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Rebecca Lea Sep 3, 2017

Our lookbacks at the screen adaptations of Stephen King land at Children Of The Corn 2...

One of the more interesting aspects of these revisits so far has been how the sequels to different films have adapted to work without source material from Stephen King (Creepshow 2 aside). Mostly, they’ve not worked very well, but the Children Of The Corn franchise seems very determined to see if it can succeed in its seven further instalments. I like a challenge and have a morbid curiosity when it comes to these movies so I shall be watching all of them. Ask me again after the eighth Children Of The Corn movie as to whether this was a good idea or not.

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The Final Sacrifice, which would turn out to be something of a misnomer, arrived in cinemas eight years after...

For ten years, Mystery Science Theater 3000 gave us the worst movies ever made, and proceeded to riff the living daylights out of them. In doing this, they made these movies bearable to watch, and frequently even made watching these movies an enjoyable experience.

However, some movies were simply so bad that no matter how high quality the riffing, the movie just plain hurt. This article will review those, despite the agony it will bring to my brain, having to remember these movies…

10. The Final Sacrifice (1990)

Summary: This amazing turkey from Canada chronicles the journey of a young boy named Troy McGregor, who begins investigating the death of his father 7 years earlier. Eventually he uncovers a map to a lost city, and somehow that very day a bloodthirsty cult winds up on his front porch. “I know you have the map Troy! I want it!”

As Troy attempts to escape...

That's right, "Disaster Movie," at least according to IMDb users who voted. The comedy, a send-up of disaster flicks, received 55,112 votes. But here's the more interesting part. Paris Hilton topped the charts with two movies appearing in the Top 10 namely "The Hottie & the Nottie" and 2006's "Pledge This."

So without further adieu, here's your Top 100 Worst Movies of All Time!

Rank Rating Title Votes

1. 1.9 Disaster Movie (2008) 55,112

2. 1.9 The Hottie & the Nottie (2008) 27,996

3. 1.9 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) 20,247

4. 1.9 Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) 27,348

5. 1.9 Pledge This! (2006) 13,121

6. 1.9 Die Hard Dracula (1998) 2,641

7. 1.9 Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) 4,842

8. 1.9 Anne B. Real (2003) 3,325

9. 1.9 From Justin to Kelly (2003) 21,887

10. 1.9 Going Overboard (1989) 7,713

11. 1.9 Track of the Moon Beast (1976) 2,272

12. 1.9 Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1985) 2,021

13. 1.9 The Maize: The Movie (2004) 2,284

14. 1.9 The Pod People (1983) 3,089

15. 1.9 The Wild World of Batwoman (1966) 3,097

16. 1.9 Turks in Space (2006) 9,634

17. 1.9 Who's Your Caddy? (2007) 12,991

18. 1.9 The Creeping Terror (1964) 2,764

19. 1.9 Crossover (2006) 8,350

20. 1.9 Girl in Gold Boots (1968) 2,532

21. 2.0 Miss Castaway and the Island Girls (2004) 1,945

22. 2.0 Space Mutiny (1988) 4,376

23. 2.0 Daniel - Der Zauberer (2004) 12,159

24. 2.0 The Starfighters (1964) 2,726

25. 2.0 Fat Slags...

Olive Films doesn’t get as much love as Scream Factory, but they also do their part to bring cult movies into the age of Blu-ray. That continues early next year when the 1993 creepy crawler Ticks gets its due along with a new (and presumably upgraded) edition of Stephen King’s Cujo.

Olive Films’ release of Ticks is being billed as a “20th Anniversary Edition” even though it could just as easily be touted as “First-Time Ever on…” seeing how the underrated film has never received a proper DVD release, let alone Blu-ray.

Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 director Tony Randel helmed this skin-crawling creature feature about mutant ticks that infest the adorable Ami Dolenz (Blood Wings: Pumpkinhead 2), a pre-"Family Guy"/"Robot Chicken"/Austin Powers Seth Green, “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” co-star Alfonso Ribeiro, Children of the Corn 2: The Final Sacrifice survivor Rosalind Allen, Tom Hanks’ “Bosom Buddies” better half Peter Scolari,...

