Webb Wilder's Corn Flicks [VHS]

Webb Wilder's Corn Flicks [VHS]
by Stephen Mims

Webb Wilder's Corn Flicks [VHS]

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Actor: Webb Wilder
Director: Stephen Mims
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 64 minutes
Release Date: 1992-06-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Bmg Video/Sbme
Studio: Bmg Video/Sbme

VHS Movie Reviews of Webb Wilder's Corn Flicks [VHS]

Movie Review: Webb Wilder? Corn Flicks? IT does not get any better
Summary: 5 Stars

The video collection featuring THREE original films by award winning director Stephen Mims & Webb Wilder tunes including the unreleased instrumental "Webb's Theme"

Cinematic feature #1: HORROR HAYRIDE

The first cinematic selection finds Webb Wilder yanked from his economy with dignity rock & roll tour to help the governor of Tennessee's daughter produce a new driver education film. In true "hillbilly noir" tradition, this simple assignment spirals downward into a dark and demented tale of extortion and bad manners in the underbelly of NashVegas.

If you view this film, you will join Webb Wilder and undercover highway patrolman Travis Byrd as they defend truth, justice and the American way, matching wits with fallen country & western idol and hillbilly pornographer Carlsbad Devereaux. Follow them on their quest, which takes then from the dirt roads of Dixie to the phantasmagoric inner realms of Webb's troubled psyche.

Cinematic feature #2: AUNT HALLIE

Aunt Hallie is traumatized when she finds a used condom on her lawn. Imagining that the thing is laden with "old nasty diseases", Aunt Hallie becomes obsessed with preventing the ailment's spread. The winner of four major awards at festivals across the USA & Europe, Aunt Hallie has struck the comic nerve of a disease-wary world.

Cinematic feature #3: Webb Wilder, PRIVATE EYE: The Saucer's Reign

The original Webb Wilder film adventure featuring music by Webb and the Ionizer.

Rural Mississippi is rocked when Pristine Suggs falls victim to alien invaders. Her disappearance spawns panic among the trailer trash and spurs an investigation by the last of the full grown men: Webb Wilder.

Part Marlowe, pure gonzo, Wilder's tale has become a perennial late-night cable favorite. WEBB WILDER, PRIVATE EYE has screened on The Campus Network, USA Network's Night Flight, and A&E's Short Stories.

To movie critics, Webb Wilder the actor is "Fess Parker on thorazine," a "saturnine hybrid of James Brown and Jack Webb, whose cavernous deadpan intonations and crack timing make Corn Flicks a must." Of Corn Flicks, a compilation of short films featuring Webb Wilder and written by R.S. "Bobby" Field aka the IONIZER and director Stephen Mims, the Chicago Tribune said "it's Twin Peaks with MTV thrown in the middle," while the Los Angeles Times described it as "a fertile field of free-form word play that reflects a literary underpinning."

B-movie and drive-in movie specialist Joe Bob Briggs called it "One of those 'you have to see it' flicks."

This is a wild collection of cool videos (not your typical music videos)
NOTE: Sadly, this video is also out of print as of 9/97. BUT NEW COLLECTOR's EDITION DVD is in limited release as of 10/08!!

Movie Review: what is good is not original, what is original is no good
Summary: 2 Stars

Eh, whatever. I do not understand the hype. This looks like a freshman film students first attempt. It isnt funny, or clever, or well acted, or in focus much. Horror Hayride is a long tedious chore to sit through. In short, these shorts are BORING!!! Nothing happens, people talk and say nothing, Webb mumbles alot. The Dragnet comparrison is unwarranted because Dragnet had a STORY, and there aint no story here. The DVD (bootleg?) has the video for Human Cannonball, which is the only thing worth a repeat viewing. Peope wonder why Webb never made it big...this explains why, his songs and his flicks aint no demned good. Skip this one

Movie Review: Quality over Quantity works every time...
Summary: 4 Stars

There are double entendres galore with 'The Idol of
Idle Youth', Webb Wilder, Musician/Actor/D.J. and all
around Jack-of-All-Media trades. Forget dweebs like
sellout Howie Stern, Webb, as he proves here, is the
allbeing master of all Media formats, including Music!

The three short stories here (especially 'Aunt Hallie')
are a tribute to Webb, The Nashvegans and Steve Mims'
comic genious! Cheap Trick, which has put out 5 or 6
Videos / DVDs, could have done more with less like Webb
has done here. (Even Jason & The Scorchers HAVE ONE
VERY GOOD Video out, period). In between the three short
stories, the ever self-promoting Webb plugs his then
(new) album, Doo Dad.

