12 Horror Movies That Are Unintentionally Hilarious
7. Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster (1965)
A Lily Munster-ish Martian princess and her bald, pointy-eared servant are seeking to repopulate their dying world, so they do what any Bad Movie Villain would they kidnap bikinied specimens from the beaches of San Juan and lock less-than-willing abductees up in a cage with a bad actor in a gorilla suit. Meanwhile, our would-be Frankenstein, in this case a NASA scientist played by James Karen, has created a cyborg (named Colonel Saunders) and shot him into space only to see his rocket destroyed by the Martians, who think its an enemy missile. Surviving the stock-footage explosion with only third-degree burns, the Colonel malfunctions and goes on a lusty rampage, pursued (on scooter) by Dr Karen. Sure, its cheap, silly and loaded with enough stock-footage to make Ed Wood proud, but at least some of the laughs mustve been intentional because producer Alan V Iselins resume also includes The Horror Of Party Beach. Here, the beach antics have been toned down, the number of pop songs reduced and theres more going on whenever the antagonists are off-screen.
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.'