The Happening
Just about everybody likes to be scared , and October is the time of class when we all become horror fans for thirty one dreadfully gleeful days . But not every revulsion picture is built to be shivery . Some of them are totally gonzo pictures that gratify their distinguishing characteristic . Some of them are sly comedy commentaries on the literary genre . And some of them are so inexplicable that it ’s anybody ’s guessing as to how they got made in the first position , in both financial and creative terms . These sorts of horror pic can still be frightening , of course of action , but they mostly endure on the strength of their idiosyncrasies alternatively of how effectively they inspire blind holy terror .
So to lionize horror ’s totems of unbridle craziness , Screen Rant has accumulate a lean of the15 Most Ridiculous Horror Movies Ever Made . Our excerpt range in gustation tier ; some will be too overwhelmingly bloody for more squeamish viewers , while others might just be too half-crazed . " Ridiculous " can signify a peck of different thing , after all . Not every film on here is for every looker , but every celluloid on here , for good or for regretful , smart or stupid , nasty or zany , lives up to the definition of the word :
House (1977)
There ’s a lot about Nobuhiko Kobayashi ’s rage classic memorial of weirdness , House , that just evidently does n’t make any sense on newspaper . Why , for good example , would Toho , the fabled studio responsible for backing many of Akira Kurosawa ’s near films , for establish the world the talent of Godzilla , and for cobalt - producing a number of great Studio Ghibli works , ever put its muscleman behind a psychedelic , phantasmagoric repulsion gambol ? And why did Toho commission Kobayashi to make his movie as a reception to the success ofJaws?House(the claim of Kobayashi ’s original script ) probably did n’t quite deform out how Toho pictured it , but maybe that ’s for the best .
If the film had gone the way they thought it would , after all , we would n’t have this over - the - top precious stone of wanton mirthful unfamiliarity to lay eyes on and adore today . Housedoesn’t care about reality . It scarcely cares about making sense . Instead , it goes full - throttle on purposely crummy - look particular effect , obviously because Kobayashi wanted the film to look as though a small fry had made it ( he fill aspiration from the thing his daughter in person found fearsome ) , and on half-baked threat that , frankly , is n’t actually all that terrifying . It ’s too busy being batty to be scarey ; characters get eat up by forte-piano and bitten on the butt by float disembodied capitulum . The effect are arresting in their comical , outrecreepiness .
Zombeavers (2014)
You jazz that the zombi spirit niche has gotten too bloated for its own commodity when this is where filmmakers feel they must rick for inspiration : Undead , woodwind - gnawing , semiaquatic rodent . That ’s it , kids , we ’ve get to the vertex of zombie motion-picture show . Everybody wad up and go home . We ’re done here .
see , there ’s nothing wrong with camp . In fact , most of the movies on this list settle under that designation , and of those that do , many are worth empower your time in . ButZombeaversis , dog pound for Irish punt , the campiest of the cluster , a film in which a colony of top hat are mutated into feral monsters by spilled canister of toxic waste ; they attack a crowd of teens stay at a cabin in the woodwind ( natch ) , who one - by - one bit into beaver - homo hybrids as they suffer bites and scratches from their attackers . The beavers brought to life through the absolute cheapest puppetry imaginable , while the hybrids ’ buck - toothed visage invigorate fits of the giggle alternatively of the fantods . That ’s all by design , of form , but you ca n’t expect to score points among the B - moving picture traditionalist set just by do a tough movie on aim . “ Cheesy ” only gets you so far .
Teeth (2007)
Gentlemen , cover your nether - region . Teeth , more than any movie on this inclination , is movie watching repellent for guys everywhere , though if you may steel yourself for the movie ’s gory specifics , it ’s absolutely worth a watch : It ’s smart , unsettling , and blackly comic , assume that you find the basic conceit of “ vagina dentata slasher ” inherently shady . That ’s a tough pill to accept - the gallows wittiness here works best in practice , rather than on paper - butTeethis a surprisingly bully flick , even if the premise alone is enough to make most male spectator weigh join up with the nearest monastery and die celibate for a while , or for the repose of their lives . If horror cinema has taught us anything , it ’s that the vengeance of a woman scorned is never pretty .
In case you ’re still not sold onTeeth- maybe you ’re crying “ misandrist ! ” as you interpret this - remainder assured that the film ’s theme of intimate trauma goes both ways : “ Vagina dentata , ” which enjoys global mythological root , is very much a thing rather than a filthy excogitation of the movies , a metaphor for how mankind is inevitably deplete by mother nature . There ’s more onTeeth ’s head than discerp adult male - division , in other words , though there are many of those , and in lighter of the film ’s slender ladder fourth dimension , they come at a moderately even clip . If the allegory here is scholarly , though , Teethinvests itself in a level of delightful trashiness at the same time . It ’s a motion picture that ’s as savvy as it is bizarre .
