cjn@calmasd.UUCP (Cheryl Nemeth) (01/10/85)
My vote for worst SF movie is "Horror of Party Beach." Cheryl Nemeth
bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) (01/15/85)
>> >> My vote for worst SF movie is "Horror of Party Beach." >> >> Cheryl Nemeth I agree. Lesson learned from this flick was that chunks of sodium thrown at radioactive slime monsters will zap them. One evening, on a late night that I still recall with masochistic thrill, I sat through this, followed by Susanne Somers in "Zuma Beach". Arguably, two of the worst movies ever made. Regards, -- Binayak Banerjee {allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!bbanerje P.S. Send Flames, I love mail.
weiss@gondor.UUCP (Michael Weiss) (01/17/85)
> >> My vote for worst SF movie is "Horror of Party Beach." > "Zuma Beach". (with Miss Somers) *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH a small yak *** Ok choices, but the all time worst must be: "Plan Nine From Outer Space" : Bela Lugosi dies during filming, he is replaced by a man 1/2 foot taller who constantly keeps a cape in front of his face. "The Creeping Terror" : Narrator: "John wondered what was in the space ship." John: "I wonder what's in this space ship." "Glen or Glenda" : Bela again, in a touching, shocking, revealing look at transvestites. There are, of course, others. But these are the best,..er.. worst, ...er.. (I like mail, too, and accept all flames.) -- -Michael "on the the Twilight Node" Weiss UUCP...!gondor!weiss - The opinions expressed herein are those of my superiors, and are not neccesarily shared by the author.
jfh@browngr.UUCP (John "Spike" Hughes) (01/23/85)
I think the worst SF film ever made was "Sins of the Fleshapoids". I thik it suffices to say that one of the lead roles was played by a vacuum cleaner. The crowd at the UC theatre (in Berkeley), which will watch almost anything, got to see this between 'A Boy and his Dog' and "Barbarella". It hadn't been playing more than about 3 minutes when people started screaming at the projectionist to turn it off.
@RUTGERS.ARPA:Shiffman@WHITE.SWW.Symbolics.COM (01/24/85)
From: Hank Shiffman <Shiffman@SWW-WHITE>
Date: Sat 19 Jan 85 21:16:38-EST
From: Michael Eisenberg <DUCK%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA>
Subject: Worst sf movie of all time
Although it's kind of a cliched choice, here's another vote for
"Plan 9 from Outer Space". Though I don't, in general, believe in
the "it's-so-bad-it's-good" school of criticism, Plan 9 is an
exception. It's so bad it's brilliant. It's perfection times -1.
Change anything, anything, no matter how small, how trivial, and you
would have a superior movie.
C'mon! How could you improve on the line "...is dead! Murdered! And
one thing is for sure - somebody's responsible!" Pure poetry.
From: gondor!weiss@topaz (Michael Weiss)
Subject: Re: Worst SF movie
Date: 17 Jan 85 04:38:21 GMT
Ok choices, but the all time worst must be:
"Glen or Glenda" : Bela again, in a touching, shocking,
revealing look at transvestites.
Naw, not Bela. The part of Glen(da) was portrayed by Edward Wood,
director of this opus as well as Plan 9.
From: ut-ngp!lindley@topaz (John L. Templer)
Subject: Re: Worst S-F Movie Ever Made
Date: 22 Jan 85 03:05:50 GMT
Without doubt, at least to me, the worst science fiction movie has
to be "Santa Claus Conquer the Martians." As for "Attack of the
Killer Tomatoes", I don't think that one should count; it was
intended to be as bad as possible.
SCCtM also has the distinction of bringing to the screen for the first
time the inimitable Pia Zadora.@RUTGERS.ARPA:York@SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA (01/30/85)
From: William M. York <York@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>
Date: Thursday, 24 January 1985, 08:17-PST
From: Hank Shiffman <Shiffman at SWW-WHITE>
> From: gondor!weiss@topaz (Michael Weiss)
>
> Ok choices, but the all time worst must be:
> "Glen or Glenda" : Bela again, in a touching, shocking,
> revealing look at transvestites.
Naw, not Bela. The part of Glen(da) was portrayed by Edward Wood,
director of this opus as well as Plan 9.
Bela Lugosi was indeed in "Glen or Glenda". He plays the role of the
"omnicient" narrator of the story. In one scene we watch him watching a
very low-grade "porn" movie involving mild bondage and whipping; no
explanation. In another wonderful split-screen effect, Bela's eyes,
which fill the top half of the screen, are overlooking footage of a
buffalo stampede. Double wow. His part in G|G is even more pointless
and annoying than that in Plan 9.@RUTGERS.ARPA:schneider.WBST@Xerox.ARPA (02/05/85)
From: schneider.WBST@XEROX.ARPA Funny that I haven't seen more mention of "Green Slime" as the worst SF film around. This is a definate six-pack movie. And even then only the sound track is interesting. Eric