I don't have the advantage of you étatsuniens, no really grungy late
night movies on the box, even when I lived in Germany (lousy pornos,
yes), no inclusive video rentals. The Germans have bad taste in bad
taste. But I saw *The Silver Chalice* when it came out, at 11 or so, all
I remember is Pier Angeli & Jack Palance. It just seemed to be awful in
the way all films were awful then, incompetently manipulative with no
discernible human content, the Platonic cave at ten removes. And there's
an eternal gaping lack at the sweaty yearning heart of me because, being
too young, I only ever got to see the trailers of films with titles like
*I married a teenage werewolf*.
mj
Ken Wolman wrote:
> Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>> I'll second this--a must-see.
>>
>> It's not the worst sci fi film of all times, however. That distinction
>> belongs to The Monolith Monsters, killer piles of stones from outer
>> space.
>>
>> Mark
>
>
> I beg to differ. I forgot the champion cheapo sci-fi film of all time,
> Plan 9 From Outer Space, directed by the inimitable Ed Wood. I bought a
> VHS of this junkoid film after watching the movie of Ed Wood's life.
> When I my wife and I split up in 1997 I left her Plan 9 and I took
> Citizen Kane. I won, bastard that I am:-). No, actually I forgot it
> was there. Either way, it's appalling. Bela Lugosi, the elegant
> Dracula of 1931, was the only "name," and by 1955 he was a burned out
> old junkie who died before the filming was done (the body double didn't
> even have Lugosi's build, he was Mrs. Wood's dentist). The best
> parts--first, the paper plates that were supposed to by flying saucers
> but were still obviously from the planet Chinette; and the space alien
> who decomposes on some guy's patio, followed by the man exclaiming "How
> about that?"
>
> I recall that some group at Harvard voted Plan 9 the worst film ever
> made. I suppose it can fight it out with Lepus and a big-budget dog (as
> opposed to a rabbit), The Silver Chalice, a film so bad that even Paul
> Newman has refused to talk about it.
>
> Steve Buscemi wasn't in any of these, either.
>
> ken
>
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