What a combo! Charles Band and Full Moon Entertainment merged with MTV. Yep, we have it here today and it even stars the perky Martha Quinn! I believe she is an MTV original. When MTV still did music videos, boy that was long ago, their allure, especially with teens, was at its maximum. Now, MTV is gone, at least from any kind of popularity. Did MTV turn our kids into mind-numbed robots? Well, according to this film...maybe. Our feature today is 1992's "Bad Channels," directed by Ted Nicolaou.
Superstation 66 is the biggest rock station in the country. DJ Dan O'Dare (Paul Hipp) is kicking the programming off and it is being covered by TV reporterette Lisa (Quinn). Uh, oh! UFOs and one lands near the station. A slimy alien comes to the station with his laser shooting robot and takes it over. The station is covered in green slime so no one gets in or out. Dan is forced to broadcast and his music entrances the sultriest dames in Pahoota to dirty dance. Even worse, as the babes dance, the slimy alien zaps them into glass jars at the station and shrinks them to a foot tall. Now the beautiful high school band babe Bunny (Daryl Strauss), the beautiful diner waitress Cookie (Charlie Spradling), and sultry and kinky Nurse Ginger (Melissa Behr) are captured in these jars...but one more needs to be filled.
Outside the station, many of the town's citizens are overtaken by a green fungus that grows when the music from the station is broadcast. Inside the studio, Dan tries everything to fight the monster alien and the laser-shooting robot and also tries to rescue the shrunken babes. Lisa heroically keeps covering the story for her station as the cops and locals converge on the station and its radio tower. The music blasts and each babe is entranced by a separate MTV-type band. Guitars play aplenty, lead singers gyrate like crazy, and babes are spun into sexual frenzies.
What does the slimy green alien want with the babes it has captured and put into jars? Who is destined to be put in the fourth jar? Will Lisa earn her Emmy for this heroic reporting, or will she be sucked in by the radio frequency, shrunk, and be put into that last jar? The cheese factor is terrific and the music factor is...well, if you liked MTV, you'll like these tunes. See "Bad Channels" and relive the days MTV dominated the psyche of high schoolers throughout the world.
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