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Title: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: The Burgomaster on April 03, 2003, 11:28:00 AM We all know that some movies are really cheap and therefore must use bottom-of-the-barrel make-up, special effects, props, or sets. What are your favorite examples? Here are just a few of mine:
* PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE - This one is obvious. From the cheesy flying saucers on strings to the ridiculous graveyard set, this movie may be the king of cheapo production methods. * MARS NEEDS WOMEN - How did the actors ever keep straight faces while they were wearing those silly space suits with the big antenna ears? * SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS - The scenes at the North Pole remind me of the Brady Bunch episode where Peter and Bobby shook pieces of torn paper out of a box to simulate "snow." * JUDGE DREDD - I KNOW it was based on a comic book, but Stallone looked really stupid in his cop uniform. REALLY stupid. * THE CORE - The special effects were state-of-the-art . . . for 1977, that is. Keep the list growing . . . * * * * Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Fearless Freep on April 03, 2003, 12:09:17 PM The sock puppet snakes from "Robot Holocaust"
The muffin tin adorned space suit and beach ball alien from "Dark Star" Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Creepozoid on April 03, 2003, 12:23:29 PM the spaceship in STAR CRYSTAL
Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: peter johnson on April 03, 2003, 02:19:21 PM Oh, man, what a category --
Too many to mention, really . . . I love obvious rubber snakes & monsters & spiders, etc., but for makeup/props/sets, here are some killers: The Wasp Woman mask in Roger Corman's Wasp Woman -- No attempt was made to hide the very very obvious zipper up the back of it. In fact, there is a long scene shot from behind her as she's killing some guy, and the camera practically lingers on how fake it all is. I love this movie. Love it, love it, love it!! The burlap cave wall in EEGAH!. This is such a great bad picture anyway, but really, not only is the stone wall in EEGAH's cave made of painted burlap, there is a looong scene where it is very obviously peeling off the plywood wall, and you can clearly see the wood underneath. Now that's special!! peter johnson Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Funk, E. on April 03, 2003, 04:28:36 PM Jeez... That is a hard one. Darkstar is REALLY cheesy FX wise.
The mirror monster in Conan the Destroyer was pretty sad. Err... Flesh Gordon... or Flash Gordon for that matter. In fact just about any de laurentice film has stellar FX Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Cullen on April 03, 2003, 04:38:17 PM The Dinosaur in It's Alive (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0063145) is a man in a mime's costume with ping pong ball eyes. It's hard to top that.
_____________________________________________________________________ Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Damien01 on April 03, 2003, 06:19:47 PM Return of the Jedi... The Rancor Pit... (I'm talking about the 1983 movie not the digial paint job either) How bad was that!!!
Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Brother Ragnarok on April 03, 2003, 07:58:36 PM To be fair to Dark Star, it was supposed to be goofy.
How about the silly grinning marionette spider from Horrors of Spider Island? The dinosaur puppets from Attack of the Supermonsters? *shudder* Gaborah from Godzilla's Revenge? The zombies with what looks like **** on their faces from City of the Walking Dead? Brother R Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Andrew on April 03, 2003, 08:04:06 PM I have to put in a vote for both "Starcrash" and "Robot Holocaust." In one you have the Lite-Brite cosmos and all the spikey weapons. In the other what appears to be sock puppets covered with glitter are killer (cybernetic?) snakes. Memory fails a little, but was glitter an often-used effect in "Robot Holocaust."
And bad CGI looks really awful. Apply as needed, but give me a silly monster suit or puppet any day over bad CGI. Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Scott0 on April 03, 2003, 08:31:14 PM Robot Monster.............. nuff said :p
Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Fearless Freep on April 03, 2003, 08:33:16 PM Return of the Jedi... The Rancor Pit... (I'm talking about the 1983 movie not the digial paint job either) How bad was that!!!
Sheer master work compared to "Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn" or "Megaforce" for bad blue screen work Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Creepozoid on April 03, 2003, 11:09:29 PM Andrew wrote:
> > And bad CGI looks really awful. Apply as needed, but give me > a silly monster suit or puppet any day over bad CGI. A-F*CKING-MEN Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Squishy on April 04, 2003, 05:13:44 AM "Robot Monster" and "Plan Nine" place television parts and antennas on top of rickety wooden tables and DARE to suggest that it's futuristic technology. Ballsy, if nothing else...
