It Came from Hollywood is a 1982 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 compiling clips from various B movie

B movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

s. Written by Dana Olsen

Dana Olsen

Dana Olsen is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter. His written works include George of the Jungle, The 'Burbs and Inspector Gadget...

 and directed by Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt, the film features wraparound segments and narration by several famous comedian

Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

s, including Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...

, John Candy

John Candy

John Franklin Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of The Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in comedy films such as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle...

, Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner

Gilda Susan Radner was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978.-Early life:...

, and Cheech and Chong

Cheech and Chong

Cheech & Chong are a comedy duo consisting of Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong, who found a wide audience in the 1970s and 1980s for their films and stand-up routines, which were based on the hippie and free love era, and especially drug culture movements, most notably their love for...

. Sections of It Came from Hollywood focus on gorilla

Gorilla

Gorillas are the largest extant species of primates. They are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies...

 pictures, anti-marijuana films and the works of Edward D. Wood, Jr.. The closing signature song was the doo wop hit "What's Your Name" by Don and Juan

Don and Juan

Don and Juan were an R&B vocal duo from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of Roland "Don" Trone and Claude "Juan" Johnson. Johnson had previously sung with a doo-wop group called the Genies, who reached #71 on the Billboard pop charts in 1959 with "Who's That Knockin'" on the Shad label...

.

List of films

• Sunny Side Up (1929)
• Maniac
  Maniac (1934 film)
  Maniac, also known as Sex Maniac, is a 1934 black-and-white exploitation/horror film, directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildegarde Stadie, Esper's wife, as a loose adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat", with references to his "Murders in the Rue Morgue"...
  
  (1934)
• Wonder Bar
  Wonder Bar
  Wonder Bar is a 1934 pre-code movie adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley...
  
  (1934)
• The Lost City
  The Lost City (1935 serial)
  The Lost City is an independently made film serial produced in 1935 directed by Harry Revier.-Plot:The film took the premise of that year's The Phantom Empire but transferred the lost civilization motif from the west to another popular serial locale, the African jungle...
  
  (1935)
• Reefer Madness (1936)
• Marihuana
  Marihuana (film)
  Marihuana is a 1936 exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper, and written by Esper's wife, Hildegarde Stadie.- Pot :Burma is a confused girl who likes to party. One day, she meets some strangers in a bar who invite her and her group to a party...
  
  (1936)
• Perils of Nyoka
  Perils of Nyoka
  Perils of Nyoka is a 1942 Republic Movie serial directed by William Witney. It starred Kay Aldridge as Nyoka the Jungle Girl, a character who first appeared in the Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired serial "Jungle Girl."-Plot:...
  
  (1942)
• Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943)
• Musical Movieland (1944)
• The Monster and the Ape
  The Monster and the Ape
  The Monster and the Ape was the 26th serial released by Columbia Pictures.-Synopsis:The Monster of the title is the "Metalogen Man", a robot created by Professor Franklin Arnold. After displaying his invention, the robot is stolen by Professor Ernst with the aid of his trained ape, Thor...
  
  (1945)
• The White Gorilla
  The White Gorilla
  The White Gorilla is a 1945 American film directed by Harry L. Fraser. The film was made by re-editing the 1927 silent film Perils of the Jungle, and adding new footage as a framing plot...
  
  (1945)
• Blonde Savage (1947)
• Daughter of the Jungle (1949)
• The Flying Saucer
  The Flying Saucer
  The Flying Saucer is an American, black-and-white science fiction feature film, produced independently by Colonial Productions Inc. and distributed in the USA by Film Classics Inc.. The film script was written by Howard Irving Young from an original story by Mikel Conrad, who also produced,...
  
  (1950)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• Zombies of the Stratosphere
  Zombies of the Stratosphere
  Zombies of the Stratosphere was intended as the second serial featuring "new hero" Commando Cody and the third 12-chapter serial featuring the rocket-powered flying suit introduced in King of the Rocket Men...
  
