Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Wonderful World of Odd by Bathroom Readers’ Institute

Author:Bathroom Readers’ Institute
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bathroom Readers’ Press
Published: 2012-06-19T13:47:02+00:00

TWO THUMBS WAY DOWN

If you’re interested in sharing your love of Cobra Woman, Viva Knievel! and The Catskill Chainsaw Redemption with others, consider starting a chapter of the Bad Film Society in your town. Here are some society-tested films for you consider for your screenings:

• The Horror of Party Beach (1964). Remember those 1960s “Beach Party” films starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello? Now imagine a ship dumping nuclear waste offshore, and radioactive monsters emerging from the depths to eat the beach bunnies and surfer boys. And then imagine all of the carnage set to surf music…and you get The Horror of Party Beach, also billed as “The First Horror Musical!”

• The Tingler (1959). A coroner (Vincent Price) discovers a creature that lives in people’s spines and grows by—literally—feeding on their fears. This film’s claim to fame is the sneaky technique the producers used to goose the audience during the scary parts in the film—they hid electric buzzers under a few seats in theaters where the film was being shown, and set them off whenever they wanted the audience to scream.

• Eegah! (1963) Richard Kiel, best known for his portrayal of the giant “Jaws” in James Bond movies of the 1970s, plays Eegah, a stone-age caveman who somehow survives into the 1960s and falls in love with a teenage girl.

• Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda (1973). Better known as the “Turkish Star Trek,” this film is a low-budget Turkish rip-off of the classic TV series. Plot of the story: “The Enterprise picks up a Turkish hobo.” If you can’t find it under its original title, sometimes it’s sold under the name “Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek.”

• Rock ’n’ Roll Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Ape (1963). Another foreign classic, this time from Mexico: A mad scientist with an ape-brained human sidekick named Gomar kidnaps women for use as guinea pigs in brain-transplant experiments. Everything goes swimmingly until he kidnaps the sister of Golden Venus, a famous female wrestling star. When the sister dies on his operating table, Golden Venus and her friend Golden Ruby swear revenge on the mad scientist. He fights back by creating Vendetta, a monster who poses as a wrestler to battle Venus and Ruby in the ring.

For more awful films, be sure to review page 271.

• For Your Height Only (1979). A Philippine James Bond-style film starring a midget named Weng-Weng as Agent 00. Standing only 2'9" inches tall, Weng-Weng is believed to be the shortest person ever to star in a feature film. (Verne Troyer, who plays Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films, is an inch shorter, but has played only co-starring roles.)

• Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970). Footage from three unrelated films was slapped together to make this dud, which was released under several different titles, including Creatures of the Prehistoric Planet, Horror Creatures of the Lost Planet, and Space Mission of the Lost Planet. The plot—to the extent that there actually is one—involves a trip to a faraway planet to trace the origins of an intergalactic vampire plague that has spread to the Earth.

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