Worst Movie Prop You've Ever Seen?

[TheDope]

Oh sure, bad movies come and go, but then there are movies that contain not only bad acting and bad monsters and bad action and so forth but also some of the absolutely worst props ever used in a motion picture!  Ever!

This is my contribution to this discussion and I think it displays my point perfectly:

Yes, it is from Future War (1997) and is from the scene outside the warehouse where the "news reporter" is on the scene with his "cameraman" and his "camera".  I mean, just look at this stupid camera.

For those of you playing along at home, this is a black rectangular box secured with electrical tape, with an eyepiece, handle and lens taped (or maybe even glued) onto the box itself.

Even for a movie as stank as Future War, couldn't they even use one of their own video cameras to use as a prop...oh wait, a movie like Future War probably only had one camera to use to begin with.  Necessity is the mother of bad movies props, I s'pose.

Okay, your turn!  What bad movie props have you seen in your days of movie viewing?

[Magnus]

 In the 80's I saw some cheesy horror film where someone was killed by corkscrew, the kind that you twist and then pull the two arms down to pull out the cork.  If I remember correctly there was a scene ended while someone off camera was moving the screw up and down so the arms were moving up and down. 

That was the worst prop I can think of right now.

[ghouck]

Wasn't there some toy-looking pink gun in "Pluto Nash"? That's gotta be up there.

[LilCerberus]

Any prop from any Polonia Brothers movie. I've found better stuff in other people's garbage.

Of course, one expects CGI to be bad, particularly if it's underdeveloped & overused.
(In that one regard, I must give the Polonia Brothers some credit)
Timbo Hines' WOTW is a prime example of this. Of course, the one scene that sticks out in my mind, is the shot of some people scrambling out of a cardboard cutout of a stagecoach. You'd think at least he could've found some brown construction paper.
That & Anthony Piana's mustache. School plays, dimestore pirate costumes, Groucho Marx glasses, I've never in my whole life seen a fake mustache look so ridiculously obvious. Aurthur Frayn's painted on mustache in ZARDOZ doesn't even come close.

[Dave M]

There was this one made for TV version of Of Mice And Men with Randy Quaid as Lenny, where the cast on Curly's broken hand was pretty ridiculous. Kind of like a giant Mickey Mouse hand.

Of course there is also the doomsday device from Queen of Outer Space, kind of looked like a gingerbread house.
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[akiratubo]

The hilt for Glaeken's magic staff in The Keep.  It was ... a flashlight.  They didn't even bother disguising it as anything else.  It was just ... a big, black flashlight.

[Doggett]

Classic Daleks...well, they're rubbish, aren't they ?

[zombie no.one]

maybe not a 'prop' as such, but the shark in Jaws IV....I mean come on.

[JJ80]

Classic Daleks...well, they're rubbish, aren't they ?

They do look rather a lot like dustbins don't they!

[Doggett]

Classic Daleks...well, they're rubbish, aren't they ?

They do look rather a lot like dustbins don't they!

I can't tell if that's a dustbin or not in the left hand corner.
I mean, it could really go either way...

[Raffine]

Ro-Man's bubble-spountin' ham radio tastefully displayed on his intergalactic  kitchen table:

[peter johnson]

The wooden kitchen table from outer space in Robot Monster is almost identical to the wooden workbench in the flying saucer in Plan 9 --

More a bad set than a bad prop, but the curtain over the bedroom closet doubling as an airplane cockpit is what makes Plan 9 stand head-and-shoulders above most Bad Cinema . . .

peter johnson/denny crane