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Your team-building exercises are crap compared to a synchronized indoor skydiving squad.

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Forget Taylor Swift's celebrity friendsthis is a real "squad goal." Somehow, doing this with your friends seems way more fun than getting a million Instagram likes. This is the Russian Flystation indoor synchronized skydiving team practicing at Prague's Hurricane Factory, where the World Indoor Skydiving Championships just wrapped up. Think of this the next time you have to do a trust fall into the arms of your co-workers who definitely weren't listening to how you're supposed to fold your arms.

http://on.aol.com/video/russian-skydiving-team-practice-is-amazing-519192002

Here's another clip of the team in front of a whole audience:

https://www.facebook.com/flystationteam/videos/vb.705359286168021/906664709370810/?type=2&theater
https://j.gifs.com/vO7j4P.gif

College student living the dream forced to drain his dorm room hot tub.

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Your college years are filled with crazy dreams that you'll never actually achieve, like "building the world's tallest wizard staff" or "graduating without crushing debt." But sometimes, collegiate dreamers actually have the stick-with-it-ness to make their dreams a reality. Dreamers like UCLA student and quarterback Josh Rosen. Not only is Rosen living the dream of playing football at the collegiate level, up until recently, Rosen had also been living the dream of having a dorm room hot tub.

https://instagram.com/p/88zk0iqwZs/

Unfortunately, after posts went up on social media about the totally dope hot tub, UCLA administrators caught wind and ordered him to remove the party pool from the premises. Hopefully, however, this will inspire the script for College Hot Tub, a direct-to-video comedy about a real cool dude rallying against the The Man to get to keep his hot tub (costarring boobs). 

Sweet-toothed Walker.

Celebrate Halloween with these 100-year-old tortoises eating pumpkins.

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When you get older, your relationship to Halloween changes. As a kid, you care about the candy. As an adult, you care more about the costume and how you can make it either sexy or a terrible pun (or a sexy pun, but those are the only three options). When you grow old, though, all you want to do on Halloween is stay at home and chow down on some nice pumpkin with friends. At least, that's what these Galapagos tortoises at the San Diego Zoo are happy to do. The tortoises age in range from 90-something to 130-years-old (except for one spry under-90 youngin' who's probably, like, 87), and if they're any indication, slowly eating pumpkins is the best way to spend Halloween when you've lived for about a century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8kPVued82g

Related: White tiger cubs celebrate their first birthday in the most adorably metal fashion ever. 

This woman's Halloween face paintings might be the scariest things you can put on your face.

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Nikki Shelley is a self-taught face painter who lives in Rugby, England, and her Halloween face paintings are like tiny horror movies that live on your face. On her Facebook page, she says of her work:

As a mum of 3 young children, I started face painting many years ago as a way of entertaining them through school holidays etc. I soon developed a love for the work and branched out to my friends and family's events.

...which sounds pretty benign, considering that a lot of her work would make children cry, and not in that "I've had too much fun and now I'm just tired" way. 

https://instagram.com/p/8oeeI7TAmu/?taken-by=nikkithepaintinglady

Her work is as gorgeous as it is scary, though, as you can see from this video of a skull: 

https://instagram.com/p/7yvxIEzApM/?taken-by=nikkithepaintinglady

Here's one for Doctor Who fans:

https://instagram.com/p/5-woR7zAlt/?taken-by=nikkithepaintinglady

And one for fans of general nightmare imagery:

https://instagram.com/p/1WS0WqzAl4/?taken-by=nikkithepaintinglady

Her comment on this is "Wasn't impressed how this turned out," even though it's 1,000 times better than what most people can do, face-painting-wise:

https://instagram.com/p/0_QrFbTAmy/?taken-by=nikkithepaintinglady

If you need an extra dose of horror, here's a doll Shelley painted as well:

https://instagram.com/p/1n694VzAmT/?taken-by=nikkithepaintinglady

You can see more of Shelley's work on her Instagram.

Couple turns mom's pregnant body into actual wonderlands to make baby announcement.

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Photographer Simon Shaffrath and his wife went beyond the traditional belly plaster to commemorate the changes her body went through, and they went way beyond the usual fancy stationary, amusing staged photos, or even funny or moving video to make their birth announcement. Using Tim Burton-esque miniature landscape photography and Photoshop, the German couple turned mom's body into a series of wonderlands, winter and otherwise, to herald the future arrival of little Theo. Said Simon on BoredPanda, where he posted the photos,

My wife and I will have our first baby in November. We are very happy about this, so we decided to make some special and creative photos. His name will be “Theodor” and each picture has it’s own message.

