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khan



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(Permalink) Posted: June 29 2007,09:53   

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I don't think anyones mentioned The Green Slime?

I remember seeing this about twenty years ago, but only because of the truly awful music. It was a pretty bad film as I recall.

I saw The Green Slime in college at the student union; MST3K style.

Near the end there's a scene where the slime creatures are on fire; someone in the audience yelled: "Crispy Critters!"

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qetzal



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(Permalink) Posted: June 29 2007,22:28   

Does anyone remember one involving creatures that dissolved your bones? They looked sort of like giant amoeba, 2-3 feet across, with a tentacle that came out and grabbed their victims. The tentacle would inject something that dissolved the bones, then they'd suck out the resulting liquid. Horribly, the victims were left alive, albeit temporarily.

I remember seeing it decades ago on Creature Feature, but I have no clue what it was called.

  
PennyBright



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(Permalink) Posted: June 30 2007,10:32   

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Quote (PennyBright @ June 27 2007,14:48)
I know that deliberately comedic films are supposed to be out -- but how but one that's supposed to be comedic, but is so bad it isn't?  Though I suppose a young Anjelica Huston in leather may make up for that.....

The Ice Pirates

I actually saw that in the theater. I was 8 years old.

I saw it on video,  back in the day when you could still rent a VCR if you didn't own one.   '86 maybe?   I was 11 - just old enough to know that Space Herpes should be funny,  but not quite get why.    


Here's one:   Knights

Blood drinking cyborgs roam the earth terrorizing the nomadic human population.   Stars Kris Kristofferson and a glaringly obvious stunt double as a rogue cyborg who agrees to teach a human girl, Nea (played by five time world champion kick-boxer Kathy Long, and no stunt double at all) how to kill cyborgs.   This film ends in the middle -- a more obvious and badly written sequel set-up I have never seen.

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: June 30 2007,10:53   

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Does anyone remember one involving creatures that dissolved your bones? They looked sort of like giant amoeba, 2-3 feet across, with a tentacle that came out and grabbed their victims. The tentacle would inject something that dissolved the bones, then they'd suck out the resulting liquid. Horribly, the victims were left alive, albeit temporarily.

I remember seeing it decades ago on Creature Feature, but I have no clue what it was called.


"Island of Terror" with Peter Cushing as the scientist looking for a way to stop the critters. The IMDB user review notes unusually, er, effective audio effects for the bone-sucking scenes.

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Reciprocating Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: June 30 2007,11:36   

Quote (qetzal @ June 29 2007,22:28)
Does anyone remember one involving creatures that dissolved your bones? They looked sort of like giant amoeba, 2-3 feet across, with a tentacle that came out and grabbed their victims. The tentacle would inject something that dissolved the bones, then they'd suck out the resulting liquid. Horribly, the victims were left alive, albeit temporarily.

I remember seeing it decades ago on Creature Feature, but I have no clue what it was called.

I dimly recall an episode of Outer Limits with a similar theme: bones dissolved, victims rendered unleveraged blobs.

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 05 2007,22:18   

Wonder if "Tremors" fits the criteria?

Henry

  
Cedric Katesby



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(Permalink) Posted: July 08 2007,21:03   

Saw the Ice Pirates at the cinema too. (memories)
:)
'They Live', 'From Beyond', 'Killer Tomatoes', 'Deathrace 2000', etc.?

They're all too good.

For a sci-fi movie that makes no sense and has no redeeming features whatsoever, you can't go past 'Supernova'.
Most. Annoying. End-scene plot twist. EVAR!

  
Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: July 08 2007,21:46   

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has no redeeming features whatsoever


A little light bulb went on at that, and fired up synapses better left quiescent.

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Crabby Appleton



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(Permalink) Posted: July 08 2007,21:48   

Heh, Work Is A Four Letter Word!

So bad on so many levels, it's no wonder it's a rarity.

  
Cedric Katesby



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(Permalink) Posted: July 09 2007,05:06   

Oh yes, 'Event Horizon'. (shudder)

Many years ago, I was 'between jobs' for about eight months.  Shared a house and was living on the cheap.
Right next door was a video rental place .  They had this offer of six (older) videos for two dollars or something.
I'd always been a B-grade movie fan but after living next to that place, I became a true connoisseur.
(I also discovered some great Bogart movies, but that's another story.)
After months of raiding the video store, I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel.  Then I found a horror movie that was just so delightfully bad that it became a firm favourite of mine.
It was so good that I actually stopped the video twenty minutes in because such a movie should be enjoyed with friends.
So, I invited a select circle of fellow movie buffs over for beer and pretzels to help me watch the movie.
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The movie was 'Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh'.
Very, very, VERY cheap movie.
Horrible music.
Cheezy one-liners.
A plot that made little to no sense.
Sets that involved inner-city camels, a dildo display and an extremely powerful vacuum cleaner.

