Terrible film titles:

[CanuckAmok]

Gimme your worst.

I have two to contribute... one is really stupid and awkward, and the other one is just too damned long.

1) "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever"

2) "Francis Ford Coppola Presents Bram Stoker's Dracula"

[CO Liberal]

1. "S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s"

About a guy who transforms his assistant into a king cobra.

[KansDem]

19. I remember that movie!

Strother Martin's only feature role, and not a good one at that. But he's a great character actor.

[DS1]

2. Stop! Or my mom will shoot!

[rocktivity]

3. "They Saved Hitler's Brain"

That's enough to stop you cold from EVER going to the movies again!

I also hated "V.I. Warsharski," starring Kathleen Turner as a single mom/private eye.

rocknation

[Liberal Veteran]

4. The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom.

Jesus! What a mouthful.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Night of the Lepus...

Giant killer Bunny rabbits. They were too cute looking to be taken seriously. :hi:

[HEyHEY]

6. Anything with Steven Segull

They're always three word crappola titles.

"On Deadly Ground"
"Fire down below"
etc

[Richardo]

7. "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet "

...to distinguish it, I suppose, from "Jim Varney's Romeo and Juliet" :eyes:


"But soft! What light through that thar yonder window breaks, Vern?"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/

[displacedtexan]

8. "Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?"

I have no idea what it is, but I see it when I check the onscreen TV guide. I think it's one of those WE (Women's Entertainment Channel) or Lifetime Channel movies.

[CanuckAmok]

15. OMG, I worked on that one!

Apologies, people!

[blondeatlast]

39. I saw that one, too, I did a spit take.

I just couldn't help it.

[Shrek]

9. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Just too long and weird.

Honorable mention : Octopussy

[Liberal Veteran]

12. Not to mention the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert...

...was a much better movie.

Terrance Stamp as a tranny is just a thing to behold and Hugo Weaving as drag queen is hilarious.

[TheMightyFavog]

13. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times...

No more fucking ABBA!

[Liberal Veteran]

16. "What are you telling me - this is an ABBA turd?"

Best. Line. Ever!

[waterman]

22. I'm with ya, DDIQ, very weird... both selections you mention

[Edge]

10. "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead"

Horrible horrible movie. Worse title.

[CO Liberal]

11. "Howard, Part VI"

Thankfully, they never made parts I through V......

[Richardo]

14. I hate to admit I know this, but...it's "Leonard Part VI"

:scared:

[CO Liberal]

20. You're Right

I was mixing it up with "Howard The Duck".

:-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

17. "Krakatoa, East of Java."

Erm....note to production folks....

Krakatoa was WEST of Java.

[NightTrain]

33. And to think, Curtis Mayfield did the score for that one!

A far cry from "Superfly," I daresay!

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. "Dad, oh Dad. Mom's Hung You in the Closet, and I'm Feelin So Sad"

Nuff said?

[waterman]

23. Wow, is that for real? That would probably take the cake if so...

[fudge stripe cookays]

29. Couldn't find it on imdb, but

it used to be listed in an old Leonard Maltin book I had. I think it was mid 60s and had some older diva actress like Rosalind Russell in it.

[blondeatlast]

40. It's for real--

Check out this great site. We use it often as a source of reviews in the library--we LOVE IT.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/OhDadPoorDadMammasHungYouintheClosetandImFeelinSoSad-1073080/preview.php

[mac56]

44. "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...."

Carry on.

[fudge stripe cookays]

45. Thanks mac.

It has been years since I had that book, obviously.

[KansDem]

21. "Lord Love a Duck"

Whatever the Hell that means...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060636/

[xcentrik]

24. "Fled"

Really evocative, that one.

[Richardo]

25. I hate you, 'cause that reminded me of "Freddy Got Fingered"

:grr:

[elperromagico]

26. "Billy the Kid vs. Dracula"

What a stupid title.

Also "Manos: The Hands of Fate," an MST3K favorite.

[VOX]

27. Mystic Pizza, Boxing Helena, The Hudsucker Proxy...

The Banger Sisters, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, How To Stuff a Wild Bikini, What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (Terrific movie, though.)

Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl -- won't take any prizes for its title, either.

[CanuckAmok]

52. I think "Hudsucker"'s title...

..is what caused it to flop at the box office. It's a pretty great move, by directors the public seem to enjoy. I think nobody could remember what it was called long enough to get to the local googoplex.

[Astarho]

28. Attack of the Clones

also:

Halloween H2O (or as Mike Nelson put it: Halloween Water)

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (quite a mouthful)

Blood Waters of Doctor Z (although he's never called Docter Z in the movie)

Teenage Strangler (the strangler was not a teenager nor did he just strangle teenagers)

[qwertyMike]

30. Reefer Madness!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NightTrain]

31. I Dismember Mama

Rat Fink & Boo-Boo (Extremely low-budget Batman rip-off)

Boss Nigger (Blaxploitation western)

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Romancing The Stone (Maybe not terrible, but far from a great title!)

JoJo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

Mantango, the Fungus of Terror (a/k/a "Attack of the Mushroom People")

Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla (Neither Lugosi nor the gorilla appear until the last five minutes or so of the film!)

Orgy of the Dead (What a disguisting mental image that conjures up!)

The Side Hackers (a/k/a "Five The Hard Way")

[qwertyMike]

32. "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? "

Starring/written by Anthony Newley (former husband of that english slut)


http://www.5minutesonline.com/1D/CANHIERONYMUS.htm

BTW: "The OED "b" definition says a merkin is a "counterfeit hair for women's privy parts," and another dictionary calls it a "pubic hair wig. "

Go figger
I actually saw the movie in the 80's in the UK. Lots of T & AA

[qwertyMike]

34. For you ladies...

"Not tonight, I'm washing my merkin"

[NightTrain]

35. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

n/t

[bleedingheart]

38. I liked looking at Christopher Lambert in that movie

oh...and that bedroom scene....where did I put my swooning fan...

[bigwillq]

36. Anything on the Lifetime channel n/t

[bigwillq]

37. Anything on the Lifetime channel n/t

[Supply Side Jesus]

41. "Overdrawn At The Memory Bank."

uggg. Caught that one on MST3K. A very bad sci-fi flick with Raul Julia.

[marigold20]

42. Gighli

Hm, I think that's how it's spelled. Even if it had been an Oscar caliber movie instead of one of the worse movies EVER, the title still stinks.

[mac56]

43. "Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!"

A movie from 1948 about training mules. Starred June Haver, Walter Brennan, and Natalie Wood. Marilyn Monroe was supposed to make her screen debut in it, but she got cut.

[Butterflies]

46. Star Wars II - Attack of the Clones

sounded unnecessarily goofy to me.

[skrunch]

47. "Life Is Cheap...

...But Toilet Paper Is Expensive"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100023/

[regnaD kciN]

48. It won't fit into a subject line, but...

...the all-time winner has to be:

I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard For My Husband

Honorable Mention goes to:

Nice Girls Don't Explode

[ThoughtCriminal]

49. I Spit on Your Grave

nt

[fujiyama]

50. ballistic:

"Please sever my heaad off...this is a waste of $$$" was definetely one of the worst films in a theatre I have ever seen. I honestly don't know how my friend got me to see that one. I honestly had no idea what the hell it was about.

And yes, the title is as bad as the movie itself.

[CanuckAmok]

51. It was originally titled just "Ecks vs. Sever", but...

...none of the test audiences could decipher what that meant, so they tacked-on "Ballistic", to make it more 'catchy'.

I worked on that one, but just on Second Unit, so I can't be blamed for any executive decisions, including releasing it on the poor, poor public.