and Cheech Marin.  Machete was released on September 3, 2010.

Welcome to Low-Carb Movie Plots! I'm your host KZURC, and today we are covering Universal Soldier: The Return! This is a 1999 science fiction action film produced by Jean-Claude Van Damn who also stars in the film as Luc Deveraux. The film also stars Michael Jai White, who briefly appeared in the first film as a soldier, and Bill Goldberg. This is a sequel to the much-loved Universal Soldier. The film received negative reviews and made over $10 million in the U.S., I was surprised it made it to theaters, as I saw it on DVD. At this point, Van Damn was grasping onto fame and coke money. But nonetheless, as a teenager, I enjoyed watching this.

Double Impact is a 1991 American action crime film written and directed by Sheldon Lettich, and written, produced and starring Jean-Claude van Damme as Chad and Alex Wagner.  The film marks Van Damme's third collaboration with director Sheldon Lettich from Bloodsport and Lionheart.  I am for sure covering these movies. and second collaboration with Bolo Yeung (the first being Bloodsport in 1988).

RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk superhero film  directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.  The film stars Peter Weller as the title character  Themes that make up the basis of RoboCop include  transhumanism, media influence, gentrification, corruption, authoritarianism, greed, privatization, capitalism, identity, dystopia, consumerism, surrealism and human nature.

Return of the Killer Tomatoes! is a 1988 American parody film directed by John De Bello. The first sequel to the 1978 film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, the film stars Anthony Starke, Karen Mistal, and John Astin, as well as George Clooney in an early role. The film has developed a cult following.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 American parody film[2] produced by J. Stephen Peace and John DeBello, and directed by John DeBello based upon an original idea by Costa Dillon. The screenplay was written by Dillon, Peace, and DeBello. The film is a spoof of B movies. Made on a budget less than US$ 100,000 the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and revolting against humanity. The box office success of the film led to three sequels, all co-written by the same three writers and directed by DeBello.

Child's Play is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film directed and co-written by Tom Holland, and produced by David Kirschner from a story by Don Mancini. It is the first film in the Child's Play series and the first installment to feature the character Chucky. It stars Brad Dourif, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent and Dinah Manoff. Hicks plays a widowed mother who gives a doll to her son played by Vincent, unaware that the doll is possessed by the soul of a serial killer played by Dourif. Child's Play was released in the United States on November 9, 1988, by MGM/UA Communications Co. It grossed more than $44 million against a production budget of $9 million. Along with the film gaining a cult following, the box office success spawned a media franchise that includes a series of six sequels, merchandise, comic books, and a reboot film of the same name released in the summer of 2019. Child's Play was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,[9] although the rights to the series were sold to Universal Pictures in 1990, right before production on Child's Play 2 started. MGM retained the rights to the first film and as such, distributed the 2019 reboot.

30 Days of Night is a 2007 American horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name. The film is directed by David Slade and stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George. The story focuses on an Alaskan town beset by vampires as it enters into a thirty-day long polar night. 30 Days of Night was originally pitched as a comic, then as a film, but it was rejected. Years later, Steve Niles showed IDW Publishing the idea and it took off. The film was produced on a budget of $30 million and grossed over $75 million at the box office during its six-week run starting on October 19, 2007. Critical reviews were mixed. A sequel, Dark Days, was released on October 5, 2010 straight to home video. A prequel miniseries, Blood Trails, was released on FEARnet.com and FEARnet On Demand in 2007. Another sequel miniseries, Dust to Dust, placed chronologically before Dark Days, was released in 2008.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is a 1988 American science fiction horror comedy film[1] written, directed, and produced by the Chiodo Brothers, and starring Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, and John Vernon. It is the only film to be written and directed by the Chiodo Brothers and they also did the practical effects and makeup for the film. The film is about a clan of evil aliens from an unknown region, who all resemble circus clowns. They arrive on Earth and invade a small town in order to capture, kill, and harvest the human inhabitants to use as sustenance.

Kung Fury is a 2015 English-language Swedish martial arts comedy featurette written and directed by David Sandberg. It pays homage to 1980s martial arts and police action films.[3][4] The film stars Sandberg in the title role, Jorma Taccone, Leopold Nilsson, and a cameo appearance by David Hasselhoff. The film was crowdfunded through Kickstarter from December 2013 to January 2014 with pledges reaching US$630,019, exceeding the original target goal of $200,000, but short of the feature film goal of $1 million.[2] It was selected to screen in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, losing to Rate Me from the United Kingdom.[5]