RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie Thread!)

[M.10rda]

That sounds like a fun one! Canada, of course, has no nukes to steal. 

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
Eyes Of The Serpent (1994)
https://youtu.be/EVJIb8AU7TM?si=i7ixqjDwg5iF6RuG

Schlock from Troma, slightly cleaned up for YouTube....

Opens with a narration about a pair of swords & pair of feuding queen sisters....
So, the evil queen's forces raid a camp & find the good queen's daughter & the other sword... While the bad queen has a scholar translate some scrolls, her own daughter tries to torture the first one, but things go sideways & she escapes.... The next day, the good princess is rescued from the bad queen's soldiers by a guy with an eyepatch & a heavily gelled up mullet....
That's when the good queen shows up, who looks the same age as the princess....

Looks like it was shot on VHS, converted to film, & back to VHS again....
Some sleaze tossed in to increase the runtime, with set that look like they were borrowed from a haunted house ride.....

[zombie no.one]

One big issue, for me anyway, is the offscreen assault/abuse/probable homicide of a cat halfway through Story 2. Hey, these things do happen in genre flicks, and at least we don't see it....... but somehow even worse than seeing it, the old lady then (logically, understandably) appeals to her son at length to understand why he would do that to her cat, which happened to be her only friend. In other words, she aggressively rubs it in... to no detriment to the $#!t#33l who just victimized her best friend the cat, but to endless detriment to me, the viewer, who was already bummed out by this depressing scenario and at this point pretty much had to throw in the towel on this flick.

cats tend to get a raw deal in movies (especially bad ones).. they are either the de facto source of all evil, or completely expendable.

or worse, being portrayed by James Corden

I am a devoted mog-father myself, but to be honest simulated animal abuse onscreen has never really troubled me that much  . or at least beyond the extent that it's troubling in the context of the movie... the real stuff can gtfo obviously

[M.10rda]

You make some good points... context is everything, and the much more graphic cat-abuse in the original RE-ANIMATOR is somehow less disturbing to me than the completely unseen cat-abuse in this old Argentinian movie, because RE-ANIMATOR strikes a tone of absurdity in the zombie cat scene (and elsewhere) that prevents one from taking anything too seriously. NEVER OPEN THE DOOR on the other hand really wants you to feel reeeeeeal bad about the offscreen cat-stomping/strangling/whatever and lays it on thick. No need to rub it in, dudes!

Come to think of it, there's also the doggo in BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR that gets messed up (and repaired) in such a surreal, funny way that I struggle to imagine any pet-loving horror fan taking offense.

Conversely, crummy director of musicals Tom Hooper's cinematic cat-abuse should earn him a lifetime spot as the SPCA's Public Enemy #1! 

Anyway. Cheers to your moggy!