Why we love bad movies

[lindyhop]

A cool column in which we learn "Manos: The Hands of Fate" is now on DVD (non-MST3 version). This is for you, GD.
http://www.latimes.com/features/prin...-home-magazine

[Matterhorn Fan]

I cannot imagine watching a non-MST version of Manos.



OK, so I can imagine it. But I'd just rather not.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Agreed. I'm just not that much of a masochist. I'll happily watch someone else tear it apart, but I won't watch it myself, even just to laugh at it.

[€uroMeinke]

Wow, would you ever even view that more than once?

[flippyshark]

I've seen MANOS a good dozen times or so, albeit always with the 'bots to keep it fun.

With repeated viewings, it actually gets, well, worse.

It's not my favorite bad movie, though. Here are some stinkers I enjoy even more (and none of these have received the MST treatment):

GLEN OR GLENDA - by far the most delirious Ed Wood epic. Oh so lovable. "Pull the string!"

BLOOD FREAK - A biker finds Jesus, then ingests some turkey infused with drugs. He transforms into a blood-sucking turkey-headed monster, but his girl still tries to love him. Jaw dropping. It plays like a Christian anti-drug movie, but it has nudity and gory killings. Who was the audience for this supposed to be? Narrated by a man who goes into an on camera coughing fit near the end. Must be seen to be believed. Filmed right here in Central Florida.

THE LAST SHARK (a.k.a. GREAT WHITE) - This was such a blatant rip-off of JAWS that Universal successfully got it removed from release. (I was one of the lucky few to see it in a theater.) The late Vic Morrow does a shameless imitation of Robert Shaw's Quint character. Features a hilariously lame mechanical shark, and stock footage of many different shark species, all purporting to be the same fish. Not available anywhere in the states, but I found a VHS copy online, in English with Greek subtitles. My favorite moment; the shark traps some divers in a cave by rolling boulders over the cave entrance. Smartest shark in the movies until the eventual arrival of the genius makos of DEEP BLUE SEA.

2000 MANIACS - Herschell Gordon Lewis epic, filmed right near here in St. Cloud Florida (gateway to Disney World) - Unsuspecting Yankees are lured into a little Southern town, where the locals celebrate their Confederate heritage by torturing and killing the visitors. Great fun on a zero budget, with an infectious title song. (YEEE- HAAA, Oh the South's Gonna Rise Again")

[Not Afraid]

If anyone can tell me which MST 2000 film has the line (from the bots) "There's a ladder in the way. There's a ladder in the way" I will........I don't know......be eternally grateful.

[Boss Radio]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

I've seen MANOS a good dozen times or so, albeit always with the 'bots to keep it fun.

With repeated viewings, it actually gets, well, worse.

It's not my favorite bad movie, though. Here are some stinkers I enjoy even more (and none of these have received the MST treatment):

GLEN OR GLENDA - by far the most delirious Ed Wood epic. Oh so lovable. "Pull the string!"

BLOOD FREAK - A biker finds Jesus, then ingests some turkey infused with drugs. He transforms into a blood-sucking turkey-headed monster, but his girl still tries to love him. Jaw dropping. It plays like a Christian anti-drug movie, but it has nudity and gory killings. Who was the audience for this supposed to be? Narrated by a man who goes into an on camera coughing fit near the end. Must be seen to be believed. Filmed right here in Central Florida.

THE LAST SHARK (a.k.a. GREAT WHITE) - This was such a blatant rip-off of JAWS that Universal successfully got it removed from release. (I was one of the lucky few to see it in a theater.) The late Vic Morrow does a shameless imitation of Robert Shaw's Quint character. Features a hilariously lame mechanical shark, and stock footage of many different shark species, all purporting to be the same fish. Not available anywhere in the states, but I found a VHS copy online, in English with Greek subtitles. My favorite moment; the shark traps some divers in a cave by rolling boulders over the cave entrance. Smartest shark in the movies until the eventual arrival of the genius makos of DEEP BLUE SEA.

2000 MANIACS - Herschell Gordon Lewis epic, filmed right near here in St. Cloud Florida (gateway to Disney World) - Unsuspecting Yankees are lured into a little Southern town, where the locals celebrate their Confederate heritage by torturing and killing the visitors. Great fun on a zero budget, with an infectious title song. (YEEE- HAAA, Oh the South's Gonna Rise Again")

I would like to add the magnum opus of horror/Blaxploitation hybrids:
The Thing with Two Heads, starring Ray Milland and Rosy Grier.

Also, The Creeping Terror is pretty bad, because they lost the soundtrack, so the entire film is narrated by a third person observer who occasionally delivers dialogue.

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

If anyone can tell me which MST 2000 film has the line (from the bots) "There's a ladder in the way. There's a ladder in the way" I will........I don't know......be eternally grateful.

The Sidehackers.


For me, one of my all-time fave "bad" movies is "The Manster". I watched it with my cousin when we were kids and both of us were a little freaked out. A couple of weeks ago, we recreated the "head growing out of the shoulder" scene to the the delight of his 4-year-old daughter.

[Tref]

All hail MST3K! I can watch the show all day long. My favorite is Jack Frost (#813 for the aficionados)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Tref

All hail MST3K! My favorite is Jack Frost (#813 for the aficionados)

I believe that was the first episode I ever saw. Whacky one, that.

I'm partial to "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank", a terrible made-for-Canadian-TV scifi movie, staring Raul Julia, highlighted by its terrible production values, hokey Casablanca "homage", the writer's unnatrual distaste for anteaters, and the classic line, "You navel is too deep!"