“Well maybe you oughta try making love to a complete
stranger in the middle of a hostile mutant territory and see how you like it!”
The 1980s saw (for a time at least) the last terrifying hurrah of the
threat posed by global nuclear decimation as slamming a fist upon the red
button gave way to deals, draw-downs, and perestroika. At the time, however,
the possibility of a radioactive apocalypse was still very real – perhaps as
real as it had been since the Cuban Missile Crisis (as detailed in Joe
Dante's Matinee) – and as such, the topic was ripe for plundering to
form the basis of many genre pictures that did gang busters business on the
video rental circuit. With the likes of Creepozoids (David DeCoteau,
1987), the atomic paranoia of the real world painted a bleak future to be
expressed on the silver screen – and sometimes that included gun-toting
man-sized frog men on the hunt for fertile women, as was the case with Hell
Comes To Frogtown...
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