The Apple

So one of my favorite movies, The Apple, is being shown tonight and tomorrow night at midnight at the Sunshine Cinema on Houston Street. It is one of the most hilariously awful spectacles ever. While this movie was released on DVD, I highly recommend checking it out on a big screen so you can see the fabulousness in all its glory. You can buy tickets here. I will be there tomorrow night, and you should join me.

However, if you don't live near NYC, definitely pick yourself up a copy of the DVD. The Apple was released in 1980. It was directed by Menahem Golan, who ran Cannon Films. It's a movie musical, and here are the things I could compare it to: Xanadu, Can't Stop the Music, Rocky Horror, "Solid Gold", Flash Gordon, Godspell, Hair, the production numbers in Stayin' Alive, Gary Glitter...It's a sci-fi, disco-rock biblical allegory about good and evil. The villians are terribly campy and covered in lots of glitter. The movie takes place in 1994, so everything is, you know, futuristic. I have posted some photos below, but Blogger is being a pain so I couldn't post this one poster that says "The Power of Rock...in 1994."

I don't think my writing can really describe the wonder of this movie. You should watch the trailer here. It's just brilliant. There is also a page on the MGM website with sound clips.

Entertainment Weekly wrote about the DVD release a while ago, and The Onion's AV Club had a review.

Apparently, there were some deleted scenes that were not included on the DVD, which is a bummer. The last picture I have posted is from a cut musical number between Mr. Boogalow and Mr. Topps.