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Weekend Discussion Thread: Worst MSTed MovieOkay, let’s settle this one: What is the worst, the positively worst, movie ever featured on MST3K?
My vote is and will always be “Red Zone Cuba.” To paraphrase Mike, it is not only the worst movie they ever MSTed, it is not only THE worst movie ever made, it may well be the worst THING ever made. Slipshod and impossible to follow, mean-spirited and soul-deadening, it is in every way the anti-movie. It makes you want to swear off movies forever, and perhaps even renounce the existence of a higher being. It’s that bad. What movie would you pick? And show your work. 254 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Worst MSTed Movie”Commenting at Satellite News
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Manos. Period. End of debate. Nothing is worse. NOTHING!
Boggy Creek II
There are many reasons to not like this one, but I think the “poop” scene is pretty conclusive.
“Coleman’s work is actually so inept that some sort of deranged genius unintentionally came through. I’m seriously convinced that Godard must have watched RZC repeatedly before making ‘Weekend’.”
I’d happily watch RZC before ever subjecting myself to ‘Weekend’ again.
The Castle of Fu Manchu
Kind of hard to quantify badness.
To say Red Zone Cuba is poorly made is an understatement, but it’s weird and kind of creative. It was directed and decisions were made. You get the feeling that Coleman had a passion for the material, at least more than in Beast of Yucca Flats. It definitely took more imagination than Manos and a lot of other MST movies. Then there are other movies like Attack of the Eye Creatures where it just seems like it was made by an autopilot with nobody even thinking at all about what they were doing and plus it’s a scene for scene remake of another movie and removed everything fun about the original.
Monster A Go Go and Castle of Fu Manchu are essentially unfinished movies that were sloppily hacked together. Are they the worst? I think I’ll stick with Manos which has the biggest “wow this is bad” factor as soon as you see 3 seconds of the thing. I don’t think any other movie can match that.
You know, there’s a lot of different kinds of “Bad.” As already mentioned, MONSTER-A-GO-GO, CREEPING TERROR and THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES… are all kind of incompetent from a technical filmmaking stand-point (I didn’t see ROBOT MONSTER mentioned, but it’s easily in this category). RED ZONE CUBA and HERCULES are poorly edited. THE STARFIGHTERS has no story (though as an aerospace engineer and ex-Air Force officer, I still kinda dig it). GIRL IN LOVER’S LANE, THE SINISTER URGE, OUTLAW OF GOR, THE ATOMIC BRAIN, THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’t DIE, SIDEHACKERS, THE HELLCATS and MANOS all have some pretty repulsive subject matter. HAMLET and THE UNEARTHLY are just plain dull.
This is why I’ll give the nod to MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE:
Technical merit: Low – we do have more than one set, some pyrotechnic effects, and at least one custom-made costume, but the film is grainy, the sound dub is atrocious and I can’t say much for the make-up.
Script and Editing: Medium-Low – It’s weak and cliched, but there is a story. The editing isn’t as slick as it could be, but it does sort of flow. The biggest problem is that it holds some shots waaaaay too long.
Acting: Low – community theater level, and it’s not helped by having the whole thing over-dubbed on the cheap by a crew of three “voice-actors”
Subject Matter: Ewww – Ignoring the whole pervy Satan’s wives melee and the girl bride ickiness, we’re basically left with a slasher film with no gore except Torgo’s flaming hand.
A quick note about HOBGOBLINS. Yes it’s bad on a lot of levels, too. But I have trouble separating it in my mind from any of it’s hundreds of Troma-produced contemporaries.
Hamlet for sure, and The Starfighters, and the Hercules movies.
I’ll throw my lot behind Castle of Fu Manchu. While I can get some enjoyment out of most all of the movies mentioned above with the MST crew’s help, there is nothing redeemable about Castle of Fu Manchu. There is nothing that sticks in my memory as good or bad, there is no coherence whatsoever. It is putrid as a movie and unfunny as an episode because it gives the crew nothing to latch on to. I think I saw it once, despised it, decided to give it a second try a few years later and never again.
I’d rather watch unmst’ed versions of RZC, Manos and Monster a Go Go straight through than the MST version of Fu Manchu once. (Ok adding Monster a Go Go to that might be a bit excessive.)
Blood Waters of Dr Z gets my vote. I can’t get through it, even with the riffing. There are some boring ones from the 1st and 2nd seasons, but the riffing usually saves them.
underwoc (comment #57) makes a good point that I was going to bring up: There are several different kinds and levels of “bad” in the movies shown on MST3k. That’s what makes this topic so fun.
