This one cracked me up.
It may have been the beer, it was many months ago.
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Tammy and the T-Rex comes immediately to mind.
Just this Halloween season I also watched 1985’s Phenomena, a bizarre Dario Argento film starring Jennifer Connelly of Labyrinth fame as a sleepwalking girl with telepathic insect-friend powers staying at a Swiss boarding school, who makes friends with Donald Pleasence as a wheelchair-bound kindly entomologist, who has a live-in chimpanzee assistant, and also there’s a serial killer who weirdly is just kind of there in the background until finally becoming the focus in the last 20 minutes of the movie. It’s surreal and disjointed, with wildly out of place music by Goblin, Iron Maiden and Motorhead playing over otherwise fairly sedate scenes, and gets increasingly bonkers and unpredictable as it goes on. It wasn’t boring, though, I’ll give it that. Oh, and if that weren’t enough, it was apparently the inspiration for the Clock Tower video game series.
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While not Argento’s best, I still love Phenomena. An utterly mad film.
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The wonderful How Did This Get Made? podcast recommended this gem a couple of years ago. The whole thing is available on YouTube completely free and legal.
And if you’re not already familiar with HDTGM it’s a great podcast about “bad” movies, both bad bad and fun bad. I’ve gotten a ton of recommendations from there over the years.
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I absolutely loved Phenomena! It was so bizarre and wonderful.
I think it was last year, the first time I’d ever heard of ‘giallo’ and looked through some movies in that category. That was my pick for which one to watch first to see if I liked the genre, and I loved it. Jennifer Connelly was so good and the weird side bits and that music! It’s just magnificent.
You’re right that it never gives you a chance to get bored. It’s nothing like typical Hollywood movies, it’s a whole different thing.
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This is probably from around 2010, the Cinematic Titanic era.
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WPIX in NYC had the nerve to air this vintage clunker back in the day. Even little kids (my brother and I, for example) thought the effects and doings truly sucked. For us, it inspired nothing but groans and complaints as to how stupid adults could be. “Dumb movie!” But now? It’s a fucking hoot! If you can get the DVD for $2, get it.
(By the way, TARP’s director, Ib Melchior, bounced back and did wonders with another low-budget sci-fi flick: The Time Travelers. Not bad for 1964, and the effect done with the giant prop view screen is a keeper.)
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Thank you for reminding me of this movie’s name.
Truly a movie like no other. The effects are kind of hypnotically unrealistic. It has a very unique look.
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The little home movie in my mind: “The Very Angry ‘Angry Red Planet’ Movie Audience”.
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The one scene that made me laugh out loud and long: When the satyr, Torgo, came out from behind a car and one of the show’s hosts—seeing what were intended to be Torgo’s goat legs—quietly muttered, “What the.”
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May I suggest the beautifully titled Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell?
Trailer contains some gore. (Surprise!)
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The same guys did this winner:
Starred John Agar, who was in a ton of sci-fi B movies of that period.
I saw this when I was probably 10. Scared the heck out of me, but some of the creepiest scenes have really stayed with me.
I wonder why they didn’t just call it “Journey To Uranus.”
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This looks great!
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I’m surprised I got any homework done at all, that couple of years we lived in New York…
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Word is that the Minecraft movie is so bad it’s fun, so there’s that.
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Oh, yeah. And John Hoyt - Wikipedia …such a B-movie staple. His looks and bearing were intended to add verisimilitude to even the lousiest of scripts. He always gave his best.
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I didn’t think it was bad, exactly, but it’s certainly already become an experience. I’ll post more in The Kids Are All Right later this evening for a breakdown of the Zoomer’s first cult classic film.
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My favorite “bad” good movie:
English title Planet of the Vampires which is a stupid title because 1) the direct translation Terror in Space is so much better and 2) there are no vampires in the movie! Planet of the Zombies MAYBE, but whatever!
It’s an Italian/Spanish co-production directed by Mario Bava! It’s not his best! Watch in the English dub for maximum bad/good!
What you get: the plot of 1979’s Alien in a 1965 production! Chin-to-foot tight leather “space suits”! Sub-TOS-quality alien planet soundstage! Norma Bengell! The Meteor Rejector!
But mostly the colors! Dear God the colors!
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