“Good Bad” Movie Reviews
Please note that the ratings of these movies are on the “good bad” scale, not one for “non-good bad” (a.k.a. regular) movies.
The Food of the Gods 1976
3/5
Although one of Bert I. Gordon's later movies, it's really not one of his better ones; I'd say see "King Dinosaur" or even "Earth vs. the Spider" for the best of his work. Of course best really means worst, but if you're a bad movie fan you know what I mean. Even "Empire of the Ants", made barely a year after this one, is better as far as "good bad" movies go. Although my son and I did get some great riffs in, such as his singing the "Love Boat" theme when you see the giant cruise ship docked, our noting how exciting the repeated shots of people riding the five-mile-an-hour ferry were, how everyone who drove onto the island happened to miss the mangled body in the middle of the road, and of course how the giant animals change size between shots. There's actually some not-too-bad effects in this film, although between the transparent giant wasps, unmoving giant rooster head, and milk that doubles for water in one shot, there's plenty here to heckle.
This movie would definitely benefit from a drinking game, say every time "the hero" bosses someone around when their idea is less stupid than his. This film was actually better than I remember it being when I first saw it in the theaters, and that has got to count for something!
Night of the Ghouls 1959
3/5
Ah yes, another lovely Ed Wood masterpiece. While not quite up to the "quality" of "Plan 9", I didn’t like it quite as much as its prequel, "Bride of the Monster". It's got the usual Ed Wood silliness, most notably levitating (read: hanging from strings) items such as a trumpet being played by a tone-deaf ghost, said trumpet's mute all by itself, and more. I just about laughed myself onto the floor over the skeletons wearing wigs, and my son and I had a blast with the police captain who says "here" every other word kind of like a stoned teenager with the word "dude". If you like Ed's movies, don't miss this one--while not his "best", it's clearly not his "worst" either.
Bride of the Monster 1957
5/5
For some reason I thought I'd seen this movie, but once I rented it I realized that I hadn’t—but I had seen it being made in “Ed Wood” (1994) and that’s where the idea came from.
My bad-movie-loving adult son and I sat down to watch it uncut and un-MST’d—just us and the movie. It’s not as outright head-scratching bad as “Glen or Glenda?”, predictable as “The Sinister Urge”, or goofy as “Plan 9”—it actually has a coherent story, no disappearing sub-plots, and the use of stock footage is kept to a minimum.
This was the fourth Ed Wood film we’ve seen and we both enjoyed it just as much as the others. It’s got the to-be-expected horrible stilted dialog, odd lighting, scenes that seem to have nothing to do with the movie you’re watching, wooden acting, stock footage, absolutely abysmal effects and, best of all, that sunny cheerful optimism that permeates most of Ed’s early films. All of the actors, my favorite Tor Johnson included, do their absolute best and it’s clear that Bela Lugosi took this as seriously as any of his other movies and actually turns in a very good performance as the mad scientist.
If you’ve seen the film “Ed Wood”, I highly recommend this movie because you will howl when you see Bela trying to make the inanimate octopus prop seem to attack him, and the scenes of poor Tor really being whipped by doped-up Bela (although of course it didn’t hurt him that much, but still…!).
I particularly enjoyed the scenes of the police chief with his disappearing-between-cuts parrot, while my son’s favorites were the “attacking” nuclear octopus.
If you’re a fan of “good bad” movies, do not miss this one if you haven’t seen it! While not really as outright awful as most of Ed’s work, there’s enough fun badness in this one to be thoroughly enjoyable. While it will probably never outshine “Plan 9” as my favorite Wood movie, it’s up there in my Top Ten all-time favorite baddies.
Grindhouse: Planet Terror 2006
5/5
First and foremost, let me mention that I normally can't stand tons of gratuitous violence, especially against women. That said, I don't mind overdone, goofy movie violence and that is what this movie has tons of, and then some. I wasn't sure how much I'd like this despite my love of bad/B/trashy movies, but knew I had to see it after reading the reviews. My also-B-movie-loving son was going to take me to go see it, but it only played here for two weeks and was gone from the theaters by the time we got around to it.
