ChristineCB

Will someone remind me NOT to pull the stake out of Orpheum's chest this next time? IMAGINE! Him denigrating GORGON?!! One of my all-time favorites in haut couture!

joe bloke

sippog: yeah, that'd be the one. julian sands / jude law. see, that's how crap it was.

all out of gum. . .

orpheum

sorry it is not gorgon but gorgo,a 1961 King Brothers UK feature.One seen never forgotten!

batman

xtro - with maryam d'abo .... dreadful

"Do you know why fattries are called fattries .... it's because they are big and people make things in them."

MarkG

But memorable.

Xtro at least had its heart in the right place, even if it didn't quite deliver... that's more than can be said for the average cheapo slasher movie these days. Either way, the DVD is worth buying just for the director's interview where he talks about how crap he think all the Xtro movies were, and the horrors of working with Jan-Michael Vincent on the sequel :).

orpheum

Does "Holiday On The Buses" qualify as it was made by Hammer!

Sgt Dudfoot

That'll be The Beast In The Cellar (1970) with Flora Robson and Beryl Reid. I quite enjoyed it.

ChristineCB

GORGO... GORGON... I understand. Sometimes I'll wash these hands and can't do a thing with 'em - the fingers just type any ol' thing!

But Orph, you're not freed of my wrath yet, since I consider GORGO my favorite Brit monster film.

Or, uh, is it the ONLY Brit Monster film? Hmmm... at least I think it's one of the few Monstrously SIZED Monster films. BEHEMOTH is in there, too...

When Tom Hanks is sitting in the conference room in BIG, saying he "doesn't get it" about the building-bot, I kept hoping someone would say, "Yeah, but what about Big Ben, spouting arms and legs, trashing Westminster, etc. and swimming after the Gorgo family..."

Alas... I always have so much better ideas than these filmmakers! Every day I expect Hollywood to be camped around my doorstep, pleading for my next jewel of cinematic wisdom... tsk tsk.

granth

How about adding Womaneater to this banquet of delightfully bad fare?

joe bloke

This is another one I don't know the name of, but does anyone remember that really really diabolical one with the skeleton riding the motorbike?

all out of gum. . .

Professor Julian Kee

CREEP

Just so, so rubbish.

orpheum

Twins of Evil was one of Hammers least distinguished efforts

Jack Gurney

Can't remember if I've posted in this thread before (bet you I have) but I would like to nominate the following: Don Sharp's SECRETS OF THE PHANTOM CAVERNS, aka WHAT WAITS BELOW, and Vadim Jean's BEYOND BEDLAM as not only the worst British horror films ever but the worst horror films from any country per se. The only redeeming feature of the latter was that I spotted Harrow-On-The-Hill in it halfway through and exclaimed "Look, there's the bus stop!" to the mate I was watching it with who was from round that way.

Others? EDGE OF SANITY, 28 DAYS LATER, LONDON VOODOO...anything quite recent in fact. I argues with people about this back in the days when I was on the BHF (before it was taken over by spammers and twats), but even the supposed worst of the films from the golden era, such as THE BEAST IN THE CELLAR, INCENSE FOR THE DAMNED, THE LEGACY, TROG, CRAZE, THE VULTURE and the legendary SINFUL DWARF, have a redeeming quality to them because their honesty and enthusiasm shines through. And there are hidden layers to each which redeem them in their own right.

Of course there are genuine classics, such as DON'T LOOK NOW, PEEPING TOM, DEAD OF NIGHT, THE WICKER MAN, FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, QUATERMASS II, THEATRE OF BLOOD etc- but they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. The reason why we love British horror so much is because it is haphazard, slipshod, ad-hoc and flawed by nature. We remember it fondly from our childhoods and wouldn't have it any other way- particularly those of us who were too young at the time to be actively down the flicks catching the latest all-night bill of Fulci and Hooper gorefests. That was something our big brothers, or their mates at school always claimed to have done, and of course it sparked an interest, probably due to the "illicit" nature of such productions and the furore over so-called 'video nasties', but most of us were happy enough with Peter Cushing and Judy Geeson. Of course, Judy did star in INSEMINOID, which has been a bone of much contention over the years, but I refuse to slag it off as Norman J Warren, who directed it, is a mate of mine, and it is a good laugh!!

I also remember when TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER was still considered to be quite a racy flick to have seen, just because one got to see Natassia Kinski's vadge. Ah, how times have changed.....

batman

Ditto the awful remake of 'Cat People'.


Back to this thread .... has anyone seen the woeful 'House on Straw Hill' aka 'Expose' featuring Linda Hayden .... a very poor imitation of 'Straw Dogs'.

"Do you know why fattries are called fattries .... it's because they are big and people make things in them."

ChristineCB

I was reading all of these bad and wonderfully bad titles, then Jack throws in these good ones! Just when I was in the mood to see something awful, he brings in the good ones! Confusion reigns in my day, yet again! Men-!