Bad Foreign Horror Movies - The Ones That Slip Through Quality Control

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Usually when we see foreign horror movies in the US we only get to see the best ones. For example, Let The Right One In is a borderline masterpiece and Japanese horror like the original Ring and Grudge are exemplary examples of atmospheric horror done right. But we never get to see the schlock these countries put out. The entertaining garbage that these countries produce never make their way over to us or are impossible to find out about. So, I'm making this thread to not only celebrate foreign cinema at it's worst, but to build a list of these movies so everyone can enjoy.

My only example of this is the movie Sadaka vs Kayako aka The Ring vs The Grudge. It is the Japanese equivalent of Freddy vs Jason and is so bad it's good.

The non spoiler plot is that some girls get cursed by the ring tape and another girl gets cursed by the grudge house and some exorcists tells them the only way to fix the curse is to have the ghosts kill each other. One character also talks about memes.

The plot is basically two college girls stumble upon Sadako's cursed video tape and one of them watches it. They bring it to their professor who happens to be obsessed with urban legends and memes:

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The professor explains what Sadako is and watches the tape because he's obsessed with it.
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Meanwhile, another girl moves into a neighborhood that happens to have the grudge house. Meanwhile some local boys go into the grudge house and get rekt by the ghosts.

The professor calls up some priest do perform an exorcism and the guy writing the subtitles was having a laugh:
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Sadako kills everyone except for the two main girls. The priestess gets possessed and kills the professor by headbutting him which does this:
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They go get another exorcist which is just some dude and a blind little girl as his sidekick. The new exorcists decide the only way to get rid of the curse is to make Sadako fight Kayako. They go to investigate the grudge house and the main exorcist dude throws a rock at Toshido (the little ghost boy) and it's pretty much the best part of the movie:


The girl who watched the tape the first time uploads the video to the internet to make it a meme. Then the girl who watched the cursed tape the first time tries to kill herself and Sadako kills her before she has the chance. The exorcist decides the only way to stop everyone in the world from dying is to make the ghosts kill each other.

So the other girl who moved next to the grudge house decides to sneak into it to investigate and her mom and dad follow her and subsequently die. The exorcist saves her at the last minute and he tells her the only way to break the curse is for a good 'ol ghost death match. She needs to watch the video so Sadako will want her in addition to Kayako, so they'll fight over her. This is true for the other girl as well except she just needs to go into the house. They both do this and the plan fails because Sadako and Kayako are equally evil or something. The movie never explains it. THis does lead to another great line:
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So the exorcist's new plan is to have one of the girls sacrifice themselves by getting possessed by both ghosts ans sealing herself in a well. This fails and the Sadako and Kayako just combine together to make a stronger ghost. Then the credits roll.


Being a fan of terrible horror movies, I would love to see more films like this. Just the bottom of the barrel garbage that different countries turn out and rarely make it over to the States or English speaking countries in general.

Anyone else have any or have seen any films like this?
 

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Not sure if it quite counts as a horror movie, but one of the funniest so-bad-its-good films I've seen has to be Godfrey Ho's Robo Vampire, in which hopping Chinese vampires (hired by a drug cartel) battle a tinfoil RoboCop rip-off. It's a complete mindfuck of epic proportions, further elevated by the fact that it appears to be two completely unrelated films edited together.

Did I mention that two "sequels" exist? Somehow, they manage to be even less narratively coherent than this one is.
 
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Not sure if it quite counts as a horror movie, but one of the funniest so-bad-its-good films I've seen has to be Godfrey Ho's Robo Vampire, in which hopping Chinese vampires (hired by a drug cartel) battle a tinfoil RoboCop rip-off. It's a complete mindfuck of epic proportions, further elevated by the fact that it appears to be two completely unrelated films edited together.

Did I mention that two "sequels" exist? Somehow, they manage to be even less narratively coherent than this one is.
Hopping Vampires are usually great.

Mexico's great contribution to bad movies is the wrestler movies: When Nazi John Carradine or Draculas or Aztec Mummies or Martians or The Blob threatens Mexico, it's the duty of the pro wrestling community (usually El Santo) to rise to the challenge and save the day.

 

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Not sure if it quite counts as a horror movie, but one of the funniest so-bad-its-good films I've seen has to be Godfrey Ho's Robo Vampire, in which hopping Chinese vampires (hired by a drug cartel) battle a tinfoil RoboCop rip-off. It's a complete mindfuck of epic proportions, further elevated by the fact that it appears to be two completely unrelated films edited together.

Did I mention that two "sequels" exist? Somehow, they manage to be even less narratively coherent than this one is.
The bolded part is basically every Godfrey Ho film in a nutshell. This might be considering cheating, considering that is was shot in California, but only released in Japan (so is it foreign or domestic?), but there's Cards of Death, a 1986 film shot on video by W. G. MacMillan, who was opposite of Clint Eastwood in The Enforcer and was in George Romero's The Crazies. It's considering the holy grail of slasher horror films due to its rarity, but someone, somewhere, ripped and uploaded Cards of Death on the Internet for people to enjoy. Here you go. Also, VeeHD user Komrads has loads of obscure and shitty films on his channel.
 

