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Good Movies / Re: Movie related events which...

Last post by Trevor - January 03, 2026, 06:45:12 PM

Quote from: M.10rda on January 03, 2026, 05:23:40 PMThese are great. What a cool spooky thread.

All I can come up with at the moment are Jacopetti & Prosperi, the two-man crime spree who rampaged across Europe and Africa in the 60s and 70s, committing possibly countless indecent, immoral, and illegal acts. Many of those acts ended up onscreen in their mondo movies but a good number of those crimes were peripheral and offscreen. Animal cruelty is only the tip of the iceberg. I can't stomach watching their movies, but I'm endlessly fascinated reading and hearing about their unspeakable exploits. Ugh, what does that say about me?

AFRICA ADDIO: what a horrible movie, hard to sit through and even harder to believe that what you're seeing is real and it is. 😳😳😳

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#83

Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by M.10rda - January 03, 2026, 05:45:16 PM

Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 31, 2025, 10:03:37 AMI tend to give the most entertaining bad movies around a 3.5 if I'm recommending for a general audience, with a note that bad movie fans will rate them higher.

I so appreciate Rev. Powell's recent benediction of high ratings for bad movies, 'cause this one is definitely a legit stinker:

THE MADS ARE BACK: THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD (1957):
...And yet I had a ball watching it. A team of coed seafarers ride John Carradine's experimental diving bell to the bottom of the ocean and then (apparently) beyond, getting stuck underneath the ocean floor (or something), where they walk and walk and walk around a mazelike cavern, see a cut-away of a harmless normal-sized komodo dragon, and meet a lunatic in a hilarious fake beard and wig. That lunatic instantly seems likely to behave inappropriately towards the two women, though it takes him a long time to get around to that behavior, and by that time there's an earthquake that fails to trigger an ominous yet hapless subterranean volcano. In the meanwhile, Carradine unites with his brother for a montage sequence (absolutely screaming for some Hall & Oates underscore) where they create an improved diving bell that won't f**k up as bad as the first one did.

At last I got around to watching a MADS riff featuring my favorite MST3K alumni Trace and Frank. It's refreshing how they depart from MST and Rifftrack tradition and really seem to be watching this film cold/unrehearsed. As a result it takes several minutes for them to get up to speed, and then they're firing off golden one-liners like the old pros they are. But even independent of their riffs... I thought INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD was a riot!

As the Mads repeatedly remind us, IPW is a Jerry Warren picture, and while (like all Jerry Warren pictures) it is cheap and preposterously uneventful, it somehow moves along from one non-event to the next in a much more snappy way than many of Warren's other movies. Instead of just being boring, the absurdity of most of this film's bad ideas are self-evident and thus automatically funny. At one point, Warren takes a break from the underwhelming undersea adventure for a long dialogue scene where Carradine speculates on theories of mechanical improvements with another egghead. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay couldn't write or improvise this scene in a more preposterously funny yet straight-faced way than how Warren, Carradine, and the other actor execute it. It's bonkers pro facie.

Then again, I won't likely revisit IPW without riffs...

but if you find it riffless in the wild, go for it!

3.5/5
Carradine looks healthy and ruggedly handsome, and of course is a much better actor than Jerry Warren deserved or knew what to do with. ("I worked with John Ford!", one of the Mads exclaims.) Fortunately Carradine is in the entire movie (just in the above sea level parts), so while it's plausible that he only worked for a couple of days of shooting (as the Mads allege), Warren really got his money's worth. (The actor playing Carradine's younger brother actually looks like him, too.) Good for him and us!

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Good Movies / Re: Movie related events which...

Last post by M.10rda - January 03, 2026, 05:23:40 PM

These are great. What a cool spooky thread.

All I can come up with at the moment are Jacopetti & Prosperi, the two-man crime spree who rampaged across Europe and Africa in the 60s and 70s, committing possibly countless indecent, immoral, and illegal acts. Many of those acts ended up onscreen in their mondo movies but a good number of those crimes were peripheral and offscreen. Animal cruelty is only the tip of the iceberg. I can't stomach watching their movies, but I'm endlessly fascinated reading and hearing about their unspeakable exploits. Ugh, what does that say about me?

#85

Good Movies / Re: Movie related events which...

Last post by Trevor - January 03, 2026, 04:55:51 PM

Quote from: claws on January 03, 2026, 02:31:03 PMThe "Lady of the Dunes" in Jaws.

For decades, an unidentified murder victim found in Provincetown, MA, in 1974 was known only as the "Lady of the Dunes."
In 2015, author Joe Hill (son of Stephen King) noticed a woman in the background of a scene in Jaws (shot nearby in 1974) who wore a blue bandana and jeans identical to those found with the victim.
While the victim was finally identified in 2022 as Ruth Marie Terry, the theory that her final living moments were captured on film in a summer blockbuster remains one of the most haunting "hidden in plain sight" mysteries in film history.

The "Real-Life Omen (1976)" Incident.

Special effects artist John Richardson (who designed the film's famous decapitation scene) was in a car accident in Holland. His assistant was decapitated in the crash. According to Richardson, he crawled out of the wreckage and saw a road sign that read: Ommen, 66.6km.

Those are really both very haunting.

I believe the John Richardson event took place during the filming of A BRIDGE TOO FAR.

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