Let's Talk About Some Really Bad Movies Here!!!

[Saucerman]

Wow, I loved Prince of Darkness.  For me it's one of his best. 

[BakuryuuTyranno]

  Too much never was explained; you didn't understand what the ghosts wanted or why they focused on this one girl.

The director explained at Frightfest last year -

It's never established that it's haunted. The director left that detail for each viewer's interpretation. It's stated early on the phenomena might be the protagonist's imagination.

Giving the ghosts motives would determine the place is haunted; the filmmaker wanted the question "is the place haunted" to be something the audience could decide for themselves

 
Both are worth seeing if you don't go in with high expectations.

Except that many horror fans watched "The Innkeepers" with high expectations, amongst whom many were satisfied

[JaseSF]

Wow, I loved Prince of Darkness.  For me it's one of his best. 

I really enjoyed that one too. It has some problems but I didn't think it was too bad at all.

[retrorussell]

To each their own of course; I thought POD was a POS.  Pleasance is always fun as a fairly unhinged protagonist though.  But many of the other performances were fairly dull, and the Wang guy from Big Trouble In Little China was REALLY annoying here.  Also, I thought the puking of Satan into other people's mouths should've been beneath Carpenter.

[Chainsawmidget]

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things was a movie that became a running gag with my friends for a while.  It was basically the movie that I used to threaten them with. 

Here's the plot in a nut shell.  An annoying theater group (led by a guy that deserved to be punched in the face every time he opened his mouth) got to an island, dig up a corpse, play around with it, and then in the last ten minutes of the movie zombies show up and kill everyone.  The end. 

It is a horrible horrible movie, but it does have a great title and some crazy 70s fashions if you're into that stuff.

[Saucerman]

I just watched 2010's THE LOST TRIBE.  Not only is it a remake of 2009's THE FORGOTTEN ONES (and written/produced by a guy who acted in THE FORGOTTEN ONES, and the credits for THE LOST TRIBE thank the writer/director of THE FORGOTTEN ONES), but it's just a wretchedly bad rip-off of PREDATOR with a ghastly DA VINCI CODE subplot thrown in, in which Lance Henriksen is an assassin working for the Vatican murdering scientists on an uncharted island in order to conceal any evidence that human beings evolved instead of being a special creation. 

How wretchedly bad a rip-off of Predator? The leader of this tribe of "missing links" has dreadlocks and wears a mask made out of a sabretooth tiger skull, which he dramatically removes right before his final conflict with the heroine, who has discovered that smearing mud on her skin prevents the missing links' heat-vision from detecting her. 

Lance Henriksen, why would you hurt me like this?

[alandhopewell]

     THIS Network showed this the other day....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j6xhFdDxDI

     One of my cousins wouldn't speak to me for two weeks after I showed him  this flick....it's SO bad. In the scene shown here, the hero tells his partner to light the ring of fire so it will "burn up all the oxygen, and smother it!" They're OUTSIDE! Where did this lox go to school? Also, they left the girl inside the ring, so the hero had to jump through the flames to get her (why couldn't the monster?), and after it passes out, they throw a net over it, and leave it outside....where the rain revives it.

     I'm not even going to try to describe this, also shown onTHIS Network....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7kf-nV_E5Y

[voltron]

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things was a movie that became a running gag with my friends for a while.  It was basically the movie that I used to threaten them with. 
It is a horrible horrible movie, but it does have a great title and some crazy 70s fashions if you're into that stuff.

Respectetively yet strongly disagree. I loved this one! Sure it's 90% talk, but when the zombie action kicks in in the end it totally redeems itself. The prick movie director played by Alan Ormsby was such an a***ole that you just know he's gonna get what he deserves. And yes I do dig the awful 70s fasion. Again, LOVED it! 

[66Crush]

Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1975)- David Hasselhoff's debut, I think. No plot, almost a soft core porn flick with a few high school pranks thrown in. The girls get naked constantly for no logical reason. I'm talking full frontal. I can't complain, they were hot girls for back then. There's a couple of really bad dance sequences that are really funny. It's a sequel to a movie called The Cheerleaders, which I haven't seen.

[lester1/2jr]

66 crush-I 'm a huge fan of both that movie and The Cheerleaders. there is a third one that isn't that great.

I was just thinking of Sado Master. It was at one point the lowest rated movie on netflix instant. It's from South America and the subtitles drop out all the time. The acting is ridiculous, it's only like an hour long but it still drags.



from '05

[Leah]

66 crush-I 'm a huge fan of both that movie and The Cheerleaders. there is a third one that isn't that great.

I was just thinking of Sado Master. It was at one point the lowest rated movie on netflix instant. It's from South America and the subtitles drop out all the time. The acting is ridiculous, it's only like an hour long but it still drags.



from '05

And here i thought that was a ball-sack hanging down!

[66Crush]

I think "Prince of Darkness" is OK. It reminds me of some of the later Hammer films, when they were trying to cash in on "The Exorcist." I feel like the idea was probably conceived a decade earlier. I think John Carpenter just loved Donald Pleasence so much that he came up with a film that would center around him. I have to agree about "Ghost of Mars." It's John's worst film, though "Vampires" isn't far behind.

[voltron]

I think I've mentioned this one before but here goes:
Lurkers (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1EhlMKDWVI
HORRIBLE.