I freaking loved it! Not only did it remind me of the bad B-movies of the 70s and 80s that I used to go see, it was so well written/directed/ acted that it was a double masterpiece. Rodriguez (the director Robert, not the actor Freddy) did just about everything in this movie--write, direct, produce, etc--just like the original grindhouse films, and did not miss a trick. The dialog was insipid and stilted, the stunts, cinematography and directing over-the-top, but the acting was absolutely top-notch from everyone. Rose McGowan was, as advertised, both sexy and deadly, while Freddy Rodriguez, one of my favorite actors, just blew everyone else away. I was absolutely tickled to death to see Tom Savini in a pretty significant role, while I noted that his protegee Greg Nicotero did the awesome effects. Also worth a mention was Quentin Tarantino's small but important part, he probably got the best FX of the whole movie--and the most gross and disgusting, which he well deserved :-)
The effects are just outstanding, probably some of the best live- action I've seen recently next to "Slither" and "The Island" with well- blended CGI that isn't overused or overdone. The CGI of McGowan's "leg-gun" is funny and very cool. The shambling dead aren't really zombies in the classic sense since they clearly think and talk, but they'll do in a pinch.
One of the the most fun things was the "destruction" of the film and the missing reel--we laughed so hard at that we had to stop for a few moments. The entire film shows "damage" and artifacts, and several times it looks like it's going to go belly-up again with warping and ripped sprocket holes. Part of the fun was waiting to see if the "film" would be damaged past watching again!
The biggest thing about this movie is to sit back and enjoy what it's supposed to be--and that is not "Citizen Kane" or "Schindler's List". This baby makes "Dude, Where's My Car?" look like high cinema and has "Plan 9 From Outer Space" as a contemporary. It is probably one of the most fun movies I've seen in a while; I thoroughly enjoyed it, and will likely own it.
Black Sheep 2006
5/5
First and foremost, the main thing I want to say about this movie is that it's not really a "good bad" or "trashy" movie--this is a quality production with state-of-the-art effects, fine acting, outstanding cinematography, and a very funny, very good script. The fact that it's about killer sheep in New Zealand might make you *think* it's a bad movie, but it's not--it's a great horror film!
The simple and quickly run through plot is that genetic alteration of sheep causes them to become vicious carnivores when the ever-at-fault animal activists loose the mutation from the lab while trying to get proof that animals are being tortured. In a neat twist, anyone bitten by the sheep turns into a--you got it--weresheep. So there's more than just killer sheep running around, there are intelligent, talking weresheep for Our Heroes to worry about as well.
The effects from Weta Workshop (all three Lord of the Rings, King Kong, 30 Days of Night) are just awesome! There's gore aplenty, lots of look-away moments, and even more hysterically funny sicko gore when a large flock of the deadly sheep attack a group of investors attending an outdoor pitch at the remote station (farm) where all this is going on. The animal wranglers managed to get the real sheep to do some unusual things, and the effects people got the fake/animatronic sheep do even more interesting things. Do be warned, this is a very gory film but it's all unrealistic film gore, nothing that should bother someone who doesn't like realistic stuff... unless of course it bothers you to see a vicious zombie sheep gnaw someone's arm off, or two of them fighting over someone's intestines while the victim is alive and writhing between them. I do have to say, I'm very glad I wasn't eating when I saw this movie because parts of it about turned my stomach--while I was laughing hysterically at the same time.
I was quite surprised at the quality of the acting, I'd never seen any of these people before but they were uniformly good whether running from the killer sheep, turning into were-sheep, or fighting off the mutant half-sheep. The scene with the guy struggling with the attacking sheep in the front seat of the runaway truck was a flat-out riot, and the bit with the mint sauce was so funny that I missed the next few moments while trying to catch my breath. There is no bad acting here, everyone takes this film seriously enough to give a good performance no matter who--or what--they are/were.
Last but never least, don't miss the extras on the disk--between the "making of", special scene just for DVD, and the outtakes, they're almost as good as the movie! I haven't watched the commentary yet, but it's on the agenda.
If you like movies like "Slither", "Fido", "Grindhouse: Plant Terror" and the like, I highly recommend this. Don't take it seriously, let it take you for a fun and gory ride, and it's an hour and a half well spent. This is one I have to own along with the ones mentioned above.
Starcrash 1979
5/5
Let me just say, this came highly recommended from my husband (who got me to watch "Howling II") as well as from two mailing lists, so I knew this had to be a gem. Well, I don't know if you'd call it a "gem" per se, but let's just say that if you enjoy good-bad movies, this is a MUST SEE. My son Chris and I sat down to watch it and were laughing by the time we'd seen the art on the disk itself.