I haven’t narrowed down my choice yet, but MANOS THE HANDS OF FATE (just look it!), RED ZONE CUBA (I think the Colman Francis films speak for themselves), STARFIGHTERS (stock footage with a few random kind-of story scenes thrown in to pad it out), MONSTER A-GO-GO (why did they bother ‘finishing’ this?), and WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN (for its stupid attempts at humor) come to mind right away.
I have to go easy on the “TV shows made in to movies” and the foreign films (which would include MIGHTY JACK and CASTLE OF FU MANCHU) because of the subsequent editing/dubbing.
Hobgoblins has some real problems. It is really un-nerving. It’s almost a poor attempt at camp type films. Poor in that incidents like rake fights have not an ounce of bewilderment or zaniness like most camp. Stuff like that doesn’t just kill screen time, it kills a person’s soul. A lot of MST3K movies kill screen time too, but they are atleast numbing. Red Zone Cuba is bad also, but I have to put The Beast of Yuca Flats before it. Narration is disgusting in film. Film is a visual medium, show it don’t say it.
Sidehackers always makes me die a little inside. Its so depressing. Yes it has a plot. but its like 2 diffrent movies, One about a sport that failed right out of the gate, and the others is basically a retelling of some old play (Albiet i don’t remember the name.) And the moral of this movie? If you try to enjoy the LOVELY sport of sidehacking, your going to end up face down in a pool of your own blood.
There’s nothing wrong with the Sword and Sandals movies that a little booze won’t fix… except Sword & Dragon, which is pretty epic boringness.
My vote is for Hamlet, which should be shown in theater schools as how NOT to stage a production of a classic subject.
As a side note, I will add that I use “Gamera vs. Gaos” as an example for the worst dub ever. The translation is painfully literal and no-one bothered to make any sense from it. (What the hell is the deal with traffic accidents?)
Also, per Invasion of The Neptune Men, M&tB really help during the first act, but when it gets into the WWII stock footage, the film just crashes horribly.
I gotta throw in another vote for “The Creeping Terror” – the overbearing insipid narration, the ridiculous monster, the painfully monotonous soundtrack… it’s the perfect cinema ****storm. I’m just glad it was a B&W, seeing that movie made in color would probably damage the retinas. Great riffing material, no doubt, but a damn near unwatchable film.
Some similar complaints with “Monster-a-Go-Go” I can agree with that one as a clear runner-up, as well as “The Starfighters”. Some like “Hobgoblins” & “Boggy Creek” reach that point where it’s so ludicrous that it’s funny in & of itself, to some degree, but “Wild World of Batwoman” was just wretchedly & embarrassingly ludicrous. Again, great riff material, horrific film.
Other names that come to mind: “The Dead Talk Back” & “Ring of Terror” both reeked, and for some reason “Girl in Gold Boots” always really got under my skin. But I guess that one can get filed under “saved by skin”…
Have to say ‘Monster a Go Go’. Half the time you can’t hear the dialogue, the picture is overexposed at times, and of course ‘there was no monster’ to end it all.
Red Zone Cuba and Monster A Go-Go are so painfully disorganized and slipshod and tediously malformed that it’s a wonder the Earth didn’t fold in on itself and squash humanity dead for the sake of galactic harmony.
Randy
Bolem (46) may be on to something. I was born in ’81 and, while I’ve never considered this before, the utter revulsion I feel for Hobgoblins may have something to do with its wretched portrayal of the 80s. Maybe the 80s were the time to ‘do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan’ for most people, but for me, they were carefree, innocent days of childhood. I don’t want my sanitized version of it desecrated, damn it, and Hobgoblins is all about desecration.
Hobgoblins is the worst movie for me as far as sheer incompetence and unpleasantness. When it tries to be funny it’s less funny than an outbreak of tuberculosis. The fantasy elements are poorly done rip-offs of Gremlins. The acting, script, story and direction are all amateurish beyond comprehension. There is nothing even slightly entertaining about it. It’s not so bad it’s good or even so bad it’s kind of amusing, it’s so excruciatingly bad that it’s hard to watch even with the MST3K treatment and even knowing what’s coming after you’ve seen it multiple times. It’s dreadful, horrible, miserable…
I have always felt that MANOS was overrated in its badness, while a movie like ATTACK OF THE EYE CREATURES was underrated. I think AotEC is a far worse movie than MANOS. I mean, they just didn’t care! At least Hal Warren, in all its ineptitude, seemed to care a little. He just had no money and no talent. You can’t say much good about MANOS, but if you had to I guess it would be that at least the soundtrack isn’t that bad. I can’t think of anything good to say about AotEC.
