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Quiz about Movies for Sadists II Electric Boogaloo
Quiz about Movies for Sadists II Electric Boogaloo

Movies for Sadists II: Electric Boogaloo Quiz


If you only hurt the ones you love, the people behind these movies must have loved audiences a lot. Proceed at your own risk; they don't make decontamination sprays for your brains.

A multiple-choice quiz by Correspondguy. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Question 1 of 10
1. I joke about these movies being hazardous to your health, but in one case it appears that the movie actually was. In 1956, Howard Hughes produced a film starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward. John Wayne played Genghis Khan and Susan Hayward played a Tartar Princess. They fall in love, they're separated by war, there's much fighting and panting. The movie was filmed downwind of a nuclear testing site, and many of the actors later died of cancer. What's the movie? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. It's never a good sign when the reason a movie gets made is to win a bet. In 1966, Harold P. Warren, a fertilizer salesman, informed Stirling Silliphant, an Oscar-winning screenwriter, that making a movie wasn't that hard. When asked to put his money where his mouth was, Warren agreed. The result was what critic Dalton Ross called the worst movie ever made. Near-unwatchable, the film begins with a interminable driving scene, unrelieved by dialogue, significant events, or even interesting scenery. The movie centers on a family stopping for the night at a creepy cabin owned by a mysterious "master" and cared for by "Torgo," who was supposed to be a satyr but is basically a guy with bulgy knees. The film also cuts away with some frequency to a couple making out. These scenes have no connection to anything at all. What's the name of the movie? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Some movie critics can find something nice to say about any movie. Therefore, it's rare that a survey of critics will not unearth a single positive review. But there are a few. On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has yet (as of January 2010) to garner a single positive review from a critic. Amazingly enough, it's not a low-brow comedy starring a bunch of nobodies; it's an action-adventure starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. The movie opens with a kidnapping and quickly degenerates into a complex and confusing mess. What's the movie? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. This is on this quiz not because it's a bad movie. It's a good movie, because it can't help it. What makes it sadistic is that it's entirely pointless. Anyone who saw it for anything other than an initiation ritual or a film class should be entitled to their wasted time back. I speak, of course, of Gus Van Sant's near shot-by-shot remake of a 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic. What movie did Van Sant nearly duplicate? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. It's not often that I can catch a commercial for a movie and instantly realize 1) that it's awful, and 2) under no circumstances would I voluntarily watch it. One exception is 2001's "Freddy Got Fingered." I'd tell you some of the events of the movie, but Fun Trivia's writing guidelines won't let me. Bodily fluids are a factor in many of them. What Canadian comedian acted, directed, and co-wrote a movie so awful that the Toronto Star invented a "negative one star" rating for it? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. We can trace the roots of our next tale of terror back to a great movie: "Airplane!" "Airplane!" is, of course, a spoof of disaster films. It has, unfortunately, spawned imitators, the worst of whom are Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Friedberg and Seltzer specialize in terrible movies that allegedly spoof genre pictures. We know this because the titles are obvious: "Epic Movie," "Date Movie," "Disaster Movie," and they were associated with the tolerable "Scary Movie." They deviated from this naming convention only once in the four movies they produced and directed from 2006 to 2008. What movie of theirs, released in 2008 on the heels of "300," is not titled "[genre] Movie"? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. The Internet teaches you one truth: everyone likes something. Except this movie. A movie sometimes gets a really low rating from the professionals but is tolerated, or even liked, by the general public. This movie is an exception. As of this writing (January 2010) the professionals rate it at the 6th worst of all time (at Rotten Tomatoes) and the amateurs (at IMDB) rate it as the 2nd worst. Released in 2004 and starring a collection of babies, who are voiced by adults, the premise of the movie is that babies know nearly everything, but forget it as soon as they learn to talk. How can a movie starring cute lil' babies be bad? Well, because there's nothing funny in it at all. To quote one reviewer: "It is perhaps the most incompetent and least funny comic film ever made. There aren't even any good diaper jokes." (Tom Lang, of the "Detroit News.") What's the movie? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. 2008 was not a good year for movies. Not only did you have "Disaster Movie," you had a second movie from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, and you had "The Hottie and the Nottie." To quote Rex Reed, "I would like to tell you this gross-out-on-camera is every bit as bad as its title implies, but that would not be entirely true. It is much, much worse." Here's the movie: Guy wants to get together with his grade-school crush, who is now the "hottest woman in Southern California." She won't get into a relationship with him (or anyone) until someone starts dating her horrible friend. After a predictable series of events, the friend, or "nottie" becomes beautiful and our "hero" chooses her over the "hottie." In a terrible bit of casting, the titular "hottie" is played by a hotel-chain heiress whose breakout role was filmed by a low-light camera and requires proof of age to buy. Who? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Back in 1978, I was an impressionable nine year-old, and one night, I talked my Dad into letting me watch "Saturday Night Live." I don't remember the show, but I do remember a commercial for a movie that creeped me out. The movie stars Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margaret, and features a puppet that comes to life. Well, not really - it just seems to. What kind of puppet is it? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. This movie earns a place on this list both for exploitation and sheer annoyance value. In 1938, Sam Newfield directed a western called "The Terror of Tiny Town." It's a pretty basic '30s-'40s western, with songs thrown in from time to time, as was common in the era, with one notable deviation. What was it? Hint



