anything that starts with “syfy” chiller" or “lifetime” channel presents…
More than once I’ve described Lisztomania to others, only to be accused of making it up. I don’t think I’d be capable of making up such a movie, at least not without the use of controlled substances.
I saw the ads for it on TV; they were weird enough themselves.
Featuring the sanctimonious, more precious-than-thou prolapsed dung heap Stacy Keach. Never could take more than a minute or two of him.
Easily one of the top five genuinely creepiest, nastiest film endings…the Diane Keaton character is raped and then stabbed to death in her apartment. The only light is from a strobe light - the final image of the film is just her face - whitened by each strobe. Each strobe, in turn, matches with the sound of her final breaths/heartbeats.
hey I like films with nothing but self-indulgent pontificating. Whatever Ullman and Waterston are doing in this, who knows. I always tripped out on that Mont St. Michel, in a sort of dark, acid nightmare kinda way, (as with Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia, which probably should have been in this as well - maybe they should’ve just swithced locations after a while, and maybe go ponder shit at, say, the Sistine Chapel.)
And the slimy, pervert-over-your-shoulder-in-grocery-checkout narrator, with that unctuous, near-whisper voice.
Highly dynamite-able.
Hilarious! I actually took a first date to “Santa Sangre”. Wow by the time we walked out of the theatre it was like the souls had been wrung out of us - quite the intense visuals we were inundated with - which is exactly how Mr. Jodorowski wants it.
That dying elephant scene - whoa.
At one point I had scenes memorized from the joyous stupidity that is “Liquid Sky”.
**Eraserhead **is one of those movies that should only be watched under the influence of powerful mind-altering drugs.
Exactly. That’s why I said earlier that it didn’t belong on this list. Eraserhead should be seen as a significant piece of surrealist art as well as an important film.
It has a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes and has been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. Selection for the Registry is based on a film being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
My rule would be to exclude for this purpose anything that has an actual cult following (for being nasty, gross, weird, or even so-bad-it’s-good).
Films like Liquid Sky and Eraserhead are out. So are films like The Human Centipede or A Serbian Film, or, for that matter, Sharknado.
What you want are films that not even the most stoned punk teenage movie freak could find amusing, quirky, or hilariously offensive - that are just bad on so many levels, no-one would voluntarily see them twice (or even once).
‘Up All Night’ on TBS in the 80’s specialized in so many trashy dumb movies. ‘Star Hops’, and ‘Chopper Chicks in Zombietown’ stand out, in a bad way. There were shelves and shelves of VCR tapes at video stores just chock full of dumb bad movies, all you had to do was look for a caricature of a bimbo with basketball size boobs on the cover, or a douchey guy with a popped collar and sunglasses. Peering over the sunglasses. … The best parts of ‘Up All Night’ were the hosting bits by Gilbert Gottfried and later Rhonda Shear. They were pretty hilarious!
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you had it coming to you.
Yup, that’s Liquid Sky.
this was the usa network it was shear on Fridays and gottfried on Saturdays
shear got herself in trouble with fronting a dating service that was investigated for fraud
and I think Gottfried just quit because at one point they had different guests host (even bobby heenan and gorilla monsoon from wwe at one point and then it just ended …
I have to nominate The Brown Bunny, Vncent Gallo’s self-indulgent crap fest that is so bad even a blowjob scene with Chloe Sevigny couldn’t save it. Absolute Dreck.
Xtro was also a pretty bad, truly awful movie with very little to recommend it.
I’ll see your Brown Bunny and raise you a Gummo. Like no plot? Like people pimping their sisters? Like people pimping their sisters with Down syndrome? Like boys roaming the town killing cats? Then this is the movie for you!
Buford’s Beach Bunnies starring Jim Hanks, Tom’s less talented little brother.
I grew up, watching The Crawling Eye. It’s really The TRollenberg Terror, a British 1950s SF movie that, like many British 1950s SFD movies started out as an episodic TV show, has a really gross monster, and stars Forrest Tucker as the quintessential American He-Man Hero.
If you like the film, try to get hold of the tenth episode of the first season of the cartoon showFreakazoid (In Arm’s Way/The Cloud). “THe Cloud” is a straight-on parody of The Crawling Eye, right down to the typeface used for the credits