Worst movie ever? - The Attic Expeditions (2002) Discussion

If that's what you think you probably haven't seen many films.

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[–] Erin_Sparkle 17 years ago

yellowrobe, that's exactly what i think. Everyone has different tastes and i started this thread because i was wondering who didn't like it, not to be critisized. Obviously i am the only one that feels that way about this movie. Just please don't make assumptions about me and my taste in movies, they are evidently different to yours.

Dude, I full on Swayze'd that mother!.

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[–] yellowrobe1 17 years ago

Out of curiousity, how old are you? Saying that you probably haven't seen many films is hardly a harsh criticism. It's simply a deduction. Many films far worse than this (and I actually happen to like this film).

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[–] Erin_Sparkle 17 years ago

Yeah sorry about that, i wasn't in a very good mood the day that i wrote that. I was just wondering who didn't like this movie. I wasn't paying much attention when i watched it and i didn't get into it. But then again, maybe i am just stupid!
I am 17 and it kind of seemed like an insult at the time because i am a movie buff and it kind of annoyed me that you don't know me and you said that.
I really didn't mean to annoy anybody. Sorry.
You probably reading this and thinking 'oh now i understand, it was an immature teen.' I would think that too.
Dude, I full on Swayze'd that mother!.

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[–] pjwoodall1 17 years ago

One of the perennials at the local Antiques and Collectibles shows where I live is Conrad Brooks whose claim to fame is appearing in the worst movie of all time PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE. He's a fun guy who's always hawking cheap DVD's of movies you've never heard of.

Worst for me was the German NEKROMANTIC 2 about a woman with two lovers, one living and one dead. This was considered so obscene it was seized on opening night and ordered destroyed.

Many of the movies sold by Asian Cult Cinema are downright pornographic when it comes to equating sex with extreme violence such as the Guinea Pig films. Unfortunately Hollywood is now jumping on the bandwagon with the SAW and HOSTEL
films.

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[–] Cemetarygirl 17 years ago

No I thought this movie was great and all on a low budget too. Sound acting, interesting storyline and an hallucinogenic ride.
For me it is not movies like Plan 9 (which I also enjoy) but rather big budget waste of money extravaganzas like Mission Impossible, or those who should know better like Carpenters Vampires or Ghost of Mars, or the new wave of teen horrors that are serialised, making bucks off the name and not bothering to put in any effort. No this was a good film and at 17 you are just an apprentice buff. Blessings Furdion

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[–] yellowrobe1 17 years ago

Holy crap, I completely agree and nearly posted something exactly the same. Any movie that makes me think afterwards is a success in my opinion. It's the films I forget afterwards that are the real losers.

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[–] hauckmania 17 years ago

Wow, you thought my acting was bad?

I thought my scene with the Dragon puppet was pretty good.

I mean, c'mon...I'm playing TWO parts at once.

And I'll tell you what, the dragon is really upset you didn't like him. He's very sensitive.

I'm just funnin' ya. :>)

Seriously, this really is a 'love it or hate it' kinda movie. I can understand both sides.

I worked on it for about a month, and let me tell you, they had very little money. If you knew the budget, you wouldn't believe what's on the screen.

Everyone, especially diretor Jeremy Kasten, did a super job just getting it made.

But, believe me, I understand that doesn't mean ya gotta like it.

What's pretty cool is, here we are years later and people are still talking.

Not bad.

Thanks to everyone for posting,

Jerry Hauck
Aka/ Ronald---the puppet guy

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[–] yellowrobe1 17 years ago

Actually Jerry, I can only imagine how tough the puppet scene was. Acting isn't easy to begin with, not to mention having to do so with a supposed "living" puppet on your hand.

I was lucky enough to talk to the screenwriter a bit. Jerry isn't lying about the miniscule budget. I was told that much of the cast actually lived in the very house the film was shot in (which ironically was just down the street from the house used in The People Under the Stairs, a film that actress Wendy Robie, AKA Dr. Thalama acted in) to save money. I seem to remember hearing that it took something like 3 years for the film to be completed because of money issues.

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[–] hauckmania 17 years ago

Yeah, Yellowrobe1, that's right! I remember I would come to the 'set', which was this old, should-really-be-condemned house, and quite a few of the actors (and the director) would be looking like they just woke up. That's because they just did, having slept there.

The place was really bad. The 'big chest' in the attic was on the 2nd floor (maybe...even the 3rd). And there really was no 'floor' up there. You had to walk along planks to get across. If you stepped off the planks to either side you were gonna die. The place could have collapsed any second.

And the film did take a few years to complete. All of Dr. Ek's stuff was filmed much later. But the producers (some old and some new) and JK hung in there and got it done.

That's showbiz! :>)

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[–] undertow976 14 years ago

If it means anything - I think this movie has affected me more than any movie I have seen before or since (and the puppet freaked me out). This is one of the few movies that I had to convince my friends to watch so I could confirm that it did exist...

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[–] mega_droogie777 16 years ago

How can you say that the acting in this movie was bad other than Seth Green? It's apparant that there aren't many people out there who realize the talent that Ted Raimi has. He is the only reason I saw the movie in the first place and since then it's become not it my top five worst movies I've ever seen but easily in the top ten best alongside movies like Interview with the vampire among others. This is a great movie and it's too bad that most of you writing here seen to have a bad opinion of it. I guess it's because you satisfied with mainsteam hollywood crap of today.

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[–] roobad 16 years ago

It did suck, but I think I can go one better: "Night train to terror" is so amazingly and spectacularly bad that it's good, if you know what I mean

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[–] Xcalat3 15 years ago

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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[–] hoffmanswaldau 14 years ago

I really don't think it is so bad. In classic dramaturgy, unities are proposed to make a plot good.

- Unity of action: there are no or few subplots, just Trevor's story after murdering Faith and the subplot with the doctor, who's visiting Dr. Ek

- Unity of time: although Trevor and the audience is fooled that we're in 2004, having a leap in time, the unity of time is given at any point of the story.

- Unity of place: beside a few scenes (inside the clinic, nature), the only significant place is inside the "House of Love", also Trevor's and Faith's former home, but Trevor and the audience is fooled once more by a tricky plot, thinking that we're in two different locations.

Watch films like "The Beast of Yucca Flats" or "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" and you got an idea what bad films are about.

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[–] MystMoonstruck 14 years ago

These are very, very bad movies with scarcely a moment of entertainment in them. They aren't even bad enough for a laugh, as "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is though it might depend on your mood for "The Giant Claw".

It's Alive! (1969) ~ not to be confused with the killer mutant baby movie
Curse of the Swamp Creature (1966)
The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
The Horror of It All (1963)
The Creeping Terror (1964)
Empire of the Ants (1977)
Night of the Lepus (1972)
The Lonely Lady (1983)
The Giant Claw (1957)
Robot Monster (1953)
Our Very Own (2005)
Blood Freak (1972)
The Unseen (2005)
Tentacles (1977)
Gigli (2003)
Zaat (1975)

"The Attic Expeditions" is far from being even a "fair to middling" movie. There are so many atrocious ones that are yet to be mentioned.

~~MystMoonstruck~~

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