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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2010 1:35:39 GMT -5
Cave Dwellers. Never actually see any cave dweller. Actually there were some meat eating tribe in there, and i guess Ator and sidekick could be considered too.
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Post by msmystie3000 on Oct 17, 2010 8:33:52 GMT -5
I THINK SOME MORE ACCURATE TITLES ARE IN ORDER (These aren't Joke Titles, just legit alternatives):
TISCWSL&BMUZ: The Incredibly Strange Gypsy Who Twisted A Slacker's Brain & Made Him A Mixed Up Murderer.
POD PEOPLE: Aardvark People.
TEENAGE STRANGLER: High School Strangler.
COLOSSUS & THE HEADHUNTERS: Maciste & The Headhunters.
THE BEATNIKS: The Hoodlums/Thugs/Delinquents.
SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS: Santa Claus VS./Meets The Martians.
MONSTER A GO GO: Attack of the Atomic Age Astronaut!
WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET: The Prehistoric Planet.
IT CONQUERED THE WORLD: It Attacked/Invaded/Infected The World.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Oct 17, 2010 10:36:50 GMT -5
That's the one I was thinking about. It briefly conquered a small jerkwater town but was defeated by a blow torch. A bit shy of conquering the world.
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Post by angilasman on Oct 17, 2010 10:43:09 GMT -5
It Was Well on its Way to Conquer the World
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Post by msmystie3000 on Oct 17, 2010 11:58:02 GMT -5
It Was Well on its Way to Conquer the World ....It Conquered The World With A Long-Winded Speech By Way Of Peter Graves!
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Post by zombiewhacker on Oct 17, 2010 14:29:55 GMT -5
Hamlet. According to Webster's, a hamlet is a rural settlement smaller than a village, whereas this film takes place almost entirely at Castle Elsinore, a Danish sea fortress.
Catalina Caper. The caper is a perennial winter-deciduous spiny shrub bearing rounded, fleshy leaves and pinkish-white flowers. This movie was shot at a sandy beach resort where capers neither grow nor are in season.
Tormented. I kept waiting for Tor to show up but he never did.
Or am I missing the entire point to this exercise?
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Post by frankenforcer on Oct 18, 2010 9:04:13 GMT -5
The Undead. Nothing Undead, nothing really dead. Just Billy Barty and a lady if ill repute.
Earth vs. the Spider. Really just, Regional part of America vs. the Spider.
Godzilla Vs. Megalon: I guess Jet jaguar couldn't pull in the crowds even though he's the supposedly main character and the Zilla only pulls in like 30 minutes at most. Sandy Frank.
Untamed Youth: Pretty tame really.
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Post by frankenforcer on Oct 18, 2010 14:57:30 GMT -5
Also worth mentioning: "The Girls in Lovers Lane" There is a girl, there are many many lovers but not really a lane and none of the girls wind up in any sort of lovers lane. Unless you count the wooded area where no one could park a car as the lane.
Wait a minute, there was a girl in what could be considered a Lover's Lane. The girl necking in the car when Carrie screams.
Seems a little odd to name your movie after a character we don't know who only spends about 30 seconds of actual screen time. But what the heck ramsey do I know.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2010 15:09:16 GMT -5
Well you gotta give Mixed Up Zombies credit for them at least thinking up great titles. Absolutely. So much so that I actually rented the movie--based solely on the title--long before I even knew about MST3K. Some music writing guy wrote about this movie and heres what he said: "...this flick doesn't just rebel against, or even disregard, standards of taste and art. In the universe inhabited by The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, such things as standards and responsibility have never been heard of. It is this lunar purity which largely imparts to the film its classic stature. Like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and a very few others, it will remain as an artifact in years to come to which scholars and searchers for truth can turn and say, "This was trash!" The whole essay is in the guy's, Lester Bangs, book which i'd really like to read the whoel thing.
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Post by fathermushroom on Oct 18, 2010 19:47:25 GMT -5
Atomic Brain. Stranded in Space - stranded on a parallel planet I suppose. The Unearthly - clearly suggests a Being From Another Planet. Hercules Unchained doesn't really describe anything in the movie, I don't think. The Rebel Set misses the mark. Alien from L.A. doesn't really give one a good idea of what's about to happen either. Beast of Yucca Flats is of course rather misleading.
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Post by notundercovercop32 on Oct 18, 2010 20:08:12 GMT -5
Atomic BrainBeast of Yucca Flats is of course rather misleading. I disagree. He was a beast and he was from a place called Yucca Flats.
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Post by frankenforcer on Oct 19, 2010 13:22:08 GMT -5
I love what someone (I believe on this board) pointed out. If you take the Beatniks and the Rebel Set and switch the titles to the other film it fits a little bit better. Great catch with that one.
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Post by brandonakaxerxes on Oct 19, 2010 14:26:20 GMT -5
It's probably worth nothing that "Women of the Prehistoric Planet", was indeed originally just called, "The Prehistoric Planet", but marketing added the "Women" part, to drum up interest.
I used to awalys think the title was just a bad typo, and the title was intended to be "WOMAN of the Prehistoric Planet", which would have made more sense (although it also probably would have given away the ending).
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Post by stevehadcrackers on Oct 19, 2010 20:50:57 GMT -5
The worst offenders have already been mentioned: Pod People, The Thing That Couldn't Die, Incredibly Strange Creatures... none of them really make sense. But the one that always springs immediately to mind when I think on inappropriate titles is The Undead. There's nothing even remotely accurate about that one. Really, it's not hard to make a movie called "The Undead" make sense in SOME way, especially if it's a Roger Corman flick. That, plus it's such a bland title to begin with; a lot of these movies need titles that really stand out-- like It Conquered the World-- to be memorable. As far as Blood Waters of Dr. Z is concerned, I'm pretty sure that movie's original title was Zaat, which apparently is the crap in the spray bottle that made the good ol' doctor into a giant fish... thing. But that's a weird title too, being that 1) I think Zaat is only mentioned once in the movie, and 2) nobody would know what the hell that movie is about judging from that title. I'm assuming the latter is why it was changed, but then the title they picked makes no sense either, so... eh, it's a weird movie no matter what, it deserves a nonsensical title. Anytime I watch that episode I feel like I'm coming out of a fever dream when I'm done. Apparently Film Ventures International is terrible at renaming cheapie foreign movies: Cave Dwellers was initially called Ator the Flying Eagle (or something) and Pod People was The Extraterrestrial Visitors. I guess they figured if they slapped scenes from OTHER movies that made sense with the title, it would be ok. Btw, anybody know what movie the opening scenes from Cave Dwellers is from? I know the scenes in Pod People are from the Galaxy Invader.
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Post by msmystie3000 on Oct 19, 2010 23:18:22 GMT -5
I think it was an Italian 1963 racist/male sexist pig-fest called Thor & The Amazon Women or some thing like that (I may have gotten the title wrong but I looked up the flick online & read about it). Some macho white guy & his subservent African sidekick (an Uncle Tom with muscles, basically) are the two brawny guys shown in the Cave Dwellers credits (and no, they're not James Caan & Billy Dee Williams ). Look it up in IMDB. It's the usual "Evil Amazons enslave the guys & must be overthrown plot" with a very blatant message of "Women are not meant to rule...Men are...Women are only best at housework, poppin' out babies & stuff"....How charming ...a "Sword & Sandal" answer to Project Moonbase...I'm gonna puke, now.....
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