What's Ron Asheton doing in this horrid movie called "Mosquito"? He plays a nincompoop slob among nincompoops in the backwoods, slobs set upon by giant papier mache mosquitos. He's terrible and it deserves only hooting. Ron couldn't have been paid more that $210.00 for the role and even that would have been too much. If one could sweat to death during a film, he would have died in the first twenty minutes, way before the mosquitos got to him.
― George Smith, Saturday, 22 January 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)
Ron was never a junkie. It's more like, how many guns could he buy for $210...
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 22 January 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)
He's also in a movie that used to be called 'Wendigo' but now it's called ... uh, something else. Oh yeah, 'Frostbiter'. Don't know why they changed the name. it's on Troma. Part of it was filmed at this friend of mine's ex-wife's house. I actually have the DVD and i've never watched it! I'm just not a big low-budget horror guy i guess.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 22 January 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)
ah, the fruits of the michigan cinema industry
― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 23 January 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)
From various sources. Worse than "Mosquito?"
FROSTBITER is a chilling testament to the evil of a deadly creature of the North. According to Native American lore, it will rise to strike terror into the hearts of those who desecrate its resting place! With a group of hunters, with a lust for blood, disturbs the peace on a remote island, they awaken the invincible wrath of Wendigo, the demon FROSTBITER. The evil craeture takens many forms, appearing when you most fear it and when you least expect it. Whe the FROSTBITER arrives...HELL HAS FROZEN OVER!
The film features Ron Asheton, former rock star/guitarist for Iggy Pop. The hard-rocking original soundtrack includes a performance by Ron Asheton and features new songs from hot young performer's including: Elvis Hitler and The New Breed Beboo Society.
Troma blithely went ahead and released the film with the usual boatload of extras. You get an interview with Asheton, a music video of Asheton cranking out some tunes with a couple of other musicians, trailers, and the usual Troma self-serving promotions...
The worst part was when a demon comes out of a pot of chili and attacks a handful of people in a cabin where most of the movie takes place. A disgraceful punk rock song is playing loudly throughout the scene and it features lyrics along the line of: "Chili..... no onions. No softdrink. Just chili. Chili..... No cheese. No onions. Just chili."
― George Smith, Sunday, 23 January 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)
This from the
Metro Times, showing symptoms of the local newsjourno ailment that dictates even hammered shit will be presented as golden apples from the sun if it's the work of a homeboy.
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[Ron Asheton is] a budding actor as well. The guitarist has popped up in cult-fave horror flicks Frostbite: Wrath of the Windigo, Legion of the Night and Mosquito among them. Asheton is set to play a redneck country singer in the upcoming film The Last Horror Picture Show, a Blair Witch-meets-Texas Chainsaw Massacre screamfest starring Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) and Gunnar Hanson (Texas Chainsaw’s Leatherface) and Kane Hodder (Jason in Jason X).
― George Smith, Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)