Last night after dinner Geight and I put on an MST3K stream and caught the last 15 minutes or so of Space Mutiny. Afterwards I just kind of left it on during the next one, which was a Rifftrax for Zindy the Swamp Boy and holy shit?
Did... anybody else watch that? That was one of the most wild movies I've ever seen, despite being disgustingly slow paced.
Rifftrax Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIwYuduAkoI
I guess I'm spoiling Zindy the Swamp Boy below?
So like, the gist is that this boy named Zindy lives next to (not in) a swamp with his grandfather, completely isolated from the rest of the world. I was only half watching early on but the boy's parents were killed, and his grandfather, the doctor shot and killed the perpetrators, grabbed the child, and fled civilization to avoid prosecution for his revenge killing.
Some guy from town who knows about him tries to convince him to bring the kid back so he can have a normal childhood, and eventually he decides he will for the kid's sake. Then after being caught in a storm he falls into... I don't even know the word. A liquid equivalent to quicksand in the swamp. So we get to watch this old man immediately sink to his neck, begging to god to not die like this before he dies like that.
The kid eventually finds his grandfather's hat and dropped lantern and realizes what happened and tries with little success to carry on life for a bit.
Then in a different storm we see a mother and daughter get in a horse-drawn carriage accident. The driver is never mentioned again, but the mom is hurt and sends the child for help, so she goes wandering through the jungle/swamp in a storm at night, eventually passes out, and later is found by Zindy.
Blah blah they try to hunt an alligator to trade its skin in town for supplies like grandfather used to, but they're ten and nearly die.
Then the girl wanders off herself, Zindy follows once he realizes she's gone. The girl's family and some men are combing the jungle looking for her, and everybody winds up reasonably close to one another. Just as Zindy finds her a puma (established earlier) shows up. The kid shoots and misses but saves the girl.
The puma then incredibly awkwardly mauls the child and he dies.
THE END.
So we started our new year with a lethal animal attack.



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