The message seems to be a lot like Dr. Seuss' Oh, The Places You'll Go!, and the landscape is pretty Seussian as well.

Did we mention they were German?

Simon also described the process, along with some action shots:

I worked on every photo for one week. We took the photos on Sundays, then I retouched them with Photoshop till Wednesdays and after that I planned the next shoot. Modelling was great fun for both of us – of course we only used non-toxic and skin-tolerant products and materials, such as paste.

Apparently, Theo's kicking would sometimes disturb the scenery.

Whoever Theo turns out to be, they seem to think he'll be pretty chill in any weather.

Some have said they wish it was all miniature art and no Photoshop, but some people can also never be happy.

Hopefully, this will encourage more couples to make original, body-positive announcements like these. In fact, as much as the pregnant body needs to be reinforced and celebrated, there's no reason everyone shouldn't start doing this. Next time you have a dinner party, build a Tim Burton-esque map of your town on your belly with a route to your house. You don’t have to be woman, especially if you live in the Midwest or a town with just one clock tower or something.

See the whole photoset and read more about the Shaffraths' project at BoredPanda.

Witching hour.

16 actually funny Halloween costumes.

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Most funny Halloween costumes aren't funny. They're last minute attempts that straddle the line between "cool" and "too cool to wear a costume" and they end up being totally lame and eye-roll-worthy. Not these though, these are legit.

1. The 'tops in cops.

"Triceraop" is also probably the name of a script sitting on Nicolas Cage's desk.

2. This isn't what you get if you Google "boobs."

It's what you get if you Google "Google Boobs."

3. Oh yeah!

Looks like he used the door, which isn't something Kool-Aid Man would do.

4. He is not "Buzz."

He is MISSUS! NESBITT!

5. This one is for "The Birds."

The most terrifying thing about Halloween is Hitchcock's hatred of blond women.

6. He looks just like a famous comedian.

Just exactly like Zach Galifianakis.

7. This costume rocks (which beats scissors).

With helpful headpieces.

8. "Start the reactor…"

Total Recall reference, or a baby dressed impeccably like a guy?

9. You'll need a horse, of course.

Unless of course the horse is…a violent psychopath.

10. She's got tacos, but she's Belle…oh, I get it now.

You're beautiful, Taco Belle.

11. From Star Wars Star Trek Doctor Who…?

Straight out of Battlestar Galactica.

12. Tres Che.

Cool, his costume is your freshman year wardrobe.

 13. How about a kiss?

Or how about all of KISS?

14. Hold on. For one more day.

He's Captain Phillips. That's Wilson the beach ball. Together, they are Wilson Phillips.

15. Storm's a brewin'.

Hope you get home soon, guy stuck in a hurricane.

16. The First Lady of Fright.

She had such spooktacular fashion sense, that Jackie-O-Lantern.

31 parents who did family Halloween costumes right.

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These family Halloween costumes are a testament to awesome parenting. Sure, having young kids means selflessness, hard work, and responsibility, but it also means getting letting your imagination run wild during the only point in your life when your kids will willingly coordinate outfits with you. Let's take a moment to honor the second round of parents who wouldn't settle for throwing an M&M outfit on their kid and calling it a day.

1. These 'Breaking Bad'-ers. 

They are the ones who knock. Unless the little guy is sleeping.

2. These 'Wreck-It Ralph'-ers.

If you can't tell by the picture, this was definitely the dad's idea.

3. These 'Labyrinth' fans.

Points for doing this. And points for know what 'Labyrinth' is.

4. This Rapunzel and tower.

https://www.facebook.com/KITV4/posts/10153088473751861

5. This biker chick, whose dad builds costumes around her wheelchair

*heavy metal music*

6. These 'Doctor Who' fans.


7. These Robin Williams devotees.


8. These Minecrafters.


9. This Pokéfamily.


10. These Batman fans.


11. This fairy tale duo.


12. This Ghostbuster and marshmallow man.


13. These 'Adventure Time' Fans.


14. This Super Mario Family.


15. These Dora fans.


16. These bad influences.


17. These 'Finding Nemo' fans.


18. This group of unlikely friends.


19. This other Pokéfamily.


20. This nightmare family.


21. This visual representation of motherhood fears.


22. These X-Filers.


23. These Rugrats.


24. This shark attack.


25. These Adamses.


26. This Ripley.


27. This mythical unifamily.


28. These 'Star Wars' fans.


29. These 'roos.


30. These Avengers.


31. These Flinstoners.

Pill Cosby, Trumpty Dumpty and other painfully punny costume ideas from Jimmy Kimmel.

