While it may not be an overall cheesy movie, Zardoz certainly had its moments.
Sean Connery in a porn 'stache, red diapers and knee high boots. Androgynous women and men, often topless for no apparent reason. Flying stone heads that vomit up guns. 1974 - New Wave British Sci fi - need I say more?
I blame The B-Movie Cast for sparking my interest.
The Last of the Dogmen. Oooh, a secret canyon with undespoiled Indians!
Sharktopus.
Wild Wild West.
Thunderbirds Are Go
The original 1966 version
Jennifer’s Body. I’m not usually too picky with movies either, I tend to love all of the ones others find really bad…but this one was too cheesy for even me. I shut it off halfway.
I caught part of that this weekend. There really aren’t enough movies made these days about shark-octopus hybrids.
I watched The House by the Cemetery yesterday. It’s the first Lucio Fulchi film I’ve seen, and I wasn’t particularly impressed. They went way overboard with the camera work, lots and lots of focus racking and other effects. I think that they were going for eeriness, but instead it just ended up being horrifically distracting, especially when it happened in just about every scene.
There also seemed to be quite a bit of superfluous stuff in the film. In one scene the young son is given a creepy doll, the next scene its set aside by the parents and never seen or mentioned again. A “babysitter” (really more of a nanny) is introduced, she’s very strange and quite and it’s implied that she’s involved with the deaths. Very soon after that she’s killed, and as far as I can tell she didn’t have anything to do with anything.
Between the camerawork and the ending the film’s direction came off as fairly pretentious, especially considering that this was otherwise a fairly standard slasher film.
Amazing. I just caught this Saturday on IFC, and was sure nobody would beat me to it!
It was as schlocky and predictable as I expected, but I was surprised at how well it held my attention from start to finish. It walked that fine line between not taking itself too seriously, but also having some genuine drama and tension thrown in. Fun flick!
“Stay away from that shiny stuff – It’s bad medicine!”
Swamp Thing was on This Network yesterday afternoon. Cheesy, yes, but in kind of a good way.
Without a Paddle was on Spike this weekend. Not cheesy so much as sleezy.
The gun is good!
Burlesque. And I loved every cheesy moment because of Stanley Tucci. I also watched in amazement when Cher’s face didn’t move. Not once.
Oh God. I saw this. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
It made Lake Placid 3 look good. Eric Scott Woods may be the worst actor ever.
I bought it the night it was released- May 1. I had awaited it for an entire decade but I didn’t get around to watching it until last week.
THE WICKER TREE.
First mentioned by Christopher Lee a decade ago by the title THE RIDING OF THE LADDIE, and supposed to star Sean Astin & Leann Rimes as a naive American Christian couple who come to Scotland to evangelize & are enthusiastically received by villagers who name them King and Queen of the May. Lee was to be the village leader. It was NOT either a remake or a direct sequel to THE WICKER MAN but, written & directed by the original w&d of TWM Robin Hardy, it was called a “spiritual sequel”.
Three name changes (alt titles were MAY DAY, MAY QUEEN [?] and COWBOYS FOR CHRIST- the novel version’s title) & several cast changes later- including dropping Astin & Rimes, Vanessa Redgrave & Joan Collins- each of whom was to be Lee’s Consort, and relegating Lee to a cameo after he hurt his back- it was released last year to a few theatres in the British Isles & none at all in the US, and then snuck out onto DVD on May 1 of this year.
I like it. ALMOST a remake of the original. NOT nearly as good as the first but miles ahead of the Nick Cage version. And the ending takes some unexpected turns.
I first heard about a film that had to be this one decades ago, and I had more recently come across scattered interweb references to it since going online.
I finally watched the entire movie through you tube .com.
A Thief in the Night
Brrr!
Good thing I can stomach tons of cheese!
Let’s see, recently I watched the following
Galaxy of Terror
Frogs!
Spaceballs
Night of the Comet
Wild Wild West
Season of the Witch
Cherry 2000
And many more. Why do I watch all these crappy chessy movies.
This is a weekly podcast which me and the girlfriend love. It talks about and has fun with a different movie a week. It’s one of the highlights of the week when we see the new one up. Watch the movie and then put the podcast on and giggle away.
Roadhouse was on HBO last night !
Now you must watch the sequels!
A Distant Thunder
Image of the Beast
Prodigal Planet
And tell me if somewhere in A Distant Thunder is a not-bad movie.
For a long time, this was THE END TIMES movie franchise & I have more respect for it than I do the LEFT BEHIND ones. These had heart & guts & were made by people scraping together what they could because they, by God, believed this & wanted to get The Word out!
Sir, Night of the Comet is made of awesome!
A couple of days ago, I went to see The Expendables 2
The Dish network recently added a channel called “Epix Drive-In”, which is dedicated to the kinds of movies Joe Bob Briggs would enjoy. Lately, they have been showing a lot of movies by Roger Corman and Jean Rollin.
Some of Corman’s movies were actually pretty good, given the budget limitations. When he was doing Poe and Lovecraft, he made an effort.
Jean Rollin apparently built an entire career out of lesbian vampire movies. You can see a lot of motifs that would later show up in Anne Rice’s novels. (And, oddly enough, Ms. Rice did them better than Mr. Rollin did.)