Throughout his remarkable three decades portraying The Undertaker, Mark Calaway could have appeared in plenty of movies or television series as many of his peers did. He had the look and size to act in any kind of film, but Calaway never accepted any offers to play any character besides The Undertaker. In order to keep the mystique of the character pure in the minds of fans, Calaway lived the gimmick 24/7 for most of his WWE run. There is, however, one exception he made early in his career -- and it was certainly a strange one.

Calaway's first -- and only -- feature film appearance was in the 1991 family comedy film Suburban Commando, starring none other than Hulk Hogan. Ironically, the movie was released in theaters on October 4, 1991, just a month before Hogan and Undertaker's controversial WWF championship match at Survivor Series. Hogan accused The Deadman of not protecting his neck on the finishing tombstone piledriver, despite evidence suggesting that wasn't true. The movie turned out to be great promotion for their feud because the two also fought in Suburban Commando. 

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With The Undertaker finally taking interviews to promote The Last Ride docuseries on the WWE Network, Calaway recently discussed how he got the part on ESPN's Cheap Heat podcast. Having left WCW, where he wrestled as Mark Callous, in the middle of 1990, Calaway met WWF leaders Vince McMahon, Pat Patterson, Bruce Prichard and JJ Dillion about joining WWF. But, they didn't have anything for him at that moment. While waiting in limbo with his WWF future uncertain, Calaway got a call from the company requesting he audition for a role in the Hulk Hogan movie.

Since Hogan's rise to the top in wrestling was helped in part by his role in Rocky III, the Hulkster attempted to become a movie star himself in the late '80s and early '90s. His first movie was the gritty wrestling flick No Holds Barred, after which he then attempted the more kid-friendly Suburban Commando. The plot is just as weird as the title, in which Hogan plays the intergalactic superhero Shep Ramsey, who spends some of his vacation time on earth living with a suburban family.

Despite being a silly action movie starring a wrestler, Suburban Commando managed to get an impressive cast besides Hogan and 'Taker. Back to the Future legend Christopher Lloyd co-stars as the suburban dad that Hogan's Shep Ramsey character lives with and Shelley Duvall of The Shining fame plays his wife. Even future Mad Men and The Handmaid's Tale star Elisabeth Moss has a small role as a nameless little girl.

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The Undertaker plays Hutch, a bounty hunter who was sent to capture Ramsey. His action scenes with Hulk Hogan nearly defy description. Some standout moments include Ramsey bending an iron bar into the shape of a bunny, Hutch spitting nails around his head and Ramsey tweaking his rocket boots to fly through the ceilings of a multi-story building, floor by floor,  before crashing into a toilet. The kicker is that Undertaker's only line was, fittingly enough, "You're a dead man Ramsey" -- which would have been kind of cool if it weren't dubbed by a child. That's right, The Undertaker's character was dubbed to sound like a little boy. Ramsey then throws Hutch through a wall, cartoon-style.

Though it was technically Mark Calaway's first project with the then-WWF, he had no fond memories of the experience. "Worst movie ever," The Undertaker remarked. "It was awful. Truly, truly awful." Thankfully, not long after filming the movie Calaway got a call from Vince McMahon, who asked him "Is this The Undertaker?" -- and the rest was wrestling history.

Only 15% of critics and 32% of audiences approved of Suburban Commando according to Rotten Tomatoes. Movie icon Roger Ebert gave the movie one out of four stars writing "By golly, by the time it was over, I was feeling kind of tired of going to the movies." If there's any silver lining to to the film, it's that it left Mark Calaway tired of movies himself, and happy to stick to the role of The Undertaker rather than chasing fame up on the silver screen.

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