I’m a proud owner of the DVD. I even know off the top of my head, no relying on the imdb, that star Billy Curtis went on to work with Hitchcock and Clint Eastwood.
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I’ve been loving the new season of MST3K – Avalanche! and Yongary have been great – but Cry Wilderness is such a ridiculously awful movie; it ranks up there with some of my favorite MST3K episodes of all time, honestly. What a find.
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Unlike Manos, which I found hard to watch with the heckling, the MST3K really made Cry Wilderness a treat. “This is my wife, she appears whenever I say something racist.”
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Billy was one of the original Munchkins; he’s a legend in the little people community.
If you’re interested in the intersection of Hollywood and that community, I’d recommend reading Armistead Maupin’s Maybe the Moon. It’s a roman à clef of the life of Tamara De Treaux (the person inside E.T.).
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Or Heartbeeps, also 1981. And that had Andy Kaufman in it (under tons of makeup for his robot costume). Nobody I know (even those old enough to have seen it in the theatre) remembers it.
Look into the eyes of the dragon and despair!
I was gonna mention human centipede (DO NOT GOOGLE THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.) At least the Room is ‘so terrible you can laugh at it.’ Manos is… I have no words there. Maybe it’s foxable but I doubt it. What I brought up is just plain ‘oh god no.’
Horror/gore loving friends have told me that the first Human Centipede is terrible, but at least unique and imaginative in its awfulness, but that #2 and especially #3 are irredeemably crappy on every level.
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Quick! Somebody put him on The List!
Enh, it’s all Russian to me.
A definite contender for worst movie ever is:
I picked it out of a bargain bin, thinking maybe it would be a funny little low-budget flick. Instead, it was drawn-out and painfully unfunny, with the ending depending on a plot twist you could see coming from miles away. I threaten people with making them watch this movie. (Though that might mean I’d have to watch it again, and I refuse to do that.)
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I sure do…and I saw it in the theater.
NBK is the worst film I’ve ever seen in a cinema. I’ve seen worse on TV, I suppose, but I didn’t specifically pay to do so. It’s dreadful.
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i recall the trailer when i went to another film around the same time and i turned to a friend with me and said-- “that looks awful. how did they get kaufman to do that?” but when we realized that they had bernadette peters, randy quaid, and even jerry garcia we wondered whether the studio was using blackmail.
i don’t know if anyone remembers it but kaufman apologized for the movie on late night with david letterman and offered to refund the money of everyone that saw it out of his own pocket.
after i saw it, i payed for a friend of mine to rent it. i kept telling him “you won’t believe your eyes.”
i just wanted someone with intelligence and taste to watch it too and tell me i wasn’t mistaken in its awfulness.
I didn’t like it, but I recall occasional bits of it being great – like the surreal Rodney Dangerfield cameo, which for me easily disqualifies it from consideration for All Time Worst.
It has a 7.3 rating on IMDB…wow.
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I remember thinking of it as audacious, bizarre, and fairly ridiculous, but also something hard to look away from, mostly because of how bonkers and ridiculous it was. To me, a compulsively watchable movie is disqualified from being one of the worst movies ever.
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