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Zombie Lake. It's a French movie about Nazi Zombies. 2145944.jpg

Don't let that poster fool you. This is what the zombies look like.
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These are blood drinking zombies. Sometimes that blond zombie up there is good, and just wants to be a good dad to his daughter, sometimes he kills the villagers with the other zombies, sometimes he gets in to a fight with the short black haired leader zombie for like 5 seconds before they go back to killing. There is a song in the movie that is nothing but the words LALALALALA.

The villagers lure the zombies with the nice zombies daughter in to a barn with a bowl of blood, and than kill them with flamethrowers, but only one flamethrower, and only two at a time because that's how many safety burn suits they could get.

The guy that played the blond zombies acting is so wooden I think he was a zombie all along.
 

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Zombie Lake. It's a French movie about Nazi Zombies. View attachment 525160

Don't let that poster fool you. This is what the zombies look like.

These are blood drinking zombies. Sometimes that blond zombie up there is good, and just wants to be a good dad to his daughter, sometimes he kills the villagers with the other zombies, sometimes he gets in to a fight with the short black haired leader zombie for like 5 seconds before they go back to killing. There is a song in the movie that is nothing but the words LALALALALA.

The villagers lure the zombies with the nice zombies daughter in to a barn with a bowl of blood, and than kill them with flamethrowers, but only one flamethrower, and only two at a time because that's how many safety burn suits they could get.

The guy that played the blond zombies acting is so wooden I think he was a zombie all along.
Is that the one where they're clearly walking in a swimming pool in the "the nazi zombies are underwater" scenes?
 

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Yes.
I saw that shortly after Shock Waves. Somebody posted Shock Waves in some newsgroup and then that was posted in response.

Crocodile! It's like Jaws but he's a giant crocodile! From legendary shit film maven Sompote Sands, the guy so evil that he stole Ultraman. Features an actual live crocodile getting killed in a random scene that doesn't advance the story at all, not even an effects shot.
 

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Let's dig up some Italo-Trash. Lord knows there's a cornucopia of it to choose from.
Nigga do you fuckin REALIZE how long its gonna take to find the best examples of spaghetti-schlock?!

I mean the goddamn zombie genre alone has like 20+ godawful italian flicks, not to mention the cannibal genre which was pretty much exclusively owned by italy since its inception

Honestly though, imma have to say my personal most disliked schlocktalian horror movies are those made by Bruno Mattei. I know a lot of people think his movies are hilariously stupid for all kinds of reasons from bad dubbing to blatant ripoffs to over the top effects, but honestly his movies are just tedious to me since i find it easy to get used to his "style" of writing and cinematography.

As for an example of "objectively bad but I still like it" I will go with Nightmare City

The film is (not even slightly) famous for introducing the concept of smart/running zombies (who look like they were attacked by oatmeal) years before Return of the Living Dead and decades before 28 days later. The dubbing is shit, the makeup is hilariously bad, the music is silly, and the gore effects are honestly pretty unimpressive but it still is fairly entertaining as a specimen of early attempts at changing up the zombie genre
 

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Cruel Jaws
Lazy Italian shark skims along the surface of the water with his mouth open, most of the actual attacks are stolen from the Jaws franchise so the entire movie is mostly based around working stolen footage into the movie.
Spoiler - shark is defeated after our hero valiantly doses himself in gasoline and fires a flare gun...that's no what happens but the editing is so bad that what you actually see.

Also the shark roars....I saw roars but what I mean is yawn
 
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The Haunted Cop Shop II
It's an HK spoopy comedy but it's bumbling cops instead of taoist priest's bumbling assistants. The Sequel.

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El Vampiro Y El Sexo
Santo thought he was filming a regular vampire movie. Turned out they shot a skinamax softcore vampire movie around him. With English subs.
 

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You guys are making me dig through my foreign films to see if I can find some gems.

Trackman/Putevoy obkhodchik a Russian Slasher movie.
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Some bank robbers flee to an underground subway with three hostages, only to discover that the subway is home to a serial killer giant, that may be the product of Chernobyl, the Trackman. The Trackman likes to steal eye balls and keep them in jars because... uh... Any way he kills people. It has good gore and atmosphere, but is your typical silly slasher film.

It did come up with a creepy song that's too good for the movie.
Yes I know it says Russian lullaby, but from what I've read up on this song was made just for this movie.

Edit: Debating posting about my namesake but that would just be one big spoiler.
 

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Crocodile! It's like Jaws but he's a giant crocodile! From legendary shit film maven Sompote Sands, the guy so evil that he stole Ultraman. Features an actual live crocodile getting killed in a random scene that doesn't advance the story at all, not even an effects shot.

Was that the one with the extremely racist subplot in which natives believe the Croc is killing because of race mixing so the plan to off the whiteys enjoying their holiday.
 
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...What? I don't remember that subplot, are you serious?

The confusion appears to be the movie identified on red letter media as Alligator is actually The Great Alligator River, originally Il fiume del grande caimano and also known as Alligators, Caiman, Big Alligator River and The Big Caimano River. It definitely has the race mixing plot, atleast in the dub known as Alligator.
The classic 80s movie alligator is fluff fun about a flushed sewer gator going skitz and Robert Forster has to hunt it down.
Ones a beloved midnight movie and the other is bare breasted Italian racists.
 
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