  (1952)
• Glen or Glenda (1953)
• Street Corner
  Street Corner
  Street Corner may refer to:* Street Corner , a black-and-white short film* Street Corner , a drama exploitation film* Street Corner , a black-and-white drama film...
  
  (1948) (actually Because Of Eve, 1948)
• Robot Monster
  Robot Monster
  Robot Monster is a 1953 American science fiction film made in 3-D by Phil Tucker. It is frequently considered one of the worst films ever made.- Plot :...
  
  (1953)
• The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
  The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
  The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 science fiction film directed by Eugène Lourié and stars Paul Christian, Paula Raymond and Cecil Kellaway with visual effects by Ray Harryhausen. The film is about an atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle that unfreezes a hibernating fictional dinosaur, a...
  
  (1953)
• The War of the Worlds
  The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
  The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science fiction film starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. It was the first on-screen loose adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic novel of the same name...
  
  (1953)
• Creature from the Black Lagoon
  Creature from the Black Lagoon
  Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell. The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes...
  
  (1954)
• Bride of the Monster
  Bride of the Monster
  Bride of the Monster is a 1955 sci-fi horror film starring Bela Lugosi, along with Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy and Loretta King Hadler. It was produced, directed and co-written by Edward D. Wood, Jr....
  
  (1955)
• The Violent Years
  The Violent Years
  The Violent Years is a 1956 American exploitation film starring Jean Moorhead as Paula Parkins, the leader of a gang of juvenile delinquent high school girls. The film is notable for the input of Ed Wood, Jr...
  
  (1956)
• Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
  Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
  Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is an American black and white science fiction film, directed by Fred F. Sears and released by Columbia Pictures. The film is also known as Invasion of the Flying Saucers. It was ostensibly suggested by the non-fiction work Flying Saucers from Outer Space by Donald...
  
  (1956)
• Fire Maidens from Outer Space
  Fire Maidens from Outer Space
  Fire Maidens from Outer Space , released in the USA as Fire Maidens of Outer Space, is a 78-minute black-and-white science fiction feature film...
  
  (1956)
• Runaway Daughters (1956)
• Shake, Rattle & Rock!
  Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956 film)
  Shake Rattle and Rock! is a 1956 musical/comedy-drama film directed by Edward L. Cahn for American International Pictures.-Cast:*Touch Connors as Garry Nelson*Lisa Gaye as June Fitzdingle*Sterling Holloway as Albert "Axe" McAllister...
  
  (1956)
• Don't Knock the Rock
  Don't Knock the Rock
  Don't Knock the Rock is a 1957 rock and roll film starring Alan Dale as a rock star who returns to his hometown to rest up for the summer only to find that rock and roll has been banned there by disapproving adults...
  
  (1956)
• Rock Baby: Rock It (1957)
• The Brain from Planet Arous
  The Brain from Planet Arous
  The Brain from Planet Arous is a 1957 science-fiction film that features the theme of alien possession.-Plot:An outer-space terrorist from a planet named Arous - a brain-shaped creature named Gor - arrives on Earth and possesses young scientist Steve March...
  
  (1957)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man
  The Incredible Shrinking Man
  The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold and adapted for the screen by Richard Matheson from his novel The Shrinking Man ....
  
  (1957)
• Dragstrip Girl (1957)
• The Deadly Mantis
  The Deadly Mantis
  The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 science fiction film produced by William Alland for Universal-International Pictures. It was directed by Nathan Juran from a screenplay by Martin Berkeley, and starred Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, and Pat Conway...
  
  (1957)
• The Giant Claw
  The Giant Claw
  The Giant Claw is a 1957 science fiction film about a giant bird that terrorizes the world. Produced by Clover Productions under the working title "Mark of the Claw" and released through Columbia Pictures, it starred Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday and was directed by Fred F. Sears...
  
