These are absolutely genuine misspellings or other gaffes in newspaper or tv guide listings - any more? - or are there any movies that would benefit from a slight alteration to the title?
FRIEND WITHOUT A FACE
THE BLACK SHEEP with Basil Rathbone
BRIDGES OF DRACULA with Peter Cushing
I BURY THE DEAD with Richard Boone (think about it!)
THEY WERE EXPANDABLE
THROWN OF BLOOD
BLADE RUNNER: THE DIRECTOR'S CAT (I always suspected Scott had some help)
A few made-up ones:
DAY OF THE DEAF - huh?
THE MAMMY with Al Jolson
DEAD RINGS - "ring" is Brit slang for er...the er...a***ole?
THE HILLS HAD EYES - now they've joined the white cane set.
Kind of like Mad Magazine parody titles!
I once read a newspaper TV listing for a little movie called The Day The Earth Stood Stool. I wonder if it was the inspiration for tonight's scheduled Futurama rerun, The Day The Earth Stood Stupid.
Made-up one: Independunce Day. Appropriate, no?
Very appropriate indeed! "Stool" is also the "proper" term for ...er...bodily waste. BTW, Squishy "Mad Magazine" sounds like my cup o' tea - is there such a thing as a Brit edition, or has it ever been on sale over here?
http://www.collectmad.com/britishcovers/
Official site-- http://www.warnerbros.com/pages/madmagazine/home.jsp
(In the "MAD Dump" there are photo-parodies of A.I. and Dr. Dolittle 2 and more.)
Mind you, it was a lot funnier in the old days--hey you kids, git offa my lawn!!--it's best known today as a Fox-TV very-low-brow comedy show.
There's a compilation of the classic parodies called MAD About The Movies available in the "Books" section of the Warner Bros. site; I don't know if it's available in England, but should be...best one: revisiting the 'lovers' from Summer of '42--twenty years later. Ewwwwwwwww.
Also, Broderbund made a seven-disc CD-Rom collection called Totally MAD--every issue from its creation to about the time it started going waaay downhill (1952-1998). While the manufacturer won't ship outside the US, I found a seller on eBay that WILL--and currently has it for half the original price! For description purposes only, check out http://www.learningco.com/SubCategory.asp?CID=455
Many thanks Mr. S. - that 1/2 price offer sounds a canny wee bargain (as the legendarily tight-fisted Scots say). Thanks again.
Made-up one: Jurassic Pork
I'd watch it.
Made up ones:
Last hous on the Right (woops. wrong turn)
Evil Dad 2: Dad by lawn
Jackie Chan's First Dyke: Police Story Whore
Jeepshow
Star Wars: The Umpire Strikes Out
Baseketball Diaries
Edwards Scissored Hand
Save the last pants
C.H.A.D.
Army of Dorkness
Galaxy Pest
Revenge of the Turds
A mate and I tried to come up with a list of missing consonants (or vowels) that would have made movies more interesting. If you can come up with any more amusing ones, I'd be really happy to hear them.
The Empire Trikes Back
The Brie of Frankenstein
Crimson Tie
All Quiet on the Western Font
Spac Cowboys
Way Out Wes
Poo Sharks
My Grandfather's Cock
The Big Seep
Oldfinger
Critical Ass
Pus in Boots
Zulu Dan
True Git
And God Created Oman
Fat Times at Ridgemont High
Apocalypse Ow
Peeing Tom
We also had a go at adding letters:
The Lady Varnishes
The Breast with Five Fingers
Closet Encounters of the Third Kind
Strangers on a Strain
Baseketball Diaries - I'd watch that!
Seeing Matt Stone & Trey Parker shoot up
a school has got to be better than
watching their show.
For "weighty" high-school drama, you can't
beat "Plump up the Volume".
Indeed! Some friends brought me a Brit Edition of Mad some years ago. Before they got Tainted with P.C. .Dangit, in the old days, they bit everybody! Din' have no sacred cows mooing in the fields.......anyway,yeah.
You're not wrong Mr. F. - damn those PC pantywaists! - for verily they hath spoilt our questionable-taste fun filled frolics. All I can say is - may the inevitable backlash (ooh, missus!) be HUGE! (ooh again, missus!)
I own that MAD CD-Rom Omnibus. It's pretty neat.
I think you should try picking up a MAD again sometime. They did a rehaul a while back, and it can be pretty funny. At least their recent anniversary issue had some humor in it that pushed the boundary, especially the retrospective. "Mad Magazine runs it's most controversial feature ever. Antoine Prohias' "Roe vs. Wade." That snippet was accompanied by a picture of two people dueling in a courtroom with clothes hangers. PC?