I'm not going to bother explaining story or plot; they didn't, so why waste my time? All you need to know is that it had lots of tight and/or skimpy costumes that showed off the boobs, butts, and broad shoulders of the mostly-attractive cast (there were a few exceptions, all bad guys of course). There is absolutely nothing at all good or even halfway decent about this movie from the horrid guy in the robot suit with the yuk-yuk bad Southern accent to the gay-pride-rainbow-painted spaceship at the end. This was clearly a cut-rate Italian-made Star Wars ripoff, and they made no bones about it.
I was rather surprised to see that the Hoff was only in the last third of the movie since he gets top billing, but then they do spend the entire beginning and middle of the film looking for him. It really was the only part of this entire thing that made any sense at all.
Most of the heckling we did was from other movies and making better sound effects than the movie had. For example, the first time they show the bad guy's ship, which is a giant blue hand (don't ask), I immediately popped out with, "Shouldn't that be holding a vacuum that both sucks and blows?" (Spaceballs). When the "evil queen's" minions come riding down the beach, my son yelled "Damn you, damn all you apes to hell" (Planet of the Apes take-off from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, he got extra points for that one). And the navigator's uniform kept bugging me, it looked so familiar, until one time he was on screen I blurted out "Nanu nanu!" (Mork and Mindy) and we both laughed so hard we missed a good five minutes of the movie. Then there's the time that the main villain boasts, "By the time the sun rises I'll be emperor" to which I screamed back "YOU'RE IN OUTER SPACE DUMBASS!" And of course we can't forget the little single-person spaceships that broke through the larger villain's spaceship's windows (which looked suspiciously like Pellas) during the battle in space with no decompression or any other problems--almost like they were in a studio on Earth! During one of the battles where it was too dark to see what was going on, Chris cracked, "Look, lighting by Sybil" which had us both in stitches. We also had quite a bit of fun with the guy who could see the future but wouldn't tell anyone what was going to happen so they could, say, avoid attack/capture/torture by the bad guys. Best of all, he bragged about this. I still don't know why his compatriots didn't just toss him out the nearest airlock--oh, that's right, they've got atmosphere in space by 2560, or whatever year this was supposed to be...
Chris also is a big fan of the parrot Einstein, who does awesome sound effects, and we agreed that he needs to be hired to dub this movie: (all through the movie Chris kept doing the "be-be-be-bew" laser sound from the parrot when there were laser effects on the screen--and he really did sound better!)
I do have to make a quick mention of the stop-motion Harryhausen fighting-skeleton ripoff robots as well as the giant warrior-woman robot with boobs that have inside-out nipples, you don't want to miss those, trust me.
But my favorite heckle was one that we did all through the movie. In the first ten minutes you realize that the "actors" clearly aren't, which prompted me to point out "you know, when you're making a movie you really should hire <gasp> ACTORS! <gasp> rather than just grabbing people off the street" which had us yelling single words at the screen at key points: "Actors!" "Composer!" "Set decorator!" "Model makers!" and so on. That just never got old, and there was plenty of fodder for it too.
This was definitely as "good" as "Kingdom of the Spiders", "The Deadly Spawn", "A*P*E*", or anything by Ed Wood; a real must-see for fans of the genre.
Snakes on a Plane 2006
4/5
I'm sure that no one will be surprised to hear that despite the loads of graphic violence, I loved this movie! It came highly recommended both from people who know me as well as Netflix (based on my 4 and 5 star reviews of "Slither", "Eight Legged Freaks", and the recent "Dawn of the Dead" remake), so I recorded it on HD TiVo and got to watch it in all its gory 1080i 42" glory.
As I'd heard, the story gives the briefest of nods to plot and realism and 30 minutes in, the plane is in the air and the snakes are on the loose. The CGI is so-so; for those who don't know, they ended up animating over the real snakes because the live ones weren't as active as they wanted as well as making the real non-poisonous ones used with the actors into poisonous ones. The gore was way over the top, but realistic enough that I had to look away quite a bit--between the people getting bitten on their nasties and snakes crawling in and out of multiple orifices, it was pretty disgusting but I couldn't help laughing at the couple in the bathroom (the mile-high club remarks regarding them were pretty funny too) despite how gross it was. There was just enough pathos to make you wonder if the "good guys" were going to survive, and worrisome parts regarding children flying alone and a woman with a baby. Some of the flying parts were pretty bad, but not even enough to cause more than a passing notice before it was back to "who's going to get bitten next?" There were lots of great jump moments, and one near the end that I did not expect at all caused me to dump half a cup of lukewarm tea down the front of me. All in good fun!
