Worst Movies Bad Films Part 14 Review

Worst Movies  the 14th part in a numbered series of 16.   These are not the fun kind of worst movies.  Those kind of movies I call baaad movies.  These are worthless movies that offer so little to the viewer they will simply suck up your time and make you feel foolish for doing so.     Some of these will insult your intelligence, some will appear to offer some good actors, subject matter or something else that might entice you to keep watching.

There are much better choices to make than any of these.   Avoid them..

 Striptease (1996) Director: Andrew Bergman
Starring: Demi Moore, Armand Assante, Burt Reynolds, Ving Rhames, Robert Patrick, Paul Guilfoyle, Rumer Willis, Frances Fisher

Single mom (Demi Moore) gets a job as a stripper to make money to fight her ex-husband for custody of their child. Burt Reynolds plays a horny congressman and Moore's real-life daughter, Rumer, is the little girl. It wasn't as campy as Showgirls and none of it was very interesting unless you wanted to see what Moore's breast implants looked like sans clothes.  You would think with Bergman as writer/director some of this movie would work...it does not.   

 Teenage Zombies (1958) You might think this is one of those so bad it's good movies.  It is not.  It is just cheap and boring. Woman mad scientists kidnaps teenagers turning them into listless zombies so she can take over the world. Another awful Jerry Warren directed movie. Sure you could invite people over, drink beer and probably pretend you are having fun, but why do it with this clunker at all?  For fun bad movies of this type stick with Teenage Caveman, I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Use this one in place of sleeping pills.

Teenagers Battle the Thing (1958) Directed by: Don Fields

In the mid 70's some additional footage and dialogue was added to this nearly 60 minutes of black and white footage and sold to t.v. stations as an awful movie called: Curse of Bigfoot. When you see the original film as it was meant to be seen, you will see a different awful film than the one you saw on t.v. There's no mention of Bigfoot in the original film at all. You get to watch 7 members of the cast walking in the woods, climbing on some rocks, eventually uncovering a hole in the ground that leads into the cave, that holds the remains of a mud encrusted mummy, that they carry back to a house. In the last ten minutes something actually happens you get to see the make-up of the monster which appears to be some Egg cartons pasted over someone's head. Really. Now you know what you have been missing. Nothing.

 The Telephone (1987) Directed by Rip Torn Whoopi Goldberg, Elliot Gould, Amy Wright, John Heard

Actor Rip Torn takes a mediocre Terry Southern script and attempts to showcase the talents of Whoopi Goldberg whose on screen for most of the movie by herself. The director and star fought like cats and dogs during the making of the film and Whoopi sued to try and stop the movie from being released. She plays an actress who makes prank phone calls that begins a supposedly comedic chain of events. WRONG NUMBER. But Whoopi thought the one she did with the dinosaur guy Theodore Rex was any better?

 Terror in the Wax Museum (1973) Another one you want to be so bad it's good especially with so many 'names' in the cast. It's got Ray Milland and Elsa Lancaster (the Bride of Frankenstein and former wife of Charles Laughton ), Louis Haywood and John Carradine. AND THE TERROR IS it still isn't worth watching.

The Terror of Tiny Town 1938  Directed by Sam Newfield    

It's an awful singing cowboy western without Roy Rogers, Gene Autry or Gabby Hayes.  In fact you might want to watch it for about 10 minutes because there's nothing else like it.  Your jaw will drop to the ground.  Why?  The cast is made up entirely of midgets. They run around a full sized regular Western set.  They enter UNDER the swinging bar room doors, they have to take a running jump to mount the bar stool,  they ride miniature ponies.  The story is a dull re-hash of Romeo and Juliette and after the novelty of seeing the little people pretending to be Western movie stars wears off, you're left with the rest of the dull dull movie to sleep through.  You might be tempted to see it because its unique and it's one of the movies that has just got to be So very very bad it's good.  Problem is.. after a few minutes boredom starts to set in and it becomes a real challenge to stay awake through this thing.  Avoid it.

 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1997) Director: Kim Henkel Starring: Renee Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Jacks, Tonie Perenski, Lisa Newmyer, Tyler Cone, John Harrison

Originally this film (Shot in 1994) was going to be kind of an homage for the 20th anniversary of the original film under the title Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre But it was tied up in legal problems and finally released in 1997. It is directed by the co-writer of the original film, Kim Henkel. This film is famous because it stars two people who became well known a couple of years after it was made: Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey. It's all cheaply done. Leatherface shows up but it's kind of a cheat... if you even care. McConaughey plays a psycho tow-truck driver who terrorizes Jenny (Zellweger) and her friends after they have car trouble (of course). It might suck you into watching it because of the cast or your  Texas Chainsaw interest... but you'll be wasting your time if you go for it.

Here are the previous ones in this series:

Part 13 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Bad-Films-Part-13-of-16-review-88494

Part 12 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Bad-Films-Part-12-of-16-review-c4550

Part 11 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Bad-Films-Part-11-review-131f2

Part 10 b is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-10-B-Extra-Bad-Movies-review-c2a30

Part 10 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-10-review-acb66

Part 9 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-9-review-90be

Part 8 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-8-review-81bc0

Part 7 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Moviesl-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-7-review-5890

Part 6 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-6-review-cb0f

Part 5 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-5-review-abc02

Part 4 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-4-review-b8604

Part 3 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Movies-Worst-of-the-Worst-review-b0805

Part 2 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/WORST-MOVIES-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-2-review-1e052

Part 1 is here:

http://www.viewpoints.com/WORST-MOVIES-Worst-of-the-Worst-Part-2-review-1e052

You probably would appreciate avoiding these lousy Sports Movies as well.

Worst Sports Movies  Part 3:

http://www.viewpoints.com/WORST-SPORTS-MOVIES-Ever-Part-3-of-3-review-5f8b0

Worst Sports Movies Part 2:

http://www.viewpoints.com/WORST-SPORTS-MOVIES-of-All-Time-Part-2-of-3-review-5e76

Worst Sports Movies Part 1:

http://www.viewpoints.com/Worst-Sports-Movies-of-All-Time-Part-1-of-3-review-7819