Porklips Now (1980)

Directed by

Ernie Fosselius

Genre

parody film

Country

United States

Runtime

22 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short parody film that follows Dullard, a gardener and handyman. He is sent to Chinatown by two butchers to confront a business rival named Fred Madman Mertz.

sillylow-budgetparodicquirkyplayfulcampyabsurd

What happens

Porklips Now is a short, low budget parody film, made in 1980 by the American director Ernie Fosselius, based on the 1979 motion picture Apocalypse Now. It chronicles the journey of Dullard (played by William "Billy" Gray, most famous as "Bud" in the Father Knows Best TV series), a gardener and handyman, sent to Chinatown by two butchers to meet a business rival, Fred "Madman" Mertz, and "take care of business". The film incorporates references to signature elements of the film on which it is based, albeit in a somewhat conspicuously low-budget manner. Echoing a widely held if erroneous belief about Apocalypse Now, the film features several alternate endings. The film was included on the compilation VHS release Hardware Wars, and Other Film Farces from Warner Home Video and is currently available on VHS and DVD from Pyramid Direct Films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Pray TV (1980)
• Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind (1980)
• Loose Shoes (1980)
• Big Money Hustlas (2000)
• Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
• I Want to Be a Boarder (1937)
• The Freshman (1990)
• All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution (1981)