8. The Lemon Grove Kids Meet The Green Grasshopper And The Vampire Lady From Outer Space (1965)
What The...? It all starts so simply and quaintly, until that bonkers second half of the title transforms what sounds like a chapter in a Huckleberry Finn novel into a crazed B-Movie. Part of a trilogy of movies paying homage to the Bowery Boys films of the 1940s and '50s, the film was part of a trilogy made by Ray Dennis Steckler, who also made The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies. Clearly a big fan of long and ludicrous titles.
Is It Any Good? The films are an affectionate tribute to the East Side Kids and Bowery Boys movies, and are cleverly executed in that respect, but Grasshopper is just too odd for any modern audiences who didn't grow up into the quirky culture of drive-in cinema.
7. Othon, Or: Eyes Do Not Want To Close At All Times, Or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself To Choose In Her Turn
What The...? Not one, but two alternative titles for Othon, all rolled into one tongue-challenging parcel. The film itself is achingly pretentious, and disastrously pedestrian, featuring a group of actors attempting to bring to life the story of Othon by Pierre Cornielle, and failing quite comically, thanks to a lack of basic acting skills. It's arty, inflated and self-important in all the worst ways.
Is It Any Good? Well, it inspired a mass walk-out at the Venice film festival, which runs Cannes close for the king of the pretentious festivals, so that's clearly an indication of how unpalatable the self-indulgent bilge is for you.