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1. I joke about these movies being hazardous to your health, but in one case it appears that the movie actually was. In 1956, Howard Hughes produced a film starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward. John Wayne played Genghis Khan and Susan Hayward played a Tartar Princess. They fall in love, they're separated by war, there's much fighting and panting. The movie was filmed downwind of a nuclear testing site, and many of the actors later died of cancer. What's the movie?

Answer: The Conqueror

There's not much more to say about the plot, but Wayne "won" a Golden Turkey Award for being woefully miscast. Howard Hughes is supposed to have felt bad about making an awful movie and his unwillingness to release the movie until 1974 is cited as evidence for that proposition. (See "Empire," an unflattering book about Hughes). On the other hand, Hughes watched the movie over and over, and while Hughes was a Class-A nutjob, there's no evidence he was a masochist.
2. It's never a good sign when the reason a movie gets made is to win a bet. In 1966, Harold P. Warren, a fertilizer salesman, informed Stirling Silliphant, an Oscar-winning screenwriter, that making a movie wasn't that hard. When asked to put his money where his mouth was, Warren agreed. The result was what critic Dalton Ross called the worst movie ever made. Near-unwatchable, the film begins with a interminable driving scene, unrelieved by dialogue, significant events, or even interesting scenery. The movie centers on a family stopping for the night at a creepy cabin owned by a mysterious "master" and cared for by "Torgo," who was supposed to be a satyr but is basically a guy with bulgy knees. The film also cuts away with some frequency to a couple making out. These scenes have no connection to anything at all. What's the name of the movie?

Answer: Manos: The Hands of Fate

"Manos" is Spanish for "hands," so the title is basically "Hands: The Hands of Fate." Two characteristics that render this movie truly awful are first, that the director didn't get sound equipment, so the whole movie is dubbed, and dubbed by fewer people than are in the cast, and second, every scene begins with a long pause before anything happens.

It's generally accepted as the worst movie ever lampooned on the TV show "Mystery Science Theater 3000." (Which prompts me to mention one of the great mysteries: on the "MST3K" DVD of the "Manos" episode, they've included the original movie.) By the way, my research has not unearthed whether Silliphant paid off; technically, "Manos" is a movie, but saying a movie this bad meets the terms of the wager is like putting apple cores in a loaf of bread and claiming it's a pie.
3. Some movie critics can find something nice to say about any movie. Therefore, it's rare that a survey of critics will not unearth a single positive review. But there are a few. On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has yet (as of January 2010) to garner a single positive review from a critic. Amazingly enough, it's not a low-brow comedy starring a bunch of nobodies; it's an action-adventure starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. The movie opens with a kidnapping and quickly degenerates into a complex and confusing mess. What's the movie?