Rubber (2010)
Quentin Dupieux’sRubberapologizes for itself within its possibility minutes , as Stephen Spinella stands before the tv camera and rambles about “ no reason ” pic - movies where things befall , you guessed it , for no conceivable intellect - before step aside and let Dupieux ’s slasher homage unfold . ordinarily , that variety of meta self - awareness would n’t qualify a film as “ ridiculous ” right off the bat , but when the film focalise on a town under beleaguering by a sentient railroad car tire with point - popping psychical powers , then yeah , the shoe reasonably much fit , does n’t it ? Like many other entries on this leaning , Rubberdoesn’t really care about coherency as much as it does about staging sequences in which citizenry ’s noggins blow up while a tire stares them down .
Frankly , Rubberpacks such a loopy game sum-up that Dupieux ’s artistically - minded sake about cinema detract from , rather than add to , his baddie ’s gloriously bloody pop spree . Think about it : He shoot a movie about a tire that travel full - Scannerson virtually everybody it comes into striking with , keep for Roxane Mesquida , on the face of it the film ’s final girl but really just the target of the tire ’s incomprehensible sexual captivation . When you ’re going that far overboard , you really do n’t need to make any excuse for your movie ’s absurdity , andRubberis nothing if not absurd .
From Beyond (1986)
Ever seenSlither ? Are you a fan ofThe Thingor , for that affair , Leviathan ? Do you bask coil up before bed with an H.P. Lovecraft book ? ThenFrom Beyondis going to be like catnip for you , a goopy , ghastly adaptation of an early Lovecraft fib first write in 1920 , in which a mad scientist creates a gadget that allows human beings to comprehend aeroplane of beingness outside the normal scope of realism . There ’s a catch , of course , which is that the machine works in reverse , too . In Lovecraft ’s story , the extra - dimensional fiends are mostly hinted at rather than shown . In Stuart Gordon ’s film , they ’re on full presentation tormenting horror luminaries Barbara Crampton , Jeffrey Combs , and Ken Foree , and boy are they disgusting .
From Beyondfeels like a blackened metal track turned into movie theatre ; it ’s insane , figuratively but almost literally , as the monster designs and sheer volume of icky - sticky particular effects might crowd the average viewer right to the boundary of losing their idea . It ’s tearing , it ’s grisly , it ’s baudy , and it ’s an essential for anybody with a fondness for nous - twist oddity , eldritch monsters , exploitative nudity , and body revulsion . view the film , you feel like you ’re free rider to Gordon ’s number one wood , and every second base that goes by , he put his base down on the gas just a little morsel more until suddenly , you ’re stuck in full accelerator . From Beyondis grotesquely outlandish , and that ’s just what makes it worth follow .
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Here we have a movie that manages to blend clowning with all - around freakiness ; this is the characterisation that popularized the brain - eating zombi figure that we all know about and love , but which forward-looking pop culture has mostly discarded . Like the paleo dieting , the gray affair dieting is complete malarky - zombie do n’t really like about what they eat , just that they ’re eating it , whether it fare from a person ’s head , torso , or extremities . ( PerThe Walking Dead , the undead are n’t even picky about eating humans , either . A knight or a chicken will do in a pinch . ) But if you ’re the type that likes their snake god chowing down on cerebellums like pork butt , well , The Return of the Living Deadis entirely your movie .
aside from the fundamental comical value of hear zombies make pointed requirement for brains whenever occasion calls ( in this moving picture ’s mythology , zombies can , in fact , talk),The yield of the Living Deadis notable for actually being efficaciously freaky . The movie ’s most memorable creation , the Tarman , lives up to his legend and then some ; he ’s an soapy body snatcher , more horrifying to seem at than your average walking corpse . Plus , who can block the setting where punk stone gallon Trash shuffle off her mortal coil by fulfilling her own “ worst way to pass away ” scenario?The Return of the Living Deadis equally as well known for its punchlines as for its horror , but the picture ’s kooky tone labour it into the realm of the ridiculous quite handily .
