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A Top 5 List: Worst Movie Titles Ever

April 29th, 2007 in Movies, Top 5 List -

incrediblystrange.jpgI will be the first to admit that this is a subjective live. Everybody knows of a movie title that you think is about one thing, but is actually about something else. After all Monster’s Ball sounds like vampires and other creatures of the night having a party. And what do you tell the ticket seller when the movie is titled Phffft or $? For your consideration are five of the dumbest movie titles ever -

5. Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. I would say that the ideal double feature companion would be You are What You Eat. Maybe if you’re a cannibal, it’s you are who you eat. Make sure to be armed with a sharp knife and a bottle of French Dressing.

4. Tomorrow Never Dies. Actually tomorrow dies when it becomes today, after which it’s really dead when it becomes yesterday. I like my James Bond films with titles that make sense, like Octopussy.

3. Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. I see naked dead people. If normally you can’t see a ghost, how can you tell what they’re wearing? I actually saw part of this film and believe me, the ghost is cute but that invisible bikini was a waste of a small special effects budget. This was the last of the Beach Party movies from the mid-Sixties. Dishonarable mention goes to the second worst beach movie title: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.

2. The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here!. I admit it. I’m confused. If your life is threatened by werewolves, than wouldn’t vermin seem like an added annoyance? True story (according to the Internet Movie Database: filmmaker Andy Milligan, a legendary cheapskate, wouldn’t hire a wrangler and found himself which a bunch of rats that he needed to get rid of. Milligan proposed an ad campaign in which theatergoers could get a free live rat. There is no truth to the rumor that a similar giveaway will be done in conjunction with a forthcoming movie.

1. The Incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?. If you want to see the real grindhouse, look no further than filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler. I pity the poor shmoe who had to put this title on the theater marquee. Steckler was so cheap, that his rip-off of the Batman television show, Rat Pfink a Boo Boo was released without changing the typo in that title.

I’m sure readers have their own ideas of worst movie titles, so feel free to make your comments known.

10 COMMENTS & TRACKBACKS

  1. Dan
    April 29th, 2007 at 9:00 pm

    I know it isn’t as bad as some on that list, but I’d like to nominate Rambo: First Blood Part II. Technically it makes sense, but it’s just so damn awkward.

  2. Lorin
    April 29th, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    I dunno, what about Final Destination 2?

  3. Marina
    April 30th, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    Also not as bad but pretty bad was last year’s “Blood and Chocolate”.

  4. Frank the Tank
    April 30th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is silly

  5. Mary M
    June 17th, 2007 at 10:21 pm

    The World According To Garp is terrible. I know it came from a book, but I bet alot of people missed this great movie because the title is so dumb.

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  7. Neal
    June 20th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    A lot of people skipped a real gem at the big screen named The Shawshank Redemption.

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  9. Randy
    August 15th, 2008 at 1:26 am

    how about… Sssssss… yep thats the name of the movie…

    “Sssssss”

  10. mary
    April 13th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    Funny, i thought of Garp too…i’ve always hated The Hudsucker Proxy even though it’s the Coens. And Glengarry Glen Ross bugged me until I saw it and it became one of my all-time faves.

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