  (1957)
• Beginning of the End
  Beginning of the End
  Beginning of the End is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. The film is about an agricultural scientist who has successfully grown gigantic vegetables using radiation...
  
  (1957)
• The Cyclops
  The Cyclops
  The Cyclops is a science fiction film starring James Craig and Gloria Talbott.-Synopsis:A test pilot is missing and a search party is sent out in the jungles of Mexico...
  
  (1957)
• From Hell It Came
  From Hell It Came
  From Hell It Came is a 1957 horror film and science fiction film directed by and written by Jack Milner.-Plot:A South Seas island prince is wrongly convicted of murder and executed by having a knife driven into his heart. The prince is buried in a hollow tree trunk and forgotten about until...
  
  (1957)
• The Amazing Colossal Man
  The Amazing Colossal Man
  The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 black-and-white science fiction film, directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Glenn Langan. The film revolves around a 60 foot mutant man produced as the result of an atomic accident....
  
  (1957)
• I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
  I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
  I Was a Teenage Frankenstein is a film starring Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates and Gary Conway released by American International Pictures in November 1957. It is the follow-up to AIP's box-office hit I Was a Teenage Werewolf released less than five months earlier...
  
  (1957)
• Teenage Monster
  Teenage Monster
  Teenage Monster is an independent science fiction, horror film, premiered December 25, 1957 and released by Marquette Productions Limited in 1958. Directed by Jacques R. Marquette, the film starred Anne Gwynne and Stuart Wade. The film combined the elements of science fiction and westerns, both of...
  
  (1958)
• The Bride and the Beast (1958)
• The Cool and the Crazy
  The Cool and the Crazy
  The Cool and the Crazy is a 1958 motion picture that was distributed by American-International Pictures. The producer of the film, Elmer Rhoden Jr., was president of the Kansas City, Missouri-based Commonwealth Theaters chain, a prominent chain of motion picture theaters with stretched through...
  
  (1958)
• Attack of the Puppet People
  Attack of the Puppet People
  Attack of the Puppet People is a 1958 American black-and-white science fiction Horror film directed, produced and written by Bert I. Gordon. It stars John Hoyt as an eccentric doll maker...
  
  (1958)
• Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
  Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
  Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 American science fiction feature film produced by Bernard Woolner for Allied Artists Pictures. It was directed by Nathan H. Juran from a screenplay by Mark Hanna, and starred Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers. The original music score was...
  
  (1958)
• High School Confidential!
  High School Confidential (film)
  High School Confidential is a 1958 crime drama film directed by Jack Arnold. It stars Mamie Van Doren, Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, Jackie Coogan. The film also features a cameo by Jerry Lee Lewis who opens the movie singing a song of the same name, which Lewis co-wrote with Ron...
  
  (1958)
• High School Hellcats
  High School Hellcats
  High School Hellcats is an American black-and-white 1958 film about a high school girl gang. The film stars Yvonne Lime, Bret Halsey, and Jana Lund...
  
  (1958)
• The Space Children
  The Space Children
  The Space Children is a 1958 film directed by Jack Arnold. The movie was mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1998 during season 9....
  
  (1958)
• Fiend Without a Face
  Fiend Without a Face
  Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 British black-and-white science fiction film directed by Arthur Crabtree. It tells the story of mysterious deaths at the hands of an invisible life-form that steals human brains and spinal columns...
  
  (1958)
• The Fly
  The Fly (1958 film)
  The Fly is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film, directed by Kurt Neumann. The screenplay was written by James Clavell , from the short story "The Fly" by George Langelaan...
  
  (1958)
• Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
• The Party Crashers (1958)
• The Blob
  The Blob
  The Blob is an independently made 1958 American horror/science-fiction film that depicts a giant amoeba-like alien that terrorizes the small community of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania...
  
  (1958)
• I Married a Monster from Outer Space
  I Married a Monster from Outer Space
  I Married a Monster from Outer Space is a 1958 science fiction film, directed by Gene Fowler Jr. and starring Tom Tryon and Gloria Talbott....
  
