A disturbingly high number of these videos have the same kind of story: "indie filmmaker(s) put(s) heart and soul into making their picture on a shoestring budget, only to have some ruthless distributor or production company screw them out of everything." It makes me really grateful for the way the internet has been able to facilitate so many aspects of film production independently and on the cheap.

Most undersubbed channel on KZfaq!

Ahhh yes, the Exploring series from GoodBadFlicks. The one series I'll drop whatever I'm watching to tune in for.

My heart sinks every time you review a film you like and tell us that there is footage that has been lost for ever ☹️

Hearing people getting taken advantage of because they're new to the business is irritating. I'm aware that's how things still are but it's still a shame. 😑

Hollywood accounting claims another creative team.

What a forgotten little gem of a film. I saw it on on VHS back in the 90s because I was drawn toward the great cover-artwork. Really dark and creepy. I can also imagine, that it could have had some influence on the makers of "It Follows". The walking manifestations of supernatural STD reminded me of the silent dead people hunting the lead actress in "Sole Survivor".

Have you seen the Australian film THE SURVIVOR which is based on James Herbert novel that came out 3yrs earlier. Slightly different but that deals with the sole survivor of an airline crash but treads similar ground. M. Night's UNBREAKABLE had to be rewritten because it was considered to close to Herbert's book.

FYI, the plane that crashes in the opening and that Denise was flying on was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30, which back in the day was a very popular commercial airliner. The stock footage shows the DC-9 in the livery of Hughes AirWest, which were taken over by Northwest Airlines in 1980.

Great video bud. Had no idea this movie existed. Was fun to learn about it.

Wow, I'd love to think you actually listened to me all those years ago when I suggested you do a video on this forgotten classic. I recommend it to everyone.

I never hear anyone talk about this movie...I was probably one of the few people that saw it in the theater as a kid with my aunt! Nice bit of nostalgia ;-)

This "The movie is always in the red for a few hundred bucks" thing is such a common trick, and yet you can't do anything about it, it hurts.

I'm glad you covered this one! I saw it when it was released on VHS, and it is still to this day one of the only movies to legitimately creep me out.

Honestly Cecil, your videos help me so much. I really can't thank you enough

I saw this movie as a video rental and have never forgotten it. Especially the image of the heroine sitting unharmed in her plane seat.

Back in 1989, there was a TV movie, mini-series, called DEAD OF NIGHT, with Bruce Boxlightner and Lindsey Wagner. It also dealt with a woman who had survived a near death experience. And Death sent its minions to kill her for not dying when she was supposed to.

The script writer for Final Destination must have seen Sole Survivor. In the original un-made X-Files script "Flight 180" by Jeffrey Reddick which would later be rewritten into Final Destination there is a scene where Sole Survivor is explicitly mentioned playing on a TV.

More of a good good flick than a good bad one, but one of my favorites every since I first discovered it at my neighborhood rental place a couple years back. Thanks for spreading the word.

ALWAYS a great day when cecil posts on youtube!

You should do exploring Maximum Overdrive.

i remember watching it on its VHS release in the 80's when i was in highschool and it creeped me outmore than any other horror film at the time. I tracked a copy down a few years ago and rewatched it finding that it still had that creepy edge

Couldn't agree more with the comments, man you deserve way more subscribers. For some reason 'It Follows' reminds me of this movie, I think its the way the dead people look in that kind of vacant state when they come for a victim

This video was perfect. Great editing, information, narrating, and clips. You rock.

Great video man these videos always make me want to seek out and watch these films because exploring them really does add more appreciation for them

This is an interesting movie. I remember first watching this in the mid 1980s on cable. A moody setting and creepy. Yes there are a lot of similarities to Final Destination. One of great ideas of old school horror, less is more... quite underrated and under appreciated.

Great to see this movie being featured. I really enjoyed it when i discovered it not so long ago in a terrible vhs quality, but it was worth it. I wonder if the creators of It Follows were inspired by this little gem?

You never fail with these videos. Damn I love this channel🤘

Heck yeah. Love this kind of teasing out the provenance of movies. Keep it up, man.

Another amazing video Cecil! Sad to hear about how these people were completely screwed by the distributors IFM, & made no money from their own film, though! Still, Cecil, man, your videos on independently made films like this one, really inspire me, & get my creative juices flowing, & let me know that filmmaking is definitely what I want to do with my life.

Love this movie! Love your videos!

