Roddy Piper in HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN Wednesday Night at Schlafly Bottleworks

“Eat lead, Froggies!”

HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN screens October 7th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood

Remember that movie you saw in the late ‘80s where the giant frog is chasing Roddy Piper with a chainsaw, trying to cut his chastity belt so it will explode and destroy his testicles? It’s showing at the ‘Strange Brew’ film series this week!

DANGER DIABOLIK, TARANTULA, THE THING WITH TWO HEADS – You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Award-Winning Cult Film Series (Riverfront Times Best Film Series 2015) Strange Brew. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143).

In the low budget 1988 spoof HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN, the late Wrestling & action superstar Roddy Piper stars as Sam Hell, the last fertile man on earth. In this post-apocalyptic world, Sam signs a contract with a scientific group, which, under their contract, makes him protect, by wearing a Chasity belt, the “seeds of the future” Sam finds that the belt will explode if he attempts to take it off which leads to several hilarious moments through the film as he is sent with a tough female soldier and a nerdy, though sexy scientist to help enter and free the female fertile captives held hostage by a crazed amphibian leader and his horde of frog henchmen in a town called “Frog Town”.

HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN is a low budget spoof on PLANET OF THE APES, besides the plot, which substitutes apes with frogs, the film opens up with a shot of the statue of liberty, however upon pulling the camera back, we see that it is merely just a toy model of it, sitting atop of heaps of broken concrete in a desert wasteland. The film revels in B movie cheapness, like nudity and off the wall plotting, but it’s plot is nowhere near as sleazy as one might think – it really sends up the genre and is deserving of its cult status among  fans. Piper is as fun as always and shares great chemistry with Sandhal Bergman, playing a coolly clipped scientist with glasses and her hair in a tight nit bun. William ‘Big Bill’ Smith and Rory ‘Farmer Vincent’ Calhoun also co-star. HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN, which never once pretends to be anything it’s not and wears its low-budget badge quiet proudly, was followed by three sequels starting with A RETURN TO FROGTOWN.

Now you can experience the cosmic weirdness that is RETURN TO FROGTOWN when it screens Wednesday night October 7th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143). The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed beer.