Answer: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Think of that: 105 critics watched a movie starring two actors who have some talent and are easy on the eyes, and not one liked it. Of course, the Internet being what it is, the movie has some defenders on IMDB, where the general public can weigh in. I'm supposed to relate this paragraph back to the movie, but I can't bear to repeat a synopsis, so I'll quote some reviews: "The backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almost certainly made more sense" (Nick Rogers), "Banderas mopes through this hideous and unintelligible enterprise like a bloodhound with a hangover, while Liu elects to look cool in leather in lieu of a performance" (Urban Cinefie Critics), and "You'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot. You'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus." (Rob Vaux). DVDs, amazingly enough, can be purchased for around $5.00.

This is shocking because first, someone decided to release a movie this bad on DVD, and second, it's about $4.99 too much, and third, the cost for shipping toxic waste would seem to make buying it on the internet cost-prohibitive.
4. This is on this quiz not because it's a bad movie. It's a good movie, because it can't help it. What makes it sadistic is that it's entirely pointless. Anyone who saw it for anything other than an initiation ritual or a film class should be entitled to their wasted time back. I speak, of course, of Gus Van Sant's near shot-by-shot remake of a 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic. What movie did Van Sant nearly duplicate?

Answer: Psycho

There are a few changes from the original, the most obvious being that it's in color. Which underlines the pointlessness of the movie, because Hitchcock could have made the original in color, but chose not to. And, as proof that it's the singer and not the song, the actors shape the characters differently, so Vince Vaughn (as Norman Bates) and Anne Heche (as Marion Crane) come off differently than Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh (especially Heche, apparently). Anyway, both movies have identical plots and characters: Marion Crane steals a large sum of money from her employer in order to finance a new life.

She stops at the Bates Motel and is murdered by what appears to be the owner's mother. A private detective investigating Cranes disappearance is also killed by "Mother." At the end, of course, "Mother" is revealed to be a malevolent personality of the owner, who has gone insane after killing his mother. Go see the original.
5. It's not often that I can catch a commercial for a movie and instantly realize 1) that it's awful, and 2) under no circumstances would I voluntarily watch it. One exception is 2001's "Freddy Got Fingered." I'd tell you some of the events of the movie, but Fun Trivia's writing guidelines won't let me. Bodily fluids are a factor in many of them. What Canadian comedian acted, directed, and co-wrote a movie so awful that the Toronto Star invented a "negative one star" rating for it?

Answer: Tom Green

(All of the answers are names of Canadians, by the way.) The plot of "Freddy Got Fingered" is barely there, but it concerns an aspiring cartoonist who is forced to move in with his parents. He has a struggle with his father, who wants him out, and various experiences in the neighborhood, which form most of the movie.

There are two schools of thought on "Freddy Got Fingered." One is that it's surrealistic meta-humor, akin to Andy Kaufman's wrestling and creation of "Tony Clifton." The other is that it sucks. I like Roger Ebert's view: "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel.

This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." For the record, the movie "won" five Razzies. Tom Green picked up his, arriving in a limo and bringing his own red carpet, unfortunately spoiling the joke by playing the harmonica until dragged off the stage.
6. We can trace the roots of our next tale of terror back to a great movie: "Airplane!" "Airplane!" is, of course, a spoof of disaster films. It has, unfortunately, spawned imitators, the worst of whom are Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Friedberg and Seltzer specialize in terrible movies that allegedly spoof genre pictures. We know this because the titles are obvious: "Epic Movie," "Date Movie," "Disaster Movie," and they were associated with the tolerable "Scary Movie." They deviated from this naming convention only once in the four movies they produced and directed from 2006 to 2008. What movie of theirs, released in 2008 on the heels of "300," is not titled "[genre] Movie"?

