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Possibly the most pathetic bit of poetic justice was when he was dying, he got forcibly dressed up in that shitty banana suit. I bet it wasn't so funny for him then.
Lolcow Bill Norton Olsen Code Red DVD - Plus David DeFalco Dark Force Entertainment.
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My sin is my reward.
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This is the ultimate fate I want for Onision.
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Does deFalco/Dark Force even have the rights to these now hybrid releases? There used to be much chatter that even Bill didn’t have the actual fucking rights to half the garbage he sold, so I’m wondering what the deal is, if anyone knows.
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We have to play wait and see. Is DeFalco going to release the 4K's of Dead Pit and Scream or is Kino Lorber? Bill's secret partner might step out of the woodwork.
I didn't mention this before because there's not enough evidence but it's been speculated that Bill had a secret partner who is the Ebay seller BooBerry:
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Just like Bill, BooBerry owned a video store and got his start on Ebay way back in the very early days of Ebay selling some of the absolute rarest shit on VHS. The only evidence we have of BooBerry being a secret partner is (1) this guy ALWAYS gets Code Red releases in bulk. Keep in mind that Code Red releases were rare and Bill refused to sell more than 1 copy a piece per buyer. (2) This guy also has plenty of Scorpion and Dark Force product as well. (3) Bill put out a special BooBerry trailer DVD under the Code Red label.
In other news, this happened:
Classy. INB4 DeFalco keeps reusing footage of Bill like Stan Lee cameos.
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DeFalco does his first real livestream since Bill's death.
I wonder if he peeled off the banana costume from Bill's corpse?
But just as a reminder: this is all to sell the 4K of The Dead Pit (which IMHO is a pretty bad zombie movie from the guy who would go on to direct The Lawnmower Man and a guilty pleasure of mine Virtuosity).
1 minute in: DeFalco fake cries "It's just not the same without him."
His hand shakes as he holds the disk.
DeFalco claims that Bill was a big part of his life.
"Absolute Hell without this guy I gotta' tell ya."
Dave proceeds to show off the glow in the dark quality.
While displaying the disk just above some custom championship belt:
Reminder: this guy never wrestled so where did this belt come from? I'm willing to bet it's a custom or he bought it from some broke wrestler and had it modified to have his name on it.
Dave decides to make the room blue (because blue = sad?):
9 minutes in: " Yeah, he suffered and it killed me. But my own selfishness didn't want him to be gone." He comes so close to recognizing his narcissism (assuming this isn't an act of course).
The rest is just him moping and claiming he never met another character like Bill and he'd rather be tortured then go through this.
I wonder if he peeled off the banana costume from Bill's corpse?
But just as a reminder: this is all to sell the 4K of The Dead Pit (which IMHO is a pretty bad zombie movie from the guy who would go on to direct The Lawnmower Man and a guilty pleasure of mine Virtuosity).
1 minute in: DeFalco fake cries "It's just not the same without him."
His hand shakes as he holds the disk.
DeFalco claims that Bill was a big part of his life.
"Absolute Hell without this guy I gotta' tell ya."
Dave proceeds to show off the glow in the dark quality.
While displaying the disk just above some custom championship belt:
Reminder: this guy never wrestled so where did this belt come from? I'm willing to bet it's a custom or he bought it from some broke wrestler and had it modified to have his name on it.
Dave decides to make the room blue (because blue = sad?):
9 minutes in: " Yeah, he suffered and it killed me. But my own selfishness didn't want him to be gone." He comes so close to recognizing his narcissism (assuming this isn't an act of course).
The rest is just him moping and claiming he never met another character like Bill and he'd rather be tortured then go through this.
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I'm trying to think of decent movies Code Red released and all I can think of is Rituals and Messiah of Evil, maybe Nightmares in a Damaged Brain if I'm being generous. He always seemed so amazed that people weren't beating down his door to buy King Frat on Blu Ray. Truly an odd man.
