it was made in the 80s too .. inexcusable.

it looked like something some stupid drunk kids did in the middle of a saturday night bender ... cutting and pasting from crappy old footage of bad films. in about a half hour.

No it was even worse as she has 'trade marks' that she uses in lots of here films...Whats up with all those close ups of feet and I hate the 'non synced' dialogue - sure shooting the back of some heads really fools into thinking that it was shot with sound....

Though not nearly as bad I always think of Andy Milligan in this context too.

I watched that movie last month, what a waste of time

I have to agree, it was great til i learned that it was some kind of creature...Maybe if it was human it would be better

Driller Killer. Evidently a lot of people liked it but I could barely sit through it. In fact; I didn't. I skipped through most of it. It had a lot of potential, seriously, a guy killing people with a drill...that should be awesome but it wasn't. I'm just glad it came in a pack of 50 horror movies for $20.00 and I didn't buy it for the same price by itself.

Jigsaw

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330489/

Probably the most inept excuse for filmmaking ever produced. Pathetic in every way.

Runners up:

Body Melt - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106450/
Totem - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211050/
All Souls Day - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428212/
Chiller - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088912/

You have to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy Driller Killer...nowhere what you'd expect from the title. I didn't particularly enjoy it, but I thought it had some pretty cool ideas and managed to be a really unique little movie.

Driller Killer is a fucking AMAZING movie.

It's hard to say what the worst movie I have seen is. It's hard to compare very low budget independent films with higher budget productions because the higher budget films can often "look" better just because of their improved production values which is directly related to their budget.

But as far as films that I just turned off, Leprechaun is the first to spring to mind.

I know in many ways it is far from the "worst" movie ever produced, but I just found it so purile and stupid that I couldn't tolerate it.

I'm putting in my vote for Jigsaw with it's elemntary school writing and sub-pron acting, what a piece of crap. Boo, was almost unbearable to sit through and Death Tunnel made me sick to my ass.

i really liked it as well...

and i 1st saw it ages ago before anyone knew (including myself) who fererra was

That 50 Movie pack while cool (I have it and love it :) ) doesn't do the film justice. A piss poor transfer and awful sound really hurt it.

I don't think I could stand the sound anyway no matter how it was transfered. The story was original and Fererra's acting is fairly decent but beyond that I don't understand the hype.

Oh yeah...I forgot about House of the Dead......Like most around here....I fucking hate Uwe Boll. :mad:

Any "Ray Dennis Steckler" flick.

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to Netflix Zombie Nation.

Ugh.

Also some pretty horrible movies I've watched in recent memory:

• Creep
• Shallow Ground
• Severed: Forest of the Dead
• April Fool's Day (remake)
• The Number 23

Ulli Lommel = Avoid like the plague!

Funny, I loved that one. What didn't you like about it?

Boltneck.

Boltneck, Boltneck, Boltneck!

i loved Creep and Shallow Ground :)

didn't think Severed was bad for a low budget Canadian Horror.

like i was saying to despare when he saw it - my sister was involved with that film.. something i wasnt aware of until i saw her name go past in the credits

:eek:


Umm...

:D That would be mine. We were fooled by the cover. ;)

I actually really like Shallow Ground. And I can't consider Severed: Forest of the Dead OR Creep among the worst I have seen (though Creep did annoy me a little, it had a couple of good scenes). But since I seem to actually seek out bad movies (and enjoy a lot of them, I mean they are HILARIOUS), I often find other people's answers odd when it comes to this question ....:p

And Severed really impressed me by exceeding my expectations. I guess it's all in what you're expecting...

Yeah, that's definitely true.

With Creep I thought that it could have been so much better. There were times that it seemed to be trying to outdo Hills Have Eyes (the operating table scene) and I honestly couldn't get past the fact that I just didn't believe that she would get stuck in the subway system like that.

Also - The characters were more caricatures (2-d rich bitch, 2-d gross coke-head, 2-d black guy, 2-d homeless people) than actual characters. There was no one that I cared about and wished he had snuffed them all. Not to mention, I didn't find the Big Bad to be actually threatening.

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I'm glad I brought up Shallow Ground because I was wondering if and why people liked it. It just felt like a cheap production that didn't really go anywhere. But I agree with Des - It's all in what you expect. I didn't know that Shallow Ground or Severed were going to be low-budget film school projects, so I was disappointed when I found out that they were.

Boogeyman was so rediculous, pure crap, and I like some crappy movies. Donnie Darko was a waste of time too but the rabbit was cool looking.

even if you didnt like or understand the story - the acting was good and the production values were just fine.


mentioning it in a worst movie thread doesnt make sense unless you've only seen 3 movies and the other 2 were citizen kane and slingblade.

I haven't seen Slingblade, but if those were the only three movies that I'd seen...I still wouldn't post Donnie Darko in this thread. :o

I really did not mind Dony Darko i just did not understand the story to much.

I was wondering why do people hate the Leprechaun movies so much.

I like them.

For big budget: Ultraviolet.

