Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into?
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This telekinesis sex-comedy is a work of perverse 80s genius.
There are two utterly nonsensical sequences which are completely out of place amidst the typical frat comedy nonsense.
One in which a post-'Shining' Scatman Crothers (as a hotdog obsessed janitor; "I WANT MY SALAMI") gets accidentally high and goes bike riding with Albert Einstein and the other where Baio's new found powers enable him to animate a toy spaceship and fly it into his dog's mouth.
Oh and the ending is basically ‘Carrie’ - except instead of killing
all the students Baio makes all the girls clothes fall off.
Like many T&A comedies of its day it teeters on unwatchability throughout.
However by the end I think I had to admit it said more to me about the essence of the human condition than TREE OF LIFE.
Cinematic Time Capsule
1982 Marathon - Film #111
”I think this laboratory nonsense has gotten outta hand”
When a chemical accident grants Scott Baio with Carrie’s powers of telekinesis he decides to use this ability to unleash all the ‘dirty pillows’ he can find.
Too childish for adults, and too rated R for children, I have know idea who this was supposed to be made for. It feels like they realized this was an awful kids movie and desperately to save it by inserting lots of random nudity and trying to sell it as a sex comedy.
”So how does the world look through cracked glasses?”
“Cracked”
"I can't live in this world without salami"
When Scatman Crothers accidentally contaminates an experiment, Barney Springbro (Scott Baio) winds up with telekinesis. His perverted friend Peyton (Willie Aames) convinces him to use his powers to help him be a more effective sex criminal and gambler.
Zapped is one of those horny, plotless 80s movies that only exist to show some breasts. Luckily there's some entertaining random insanity along the way like Barney's dad swilling prune juice and rum, a toy that is just a backwards Millennium Falcon with part of the U.S.S. Enterprise attached to it, a hotdog restaurant called Wonder Wiener and a truly bizarre drug trip where Scatman Crothers is chased by his wife who shoots a…
The chemistry between Baio and Aames was evident, so it's no surprise that Charles in Charge was such a success. That cougar redhead secretary was totally down with big Willie. Surprisingly, the film doesn't rely much on the T&A as the energy of the cast and tightness of the story propels it forward nicely. Works still as a parody of DePalma's version of Carrie in some scenes. For anyone doing fan edits, I'd like to see Barney's telekinetic prom sequence spliced and diced with Carrie's. '82 was a clinic for musical montages as these cuts hold their own with Rocky III, and the soundtrack's a true contender, too.
Had an amazing time re-watching this with the Hatman, Puggs and Todd on Flesh Wound After Dark.
I rewatched this motion picture and am not ashamed.
1982 In Review - July
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A high school science nerd gains telekinetic powers after a laboratory accident and uses them for revenge upon bullies.
Scott Baio stars as a high school kid who gains telekinetic powers after experiencing a scientific mishap. The movie is a trial to sit through, and is just plain awful.
Scatman Crothers shares a scene with Albert Einstein
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Okay, look, if you made a list of everything that's wrong with this movie it would be a long list, and certainly at the top of that list would be Don't use your new-found telekinetic powers to sexually assault someone no matter how much of a jerkface they're being...but with a movie that starts off by putting forward Scott Baio as a rocket scientist and Willie Aames as a ladies' man we've quickly established that this film exists purely within the realm of Fantasy that strains credulity and is not something anyone should be basing life choices on. And since I'm an adult and can drink adult beverages…
If this movie came out in '82, I must have seen it on HBO in '83, and I would have been about 5 or 6.
It has the feel of something you'd see on Wonderful World of Disney, but R rated. I remember being mystified by all the sexual content.
I've now rewatched it after 4 decades or whatever. Scott Baio develops Telekinesis as a result of some experiment. He appears to have the same sidekick guy from Charles in Charge.
I remember the Star Trek parody part, but I spotted the actor who played Captain Kirk's son in the movies this time, playing a character named Gary Cooter. That could be pure coincidence, I have no idea.
The part…
Released in the summer of ’82, when his Happy Days success had spawned a spinoff in Joanie Loves Chachi, those not getting enough Scott Baio on the small screen could enjoy his antics in theatrical form with Zapped! When a high school science enthusiast accidentally develops telekinetic powers, he mainly uses them to bully people and tear the clothes off women. Think The Entity as raunchy teen comedy.
Despite the predatory nature of the gimmick, Zapped is shockingly less misogynistic than a lot of comedies of the same period, but is still kind of gross. The humour mostly falls flat, though there are clear set-ups that show effort, even if the punchline is frequently embarrassed nudity. A series of disconnected…
This is a pretty fun, entertaining 80’s comedy that unfortunately didn’t age all that well in today’s era. Some of the bits come across pretty cringe-y when high school science geek Scott Baio accidentally turns telekinetic and just starts removing articles of women’s clothes at random. I get that that’s probably what a lot of horny high school boys would do, but it still doesn’t sit very well viewing it through a modern lens. Still, as a sexploitation comedy, it’s not the worst, and it has charisma to spare from its stars Baio and William Aames (who was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for his performance — the duo would get cast together in Charles in Charge a year later),…
Yeah, watching for the first time in a while, it just hasn't aged well. I grew up with this and my late stepfather's half-brother, Wade (he was born with a brain tumor that handicapped him), when I would visit, watched it on loop for hours (LOL). So I got a steady diet of this film when I was at his area of the house. Anyway, some of the material I still found funny or amusing -- the use of telekinesis to hurl bullies all over the place, moving a Ventriloquist Dummy around and spinning its head, causing mayhem for a frat jock threatening Baio's high school chem wiz -- while some of the comedy is obviously dated for its particular…
