Guilty Pleasures

[Lord Brett]

Sorry if we've done this subject before, but I've had two of my favourite bad movies on in the bckground today while I've been working at the computer, and wondered if anyone had similar favourites.



633 Squadron: The model effects are frequently dreadful and the script is simply a sequence of WW2 movie cliches, but it has that theme music, and who can resist any film where George Chakiris pkays a Norwegian?



Mosquito Squadron: From the Executive Producer of 633 Squadron comes a virtual remake on about a third of the budget, but somehow, I can't help but watch David McCallum with a Beatle haircut lob bombs at the Nazis.



Put these alongside Curse of the Crimson Altar and its been quite a week for loveable movie tat.

[DB7]

Probably really shlocky horror films from the 70s and 80s. Psychomania for the pure silliness of it all, Lifeforce for stupendous exploitation and Vampyres for probably the most brutal vampiric scenes captured on film.

[Harbottle]

Tricky one I don't really have any that I can think of, I do rather like The Uncanny which although I know it's not very good has such a great cast I can't help but enjoy it :)

[batman]

It has to be those wonderful early 60s Edgar Wallace/Butchers type b/w British B-thrillers, the sort of films the Brits seem to have forgotten how to make.



Also, 60s and 70s US TV movies. When the Brits stopped making the films described above, the Yanks began churning them out for TV. The best of the bunch are The Night Stalker, The House on Greenapple Road, Someone's Watching Me, The Outsider and Such Dust As Dreams Are Made Of. Honourable mentions to Disaster on the Coastliner and Deadly Encounter.

[Windthrop]

The Trygon Factor - needs as DVD release

Deadlier Than The Male

Some Girls Do

[batman]

name='Windthrop']The Trygon Factor - needs as DVD release

I'd agree with you there Windy, I haven't seen the film for years but it is a corker!

[Lord Brett]

name='batman']It has to be those wonderful early 60s Edgar Wallace/Butchers type b/w British B-thrillers, the sort of films the Brits seem to have forgotten how to make.



Also, 60s and 70s US TV movies. When the Brits stopped making the films described above, the Yanks began churning them out for TV. The best of the bunch are The Night Stalker, The House on Greenapple Road, Someone's Watching Me, The Outsider and Such Dust As Dreams Are Made Of. Honourable mentions to Disaster on the Coastliner and Deadly Encounter.

The thing is, I love the films you mention above and don't feel at all guilty about it. Such Dust as Dreams are Made On might just be my favourite TV series pilot ever - as I'm sure you know, David Jansen's character was toned down a bit - and returned (after a second pilot movie, Smile Jenny, You're Dead, in Harry O.



As ever, your tastes are impeccable.

[batman]

name='Lord Brett']The thing is, I love the films you mention above and don't feel at all guilty about it. Such Dust as Dreams are Made On might just be my favourite TV series pilot ever - as I'm sure you know, David Jansen's character was toned down a bit - and returned (after a second pilot movie, Smile Jenny, You're Dead, in Harry O.

As ever, your tastes are impeccable.

Smile Jenny, You're Dead is also excellent, with the young Jodie Foster making an early impression. I don't feel so guilty now, I thought it was just me sitting in darkened rooms watching this stuff. Thanks m'lord.

[Dame Starry]

I do hope that GRAEME hasn't seen the title of this thread....he'll be terribly disappointed if he reads it!

[TimR]

The Japanese monster films of the 60s and 70s, especially the ones with the singing and flying midget girls. I think they lived in an egg. Or maybe that's something else.



Also - the "documentaries" of the 70s that cost a few bucks to make and opened in 10,000 theatres across the US for exactly one week before disappearing into the void - and before word-of-mouth could destroy them.



They were "investigations" into the Bermuda Triangle and Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster and the "gods" who were supposed to have made Stonehenge before leaving on space ships (that was my favorite )



They all look alike - grainy "recreations" of True Events with amateur actors and wobbly camera-work.



I saw every one of them when they were released, along with every other suburban adolescent male in the United States in 1978.



I still can't resist them.

[wadsy]

The Italian Sword & Sandal "Epics" from the early 60's usually featuring an



American musclebound hero with scantilly clad voluptuous maidens



in badly dubbed, garishly coloured adventures.



The best of these starred the great Steve Reeves although England's own



Reg Park was a success also. Silly Fun!

[dremble wedge]

I can watch anything with Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee, Dennis Price or David Carradine in it and a lot of credits on their respective CVs are fairly dire. Still enjoy 'em though...

[James Fox]

name='Lord Brett']The thing is, I love the films you mention above and don't feel at all guilty about it. Such Dust as Dreams are Made On might just be my favourite TV series pilot ever - as I'm sure you know, David Jansen's character was toned down a bit - and returned (after a second pilot movie, Smile Jenny, You're Dead, in Harry O.



As ever, your tastes are impeccable.

I loved both the "Harry O" pilots and the series itself, too. (Watched it a couple times through on the American Life Channel a couple years ago). David Janssen was really underrated imo.

[Lord Brett]

name='TimR']The Japanese monster films of the 60s and 70s, especially the ones with the singing and flying midget girls. I think they lived in an egg. Or maybe that's something else.

You remember correctly - that's Mothra.

[Lord Brett]

name='wadsy']The Italian Sword & Sandal "Epics" from the early 60's usually featuring an



American musclebound hero with scantilly clad voluptuous maidens



in badly dubbed, garishly coloured adventures.



The best of these starred the great Steve Reeves although England's own



Reg Park was a success also. Silly Fun!

I love those films as well. We recently had a run of them on a now defunct UK Satellite channel called SUMO TV.

[Wicked Lady]

British - The Astonished Heart - hammy acting ( esp. from Noel Coward), dreadful dialogue and stiff performances. Love it!



American - Mommie Dearest - No wire hangers.....EVER!

[Lord Brett]

name='batman']

Also, 60s and 70s US TV movies. When the Brits stopped making the films described above, the Yanks began churning them out for TV.

Going off topic Britishness-wise, but two of my favourite American TV movies of the seventies are A Cry for Help, with Robert Culp at his best as a cynical radio presenter, and Powderkeg with Rod Taylor, the pilot for the series Bearcats - wadda great theme tune!

[batman]

name='Lord Brett']Going off topic Britishness-wise, but two of my favourite American TV movies of the seventies are A Cry for Help, with Robert Culp at his best as a cynical radio presenter, and Powderkeg with Rod Taylor, the pilot for the series Bearcats - wadda great theme tune!

I haven't seen A Cry For Help but Powderkeg is great fun.

[Tom Bancroft]

name='Lord Brett']I love those films as well. We recently had a run of them on a now defunct UK Satellite channel called SUMO TV.

Are you sure SUMO TV is defunct Lord Bret? Hasn't it just been shunted off to another more obscure channel number on Sky?

[Lord Brett]

name='Tom Bancroft']Are you sure SUMO TV is defunct Lord Bret? Hasn't it just been shunted off to another more obscure channel number on Sky?

It would have taken too long, in the context of my posting, to explain what's happened to SUMO. It's entered that strange netherworld where channels don't disappear, but instead go off to channel 980-odd and feature soft-porn chatlines all day.



The latest to suffer this fate is Channel Ape, which I never watched even once.