10 movies that famous people don't want you to see

[Roger Wilco]

Dunno if it's considered good behaviour to just post a link to a article like that, but I was just blown away by this. Except that thing with the racist WB cartoons I had never heard about any of this and now I really want to see the Jerry Lewis holocaust movie.

"Can I Do It ... 'Til I Need Glasses?"

 

[Deckerd]

There are thousands of movies that have never been released, mostly because they're either not very good or downright diabolical. These don't look any different.

 

[JRS]

Hmm..I could watch this Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Renee Z. seems to have a meaty enough role

 

[CaptMurdock]

I remember Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park. Oy. My first cousin, a card-carrying member of The Kiss Army, sitting next to me cringing as I'm laughing my ass off. Good times. Boy, that Gene Simmons: wotta actor!

 

[Peach Wookiee]

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park... sounds like FG's KISS Saves Christmas...

 

[marillion]

I was 8 when that aired and I watched it start to finish... Oh My God... Even at that young age, I could tell something was very, very wrong...

 

[OsmiumJohnnycake]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation isn't horrible when compared to a lot of other slashers. It's not good, either. I wonder if this and the sixth Halloween film were partly inspired by The X-Files given their production dates and conspiracy elements.

And if KISS hates The Phantom of The Park so much, why is it available on Kissology volume 2? I mean yeah, it's the theatrical cut but both versions are pretty silly and Scooby Doo-ish.

I don't really like that article since it throws in movies you can see with movies like the Jerry Lewis movie.

 

[ToddPence]

Surpised the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special" didn't make this list.

 

[sojourner]

^It's not a movie? And it did get mentioned in the very first paragraph of the article.

 

[Dick Whitman]

All the stated reasons for the non release of Let It Be make little sense. Everyone knows about the tensions between The Beatles it shows. It was featured in The Beatles Anthology documentary. Paul and Ringo have discussed these events in numerous places over the years. its a common known part of Beatles lore. So its not a secret.

They would be better served by releasing a longer version of the movie. Which clearly portrays the full events warts and all. Also I suspect some of the shock at the time was to see that the four of them were actually human. Their image had been so tightly controlled before this that any infighting would have been a shock.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Kiss/ Phantom used to be for sale on VHS in the 24 hour service station beside the halls of residence where I stayed in my first year in Uni, 20 years ago. Wish I'd bought it now!

I'm surprised that Pumping Iron, the bodybuilding documentary isn't on there. IIRC, Arnie bought the rights to it a few years before he ran for Governor, so that scenes of him smoking pot couldn't surface to embarrass him.

Of course, smoking pot is now the least of his embarrassments (and I'm not talking about Kindergarten Cop - though there is a Kindergarten connection).

 

[Mach5]

No Dark Side of the Sun?

 

[Mr Silver]

I'm surprised "Catwoman" isn't on there, it was absolutely terrible. The movie bombed in theatre's and almost destroyed Halle Berry's acting career just as it was getting going. The disaster of this movie also threatened the production of further DC movies, since "Batman and Robin" and "Steel" (the previous efforts) had also bombed and received abysmal critical reviews. Fortunately, Christopher Nolan came onboard to rejuvinate the "Batman" franchise and DC have made a series of decent adaptions since.

 

[ToddPence]

Another example of a movie that was suppressed was "That Hagen Girl", a 1950's movie starring Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple with weird semi-incestual overtones. When Reagan's political career began to gather steam in the 1970's, the film mysteriously vanished from circulation and was not seen by the public by many years, although today it can be seen occasionally on classic movie channels.

 

[ALF]

All those films sound incredible. I hope they all escape (the unreleased) someday. I love bad movies almost as much as good movies.
I have a copy of Glitter and I am able to stand it about 10 minutes at a time. I'm nearly 1/4 through it!

 

[Whofan]

Didn't Adrien Brody recently make a film that he didn't want released?

 

[OsmiumJohnnycake]

Didn't Adrien Brody recently make a film that he didn't want released?

That was because they didn't pay him. It was settled though, IIRC, although by the time the court order was approved the DVD had been released. Allegedly the producers screwed over the director as well.

The movie was Argento's Giallo. Not a great movie, but Brody's performance was fine.

 

[Misfit Toy]

I've seen Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Let It Be, Up the Academy and Can I Do It ... 'Til I Need Glasses?

I've considered asking these Famous People for reparations.

 

[Kegg]

By far the most mindblowing one is the Jerry Lewis film. I can kind of see what Lewis was going for - and his conclusion that a comedy about the Holocaust is natural Oscar bait seems prescient with Life is Beautiful, but that movie walked a very delicate tightrope and it sounds like Lewis' went completely off the rails.

I'm surprised "Catwoman" isn't on there, it was absolutely terrible.

Yeah but isn't it obtaniable on home video?

The point of the list wasn't just terrible films (not that any of these sound that good) but films which people involved in making them have made an effort to bury - sometimes long before they ever got near theatres.

Catwoman is hardly as hard to obtain, I think.

 

[JiNX-01]

Another example of a movie that was suppressed was "That Hagen Girl", a 1950's movie starring Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple with weird semi-incestual overtones. When Reagan's political career began to gather steam in the 1970's, the film mysteriously vanished from circulation and was not seen by the public by many years, although today it can be seen occasionally on classic movie channels.

Oh, yeah, this is one of my favorite really bad movies. Reagan in his 30s falls in love with Shirley Temple in her teens.