{"id":486,"date":"2008-04-19T11:29:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T01:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/19\/retro-the-ghastly-love-of-johnny-x\/"},"modified":"2008-04-19T11:29:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T01:29:52","slug":"retro-the-ghastly-love-of-johnny-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/19\/retro-the-ghastly-love-of-johnny-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro: The Ghastly Love of Johnny X"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking like the 1959 scifi B-flick Teenagers From Outer Space<\/em> crossbred with Grease<\/em>, the new musical comedy film The Ghastly Love of Johnny X<\/strong> (US-2008; dir. Paul Bunnell) embraces rockers, flying saucers, femme fatales, black-and-white photography, songs, dastardly deeds, the Fate of the Planet, raising dead rock stars and Ghastlyscope. It also includes genre luminaries Reggie Bannister (from the Phantasm<\/em> movies), Kevin McCarthy (of Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/em> fame) and Paul Williams (known, among other things, for his part in Brian De Palma’s The Phantom of the Paradise*<\/em>).<\/p>\n

*which appears to have caught the remake<\/a> bug itself.<\/h5>\n

JOHNNY X<\/strong> and his rebellious gang of juvenile delinquents from outer space (called the Ghastly Ones) have been banished to planet Earth until they can pay for their crimes.<\/p>\n

The Ghastly Ones are in hot pursuit of a mysterious femme fatale named BLISS<\/strong>, who has stolen their most prized possession\u2014a strange suit with magical powers known as the \u201cresurrection suit.\u201d\u00a0 When Johnny X wears this suit, he can control anyone against their will.<\/p>\n

To capture Bliss, Johnny must form an unlikely alliance with a shifty show promoter, KING CLAYTON<\/strong>, who desperately needs the resurrection suit for his own selfish scheme\u2014to insure that the legendary rock star MICKEY O\u2019FLYNN <\/strong>successfully completes a comeback concert.<\/p>\n

Johnny’s plight is further complicated when the unpredictable rocker suddenly drops dead, forcing him to use the suit for a far darker purpose\u2014to bring the late, great Mickey O\u2019Flynn back from the grave for a spectacular concert of the macabre!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Story synopsis from the film’s official website<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"Ghastly<\/a><\/p>\n

Still in production, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X<\/em> looks like a hoot. The good folk at RoboJapan<\/a> will be keep us updated as they visit the set later this year.<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: Kaiju Search-Robot Avery and RoboJapan<\/p>\n

Here’s the trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking like the 1959 scifi B-flick Teenagers From Outer Space crossbred with Grease, the new musical comedy film The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (US-2008; dir. Paul Bunnell) embraces rockers, flying saucers, femme fatales, black-and-white photography, songs, dastardly deeds, the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,67,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}