Once Upon a Time in a mythical place called Hollywood, a long, long, long time ago in a galaxy not so very far away, a witty group of actors with 38 EMMY Nominations, 3 Academy Award nominations, and 8 Golden Globe nominations, along with 4 Playmates and a Penthouse Pet, came together in a burst of comic frenzy and created imps*.
Linda Blair Barbara Bosson Georg Stanford Brown Ray Buktenica Colleen Camp John Carradine Marilyn Chambers Sybil Danning Julia Duffy Brodie Greer Squire Fridell Rich Hall Deborah Harmon Sunny Johnson David L. Lander Audrey Landers Kim Lankford Meadowlark Lemon Jim McKrell Michael McKean Ed Marinaro Diana Muldaur Barry Pearl William Sanderson Peter Scolari Bob Seagren James B. Sikking P.J. Soles Wendie Jo Sperber Show All…
The Immoral Minority Picture Show
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"And Now for Something Completely Wretched". An obscure variation on the channel-surfing anthology comedies of the late '70s/early '80s that probably sprung from the success of "Saturday Night Live" and Monty Python. A hundred little sketches are packed in, commercials and fake movies and simple joke scenarios. How does this idea grab you: coverage of a track and field sporting event set up like a relay race with the hurdles, but the sport itself is how quickly the athletes can use a pencil sharpener attached to each hurdle. That's it. This sketch goes on for like 10 minutes.
One might be drawn to the cult bonafides of "imps" (an acronym for Immoral Minority Picture Show) (???) as it was filmed…
Scott Mansfield followed up his slasher Deadly Games (1982) with this entry into the loosely tied together sketch comedy subgenre that stumble along in the test patterns of The Groove Tube (1974). Produced in 1983 but not released until 2009, the wealth of talent attached to the questionable segments means this curiosity piece was probably better received in its eventual drop than it would have been in its initial release. This is also true of their decision to lampoon popular ads of the time, not especially daring alterations fall flat - but currently function, like Imps* itself, as a time capsule. A lengthy routine - Hannuka Horror – plays to Mansfield’s strengths, and could have been expanded into a Student…
A sketch comedy movie I'd never heard of, featuring an insanely good cast. Seriously, go look at the cast list. Wonder why you've never heard of it either? Because it's AWFUL (and apparently unreleased until just recently).
My friends and I used to write these kinds of things but very rarely did they end up getting filmed. In retrospect that's probably good, because they would be almost as embarrassing to watch as this is. Although with this cast I feel like we could have done better. Seriously, our 10-10-321 telephone commercial parodies would have KILLED.
In its defense, the overall runtime is brief and each sketch is fairly short. And as I mentioned earlier... that cast! But unless you're just nostalgic for Polish jokes and parodies of dandruff commercials, this is merely a curiosity, nothing more.
Easily the worst sketch comedy movie I've ever seen. The "humor" in some of these sketches consists of mimicking what was then a commercial campaign, and then having the actors say something different at the end of the commercial.
Horror fans should check out the first sketch. It’s a spoof of slasher film previews of the time and features Linda Blair.
There’s another slasher spoof later in IMPS called Hanukah Horror but it’s not as fun and overstays its welcome.
The rest is a mostly poor mix of undercooked ideas, hack jokes and uninspired material.
It’s still worth a watch as an oddity, if only for the insanely stacked cast.
In the tradition of THE GROOVE TUBE,TUNNELVISION(1976),and KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE comes this all-star cast studded sketch comedy feature that ironically predates AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON as it contains plenty of nudity,bad puns,even badder gags,severely lame attempts at comedy,and the likes of Linda Blair(in a trailer spoof that parodies FRIDAY THE 13TH. and predates Edgar Wright's faux GRINDHOUDSE trailer DON'T !),John Carradine,Sybil Danning,(a young)Erika Eleniak,Jimmie Walker,Kennen Wynn,Marilyn Chambers,(a young)Jennifer Tilly,Bruce Weitz,Ed Marinaro,Fred Willard(as the father of a literally nuclear family),Karen Mayo Chandler,Miguel Nunez,William Sanderson(in one of two Polish bashing skits),Audrey Landers,James Sikking(as Dracula in a "Light Blood" drink commercial),Julia Duffy(laying barefoot on a bed),Kim Landford,and P.J. Soles as they all couldn't pass up on the easy paychecks that they were…
This one's a crazy series of movie, television and commercial parodies done in the same vein as Tunnelvision and The Groove Tube. Strangely, it appears to have been shot entirely or at least in great part, 20-35 years ago judging by the age and/or "aliveness" if certain cast-members, however it was only released officially in 2009. Imps* is not top-shelf screwball stuff on the same level as Kentucky Fried Movie or Amazon Women on the Moon, but effort on the part of the filmmakers and an impressive cast make it into a worthwhile watch.
There’s a reason this movie was shelved for decades. This movie wants to be The Kentucky Fried Movie or The Groove Tube but is sadly far from either. They tried and every so often, I’d giggle. But for the most part, I just would think of the skit from one of those movies (or SNL) they were copying and how much better it was done there. Oh yeah, there is a skit where Lenny and Squiggy play Abbott and Costello style Nazis.
I thought I wouldn't see a worse comedy this year than Linda Lovelace for President but I was proven wrong!
A failure in every conceivable way. A sketch comedy movie where they forgot to put in the jokes. It's just references. A Miller Lite parody with a vampire drinking "lite blood" - that's it. No jokes. Just instead of beer it's blood. A "and they told two friends" commercial spoof but instead of shampoo she's talking about an impotent man. Okay? Where's the joke!?
Oh and the first black astronaut is a jive speaking hubcap thief because FUCK THIS MOVIE.
The potential to be an anti-humor cult classic because it's the least funny comedy ever made and probably one of the worst five movies I've ever stupidly subjected my dumb self to.
wouldve been really cool if it was actually funny, but to its credit not as racist or problematic as 80s comedy tends to be. big fan of boobs in sketch comedy though we should bring that back
There is a reason that this movie was made in the early 80s and apparently only actually released in 2009. Unfortunately, those same reasons hold up in 2009, too, and it's that while this boasted a fair number of on-screen talent (Linda Blair, Colleen Camp, Meadowlark Lemon, Michael McKean, Fred Willard, P.J. Soles, John Carradine, and Keenan Wynn though he'd be in like anything so that may not count) but the writing talent really wasn't anywhere close to that.
Worse than that, though, is that while this might've squeaked by in the 80s, this is hugely dated. I don't mean things like racial humor (but that's certainly in here too) but simply that this is doing references that I'm not…