Despite everyone and their brother knowing that this wasn't a "serious" movie, all the actors did a fine job especially Samuel L. Jackson and Julienne Margulies who have really good chemistry together. Jackson's famous "I'm sick of" line was just a riot and I laughed so hard I had to stop the movie for a minute, I can only imagine what it was like to hear that in a theater.
Overall, I thought it was a fun if sometimes disgusting roller-coaster ride of a movie, very well written, filmed and acted for what it was.
A*P*E* 1976/2001
5/5
First of all, let me note that though the release date on this film is 2001, the original copyright date shown at the very end is 1976--and it shows. My son and I spent much of the movie wondering why everyone was dressed as if on the set of "That 70s Show" and I was relieved at the end to see that this wasn't deliberately done in 2001. That would have made it past the point of weird and into Twilight Zone territory, and it was pretty close to that already.
OK, on to the review. First of all, let me say that although I've seen some real stinkers, this film makes "Glen or Glenda" look like a big-budget serious documentary/autobiography. On that note, not only did these filmmakers clearly go to the Ed Wood School of How Not to Make a Movie, they one-upped him.
Where to start? Here's some highlights:
--Giant apes apparently run amok in Belgium and are shipped to Korea, although the rest of the world hasn't been appraised of either fact yet.
--Giant gorilla sedatives will only last long enough for someone to remark on how long they've lasted.
--The gorilla wisely wears tennis shoes when stomping villages so he won't get splinters.
--Helicopters can be either Cobras or Hueys depending on the angle.
--Miniature boats, planes, tanks, and helicopters do not need to look realistic or be in scale to said gorilla.
--On that note, the gorilla does not have to make contact to have them blow up, near-misses are just as good.
--Dead shark, live shark, who notices the difference?
--Ten attacking helicopters and only one needs to carry troops.
--Full-sized live cows turn into cute little stuffed animals when a giant gorilla walks into their field.
--On that note, women turn into Barbie dolls when being carried around by said giant gorilla.
--Giant gorillas often grab snakes that aren't bothering anyone and fling them at the camera, where they bounce off and give a momentary view of the boom mike overhead.
--Fishing line was a must for this production, for everything from moving the ape's hands to flinging rocks and spears at the camera. Repeatedly.
--Watch carefully for the foam boulders that fall apart while tumbling down the hill, although the one "soldier" who gets hit with one does act like it wasn't pleasant.
--Bolt action rifles can fire repeatedly without moving the bolt when needed.
--Bottle rockets can double for cannon fire.
--Surplus WWII artillery works just fine when shooting at giant gorillas, even anti-aircraft guns.
--Even if the gorilla suit falls apart while you're filming, don't stop.
--Cardboard fireworks tanks can double for scale-model real tanks.
--Our Heroine doesn't allow her on-set actor-rapist to be too rough with her, although she wears enough scanty clothing to be an underwear model.
--Martial arts actors filming a movie within the movie will viciously attack the giant gorilla with whatever's at hand when it wanders onto their set, although they're supposed to be actors and not real fighters.
--Children disappear into thin air during giant ape attacks although their parents may be squished.
--Last but never least, giant gorillas always flip off the helicopter that they've just batted into a mountainside.
And trust me, even those highlights don't do it justice. We laughed so long and so hard that we had to stop the movie several times to catch our breath. We agreed that this is the worst bad movie we've seen, and trust me that's saying a lot. If you're a bad movie fan be sure not to miss this one, although have the remote in hand so you can back up and make sure that yes, you did see what you thought you saw.
Night of the Lepus 1972
3/5
Many running bunnies and repeated stock footage and forced perspective and HO scale sets, oh my! What a riot this movie is.
Besides everything else that's wrong with it, I kept mixing up the rancher and the researcher as they looked a lot alike and was occasionally baffled as to why the scientist was riding a horse or the rancher was in the lab until I realized it was supposed to be the other character. Something tells me that even on this clearly miniscule budget they should have been able to find two actors who looked a little bit different, or slap a wig or beard on one of them for Heaven's sake.
The saddest thing about this movie was the real actors who tried so hard but failed miserably due to the absolutely ludicrous storyline. Poor Janet, poor DeForest!