I saw this movie when I was a kid, I grew up in LA and saw the movie in Downtown L.A. At the Tower theater, ( its on the same block as the Orpheum theater that in a ton of movies, commercial and American idol) unfortunately it's closed now, gorgeous theater for sure. Saw it in a Triple bill with both Children of the corn and Madman ( I hope you do both these films too)

Such a huge fan of this channel. I wish I could support more.

Definitely have to check this out. I remember seeing it in the video store way back but never got a chance to rent it. Great review yet again. Thanks Cecil.

Excellent video Cecil please review The Ugly.

I think this movie inspired It Follows

Carnival of Souls, great RiffTrax episode

Great review Mr C

Well, my day just got better. And also, many thanks for all the hard work you put in these videos! I can only imagine how deep you have to bury to find most of this information. I appreciate it a lot! Probably one of the best movie oriented channels!

Great video about a film I wasn't aware existed. I've always liked the concept of Final Destination but I wasn't a fan of its intensity so this might be something I'd rather watch!

Well researched video. Nicely done.

Another one I need to check out!

There's also a similarly-themed supernatural thriller called "Passengers" (not the other film called "Passengers" with Chris Pratt - this was earlier), about the aftermath of a plane crash. I don't remember much except it was reasonably good, and it was more a drama than horror.

Yay! I need vid. And schools are closed today so I’m off work!!! Thanks, my friend.

Another great review

Dude, you make the 80s great again.

I made a modernized trailer for this last year. I adore this film and it's inspired me in many of my own films.

Woooo. New Video!

Another hidden gem you have brought to my life. Thank you!

It's worth it. Always.

Cool got to watch this film.

Eberhardt was also the director of Captain Ron.

i've been waiting for this one

Yes!!!! Thanks for the video, man! That's 1 down, 78 films to go.

Oh Hell yeah, the Most underrated movie channel on what's- left-of- You Tube!

You deserve more subscribers.

Thanks. I've never heard of this movie so now I'll have to find it and give it a look.

in Hollywood no movie ever made a profit for some mysterious reason (that reason is called creative accounting which should be supremely illegal but somehow isn't)

Thank you for making my day

Wow. I've never heard of this film before. It looks interesting.

Eberhardt must have loosened up after this, as for 'Night of the Comet' he let Robert Beltran completely rewrite the character. Originally it was a cholo gangster with a heart, but Beltran reworked it as a hardworking man looking after his mother. In fact Hector not being a stereotype is part of what makes the film work. Plus Beltran impersonating Burt Reynolds at point.

I don't watch any of these movies but I love your channel... I can't figure it out but I'm not bothered by it.

Sole Survivor is one of my favourite horror movies of all time. So creepy. I'm yet to see another horror film called "The Survivor" that came a year before this and also deals with a sole plane crash survivor and the dead victims appearing. I don't know if the creators of Sole Survivor even knew it existed.

Got pretty stoked about this movie after this video and sat down to watch it. About halfway through I was kinda bored and it was nothing like he'd talked about...only then did I realize I was watching Soul Survivor, not Sole Survivor. Oops XD

This sounds like the film The Survivor (from 1981 starring Robert Powell) In the film Powell is the pilot of a plane that crashes and he is the sole survivor. A psychic is haunted by visions of the people killed in the crash. It was based on a book by James Herbert. I dont remember much about it (other than a burnt up little girl) but it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

I'll definitely check it out! THANKS MAN! :)

The movie looks fine, maybe I will check it out. Anyway, finally cool exploring episode about interesting flick.

Maximum Overdrive would a perfect good bad flick episode, considering that Stephen King was high on cocaine during filming and that the cinematographer lost an eye after they blew up the truck stop. A piece of shrapnel hit him in the face and sued the production company.

Good bad flicks I would love to see you do an exploring video on hollow man i think its very underrated

Highly underrated film...I just saw it for the first time like 2 years ago.

I never seen soul survivor but I can tell you that there was a film even before that one back in 1981 produced by the same producers of mad Max in the Road warrior called the survivor. Which was based on a novel, the theme is the same only with a pilot who suffers survivors guilt in a major plane crash that must be seen to believed, it’s one of the best special effects I ever saw utilizing a real jet that has been gutted and on the crane. This is an Australian film with a British actor, and it has pretty much death scenes like final destination. This film was shot Anamorphic,and it’s an absolutely beautiful looking horror film, you should look it up, I’m gonna look forward to watching Soul Survivors.

THANK YOU! SUCH A GREAT MOVIE. One of the best thrillers I’ve seen for the last couple of years. Such a pity this terrific actress lost interest in the movie industry. I love her. Feminine and cute but still strong and persistent, not very pretty but so sexy. I hoped that she found her success in TV or maybe not so popular films, but… Director is also great. And music is perfect.