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Not much else is happening. DeFalco is hyping up other 4K releases like Scream (1981):
He's really hyping up the whole "LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION" aspect but, as I said, the film is a POS. I've seen tons of slashers and it really is one of the absolute worst ones ever made. It has zero redeeming qualities. Even other slasher trash has something going for it. Shit like Berserker has a bizarre quality about it because it has a ghost bear and viking. Blood Harvest has Tiny Tim in clown makeup, sure, that's fucking weird and memorable. But the 81 Scream has NOTHING. The only thing you can say about it is that you can troll people by making them confuse it for the more famous Scream from 96.
There will be no bad mouthing Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, sir. I fucking love that film. But as far as actual good or notable films Bill owned you named most of them. He distributed other flicks but it was a situation where he had the license for a minute and farted out a release that everyone forgot about. For example, I completely forgot he did a half-assed upconvert to Blu for House on the Edge of the Park. An upconvert that cost $30-40 with shipping. Only other movies I can think of are Beyond the Door, the "masterpiece" Don't Go in the Woods, Umberto Lenzi's Almost Human (a fantastic Polizioteschi flick but Bill insisted on using the shitty and incredibly misleading American poster that implies it's a horror film), and Ghostkeeper.
Looking up what exactly Bill has released is difficult because of the lists you find combine titles released by his brother Walter for Scorpion.
He's really hyping up the whole "LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION" aspect but, as I said, the film is a POS. I've seen tons of slashers and it really is one of the absolute worst ones ever made. It has zero redeeming qualities. Even other slasher trash has something going for it. Shit like Berserker has a bizarre quality about it because it has a ghost bear and viking. Blood Harvest has Tiny Tim in clown makeup, sure, that's fucking weird and memorable. But the 81 Scream has NOTHING. The only thing you can say about it is that you can troll people by making them confuse it for the more famous Scream from 96.
There will be no bad mouthing Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, sir. I fucking love that film. But as far as actual good or notable films Bill owned you named most of them. He distributed other flicks but it was a situation where he had the license for a minute and farted out a release that everyone forgot about. For example, I completely forgot he did a half-assed upconvert to Blu for House on the Edge of the Park. An upconvert that cost $30-40 with shipping. Only other movies I can think of are Beyond the Door, the "masterpiece" Don't Go in the Woods, Umberto Lenzi's Almost Human (a fantastic Polizioteschi flick but Bill insisted on using the shitty and incredibly misleading American poster that implies it's a horror film), and Ghostkeeper.
Looking up what exactly Bill has released is difficult because of the lists you find combine titles released by his brother Walter for Scorpion.
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Nightmares in a Damaged Brain is fantastic, there’s a nice chunk of location shooting that they did on old 42nd St. before it was Disneyfied. I saw it on a double bill with Pieces. Good times, good times.
Definitely a weird dude, though.
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Side note: it took me forever to find a site that successfully allows me to download this fucking file. Google must have been on a spree shutting down YT downloader sites. AND I STILL CAN'T FUCKING DOWNLOAD THIS FUCKING FILE!
This is a podcast with Bill's brother Walter. I'm pretty sure this is a one-off. And I think they just created this site to sell off the Code Red catalog:
Walter sounds almost exactly like Bill which threw me off. I wonder if their father was Elmer Fudd? A lot of details are dished out here:
Right off the bat, Walt reveals that more MGM titles are coming and they're going to be released by Kino Lorber. These are titles Bill wanted to release and there's going to be liner notes in tribute to Bill. These movies include: Underground Aces, American Justice, and It Takes Two. Walt threatens to use B-roll footage of Bill in the Banana Man costume for these releases (Why? Just let it die, man. No one liked these fucking segments except for retards like your brother).
2:20 Walt goes over their childhood.
I started skipping ahead. They were movie buffs who collected tapes and all that. Nothing too interesting.
25:30 Bill saw enemies everywhere (no shit). This is where we go over the origin of the Code Red Megastore or the cartel store where Bill sold unsold copies of movies pressed by VCI. Bill refused help from any 3rd party.