  (1958)
• Frankenstein's Daughter
  Frankenstein's Daughter
  Frankenstein's Daughter was the third of four drive-in films crafted by producer Marc Frederic and director Richard E. Cunha in the late 1950s. In it, Victor Frankenstein's grandson repeats his grandfather's grisly experiments.-Plot:...
  
  (1958)
• Monster from Green Hell
  Monster from Green Hell
  Monster from Green Hell is a 1957 B movie shown as a double-feature to the 1957 film The Brain from Planet Arous. It is also seen as a clone of Them!.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1958)
• The Trollenberg Terror
  The Trollenberg Terror
  The Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 "Saturday Serial" ITV UK television programme and a better-known 1958 black and white science fiction film. The latter is also known as The Crawling Eye, Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye...
  
  (1958)
• Missile to the Moon
  Missile to the Moon
  Missile to the Moon is a 1958 black-and-white science fiction film directed by Richard E. Cunha, and is a remake of the 1953 film Cat-Women of the Moon.-Plot:...
  
  (1958)
• The Hideous Sun Demon
  The Hideous Sun Demon
  The Hideous Sun Demon was the directorial debut of Robert Clarke, star of many of the 1950s best science fiction films. The movie became an Atomic Age cult classic. Clarke wrote, directed and produced The Hideous Sun Demon...
  
  (1959)
• Battle in Outer Space
  Battle in Outer Space
  Battle in Outer Space, released in Japan as is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in Japan in 1959, and distributed worldwide in 1960 by Columbia Pictures...
  
  (1959)
• House on Haunted Hill
  House on Haunted Hill
  House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 American B movie horror film from Allied Artists. It was directed by William Castle, written by Robb White, and starring Vincent Price as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren. He and his fourth wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house for a "Haunted...
  
  (1959)
• Prince of Space (1959)
• Teenagers from Outer Space
  Teenagers from Outer Space
  Teenagers from Outer Space is a 1959 science-fiction film about an extraterrestrial space ship landing on Earth to use it as a farm for its food supply. The crew of the ship includes teenagers, two of whom oppose each other in their activities. The independent film was originally distributed by...
  
  (1959)
• The Killer Shrews
  The Killer Shrews
  The Killer Shrews is a 1959 science fiction film directed by Ray Kellogg. It has been released on DVD and is considered a cult classic. It was featured in the fourth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, as well as the first season of the similar show This Movie Sucks!.-Plot:Thorne Sherman and...
  
  (1959)
• Plan 9 from Outer Space
  Plan 9 from Outer Space
  Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 science fiction film written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film features Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson and Maila "Vampira" Nurmi...
  
  (1959)
• The Tingler
  The Tingler
  The Tingler is a 1959 horror-thriller film by American producer/director William Castle. It is the third of five collaborations with writer Robb White and stars Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, Philip Coolidge and Judith Evelyn.The film tells the story of a scientist...
  
  (1959)
• First Man Into Space
  First Man into Space
  First Man into Space is a 1959 science fiction horror film directed by Robert Day and distributed by Amalgamated films.- Plot :...
  
  (1959)
• The Loves of Hercules
  The Loves of Hercules
  The Loves of Hercules is a 1960 Italian-epic fantasy-feature film starring Jayne Mansfield and husband Mickey Hargitay.-Alternative titles:*Hercules vs...
  
  (1960)
• The Hypnotic Eye
  The Hypnotic Eye
  The Hypnotic Eye is a horror film, released by Allied Artists on February 27, 1960, starring Jacques Bergerac, Allison Hayes, Merry Anders, Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, and Ferdinand Demara, billed as "Fred Demara".-Plot:...
  
  (1960)
• Invasion of the Neptune Men
  Invasion of the Neptune Men
  is a tokusatsu SF/superhero film produced by Toei Company Ltd. in 1961. The movie starred then 22-year old Sonny Chiba as the intergalactic superhero Iron-Sharp...
  
