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24) Medusa Against the Son of Hercules* (1963) - 1.5/5 stars - Amazingly bad low-budget Italian sword and sandals "epic" that appears to be a loose telling of the Perseus/Andromeda myth. This definitely falls into the "so bad it's good" category. The Medusa design is very original! Really, its only redeeming qualities are the theme song (yes!) and the matte painting work. The English dialog dubbing is hilarious!
25) The Unnamable* (1988) - 2/5 stars - Poor H.P. Lovecraft. The movies based on his works are almost all poorly done. The Unnamable is probably the best of the lot, but that's not saying much. Loaded with horror tropes and a dated victim of its 1988 heritage, there's nothing here that's very good other than the practical gore effects. A group of hapless college students enter an old house on a dare and to get lucky, and end up being picked off one by one by the titular creature, a demon-possessed woman. Even though it's only an hour and a half long I found myself watching the clock. Not my cup of tea. Man, I really, REALLY wish that Guillermo del Toro had been able to get his At the Mountains of Madness adaptation off the ground. It might well have turned out to be the one and only Lovecraftian story successfully committed to film. I guess we'll never know.
24) Medusa Against the Son of Hercules* (1963) - 1.5/5 stars - Amazingly bad low-budget Italian sword and sandals "epic" that appears to be a loose telling of the Perseus/Andromeda myth. This definitely falls into the "so bad it's good" category. The Medusa design is very original! Really, its only redeeming qualities are the theme song (yes!) and the matte painting work. The English dialog dubbing is hilarious!
25) The Unnamable* (1988) - 2/5 stars - Poor H.P. Lovecraft. The movies based on his works are almost all poorly done. The Unnamable is probably the best of the lot, but that's not saying much. Loaded with horror tropes and a dated victim of its 1988 heritage, there's nothing here that's very good other than the practical gore effects. A group of hapless college students enter an old house on a dare and to get lucky, and end up being picked off one by one by the titular creature, a demon-possessed woman. Even though it's only an hour and a half long I found myself watching the clock. Not my cup of tea. Man, I really, REALLY wish that Guillermo del Toro had been able to get his At the Mountains of Madness adaptation off the ground. It might well have turned out to be the one and only Lovecraftian story successfully committed to film. I guess we'll never know.
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