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It must be confessed that I like horrible movies. The best horrible movie I have seen was the horror classic "The Mask Of Death" of 1964, that was the only horror movie which shocked me but other horror movies such as The Ring or The Grudge were like goodnight-stories for me!
If you're into horrible movies, you must see 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'. It's so bad it's great.
Waterworld has been dissed by just about everyone, I think. But I loved it. saw it twice in the theater and twice as a rental. It takes a lot of suspension-of-disbelief to enjoy it, though.
The Butterfly Effect has a 33% rating at Rotten Tomatoes (critics) but it has a community rating of 72. I think it's a good movie with a great ending.
Dark Knight has got to be THE most overrated movie I've seen in years. Iron Man is a better superhero movie IMO.
The Japanese Godzilla movies are great. King Kong vs. Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Invasion of Astro-Monster, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. True masterpieces of high-end cinematics. :D
Watch this masterpiece of the inconsequential from the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Endon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6veEPNImBg
Thank God for Youtube
Thanks for that glistening pearl, Brian! It ranges between disturbingly funny and plain disturbing.
Huh, that was really scary.;)
On a decidedly lower level of artistic bodywork: Warlords of Atlantis from 1978
Haha, dear me, that's bona fide bad.
By the way, here's the trailer of 'Plan 9 from Outer Space':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukRYsYPmo
If this doesn't whet your appetite for kitsch cinema, I don't know what does!
Here's the film itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmfL2...x=0&playnext=1
Bonus clip: It's called 'the worst line reading ever'. Well, judge for yourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KyB...related&pos=11
Amazing! :lol:Quote:
Bonus clip: It's called 'the worst line reading ever'. Well, judge for yourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KyB...related&pos=11
Well, here's the trailer of Shakma:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2tnp4QCKtk
My flatmates and I had a competition to see who could find the worst films imaginable - we really came up with some crackers!
Ecks vs. Sever - The most incoherent action film ever made. Although the plot makes absolutely no sense, it really is hilarious. My personal favourite is the villain, who is both the head of the CIA and a major crimelord, without anyone apparently noticing, despite the fact that his disguise merely involves putting on a fedora, and turning his collar up. He doesn't even change his name, or anything. Oh yeah, and the toxic frog-bot is entirely pointless...
The Avengers - The modern remake, where you get to see Shaun Connery lose his dignity by putting on a teddy bear costume.
Manos, The Hands of Fate - Written, directed, produced, dubbed and starring a fertilizer salesman from El Paso by the name of Harold P. Warren, this really is a car-crash of a film. The villain looks like Freddy Mercury in a poncho, and his henchman has a threatening knee disfigurement.
Dead or Alive - succinctly described as "a porno without the sex."
And finally, coming soon to a bargain bin near you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o
This may be a bit off topic but this has to be one of the funniest
one liners ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzV5AIK8iM
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Hmm… That alien landscape toward the end of the clip looks suspiciously like a garden in Surrey.
Hard to imagine that whilst we were making masterpieces such as this - the British Empire was crumbling!
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Awful 80's nonsense, so funny yet so bad. Space clowns running around with pop-corn guns turning people into candy cones. Ah the 80's...
I thought you were making it up so I checked it out in my film guide. Here's what they say:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark F.
Alien Clowns invade Earth in a spacecraft masquerading as a circus tent; they intend to cocoon the local population in candy floss and suck out their life juices, unless two teens and a cop can stop them.
I was about to go and lie down in a darkened room, when I spotted this one among the reviews on the same page.
Killer Tongue.
Following her close encounter with an alien meteorite, amoral bank robber Melinda Clarke inexplicably grows an 18ft-long tongue. which commits all manner of gory crimes on nuns, escaped prisoners and other lust-crazed victims. A tacky collage of hammy performances and shaky special effects.
There's nothing more to be said if only because words fail me.
Hey, Killer Klowns has some great visual ideas, if you like movies and can bare the campiness of horror flicks of the 70's and 80's, go for it.
Killer Tongue sounds like a bit too much for me though.
That's just the problem, I can't stand the campiness of horror flicks of the 70's and 80's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark F.
However, I remembered this one being voted the worst film of 2002 and having checked it out there can be few, if any, who would disagree with the review below:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Thunderpants
Thiis excruciatingly vulgar comedy fantasy is an absolute stinker. Ten-year-old Bruce Cook was born with two stomachs, which cause him to break wind continuously. When his boffin pal Rupert Grint designs a pair of Heath Robinson-like trousers allowing flatulence storage, his power-farting attracts the attention of the US Space Centre.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Oh yeah. And all Chuck Norris movies, followed close by Steven Seagal.
All the latest movies made by Nicholas Cage, Al Pacino and Robert de Niro (starting from 1998-1999). If you receive only crappy roles, then you should stop acting, or, at least, fire your agent.
Interesting choices, DisPater!
I agree with almost all, although the Chuck/Seagal flicks fall into the "so bad it's good" category. I'd only list as exceptions The Insider and Insomnia (Al Pacino) and Analyse This (Robert de Niro) - they're not masterpieces at all, but still not too bad either. And also I haven't yet seen what looks like a winner, What Just Happened.