  (1961)
• Reptilicus
  Reptilicus
  Reptilicus, a giant monster film about a fictional prehistoric reptile, is a Danish-American co-production, produced by American International Pictures and Saga Studios, and is upon close examination two distinctly different films helmed by two different directors.The original version, which was...
  
  (1961)
• Rocket Attack, U.S.A. (1961)
• Married Too Young (1962)
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die
  The Brain That Wouldn't Die
  The Brain That Wouldn't Die, also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die, is a 1962 science-fiction/horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. The film was completed in 1959 under the title The Black Door, but was not released until May 3, 1962, when it was renamed...
  
  (1962)
• Matango
  Matango
  , also known as Matango, Fungus of Terror and Attack of the Mushroom People, is a 1963 Japanese tokusatsu movie. It was directed by Ishirō Honda, written by Takeshi Kimura based on the story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson , and had special...
  
  (1963)
• Slime People
  Slime People
  The Slime People is a 1963 horror film directed by Robert Hutton. The film concerns a race of subterranean reptile-men who create a wall of "solidified fog" around Los Angeles and proceed to invade the city...
  
  (1963)
• Evil Brain from Outer Space
  Evil Brain from Outer Space
  Evil Brain from Outer Space is a 1964 film edited together for American television from films #7, #8 and #9 of the Japanese short film series Super Giant.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1964)
• The Creeping Terror
  The Creeping Terror
  The Creeping Terror is a 1964 horror/science fiction film, in which a slug-like monster terrorizes an American town after escaping from a crashed spaceship...
  
  (1964)
• Atomic Rulers (1964)
• The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)
• The Horror of Party Beach
  The Horror of Party Beach
  The Horror of Party Beach is a 1964 horror film in the beach party genre, directed by B-movie maven Del Tenney, which Tenney himself describes as "a take-off on beach parties and musicals"....
  
  (1964)
• Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
• Bat Men of Africa (1966)
• Mars Needs Women
  Mars Needs Women
  Mars Needs Women is an American International Pictures made for TV science fiction film filmed in 1966 and released in 1967 which features Tommy Kirk, Yvonne Craig, and Byron Lord. it was shot during a two week period in Houston and Dallas, Texas...
  
  (1967)
• The Weird World of LSD (1967)
• The X from Outer Space
  The X from Outer Space
  is a 1967 Kaiju film released by the studio Shochiku. It is the first kaiju film released by Shochiku who would later go on to release a number of Kaiju films in the future....
  
  (1967)
• Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
• Son of Godzilla
  Son of Godzilla
  Son of Godzilla, released in Japan as , is a 1967 science fiction kaiju film. The eighth part of the Toho studio's Godzilla series, it was directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa It is the first film to feature Kamacuras, Kumonga, and Minilla.-Plot:A team of scientists are...
  
  (1967)
• Octaman (1971)
• The Thing with Two Heads
  The Thing with Two Heads
  The Thing with Two Heads is a 1972 film, starring Rosey Grier, Ray Milland and Don Marshall directed by Lee Frost, and written by Wes Bishop. Frost and Bishop also had parts in the movie....
  
  (1972)
• Black Belt Jones
  Black Belt Jones
  Black Belt Jones is a 1974 American Blaxploitation action film. The main musical theme was performed by the funk guitarist Dennis Coffey. The film was featured as number 38 on the documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.-Plot:...
  
  (1974)
• Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
  Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
  Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell is a 1974 British horror film from Hammer Film Productions. It was directed by Terence Fisher and starred Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, and David Prowse...
  
  (1974)
• A*P*E (1976)
• The Incredible Melting Man
  The Incredible Melting Man
  The Incredible Melting Man is a 1977 American science fiction horror film about an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed to radiation during a space flight to Saturn, driving him to commit murders and consume human flesh to survive...
  
  (1977)
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)