Hell Comes to Frogtown is a 1988 American science fiction action movie directed by Donald G Jackson and RJ Kizer set in the aftermath of a nuclear war that left a majority of the male population dead and fertile men a rarity. Sam Hell (Roddy Piper), a scavenger and a very fertile man, is asked to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs.
The film also stars Sandahl Bergman, Cec Verrell, William Smith, Rory Calhoun, Nicholas Worth, and Kristi Somers.
It was released on January 1988.
Tropes for the film:
- Censor Steam: An (interrupted) almost-sex scene uses the shadow of the female character's own leg as her censor steam.
- Chainsaw Good: Played straight when a frog-man (sporting an Eyepatch of Power, no less) uses a chainsaw to remove Sam's chastity belt. He somehow manages it without injuring Sam or himself.
- Don't Celebrate Just Yet: The frog-man is in the middle of mocking Sam while holding up the mangled chastity belt, when it explodes in his face.
- Cool Car: The Med-Tech vehicle used to travel to Frogtown is a pink '47 Chevy van that is best described as a mix of ambulance and APC, with an M-60 mounted on top. There's also the frogmen's car they unleash on the final act, a 1962 Plymouth Belvedere-turned-makeshift tank.
- Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi: The group, led by Sam, find one of the fertile women they're trying to rescue, but she's uncooperative and they end up tying her up and injecting her with hormones. For some reason they've brought Sam, one of the few fertile men left, on the trip and he's forced to "get to work". The next morning she's pregnant and grateful. This seems to be a theme with Sam; in the opening scene he's being accused by an angry father of sexual assault, but no one will press charges when it turns out the daughter is pregnant.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: The group beat the frog-men, rescued the women and even survived a surprise attack from the angry father (from the beginning of the movie). Of course, Sam has to complete his "duties"...Sam: I guess it's true what they say.Spangle: What's that?Sam: A soldier's work is never done.
- Exotic Equipment: The frog men are revealed to have three-pointed penises during Spangle's harem dance sequence.Frog Man Leader: (quite turned on by Spangle) You have aroused the three-headed snake!
- Explosive Leash: A particularly painful example, in that the bomb is strapped to Sam's groin.
- Frog Men: In a world with very few fertile men also has an entire sub-race of mutated humanoid Frogs kept in the ghetto due to Fantastic Racism.
- Gendercide: Sam Hell, one of the last fertile men on Earth (and is thus in high demand). Along with Spangle doing a sexy dance and a man-sized frog with a three headed penis! who utters the classic line after Spangle's dance: "You have aroused the three-headed snake!".
- Gender Rarity Value: Sam Hell is the most fertile man on Earth in a future where fertility is scarce. While valuable, he is forced into a government mission to rescue — and impregnate — a treasured group of fertile women.
- Mandatory Motherhood: A rare both-gender version, with Sam Hell one of the last fertile men coerced into both signing over his reproductive organs to Med Tech and rescuing a handful of fertile women from the titular Frogtown.
- Only You Can Repopulate My Race: Sam Hell is one of the rare fertile males after the nuclear war killed many and rendered most of the rest sterile. (Which is, admittedly, not really how radiation works, but the title should have told you what to expect.) The government — by this point a Lady Land — orders him to go to a city of froglike mutants and mate with a group of fertile females imprisoned there.
- Really Gets Around: Sam is a notorious womanizer. Good thing he's fertile, too!