RED ZONE CUBA is really bad, but is it really even the worst Coleman Francis movie? Is that even possible to gauge? I happen to think SKYDIVERS is the worst of the three, only because there seems to be no point to it. YUCCA FLATS is bad monster movie, and RZC is Francis’ “epic” war movie. But what the hell was SKYDIVERS about???
All that said, MONSTER A GO-GO is probably the worst of any of them, in that it barely qualifies as an actual movie in the first place. No vision, no talent, no phone ringing SFX, no monster = no movie.
This is tough for me, because there are so many levels. For me, it depends on how much the movie itself depresses me. THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES _really_ depresses me; I simply HATE the movie–so much so that I rarely want to watch the episode.
I’ve watched OVERDRAWN once, and I just cannot take the garish video production. I hate how it looks, but of course the movie itself is also terrible. But I hate how it looks, so I never want to watch it.
I watch THE STARFIGHTERS REGULARLY. The movie is the essence of nothing, and yet I can watch this one (the episode, that is) again and again. I can’t really explain this. (Okay, I could, but I don’t need to go on and on about why I like watching THIS particularly lame movie, provided it has the MST3K treatment.)
RED ZONE CUBA also depresses me, and yet I find SKY DIVERS oddly charming. (I’m NOT saying it’s good, mind you.)
I don’t think Hobgoblins is the worst film they ever watched on MST3K. It was a cheap Gremlins rip-off with no redeeming qualities, but it certainly wasn’t the worst.
The worst movie they watched (in every level of production and story telling) would have to be Red Zone Cuba. The movie has a plot though (just not a very thought out one.) Griffin busts out of prison, hooks up with Cook and Landon and they decide to go fight in US army operations in Cuba because they don’t ask questions and they believe it’s easy money. things don’t go well and they end up stealing a plane back to the States where they decide to try and bilk Chastine’s wife out of the uranium mine they own.
The title is a big Misnomer because it hardly takes place in Cuba at all. The original title to the film was Night Train to Mundofina (or however you spell it) But I suppose they changed the title because Cold War was the hot topic at the time.
It’s obvious with this movie that Coleman Francis had big ideas, but not a whole lot of resources. That and he doesn’t have clue one about uranium mining. What were Griffin and Co going to do when they found the Uranium? Put it in their pockets?
The most DEPRESSING movie they did though was Hamlet. Shakespeare is boring enough to watch, but that black and white German film with it’s bleak scenery… burrrrr… I’ve never been able to watch the whole thing.
Of all the movies they’ve done, “Manos” was by far the most painful to watch. Now granted after several viewings it’s one of my all-time favorites but that’s because I know what to expect and can relax and enjoy the riffing. The first time I watched it, it took all afternoon (it was a taped copy from a friend). I found that I had to stop it after about 20 minutes, got outside, sit on my steps and remind myself that there is goodness and light in this world before going back to watch another 20 minutes. None of the other movies they did ever affected me that way.
Here’s my top Ten Worst
1. Hamlet
2. Monster A Go-Go
3. Wild World of Bat-Woman
4. Final Justice
5. It Lives By Night
6. Devil Fish
7. Racket Girls
8. Red Zone Cuba
9. Track of The Moon Beast
10. The Final Sacrifice
I’m sorry if someone brought this up already.
But Hobgoblins is definitely the worst because of what it tries to be. It tries to be a fun, trashy movie, and it even fails at that. I get the feeling that it was supposed to be so stupid that it would be funny, but it doesn’t make you laugh. It fails as a horror film, a comedy, a trash film, and pretty much any other label you can apply to it. Its not ineptly made in the sense that Coleman Francis or Ed Wood made films ineptly. They made them with genuine passion for what they thought was decent material. Hobgoblins was probably filmed over a weekend while the entire crew was on a bender.
I am aware that I used the word “depressing” (and its variants) more than WORST, so I was probably off the mark. The topic, though, strikes me as a little vague. (My apologies!)
I LOVE watching (good) Shakespeare. Go figure.
#1 “Monster A Go-Go” was a long, arduous death march with a big F.U. ending.