We had as much fun heckling the stupid kids who caused the problem as we did the fake giant rabbits, although the "killer bunnies jumping onto the horses" scene with the guy in the man-sized rabbit suit was a hoot in itself. Still, I have to admit that the forced perspective was pretty well done for a movie of this type, actually much better than Bert I Gordon managed even in his later movies. The bunnies are mostly put on what looks to be a tabletop set and shot from eye level, but they don't always use the same scale. When they're in the abandoned mine they're about, oh, 4-5 feet at the shoulder, but get them outside and they're barely 3 feet tall when they go galloping across the countryside chomping everything in their path. Oh, and keep in mind that when rabbits become gigantic, they also become carnivores and nocturnal--don't ask me the why or how, just accept the facts and move on.
On our part there was much hilarity regarding the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, model train stores sold out of their HO scale accessories, and yelling "Run away, run away" at the screen. I think our best heckle was at the beginning of the movie where the rancher notes that since they killed off all the coyotes, they've been overrun by rabbits. "You think there's maybe a connection?!" both my son and I yelled at the screen, then high-fived each other. Our work was just beginning, and it never ended until the credits rolled. This is a fine bad movie for heckling; keep in mind that the story is even stupider than the title and go from there.
Kingdom of the Spiders 1977
5/5
I love "good bad" movies, but this film takes that label to new heights that even I hadn't imagined. Trust me, you know from the opening shot that this is a stinker, and it doesn't disappoint with plenty of bad dialog, transparently contrived situations, forced acting, and lots and lots and lots of tarantulas of all different species from Colombian to Mexican to Sri Lankan spiders which, of course, all get along fine (not to mention, what are they all doing in Arizona?). Bill Shatner is the only name actor in the movie, and trust me you have no doubt about that within minutes of starting to watch this one. It looks to me like they mostly went for actors who would handle the spiders and let the critters crawl on them, because that's 90% of what the actors do when they're not spitting out bad dialog or running screaming from the poor spiders, which are almost always running away from the people as fast as their eight legs will take them.
One of the best lines is when the "entomologist" says, "Spiders, like other insects..." Um, sorry?! You'd think someone who studies insects would know that spiders are arachnids, not insects. I'm pretty sure that they knew this in 1977, it wasn't the Dark Ages or anything. That begs the question as to why the university sent an entomologist instead of an arachnologist to look at possible spider bites, but here I am trying to make sense out of this movie...
But that is just the tip of the iceberg, although I'm not going to list every little goof--that would take far more time than I want to on this review. Let's see, highlights are the crop-dusting pilot who screams like a little girl when he discovers the cockpit of his biplane covered in spiders, and of course it doesn't occur to him to just flip the plane upside-down and the critters will fall out. No, he has to fly madly into the town gas station, which sadly enough does not explode and put everyone out of their misery. Of course he's spraying poison to kill the spiders when this happens and much fuss is made about the poison getting into the town, then after the crash is totally forgotten and not mentioned again. Then there's when Shatner's character gets overrun by tarantulas (one looks like it's glued to his face) and is covered in bites, but when he gets up the next morning he's fine without a scratch. I'm sure that the dozens of spider victims in the town wish they could have had that happen but then they weren't the star, now were they? I do have to give an honorable mention to the farmwife who goes to shoot a spider off her hand and of course shoots her hand off, I know it's not supposed to be a funny scene but we roared over the simple stupidity of it.
However, the very best scene in this movie, one that made both my son and I have hysterics and go back to re-watch it to make sure we'd seen what we thought we'd seen, is when the little girl screams from upstairs and Shatner goes running to save her. She's on a large bed covered with spiders, and he yells at her to jump to him. The child jumps into his arms and he immediately throws her on the floor, which is covered with even more spiders than the bed was. Yes, you read that right: he catches then throws the five-year-old on the floor. We watched it twice so I'm not kidding.
The ending will have you in stitches, because these folks didn't even bother to get a matte painting done, they just drew lines over a photo of the "town" which were supposed to be spiderwebs. We laughed so hard that I still have a headache half an hour later, and I'm not sure I'd survive another viewing of this movie right now. Definitely not one to be missed if you like this type of movie.
King Dinosaur 1955
4/5
If you watch this movie expecting a good story, excellent effects, and decent acting, you will be sorely disappointed. If you watch this movie expecting it to make little to no sense, some of the worst effects ever to be put on the screen, and some of the lamest acting ever, then this is the bad movie for you. Pop some popcorn, get your friends together, and prepare to heckle! There's plenty of material here, and thankfully the movie only runs about an hour. Enjoy!