Apropos Thunderpants, this Youtube extract poses an interesting question. Why is it that the English can do a brilliant take on the Americans but the Americans can't seem to get the English right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ98W7IFLWc
:lol: That wasfunny, but he meant the other political party, didn't he? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Well, you guys made my morning with your descriptions and reactions to some truly terrible movies. I think The Tongue was my favorite, though. I'm afraid I can't add anything to the list. My personal guilty pleasure is Tremors with Kevin Bacon. A rabid gun-toting, "the end of the world is upon us," couple, gleefully played by Michael Gross and Reba McEntyre are hilarious.
Perhaps you are too young to remember but, if my memory serves me right, Bob Hope was a gung ho republican.Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Oh hell yeah! I was going to mention this one. It is the epitome of awesomely bad. Anything that Ed Wood did is awesomely bad. There's another one where Bella Lugosi plays a mad scientist and Thor Johnson is the monster. I can't remember the name of the movie. But I think they use some of the same stock footage in both movies. It's like a really bad knockoff of Frankenstein. Poor Bella :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Endon
Incidently Ed Wood is an awesome movie
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! is pretty bad. But it's bad on purpose. I love it.
Oh..and Santa Clause Meets the Martians. Horrid
I think you are right Brian Bean, Bob Hope was hope for the GOP!
Ghost rider and Kill Bill so awful they were funny. Well Ghost Rider was enjoyable but Nicholas Cage was so obviously living out a fantasy. Still makes me laugh :lol:
this is not a joke:
Night of The Lepus (1972), about giant killer rabbits :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s9nKzmbndA
THE FOOD OF THE GODS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU&NR=1
FLESH FEAST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA56Q...eature=related
worst movies i've ever seen, ever, ever, ever.
Anything with Bruce Campbell in it.
Seriously.
Anything.
(Well, Evil Dead was pretty good...)
Shrooms
Zombie Strippers
&etc
Mathor,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mathor
Thank you for mentioning "Food of the Gods". It is nice to see that someone has good taste, so to speak. I was beginning to lose faith in humanity. "Food of the Gods" has been a staple in the Gurgle family for many years. Have you seen the sequel? I believe the subtitle is “It’s their party you can die if you want to”.
Other Gurgle family favorites:
The Killer Shrews (Includes Ken Curtiss -Festus from Gunsmoke)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaH4qGdo-FM
Monster Club - Check out the fried lawn cat and one of the soundtracks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSAvIhOQVgU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hH7c...eature=related
Blood of Satan’s Claw
The Bog
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"Kill the brain, you kill the ghoul" - From Night of the Living Dead
its certainly a staple of classic terrible film-making. A movie that people will be analyzing and analyzing in the many outrageous ways it shocks us in it's terribleness, quite like Transformers 2. I think certainly Transformers 2 will always be a part of history for that reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Ahh, I love Bruce Campbell. Did you ever see his TV show, The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr? It was a spoof of westerns, very good humored. It was on 1993-1994. I guess the critics didn't share my opinion, that's why it only lasted one year. But critics get things wrong occasionally.:nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by BeccaT
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
:eek2: I was scarred :cold:
It's so funny how the three tied up guys are trying not to laugh.
I once thought that Transformers 2 was one of the worst movies ever made. . . . .until I read this:
“It’s easy to go shoot an art movie in a winery in the South of France. But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers.”
-Michael Bay
Now I can say with the most upmost conviction that Transformers 2 is the worst movie ever made. Hell, it made me nostaligic for Plan 9 while watching it.
:crash::crash::crash:
During my run this morning, I managed to roll my ankle on a rock and while this event has absolutely no direct correlation to this thread, the incident had served as the catalyst to conjure up a recollection of another wonderful movie. The rock was immediately dispatched into nearby pool of water.
At the moment of contact with water the “The Monolith Monsters” came to mind.
Released in 1957, the Monolith Monsters adopts the concept of the classic rogue meteorite that slams into earth. In this case the meteorite, composed mostly of iron, is somehow transformed, upon contact with water, into towering monoliths of obsidian. Humans too are transformed into stone if they contact the monolith.
This is a gem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rfp5...eature=related
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
WHAT WAS THIS AMAZING POWER THAT COULD TURN PEOPLE INTO STONE?
I think it's called reality TV.
It's funny how the innocent awfulness of that movie makes it far better than the trash that comes out today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Endon
I just posted some photos in the "Pictures Taken by You" thread, one of which included a Praying Mantis. This caused me to recall another great flick from the 1950's. The movie I refer to is the "Deadly Mantis".
Here is a youtube trailer video. Note the sound that the Mantis makes. Sounds a bit like Godzilla.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqEccYXxaAY
Gilliatt
It sounds like you're asking for those movies that are so awesomly bad, they go on to become cult classics. Some of my favorites are Santa Clause Visits the Martians, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen and Glenda (well pretty much anything by Ed Wood) and a slew of movies from the 50's such as Them! (about giant ants attacking New Mexico).
But if you're just asking about movies that are plain crap with no quality or charm, 2 of the worst movies I've ever seen are Stranger Than Fiction and The Untouchables
Stargazer,Quote:
Originally Posted by Stargazer86
I have to be honest, I actually do enjoy the 1950's classics. My parents and older siblings would watch these at every opportunity.
In terms of "plain crap", your suggestions are duly noted and may I suggest another?
How about "Bog"?
It's so bad, I am having difficulty finding a video clip, so here is a piece from Bad Movie Report:
http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviere...ews/B/bog.html