bonus points for vampira and tor johnson. ::looks around:: yeah, yeah. i like the tim burton movie (ed wood).
have any of you subjected yourselves to eegah!? that's horror to write home about. though the turkish star wars might give it a run in the all-time razzies. eegah! has to be seen to be believed.
speaking of turkish cinema--you want z-movie paradise--that's it. check out winners like turkish star wars, e.t., the wizard of oz, superman, etc... there's also a pretty sad bollywood version of superman with his girlfriend spidergirl--and it's a musical.
little shop of horrors (1960) was filmed in 2 days and still managed to be hilariously entertaining. eegah! (1962) is not entertaining. it is horrifying for all the wrong reasons, tries to make a singing sensation after someone who can't act OR sing out of a paper bag and is frightfully dull, cheesy and is about a caveman. 'nough said.
at least ed wood is sometimes so bad he's good. next to eegah!, what i've seen of ed wood's actual movies on youtube--it doesn't look half bad. i actually had a friend who had one of those collections of the 50 worst films of all time or whatever. eegah! was the one he showed us. it was truly awful.
the '50s rocksploitation flick, go, johnny, go!, despite the awesome musical cameos is a pretty dire piece of dreck (the two young leads--good god! help! cheese! wimp! saccharine!) from alan freed soon before he ended up in the payola scandal. the '60s brought us frankie & annette. at least the elvis movies started and ended well with a iffy section in the middle (and some are downright awesome like jailhouse rock--the rocksploitation flick that all others with lesser budgets wished they could duplicate)--still not even remotely on the level of the majority of lesser budget rocksploitation flicks that you don't hear about anymore and with good reason.
it was the era of giant insects, end of the world radiation and bomb scares, sci-fi radiation causing said mutants, giant insects and zombies, aliens, commies, blobs, man-eating plants, one monster meets another monster, etc...
hopefully the ants won't be quite so... "them!"-sized.