The new YouTube movie site is crammed full of classic video nasties, 1950s The Thing-type horror and comedies so badly scripted you’d be fooled into thinking they’re trying to get all meta. A quick (and thoroughly unscientific) straw poll of YouTube movies reveals that three in five films feature babes in cheerleader outfits getting slaughtered in a variety of unsavoury ways.
We’ve had a trawl through the new YouTube site, and picked out five of the best worst films the movies site has to offer. So get the beers in, shake off the post-bank holiday blues and kick back in your pants for the evening with affectionate serial killers, nuclear powered zombies and nudist politicians, courtesy YouTube movies.
Creature with the Atom Brain
The plot for this Youtube movie appears to have been thought up by someone after a dodgy quart of bourbon back in the mid 50s. It’s a classic schlock horror from 1955, and the blurb says it all: “Gaye is a mad ex-Nazi scientist who devises a method of removing people’s brains and replacing them with atomic energy, making the people into nuclear-powered zombies. Gaye teams up with mobster Granger, who uses the zombies to take care of his rivals and nosy public officials.” Nuclear powered zombies!! Instant winner.
Naked Run Eve Malone embarks on a plan to defeat an evil congressman by running in the nude. IMDB says: “She EXPOSES more than the truth.” In case that wasn’t enough to convince you, it comes complete with top-notch WordArt credits, and supremely bombastic backing tracks, with nothing left under-egged.
OC Babes and the Slasher of Zombietown If you can make it through the opening sequence where girl#1 makes the error of going for a wee in a bush while there’s a murderer on the loose, and the tedious, absurdly lengthy opening credit sequence (which lasts almost ten minutes), then you’ll be in for some ridiculously hammy acting and unbearably bad murder sequences.
She Gods of Shark Reef Another 50s black and white gem, which tells the story of two brothers shipwrecked on an island full of nubile women who live off a trade in pearl diving. The brothers are understandably pleased with their predicament, until they discover the sexy babes are actually part of a shark cult that sacrifices virgins. Very unsavoury for a pair of well-heeled gents! Apart from they’re not. Jim is a murderer, and soon enough they snatch the pearls and sneak away on a canoe.
Maniacts Possibly the best plotline we’ve ever heard, Maniacts, from 2001, tells the story of two (implausibly good-looking) serial killers who fall in love whilst in an asylum for the criminally insane and escape to lead an idyllic life in the countryside before their past predictably catches up withe them. Beth, who believes she has royal blood, draws the deranged Andrew, a renowned serial killer, into a love affair with her, and they plot to escape their “corrupt captors” – a sadistic doctor and power hungry director. What’s the message here? “give the criminally insane a chance”? The most unbelievable fact about this film? it’s clocked up 11,000 views.
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The new YouTube movie site is crammed full of classic video nasties, 1950s The Thing-type horror and comedies so badly scripted you’d be fooled into thinking they’re trying to get all meta. A quick (and thoroughly unscientific) straw poll of YouTube movies reveals that three in five films feature babes in cheerleader outfits getting slaughtered in a variety of unsavoury ways.
