And even worse commercial.
They picked Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, when they could have called it Away From Home Alone.
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer takes place one year after the events of the first film and thus should have been called I Still Know What You Did the Summer Before Last.
Gawd, I had blanked that out of my mind.
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Jack Frost, the 1997 horror movie about a man who dies and comes back to life as a snowman, and Jack Frost, the 1998 family comedy about a man who dies and comes back to life as a snowman
I’ll let you figure out what Mercy Humppe might be referring to. I think that name may be a reason why the movie was X-rated.
By the way. The Wikipedia article for this movie has a citation to a Chicago newspaper that ran a poll for the worst movie title, and this title won.
Has Attack of the Killer Tomatoes been mentioned yet?
Title pretty much describes the movie, doesn’t it?
Yes, true!
Same with Killer Klowns From Outer Space.
They are, they are, and they are. yup, you know what you’re getting. (and I thought it was pretty good. And very weird)
Same with all the Final Destination movies.
Titles that tell you nothing about the movie:
Them
Get Your Ya Yas Out - yes, there’s a film, or at least DVD, called that
Just bad titles:
Beach Blanket Bingo
The Cars That Ate Paris - because it is set in neither of the Parises you may be thinking of
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
I agree that it’s pretty bad other than correctly implying that it’s a beach movie. I’ve never seen it and occasionally wondered what it meant. Up until now I hadn’t been motivated to really search. My best guess in times past was that it described a crowded beach in which some blankets were vacant while their erstwhile occupants swam or were otherwise occupied, but sometimes the occupants lined up in a row like the game bingo. Whereas, upon looking just now, apparently it means “bingo” as in the slang expression indicating success.
Beach Blanket Bingo is essentially a coy euphemism for sex. Just look up the lyrics. Perfect for a beach party movie.
I nominate low budget movie producer Fred Olen Ray to be the mascot of thread. Here are some of his movies:
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Demented Death Farm Massacre
Scream Queen Hot Tub Party
Genie in a String Bikini
Bikini Frankenstein
As titles, they are pretty descriptive. I leave the worth of the movies themselves to another thread.
Die in a Gunfight is a movie where the main character narrates how he has always known he will die in a gunfight, gets into various gunfights and then at the end… does not die in a gunfight.
The solo Harley Quinn movie’s full title is so terrible I refuse to write the full thing out.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
At least “Blade Runner” sounds cool, even if it doesn’t mean anything. It gets your attention.
The worse titles aren’t the weird ones, they’re the boring ones, which is why my suggestion is the 2012 film John Carter. What s stupidly pedestrian name, a name that inspired absolutely no-one to go to a movie theater. Even to those few people who were familiar with Burroughs’ book, his John Carter was like the third John Carter that came to mind. It was the cinematic equivalent of calling the movie This Name Left Intentionally Blank.
I know the backstory here - how it was originally John Carter of Mars, but the failure of Mars Needs Moms left the studio idiots Mars-wary. They should have thought up something better.
“Outside” is a preposition in that phrase, and you don’t generally capitalize prepositions in titles.