Want to add one of the worst movies of all time to your Blu-ray collection?
Who wouldn’t?
WWTW is giving away a free Blu-ray edition of “Troll 2,” the 1990 cult film featuring some of the worst dialogue ever uttered on screen. The film inspired “Best Worst Movie,” the delightful documentary capturing its cult following.
All you have to do is post your own best worst movie choice below in the comments section — and share the reason why you made that selection. The best comment, as judged by WWTW along with a fellow film blogger, will get the free Blu-ray.
The contest ends Oct. 24, 2010.
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Well, I wrote a rather long screed about “Vampire Dentist” but upon reflection, I’ll go with a different film.
After Last Season (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196334/combined)
Why? Let’s see…
1) The Plot – Okay, there’s a murderer loose and participants in a psychic experiment accidentally contact one of his victims and with his help, catch the killer. Maybe. See, I’ve seen thousands of films in my life. But I honestly can’t give you a coherent answer as to what the actual plot of the film is. Plot structure wise, it takes roughly the same route getting from A to B that Billy takes in The Family Circus, and never really gets to B in any case.
2) The Production Values – Just to give you an idea of the quality of the film, one of the first shots in the film involves a patient being scanned by an MRI machine. This machine is quite visibly constructed of cardboard. Seriously.
http://tinyurl.com/3xmze97
In addition, there are two sets in the film. Someone’s house is one. (Which is fine. Low budget films need to use cheap sets. Although this film allegedly had a multi-million dollar budget.) The other set is basically an unfinished building, which they used for every other background – a college campus, someone’s apartment, a kitchen, etc. As an example, for the apartment, they stapled wallpaper to the wall. Not over the entire wall, just a strip or two of wallpaper and then they decided that it was “Good enough.” (http://tinyurl.com/34y3yhc)There’s not a single set in the film (other than the house) that looks remotely like the supposed venue for the scene being shot. That link above? The set is supposed to be a girl’s apartment.
3) The F/X – During the psychic research, the participants try to telepathically contact each other. And when they do, the other person’s thoughts are shown as computer graphics, basic at first, but more complex as they become better able to read the other person’s thoughts. Now that’s not a bad idea, and in the hands of a better director, it might be quite visually interesting. But the film’s CGI work is rather underwhelming. At best, “The Dancing Baby” looks more realistic than any CGI work in the film and ALS was made last year. To make matter worse, the film is 90 minutes long, and roughly a third of the runtime are these graphics. You’re basically watching someone else’s screen saver, except screen savers are generally more entertaining.
4) Acting – Let me put it this way. Everyone in Troll 2 seems like John Malkovich compared to the cast of After Last Season. Yes, even the witch and the “and then they’re going to eat me!” guy.
5) The Editing – At times in this film, it feels like someone just spliced in random footage from the shoot. They’ll cut away to random characters for a moment or two and then cut back to the original scene. Or the director will interrupt the scene to cut to a ceiling fan. No, the fan has no relevance to the plot in any way, shape or form. It’s just the ceiling fan in the “medical office.” It’s not even running. And I’m pretty sure that the term “retake” wasn’t in the director’s vocabulary.
It’s a horrendous train wreck of a film and almost a complete failure on every level of film making.
Well, I’m not trying to take part, but I saw one movie just in the last few days and a bunch of clips from a number since you posted this.
“Manitou” which just looks odd.
The other is “The Keep” which is a terrible movie because there could have actually been a movie in there, though as it all worked out it was terrible. Even more notable for all of the talent involved in it’s making.
Michael Mann, Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Sir Ian McClellan, Jurgen Prochnow (who is the goto Nazi, or creepy guy for any horror film) and that chick who isn’t all that hot in the face, but has a fantastic body (just had to add that.)
In the movie, nazi’s take up camp inside a small carpathian town, they desecrate “The Keep” and unleash a creature that starts attacking them. There is a clear insinuation that the creature is a Golem, though there is no real support for it other than the daughter mentioning it, and the golem admitting his attachment to jewish mysticism. Ian Mackellan plays a secular jewish scholar who becomes tempted, and Scott glenn plays lighning eye jesus.
Lots of talent in the film, and there clearly is a film in there somewhere, but read that it was paired down from 3 hours to 91 minutes. The monster is ill defined, the ending is all done in background, a lot of things happen with the sense that there is a scene or two missing. Almost all of the killing is impersonal, you don’t feel for anyone and with the crazy editing you really don’t develop any link to any of the characters, except for the chick, cuz she’s got a nice bod, I would link with her anyday.
It isn’t so much that it is such a horrible movie, but it COULD have been a decent movie and turned to to be pretty ridiculous, especially with all of the talent.
I forgot about this one.
“Fear No Evil.” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082367/
basically a bad highschool horror movie that tried to create an environment of the end of days. Lucifer is born incarnate gets picked on in highschool and then dies just like jesus at the end, when a few 80 somethings face off against him using some sort of garden ornament.
I have been thinking over the past several days about your request for movies that are so bad they are good. I decided against “Plan 9 From Outerspace” since it is everyone’s favorite bad movie (next to Troll 2).
I think the best worst film to me is “Equinox”. I had been dying to see this film ever since photos of the monsters appeared in “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine in the early 70’s. I finally got my chance to see it years later in graduate school. As is typical for most college-goers I had been consuming copious amounts of beer. I sat stupified at what unfolding on the small screen. I waited years for THIS? I stuck with it and saw some primitive Stop-and-Go animation of monsters. Clearly the special effects person was a fan of Ray Harryhausen.
The next day my friends and I tried to understand the film we had seen. None of us could piece together a decent understanding of the storyline.
I saw the film again several years later. This time I had only one beer so I could concentrate. When the film ended, I was once more confused about what the heck was going on. Clearly, my lack of understanding years (and many beers) earlier was not clouded from alcohol use; it was clouded from a crummy script, terrible acting, mulitple continuity problems (didn’t they have some continuity expert working with the wardrobe person? Watch for changing clothing), and terrible direction.
I think that many of the confusing monster sequences, that appear to have nothing to do with the storyline, may have been requested by the producer of this schlock. The only redeeming feature of this film seems to be the somewhat amatuerish “Harryhausenesque” effects. Why leave the best parts of the film on the cutting room floor?
As a side note, there is mention of the book Necronomicon (H.P. Lovecraft’s invention). One monster resembled Chuthulu (spelling?) which was a giant squid “god” and it crushes a house in the film. I believe this was a Lovecraft inspired film.
This was a bad film and featured long stupid footchase scenes with actors who appear to have no formal acting experience.
As sick as this sounds I have caught it twice more with similar results. I keep my eyes peeled on the TV guide to catch it again in the future. This is one of those films you can watch again and again and shake your head in “awe”.
My advice to any “Equinox” virgins out there: The movie is more fun with friends and plenty of beer. Trust me, the next day you and your friends will be perplexed by the film you saw…and it won’t be because of the alcohol.
I guess I should have read other reviews of “Equinox” before writing my own. See here for a snarky review and photos from the film:
http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/reviews/E/equinox.html
Apparently I was unaware of many of the production facts that this reviewer knew.
I still like the film. One thing this exercise in “film reviewing” did for me is realize how darned HARD it is to write movie reviews.