The Most Astonishingly Tasteless Films

[Metropolisforever]

There are some flicks that don't just rebel against, or even disregard, standards of taste and art.  In the universe inhabited by these films, such things as standards and responsibility have never been heard of.  It is this lunar purity which largely imparts to these films their inevitable cult stature.  Most likely, these films will remain as artifacts in years to come, to which scholars, searchers for truth, and grubby people in raincoats can turn and say, "now this was trash!"

Some examples:

For Singles Only (1968) - This one is definitely not for those who like good movies.  In this dreadful '60s sleaze film, two girls move into a singles apartment, where Milton Berle plays the social director.  The result is a brutal rape, an attempted suicide, and several songs.  I kid you not.

Freddy Got Fingered (2001) - Tom Green's notorious celluloid atrocity, which swept the Razzies in 2001.  Basically, this is just a pointless series of gross-out skits, such as Tom Green slinging a baby around his head by its umbilical cord.  So funny, isn't it?  Yep, Tom Green is like that irritating kid in every junior high school who wants desperately to be the class clown.  He's also a pathetic attention whore.  He knows good and well that his movie is a piece of crap, and he likes it that way.

Vulgar (2000) - This is one of the worst films ever committed to celluloid.  Kevin Smith financed this hideous (and amateurish) fiasco about a nice young man named Will making a poor living as a children's party clown named Flappy.  Will's over-showcased kindheartedness has failed to land him many gigs or even much in the way of common courtesy--either from the alcoholics who litter his front yard or, particularly, from his abusive mother, whose nursing-home bills eat up most of Will's income. In desperation, Will comes up with a plan. He'll transform himself into Vulgar, an adult party clown who shows up as a joke "stripper" in place of the real thing. But, on his first job, he winds up at a seedy motel, where he is violently gang-raped (for several minutes) by a group of sadistic rednecks.  Once he becomes famous, the rednecks try to blackmail him, but Will shoots them, and goes on to live happily ever after.  Either director Bryan Johnson is a sick, amoral pervert, or he has some sort of inner demons that he was trying to purge with this film.  Either way, it's still one of the worst abominations to ever be unleashed upon humanity.  "Vulgar" doesn't even begin to describe this one.

Chaos (2005) - Dreadful indie rip-off of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, in which two young women, Angelica, who has returned home for the summer from UCLA, and Emily, go off to a rave in the woods, where Angelica hopes to score some ecstasy. There, they meet Swan, who, unbeknownst to them, was sent to find two naïve young women and bring them back to his father, Chaos, and his depraved cohorts, Frankie and Daisy. As the helpless girls are brought into the woods to be tortured and murdered, Emily's loving parents grow worried that their normally levelheaded daughter has missed her curfew and is not answering her cell phone. After a frustrating encounter with the local police, they decide to go and look for the girls themselves.  Basically, this is almost a direct copy of Craven's film, with a lot less plot, and a lot more scenes of teenage girls being mutilated.  There is also a new ending, which is so stupid that you might even forget about the depravity you've just witnessed.  If you thought Craven's film was bad... well, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Can you think of any more films like these?

[Rev. Powell]

Was PINK FLAMINGOES too obvious to mention?   

[ghouck]

Pink Flamingos makes me think Waters sat down with a bunch of weirdos in a chemically-fueled brain-storming session and started the meeting by saying "Think up a dozen or so of the most disgusting, perverted, yet original things you can think of, and we'll weave a very thin plot through them". "Desperate Living" and "Female Trouble" were no better. Tasteless doesn't begin to describe Pink Flamingos.

"Bad Taste" is way up there, but as far a pure offensiveness, lack of any moral fiber in any way, I'd say "Meet the Feebles" has to be near the top. 

[asimpson2006]

Pink Flamingos makes me think Waters sat down with a bunch of weirdos in a chemically-fueled brain-storming session and started the meeting by saying "Think up a dozen or so of the most disgusting, perverted, yet original things you can think of, and we'll weave a very thin plot through them". "Desperate Living" and "Female Trouble" were no better. Tasteless doesn't begin to describe Pink Flamingos.

"Bad Taste" is way up there, but as far a pure offensiveness, lack of any moral fiber in any way, I'd say "Meet the Feebles" has to be near the top. 