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In case you are a real ghost or zombie and haven't been keeping up with the calendar, tomorrow is Halloween. Time is running out to have the cleverest costume of them all, and if you have fun with a pun, Jimmy Kimmel is here to help. For 10 years now, Kimmel and crew have made hybrid costumes. Expect some laughs, but nothing else, if you go as Pill Cosby this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO61JZmTe5s

9 TV couples wearing Halloween costumes so good you'll forget how annoying couples costumes are.

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Couples costumes can be a unique reflection of a relationship or a way to shove in everyone's face that you're so in love with someone you want to wear matching outfits. (Or both.) These 9 TV couples costumes are so inspired that you won't even begrudge their wearer's smug happiness with the course of their life and relationships.

1. Parks and Recreation's Leslie and Ben as Princess Buttercup and Wesley from The Princess Bride.


2. Veronica Mars's Veronica and Logan as the White Stripes.


3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Willow and Oz as Joan of Arc and God.


4. The Office's Jim, Pam, and baby Cece as Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Swee'Pea.


5. Happy Endings' Max and Penny as a mom and her baby.


6. Gossip Girl's Chuck and Blair as hot 1920s people.


7. New Girl's Cece and Robby as Ninja Turtle and Angel (and later as Bride and Groom with the assistance of Schmidt as Abraham Lincoln/Magic Mike).

Schmidt, as part of a manic will-they-won't-they with Cece, donated his suit so she and Robby could match.


8. Frasier's Daphne and Frasier as the Wife of Bath and Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales.


9. How I Met Your Mother's Lily and Marshall as Sonny & Cher.


Scarlett Johansson somehow makes stoning people to death sound sexy in new reading of the bible.

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Comedian Mike O'Brien wrote sketches for six years on SNLspent one year being in them, and is releasing a new sketch comedy album, out today. Featuring friends of SNL, and written by O'Brien, the album Tasty Radio is reviving sketch comedy as an experience exclusively for your earholes and feelings, something that you can listen to while doing other things. In a sketch for Tasty Radio, O'Brien and Jorma Taccone stumble upon actress Scarlett Johansson (the voice of Samantha from Her) and ask her to enlighten them with readings of bible verses in her own special way. 

 

Guy on plane seated next to stranger who looks freakishly similar to him.

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Last night, a bearded male passenger was seated on a plane next to a stranger that looked exactly like him. His wife's friend Lee Beattie, posted the picture of the man and his doppelgänger on Twitter. There are of course a few differences in features between these guys, but everything else down to the length of their ginger beards and how they part their hair is exactly alike. Even from the head shot it looks they share the same weight and frame.  The magic of smart phones and social media now helps document these weird incidents. There's even a website that helps people find strangers that look exactly like themselves. 

https://twitter.com/leebeattie/status/660005167337730048

It's great that everyone had a good time with this. Even another passenger a few rows back is enjoying the spectacle. But there was a wasted opportunity here! If you ever sit on a plane next to your twin stranger, say you're them from the future and that you have a dire warning about what happens after you land. Then inform them that they must follow your exact instructions once you depart the plane. At the airport, take them to one of those fancy Best Buy vending machines and have them buy you some sweet headphones. Not for leisure, but because they contain a part that you need for your time machine to return to the future. 

A high school football coach refused to stop praying at games, so the kids called in the Satanists.

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Bremerton High is a school in Washington that has been grappling with some thorny issues around religious freedom and the separation of church and state. A football coach named Joe Kennedy has been leading prayer circles for years. They're Christian prayer circles, just to be clear. According to a very detailed statement from the school district, it wasn't a practice widely known outside the school, and a rep from another district happened to see Coach Kennedy kneeling on the field and mentioned it to administrators at Bremerton. They told him to knock it off, and he refused. Now the school has been thrust into the media spotlight.

https://twitter.com/KATUNews/status/659235645957738496

The Bremerton District admins have been trying to work with Coach Kennedy so that he can still pray, but not in a way that violates the very clear laws against anything that could be seen as coercive to students. Apparently, he isn't interested in compromise. They throw some amazing shade at him in their statement with this:

To date, Mr. Kennedy has not taken the District up on any of these offers. Instead, his legal representatives have clearly stated in the media that an accommodation that does not allow Kennedy the spotlight of the 50-yard line immediately following games will be unacceptable to him.

