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Date Posted: 19:42:06 09/12/13 Thu
Author: DAN
Subject: More Worst Horror Films

Here are some more of the movies that make up the worst Horror and Sci-Fi film lists.

Of course it's all a matter of opinion picking the absolute worst of all time. No film ever gets 100% of the vote. So far "Manos: Hands of Fate, Creeping Terror and Monster a Go Go have gotten the most votes. Manos is ahead by a small margin.

Personally I'd rather watch Plan 9 than "2001, A Space Odyssey." I saw 2001 when it came out and it bored the hell out of me. But I certainly wouldn't put it on a worst films list just because I don't care for it. It's considered a great movie by many.

I don't like most musicals either. I can't watch stuff like "Fiddler on the Roof, "Camelot," or even "West Side Story," and "Mary Poppins," plus many others. Musicals don't interest me in the least. They come off as silly to me.

One movie that makes many of the worst Sci-fi lists is
"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians."

The Monster Times in their "Fifty Worst Horror & Sci-Fi Films," calls it the worst sci-fi film ever, bar none. But yet they don't have Manos, Creeping Terror or Beast of Yukka Flats on the list.

But they do include
"I Was a Teen-Age Frankenstein," "Captive Wild Woman" and a few others that are far from the worst ever.

Anyway, I consider Santa Claus Conquers the Martians a kids movie and it really isn't that bad on a kids level.

To me though, I never cared for any of the movies made for kids.

I hated the Disney remake of "Babes in Toyland."
I saw it when I was 12, and thought it was stupid.
But I still watch the Laurel and Hardy version of "Babes in Toyland/March of the Wooden Soldiers."

Well these other films have also been on many bad movie lists, along with the first batch of bad horror films I reviewed.

Critics and fans list:

Worst to Best:
Glen or Glenda
Incredible Strange Creatures
Astro Zombies
Horror of Party Beach
Zontar the Thing from Venus
Blackenstein
Monster from the Surf
Dracula vs Frankenstein
Astounding She-Monster

My Rating.
Worst to Best:

ZONTAR THE THING FROM VENUS - Very poor remake of Roger Corman's "It Conquered the World." Stick with Roger Corman.

ASTRO ZOMBIES - John Carradine creates a super human, but it escapes and goes on a killing spree. Then when a couple of male and female spies find out about the zombie or whatever, they show up at Carradine's lab to get in on the action.

GLEN OR GLENDA - Not really a Horror/Sci-Fi movie, but it shows up on the bad horror movie lists. Probably because Bela Lugosi appears in it in a haunted house spouting Jibberish.
Well, I gotta say that this is Ed Wood's and Bela Lugosi's worst movie. The movie makes little sense. It's supposed to be about cross dressers. But the movie jumps around so much, it was hard to understand.

ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER - A couple of crooks kidnap a woman and hold her hostage at a geologists country home. A space ship lands near the house where the kidnappers are and a sexy but blurry looking woman exits her space ship. I don't know what her reason was for being there, but her touch was deadly and most of the time her and the kidnappers would walk around aimlessly. Anyway the space gal ended up saving the day for the kidnapped woman.

HORROR OF PARTY BEACH - Back in the 60s when I was a teen I used to go see the Frankie Avalon, Annette Beach party movies. I thought they were great movies then with all the babes running aound in bikinis and a funny motorcycle gang that would fight with the beach guys. But not now anymore. I can't believe I thought those beach flicks were cool. Anyway when HoPB came out I went and seen it. I mean Monsters and beach girls. Heck, You couldn't go wrong.
Well the movie began with some guys dumping chemicals in the ocean, which turned some kind of fish and dead men into monsters. The monsters looked like something with a big fish head and a mouth full of jumbo hotdogs sticking out of their mouth. The monsters kill several beach girls, and then they invade a girls pajama party and kill all of those girls. It seemed like anywhere there were girls the monsters would show up and kill them. Oh yeah, in between the monster attacks, a motorcycle gang showed up and the beach hero got into a fight with the cycle leader for no real reason.

INCREDIBLE STRANGE CREATURES - Jerry (Ray Dennis Steckler/ Cash Flagg) takes his girl friend to a carnival and they get their fortune read by a weird woman who throws acid in the faces of men and turns them into zombies. Jerry eyes the fortune teller's sister Carmelita and Jerry's girl friend gets mad and takes off. Then Jerry is hypnotised by the fortune teller and goes on a killing spree. Why the fortune teller does this is anyones guess. But this is one of those movies that holds your interest.

MONSTER FROM THE SURF - Jon Hall stars as a scientist, who doesn't like the beach crowd his son hangs out with. All of a sudden a very poor man's Creature from the Black Lagoon shows up and starts killing off the beach gang. I hope I'm not spoiling this for anyone, but the monster is really Jon Hall in a monster suit doing all the killing. The suit must give him great strength becuase he easily takes out all the young beach guys and picks then up and tosses them around like nothing. Anyway, this one is more fun than Horror of Party Beach.

BLACKENSTEIN - Some call this one of the worst movies ever, but I don't think it was really that bad. A black veteran had his legs blown off in Viet Nam. His girl friend takes him to Dr Stein, a descendent of DR Frankenstein. But he's a good doctor and uses his abilty to give the vet new legs, but Dr Stein's black assistent has the hots for the vet's lady. So he mixes a bunch of bad chemicals and Dr Stein not knowing this injects the vet with the chemicals and it turns him into a black Frankenstein monster who goes on a killing rampage.

DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN - This is a fun low budget movie. Although it was sad seeing Lon Chaney Jr and J Carroll Naish looking so bad in their last film roles. One of the things about this is that it moves along pretty good with very little slow boring spots like most bad movies have.

Well there's many more bad movies out there, especially from the 80s and 90s, but I have no interest in checking any of those out.

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[> Re: More Worst Horror Films -- Tim, 08:40:34 09/15/13 Sun [1]

Another fun list of bad flicks, Dan.

I agree that ZONTAR, THE THING FROM VENUS is the worst on your latest list of worst movies. It's an ultra low-budget remake of Roger Corman's IT CONQUERED THE WORLD. As bad as it is, ZONTAR used to show up on late night television a lot in the 1970s and 1980s. Director Larry Buchanan also did a remake of Corman's THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED called IN THE YEAR 2889. Earlier he remade INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN as THE EYE CREATURES, which made it onto Dan's first "worst" list.

DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN and MONSTER FROM THE SURF are both enjoyable to watch in a "movies so bad they are good" way. Of all the bad horror movies of the 1950s and 1960s I would still rate THE CREEPING TERROR as the absolute worst, although I have never seen the infamous MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE.

DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN has an amazing cast, including J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr, Jim Davis, Russ Tamblyn, Regina Carrol and, in a small role, Forrest J Ackerman. It is sad to see Chaney in such bad shape, unable to even speak at this point, but I would guess he wanted and needed the work. Director Al Adamson also made SATAN'S SADISTS and BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE. Regina Carrol eventually married Al Adamson and continued to appear in his films.

MONSTER FROM THE SURF is also known as THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER. Jon Hall was once a big star and appeared in movies like THE HURRICANE (1937) and THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE (1944). Hall both starred in and directed this 1965 Beach-Monster cheapie. The monster of the title makes its first appearance very early, within the first five minutes. It's a very cheesy looking creature, although as Dan said it turns out not to be a monster at all. Frank Sinatra Jr contributed some of the music. I don't remember this one ever turning up on late night television, although I could have overlooked it. I first saw it as THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER via the internet.

Tim

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