A great title, even a movie you’ve never seen… Even if its a bad movie. I’m sure I’ll find a better example, but I like the title, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, even if I didn’t like the movie.
A lot of movies take their titles from the play or book from which they were adapted, and this is one: Children of a Lesser God.
The title is based on a stanza from Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They
There Will Be Blood.
Blood Orgy of the She-Devils
El Intoxico
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
The Green Slime
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
The Incredible Melting Man
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies
Lair of the White Worm
Matango: Fungus of Terror
Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion
The Phantom of Liberty
Plucked
Sadisterotica
Shriek of the Mutilated
Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
Tower of Screaming Virgins
Twitch of the Death Nerve*
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
In Like Flint
Werner Hertzog Eats His Shoe
(most annoying) Hi Mom!
“I Am Curious Yellow”
Cool Hand Luke.
That’s the one I was trying to think of.
Silence of the Lambs
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I’ve always thought the same about that title. But 20 years later (2 months ago), I finally watched it. 6/10 - a few funny parts, but there were a lot of similar movies around that time, mostly De Palma. De Niro was pretty funny, though.
“Snakes on a Plane”. Those four words were probably the entirety of the green-lit pitch.
Does ‘Snakes on a Plane’ count? The movie is just made up to suit the title made up to be cool sounding.
ETA: ninja’d
Plan 9 From Outer Space
I’ve often wondered what the first 8 were???
Plan 1 from Outer Space, Plan 2 from Outer Space,…
Just take a look at 2019’s list of Lifetime Movies.
Open Marriage
Stalked at 17
Sins of the Mother
The Wrong Neighbor
Stalked by My Doctor: Patient’s Revenge
Sorority Surrogate
… and three dozen more!
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Whenever someone rented it at my Blockbuster, I always said the full title instead of shortening it.
Smokin’ Aces
Wet Hot American Summer
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
Hag in a Black Leather Jacket
Hobo with a Shotgun