12 Horror Movies That Are Unintentionally Hilarious
8. From Hell It Came (1957)
A picture guaranteed to bring out the worst puns imaginable (His barks worse than his bite, what a sap, surely knot etc.), From Hell It Came convincingly depicts the old legend of Tabanga, the tree monster who, as any anthropologist will tell you walked to avenge its wrongs. On a savage island in the South Seas populated by white English-speaking extras, a Prince named Kimo is sentenced to death by ceremonial dagger for supposedly murdering a chief, but every B-movie fan knows that when a wrongly-convicted man swears vengeance on his persecutors before being buried in a hollow tree trunk, its only a matter of time before he returns as another actor in a silly costume. And what a costume it is. Unlikely to scare anyone except the films financial backers, who likely imagined the shirts disappearing off their backs, Tabanga was designed by an uncredited Paul Blaisdell which isnt too hard to guess as the ambulatory antagonist possesses the same fluid grace as his finest creation, the conical cucumber creature from Roger Cormans It Conquered The World.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'