EAT AND RUN: The 400-Pound Alien Who Only Eats Italians?! | Weird ’80s Movie Night

<p> <strong>An alien lands in New York City…and decides Italians are delicious. Not Italian FOOD. Italians.</strong></p><p>Johnny Spoiler is back to audit somebody else’s life for a change, and this week we’re digging up one of the strangest forgotten movies of the ’80s: <strong>EAT AND RUN</strong>, the 1986 sci-fi horror-comedy about a 400-pound alien named Murray who develops an appetite for the residents of Little Italy.</p><p>Yes. This movie actually exists.</p><p>Detective Mickey McSorely is trying to convince everyone that a giant alien is literally eating New Yorkers while Murray gets arrested, wins a court case, gets released on bail, dates a judge, and continues his culinary tour of Little Italy. Somehow, Mickey eventually winds up in more legal trouble than the extraterrestrial cannibal.</p><p>We get into the movie’s bizarre history, its New World Pictures connection, Ron Silver playing the whole thing surprisingly straight, Pat “R. L.” Ryan’s connection to <strong>Street Trash</strong>, the off-screen kills, the Pavarotti gag, and why an 85-minute movie this insane still managed to lose Johnny before the final act.</p><p> <strong>HOME VIDEO HEADLINES:</strong> Nick Nolte and Milo Gibson head into full-moon horror territory with <strong>Vested</strong>, Mikayla Matthews explains her exit from Hulu’s <strong>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives</strong>, and Johnny takes a detour through Utah involving Yellowstone locations, questionable steak sides, and the Blue Sapphire.</p><p> We also preview <strong>The Musical</strong>, the dark comedy starring Will Brill, Gillian Jacobs and Rob Lowe that sounds suspiciously like somebody stole a movie idea directly out of Johnny Spoiler’s brain.</p><p> <strong>STAFF PICK:</strong> <strong>Music and Lyrics</strong> — Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, fake ’80s pop music, and songs catchy enough to make you wonder why more fake movie bands don&#39;t release real albums.</p><p> <strong>WATCH MORE MOVIES WITH US</strong></p><p>Johnny is digging through Prime Video for the good stuff, the weird stuff, the horror movies, and the movies somebody probably should have stopped from being made.</p><p>Not an Amazon Prime member? Sign up through the Binge-Watchers link and help support the show:</p><p> <a href="https://amzn.to/3UYKvNY" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3UYKvNY</a></p><p><strong>BINGE NOW. BINGE LATER. NEVER BINGE ALONE.</strong></p><p> <strong>Binge-Watchers Podcast with Johnny Spoiler</strong><br>Movies. Horror. S