#2 “Red Zone Cuba” was a crime against all sentient life.
#3 “Hobgoblins” was an alibi for justifiable homicide (as I wanted to kill everyone in it.)
#4 “Manos” was the worlds worst community theater act.
#5 “Invasion Of The Neptune Men” was Japans revenge for Hiroshima.
Invasion of the Neptune Men tied with Wild Wild World of Batwoman. Both make me want to :cry:
The riffing of each, however are top notch. :smile:
I agree with every movie, in every reply, listed here. All good choices. I’m going in a different direction than everyone. Since most MST3K’s movies were Independent, TV & Small studio productions, I’ll go after the Big Boys.
Catalina Caper from Warner Brothers and Alien From L. A. from MGM.
Catalina Caper was obviously made during the beach movies of the early 1960’s but, what the hell were they thinking? At least the Frankie/Annette movies had a little charm to them. This movie is just clueless.
Alien From L. A. was made for 1 reason and 1 reason only, Kathy Ireland. Let’s make her a star and have her speak in the most whining voice possible. All done so they can show her in a bikini at the end of the movie. The movie would have been better if they just showed that scene for 90+ minutes. I actually feel bad for Kathy watching this.
Manos. It’s so…..I’d rather shoot myself in the head then watch with without Joel and the bots. It’s so depressing and looks like Death himself filmed it.
ForkLiftKiller: We’re talking about the movies themselves, not the episodes of MST3K. Pay Attention.
Outlaw of Gor.
Or, as the movie should probably be called, “Cabot! Cabot! Cabot!”
The Gor series tops the list of book series that should never EVER be made into films, and yet they made more than one. Astonishing.
Werewolf (which is incidentally my favorite MST3K episode) just makes me angry, because they could have actually done a decent B-grade movie if anyone cared.
I can’t believe more people having voted Overdrawn At The Memory Bank.
To this day I can’t bring myself to watch it again (shivers). It’s the only MST episode I had to walk away from in the middle, can’t possibly watch it all the way through.
There are differing kinds of bad at play, really, but I’d say that the worst straight-up movies they did that I can think of are as follows: (note that my opinions on the movies don’t have much or any bearing on my opinions of the episodes themselves)
The Incredibly Strange…
This movie always felt like the Sci-Fi era version of Manos; low-rent, poorly written, and even spawning its own greasy, unpleasant version of Torgo with Ortega. There are two differences between the movies, though; TISC is slightly more competent from a filmmaking standpoint, and far more grotesque from an actual writing/storyline standpoint. Say what you will about the creepier parts of Manos (the child bride, Torgo’s wandering hands), this movie easily beats it. At least Manos kind of had a point; this movie is nothing but Ray getting mind-controlled by an evil gypsy for no reason, so he can murder women for no reason. It’s one of the only MST3K movies that makes me feel dirty after having watched it.
Hobgoblins
Yes, I realize that it was meant to be a stupid, trashy movie. That doesn’t really excuse it from being a stupid, trashy movie. I think what makes this one so awful in my eyes is just how unpleasant and utterly vile every single character in the movie is. It’s a horror film in which you want every single character to die and yet all of them refuse to do so. The fact that it bundles up the worst of the 80s in a thoroughly unappealing package doesn’t help matters any.
Monster A-Go-Go
Until very recently, I couldn’t actually sit through this episode, and it’s really not hard to figure out why; it’s poorly-lit, plodding, dull, and nearly incomprehensible. Not that sitting through the whole movie makes things much better, given that it has the most utterly cop-out, anti-climactic ending of any MSTed film ever. Boy do I ever feel like Crow/Servo at the end of this one.
Red Zone Cuba
A hamfisted movie about nothing of much consequence. It’s obvious that Francis had SOME sort of message he wanted to convey with this movie, but instead created possibly the most dreary movie ever made without actually getting around to conveying his message. Along with that, every shot is dreary, all the dialogue is pointless, and it almost makes you want to commit suicide just to escape Coleman Francis’s doughy, pockmarked face.
The Creeping Terror
Admittedly, this one is kind of amusing in its ineptitude, but it’s still probably the most inept film they made fun of. Long, pointless scenes, the least threatening monster movie monster ever, and overbearing narration which doesn’t even convey any interesting or useful information half the time.
