The ropey old films on Youtube thread

[Rev+]

I've started a couple of threads about the bollocks that's knocking about on Youtube, but they've sank like stones so let's try something more comprehensive.  There's a lot of old rubbish on there that's out of print - if it ever got a home release - and I feel something of a duty to mine for gold.  Whack anything you turn up in here, and let's discuss it.

I'll start with 1973's Arnold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meUaVeU8pyA

Horror comedy, sort of, very much in the spirit of your Phibes or Theatre of Blood.  Opens with a woman marrying a corpse, which is alright because his existing wife is technically a widow, briefly threatens to turn into a musical, then becomes an extended caper about a will involving an 'Indianed-Up' Klinger out of MASH and loads of improbable murders.

Absolute shite and thoroughly recommended.

[thecuriousorange]

It's suprising which films are just sitting there on YouTube, that nobody has bothered taking down. There's Spiceworld.

[Catalogue Trousers]

Another 1973 opus that's often overlooked - Charlemagne Productions' Nothing But The Night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIyWdZoZh4

Way back when, renowned horror luvvie Christopher Lee set up his own film production company, and this was one result. Scripted by Ice Warriors creator Brian Hayles, co-starring Lee and Cushing, their characters working together as in Horror Express, with sterling support from the likes of Diana Dors, Keith Barron, and Fulton Mackay, the whole thing builds intriguingly from a mystery to a bravura, demented climax with shades of The Wicker Man. Recommended.

[Blumf]

Night World (1932)

Boris Karloff runs a Prohibition era nightclub, and has to deal with the mob, his unfaithful wife, and other staff and guest's personal dramas.
Ultimately a daft pre-code melodrama, but has wonderfully enjoyable character work, especially Mr. Baby, and some early Busby Berkeley routines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AeOBuaKxts
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023271/

[Sebastian Cobb]

R.O.T.O.R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84hzaw8Qe4Q

[Dex Sawash]

R.O.T.O.R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84hzaw8Qe4Q

(Rope-otic police officer film)

[Jake Thingray]

I'll start with 1973's Arnold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meUaVeU8pyA

Horror comedy, sort of, very much in the spirit of your Phibes or Theatre of Blood.  Opens with a woman marrying a corpse, which is alright because his existing wife is technically a widow, briefly threatens to turn into a musical, then becomes an extended caper about a will involving an 'Indianed-Up' Klinger out of MASH and loads of improbable murders.

Absolute shite and thoroughly recommended.

Can never quite work out if it's meant to be set in Wales or the West Country.

[Egyptian Feast]

Night World (1932)

Boris Karloff runs a Prohibition era nightclub, and has to deal with the mob, his unfaithful wife, and other staff and guest's personal dramas.
Ultimately a daft pre-code melodrama, but has wonderfully enjoyable character work, especially Mr. Baby, and some early Busby Berkeley routines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AeOBuaKxts
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023271/

Hadn't heard of this one, cheers! I'm always up for seeing more pre-code Busby Berkeley.

[SteveDave]

Blood Beach!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-mJuBMot5E

Or reverse Jaws feat. Paulie from Rocky (boxing film). He's truly awful in it and his character appears to have no reason to be where he is at any time.

[St_Eddie]

It's suprising which films are just sitting there on YouTube, that nobody has bothered taking down. There's Spiceworld.

That's because nobody wants to claim the copyright for Spiceworld.

Blood Beach!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-mJuBMot5E

Or reverse Jaws feat. Paulie from Rocky (boxing film). He's truly awful in it and his character appears to have no reason to be where he is at any time.

I used to love this film when I was a kid!

[Gulftastic]

The really long cut of 'Dawn Of The Dead' is on there for all to watch.

The original, of course.

[Lordofthefiles]

Snowbeast (1977)

Pissed me pants when I saw this on TV in (at a guess) the early 80's.


https://youtu.be/6eL-_2LfDaA

[Sebastian Cobb]

Hard Ticket to Hawaii is on there.

https://youtu.be/7-Kolw48aIU

A must for anyone with a penchant for breasts, explosions and death by frisbee.

[St_Eddie]

Snowbeast (1977)

Pissed me pants when I saw this on TV in (at a guess) the early 80's.


https://youtu.be/6eL-_2LfDaA

Flipping heck, another childhood favourite of mine!  A bunch of us watched it on TV as kids and were pissing our pants too!

[Rev+]

Blood Beach!

A gem and a half, and the perfect example of a film that suits this thread.  The sort of film that the copyright holder would have taken down from Youtube, but it probably involves sending an email or something and who can be bothered.

[zomgmouse]

Silent Night, Bloody Night aka Night of the Dark Full Moon aka Death House.

Young man inherits mysterious old house that used to be a mental asylum where bad things once happened and unsettling townsfolk and Christmastime murders... Mary Woronov is in it and John Carradine pops up.

Very creepy, very good.

https://youtu.be/sEufaTUKrN0