The movie was shot in the summer of 1982 during a busy filming season for the Chicago area. He ends up bedding a call girl (played by De Mornay), who turns his parents’ home into a brothel.Īrmstrong, who played Joel’s wise guy pal Miles, said he kept a diary to document his first film role. The Hollywood Reporter posted Armstrong’s chapter on shooting “Risky Business,” a coming-of-age story that follows shy North Shore high school student Joel (played by Cruise in his break-out role) seeking some thrills while his parents are out of town. I went to bed alone that night thinking it served me right for not being religious,” actor Curtis Armstrong writes in his memoir “Revenge of the Nerd,” which is due out July 11.
This was a young man who knew something about time management and understood how to successfully juggle Bible study and (expletive). “Tom’s door opened and another girl came out, adjusting her hair and taking off down the hall, while the first girl in line slipped into Tom’s room. It's clearly the writing that is at fault here, which again lays the blame at Palumbo's feet.Women lined up outside Tom Cruise’s hotel room while he shot the 1983 film “Risky Business” in Chicago and engaged in an “intense affair” with co-star Rebecca De Mornay, according to a tell-all set to be released next month. Obviously Hodder and Todd are fantastic actors, and have had many classic characters in the horror movie pantheon.
Of course, with writing this lazy, there's no reason to expect that we'd get accurate quotes. The killer then says "In my mind's eye, I light fires in your cities." This is a loose paraphrase of one of Charles Manson's quotes, "In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities," which is much, much creepier. Tony Todd then yells at The Photographer because he's asking for a snuff film in an adult bookstore, because, obviously, that's not something that someone would actually do. You plug your other film inside this film? And sell it as a snuff film? Seriously, dude, get a grip. Seriously, what a lazy piece of writing and filmmaking. Todd runs an adult bookstore, which the main character visits to look for "a real snuff film." Which snuff film, in particular? Wonder upon wonders, its director Nick Palumbo's previous effort, Nutbag! Which, of course, is so "disturbingly real" that its a real snuff film.
Hodder is a Nazi, because reasons, and is really more of a cameo than a character. Kane Hodder (F13) and Tony Todd (Candyman) were also in this movie (which gives me great hope that I can get them to come to my birthday party). To her credit, she at least tried to get out from under the wheels of this struggle bus. One of the actresses in the film, Cerina Vincent, actually asked to have her part cut from the movie upon learning all of the details, which was of course denied. This is hardly explained, of course, as is most of the plot.
The Photographer (the only name we're given for the main character) would randomly scream things in German, because apparently he was the descendant of a Nazi. The actors did not have much to work with: this film had one of the worst scripts I've ever seen in a film. The film itself was awful on its own merits. Now, this has nothing to do with the film itself, it just strikes me that if you have to lie about your film to sell it, that should tell you something. Now, I can't vouch for the veracity of all of these claims, but there are too many to be completely untrue, and from what I've read from the director's actual correspondence, I tend to believe most, if not all, of these reports. Some reports I read actually stated that Palumbo threatened people on various boards, and actually called the police to get one of them shut down due to unsatisfactory reviews. In fact, from what I've seen in my own research, most of the positive "reviews" of the film come directly from the director or someone who is obviously a shill. Another fun fact: Apparently, in the lead up to the film's release, he and his promoters were banned from pretty much every major horror message board for bashing other films, trolling and insulting users, and writing fake reviews for their own blurbs. The only mentions that I could find about the film's previous rating was from director Nick Palumbo himself (or people that sounded like Palumbo representatives). The tagline for the movie on IMDB is "Prepare yourself for the first American NC-17 horror film." However, according to the movie's trivia section on IMDB, the film never received that rating.