Hey,
I found this forum while searching for bad films from 1977 for a radio show I'm doing.
When I saw this site i figured out that I'll probably find the experts here.
so, if you know any terrible films from 1977, I'd love the hear about them.
(and it'll be even better if they were noticeable movies, and not necessarily only low budget ones)
Many thanks,
Chen
Welcome aboard!
Well let's see 1977...
There was Orca, Kingdom of the Spiders, Kentucky Fried Movie, Airport 77, Tentacles
and Empire of the Ants starring... Joan Collins!
I'm sure that there were others.
What we were suffering through when we weren't going to see STAR WARS for the umpteenth time:
THE EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC
THE CAR
ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
DAMNATION ALLEY
TENTACLES
THE DEEP
THE BAD NEWS BEARS IN BREAKING TRAINING
Star Wars
Kidding!
SQUIRM, the INREDIBLE MELTING MAN,...and the bizzare,insane, murder inducing,.... CINDERLLA 2000...---->
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r_FVJZcOXmY ...
...yikes! Al Adamson ,of course...the horror..the horror...
1977 was a bit of a watershed for "bad movies". Though almost every one of them has gained at least a slightly positive cultish appreciation, there are a few that seem to defy a progressively softening reputation. ORCA, for one. No matter how hard I've tried to like the movie(bending way over backwards to infer Moby Dick as much as humanly possible) I just can't get past it's shoddy construction. My enlightened folks took me with them to see this and as a 7 year old, the baby whlae popping out of the mothers carcass on deck was easily the most horrifying part of the whole thing.
Despite it's justified inclusion in such a list as in this thread, I'm a little partial to AIRPORT 77 personally. It's got Jack Lemmon in a Flanders-worthy cookie duster, giddly-pretty young Kathleen Quinlan and Christopher Lee in a wife-beater sucking face with Lee Grant. Plus Kennedy's 'Joe Patroni' became my first childhood idol.
Here's a crazy clip from the Dinah Shore show, where the consumate gentlelady Oliva De Havilland plugs for the upcoming blockbuster itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlx-3BIpg3w
This clip proves two things I've been growing to suspect...
1. There is almost nothing from my childhood I can't find on YouTube
and
2. Shirley Jones was as hot as I thought she was when I was 7. :wink:
Yeah, definitely go with "Squirm!" -- "Empire of the Ants" and "Kingdom of The Spiders" have moments of goodness, so probably not as awful as "Squirm!".
peter johnson/denny crane
Quote from: peter johnson on March 06, 2008, 07:53:50 PM
Yeah, definitely go with "Squirm!" -- "Empire of the Ants" and "Kingdom of The Spiders" have moments of goodness, so probably not as awful as "Squirm!".
peter johnson/denny crane
Now you gonna be da worm face! Movie's best line
Quote from: soylentgreen on March 06, 2008, 07:11:10 PM
Here's a crazy clip from the Dinah Shore show, where the consumate gentlelady Oliva De Havilland plugs for the upcoming blockbuster itself.
Aww.... They cut out the clip of the movie! Although it's true what you said about Youtube. I have reconnected with so many parts of my youth it's amazing. I do defend the rights of copyright on occasion, but I am glad that so many others don't. But, before I call myself a hypocrite its not my fault that the copyright holders haven't the brains to take on a bit of advertising and just post their crap online. They're not making money keeping their gems in the closet so likewise it's their own fault if they feel they're losing out.
Um... Squrim was released in 1976....But it still blows!!
FYI I have a reviews of Cinderella 2000 and Damnation Alley up at my blog. I'd link to thjem but Ometiklan's. . . avatar has . . . hypno. . . ti. .
:teddyr:
"Kentucky Fried Movie" is freakin' hilarious! "Rabid","Autopsy" and "Last House on a Dead End Street" all sucked BAD!(no pun intended)
Quote from: richjr37 on March 11, 2008, 06:22:21 PM
"Kentucky Fried Movie" is freakin' hilarious! "Rabid","Autopsy" and "Last House on a Dead End Street" all sucked BAD!(no pun intended)
The words "good" and "bad" are synonymous at this forum.
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The words "good" and "bad" are synonymous at this forum.
So true. So deliciously true...
Quote from: Justy on March 11, 2008, 08:22:12 PM
The words "good" and "bad" are synonymous at this forum.
Don't agree. There's
"good-bad" and "
just bad." :wink:
DOH!!! SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS!!!!
I first saw this on USA-Up All Nite...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jcKVf6rsYts
...and the mindboggling SUPERVAN...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0SU6jae9FZo
buiooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww........
...AHHH!!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!
Some good choices for bad 'uns from '77, but lest we forget some "classics":
Billy Jack Goes To Washington
Bobby Deerfield
Breaker! Breaker!
The Car
Claws (an even-cheaper ripoff of Grizzly, which was itself a cheap ripoff of Jaws)
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
The Domino Principle
The Incredible Melting Man
...you know, just to fill in a blank or two. :wink:
Airport '77 is arguably the best of the series, and The Car only looks like crap.
If you hate disco or John Travolta or both go with Saturday Night Fever, or long lineups Star Wars.
The Japanese film House (Hausu).
The Chuck Norris flick Breaker! Breaker!
Young Lady Chatterly
Empire Of The Ants
Quote from: retrorussell on July 26, 2010, 09:50:43 PM
The Japanese film House (Hausu).
Really? Everyone I know who's seen it says it's a masterpiece, and the Criterion Collection recently picked it up! It's my most anticipated re-release.
But then again, I liked YOUNG LADY CHATTERLY too...
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 27, 2010, 11:16:33 AM
Quote from: retrorussell on July 26, 2010, 09:50:43 PM
The Japanese film House (Hausu).
Really? Everyone I know who's seen it says it's a masterpiece, and the Criterion Collection recently picked it up! It's my most anticipated re-release.
But then again, I liked YOUNG LADY CHATTERLY too...
Thats on my 'to watch' list... :smile:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 27, 2010, 11:16:33 AM
Quote from: retrorussell on July 26, 2010, 09:50:43 PM
The Japanese film House (Hausu).
Really? Everyone I know who's seen it says it's a masterpiece, and the Criterion Collection recently picked it up! It's my most anticipated re-release.
But then again, I liked YOUNG LADY CHATTERLY too...
Well, it's a masterpiece of hilariously bad films, if that's what you're looking for. I saw it at a theater with my sister and we both laughed till we cried. A completely preposterous, off the wall, WTF kind of film. We really enjoyed it in that sense.
Young Lady Chatterly bored me.. it was one of the more uninteresting Skinemax/Showtime After Hours movies I'd ever seen.