The Starfighters
This one is actually well-shot and has something resembling a budget behind it, but it fails to answer the simple question of why this movie even exists. There really aren’t any characters to speak of, and there really isn’t a plot to speak of. It’s essentially just footage of jets for the duration of its runtime. They don’t even make what little action there is seem interesting, thanks to the cocktail jazz soundtrack.
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Compared to most of the other maw of hell movies, this one doesn’t really bother me as much as some of the others. I mean, yes it’s a spectacular failure of a movie on most fronts due to the herky-jerky editing, long shots, spotty writing, and creepier aspects, but there’s a weird homespun charm to the mess that makes it more palatable than, say, TISC or Hobgoblins. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s still a really terrible movie, but I don’t hate it nearly as much as many of them, which in and of itself is enough for me to not consider it the absolute worst.
Anyway, if the weekend discussion this week is for the worst films ever MSTed, does that mean that a discussion idea coming up at some point is the best films they ever MSTed? That one could have some interesting responses, I think.
I would also like to see a Best Films ever MSTed discussion, although I expect there’d be a lot more apologizing and guilt and shame in that thread. :)
Manos: The Hands of Fate. Hands down. (No pun intended.)
Where to begin? The plot is boring and contains many disgusting elements (Debbie as a ‘wife’, anyone?). The characters are all lacking in simple competency and are thoroughly unlikable. And the movie lacks even simple technical competency due to the type of camera used (it could only take 30 second shots) and the fact all the audio had to be dubbed in later. The people who made it obviously had no idea how to make a movie, from start to finish, and it shows. Let’s compare it to some other possible worst movies:
Puma Man: An incredibly stupid story combined with bad acting and bad special effects.
Skydivers: An incredibly boring movie where all of the characters are practically cyphers.
Hobgoblins: Just filled with disgusting images from beginning to end.
Manos has all of these features, and therefore deserves the “Worst Movie Ever Shown on MST3K” distinction.
This subject reminds me of a quote I read attributed to Major Bowes of “The Original Amateur Hour”. He was asked which act on the show was the worst, and he answered, “If you were hit by a buzz saw, could you tell which tooth hurt you the worst?”
There are so many awful movies to choose from, I really can’t decide which tooth hurt the worst.
This might be a little off topic, but I consider the short Catching Trouble to be the vilest most evil thing ever msted. Both for the actual animal abuse, but the cavaliar attitude twards it. Thank God they put Ross in bag with a giant snake in the host segment.
Monster A-Go-Go get’s a dishonorable mention as the most boring and unwatchable mst movie. It used to be Castle of Fu Manchu before this episode was released.
And I believe High School Big Shot should get an honorable mention as movie most likely to make you want to kill yourself.
Interesting that The Incredible..etc. joined Manos, as Dennis Ray Steckler apparently died January 7th.
Here’s the article in the NY Times, which mentions the movie, though not the fact that it was MSTed
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/movies/01steckler.html
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P.S. Sampo, didn’t I send you the link to this?
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Either Hamlet or Red Zone Cuba. I can’t make it through them no matter how good the riffing is.
Mighty Jack is by far the WORST EVER. Someone please tell me what is going on in this stinkburger!?! I can’t watch this one even with the riffing. Usually Joel/Mike and the ‘Bots can breathe some life into any terrible movie, but they can’t save Mighty Jack. Time of the Apes really sucks too. I am not anti-Japanese dubbed films. Fugitive Alien I & II are among my very favorites. Oh and from the KTMA year there is Humanoid Women. The very mention of any those three titles makes me shudder and my skin crawl.
I, and the others who voted for Beast of Yucca Flats are the only ones correct ones in this discussion. :twisted: :wink:
Anyway, a lot the movies mentioned are bad in their own right, but all are joyous visions of cinema compared to The Beast of Yucca Flats. Coleman Francis really was better off making movies like Red Zone Cuba and Skydivers. He really should not have tried to cash in on the “atomic monster” craze.
For example, RZC and Skydivers have a certain charm. I believe that Coleman Francis was trying to do something good with those movies. They still stink, but had actually been well made they might be some sort of art house classics by now.
I agree that Red Zone Cuba is awful, but I tend to despise movies where even vaguely likable characters are killed off too early in the film. I agree with most of the films listed so far. Sidehackers, is one of the most loathsome, I have lost all faith in humanity, dark and depressing movies ever made. In Manos, the poor dog is murdered and the little girl becomes a child bride of Manos. I despise Manos and have never been able to fathom why it is so popular. Boo, hiss, icky, nasty, bad.
