Saturday, September 13, 2014

THUNDER IN PARADISE



The Thunder In Paradise movies are basically just episodes of the TV show slapped together into a full length movie.  Pretty low budget and cheesy as shit, but it's kinda like Indiana Jones meets Baywatch. 

Terry "Hulkstermaniac" Hogan plays some type of navy seal/mercenary named Hurricane Spencer. He rides around in a tricked out superboat called Thunder, saving woman and children from terrorists and gangsters in beaches and bays all across the land. There is a strange subplot where a woman needs to marry Hulk in order to save her beachfront hotel as per some weird clause in her dead fathers will. When Hulkster finds a secret map puzzle on the back of a necklace that he pulled out of a sharks stomach and then gave to a little girl who later becomes his daughter through the marriage clause thing,  Hulk and friends take his superboat out on a treasure hunt. But look out, Hulkster, there's a group of greasy commando creeps that are also out fo some a dat treasure!

Part 2 is more of the same but way shittier. Hulks new wife shares a dream with a long haired Fabio dude who turns out to be a prince that shows up to whisk her away. She tells Hulk that she just needs to go on this adventure real quick and for some reason he's cool with it. At first it turns out loverboy wants to give her away to his enemy as a peace offering. Then he decides to just keep her for himself.  Hulk hops in the superboat and blasts off to Arabia or some shit to get her back. 

There is a third part to this series that I'm still hunting for. I hope it's a little more part one and a lot less part two, but chances are it will be a big ol' pile of number two. 

Part 1 - 83 Terry Hogan Eye Patches out of 100 
Part 2 - 41 Magic Dream Crowns out of 100