Hahaha. They mad.

Coach Kennedy was carrying on as usual in all the brouhaha, but he is now officially suspended on paid leave. Why? Because the students were like,"Enough talk. You want religious freedom? We'll give you some religious freedom." Then they got in touch with the closet chapter of The Satanic Temple and asked them to lead an invocation on the football field. Here's the letter the Temple sent to Bremerton High shortly before Kennedy's suspension:

This the letter we sent to the Bremerton High principal staff this morning. We have yet to hear back. (Please...

Posted by The Satanic Temple - Seattle Chapter on Wednesday, October 28, 2015

And it worked. Kennedy's off the field and the Satanists have also agreed not to summon Lucifer at the goal post.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT The Satanic Temple of Seattle has received confirmation directly from the Bremerton School District...

Posted by The Satanic Temple - Seattle Chapter on Wednesday, October 28, 2015

On Thursday, Kennedy did attend the game, where he prayed in the stands. The Satanists also came, to support the players and students, and were met with mixed reactions. Some yelled "Jesus" at them and that they should go away. Others thanked them for coming. And no one was forced to pray to any gods they didn't want to. Whatever your beliefs, you gotta admit: The Satanic Temple gets things done.

https://twitter.com/SeaTimesPhoto/status/659975502380298240

Dressing up.


Reporters asked female scientists how they will deal without makeup and men on the moon.

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To prepare for real missions to the real moon, female scientists aged 22 to 34 boarded an experimental capsule at Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems. For eight days, the six scientists participating in the Moon 2015 mission will live in a simulation of the International Space Station.

"It's the latest in a lengthy series of tests carried out by institute specialists studying the effects on human physiology and emotions during life among the stars," reports Russian News Agency TASS. 

"Life-support systems will sustain the crew as a list of journey tasks mounts a search for a missing moon rover and charts the progress of life-science experiments," the report adds. So yeah, this is a pretty serious undertaking with real scientists. Naturally, the press asked these academics asked the important questions.

During the press conference, they were asked, "How will you deal with being without makeup for eight days?" and "How will you cope with not being around men?" 

The team kept their cool. "We are very beautiful without makeup," participant Darya Komissarova said. But then Anna Kussmaul laid it down:  "We are doing work. When you're doing your work, you don't think about men and women."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRZZ1Nwqmng

It's also controversial whether or not this experiment is inherently sexist to begin with. The presumption that women and men would act differently in space is either misogynistic, or else just based on observed differences here on earth.

Sergei Ponomaryov, the experiment's supervisor, said, “There’s never been an all-female crew on the ISS. We consider the future of space belongs equally to men and women and unfortunately we need to catch up a bit after a period when unfortunately there haven’t been too many women in space.”

The Internet is delighted by this Swedish bartender who looks eerily like 90s-era Leonardo DiCaprio.

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If you thought there was only one person in the world who looked exactly like Leonardo DiCaprio, you thought wrong. There are at least two. There's Leonardo DiCaprio, who you probably already knew about, and there's his Swedish bartender dopplegänger, who is currently freaking out the Internet with his stunning likeness. And he's not just a regular Leonardo DiCaprio dopplegänger, he's a 90s Leonardo DiCaprio dopplegänger. That was a wonderful era for young Leo, when he still had his whole life ahead of him and the Pussy Posse remained thriving.

For a refresher course, this is Leonardo DiCaprio circa (actually, in) Titanic:

Now meet Konrad Annerud, your possibly slightly more attainable crush:

https://instagram.com/p/9YV5xnwBCK/

Leo:

https://instagram.com/p/9doRmalX2k/

Dopplegänger:

https://instagram.com/p/9WviXwQBGX/

Leo:

https://instagram.com/p/9c0b7FGteC/

Dopplegänger:

https://instagram.com/p/57gOV9QBJJ/

Leo:

https://instagram.com/p/9cxN1SunyT/

Dopplegänger:

https://instagram.com/p/80xZk8wBNr/

Leo:

Dopplegänger:

https://instagram.com/p/3W5-3oQBII/

And you'll never believe what else Leonardo DiCaprio and his dopplegänger have in common: they've both never won an Oscar.