There are several videos contained therein; a black 'N
White version of 'Guns & Hillbilly music', a sort of
WW theme song, in the intro of: Webb Wilder, Private
Eye, and the colour video for the minor hit (1966 - I
forgot the originator band) of: 'I Had Too Much To
Dream (Last Night)', one of the greatest Rock videos of
all time! Great effort here by Webb, Jimmy Lester (Drums),
Donny Roberts (guitars) and Rich Ruth (not me!) on Bass!

Movie Review: Ideal Movie Showcase for the Idol of Idle Youth!
Summary: 4 Stars

First, some background info: Our household discovered Webb Wilder back in the late 1980s/early 1990s when the USA Network showed his first short film, "WEBB WILDER, PRIVATE EYE: THE SAUCER'S REIGN" on the late-night series NIGHT FLIGHT. In this surreally funny spoof of UFO movies and film noir, the laconic Webb, whose vaguely geeky appearance disguises a quiet strength and wry sense of humor, moonlights as a private eye when he's not working as a department store security guard. My husband and I were captivated by Webb and his off-the-wall adventures; we even taped ...PRIVATE EYE... when we stumbled across it again elsewhere (on A&E, if I recall correctly). Once we found out that Webb Wilder (formerly John McMurray) was not only hilarious in his deadpan Southern way but was also the front man for an eponymous rockabilly band that lived up to Webb's "electrifying artist" description, we were Webb Wilder fans for life. Even now, we regularly hum Webb's sizzling songs and bandy about his catchphrases such as "The last of the full-grown men" and "The idol of idle youth" around our home. So you can imagine our joy when a friend gave us the VHS tape WEBB WILDER'S CORN FLICKS, an anthology of 3 shorts by Stephen Mims brimming with loopy straight-faced wit. The films include "...PRIVATE EYE..." (the director's cut!) and the non-Wilder short "AUNT HALLIE," a wickedly funny spoof of our disease-fearing society in which the title character's life is changed forever by the discovery of a used condom on her lawn and the onset of "old nasty disease." All three of the shorts are delightfully demented, but our hands-down fave is the opening short, "HORROR HAYRIDE." No sooner has our hero Webb awakened from one of his recurring nightmares about flying saucers than the governor of Tennessee stops Webb's "Economy With Dignity" tour bus to ask a favor. Seems that Webb, "the only man who commands the respect of both reckless teens and the highway patrol," helped put a rubber stamp truck-driving school out of business, and now the guv wants him to help his cute daughter Kirsten make a state driver's-ed film. But she's chosen the enigmatic Briley Parkway to direct. Briley seems to be inspired by both William Castle and Jean-Luc Godard, but why is this "auteur" making secret visits to porn outfit Antebellum Skin, and why is Kirsten raiding her mama's trust fund to give Briley $5,000 a week? And how are gospel singer Carlsbad Devereaux and Webb's old flame Dr. Barbara Slovine mixed up in all the "swampadelic, psychotronic" goings-on? The kickin' sounds of Webb Wilder the band work with the tongue-in-cheek "hillbilly noir" action perfectly. Co-writer/director Mims provides lots of atmosphere on a low budget (filming in Nashville helped), and the film's black-and-white look is like Ansel Adams photographing a Coen Brothers movie (except for one nifty color sequence after Webb is slipped some LSD). The characters take some pleasantly unexpected turns, with acting ranging from sublime (including Webb himself, natch) to amateurish, but that's part of the movie's charm. If you like deadpan comedy, DRAGNET, TWIN PEAKS, and rock 'n' roll Southern-style, you owe it to yourself to seek out WEBB WILDER'S CORN FLICKS; I've seen used copies of the VHS tape for sale right here on Amazon.com. I'd love to see it turn up on DVD someday. In the meantime, pick up on Webb Wilder's awesome CDs, too!

Movie Review: If you don't think the Corn Flicks are # 1, u r full of # 2
Summary: 5 Stars

The corn flicks are awesome. It's a shame it's not in print and on DVD. This movie has the best one liners of any movie period. I find myself working them (or revisions of them) into casual conversation nearly every day. Things like, "My career is a wax string hanging from a cat's a..." and "It's bad enough that he bad-mouthed poor old dead Elvis, but he had to do it while blowing pot smoke in my face."

There are two Web Wilder, Private Eye stories and one short that Web's director did without web. The short is halarious... a little bit about an old lady from Mississippi (I think) who suffers from the "old nasty disease." There's nothing quite like them that I know of.

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