# Coolest Movie Titles?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [December 30, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640 "2019-12-30T23:22:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/41 "2019-12-31T10:30:55Z")

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/42 "2019-12-31T11:07:44Z")

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To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar

I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meathook, and Now I Have a Three Picture Deal at Disney

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Hell Comes to Frogtown

The Men Who Stare at Goats

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner

The Angel, The Bicycle and The Chinaman’s Finger

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**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/43 "2019-12-31T11:13:21Z")

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_The Night of the Iguana_

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/44 "2019-12-31T12:18:30Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> _Plan 9 From Outer Space_
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> I’ve often wondered what the first 8 were???

Students at the University of Utah turned the film into a musical in the early 1980s (which later played at theaters in the Midwest). One of their songs details the other eight plans.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/45 "2019-12-31T12:20:04Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> _The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot_

The film **Madmen of Mandoras** was lengthened with some pointless padding several years after its initial release, and re-released as **They Saved Hitler’s Brain**.

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**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/46 "2019-12-31T13:24:21Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> _Plan 9 From Outer Space_
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> I’ve often wondered what the first 8 were???

Strangely enough, the working title was _Grave Robbers from Outer Space_, which I think sounds much more exploitable.

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**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/47 "2019-12-31T13:25:36Z")

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The Devil and Daniel Webster

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/48 "2019-12-31T13:56:56Z")

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\*\*Rat Pfink a Boo Boo

I Eat Your Flesh\*\* and **I Drink your Blood** (as double bill)

\*\*I Bury the Living

The Crawling Eye

The Flesh Eaters\*\*

Here’s a trend:

\*\*The Thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock

Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman

Attack of the Fifty Foot Cheerleader\*\* (in 3D!)\*\*

Attack of the Sixty Foot Centerfold\*\*

A common feature of these is that the oversized woman has a hard time finding clothing to fit.  
This was a titillating thought or implication I the first two, but the later movies had explicit nudity.  
notice how the height escalates through time. You always have to do better than your predecessors.  
Attack of the Fifty Foot woman has the best poster, though. But the effects budget came nowhere near living up to it. The film was remade in 1993 for HBO with Daryl Hannah, with a bigger budget.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/49 "2019-12-31T14:33:45Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> \*\*Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman
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> Attack of the Fifty Foot Cheerleader\*\* (in 3D!)

I love the idea that they sold the film not on the basis that the threat was taller, but _deeper_.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/50 "2019-12-31T15:09:08Z")

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_The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds_

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/51 "2019-12-31T15:36:42Z")

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Cal, you forgot about _Attack of the 5’2" Women_.

_If You Don’t Stop It . . . You’ll Go Blind_ was not that good a title, but the title of the sequel, _Can I Do It . . 'Til I Need Glasses?_ was great. (The second film also had a better theme song.)

_Blazing Zippers_ was a bad movie, even by porn standards, but it had an amusing title.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/52 "2019-12-31T15:42:49Z")

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Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things  
Sharknado  
Hush! Hush, Sweet Charlotte

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/53 "2019-12-31T16:02:39Z")

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A Hard Day’s Night. No wonder Lennon & McCartney turned this Ringoism into a song and used it as a title for their first movie.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/54 "2019-12-31T16:03:07Z")

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Help!

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

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**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/55 "2019-12-31T16:59:55Z")

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_What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?_  
_Flesh Gordon_

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**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/56 "2019-12-31T17:05:10Z")

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“Johnny Got His Gun”

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**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/57 "2019-12-31T17:08:04Z")

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From the 70’s:

_Kentucky Fried Movie  
The Groove Tube_

Both are or should be cult classics. I saw them with my Dad (Thanks Dad!) because I was too young to see a R rated movie by myself. I always wondered what the conversation with Mom was after they got home.

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**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/58 "2019-12-31T19:03:48Z")

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How about searing teleplays like SCTV’s “I’m Taking My Own Head And Screwin It On Right And No Guy’s Gonna Tell Me That It Ain’t”.  
a couple Weng Weng offerings -

For Y’ur Height Only  
MoonBoy From Another Planet  
The Cute…The Sexy n’ The Tiny  
Chopsuey Met Big Time Papa  
possibly already mentioned:  
At Midnight I’ll take Your Soul  
This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse

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**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/59 "2019-12-31T20:08:55Z")

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\*I Sailed To Tahiti With an All-Girl Crew

Mars Needs Women

Nightmare Alley\*

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**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-movie-titles/845640/60 "2019-12-31T20:23:51Z")

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[[I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_I_Haven%27t_a_Clue)]

_Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia_

[/I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue]

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