I am amazed at the amount of bad movies out there. I have come to
realize that even with my best efforts, I can really only scratch the
surface. Consider the hundreds of stupid monster and sci-fi movies
made in the 50's and 60's.. Most of these trashy movies are long gone,
never to have even been converted to DVD.
One important distinction: There are 'bad bad' movies and 'bad good'
ones. The 'bad bad' are simply bad throughout and boring. These can
sometimes be saved by MST3K "Manos, Hands of Fate" is a good example.
The 'bad good' are sooooooo bad that they are good. They are
entertaining enough that they don't need MST3K. "Plan 9 from Outer
Space" is a good example.
Though many old movies are forever lost, there are still plenty that
have survived. Furthermore, there are tons of adoring fans who watch
them and provide funny movie reviews. I get a kick out of reading some
of them. It is doubtful that I would bother getting some of the
movies, though. Maybe the reviews are the best part of the movie? Here
are two examples, that I recently came by:
HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS (1970) - This is by far worse than PLAN
NINE FROM OUTER SPACE or anything Ed Wood has ever done. Al Adamson
(the director) apparently pasted together a whole slew of different
movies and created this incoherent story about a space voyage to a
planet full of Philipino vampire cavemen! The opening alone is
amazing, with someone doing a narration as a bunch of people get
turned into vampires. Then the film veers into "huh?" land with an
obviously inebriated John Carradine leading a mission to a red hazed
planet where the vampires originated from. Why go there? Obviously
because Al Adamson had a whole bunch of cool footage from some weird
Philipino horror film! Not nearly as entertaining as it sounds,
Adamson has released this under at least half a dozen different names.
You can skip it, if you want.
ISLAND OF DEATH (1975) - I have no idea if this was banned in a lot of
countries as the DVD box implies. Those assertions usually mean the
movie sucks, but this one delivers! The story: A young couple are on
vacation on a Greek island. Unfortunately for the rest of the
islanders, the couple are complete psychos who want to cleanse the
Earth of all immorality. Well, one thing they are not shy about is
having sex with each other, which is a good thing in the case of the
young woman, who's an extremely hot looking little blonde. This one
delivers some sick images: Death by crucifixion, and pouring white
paint down the throat...sex with a goat...a male homosexual couple is
massacred by way of sword and gun to the mouth. A guy is hanged from a
plane...a lesbian is torched in the face...an old whore is peed on,
then beaten to death by the guy psycho, then decapitated with a
bulldozer over the neck. It all ends with hetero and homosexual rape,
and a painful death in a pit of quicklime. Pretty sick stuff, and I'm
sure I left some of it out! Worth checking out!
Received on 2006-04-18 11:34:00
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