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Golden Eyed Scout wrote:Pandorum. I don't think it's bad film if they had attempted sci fi action, not sci fi horror/thriller, since so many of it's "scary" moments are action-y.
But for the most part it's pretty mediocore in its attempt at horror (even the aliens/creatures are a ripoff of the Xenomorph, the ship setting also from Alien, I could go on)
But, if you look past that, the story is pretty solid, the effects are good, and it makes for a fun watch if you go into it with the mindset of sci fi action.
I have to agree that as a horror, utter tripe.
But I absolutely LOVED this movie, as in "Could not stop gushing about it to my friends until I realized what an utter gakker I was being"
Worst horror movie I saw was some Spy Movie on netflix that the young'uns wanted to watch.
Don't you say that a shoe-string budget horribad acting film with a Kid spy who does everything perfectly and gets away with everything isn't horror! It's the worst kind!
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I can't even remember the last time I saw a good SyFy movie
All syfy movies are elite.
Oh! and Jason X! The scene where he had the chicks in the sleeping bags bashing them off of stuff was awesome.
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I can't even remember the last time I saw a good SyFy movie
All syfy movies are elite.
Oh! and Jason X! The scene where he had the chicks in the sleeping bags bashing them off of stuff was awesome.
The sleeping bag murders are hilarious. I love that series because watching arsehole teens getting butchered is just so damn cathartic.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Maelstrom808 wrote:Anything introduced as "a SyFy Channel original movie"
"Gryphon" aka "Attack of the Gryphon" with Amber Benson and Larry Drake is pretty good if you want a D&D type movie. Way, way better than the actual D&D movie. It also makes for a great adventure (I know, I've run it).
Golden Eyed Scout wrote:
Arctik_Firangi wrote:Speaking of Bruce, Bubba Ho-Tep. So painfully pointless, you just won't care that there's a sequel.
Dude... GTFO. Now. You do not mock any of the Bruce's movies. Not even Bubba Ho-Tep.
QFT. And Bubba Ho-Tep is brilliant, if a bit slow. That's Bruce doing some of his best acting.
And now on to the topic:
The real problem with citing the worst horror film is that the worst horror films aren't bad, because often the best horror films are bad, but that they worst horror films are forgettable. I mean Leprechaun 4: Leprechaun In The Hood is a fething TERRIBLE movie, but if you get properly drunk first you will not stop laughing at how horrid it is.
So if the worst horror movies are the most forgettable, the ones that are simply boring and easy to turn off, then how do you determine the worst of the worst? Is The Faculty worst than Critters 3? The first is noteworthy only for alt.rock supergroup Class of '99's cover of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall, pt. 2" and Jon Stewart playing an evil science teacher. The second is noteworthy only for being Leonardo DiCaprio's first film. Which I guess makes Critters 3 the worse of the two, because feth Leonardo DiCaprio, but that really has more to do with my hatred of Titantic than with Critters 3. But if you can remember the plot of either, its solely because the plot is so generic that you've seen it in so many movies that you can reconstruct the story intuitively.
So I can't tell you what the worst horror movie is. I've seen hundreds of them, and the one's I remember are the ones that had something worth remembering, even if it was just how incredibly bad it was -- like have you seen Satan's Cheerleaders? Oh my god is that a bad movie, but it's still fun to watch (with enough alcohol).
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Borkin wrote:If it hasnt been mentioned yet, Dead Alive (Braindead in the UK) should have atention brought to it.
Is that the one with the meteor alien-zombies?
It seemed to me like a very poor tribute to Evil Dead,with added bewbs
No, Dead Alive is Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson's second movie. The zombies in it are the result of the infected bite of Sumatran Rat Monkey taken from Skull Island (if you look closely you can see the SRM's cage in Jackson's "King Kong" in the cargo hold scene), and it features some of the best zombie fighting action in cinema history. Definitely in the Top 5 of both zombie flicks and horror comedies. It wins forever for one line in particular: "I kick ass in the name of the LORD!" - said by a Catholic (possibly Anglican) priest right before he drops some serious kung fu on some zombies. Also features the best use of a lawnmower as a zombie-fighting weapon EVAH.
You might be thinking of "Night of the Comet."
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AlmightyWalrus wrote:I was going to nominate "Maximum Overdrive", but then I remembered that it has the best ending ever.
And it has a soundtrack that is all AC/DC. I don't care how bad the rest of the movie is, that makes it watchable.
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28 Weeks Later opening scene in the cabin was good but everything went downhill into mediocrity after that.
Pulse was another awful horror movie the original Japanese version was much better.
Golden Eyed Scout wrote:
Slither: Comedy or horror films was never made clear to me by this one. A film I wouldn't watch even if drunk.
I always thought of it as more of a horror film with some comedy mixed in. I found the film tolerable but that may just be due to the fact that Nathan Fillion was in the movie.
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My Little Eye could possibly be ranked in the worst horror film Parthenon. Pretty much your standard "who is the killer?!?" snuff movie, but with this constant drone over the top that gets louder every time something "suspenseful" or "horrific" happens so that you feel like your skull is going to explode and your teeth are going to vibrate out of your mouth after a few minutes. It is not bad otherwise but that noise! Argh!
Another movie that should be here for the fact that it is actually pretty terrible is some kind of "get a group of randoms to the old haunted asylum and lock them in" film. I honestly can't remember what it was called, but it had pretty much every single horror movie stereotype in it. Can't remember the name off the top of my head though.
One "memorable" section had one of the characters running past some medical displays with bits of human corpses pinned out, being chased by the manifest evil spirit (some kind of dark shadow). As she was running past these displays, my friend who I was watching the film with called out "Throw a kidney at it!" and lo and behold, the character pauses, grabs what is quite obviously a plastic kidney from the display and throws it down the corridor
We spent the rest of the film trying to get the characters to do things, which was far more entertaining than the film itself
SilverMK2 wrote:Another movie that should be here for the fact that it is actually pretty terrible is some kind of "get a group of randoms to the old haunted asylum and lock them in" film. I honestly can't remember what it was called, but it had pretty much every single horror movie stereotype in it. Can't remember the name off the top of my head though.
it sounds a bit like the remake to House on haunted hill (the Vincent Price classis iirc)
The thing about Fulci's films (especially the Zombie ones) are that they are most definitely an "acquired taste",as most have all the OTT/silly dialogue and action one would find in a "Spaghetti western".
I enjoy them for that very reason,but again,I'm a bit odd.
If you truly want to see Fulci at his (best/worst) "New York Ripper" is a masterpiece of OTT gore and WTF dialogue/acting.
@ GES, I believe your correct concerning the film Silver was referring to,"House on Haunted Hill" definitely sounds like the one.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And,since the genre of "an isolated group in a spooky setting" has been brought up,I have to throw this little "gem" into the pile.
Even the great Peter Cushing couldn't save this piece of gak,however it is incredibly funny if you add the proper amount of alcohol.
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@Fitzz: I watched it when I was like five or six (and was slowly slipping into dehydration). I ended up mumbling something about how I'd rather see a different movie,
apparently said something funny, and have not been able to live that moment down. So the remake of house on Haunted Hill is going to be on my gak list.
Course everybody neglects to mention i was passing out from dehydration when they tell that story.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Good luck finding it. I searched everywhere, and all I could find was a review on YouTube. I've looked on Ebay, torrent sites, Amazon, and there's no sign of it.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Cheese Elemental wrote:Anyone ever heard of 'Camp Blood'?
Good luck finding it. I searched everywhere, and all I could find was a review on YouTube. I've looked on Ebay, torrent sites, Amazon, and there's no sign of it.
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