In short: glorious!
At the end of the movie, my friends gave me a standing ovation.  We then rewound it and watched it again. :D

  
KCdgw



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(Permalink) Posted: July 09 2007,06:46   

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Hands down. This has everything: cheesy effects, aliens, vampires, Bela Lugosi, incredibly bad dialogue ("The sheriff's been murdered! Well, one thing's for sure--someone's responsible!"). And it was directed by Ed Wood.

My favorite scene is when a character walks down his driveway to get in his car. Unfortunately, the driver's side was against a backdrop, so the actor had to get in his car from the passenger side.

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khan



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(Permalink) Posted: July 09 2007,07:53   

Another one I saw at college:

Billy the Kid versus Dracula

http://imdb.com/title/tt0060168/

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William 'Billy the Kid' Bonney: What's wrong with her, Doc? What are those marks on her neck?
Dr. Henrietta Hull: Well, if I didn't know better, I'd say it was the work of a vampire.


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"It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall

That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad

Frequency is just the plural of wavelength...
-JoeG

  
PennyBright



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(Permalink) Posted: July 09 2007,14:23   

'Bloodsucking Pharoah's from Pittsburgh' reminded me of this one:

Bubba Ho-Tep

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steveastrouk



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(Permalink) Posted: July 09 2007,16:06   

May I offer
Black Sheep  ?

...from the special effect talents of Weta , who were obviously smokin´something veeeery strange.

Steve

  
Reciprocating Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: July 09 2007,17:01   

Just took in much of "Cyborg 2087."  It had everything: teens with a hot rod (and an obligatory, endless teens dancing the jerk in the living room as an adult watches quizzically thinking "kids today" scene), Michael Rennie doing his aristocratic alien schtick, Irwin Allen style computers lining the walls, a repetitive score, and two septuagenarian cyborgs dressed in troop leader outfits and ill-fitting helmets consulting a beeping 50-cent compass in order to track Micheal Rennie to a back lot western town set (complete with tumbleweeds), where the final climactic fist fight occurred.  Good stuff.

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IanBrown_101



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(Permalink) Posted: July 11 2007,05:49   

Future Force.

David Carradine in a really, really shitty looking "metal" arm that shoots lasers, a really late 80's looking "future" of either 1991 or 1993, depending on where you hear about it, and a stripclub.

Oh, and policemen that look like the gay bikers convention 1990. One looks like Freddy Mercury. JUST like Freddy Mercury.

The FUTURE

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 15 2007,14:53   

The Sci-Fi channel thing "Crocodile" has special effects that are anything but "special". They might even be called atrocious.

Henry

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 17 2007,12:55   

No one has mentioned Invaders From Mars!  It's actually a classic from 1953, with a re-make in 1986.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091276/

I remember it as a scary B movie in the 60's, (hey I was a kid then!)  I mention it cuz you can have a little fun with people watching it for the first time.  Here's How It Goes:

The Mom and Dad and local's get captured by the Invaders From Mars, and get needles inserted into their necks, that control them by the Martians.  People thus controlled do strange stuff, like pour a pound of sugar on a bowl of cereal, eat frogs and burn the bacon.  The only physical sign, is a mark on the neck, easily covered by a band-aid.  

SO, you and a friend or loved one in on the plan, put band-aids on your necks, start the movie, and start acting strange...talking in monotones is a good one. Make sure your fellow movie watchers get a chance to notice your necks. The smarter your friends,(or kids) the sooner they catch on.

Give it a try and report back.  Your Overlords demand it!

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(Permalink) Posted: July 17 2007,13:58   

Quote (Henry J @ July 05 2007,22:18)
Wonder if "Tremors" fits the criteria?

Henry

"Tremors" rocks.  Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward were terrific together.  Not to mention, Reba McEntire and Michael Gross as the gun toting survivalist.

Seen it a hundred times...still makes me laugh! :p

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