Friday Favorites: Time of the Turkey!

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Yes, today is the day for our annual Turkey Day Marathon. So while October is spent celebrating horror movies in general, once November comes across, we start to talk Turkeys. For for this Friday Favorites, I want to hear what is your Favorite Turkey?

Now what do I mean by that? Well, for me, a Turkey isn’t really a bad movie, because we all know that the only bad movie is a boring one! A Turkey is one that is still damn entertaining, but maybe not in the way the filmmakers originally intended. Ones that immediately come to my mind would titles like Robot Monster (1953) or The Giant Claw (1957). With these two, the filmmakers were working with what they could afford. The actors were all in, giving their all to the production. Sure, the end result wasn’t as powerful as they might have hoped, but I tell you, I have never sat down with either of those two titles and not have fun. And at the end of the day, that is what it is all about.

So what say you? What is one of those classic titles that are just so much fun to watch, even if the creators weren’t the most talented, had little or no budget, but put their heart and soul into it.

8 thoughts on “Friday Favorites: Time of the Turkey!”

  1. Wow, I could come up with quite a list here, but one movie that comes to mind that really proves to be worthy of Turkey Time is “The Brain that Wouldn’t Die” (1959). I picked up this title years ago as a “Creature Feature” DVD with Horror Host, Count Gore De Vol. This flick truly has it all: “Brainless” plot (pun intended), low-brow acting, cheap effects, and cheesy soundtrack. Add to that a disturbing nature to the whole film and you have a heaping helping of Turkey!

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    • That is a great title, Todd, and it is a beauty! It’s great how cheesy it is but also how freaking disturbing the subject matter is too! But a great flick to watch nonetheless! Great choice!

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  2. I can recite parts of “The Horror of Party Beach” from memory. “You ain’t seen nothin’ ’till you’ve seen Tina swing!” “Smells like something died down there.” “Yeah—smells like the Fulton Fish Market in the middle of July!” (A non-genre favorite: the 1968 Vittorio De Sica film “A Place for Lovers”, which I first got to see on widescreen in a theater—“It’s like praying, and dancing.”) – GPA

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    • Another great title! But I have to say, as silly as the dogs wearing shag carpeting poses as giant shrews, when I first saw this movie, it kind of freaked me out. The sounds they make were scary, not to mention the head puppets they used when they were digging through the house. Goes back to my fear of being eaten, but those bastards were brutal! So yeah, I would agree it is a Turkey, but I feel it is a lot more effective as being a horror movie than most of them are.

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  4. Spookies is the first one that comes to mind for me. Two different films basically shoe horned together, it’s a colossal mess, but hot damn if it ain’t wildly entertaining at the same time!

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