Answer: Meet the Spartans

I will admit that people like these movies. They make money. I have no idea why. Basically, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer take a bunch of references to pop culture, characters and situations from other movies, and a ton of low-brow humor, stuff it into a mixmaster, and hit puree. I'd recap the plot and characters of "Meet the Spartans," but Fun Trivia insists that I take into account that this quiz will be on the site for a while, and a year or two from now, no one will understand the references, and there's no other point to the movie. Look, these movies are so cheap and easy that "Meet the Spartans" and "Disaster Movie" were both released in 2008, despite Friedberg and Seltzer writing and directing both of them.
7. The Internet teaches you one truth: everyone likes something. Except this movie. A movie sometimes gets a really low rating from the professionals but is tolerated, or even liked, by the general public. This movie is an exception. As of this writing (January 2010) the professionals rate it at the 6th worst of all time (at Rotten Tomatoes) and the amateurs (at IMDB) rate it as the 2nd worst. Released in 2004 and starring a collection of babies, who are voiced by adults, the premise of the movie is that babies know nearly everything, but forget it as soon as they learn to talk. How can a movie starring cute lil' babies be bad? Well, because there's nothing funny in it at all. To quote one reviewer: "It is perhaps the most incompetent and least funny comic film ever made. There aren't even any good diaper jokes." (Tom Lang, of the "Detroit News.") What's the movie?

Answer: SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2

Let me tell you how bad this movie is. In researching this question, I read some of the reviews on IMDB. A more visceral cry of horror cannot be imagined. My favorite was the poor parent who took their four year-old to see it and hoped to catch a nap.

Unfortunately, the child was very wise for her age and insisted they leave. The movie was made, by the way, by using computers to animate the babies' mouths so they appeared to be talking, the same technique that was used in "Babe." The tragic thing about the movie is that the director was killed in a car crash three years later, so this is the last movie he directed.

Not a good thing to go out on.
8. 2008 was not a good year for movies. Not only did you have "Disaster Movie," you had a second movie from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, and you had "The Hottie and the Nottie." To quote Rex Reed, "I would like to tell you this gross-out-on-camera is every bit as bad as its title implies, but that would not be entirely true. It is much, much worse." Here's the movie: Guy wants to get together with his grade-school crush, who is now the "hottest woman in Southern California." She won't get into a relationship with him (or anyone) until someone starts dating her horrible friend. After a predictable series of events, the friend, or "nottie" becomes beautiful and our "hero" chooses her over the "hottie." In a terrible bit of casting, the titular "hottie" is played by a hotel-chain heiress whose breakout role was filmed by a low-light camera and requires proof of age to buy. Who?

Answer: Paris Hilton

This movie offends me on so many levels: First, there's the word "nottie." It bugs me so much that I'd avoid seeing any movie with that word in the title. Then, there's the fact it stars Paris Hilton, a woman I loathe so much that I consider her "career" as an actress to be one of the signs of the decline of Western Civilization.

Then, there's the conceit that Paris Hilton plays the hottest woman in Southern California. Paris Hilton isn't the hottest woman in this movie, and I can say that without seeing this movie, because Paris Hilton is simply not hot. If she ate something, she might have decent looks, but in my book, you have to be smart to be hot. By that standard, Paris isn't even lukewarm. Oh, the movie? Um. Well, it's terrible. Please don't make me do any more research on it.
9. Back in 1978, I was an impressionable nine year-old, and one night, I talked my Dad into letting me watch "Saturday Night Live." I don't remember the show, but I do remember a commercial for a movie that creeped me out. The movie stars Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margaret, and features a puppet that comes to life. Well, not really - it just seems to. What kind of puppet is it?

Answer: A ventriloquist's dummy

It took me twenty years to mention it to anyone, but one day, my friends and I went to a bar where they had a "Magic" pinball machine. We all looked at it, and with charming simultaneity, admitted that we'd all seen the commercial and been terrified by the evil talking dummy. No, really.

It spoiled "Saturday Night Live" for me for years - I wouldn't stay up for fear of seeing the commercial again.
10. This movie earns a place on this list both for exploitation and sheer annoyance value. In 1938, Sam Newfield directed a western called "The Terror of Tiny Town." It's a pretty basic '30s-'40s western, with songs thrown in from time to time, as was common in the era, with one notable deviation. What was it?

Answer: Every member of the cast was a midget.

Really. Every actor in the movie is a little person. This gets exploited in that the actors ride Shetland ponies and walk under, not through, the saloon's swinging doors. But other than that, it's a basic B western. With songs. Don't forget the songs. What makes it sadistic is that everyone speaks in soprano.

It's not the actor's fault that they have short vocal chords, of course, but it did grate on my nerves a lot to have the hero and the villain sound like they've just been sucking helium.
Source: Author Correspondguy

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