What is your favorite bad horror movie? - Bilge

J johntiki Member MD Joined: Mar 31, 2002 Posts: 1528	J johntiki Posted posted on Wed, May 25, 2005 10:54 PM Oops! I accidentally deleted the topic...this was my original post... The zombie post got me thinking about this… My all-time favorite, obviously miniscule budgeted horror film was this piece of crap from the early 70’s called “Shriek of the Mutilated.” The bad aspects – lousy acting, cheesy monster costumes, lame gore effects and a severely amateurish technique of using overexposed black and white film to simulate a blizzard just make the film that much better. The plot is simple - a bunch of college kids and their professor head off to Boot Island in search of the mythical yeti, as time goes along the college buddies are knocked off one by one by the scary man in the teddy bear costume. Eventually the teacher’s pet discovers that the yeti myth was cooked up as a ploy to get fresh meat for a cult of cannibals after being attacked by a blood thirsty mob of crazies wielding razor sharp forks. I got my copy of Shriek of the Mutilated when I recorded it off “Chiller Theatre,” a late night program that weekly showcased one terrible horror movie after another, about 22 years ago and every Halloween I pull out the tape and watch it in its entirety. Oddly enough I found a commercial release of the movie about 10 years ago and bought it hoping for scenes that had been edited out of the TV copy but amazingly it cut out all the gory scenes that played on the airwaves sometime in 1983! If my description of this charming film hasn’t motivated you to go out and find a copy for yourselves let me give you one more incentive…Popcorn! Yes, Shriek of the Mutilated featured Hot Butter’s Popcorn in one of the lamest looking college party scenes you’ve ever seen in your life! A must see! What was your favorite p.o.s.? JohnTiki Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland! [ Edited by: johntiki on 2005-05-26 16:44 ]

Oops! I accidentally deleted the topic...this was my original post...

The zombie post got me thinking about this… My all-time favorite, obviously miniscule budgeted horror film was this piece of crap from the early 70’s called “Shriek of the Mutilated.” The bad aspects – lousy acting, cheesy monster costumes, lame gore effects and a severely amateurish technique of using overexposed black and white film to simulate a blizzard just make the film that much better. The plot is simple - a bunch of college kids and their professor head off to Boot Island in search of the mythical yeti, as time goes along the college buddies are knocked off one by one by the scary man in the teddy bear costume. Eventually the teacher’s pet discovers that the yeti myth was cooked up as a ploy to get fresh meat for a cult of cannibals after being attacked by a blood thirsty mob of crazies wielding razor sharp forks. I got my copy of Shriek of the Mutilated when I recorded it off “Chiller Theatre,” a late night program that weekly showcased one terrible horror movie after another, about 22 years ago and every Halloween I pull out the tape and watch it in its entirety. Oddly enough I found a commercial release of the movie about 10 years ago and bought it hoping for scenes that had been edited out of the TV copy but amazingly it cut out all the gory scenes that played on the airwaves sometime in 1983! If my description of this charming film hasn’t motivated you to go out and find a copy for yourselves let me give you one more incentive…Popcorn! Yes, Shriek of the Mutilated featured Hot Butter’s Popcorn in one of the lamest looking college party scenes you’ve ever seen in your life! A must see! What was your favorite p.o.s.?

JohnTiki

Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland!

[ Edited by: johntiki on 2005-05-26 16:44 ]

Post #161654 by johntiki on Wed, May 25, 2005 10:54 PM