We've all seen some really god awful taglines in our time... So, what do you consider to be the worst? Are their any overused taglines you personally can't stand?
Even though I saw and immensly enjoyed "Aliens vs. Predator" I have to say that the tagline for it was horrible.
"Whoever wins....We lose"
Terrible!
From "Prototype X298"(maybe not the right title)
Half Man, Half Machine,All Killer
Man kind doesn't stand a chance.
When a movie is arrogant enough to think it deserves two tag lines you know it's gonna suck.
Two taglines? That's funny. I wonder what movie has the most taglines.
It could be one long tagline but there's a large space in between the two so it feels and looks like two tag lines.
* THE GODSEND (1980) - "For God's sake, send it back!" (which is what they should have done with the movie)
You know how many straight-to-video creature features have "Welcome to the bottom of the food chain." As their tag line.
Frankenfish from last night had it too.
ROBOC.H.I.C. had 2 very bad/very weak taglines, which supports the theory of the worse the movie the more the tag:
"She Always Gets Her Man", followed by a bunch of headshots of some of the male character-actors, and "Part Cop . . .Part Machine . . . All Woman", with a picture of Kathy Shower in the silvery Robo-suit. Just dreadful.
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On the flip side, I always loved the tagline for "Motel HELL": "It Takes All Kinds of Critters to Make Farmer (something's) Fritters!".
Oh, that was great . . . my fave tagline & I space on the Farmer's name! Rory Calhoun .... crap! 2 syllables!! help!!
peter johnson/denny crane
>my fave tagline & I space on the Farmer's name! Rory Calhoun .... crap! 2
>syllables!! help!!
Vincent
This isn't technically a "tagline", but I thought it was funny.
There's a Lifetime movie (no, I didn't watch it) called:
BABY MONITOR: SOUND OF FEAR
Didn't the first "Ghoulies" have the tagline "They'd get you in the end" just because the of the promo material with one of the creatures popping out of the toliet? It's funny once, after that it just gets lamer and lamer. Plus the commercial for that one aired locally constantly, back when theaters still ran commercials for films on local TV.
Yaddo 42 wrote:
> Didn't the first "Ghoulies" have the tagline "They'd get you in
> the end"
Ya know, I've seen that film and heard that tagline and I just got it's double meaning.
Hehe! DUH!
The one that always comes to my mind is the tagline for The Prey:
"It's not human, and it's got an axe!"
It make's its point, for sure, but it's as if they weren't even trying. Besides, the monster was human, just badly burned. Aside from the casting of Jackie "Uncle Fester" Coogan as a forest ranger, it was a pretty lame movie all around.
My personal favorite, lame as it is, has always been the tagline for "The Lift": "Take the Stairs, Take the Stairs...For God's Sake, Take the stairs!"
The Devil's Rain is another one with two taglines, and they're both total gems:
1. "Heaven help us... When THE DEVIL'S RAIN!"
Gotta love a movie with the guts to put such a blatantly grammatical error directly above the title... Especially when they follow it up with this:
2. "Positively the most horrifying ending of any motion picture ever!"
For the most awful movie I have seen in years...'Unspeakable'
"Nothing can silence pure evil" Hmm I thought it was "Unspeakable"...OH, I get it! The movie is unspeakable! Good, perhaps it shall never be spoken of again!
Spiceworld: "they don't just sing"
And to think I had to watch that this week.
[BTW, love the elevator one Derf, I shall take the stairs from here on out]
I don't know about bad, but i have some memorable bad movie taglines worth mentioning:
MEET THE FEEBLES
"The Puppet Spunk Hits The Fan"
"Hell Hath No Fury Like A Psycho Hippo With A Heavy Machine Gun"
BASKET CASE
"A tisket, a tasket, what's in the basket?"
BASKET CASE 2
"We were cut apart. AND NOW - we're together again!"
BLOODSUCKING FREAKS
"SEE: the flesh-eating cannibal women! SEE: the iron tourniquet that screws your brain! SEE: the living dart board! SEE: the orgy of screaming virgins! SEE: the sickness that will make you retch!"
CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL
"In the tradition of Friday The 13th Part 2 and Oklahoma! -- comes the first intelligent film about canniballism! "
DAUGHTERS OF SATAN
"When Selleck meets Satan, the sparks really fly!"
FOXY BROWN
"Foxy's in town....so gather 'round and watch a real shake down. 'Cause she's got that drive and that ain't jive. She don't bother to bring 'em back alive! Don't mess aroun' with....Foxy Brown"
MOTEL HELL
It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters!
PREY
"It's not human. And it's got an axe!"
RE-ANIMATOR
"Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders....and another one in a dish on his desk"
RETURN TO HORROR HIGH
"Killer to the left...Killer to the right...Stand up...Sit down...FRIGHT!FRIGHT!FRIGHT!"
EL TOPO
"See the naked young Franciscans whipped with cactus. See the bandit leader disembowelled. See the priest ride into the sunset with a midget and her newborn baby. What it all means isn't exactly clear, but you won't forget it"
ladies and gentlemen, goodnight!
The Hunted: "Some men must be found."
Citizen Kane: "It's terrific!"
The Third Man: "Hunted by men...sought by WOMEN!"
Cellular: "Not only the signal can die."
Evil Lives: "Others die, but...Evil Lives!"
Some A movies also have terrible taglines:
"Volcano" --> The Coast is toast.
"Exit wounds" --> This is going to hurt (Spanish tagline, don't know if the original was different).
The Granny:
"Being Granny's Favorite Can Be Murder!"
and
"She'll love you to death!"
Grandma's House:
"She'll Spoil You To Death!"
Xtro II: The Second Encounter:
"Part Alien. Part Predator. All Terror"
Ugh, and I watched Xtro 3 over the weekend. It was terrible. I though I was getting the 1st Xtro, which looks awesomely bad (there's a link to the trailer on IMDB). All I can say is they mention "Black magic from deep space" in the trailer!
Cradle 2 the Grave:
"Born 2 the life. True 2 the code. Bad 2 the bone."
Ankle Biters:
"Three feet tall! Two inch fangs!"
Worst part is there is a song to go with it.
I liked that tagline, my friend and I used that for decribing the presidental elections
From Red Blooded American Girl:
"Science created the perfect woman--with only one flaw; she had everything to live for--but no way to die."
A tagline that long and tedious should have tipped you off that this film would be equally long and tedious.
From Crash and Burn
"The weapons of the future are alive..."
*C-rip-ough!* Say, Full Moon, didn't they already do this idea in the first Terminator movie? And didn't they do it a whole lot better than you? And they didn't give away practically the whole plot in the blurb on the back of their video box, either.
I just rented one last night.
Blood Sisters: Vamps 2
The tagline...get ready...here it is:
"They put the blood back in thirsty!"
The movie was supposed to be about stripper vampires so I figured I can't go wrong. I was wrong. It was certainly a bad movie but, at least the nudity was refreshing. Seriously though, it starred a babe named Glori-Anne Gilbert...she can't act but is she hot!
my band wrote a song using "It's not human. And it's got an axe!"
that's a great tagline
AVP was s**t