Sleepaway Camp:



Released in 1983. Fairly entertaining and terrible, although the only reason to see crap horror films is for sheer absurdity. This is one of the better ones I've watched. The deaths are pretty good but the situations quickly become fairly predictable and the narrative is completely and utterly lacking any logic. After the first few deaths, it becomes apparent that nobody in the entire camp gives a shit that people are getting killed. A cop shows up and a few paramedics to take the bodies away and that is more or less it. Wouldn't kids want to know why their camp mates are getting hacked? Completely awful, but it's all in good fun. The ending is excellent and genuinely SCARY. It is almost too good for the rest of the movie. Definitely worth it for the creepiness of the ending.

Gingerdead Man



Jesus Christ this movie sucked. Thank God it was only a little over an hour. The first scene with a psychotic Gary Busey is terrifically bad, but it just gets worse and never lets up. The deaths are pretty boring, the characters are obnoxious even for a B horror film, the soundtrack made me want to have the filmmakers beaten by the mafia. Avoid this piece of crap on the next late-night journey to the video store.

Pinocchio's Revenge


1996: Horrible movie, but the shower scene is worth seeing.

Dead Alive


1993: Very gross movie but ridiculously bad.

I love Sleepaway Camp and Dead Alive.

Same here. In my world, sometimes the worse it is, the more I like it. And there are only about a million of these movies that fall into that category. Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Return of the Living Dead, 2001 Maniacs, Critters, most of the Friday the 13th movies, the list goes on and on.

Dead Alive is brilliance. This is like saying the Evil Dead movies are bad.

This movie is pretty much unrivaled for gore and it is also one of the funniest horror movies I have ever seen.

"I kick ass for the Lord"

The scene where he takes the Zombie baby for a walk in the park is hilarious also.

If you don't like Dead Alive, you do not have any business commenting in a horror thread.

Braindead - the UK uncut version is even bloodier. As if that was even possible.


I will still never believe that they gave this guy LOTR. After Bad Taste and Dead Alive, what studio exec in their right mind thought Peter Jackson is the man for that job.
Of course he did a phenominal job but with those 2 films on your resume, how do you make the connection to timeless literary classic?

I would say his ability to handle the drama/fantasy elements of Heavenly Creatures. Plus the initial pitch to Mirimax was pretty impressive.

that m night shamalyawn one with the aliens and crop cirles in it

it was so bad i forget the fuckin name

I would hesitate to put Heavenly Creatures on the same scale as LOTR and it hardly made a reputable filmmaker out of Mr. Jackson. I don't know anything about the Mirimax pitch. Was it a special feature on one of the DVD's?

Pretty much. I'm glad we're back on track as far as that one is concerned. I have a friend who loves horror movies who recently saw that one for the first time (don't ask me why or how) and didn't really care for it. I've pretty much written his recommendations off now.

oh and any horror flick where a little girl is supposed to be scary..singin nursery rhymes and shit..whatever..

man they beat this concept to the ground..

little kids dont scare me, big guys with axes and chainsaws are fuckin scary

Oh, it's not on the same scale of LOTR at all, but it definitely put Jackson on the map as a "serious" filmmaker who could juggle serious adult themes combined with whimsical fantasy and a cinematic style, which came as a surprise after a couple of fun splatter films. Heavenly Creatures was met with much praise from critics and the industry.

The Frighteners, however, showed what he could do, FX-wise, with a relatively small budget and an untested FX-house. The movie itself is a mixed bag, but it showed Jackson's visual talents using FX with little money, especially at that early point in CGI development.

As far as the LOTR pitch, I think it's covered on the Fellowship Extended DVD. It was about how Pete & Weta had been developing tests and concepts for Miramax, who were looking at doing a one- or two-picture deal, and how it almost folded because Miramax didn't want to commit to a trilogy. So Pete shopped it to other studios, and New Line eventually went for it, and even went one further: committing to a trilogy like it should be.

It's all pretty interesting, how the planets aligned for this to be made, because it could have been a collosal failure. The story behind the making of the 3 films is just as fascinating as the actual films, to me.

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I love Jack Frost... child decapitations, rape with a carrot... what could possibly make a better film?

Nah...I feel Jack Frost and Leprechaun belong in this thread.

Next you're going to tell me that Demonic Toys is anything less than a classic.

It is better than those two, that's for sure.

However, the ultimate king of "so bad it's good" horror is this beauty:


Antiyou, Mercury...if you haven't seen this, get the fuck on it immediately!

I can tell just from the costume budget that this one will be good. A camo jacket and a motorcycle helmet... that is some terrifying shit right there.
I'll add it to the list of ones to see.

soooooo bad it's good...

Buttcrack (1997)