Post by Bret Walker on Apr 5, 2005 9:43:57 GMT -5
It was 1988 when I formed, with my friend Dave Mitchell, the Really Really Bad Film Club of Rutgers University (Camden), or R.R.B.F.C.R.U.C. Based mostly on appreciation of Troma Films and the like, it also included classics such as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Polyester, and Plan 9 from Outer Space.
I'm bringing this up for two reasons. One, I've been in a discussion with a girl from Myspace about Really Really Bad Films, and how socially conscious Troma films are, behind their gore. Here's what I had to say about some of their classics:
The other reason I'm bringing this up is that Roger Corman, who directed over 50 classic horror films such as Little Shop of Horrors (the original 1960 classic) and The Beast with a Million Eyes, turns 79 today. He's also listed as a writer and/or producer on over 300 other brutally bad films, definitely worth looking up on IMDB.
So I'd like to discuss Really Really Bad Films. Any that you like, why you like them, and what makes them Really Really Bad Films. After all, in order for a film to be a Really Really Bad Film, it has to be really, really bad, so bad that it's actually enjoyable. Bad films such as Meatballs 2 and Meatballs 3, both painfully bad in their own rights, and both so unworthy of the name Meatballs (which was a great comedy), but which go beyond bad to hysterically good.
I'm bringing this up for two reasons. One, I've been in a discussion with a girl from Myspace about Really Really Bad Films, and how socially conscious Troma films are, behind their gore. Here's what I had to say about some of their classics:
Surf Nazis Must Die is a post-apocalyptic Troma film about some surfer Nazis who kill an upstanding, real cleancut black kid. His mother, a big black woman named Big Mama, hops on a Harley and goes on a bloody rampage in a quest for vengeance for her dead son. It's a social-commentary type of piece. Lots of gore. Good stuff (-:
The guys at Troma are nothing if not socially conscious. They've produced such great political pieces as Surf Nazis, Toxic Avenger (which is a commentary on pollution), Street Trash (a commentary on the plight of the homeless), and the classic, Cannibal the Musical (co-produced and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame, it's the true story of Alfred Packer, accused muderer and cannibal who supposedly ate his companions while stranded in the Rocky Mountains in Wintertime).
Even though Troma is first and foremost about gore, bad acting and bad scripts, and of course, gratuitous sex and violence, all their films have an underlying moral. To me, it makes them one of the finest film production companies in the modern era of film (-:
Definitely check out Surf Nazis Must Die, it's a really good film, one of their best. Also check out Cannibal the Musical, it's hilarious.
The guys at Troma are nothing if not socially conscious. They've produced such great political pieces as Surf Nazis, Toxic Avenger (which is a commentary on pollution), Street Trash (a commentary on the plight of the homeless), and the classic, Cannibal the Musical (co-produced and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame, it's the true story of Alfred Packer, accused muderer and cannibal who supposedly ate his companions while stranded in the Rocky Mountains in Wintertime).
Even though Troma is first and foremost about gore, bad acting and bad scripts, and of course, gratuitous sex and violence, all their films have an underlying moral. To me, it makes them one of the finest film production companies in the modern era of film (-:
Definitely check out Surf Nazis Must Die, it's a really good film, one of their best. Also check out Cannibal the Musical, it's hilarious.
The other reason I'm bringing this up is that Roger Corman, who directed over 50 classic horror films such as Little Shop of Horrors (the original 1960 classic) and The Beast with a Million Eyes, turns 79 today. He's also listed as a writer and/or producer on over 300 other brutally bad films, definitely worth looking up on IMDB.
So I'd like to discuss Really Really Bad Films. Any that you like, why you like them, and what makes them Really Really Bad Films. After all, in order for a film to be a Really Really Bad Film, it has to be really, really bad, so bad that it's actually enjoyable. Bad films such as Meatballs 2 and Meatballs 3, both painfully bad in their own rights, and both so unworthy of the name Meatballs (which was a great comedy), but which go beyond bad to hysterically good.
