Thursday, July 30, 2009

Bad Movies= Good Entertainment

Here's a fun news story I saw a few days ago that reflected my views on movie watching

http://current.com/items/90554710_crowds-lining-up-to-see-the-room-the-worst-movie-ever-made.htm

It's about this terrible movie called "The Room" that looks like it's extra bad. Needless to say, I want to see it with a passion! In middle school, my group of friends and I were really into Mystery Science Theater 3000, and today I still get the most pleasure from sitting around with my friends and ripping apart a B-movie.

If anyone wants to dive into the bad movie genre, go to your local flea market. You'll need a VHS player, but if you have that, any flea market will have a plethora of old, obscure, and hilariously bad movies. Here's a few of my personal favorites:

  1. Grim- A group of 30-somethings decide to go spelunking in an underground cave that is beneath their suburban neighborhood. But little do they know, a cave dwelling troll lives in that cave. The troll was awoken by a good, old fashion reading of a Ouiji board and a standard ancient stone tablet. The troll has been terrorizing the town (in very subtle ways) by stealing furniture and people. It's scary so hold on stalactite!
  2. Bloody Murder- An obvious knock-off of Friday the 13th (which makes it all the better). Six kids are getting set to counsel at a summer camp. It seems innocent enough. But the legend of the chainsaw murderer, Trevor Morehouse, is part of every dumb anecdote that these kids seem to talk about. And all the sudden, kids start missing. Bloody Murder is chocked full of hilarious one-liners, awkwardly intimate relationships, and incompetent authority figures; it will leave the whole family screaming for more...
  3. Boa Vs. Python- So this really rich dude wants to hunt a huge snake, right? But of course, while being transfered, the moron moving company let it escape (But what are you supposed to do about a 75-foot reticulated python, for crying out loud?!). Well, no biggie. The FBI has a great plan: Release an equally big snake from a secret FBI program to hunt down the original snake. Makes sense, right? Right?
  4. The Brotherhood- Wow. You are in for a treat. The box art leads you to believe that this will be a sweet, teen vampire adventure. Wrong. It's a borderline soft-core gay porn involving a fraternity of vampires that seduce freshman guys and girls (mostly guys) to become part of their rich and dangerous lifestyle. Apparently vampires love expensive alcohol, expensive cars, and expensive bed sheet... Oh yeah, and there's a lot of awkward elbow sucking... Oh yeah, and it's part of a trilogoy. Collect the whole set!

There are so many more, but there is only so much time in one post!

3 comments:

  1. I want to see some of these...particularly the first and last one!

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  2. The Maxsons have told me many, many good things about Boa Vs. Python and The Brotherhood. I need to see them.

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  3. Oh you and your love of awful films . . . I like your blog, Matt!

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