We thought we'd be a little bit self indulgent and show you some bad movies that you may never have heard of before. They may be hard to find, but if you look hard enough on this new fangled "Internet" that all the kids are using at the moment you might just get lucky.
Shown in 1972 this made for television disaster movie (also known as "The Night the Earth Shook") has all the classical cliched moments you come to expect from a truly bad movie. The film is set underneath New York in the subway after a terrible earthquake and combines a cast of characters so badly acted that you can almost smell the ham through the screen. James Brolin heads the cast in an adventure full of floods, hysterical women, junky's and spectacular death scenes as our intrepid commuters battle their way through obstacle after obstacle to make it back to the surface. If you can find this movie it's well worth watching, but for the love of god NEVER TOUCH THE THRID RAIL!
Nothing says "classic bad movie" like having William Shatner in the cast credits. The film takes place on a plane that is transporting ancient druid stones from a place called "CORN-WALL England" but, mysteriously, as they take to the air all the instruments malfunction, the plane appears to just be hovering in the sky and an eerie-ness descends. Turns out that the stones are cursed, the spirits are demanding a sacrifice and it's up to maverick ex-priest bad ass Shatner to do it. Fantastically bad special effects (Shatner's death scene is a wonder to behold), some great lines of dialogue, " "Hey, lady, are you trying to tell me that a rock had something to do with the killing of the flight engineer?" and a real example of how low budget doesn't always have to mean low quality!
The 1970's produced some of the best and worst disaster films ever made and Avalanche caught the tail end of the band wagon. Starring Rock Hudson as the king of a spectacular snow based holiday duplex which he builds in spite of the threat of impending avalanches. Thankfully everybody is so busy having affairs with everybody else that nobody has the time to worry about warnings. The film does exactly what it says on the tin - even if it does take nearly an hour before the actual avalanche happens - and when it hits you're faced with hilarious over the top acting, wobbling rubber snow and some great concerned eyebrow acting from the cast. Thanks to this film we now both know that an avalanche is no match for a guy on a pair of ski's. |
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