HR nightmare.

7 awesomely bad horror movies to watch before you die in a way that looks really fake.

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When talking about art, terms like "bad" and "good" are pretty subjective, and the criteria for each are often not that dissimilar. In horror, especially, a bad movie can be great. It's difficult to narrow down a huge category like "bad horror" into a list of just a few. It's even more difficult to rank those movies; it's like trying to compare apples and oranges (actually, that's easy, they're both fruit—maybe more like ranking sex versus tacos).

None of these movies could be classified as good, but they're celebrations of other people's bad ideas, earnest in their efforts and fascinating in their failure. 

In the interest of avoiding the same movies that always end up on these lists, we haven't included too many (we hope!) really well known ones, standbys like Leprechaun In The HoodPlan 9 From Outer Space, Black Devil Doll From Hell, or Troll(although Monster Dog was directed by Claudio Fragasso).

1. Bug (Jeannot Szwarc, 1975)

A horror movie about bugs. And about how stupid science is

When a California earthquake cracks open the earth, swarms of fire-starting insects are released, wreaking havoc on the town, destroying property, killing people, and just generally being pyromaniacs. They even set fire to this poor lady's head in the Brady Bunch kitchen. 

But then the bugs start dying! That's great, right? Well, not everyone thinks so. A really smart science professor (James Parmiter, played by Bradford Dillman) is driven to figure out why and ends up mating the fire bugs with the equally disgusting and much more adaptable palmetto bug/American cockroach (because what could possibly go wrong?), thus creating the perfect storm of nightmare bug that can set fire and fly. Great job, science! 

But what is the movie really about, you ask. There is a pretty obvious ham-fisted attempt to address Deep Existential Themes such as Man Versus Nature and the Dangers of Playing God (the opening scene is in a church, for Christ's sake) and a little bit about one man's ability to grow a full beard in under 24 hours. 

The bugs themselves are supposedly unidentifiable, dating back to pre-historic times, but one look will tell you these wee actors are actually Madagascar hissing cockroaches (conspicuously missing from the adorable cast of the animated children's movie Madagascar).

Bug was co-written and produced by the legendary William Castle (based on the book The Hephaestus Plague), and IT LITERALLY KILLED HIM. (That's not actually true, but it was the last project he worked on before he died, and I'm certain he'd approve of the inflammatory, exploitative, completely made up nature of that statement.) 

A not-to-be-missed highlight is this scene, where the cockroaches spell out Parmiter's name on the wall. 

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OnDYxdilk

 

2. Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 1983)

A horror movie about shorts. 

Angela Baker (Felissa Rose) was just a tot when she was orphaned by a boating accident (well, really more a screaming accident involving a boat, but whatever). She was taken in by her cousin Ricky Baker (Jonathan Tiersten) and his Looney Tunes mom Martha (Desiree Gould), and the movie picks up 8 years later, as wacky Aunt Martha is sending teenagers Ricky and Angela off to summer camp. Quick aside here to say that Aunt Martha is one of the best female characters in a horror movie ever. There is altogether too little Aunt Martha in this movie. I'd pay money (maybe not a lot) to see a movie entirely about Aunt Martha. 

Ricky and Angela are at camp for approximately 5 minutes before people begin to die in strange, gory, 100% implausible ways, such as death by bee-stinging in a toilet stall (noticeably devoid of bees except for one close-up scene, probably because actually releasing bees would have been too expensive) and death by curling iron (classic!). You have to wonder why parents even sent their kids to summer camp in the 80s, knowing how poor their chances were of coming home. Maybe the kids owned cockroaches. 

Don't worry, I won't give away the ending, for all 37 people alive who don't already know it, but I will say it's strangely unsettling, due not so much to theme as execution. Once you see it, that statement will make sense, and we can all join together in a rousing cry of "Whhaaaaaaaaaaat???" 

Sleepaway Camp has inspired two sequels, various attempts at sequels, rumors about sequels, failed filming of at least one sequel, a good portion of Wet Hot American Summer, and maybe soon another sequel. 

Oh, hey, shorts.

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfZR1Lqjws4

 

3. New Year's Evil (Emmet Alston, 1980)

A horror movie about a music scene that has never existed (and the dangers of being a successful career-oriented woman who also tries to have a family).