28:00 Bill never understood the "expiration date" of movies he acquired. It's pretty self-explanatory but when you license a movie you own it for x amount of time and once the time expires the original license holder gets it back. You can offer more money to hold it for longer or buy the movie outright if the license holder agrees. The fun part of doing this kind of shit is that the license holder may not have a print or the print they have is shit quality so you have to do some exploring and haggling to sometimes find a quality print. Bill pissed off several license holders because he ignored expiration dates.
29:30 Bill lost interest in his label and got interested in "some guy" I.E. DeFalco. This is when he dishes the details on DeFalco. Bill was convinced labels like Vinegar Syndrome and Severin had a Specter style secret villain meeting on how to destroy his label. Walt asked Kino Lorber to help Bill get a deal with Universal and MGM. Bill claims he got a 100K Paypal deposit from DeFalco but Walter has never seen the receipt of this deposit. Walt says Bill had a stroke that turned his mind to mush.
31:00 DeFalco told Bill that he knew a guy who would give him an MRI for $200 under the table and Bill would fly to L.A. to do this. Walt explains that Bill became very gullible (no shit). He was also getting painkillers off the street thanks to DeFalco. This included Oxycodone. Bill wanted to sue Facebook for detractor pages.
33:30 Bill and Sage Stallone use to talk on the phone for hours on end. They never actually met IRL but just talked on the phone. Bill used to troll Sage by leaving voice mails by impersonating his dad. Walt hypothesizes that if Sage lived that Bill would not have gotten involved with DeFalco. Sage would have warned Bill about DeFalco and possibly would have stopped Bill from having a stroke. Note: the stroke is the reason why Bill lost the use of his right arm.
Note as a reminder: DeFalco directed Sage Stallone in a scene-for-scene remake of Last House on the Left called Chaos. It's the same exact movie. Sage plays the Junior character. Sage wanted to work with David Hess and signed the contract before Hess did and something went down and Hess pulled out and Sage was trapped. Only difference is that the ending is different with the Krug character killing everyone and maniacally laughing as we cut to black. Definitely some shit went down during that production.
40:00 Bill would skip doing dialysis and think he was invincible. Bill went to the hospital so often he was banned and he was placed in a nursing home. His insurance told him that he needed a benefactor (DeFalco) in order to stay but the payments from this benefactor never happened.
42:50 "Why is his "friend" showing his legs on Facebook without sanitizing his freaking gloves!?" DeFalco would be wearing boxing gloves...
Walt sent his caregiver and a film producer to bring Bill back to Seattle and brought him to a hospital. Doctor told him that they got him in just in time because he could have died from blood poisoning. Bill said that the doctor told him to sign his own death certificate. The Doc had a heart-to-heart with Walt and told him that the man he's trying to help now is no longer his brother.
48:00 Bill was being serious about posts he made on Blu-Ray.com and especially wanting to smash a baby's head. "He got really violent towards the end." Bill's idol was Uganda dictator Idi Amin. "Bill thought Amin was funny." Bill wanted to emulate Amin and kill his enemies.
50:00 Bill got released from the physical therapy facility he was staying at and died shortly thereafter without calling Walter for several days. Walt got a call from a social worker informing him about his death and said that an investigation was going on (!) because of unusual circumstances.
BILL DIED IN A BOARDING HOUSE WITH NO DOCTORS OR NURSES.
DeFalco kept Bill from calling his brother. Walt misses his brother. Bill gave his bank card and pin number to DeFalco when DeFalco bought cigars and furniture for himself.
54:20 Walt speaks to DeFalco and the "movie producer" who tricked Bill to come back To L.A. to finance a Blue Monkey 2 and other prospects "Who the fuck would see a Blue Monkey part 2?!" DeFalco would talk about killing Walt in front of Bill. When Bill was in Seattle he was 100% better (described by Walt as 99% or 100%) when he was L.A. he was 50% in shape. As soon as Bill goes back he dies. One of the people manipulating Bill was rummaging through other tenant's storage lockers at Bill's old apartment and got him kicked out. Bill was sitting in a hotel room covered in his own shit while DeFalco bought himself a custom Lamborghini. DeFalco didn't pay for the nursing home either. Walt tried to warn bill that DeFalco was "A narcissistic sociopath." No one but Walt and the guy who is interviewing him for this knew about Bill's death but "someone" immediately leaked the info to the internet. Gee, I wonder who it was?
