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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 01-31-2001 08:02 PM

Mine was the Japanese Oprah "Othello". I was even counting reels before it was over.

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John Wilson
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From: Sydney, Australia.
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posted 01-31-2001 09:09 PM

It may not be the worst...I'd have to think about that one...but 'Scary Movie' is right up there.

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George Roher
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From: Washington DC
Registered: Jul 99

posted 01-31-2001 10:02 PM

Blair Witch Project is the worst movie I've ever run.

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Darryl Spicer
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From: Lexington, KY, USA
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posted 01-31-2001 11:40 PM

Off the top of my head I would have to say this Italion Zombie horror piece of S*** called Burrial Ground. May not be the origonal title. I ran it about 15 years ago. The thing I remember is it started out with 32 people watching it and by the time the movie was over there was only 2 people left.

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 02-01-2001 12:11 AM

Howard's End! This mega long movie is just about the most boring piece of crap I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through. What made it worse was there was no changeover cues and I didn't make a note of when I started it. It seemed like that first reel was going on FOREVER!

Still, the movie felt like it was about 5 hours long and the basic jest of it all is a bunch of people sitting around drinking tea talking about "oh how I would just love to go to Howard's End again, blah, blah, blah. More tea?" In the last reel it turned out that "Howard's End" was a ratty old house! Geez I'd rather sit through "Jar Jar's Bumbling and Stupid Adventures The Movie" than suffer through THAT again.

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Dwayne Caldwell
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From: Rockwall, TX, USA
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posted 02-01-2001 04:13 AM

Speaking of tea movies that suck, how about The Avengers? I didn't run that one nor did I pay for it (which would hardly have mattered since I left less than twenty minutes after the actual movie started, so I'm sure I'd have qualified for a refund).

The Night Flyer was pretty bad, but I'm sure I ran one that was worse. There's so many bad ones out there.

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Frank Rapisardi
Film Handler

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From: Methuen, MA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 02-01-2001 05:11 AM

The worst movie I ever ran was "Last House on The Left" We would open our drive-in every season with this junker ;and do very well! Teens loved it! But what a piece of crap!I guess the important thing was that it did business.

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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-01-2001 06:40 AM

Most of the stuff that came out last summer would probably qualify: Battlefield Earth, Pokemon 2 ("P2k!"), etc.

Others that I didn't like: Lost World (Jurassic Park sequal; I've also run the silent by the same name), Wedding Singer, Grease (with apologies to those who like it), Waterboy (16mm), Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), probably others.

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Tom Sauter
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From: Buffalo, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 02-01-2001 07:33 AM

Two words:
Red Planet.

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Ken Layton
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From: Olympia, Wash. USA
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posted 02-01-2001 07:55 AM

Carnival Magic

Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Dick Vaughan
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From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
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posted 02-01-2001 08:02 AM

Conversations with Willard van Dyke and Eadweard Muybridge:Zoopraxographer

16mm double bill .Ultimate excitement

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Bruce McGee
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From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 02-01-2001 08:16 AM

The Ruling Class (1971) with Peter O'Toole. We ran it once for a special screening. Every time I saw a changeover cue, I hoped that this was going to be the end. Alas, it was not to be...

We ran GREASE for so long (at a drive-in w/changeovers) that I began to hum along with the songs and knew the dialogue at the changeover cues.
(Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee... Lousy with virginity...)

Once we ran a marathon showing of 5 Beach Party films. The field was full to the end of this mess, but nobody left until we turned up the yard lights. Must have been busy doing other things... All I remember about this night is that the prints arrived about 2 hours before showtime, and all I could do was run through them on the rewinds and hope that there was not too much damage to deal with. One print, Muscle Beach Party was brand new and had the "10th Anniversary Jubilee Attraction" (in 1964) tag on the head. All the other films looked typical for AIP.

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Rachel Carter
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From: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 02-02-2001 01:46 AM

After pre-screening this movie tonight, I'd have to say "Vertical Limit".

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Colin Wiseley
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From: Blacksburg, VA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 02-02-2001 11:36 AM

Ken how can you knock RHPS? That's one of the greatest movies ever made.

The most painful movie I ever had to run was a documentary called Dr. Death, about a guy who invents execution devices (no pun intended).

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Mark Huff
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From: Springfield, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 02-04-2001 09:05 AM

Scream was the worst for me. I loved the movie but it was so brittle it would break every show.

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