Complete crap movie. The plot was ridiculous and cliched. The acting was pretty much non-existant. There were only two things going for it: Milla and the special effects. Now of course Milla is hot and that the sole reason she's there because she can't really act. The special effects were pretty cool until you thought about them. For example: the bad guys' armor. It's body armor that shatters like glass/ice when hit with a stick. Sure, it looks cool as hell in slow motion, but I can only suspend my disbelief so far and shattering body armor is beyond my abilities.

For low budget: Dead and Deader.

The cover looked alright and hell, it's zombies! I didn't really note that it was Dean Cain starring otherwise I would have passed on it. I think I made it about 15 minutes at most into the movie before shutting it off. I actually made it all the way through House of the Dead so that should give at least some idea of the "quality" of Dead and Deader.

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Donny Darko. Good movie, but I think it was given more credit as a movie because of it's soundtrack. It's a great soundtrack. Very nostalgic for many people and the timing of certain songs is just amazing. I think too many people also tried to find some deeper meaning in the movie. It's a pretty basic sci-fi kind of movie. I really didn't think it was the intense philosophical movie that many people tried to make it out to be. For some you would think the movie was like the second coming of Christ or something. People actually went on and on about how it changed their lives. Yeah... Ok...

i never heard anyone say that - ever ..

but i do know how a movie can change the way you look at other films.

if until DD your standard fare was run of the mill paint by numbers teen flicks ..then Donnie Darko would be extremely fresh and inspirational.

for the most part i only had exposure to mainstream films my whole life - until i came to Toronto and saw Jesus of Montreal at an art house cinema.

i was seeing something totally new for the 1st time ever and it blew my mind.
i had no ideas movies could make you think and entertain you at the same time until that point.


so yeah - i understand how a single film can be extremely important to people - especially if you consider what their history with film might have been until that point.

I also don't understand calling Donnie Darko a sci-fi movie. Is it because a jet engine falls on their house? I don't get it.

I agree with urge that Darko would speak to a lot of people of a certain age and outlook. I think works of art- and I believe movies, even the most crassly commercial- can be called works of art- can be a deciding factor in helping someone make a realization, or come upon some truth that becomes important to them.

Donnie Darko is a very, very good movie, imo, and I can see how it would be a important to some people.

i dont think sci-fi drives the film, any more than Repo-Man or Slaughterhouse Five, but as soon as there is a hint of time travel - it's going to get associated with the genre.

i keep it in my sci-fi section - taking my lead from the film revview books that sort genre films by some pretty lose criteria.

(i just do it because it makes locating a lot easier)

Well you're lucky then. Around here I heard it constantly. In fact it was the sole reason why I never saw the movie for years. 99 times out of 100 when so many people are saying "It's the most amazing movie I've seen. OMG it changed my life," it's probably not quite that good. Don't believe me? They're making Spiderman 4 AND 5. I shouldn't have to elaborate any further than that.

I'm not talking about a movie making you take the leap from mainstream movies to more serious films. [Not to insinuate that I even remotely think that Donnie Darko would be put in the latter category anyways.] I'm talking about people saying that it changed their life. That Donnie Darko actually changed how they look at life and made them re-evaluate their own philosophies and attitudes. I mean, Donnie Darko was basically a Twilight Zone episode. I don't see the "depth" and "deep meaning" that people heap onto the film.

It's not sci-fi in terms of aliens bursting out of chests or laser guns going "PEW PEW PEW," but it's most definitely sci-fi; just set in modern times. If time travel doesn't fit into the broad genre of sci-fi, I don't know what does.

Hahahaha-that's one of the silliest pieces of illogic I've ever heard.

Personally, I love Donnie Darko. It's one of my favorite movies of all time and I think that it's just... Smart. It has some definite flaws that I've learned to get past (Drew Barrimore's acting, for example), and I thought that some of the predestination discussion could have gone a little farther than it did, but overall I love the film.

Incidentally, I never thought that the soundtrack shone over the rest of the movie. It's a brilliant soundtrack, to be sure, but I loved the writing and direction so much that it was never just the soundtrack. So I find it interesting that some people think that its popularity only comes from the soundtrack - Never considered it that way.

...wow. That has to be the worst argument that I've ever heard. It usually helps to back up your points rather than just rephrase your opinion.

i think a long time ago i made an observation that i always saw Napoleon dynamite to be the 'simple cousin' of donnie darko.
both dealing with a guy who is out of step with everything around him, and the time travel bit.

been a while since i've seen DD but back when .. i remember finding a few more amusing similarities



as far as people having it change their philosophies - just take that for what it is ... young folks are impressionable ... 10 years from now they'll be saying the same thing because of some book on buddha they read.

i'd never let that stop me from seeing something on my own terms.

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i hated that stupid movie the ring

The worst horror movies I have ever seen was Children of the Corn 2-last!! You should know you can't touch Stephen King!! As for Donnie Darko, after you see it once, thats pretty much all I can take of that movie. It's kinda like the Sixth Sense, you already know what happens, so it's pointless to watch it more than once, ya know!! Hope that helps! Happy Slashing All !!

i thought the worst movie ever was exorcism of emily rose. it was so boring i got pissed off when the screaming woke me from my lovely nap