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No question it's gotta be ...
This is truly awful, but watchable to see all the misakes, strings on the saucers, actors fluffing their lines, wooden sets, even more wooden acting etc ... ! The awful narration etc ...
The star, Bela Lugosi, died halfway through filming and another actor took his place, just walking around with his arm in front of his face ...
A classic by the genius that was Ed Wood.
This is truly awful, but watchable to see all the misakes, strings on the saucers, actors fluffing their lines, wooden sets, even more wooden acting etc ... ! The awful narration etc ...
The star, Bela Lugosi, died halfway through filming and another actor took his place, just walking around with his arm in front of his face ...
A classic by the genius that was Ed Wood.
Ah yes ... it was a classic. The spaceship designed like a big-top, they spin their victims into cotton candy web sacs and just generally provoke general mayhem.
There's no real plot to speak of, save for a love triangle between the town hero (Grant Cramer) and the town sheriff (John Allen Nelson; also known as the first Warren Lockridge from the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara) for the town sweetheart (Suzanne Snyder) and the fact that they must all team up to stop the invasion.
For their part, the alien clowns behave much like clowns should, in a manner that is both humorous and scary. We see the clowns popping up out of small cars and making balloon animals and shadow puppets. Perhaps the only really scary scene is one at a restaurant where a little girl is almost lured outside by a clown with a beckoning finger. She doesn't get to see, but the audience sees, the oversize mallet it's hiding behind its back.
There's no real plot to speak of, save for a love triangle between the town hero (Grant Cramer) and the town sheriff (John Allen Nelson; also known as the first Warren Lockridge from the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara) for the town sweetheart (Suzanne Snyder) and the fact that they must all team up to stop the invasion.
For their part, the alien clowns behave much like clowns should, in a manner that is both humorous and scary. We see the clowns popping up out of small cars and making balloon animals and shadow puppets. Perhaps the only really scary scene is one at a restaurant where a little girl is almost lured outside by a clown with a beckoning finger. She doesn't get to see, but the audience sees, the oversize mallet it's hiding behind its back.
MikeyT said:
No question it's gotta be ...
This is truly awful, but watchable to see all the misakes, strings on the saucers, actors fluffing their lines, wooden sets, even more wooden acting etc ... ! The awful narration etc ...
The star, Bela Lugosi, died halfway through filming and another actor took his place, just walking around with his arm in front of his face ...
A classic by the genius that was Ed Wood.
That is undoubtedly a classic - but I think Ed Wood produced even worse - his gender bender "exploration" "Glen or Glenda" is perhaps even more risible.
"From Hell it Came" is the film story of a guy who is murdered, then comes back as a vengeful tree stump. He suffles around the sets entangling victims in his fronds - and you know it's him as he still has the dagger sticking out of a knot. Quite possibly close to the worst piece of 1950's film making I have ever seen.
Saw one called 'Night of the Giant Lepus' a few years back. Was a b movie from the 70's about mutant rabbits attacking a small town in the desert. The only special effects they appeared to use was the placing of cameras in the ground looking up and some rabbits to give the appearance of size. They never actually showed one of the these rabid rabbits and a person in the same shot!
So bad that you'll laugh (or cry). More here:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/
So bad that you'll laugh (or cry). More here:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/
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