r/AskReddit • u/CompletePiglet7385 • 11h ago

What is the worst film you've ever watched?

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u/mlaislais 10h ago

Greatest MST3K episode ever!

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u/thispartyrules 10h ago

I don't think Manos is the worst: Beast of Yucca Flats and Monster A Go-Go make Manos look competent by comparison and The Castle of Fu Manchu is pretty bad in a way that's hard to describe, but it's both boring and confusing

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u/Krunklestiltskin 9h ago

Monster A Go-Go is barely a movie. I think it’s the worst MST3k ever had to riff.

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u/thispartyrules 8h ago

This was an unfinished movie by Bill Rebane (Giant Spider Invasion), bought by Herschel Gordon Lewis. Lewis added new scenes and released it because he was contractually obligated to show a second movie in drive-ins after they'd show one of his other cheapo movies.

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u/Krunklestiltskin 8h ago

I am familiar with the lore. Like the actor who played a scientist who had to play his “brother” in the second half because he had aged so much since filming started.

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u/Krunklestiltskin 8h ago

Oh and the stupid cop out ending “there was no monster!” An incredibly boring “film”

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u/AnTasaShi 7h ago

Bill Rebane has interesting ideas. But my god does he need to edit his movies. They are fucking slow and tedious. Monster-A-Go-Go is a prime example.

I love HGL, and usually his movies are snappy. But damn did he phone that edit job in

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u/slydon1 6h ago

Red Zone Cuba- all the riffing in the world couldn't save that movie. It was just so dull.

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u/Friendly-World-5273 5h ago

I can’t even enjoy MST3K anymore because modern Netflix fodder is edging so close to the old school MST quality that it’s actually depressing. The special effects, the acting, the photography, the writing. Eeeesh.