Earth vs. The Spider 1958
5/5
I was in the mood for a new bad movie today. I'd ordered a double feature from Netflix, this movie plus "War of the Colossal Beast", and this seemed like just the thing for lunch. And it was!
Ah, where to start. Well, first I should mention that this is a Bert I. Gordon movie, he of the exquisite "King Dinosaur", "Beginning of the End", "The Food of the Gods" and my ever-popular favorite "Empire of the Ants". If it's a 1950s-era movie and there are big bugs/critters in it, you can bet Our Friend Bert had a hand in it. He wrote, directed, and did the (heh) "special effects" for this film, and it shows. This copy was crisp and clear with good sound and only a few artifacts, and that only near the end.
One of the best things about this movie is its runtime--at 72 min., it's over before you can get bored with it. But who can get bored with 40-yr-old high school students who play cool-daddy-o bop music, the Carlsbad Caverns in blue screen, several different varieties of tarantula supposed to be one single spider, and hemp netting doubling for a giant spiderweb?
This is a prime heckling movie. I watched it with my son and his girlfriend, and one of the best remarks was when the sheriff answered his phone and my son piped up with a Mr. Burns "ahoy-hoy". I found myself doing a lot of quotes from "Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" and "Evolution" for some reason--and after this one was over, we popped in "LSOC" for a bit more cheese.
We also had a lot of fun commenting on the spider's size--AFTER they spray it with a tankerful of DDT it gets bigger, then shrinks back down, then later dwarfs the town. There's also quite a few excellent shots of the spider(s) crawling on or next to postcards if you watch the shadows, and some of the blue screen work is noticeable by the shakiness of the inserted parts. I'll only make a brief note of the partially-transparent spiders in certain scenes, which I'm familiar with from his other movies. And we can't forget how Our Heroine walks through the rock outcropping that's supposed to be the entrance to the cave--Bert never let a little thing like perspective or transparency get in HIS way!
Oh, and remember, should you ever capture a giant spider you're not sure is dead, be sure to store it in the local high school gymnasium. Trust me on this.
Highly, highly recommended for fans of good bad movies--like most of Bert's other Big Critter movies, this one doesn't disappoint.
Zardoz 1974
1/5
I have my good friend Alia to thank for pointing out this lovely piece of cinema to me, and trust me she'll be trying to make it up to me for the rest of our natural lives since she can't give me my hour
and a half back :-)
After watching most of this all I can wonder is, how in Heaven's name did they get Sean Connery to wear a braided ponytail and baggy-britches shorts?! Was he *really* that hard up for work?! Even the eye candy of getting to see him walking around mostly naked didn't save this piece of reeking garbage for me. The director/producer/writer, John Boorman, has done some fine films that I love, including "Hope & Glory" 1987 and "Excalibur" 1981, but this one just undid any respect I had for him. I'll never be the same.
I'm not even going to bother with the plot or anything about this movie other than to say it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for the first twenty minutes, at least. And when it does, it's so incredibly stupid that even experienced bad-movie hecklers like my son and I just sat and stared at the TV with mouths agape. I wish they had, at least, left the string in when the giant "stone" (read: grey-painted styrofoam) head flies across the gorgeous Irish countryside like a lost, decapitated gargoyle using bad blue screen effects. At least *that* would have been fun! Although I did rather enjoy the giant blown-up condoms sticking up out of the miniature castle that were, I think, supposed to be some type of hydroponic growing domes or something.
Unlike our favorite baddies made by such masters as Ed Wood, Bert I. Gordon and the like, this one isn't worth watching even from a bad-movie-lover's standpoint with two glasses of good red wine in her. My
son was stone cold sober and said afterward that he wished he'd had a couple drinks--but I told him to save the liquor, it was wasted and of no help whatsoever. We finally turned this off before the end, as we
were just staring glassy-eyed and at a loss for words at the screen--and trust me, it's not a watchable movie in any way, shape or form! I'd rather see "Manos the Hands of Fate" or "Glen or Glenda" again, even as a double-feature, than to sit through a half hour of this again.
Bad movie lovers, avoid this like the plague. Run, don't hide--Zardoz may find you!
1/5 * (only because I don't allow myself to use negative numbers)
