Hell Comes to Frogtown

Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)

A new breed of enemy has taken over the world... Sam Hell has come to take it back.

'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.

Date of release
1988-01-29
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (181)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Action, Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror
Director
Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer
Collection
The Frogtown Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $1.5M

Hell Comes to Frogtown is a 1988 American science fiction action film directed by Donald G. Jackson and R. J. Kizer, and written by Jackson and Randall Frakes. The film stars professional wrestler Roddy Piper as Sam Hell, one of the last remaining fertile men in a post-apocalyptic world populated by both humans and mutant amphibians. The film's cast also includes Sandahl Bergman, Cec Verrell, William Smith and Rory Calhoun.

Production

After director Donald G. Jackson's $70,000 Roller Blade direct-to-video film proved a success, New World Pictures approached Jackson asking him if he had any other viable concepts for another direct-to-video project. Jackson presented New World with a script he had written with Randall Frakes titled Hell Comes to Frogtown describing the concept as The Road Warrior meets Planet of the Apes and after responding positively to the pitch initially agr…

Due to Jackson's experience with smaller scale projects and New World liking the project, they allowed Jackson to stay on as director only if he'd agree to co-direct with R. J. Kizer, an editor for New World who had directed the American sequences of Godzilla 1985, New World's re-edit of The Return of Godzilla. While Jackson wasn't happy to lose control of the project he ultimately accepted the condition as he felt it was a better career move.

The frog effects were designed by Steve Wang.

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