Actress
(5.98) - Too Much, Too Soon (1958)
(5.68) - I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
(5.40) - The Beat Generation (1959)
(5.32) - If Winter Comes (1947)
(3.60) - Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
(3.21) - The Magic Sword (1962)
(2.57) - Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)
If your candidate doesn’t have (as top ranked projects) at least five movies with worse scores than Vampira’s, please don’t post his/her scores. And if your entry can’t beat one already posted, please don’t post his/her scores either.
To locate the scores for the actor you believe can beat Vampira (Maila Nurmi) for worse ratings, use the Name search option and then pick
Filmographies
categorized
by type
by year
by ratings
by votes
by TV series
in order to try to find somebody with a worse set of ratings.
I picked Vampira mostly because of (3.60) - Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), which, oddly enough, has managed to rise above the Bottom 100 since last time I checked the list.
So Vampira is most likely easily beaten by other screen personalities with even less talent, so the task at hand is to find The Worst actor on IMDB.
MODS: If this is viewed as more of a game than some fun to be had in Cafe Society, then by all means move the thread.
A violation of my own rules for the thread, but I just have to share a real threat to Vampira. Strike off his top two and Filmography by rating for Coleman Francis has to put a damper on his hopes for an Oscar, not to mention the fact that he’s been dead since 1973.
Turkey shoot:
Actor
(6.19) - Cimarron (1960)
(6.15) - Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
(5.76) - Motor Psycho (1965)
(5.69) - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
(5.58) - This Island Earth (1955)
(5.56) - P.J. (1968)
(5.55) - The Girl in White (1952)
(5.10) - She Couldn’t Say No (1954)
(5.08) - Scarlet Angel (1952)
(4.98) - Twilight for the Gods (1958)
(4.80) - The Thrill Killers (1964)
(4.74) - T-Bird Gang (1959)
(4.68) - Body Fever (1969)
(4.06) - Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters (1965)
(2.72) - Killers from Space (1954)
(1.66) - The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
(1.49) - The Skydivers (1963)
(1.37) - Night Train to Mundo Fine (1966)
Ed Wood, as an actor, comes in with 9 movies and a best (and I use the term loosely) of 4.17
(4.17) - Five Loose Women (1974)
(3.81) - ‘Necromania’: A Tale of Weird Love! (1971)
(3.60) - Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
(3.56) - Crossroads of Laredo (1995)
(3.50) - Glen or Glenda (1953)
(3.43) - The Love Feast (1969)
(2.64) - Night of the Ghouls (1959)
(2.54) - Jail Bait (1954)
(2.01) - The Sinister Urge (1960)
With apologies to Robot Arm who beats my guy by one movie’s worth, I present for your amusement Filmography by rating for Ray Dennis Steckler who managed to suck in almost every category but “self” where he did okay.
His acting credits:
Actor
(4.35) - The Thrill Killers (1964)
(3.95) - Body Fever (1969)
(3.40) - Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters (1965)
(2.47) - Wild Guitar (1962)
(1.93) - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)
(1.92) - Eegah (1962)
Does that mean five all below Vampira’s lowest score, or five all below Vampira’s fifth-highest score, or what? (The former option seems like an artificially difficult bar.)
I’m sorry for the confusing requirement. I meant whoever’s top score had to be below Vampira’s top score, with no further stipulations. As you can tell, I violated my own rule with my second post, and other posts have disregarded the “rule” as well.
Just pretend that the idea is to find some really unfortunate actors whose best efforts were in shitty movies. Note that it’s the movie’s rating and not the actor’s that’s behind the numbers.
It really annoyed me that Paris Hilton, Pia Zadora, and even Pauly Shore have been in some “decent” movies.
IMDB needs a separate rating for actors’ performances, separate from the overall value of the movie itself.
I certainly won’t try to pass off Tor Johnson as a great actor (and Tor himself would probably have laughed at anyone who did!), but unlike much of Ed Wood’s troupe, he actually had credits in some decent movies. He had small parts in several mainstream, popular comedies by Bob Hope and Abbott & Costello, for instance.
His worst movies were as bad as Vampira’s (sometimes the SAME as Vampira’s). But unlike Vampira, Tor actually had some pretty good movies to his credit, too.
(2.30) - Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)
In Christian’s defense, he had some good non-directorial credits in films such as Alien, The Life of Brian, and Star Wars before he was “promoted” to Director.