I miss the island thingie that "starred" Linda Blair. That was art,
dammit!
On Apr 18, 2006, at 11:33 AM, tschibasch wrote:
> 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!
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