It's New Year's Eve and in Los Angeles, Hollywood Hotline, a "countdown of this year's most popular new wave rock" (not a real genre) is in progress, hosted by "First Lady of Rock" Blaze (Roz Kelly, who unfortunately looks closer to 50 than her actual age of 37). Right from the start, we know the movie's going to be about New Year's Evil because there's a theme song called "New Year's Evil" which contains the lyrics "New Year's Evil" (a theme song with the movie's title in it being one of the signs that the film you're watching is, in fact, bad. The song, by fictional band Shadow, is sort of hair metal, mixed with Queen and Rocky Horror Picture Show, and vocals that sound a bit like YES. This is a type of music that has never existed, except in the minds of the people who wrote it.  

The celebration turns deadly (doesn't it always?) when a maniac who identifies himself simply as "Evil" starts calling the show to declare that he's going to "commit murderrrrrr." And commit murder he does, killing women at midnight in each of three time zones, getting closer to Blaze and the West Coast countdown. He cleverly disguises himself in transit with definitely not suspicious tactics like driving at night in sunglasses and gluing what I think is a tiny bathmat onto his upper lip.

Meanwhile, Blaze's pesky son keeps trying to tell her something he swears is really important (she's much too busy!) and her dang husband, who was supposed to be at the show, is missing and no one can get in touch with him. The cops are called in for extra protection, but they make sure to let Blaze know in no uncertain terms that violence is to be expected from the type of audience she attracts, in this music scene that does not exist, and that she is at fault for courting danger and then complaining about it. Her managers apologize to the cops on her behalf for her ridiculous insistence on not being murdered, since clearly she is wrong to expect safety at work, especially since she's a punk (she's not a punk). Ultimately we learn that she's more directly responsible for these murders than she realized, since she is the kind of terrible, selfish woman who is passionate about work and not paying enough attention to her screwed up husband and whiny son. 

If you see it, you're in for great writing like "You castrated me, and that is not nice" and "I can hear your heart beating. I don't like that."

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIOpKhYUqh4

 

4. Monster Dog (Claudio Fragasso [of Troll 2 fame] directs under the name of "Clyde Anderson," 1983)

A horror movie about, I don't know, werewolves or rock videos or dogs or bad family genes or spectacularly lame special effects, but mostly about STARRING ALICE COOPER.

Monster Dog (originally released as Leviatan) stars Alice Cooper as rocker Vincent Raven, who drives his Mystery Mobile back to his childhood home to shoot a music video. Since these old Italian horror movies often didn't record audio while filming, you will very quickly notice Cooper's voice is dubbed. 

During a fireside chat, while wearing a sweater, Vince calmly confides to his hot young video producer girlfriend that 20 years ago in this very house, his father became a werewolf and after gorging on calf meat was killed by villagers. No big deal. 

HIs girlfriend assures him that everything will be fine because his camera equipment is really good? I'm not sure, it's hard to follow her logic. But fantasy and reality start to blur when the gothic music video they're shooting turns deadly, partially because an overactive fog machine makes it really hard to see. 

Looks legit.

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_lMCg9-MA

 

5. Uninvited (Greydon Clark, 1988)

A horror movie about a cat on a yacht and a special effects team that has lost their minds.

Cat lovers and haters alike will love this delightful romp starring Naked Gun's George Kennedy and a charming, utterly demented feline. The half sweet fluffy orange tabby/half vile radioactive mutant poison creature escapes from a medical research facility, hijacks a pick up truck, and makes its little feline way to a local marina where it joins up with another completely different convoluted story about some college kids in Ft. Lauderdale for Spring Break. The guys meet some ladies and somehow they all, cat included, finagle a ride on a yacht owned by financial big shot "Wall Street Walter" Graham (Alex Cord). 

Walter and his business partner Mike Harvey (George Kennedy) are fleeing to South America because of some shady financial stuff. The movie does have a plot, which includes:

  • Women spontaneously stripping 
  • Women being sexually harassed by insufferable creeps
  • A biology student using a sextant as a microscope to deduce that the bites from the mutant cat will poison the victim's blood. 

But plot is not what you need to know because all you need to know is this:

This mutant attack cat has another weird rat gremlin thing inside it that comes out when the cat attacks, sometimes protruding like the second, inner mouth on the creatures in Alien, and other times all the way out, like a little baby kangaroo leaving its momma's pouch (but with a lot more blood and toxins). 