A brief history lesson for the younger horror fans -- and for those who still manage to give a crap after all these years: Stephen King's Night Shift, published in 1978 and really damn good, contains many short stories that have been adapted into feature films: Cat's Eye, Salem's Lot, The Mangler, Maximum Overdrive, and The Lawnmower Man all got their start in Night Shift, but the most "successful" story so far has been Children of the Corn. A nasty little tale of murderous children and an ancient beast, Children of the Corn became a film in 1984 -- and then, nine years later, the wheels came off. Children of the Corn 2: The Final Sacrifice (1993) Children of the Corn 3: Urban Harvest...

Nine minutes with Zap Rowsdower. Don't worry, baby. Zap will make all right. Zap has all the Vitamin Z you need.

All right, it's 9 minutes with Bruce J. Mitchell but he is still rocking that sweet, sweet 'stache.

And just because the Godtopus is a kind and loving deity, here's 9 more minutes with "The Final Sacrifice," arguably the greatest episode of MST3K.

"Mitchell" and "Space Mutiny" deserve a mention here as top episodes too. What? You're not familiar with David Ryder? It's your lucky night.

Jason Harris wanted to name his daughter "Smash Lampjaw," but his wife is a killjoy.

Audiences were expected to increase slowly. But older viewers have flocked to The King's Speech, and while they haven't patronised the concession stall, they have tipped off the youngsters

The favourite

In the UK, the assumption has always been that the older audience takes its time to embrace a film, unlike younger cinemagoers who are much more apt to show up for the latest blockbuster on opening weekend. But when The King's Speech opened with £3.52m, analysts scratched their heads: the older upscale audience was, after all, capable of rushing out in the first three days of a film's release. This particular title, the consensus agreed, probably wouldn't perform like The Queen, whose slow-burn success finally delivered a cumulative total that was 11 times its opening weekend of £856,000.

Now all the calculations are changing once again. Despite the stellar opening – unprecedented for a British period drama – The King's...

The Green Hornet (12A)

(Michel Gondry, 2011, Us) Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Tom Wilkinson. 119 mins

It's not going to give the Dark Knight a run for his money, but this unfancied vigilante movie is at least unpretentious, fun and well-lit – more like the light knight. Rogen's questionable charm and uneven writing skills just about power the shambolic "spoilt slacker turns crusader for justice" yarn (Waltz is another show-stealing baddie); Gondry provides some great action scenes (relying on Jay Chou's Kato rather than Rogen), a few of his trademark flourishes, and a very nice car …

Blue Valentine (15)

(Derek Cianfrance, 2010, Us) Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel. 112 mins

After so many gimmicky romcoms over the years, it's refreshing to see a straightforward look at relationships. It switches between the happy beginnings and miserable ending of a damaged, hard-up couple, and leaves us to work out what went wrong in between.

127 Hours (15)

(Danny Boyle, 2010, Us/UK) James Franco, Clémence Poésy, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Treat Williams. 94 mins

Boyle keeps his feet on the ground after Slumdog Millionaire by attempting to make the worst date movie of all time. But this true-life tale of "the guy who chopped off his own arm" is at least an intense, jam-packed experience. The inevitable gory climax overshadows all that precedes it, though there are tireless visual flourishes, stark survival details and narrative sidetracks to distract you, and Franco is very good company. When the hacking starts though, you'll wish you'd brought along some anaesthetic yourself – and cancelled that dinner reservation.

The King's Speech (12A)

(Tom Hooper, 2010, UK) Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter. 118 mins

Stiff royals turning out to be human after all – it's the sort of thing we Brits do terribly well, isn't it? But thanks to the force of Firth, this does it better than most.

My favorite thing about doing these "The Women of… Naked” series is that each one is a new and fun way to rediscover old horror flicks. Unlike the boring Rue Morgue approach... "In 1988 on a dark and dreary day, a filmmaker and small crew braved the Texas heat to blah, blah, blah." It is like a horror history lesson with nude chicks! In today's lesson we have The Women of Children of the Corn Naked II: The Final Sacrifice starring Aubrey Dollar (pictured, Heavy Weights ) in a bikini and Rosalind Allen naked in Pinocchio's Revenge. Allen also appeared on one episode of Freddy's Nightmares (S2E13 What You Don’t Know Can Kill You), and starred in Son of Darkness: To Die for II.

