Firstly, greetings bad film buffs. :-)
Can anyone remember a really, *really* bad Italian film called "The Church"? The 'biggest' moment of the whole film was when a devil (possibly the big guy himself) was having sex with a virgin on a tomb??
Also: "Dungeons and Dragons". That paragon of the bad film; it passed right through crap and came out the other side, cycling round to quite funny-by-virtue-of-being-so-bad. "Solve the Maze, win the prize": Richard O'Brian is a god.
Comments on either, anyone?
I like the Church a lot, mainly because of the director, Michele Soavi. Other films of his, like Stagefright and especially Cemetery Man, are really fantastic. He got a muddled script for The Church, but managed to make the story (such as it was) fun to watch at least.
Dungeons & Dragons was exactly what I expected. If you played D&D in high school, like my nerdy ass did, you're gonna like the stupid but fun D&D movie. If you didn't, you won't.
Funny thing is, I never played D&D, but I enjoyed the film on the basis that is was *so* bad it was funny!
i stand corrected.....:)
The Church a really "bad" Italian film? Maybe Bruno Mattei's films deserve that title. Michele Soavi has always been a director I respected. The Church had quite a lot of work go into it if you ever watch it through, there are some really interesting visuals to be seen. I prefer stage fright to the church and dellamorte dellamore is my favorite film he made like others have said. He also did some cameos as an actor in films like a blade in the dark, demons (masked ticket man), opera, gates of hell and a few others. He worked his way up from being an assistant to become a director. He was the best new horror director to come out of Italy at the time. Too bad he's drifted to low key status now with just a few Italian tv movies.
He he he!
I'm the president of the student cinema at my university, and D&D was the one film in our last season that got a round of appluase at the end, as well as wolf whistles and laughs.
But, you remember the "NOOOOO!!!" Star Wars p**s-take (c'mon, what else was it?!) that was uttered upon the death of the hero's friend in D&D? Well, I have one worse/ better (?) than that for you:
The Mummy Returns; end scene: Brendon Fraser impales the Scorpion King and Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep suddenly slides into frame from the left on his knees, arms outstretched, declaiming; "NOOOOO!!!" Prime cheese. As if someone realised he should be in shot and literally shoved him in.