5:15 "Everybody was very happy with the final result". Me: Okay, what got cut?

Any chance of you exploring The Monster Squad? Greatest movie of all time!

Sole Survivor looks GREAT if you see one of the HD transfers, and it looked great in the theater.

For a second there, I thought you were going to explore Dean Koontz's Sole Survivor lol.

"IFM offered them money up front, as well as a cut of the theatrical profits..." Oh God, I know where this is going. Seriously, with so many predatory studios screwing producers and filmmakers out of their profits, it's a goddamn miracle that any of these wonderful old horror movies were made.

James Herbert's novel Survivor am fairly sure was an influence on this as well.

Please do a video for Altered States!!! Excellent video today

I get a It Follows vibe too

Talking about shooting yourself in the foot. The distributors screwed over all the people that made a smash hit. But in doing so ensured that no more smash hits would be made by those people. If they treated them right they could have had a string of profitable films.

I've heard of this but never saw it. I also confuse it with a similarly named move from 2000.

Carnival of Souls (the movie) from 1962, was essentially a DIRECT ripoff of the Twilight Zone episode called, "The Hitch-Hiker" from 1960, about a woman driving cross-country who keeps seeing a hitchhiker everywhere she goes. He is DEATH. She was killed in a car crash and he keeps appearing everywhere to take her away (she doesn't know she's dead). "Sole Survivor" is more based on the Twilight Zone episode called, "Twenty-Two" from 1961, about a woman hospitalized and who keeps having a recurring nightmare in which she is led to Room Twenty-Two, the morgue, by a nurse (who represents death). She's scared that if she leaves the hospital and goes on a flight, that the plain will crash. As soon as she leaves the hospital and goes on the plain, it DOES crash.

Great video! Also, it's DP - not DoP

This was a great movie.

This one's hard to find. 50 dollars on Amazon! Ouch. Might have to wait a little while til I find it cheaper than that.

Just looking at these excerpts, this is visually way above the usual fare featured on this channel.

Movies I'd love to see an Exploring of on: The Pom Pom Girls, The Deadly Spawn, Street Trash, Basket Case, The Burning, Abby, Rudy Ray Moore/Dolemite, Goodbye Uncle Tom, Orca, Grizzly, Day Of The Animals, Kingdom Of The Spiders, Squirm, Axe (1977), The Child (1977), The Pit (1981), Don't Answer The Phone, I Drink Your Blood, Cooley High, Miami Connection, Scum 1977 and 1979, Savage Streets, Class Of 1984, Suburbia, Tenement (aka Game Of Survival), Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky, Rituals, Deathdream, Horror Express, Stone (1974), and Johnny Got His Gun. In addition, I'd love to see an Exploring of the history of the companies Crown International and American International Pictures.

I wonder how many of these ‘sole survivor ‘ movies took inspiration from James Herbert’s “Survivor” novel from 1976.

Have you seen Dragonslayer (1981)? That could be a cool video. Also love your channel!

Thom Eberhardt's Directions are great. same good at [Night of the Comet]. I'm so sad he Turn around to comedy flicks.

The movie Soul Survivors was trippy.

Any chance of you doing an Exploring video on Dan O'Bannon's The Resurrected or the movie Screamers?

Suggestion for a film to review: 1983 horror film "Eyes of Fire". The film's a bad trip with terrified homesteaders, mud people, a tree bound devil, etc. When I first heard of Vvitch, I thought it might be a loose remake of this film.

I have never heard of this movie but the remake is on some streaming services.

Found this movie one day while going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. Nice to see a more in depth look at it.

No mention of the film produced based on the James Herbert book; The Survivor. Similar (ish) story line. Think it was released a couple of years before hand.

Are you sure she isn't a superhero like Willis in Unbreakable? I love knowing all those obscure movies which I remember in the video stores but never got the chance to see them. Thanx!!!

This movie scared the shit out of me as a kid. I got it on vhs

The movie is pretty amazing. I am surprised that people don't pick up on the subtle hints that the main actress is literally going through the 5 stages of grieve as she has her brief encounters with death throughout the movie. Starting from denial of nearly getting ran over by the truck...to final acceptance when she is gunned down by the cadaver. She is tired of running and just sort of gives up. Each of her encounters with death in-between these two events, could be argued that she was hitting those notes of anger, bargaining, and depression. I mean I could be reading far too much into it, but that is what I walked away with when I first watched the film.