Alberta - Spring is here and truth shall be in the air around Durham, North Carolina as the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival blossoms from April 8 - 11. This is a four day feast of prime cinema featuring real people with real lives and real issues that weren’t shaped by the beancounters in marketing. Last year’s festival featured Oscar winner The Cove and nominees Burma VJ and Food Inc. Looking through this year’s line up, there’s plenty reasons to make the trip to the Bull City if you need to escape from the unmitigated hype of Tiger Woods at the Masters.

And Everything is Going Fine is Steven Soderbergh’s biography of Spalding Gray. The monologist was the one man story machine in Swimming in Cambodia and Monster in a Box. Soderbergh directed Gray’s Gray’s Anatomy. He killed himself after seeing Tim Burton’s Big Fish.

Despite being off the air for over a decade, Mystery Science Theater 3000 retains a rabid cult following. It is these fans that love this collection the most, but anyone with a sense of humor worth a damn can find something to laugh at as Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, and either Joel Robinson or Mike Nelson sarcastically rip on otherwise non-entertaining movies.

Seeing as how this is the 17th Volume of the show to make it to DVD, you might think that this collection would be mostly made up of B-grade material, but you’d be wrong. The four cinematic masterpieces run through the wringer in this set are: The Crawling Eye, The Beatniks, The Final Sacrifice, and Blood Waters of Dr. Z. More after the jump:

The Crawling Eye is, unsurprisingly, about gigantic mutant eyes that crawl, thus making it the most literal title in the collection. I have to say,...

The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…

(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)

I admit - besides just being a fan of the show and being delighted that another volume has arrived - I’m even more delighted by the release of the Mystery Science Theater Collection: Volume Xvii (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$59.97 Srp) than usual because of the bonus features. Which feature, in particular? The “Crow vs. Crow” panel I put together and hosted at last year’s DragonCon,...

Another terrific movie from Pedro Almodóvar, two very different animated releases, and one of last year's best movies that you most likely didn't see, all new on DVD this week.

If the movie-within-the-movie of Broken Embraces looks familiar, it's just because director Pedro Almodóvar is restaging scenes from his classic screwball farce Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. But Embraces is no comedy, instead dealing with the doomed love affair between a filmmaker (Lluís Homar) and his leading lady (Penélope Cruz, in the role for which she should have gotten her Oscar nod this year), who happens to be the mistress of the billionaire funding the movie they're making.

While it's not at the level of such immortal Almodóvar movies as All About My Mother or Law of Desire, Broken Embraces is nonetheless a gorgeous piece of work, loaded with great performances and homages to the auteur's favorite movies.

It's not a huge list of home video releases this week, but some pretty huge films are on it, including The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which is getting a midnight release this Saturday morning, March 20th. But we know that's not what you're here for -- more than likely you'll be picking up flicks like The Fourth Kind, Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy, and/or (our pick of the week) Ninja Assassin.

The most offbeat entry is definitely Blurred Realities, another trilogy, but this time only one is true horror: American Zombie, a documentary about high-functioning zombies living in Los Angeles and their struggles to gain acceptance in human society. The other two parts of the trio are The Hole Story and American Shopper, both of which are also pseudo-docs about a "black hole" that opens up on the surface of North Long Lake in Minnesota and one man's passionate and...

Remember that Eliza Dushku movie about a group of surfers finding a cursed board game that claims a life whenever played? It seems like we've been reporting about Open Graves for a couple years now. That might be because we have. We last reported on it this past February, quoting Dushku herself as being unsure if or when the film would see the light of day. How does September 19th on Syfy sound?

For those of you dying to see Eliza Dushku wet and in peril after playing a board game made from the skin and bones of a witch executed during the Spanish Inquisition, set your Tivo's and DVR's for Saturday night, September 19th, at 9/8 Central.

A week later, Saturday the 26th brings us the world premiere of Syfy's Children of the Corn remake. Forgive me if I don't have high hopes for this one. Besides, nothing will ever...