There's something fascinating about an atrocious movie. That's why this blog is currently running a 'Worst Movie of all Time' competition [I know, I know it's been done ad nauseam]. Rules are:1] it must have been made for cinematic release, not as a garage movie;
2] they can’t have set out to make a bad movie. This last criterion would seem to put out Attack of the Killer Tomatoes which was intended as trash but ended up being quite a cult flick;
3] you must include a blurb and link;
4] pic would help.
First four nominations from you good people are here:
1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4
Hmm. There was a series of 'Golden Turkeys' hosted by Michael Medved on C4 many, many moons ago, featuring such triumphs of the film maker's art as 'Plan 9 from Outer Space', 'The Creeping Terror' etc etc.
ReplyDeleteHowever, bad though those films were, they did end up being entertaining, so I think it might be an idea to also look at commercially successful films that are truly terrible. The worst films I have paid money to see are the staggeringly self-indulgent and utterly lousy 'Golden Child' and the toe-curlingly awful 'St Elmo's Fire'. Re the latter, as a rule any film involving Joel Schumacher will be exploitative, badly made dreck.
Conversely, the widely slated 'Heaven's Gate' has pacing problems but is actually not bad.
I'm chasing these up and a post is coming up.
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