Do a lot of people die? You bet. Is Walter Graham basically a mustachioed Simpsons character come to life? Pretty much. Does any part of the movie make sense? Not really. Should you make it a point to view this atrocity? Absolutely.

"Did it look like a normal cat to you before, Suzanne?" 

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPkf9dJKw

 

6. Open House (Jag Mundhra, 1987)

A horror movie about The Rent Is Too Damn High.

Ah, a movie with a message. Open House stars Adrienne Barbeau as Lisa Grant, a real estate agent who excels at selling houses and wearing shoulder pads (she wears them to work, to play, to exercise, to sleep, and probably to shower). Her boyfriend, Dr. David Kelley (Joseph Bottoms) is a psychologist and the host of a popular radio call-in advice show, who starts receiving disturbing phone calls from a creepy guy talking about the recent spate of murders—a killer is targeting pretty realtors. The smart thing to do would be to stop showing houses by yourself if you're a female real estate agent. Unsurprisingly, no one does the smart thing, and a shitty slasher pic is born. 

Barbeau shares the spotlight with a lot of big 80s dry hair, saxophone music that can only be described as "aggressive," and fabric print bold enough to ask "Please sir, may I have some more?"  

Open House has got it all: terrible special effects, the always fashionable combo of panty hose and open toes, a 32-second scream, adorable racism (the word "Oriental" is used several times), some of the worst acting you will ever see, a love scene with owl hoots dubbed in (why?), a disgusting guy who sexually harasses women, a killer who eats dog food, a murder weapon made from a plunger, and a detective with a healthy disdain for criminal profiles ("When has that ever worked?").

Can't help noticing how obvious it is when the stunt double stands in for the killer? You've got stunt coordinator extraordinaire John Stewart of Action U.S.A. to thank for that.

The killer takes some time off from killing to pet this tiny kitten. "Haha, get off my murder axe, you adorable kitten!"

I couldn't find a trailer for Open House but here's a pretty awesome scream:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xIoJED7qz4

 

7. Night Of The Lepus (William F. Claxton, 1972)

A horror movie about rabbits. Seriously

Here's a transcript of the actual conversation that inspired this movie. 

"Hey, are rabbits scary?"

"Rabbits? You mean like bunnies?"

"Yeah."

"No way. Actually, they're pretty cute."

"Well, what if instead of calling them rabbits they were called lepus? That kind of sounds like lupus or...leprosy, maybe?"

"Wow. That's a reach."

"But what about if they were huge rabbits, like, as big as horses?"

"Not scary. I mean, they're rabbits. They eat carrots. They're really soft. Their feet are good luck. They must have so much good luck! Totally not scary."

"Okay, but like a herd of killer rabbits. Just hordes of stampeding rabbits, made to look as though they're huge, and then we dub in some growling or dinosaur sounds or something."

"But they still look like rabbits?"

"Yeah, just big rabbits running in slow motion."

"Um."

"Great, let's get started."

Obviously this is a joke right? Is this a joke? (It's not a joke.)

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yww2x3bm9k

 

A Word (Or Several) About Internet Lists:

Lists like these tend to attract comments like "What about [movie]??" or "You forgot [movie]" or "This list doesn't include [movie] and should therefore be dismissed entirely or "I hate you." But here's the thing: I don't have a search function for my brain (yet) that allows me to instantly recall every movie ever made, especially since I haven't seen every movie ever made (yet). In fact, I occasionally (frequently) have trouble remembering even the movies I have seen. 

Here's another thing, though: it's not a competition. It's not like Highlander, there can be more than one. There are so many! So maybe use the comments section for good instead of evil, sharing suggestions and whatnot, so we can all enjoy some terribleness and help each other waste what precious little time we are granted on this earth watching complete garbage. 

These dogs got in a howling competition. Then the baby joined in.

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This baby joined two dogs in a howling competition, and while he may not have howled louder than his canine brethren, he scored extra points for cuteness. The video was posted to YouTube by Larry Woods, whose golden lab and chocolate lab often get in howling battles. They do it "so often," in fact, that his 5-month-old son "has decided to join in the war." 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZx8tjDK_ss&index=10&list=PLrEnWoR732-BHrPp_Pm8_VleD68f9s14-

His howl may sound cute and silly on the surface, but unbeknownst to adults, it makes other babies cower in their onesies.

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