One of the films not mentioned so far is Time of the Apes. I read up on the film and still couldn’t follow the plot. Poor editing. Shrill voiced children. Pushy Japanese Monkey People. The ending where the characters are left to wonder if it was all a dream, but of course it couldn’t be a dream, because all three characters had the same dream, or could it? I admit, I was left unsatisfied, because we never learned the final fate of the male protagonist. I realize this is an odd choice, but there you go.
May I suggest, “What we have learned from bad movies?”, as a future discussion thread?
Yeah, I’ll go with Invasion of the Neptune Men, Wild World of Batwoman, Hobgoblins. But I hate The Giant Gila Monster, too. I don’t even care enough for the riffing to suffer through it. Future War, Ring of Terror, Beast of Yucca Flats, The Indestructible Man, The Deadly Bees, uh…
Hey, wait a minute! ALL these movies suck! I’d say what makes a MST3K movie hurt me is when the dialogue is incoherent, like The Hellcats; when the movie was supposed to be funny but only makes you cringe, with the riffing somehow only enhancing the saccharin/bile burn of it, like Catalina Caper; an otherworldly sense of grayness that seems to saturate your very will to exist, broken up only by hideous actors mumbling Styrofoam dialogue one-way into telephones or while wandering around in vacant lots, like Monster-a-go-go (which at least has some good riffing).
When a long list of ideas instantly pop into my head as an alternative to subjecting myself to another viewing of a movie, even in MST3K form, it tends to fall out of my rotation.
Still, there’s something so endearingly comical when some director’s dream somehow mutates into a freakish, sewed-together enigma of a paper-mache monster movie that is like a near-death fever-dream of the Late, Late Show. I like a movie that can walk that fine, fine line on stilts. The ones that must have made the MST3K writer’s eyes light up as they screened it the first time.
Oh God! I’d forgotten about Humanoid Woman. She looked so creepy and yucky. Eyes too big, afro too short and too white. Camera too close. The color in this film made me feel depressed, nausous, and creeped out. I can rarely stand to watch this.
That Su Maru movie from KTMA was made by the Fu Manchu gang. It is just as boring, but blurrier and less comprehensible.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Worst movie ever. It wasn’t even funny! And I actually thought hobgoblins was funny as hell. Kinda like Killer Clowns from Outerspace.
My first thought was “Monster A-Go-Go,” an episode which almost invariably puts me to sleep. But then I tried to watch “Red Zone Cuba” once and couldn’t make it all the way through, so maybe that one is worse.
One that I haven’t seen mentioned here yet that really makes me cringe is “Kitten With a Whip.” I just can’t stand to watch the way Ann-Margaret manipulates that guy (although she kind of redeems herself in the end).
Oh, and on the subject of Hobgoblins, I used to think that the Brains possibly went a little too far in their mockery, what with the cardboard cut-out of the director and all, but now having seen the scenes they deleted, I don’t think they went far enough.
I can’t believe it took until #40 for someone to say “Boggy Creek II”. It just makes me feel violated. The fact that it’s a sequel, the idea that there is presumably another movie with those repulsive characters running around, just hurts. This is the one episode that I don’t think I can ever watch again. “Red Zone Cuba” is pretty heinous, but I remember liking the episodes of “Castle of Fu Manchu” and “Monster A-Go-Go” when I saw them the first time. It’s been a while since I watched those.
I love how varied everyone’s tastes are on this board. Some of you all mentioned a few of my favorite episodes. “Sidehackers” is in my top 5 for sure! And “Cave Dwellers” is a fun one. And I can’t help thinking of the movie “Ed Wood” during “Bride of the Monster” and cracking up–especially at the rubber octopus part.
On “Manos”…sure, it’s bad, but the mythos that has grown up around it on this show (Torgo showing up in Deep 13, etc.) makes it iconic. Don’t know if anyone here watches the show “How I Met Your Mother”, but on the episode this week (a rerun) they talked about Manos being the worst movie ever. They have obviously never seen “Boggy Creek II”….
I definitely agree with The Professor, the stupid in RZC just keeps slamming at you that it keeps you interested. I feel the same way about Beast of Yucca Flats.
The worst movie without doubt is Castle of Fu Manchu. Frustrating, accidentally incomprehensible, hard to see, a complete waste of time and money. No redeeming quality whatsoever.
The short Catching Trouble was the most vile thing I’ve ever seen in my life. And I’ve seen The Maltese Bippy.