Worst Movie Titles

February 21, 2006

For many years I've collected words and names of one sort or another; when I see something memorable, I add it to a text file that sits on my desktop. It can be a person, a movie, a product, a web site. It can be a great source of inspiration when you need a little.

And that goes for unfortunate names as well, so this post on the Chicago Tribune's Pop Machine blog this morning was right up my alley:

Titles so terrible that 'Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes' didn't even make the final cut

  • "Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever" (2002)
  • "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?" (1969)
  • "C.H.U.D." (1984)
  • "I (Heart) Huckabees" (2004)
  • "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?" (1964).
  • "Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?" (1996)
  • "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994)
  • "Snakes on a Plane" (2006)
  • "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" (1992)
  • "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" (1995)

And yes, you can vote for your favorite here!

I had to choose Mother, May I Sleep with Danger because I had the great misfortune to see it when I was home sick some years ago. While these titles are all bad in their own way, in this case you get the triple whammy of a bad title, a horrible plot, and Tori Spelling's acting in said TV-movie. I needed medication more for the after-effects of that movie than for my pneumonia.

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