After watching Pink Flamingos I couldn't eat eggs for a while.  Every time I saw an egg that old lady with the eggs would come to mind and I would get about half disgusted and just walk away from the eggs.

[Rev. Powell]

Pink Flamingos makes me think Waters sat down with a bunch of weirdos in a chemically-fueled brain-storming session and started the meeting by saying "Think up a dozen or so of the most disgusting, perverted, yet original things you can think of, and we'll weave a very thin plot through them". "Desperate Living" and "Female Trouble" were no better. Tasteless doesn't begin to describe Pink Flamingos.

"Bad Taste" is way up there, but as far a pure offensiveness, lack of any moral fiber in any way, I'd say "Meet the Feebles" has to be near the top. 

After watching Pink Flamingos I couldn't eat eggs for a while.  Every time I saw an egg that old lady with the eggs would come to mind and I would get about half disgusted and just walk away from the eggs.

I had a related problem.  I couldn't use a chicken in the bedroom for months afterwards.

[BixDugan]

Maybe something more watchable than the ones mentioned above, yet still tasteless  would be...

"Shakes the Clown"

The opening scene features America's Mom, Carol Brady. So it couldn't be THAT bad, right?

[Allhallowsday]

SLEEPAWAY CAMP  

http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,114752.0.html

[Jim H]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDDJn6OzQ_s

I guess Troma movies go without saying.



One scene from The Blue Jeans Monster springs to mind.  Two characters, a pregnant character and her friend, are discussing sex - or rather, how the pregnant one hasn't had sex with her husband since she got pregnant.

"Men without sex go crazy!"
"How could we when my belly is so big?"
"Why couldn't you?"
"People say that it would flatten the baby's nose."
"The baby knows how to doge it."
"How?"
"He can hold it with his mouth!" (mimes mouth grabbing with hand)
"What!?"
"Now you know why babies are toothless!"
"....You are so disgusting."

[Nukie 2]

I second Meet the Feebles.

I actually thought Freddy Got Fingered was hillarious because it was too crude, stupid, and vulgar for the mainstream to find funny. Scream Bloody Murder kinda reminds me of Freddy Got Fingered.

[Mr. DS]

Revenge Of The Living Dead Girls. Pointless gore and violence all for no apparent reason.  They have a point where a woman has a miscarriage in the shower from a rotting hole in her stomach.  Its probably one of the most tasteless things I've ever seen in a movie.  Forbid I mention the prostitute who gets sexually assaulted with a knife. 

[WilliamWeird1313]

Revenge Of The Living Dead Girls. Pointless gore and violence all for no apparent reason.  They have a point where a woman has a miscarriage in the shower from a rotting hole in her stomach.  Its probably one of the most tasteless things I've ever seen in a movie.  Forbid I mention the prostitute who gets sexually assaulted with a knife. 

Now, I wanna see this!

I have issues.

[Javakoala]

I just watched Revenge Of The Living Dead Girls.  If this is what France has to offer, let them go back to praising Jerry Lewis movies.  Inept and pointless are the keywords for this movie.  But the woman being penetrated by the sword  -- how about a shotgun?  Gator Bait has a fairly innocent young woman penetrated by a shotgun that is then discharged.  Not bloody really, but it just makes you feel bad for Mankind that someone would think of such a thing.  But then, I DID watch it, so what does that say about me?

[inframan]

Pieces?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd0y3P4YVNc

[WilliamWeird1313]

Gator Bait has a fairly innocent young woman penetrated by a shotgun that is then discharged.  Not bloody really, but it just makes you feel bad for Mankind that someone would think of such a thing. 

Ah, it's just a movie.

I've seen Gator Bait and, personally, I love it.

[Javakoala]

Gator Bait has a fairly innocent young woman penetrated by a shotgun that is then discharged.  Not bloody really, but it just makes you feel bad for Mankind that someone would think of such a thing. 

Ah, it's just a movie.

I've seen Gator Bait and, personally, I love it.

I'm sorry.  Did I give the impression I DIDN'T like "Gator Bait"?  I loved the movie.  But that scene was mostly tasteless.  But this comes from a guy that actually finds "Necromantik" vaguely erotic.  I'm consistently inconsistent...or is that incontinent?