# Best Movie Titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174 "2005-07-05T18:52:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Gene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Soylent\_Gene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Gene)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/1 "2005-07-05T18:52:30Z")
among my favorite movie titles are \*\*Killdozer SSSSSSS\*\* Generally, movies with geat names are horrible, low budget movies (like local Rock groups with hilarious names). Other movie titles like \*\*Attack of the Killer Tomatoes \*\* are played just for laughs and dont count in my mind. Still others, like \*\*Boy in the Plastic Bubble \*\* are campy and deserve a certain amount of accolades. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/2 "2005-07-05T19:00:07Z")
**The Brutal Truth of Butterflies** ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/3 "2005-07-05T19:10:18Z")
**The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Decided To Stop Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.** ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/4 "2005-07-05T19:11:56Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > **The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Decided To Stop Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.** Oops! It appears I’ve mangled it slightly. **The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?** - is the correct version. > **[The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up...](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057181/)** > > The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?: Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler. With Ray Dennis Steckler, Brett O'Hara, Atlas King, Sharon Walsh. Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little... ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/5 "2005-07-05T19:13:43Z")
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/6 "2005-07-05T19:17:19Z")
**They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?** – the title doesn’t make any sense at all until the final moment of the movie, when you realize it’s perfect. And it violates the rule by being a damn good film. There was also **Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?** It was written by Anthony Newley, who had hit plays named **Stop the World, I Want to Get Off** and **The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd**. He evidently loved concise titles. 🙂 There’s also \*\*Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad \*\* and \*\*Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? \*\*. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/7 "2005-07-05T19:29:47Z")
One of my all-time favorite titles is [Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama](http://imdb.com/title/tt0096142/). With a title like that, who needs a movie? ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Gene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Soylent\_Gene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Gene)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/8 "2005-07-05T19:50:05Z")
Years ago on the old NBC Letterman show, Dave’s guest was some old cigar chomping producer of hundreds of American International Films movies. He stated that they would sit around and think up outrageuos names and THEN write a script based on the title. He would cast women based solely on thier ability to scream (well, breast size was probably important too). I’m sure that John Goodman’s character in “Matinee” was based on this guy. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/9 "2005-07-05T20:14:59Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. This is my go-to movie when playing “Charades” for the win. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/10 "2005-07-05T21:57:55Z")
**The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent**. I never made it through the movie, but I love the title. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/11 "2005-07-05T22:02:12Z")
Bubba Ho-Tep not only had a good title but was a pretty good movie as well. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/12 "2005-07-05T23:00:26Z")
[Half Past Dead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297162/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT1oYWxmIHBhc3QgZGVhZHxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=20). ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/13 "2005-07-06T04:48:56Z")
Star Wars, Episode III: [The Backstroke of the West](http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html). Probably the only bootleg I would actually pay to watch. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/14 "2005-07-06T06:13:38Z")
\*\* The unbearable lightness of being \*\* ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/15 "2005-07-06T09:26:28Z")
Things to Do in Denver when You’re Dead Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind In the Mouth of Madness Requiem for a Dream Reservoir Dogs Pi And of course: The Vagina Monologues ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/16 "2005-07-06T09:29:16Z")
Oh crap, how could I have possibly forgotten: Amazon Women on the Moon ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/17 "2005-07-06T09:35:29Z")
> [@Ellis Dee](#): > > Oh crap, how could I have possibly forgotten: > > Amazon Women on the Moon Oh, you beat me to it. Love that movie, especially the bit where BB King is trying to sponsor David Allen Grier getting a soul. How about **$**. Ever try to find this one in a video store that arranges stuff alphabetically? ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/18 "2005-07-06T11:20:46Z")
Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman Hedwig and the Angry Inch My Own Private Idaho Suicide Kings The Brother From Another Planet What the #$\*! Do We Know!? Who is Cletis Tout? Hit and Runway 13 Conversations About One Thing Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine Headless Body in Topless Bar ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/19 "2005-07-07T00:41:38Z")
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo GarciaThe Madness of King George The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds The Rats are Coming!The Werewolves are Here! But for trult great titles, you can’t beat spaghetti westerns! [ul] [li]Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears[/li][li]God Forgives-I Don’t[/li][li]John the Bastard[/li][li]Heads You Die, Tails I Kill You[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174/20 "2005-07-07T02:54:01Z")
[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058548/combined) [Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0060558/combined) and how could we possibly forget [Plan 9 From Outer Space](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/combined)? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-titles/311174.md?page=2)