On the other hand, they also recently decided to use advertising in their magazine. Advertising! They tried to justify it by adding some color to the proceedings, but it's crap anyway.
I also think they need to cool it with the movie parodies. I've never found them particularly funny.
I still have a warm spot for some of the movie parodies. My fave. is the line in their ALIEN parody, when Asp tells Capt. Dullas" This creature has acid for blood." and he says, "Great, maby we can killit with a rollaids."
How about these potential miz spellings or letter omissions:
KING LONG [Give me your blonde virgins]
BODZILLA [Later fights KING LONG for the right to the virgins]
THE CRAWLING DYE
ROBOCAP [The latest technological advancement in protective headgear runs amok!]
ZAPPA - THE TRIPHIBIAN MONSTER [That would probably explain alot]
THEY GIVE [Benevolent aliens, for a change, finally come to Earth - only to be met with extremely hostile resistance]
THE DRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE
NUDE ON THE TOON [This....is just wrong]
A.B.E.
ONE MILLION TEARS B.C. [That would sum up the general feeling while watching this film, even WITH Raquel Welch being in it]
EARTH Vs THE FLYING SAUCES
THE STIFF [This one has waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many possibilities!]
BARNOSAUR [The creation of prehistoric livestock goes horribly wrong]
THE FEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
INVADERS FROM BARS
And, lastly, THE ANGRY RED PLANT [Unofficial sequel to "The Little Shop Of Horrors"]
Actually, that second one was meant to be "RODZILLA". Sheesh, even with a misspelling there's a misspelling.
How about these Gnobenkase:
DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE RAVE
INVASION OF THE SAUCE MEN
THE JAR [Devilish cookie jar, shaped like \"Elmo\", terrorizes a small town]
HAT PEOPLE [Nastasia Kinsky battles Jack the Ripper]
NAIRHEADS [Growing up with sisters can be tough]
CURSE OF THE MOMMY\'S WOMB
THE INVISIBLE FAN [When science and rock 'n roll come together]
FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORD [Hooked On Phonics worked for me]
ATTACK OF THE FIFTY BOOT WOMAN [Darn cats!]
Adding, removing or changing one letter, we have:
The Giant Slaw
Nell Comes to Frogtown
Tombs of the Blind Deaf
Santa Claus Conquers the Martins
Lawn of the Dead
The Bowling
Death s**t
Megafarce
The Devil's Brain
The following two have more than one letter changed, but I like them anyway:
The Abdominal Dr. Phibes (late night infomercial)
The Lost Incontinent (looking for a bathroom, no doubt)
Death s**t made me think of two possible sequels -The Bran that Wouldn't Die, and Fibre Down Below.
This is good stuff! Steve thou art a sick man. .....Humm...How about,: Knight of the lepus....Pout at the Devil....The Devils pain....The Life of Bran....Lost in Place....Hamera(Fire breathing oinker)....Peggy Sue got parried(enguard!)....The Princess died....The Bobbit....Intraman....DragonFart....13 days in ma....The Slob....Beware,the Slob!....The I-man....quakdraft....The quack and the Dead....how Queen was my vally....The Larry Slanders show....6 feet blunder...20 million miles to mirth....The think....The stink...The fluff....I betterb quit now, my bran hurts.......
What have I unleashed? Peggy Sue Got Parried allright!
More:
2001 MANIACS
INVASION OF THE FLOOD FARMERS
PLAQUE OF ZOMBIES
ZOMBIE FRESH EATERS
I EAT YOUR KIN
CREAM
CREAM 2
And here's even more stuff....
SARAN - THE UNBELIEVABLE [All that stands between humanity and food gone bad]
I SIT UPON YOUR GRAVE
STEPHEN KING'S "ID"
ISLAND OF LOST BOWLS
GODZILLA Vs SPADE GODZILLA [Things just weren't the same without Chris Farley]
THE BAND [Retired KISS members go on a killing spree....or do they?]
ESCAPE FROM NEW BJORK
THE RIDE [Featuring Sting in his first major screen role]
THE INCREDIBLE WELTING MAN [The new sound of evil....]
MIMECOP [Swift, silent justice]
THE YEASTMASTER
THE BARK OF ZORRO [The sound of vengeance]
BOMB RAIDER [This would-be adventurer was just plain stupid]
THE BAND THAT TIME FORGOT [Who were these guys again?]
FLASK GORDON [This guy is gonna save the Earth?]
FRITTERS
-Hairzilla cranks up the volume and starts singing "Pout! Pout! Pout at the devil!-
I hope that the band that time forgot would be The Eagles, but it looks like I'm hoping in vain.