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Note : Coulrophobes , look by . Seriously , block off , right now . Killer Klowns from Outer Spacewas not made for you . Actually , it probably was , because only people put up from a deeply - rout fright of jesters and mime would probably happen Stephen Chiodo ’s ode to the circus genuinely scarey ; all the same , Killer Klowns from Outer Spacewill not be your jam , though for everybody else it ’s a hilariously terrible ( terrarious ? Hilarible ? ) ride . Granted , the movie really only enjoin one joke over and over again , but with different promotion - aliens that expect like clowns ( sorry , " klowns " ) demesne on Earth and start capturing or disposing of people using the traditional instruments of the clowning craft .
So they meld citizenry with acid pies , enamour them in cotton candy cocoon with their phasers , turn humans into popcorn , and kill audiences with deadly dark marionette display . There ’s something unfeignedly alarming about seeing these age - old amusement turned into lethal weapon , butKiller Klowns from Outer Spaceis recollect less for being fearsome and more for its amateur garishness . It ’s a fun motion picture , and an sky-high gonzo flick , instead of a chilling movie . Just verify to stay away if you ever had a bad childhood experience at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey .
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
Also fall under the family of “ thing that kill that do not usually kill”:Attack of the Killer Tomatoes . If you uprise up in the 90 , then you might recognize the name of the short - go television system show on Fox Kids , which sink in the cartoonishness of the film through an actual animated cartoon . John DeBello ’s film might be live action , but in many way it ’s more of a caricature than the TV serial based off of it , as well as its 1988 sequel . How so ? Start at the beginning , where scrolling textbook reminds the looker that audiences express joy off Alfred Hitchcock’sThe Birdsupon its release on the basis of believability , until the fount of Hopkinsville , Kentucky ’s 1975 takeover by 7 million blackbirds changed everybody ’s minds about the film ’s authenticity .
The trick here is obvious , and the parody that follows that basic parable is even more obvious . flack of the Killer Tomatoesdoesn’t go for subtle ; it aims for the punk seat . But what do you expect ? The whole thing is a send - up of the very B - movie style DeBello emulates , with a side hammy political irony for Gerald Ford ’s much - ridiculed “ whip inflation now ” safari in the seventies . ask for it to be well - made , or well - write , or well - acted , or witty , or , well , anything other than tacky would be like necessitate Julian Fellowes to write a series of fart jokes intoDownton Abbey .
Basket Case (1982)
The most mind - boggling thing aboutBasket Caseisn’t of necessity its premise , though that does indeed bowl over the mind . No , what ’s more enigmatic than that is the fact that somehow it managed to begettwo sequel . Maybe viewer really latch onto the concept : Duane Bradley ( Kevin Van Hentenryck ) shows up in New York City with a locked basket that occur to hold back Belial , Duane ’s flex and puddle - off Siamese twin . They were conjoined from birth and separated from each other in their youth , leaving Belial with a late - rooted grudge against the doctors who manoeuvre on them . Hence their trip to the Big Apple , where the brother aim to get a minuscule retaliation .
What a plot ! It ’s excited , it ’s personal , it ’s intimate , and in practice it ’s just plain loony - tune . Belial is legitimately shivery , even though he ’s basically a lumpy hand puppet with the peel tone of a rotting pear : He ’s a ruthlessly roughshod killing auto as liable to take out robbers breaking and entering into his room as the surgeons responsible for for cutting him from Duane ’s side . ButBasket Caseisn’t a purely shivery movie , and it does n’t attempt to be . Frank Henenlotter did n’t have the budget todothat . alternatively , he aim for pure , ludicrous schlock and rack up the target to wildly entertaining and nauseating results .
The Stuff (1985)
repulsion remakes are just about verboten these days , but if someone feel like jerk a horror flick from the 80 ’s and refresh it up , they could do no better thanThe Stuff . We ’re more wellness - witting today than ever , it seems , what with our grow national compulsion with kale smoothies and mega cleanses a picture show that skewer diet trends and wellness food fads sounds kind of complete for that variety of social climate , and what good way to do that than with piles and piles of murderous yogurt ? You might starve your Chobani , but what if your Chobani craved you right on back ?
The Stuffis the kind of goofy you want to embrace rather than shun . Larry Cohen has a sardonic sense of humor that keep the movie afloat and undersell its lifelike wackiness . In the lofty pantheon of horror film baddies , “ killer yogurt ” rate the right way up there with , well , “ killer c(k)lowns ” and “ killer coney , ” though in fairness , the “ stuff and nonsense , ” as it ’s called , does n’t bolt down you right forth : First it turns you into a brainwashed zombie . Thenit kills you , and horribly . ( Poor Garrett Morris . ) But if mind - controlling alien organism that look like blobs of Cool Whip invite credulity , The Stuffis a good enough prison term that you ’ll merrily accept its wink nonsense .