"Space Mutiny." It's one thing to have crap effects and sets. It's a whole new level to swipe someone else's effects AND shoot an undisguised old beat-up factory or water-treatment facility as if it were a spaceship interior AND suggest that duffed-up weak electric carts are some sort of "landspeeder." Methane? ("Oh no! How are they going to fill their cows?") Sorry, I've seen good CGI and I've seen bad CGI. And then, I've seen "Reptilicus." That puppet is totally effing useless, and the American-version "animated effects" make me burst into tears every time. Sifl and Olly convinced me that they were alive; Reptilicus just dangled and wobbled. "The Beginning of the End." Recipe: Take pictures of skyline, add live bugs. Burn in furnace. In fact, Bert I. Gordon's cut-up photo "mattes," superimposed crickets and diaper-men, and make-up jobs (ever seen "The Cyclops?") constitute some of the worst stuff, ever. "King Dinosaur" is just...just...oy. (angrily) OY!!! Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Damien01 on April 04, 2003, 10:32:41 AM Fearless Freep... Sure... but with all that money dumped into Return of the Jedi, you would think they would be able to merge Luke and the Rancor better and if you think it couldnt be dont then you havent seen Flesh Gorden 1972 "Flesh vs the Beetle Man" the fight looks 10 times better...
Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: jmc on April 04, 2003, 10:54:57 AM THE KILLER SHREWS..."Eh, let's just put masks on these dogs, no one will ever know!"
Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Bernie on April 04, 2003, 12:11:36 PM Jackie Coogan's makeup in Mesa of Lost Women.
The big cardboard box robot from Devil Girl From Mars. Plan 9, sure, but what about some of Ed's other efforts -- Night of the Ghoul has an extended sequence of one guy leading another down what is supposed to be a darkened corridor -- but there is nothing behind them, absolutely nothing. So you have two spotlighted guys walking across a black screen. Over and over again. The dinosaur puppets from Future War (I only know this one from MST but I can't imagine it gets any better uncut.) Geez, the list goes on and on .... Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Squishy on April 04, 2003, 06:32:27 PM Oh, I forgot "The Brainiac." Wow. People standing in front of "exterior scenery" which appears to be poster-sized enlarged photographs pasted to the studio wall; a comet strike that consists of a blurry "cartoon" still followed by a papier-mache (uh oh, that's French, isn't it?--I mean "Freedom wad") clump faling down to Earth like the huge weight in a Monty Python skit...and Brainy himself: the silliest-looking horror monster of all time, with a fixed stuck-out tongue and pulsating air-bladders that enhance the silliness, not the horror. Joy.
Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Flangepart on April 05, 2003, 01:30:30 PM The "Creature from the Haunted Sea"....ol' egg times for eyes....i still think they were egg timer dials....
Reptilicus...Oliver J. Dragon's evil twin. The Giant Claw! When the star of the film sneakes out of the theater on premier night, rather then be associated with tht file he stars in....yeesh!...i call the claw "Old hood scoop beak".... Man....so many examples, so little time to list them.... Ah! Caltiki, the immortal monster!....wet burlap bags for blobs!... Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: peter johnson on April 05, 2003, 03:24:57 PM Wow!! I knew this would be a good topic -- so many happy memories!!
I tried not to mention Robot Monster or good old Ed Wood in my post because they are sort of the unspoken Industry Standard in this category -- but Squishy's mention of the rickety wooden table really does deserve to be mentioned, if only because the first thing you think of in Plan 9 are the bad saucer/bad cemetary effects, and such masterpieces as the table get (unjustly) overlooked. Yes!! Grinning Marionette Spiders!! I had forgotten -- we need more like this -- Yes!! The Killer Shrews!! -- I love especially how you can see the dogs panting happily under their shrew-skins in some scenes -- obviously having fun with this new "cover-me-up!" game. I own "Beginning of The End". You can quite clearly see a grasshopper walk off the side of the building and into "open sky" on the photograph that the hopper-wrangler just threw them on. What the hell was that Corman-released Italian sword & sorcery thing about the 2 princesses? They have this really bad bat-winged lion-demon in the sky at one point fighting this gal who looks like the rocket-in-the-eye guy from George Melies' "Journey to the Moon". Anyway, the hero gets attacked in a forest at one point by all these red apes, and you can see the BOOTIE-FEET on their zip-up costumes. peter johnson Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: Andrew on April 05, 2003, 03:42:40 PM peter johnson wrote:
> What the hell was that Corman-released Italian sword & > sorcery thing about the 2 princesses? They have this really > bad bat-winged lion-demon in the sky at one point fighting this > gal who looks like the rocket-in-the-eye guy from George > Melies' "Journey to the Moon". Anyway, the hero gets attacked > in a forest at one point by all these red apes, and you can see > the BOOTIE-FEET on their zip-up costumes. Ah, "Sorceress" - that is where some more of the "Wizards of the Lost Kingdom" footage came from. I also think that, as has been said, it used stuff from "The Warrior and the Sorceress." Could have sworn that I had a copy of "Sorceress" around here. It must be buried under other movies on the shelves. Some of the VHS shelves are three movies deep. Not looking foward to moving all this and hoping that base housing in New York has ample shelving. If not, I will have to build some. Darn it, I know that I own that movie. Where is it? Title: Re: Worst make-up, special effects, props, or sets Post by: tuck on April 05, 2003, 05:30:29 PM the labrynth
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