In The Overlook, A.V. Club film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky examines the misfits, underappreciated gems, and underseen classics of film history.
“Picture a flat surface. Out of the surface, one letter rises.”
“From the alphabet?”
—After Last Season
Far beyond the merely shitty and indifferent lies the valley of the bone-deep bad—the transcendently bad, the Ed Wood bad, the “Manos” The Hands Of Fate [sic] bad, the bad that is wrongly fascinating and captivating, the bad that spawns cults. When we speak of having a taste for these Z-grade bad movies, even treasuring them, what we’re talking about are those peculiar cocktails of the cringe-inducingly sincere and the vain, the obvious and the baffling, the naïve and the lurid, the out-of-nowhere and the plodding—the tendency of truly artless and amateurish movies to do everything in extremes. Anyone can be incompetent, but what distinguishes the bad sublime is ...
“Picture a flat surface. Out of the surface, one letter rises.”
“From the alphabet?”
—After Last Season
Far beyond the merely shitty and indifferent lies the valley of the bone-deep bad—the transcendently bad, the Ed Wood bad, the “Manos” The Hands Of Fate [sic] bad, the bad that is wrongly fascinating and captivating, the bad that spawns cults. When we speak of having a taste for these Z-grade bad movies, even treasuring them, what we’re talking about are those peculiar cocktails of the cringe-inducingly sincere and the vain, the obvious and the baffling, the naïve and the lurid, the out-of-nowhere and the plodding—the tendency of truly artless and amateurish movies to do everything in extremes. Anyone can be incompetent, but what distinguishes the bad sublime is ...
- 6/13/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
There are two types of bad movies: The ones the zeitgeist deems bad (like, say, The Room, Birdemic, or Academy Award winner Crash) or the ones the critics refuse to adorn with their approval. The following video is concerned with the latter, though there is a little overlap with the former, if only for the fact that movies like Manos: Hands Of Fate never culled a sizable amount of reviews.
This Looper video listicle compiles 10 films currently holding a 0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. There are a few easy targets in there—Manos, obviously, as well as that ubiquitous staple of shit cinema, Mac And Me—but there’s also a few would-be blockbusters and some forgotten symbols of misguided ambition.
For example: Have you even heard of 1981’s Heartbeeps, the robot-centric comedy starring Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, and “a garbage child robot”? Or Roller Boogie, the ...
This Looper video listicle compiles 10 films currently holding a 0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. There are a few easy targets in there—Manos, obviously, as well as that ubiquitous staple of shit cinema, Mac And Me—but there’s also a few would-be blockbusters and some forgotten symbols of misguided ambition.
For example: Have you even heard of 1981’s Heartbeeps, the robot-centric comedy starring Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, and “a garbage child robot”? Or Roller Boogie, the ...
- 6/9/2017
- by Randall Colburn
- avclub.com
A few weeks ago we got our first look at the new cast of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival series. Today we have a new photo that focuses on Felicia Day as Kinga Forrester, who is the daughter of the original mad scientist Clayton Forrester, and Patton Oswalt, who plays the Son of TV’s Frank.
Netflix picked up 14 episodes of the series, which was crowdfunded on Kickstarter. They raised $5.7 million during their funding process. The series will premiere on Netflix on Friday, April 14th.
While we wait for the series to return, Netflix is currently streaming 20 episodes of the original series. Those episodes were revealed to include:
• Catalina Caper
• Eegah!
• Future War
• The Giant Gila Monster
• Hercules Against the Moon Men
• Horrors of Spider Island
• I Accuse My Parents
• Jack Frost
• Laserblast
• "Manos" The Hands of Fate
• Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
• Pod People
• Puma Man
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians...
Netflix picked up 14 episodes of the series, which was crowdfunded on Kickstarter. They raised $5.7 million during their funding process. The series will premiere on Netflix on Friday, April 14th.
While we wait for the series to return, Netflix is currently streaming 20 episodes of the original series. Those episodes were revealed to include:
• Catalina Caper
• Eegah!
• Future War
• The Giant Gila Monster
• Hercules Against the Moon Men
• Horrors of Spider Island
• I Accuse My Parents
• Jack Frost
• Laserblast
• "Manos" The Hands of Fate
• Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
• Pod People
• Puma Man
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians...
- 3/17/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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