Final Destination
Not really hilarious but just funny at how absolutely stupid it was. Started promisingly enough with kids dodging death and then escaping other close calls that seemed plausible enough. Then got really really stupid with things like random multiple snapping power lines and tree branches chasing them around the yard. I can only imagine what the sequels must be like.
Not to be confused with the family-friendly movie of the same name. My friend’s and I loved this movie in high school. It has a young Shannon Elizabeth in her first movie role (she is raped by a possessed snowman). I think a lot of the humor may be intentional, but regardless, it is a wonderfully bad horror movie.
Darkness Falls. The horrible, scary monster is… the Tooth Fairy.
And they never make clear exactly what the set-up is. On the one hand, they talk about Death making use of the natural probability of fatal accidents to take out the cheaters, but then the very first death involves a leaking toilet whose water acts like a sentient creature rather than an unwilled seeker of the path of least resistance. It surges forward as if it’s simply spreading onto lower ground as the kid is using the hairdryer (or electric razor or whatever that was) and you think he’s going to die of electrocution. Then it retreats back to the toilet before then surging forward again, in a different direction than before to make him slip into the extended dripdry cord.
Stupid and ambiguous.
Does anyone know what movie this is? It could have been Leprechaun, Troll or maybe House?-- A couple move into an apartment in an old Victorian looking house. Each apartment has it’s own weirdness going on. I remember plants taking over one apartment and something really funky going on in the laundry room. The final payoff is Bull from Night Court is a disgruntled Vietnam vet zombie/ghost.
My husband and I watched it a long, long, long time ago and couldn’t figure out if we were meant to laugh so hard or not.
Bull shows up as a zombified Vietnam Vet in House:
I don’t recall all the other stuff you mention being in that, though.
This explains much, judging by your user name.
Let me guess, you identified with the little girl who just wanted to pet the bunnies and… omg killer giant bunnies with bloody teeth! :eek:
Now that I’m thinking about it, I could be mixing up 2 or 3 movies in my head. I distinctly remember the plants taking over an apartment and strangness in the laundry room. But the strangness may have been due to a troll or something like that.
Now I’m gonna have to put House in my queue.
I always wondered why death can’t just make rocks/trees/telephone poles fall from the sky and crush them. Or just give all the characters heart attacks.
Because it sure doesn’t have any problem causing many little things to go wrong and thus killing people through the most improbable series of rube goldberg mechanisms ever.
Not to mention all the collataroal damage and extra people who get killed just to snuff out these half dozen dimwits.
What it all comes down to, really, is that death is really bad at effectivly doing his job, and having failed once in the opening sequence, isn’t content to just left them live another 60 years or so, but goes on a kill crazy rampage in the most bizarre way.
This part sounds like Troll 2. I definitely remember the laundry room and I think remember snippets about the apartment.
I’d actually never saw it this way before, but you have a good point. You’d think that death, who’s apparently been around for at least a couple of billion years, would take the long view (“they’re all coming to me at some point anyway”).
I distinctly remember the plants & laundry room oddness from Troll.
I remember the House movies. In one of them, doesn’t the owner of the house find some sort of ancient civilization in the walls? My memory is foggy.
Oddly, I just watched the first House the other day. Nothing about plants taking over a room. Mostly, the incredibly badly done monsters and so on pop out of the closet in one bedroom.
And when I say bad, I mean Meet the Feebles bad.
Likely - cute and fuzzy nose twitching bunnies SHOULD NOT try (or succeed:eek:)to rip your throat out. I had nightmares for months.
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Having owned a German Shepherd, this movie taught me new uses for rubber bands.
Doesn’t fit - this movie is a deliberate comedy.
I nominate The Item. There’s a C.C. Deville wannabe in a silver jumpsuit and a penis-shaped puppet with mind-control abilities, but the highlight has to be the long, drawn-out gun battle/kung-fu fight with the hovering ninja drag queens.
Hovering. Ninja. Drag queens.
There’s some hawt penis-puppet sex later on but I stopped watching after the drag queens.
The Mangler? But I guess it knows it’s a comedy…
For my money The Thing With Two Heads tops the Unintentionally Hilarious league.
Problem is they leave the black guy’s head on too and the resultant squabbling between the two heads for the rest of the movie is priceless.
Poor Ray Milland, such a great actor, heaven only knows what he must have thought about being reduced to such a role in the twilight of his career.