Thunder and Mud (1990)
An entertaining combination of heavy-metal rockers and female mud wrestlers hosted by Jessica Hahn.
- Date of release
- 1990-02-12
- TMDB
- 4.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music, Comedy
- Director
- Penelope Spheeris
Casting
- Jessica Hahn — Herself
- Sam Mann — Himself
- Wally Ann Wharton — Wanda Wallinsky
- Tawn Mastrey — Tawn
- Simon Steele — Bouncer
- Jodi Knotts — Groupie
- Elizabeth Maloney — Groupie
- Annette Scharrer — Groupie
- Robert Sarzo — Himself (judge)
- James Kottak — Himself (judge)
- Alan Krigger — Himself (judge)
- Randy Castillo — Himself (judge)
Interesting facts
Thunder and Mud is a 1990 musical documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Jessica Hahn, Tawn Mastrey, and Sam Mann.
Production
When doing an interview in 1999 for The A.V. Club, Spheeris was asked about the film. She stated, "How about that for a flaming piece of crap? That was a matter of… God, how did that happen? Thank God nobody has ever asked me about that until now.
Paul Colichman, president of I.R.S. Records along with a producer of The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, has stated that he and Spheeris came up with the idea, with him wanting to do a "pay-per-view event" that would combine wrestling with music, which he thought would work since he had seen mud wrestlers handing out with metal bands at
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