"NOW THIS GUY HAS ALL OF MY BROTHERS MOVIES!"
Now we know the reason. DeFalco owns the negatives for the Code Red catalog. DeFalco would threaten to assault the owners of the negatives in person including an 18-year-old receptionist. Walt claims that legally DeFalco does not own these movies. These include: Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (recently shown on Joe Bob's Last Drive-In). DeFalco lied to one of Walt's friends who owns a "major label" and tried to sub-license a movie Walt owns, DeFalco got paid and forged Bill's signature to rip off Walt's friend. DeFalco owns some of the movies but doesn't have the assets (I.E. the negative). Bill would launder the money from selling movies through DeFalco to avoid paying caregivers. Bill was half Japanese (!) and was embarrassed that people would call him a Jap.
1:00:06: Walt is asked about the origin of Banana Man. Walt admits he came up with the idea. Bill came up with the name. "Poor Stacy Keach..." Someone suggested Bill do Twitch streams in the costume.
Walt's last words to Bill "I would tell him to listen to me and his doctors instead of these people in California." Walt remarks that the Code Red releases are Bill's legacy.
TLDR: DeFalco is a massive fucking scum bag and there should be a criminal investigation in how he manipulated Bill. The point of this podcast is obviously to mourn Bill but also warn the world about DeFalco and that no one should do business with this man if it's not obvious already.
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This is now the third release of Scream. Why? You can still find the original Media Blasters DVD for cheap and that turd sure won't shine with it's alleged 4K restoration. I've heard bad things about the quality of his releases, so I haven't picked up anything from Dark Force. Also, the truth about DeFalco is quite shocking. The guy always seemed like an idiotic scumbag. On an odd note, Kotaku Austrailia talks about his shitty Heavy Metal Massacre movie since Bleeding Skull re-released it at the time of the article. The writer claims that he spoke to someone that worked on the film and mentions how inept DeFalco was at making a film, let alone acting in it.
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There's also that bit in Chaos during the nipple cutting scene and you can hear DeFalco from behind the camera scream "More blood!" That was left in the movie.
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Why is it these paranoid fucks don't trust anyone except the dudes who are brazenly ripping them off and fucking them over?
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DeFalco has (not really) responded:
I can't imagine it was very expensive to make a 4K of this one. Assuming he got it for nothing from Bill and the same thing with Dead Pit. I'm shocked that anyone would buy a copy of this just because -again- it's one of the worst slashers ever made and it's not even a funny bad movie.
I can't imagine it was very expensive to make a 4K of this one. Assuming he got it for nothing from Bill and the same thing with Dead Pit. I'm shocked that anyone would buy a copy of this just because -again- it's one of the worst slashers ever made and it's not even a funny bad movie.
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thanks for documenting this insanity. i found this thread after seeing this on zillow
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searching the address, it was used for a business called "code red dvds"
i want to see the horrors within now
4102 96th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040 | MLS #2040059 | Zillow
For sale This 2290 square foot single family home has 4 bedrooms and 2.0 bathrooms. It is located at 4102 96th Ave SE Mercer Island, Washington.
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searching the address, it was used for a business called "code red dvds"
i want to see the horrors within now
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They want $10 short of a million for THAT?!thanks for documenting this insanity. i found this thread after seeing this on zillow
4102 96th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040 | MLS #2040059 | Zillow
For sale This 2290 square foot single family home has 4 bedrooms and 2.0 bathrooms. It is located at 4102 96th Ave SE Mercer Island, Washington.
searching the address, it was used for a business called "code red dvds"
i want to see the horrors within now
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
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That has to be some kind of place holder price. They openly admit that Bananaman's ALL CAPS house of horrors is unlivable and needs to be demolished. and there's no fucking way that land is worth more than 20K, even in Washington.
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I'm going to find where you live and force you to wear Bill's disgusting and smelly banana costume then make you dance for my amusement.