Still more
Varnishing Paint
The Black Mole
Stan Wars
Trilogy of Terry
Creaming Terror
They Shaved Hitler's Braid
"The Abdominal Dr. Phibes"
Seriously, during an interview, Vincent Price said when he first heard of the project, that's what he thought was the title.
BTW, part of the creative process can be making a mistake and then running with the change. How many of these typos might yeild a real movie?
Think about it.
Frightening, isn't it.
regards
Apostic
"Planet of the Abes"
In a spectacular twist, Marky Mark finds the Lincoln memorial exactly as it should be. However, all the cops, firemen, reporters, etc. are revealed to look like Abe Lincoln.
A few more
Raiders at the Lost Park
The Toxic Rearender
The Wild Munch
The Wedding Fingered
The Water Toy ( Get your mind out of the gutter)
Pig Daddy
Little Pricky
Batman Relurns
Star Tick: The Quest for Fleece
Fat Times when Ridgemont\'s high
Jailhouse Sock (I skipped the other more obvious word)
Stop! Or my Mom will Poop!
Carface
The Blue Brothers
The Yellow Lagoon
Back to the Futon
Stop Making Tents
Gone with the Chin
Some Disney Titles:
The Jungle Cook
DumbJoe
The Fox and the pound
101 Cremations
SnowBite
Bambeno
Alice\'s Wondercan
Torture! Torture! It pleasures me. - Chriswel from Orgy of the Dead
You're right, Apostic - it's a nightmarish thought, but I am unable to resist.
THE INCREDIBLE SMELTING MAN (Faster than a Brit steelworker)
BLOOD FAST (Vampire Ramadan)
NIGHTMARE ON ELMO STREET (It's a muppet movie anyway you look at it)
I SPIT IN YOUR (LUMPY) GRAVY (It would be an improvement on the wife's)
THE GOODFATHER (He's just a cuddly Italian patriarch)
STAR WOES (No further comment needed)
It's getting hard to remember which ones have already been done.
How about:
Barth vs. the Flying Saucers (starring Martin Mull)
Leviathon (please send us your jeans)
Brine of the Monster
Onan the Barbarian (a new twist on an infamous bible character)
Children of the Porn (not all that funny when you think about it)
It's also surprising how many animal-themed movies you can create.
The Mouse on Haunted Hill
The Monkey Pit
Iron Beagle
How about these for animal flicks:
THE DOG
WHILE YOU WERE SHEEPING [Ugh, maybe not....]
UNCLE DUCK
LOVE AT FIRST MITE
RAIDERS OF THE LOST LARK [Heeeere birdy, birdy, birdy!]
DOVE POTION NO# 9 [Hitchcock may have stolen his idea from this one]
PIG [Starring Tom Hanks]
The Hat From Outer Space
Pete's Wagon
Chech and Bong's Next Doobie
The Head with two Things
Snow Bite (She's a Vampire)
What do you say to a naked baby?
The Kentucky Fried Boobie
Pop Secret
The Tonic Avenger
Bongo
Deep Star Sex
The Legend of Bugger Vance
The Flu
Last Horse on the Left
Frankenhooter
The Killer Screws
Solar Rabies
Bloomsucking Freaks
Super Monster Camera
Loserblast
Invasion of the Blood Farters
Some of the titles lurking around here sound like the symptoms of some particularly hideous infectious disease. If you're a blood-farter who buggers Vance's, you're in deep trouble.
Thanks very much for the input, geezers. If you could stick to missing letters from now, that'd be grand.
Here's a parting shot for you. Just when you think you've already thought of the best one (Brie of Frankenstein), another leaps up and bites you in the as!
Zorba the Geek.
I've noticed that older threads tend to pop to the top every once in a while, so, just for laughs, I went looking for an old favourite. This is one of the first threads that I participated in, and one of the most fun.
Any titles missed?
How about The Enema Within? It had two sequels, Enema Mine and Enema at the Gates.
For all I know, these are probably the titles of real porno movies.
Ah, the memories! Thanks for makeing us laugh at life and love...agine...
(Ahem)
CABIN HEAVER.
PRATS OF THE CARIBBEAN.
FILL BILL.
SODZILLA.
BORED OF THE KINKS.
STINGBLABE.
NIGHT OF THE VEEPS.
GAY OF THE DEAD.
28 DAY SLATER.
STAR TREK : NEBBISHIS.
Ghost s**t
Lord of the Rigs -- the Tolkien-inspired trucker movie
>I also think they need to cool it with the movie parodies. I've never found them
>particularly funny.
I liked the one for Star Blech, The Motion Picture. The part where they're in the shuttle heading over to the ship;
Scotty: This must be a very emotional experience for you sir, you've circled the ship three times.
Kirk: Yes, Mr. Scott it is very emotional, but where the hell's the door?