What's the silliest premise you have heard for a horror movie/thriller?

[the December King]

Gonna second Rubber as one of the strangest premises I have ever seen put to film. Can't think of anything that comes close, really.

The silliest in execution was probably Troll 2 (1990). Bad. Bad movie.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Oh, back in the day I rented Bubba Ho-Tep specifically because of the comically bad premise. A very elderly Elvis Presley (having not actually died in 77) teams up with a very much alive and elderly John F. Kennedy (also having not died) team up to protect a west Texas retirement home from a mummy. The fact that Bruce Campbell was playing Elvis and Ossie Davis was playing Kennedy ("they dyed me this color") made it sound even more silly.

The fact that it turned out to be an amazing, oddly touching, and extremely well written movie with a great Brian Tyler soundtrack was just an unexpected bonus.

I remember that movie, it was an odd duck but it had heart. and Bruce Campbell, so always good for a chuckle.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The film "Pervert!" come to my mind.

It was about this social awkward guy whose got this voodoo/ witch doctor woman to put a spell on him to be a chick magnet. He found out later is that any women that slept with him were killed by his penis.

No it wasn't some bad porno flick and the way his penis killed the women isn't what you think. His penis literally detached itself from him to go on the murder spree. Best of all, his penis was under claymation!

 

[Xprimentyl]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Killer Clowns from Outer Space are a couple that come to mind from my childhood.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

There was this movie I saw about ghost sharks attacking a ski resort.

 

[Silvanus]

Sharktopus, surely.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

'Unfriended' Cos social media is where all the fellow kids hang these days and is an untapped market of unbridled horror with swathes of sweaty facecams.

Teeth has already been mentioned. Dumplings? The premise is something like "woman in China starts business in serving other women their aborted foetuses in dumplings to prolong youth" i...think. Double shot of casual gynophobia for ya'll.

 

[Parasondox]

'Unfriended' Cos social media is where all the fellow kids hang these days and is an untapped market of unbridled horror with swathes of sweaty facecams.

Teeth has already been mentioned. Dumplings? The premise is something like "woman in China starts business in serving other women their aborted foetuses in dumplings to prolong youth" i...think. Double shot of casual gynophobia for ya'll.

I saw Dumplings on Film4 a few years ago and it was weird and messed up but I enjoyed it. Film4 is a good place to find weird international horror movies.

Unfriended was funny because they were all assholes and even the main girl was the biggest asshole pretending she did nothing wrong.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I saw Dumplings on Film4 a few years ago and it was weird and messed up but I enjoyed it. Film4 is a good place to find weird international horror movies.

Unfriended was funny because they were all assholes and even the main girl was the biggest asshole pretending she did nothing wrong.

Think it was film4 for me also with that one. They're one of the few places that still don't mind airing more curious work. Like one stop-motion french film about a toy horse that orders too many house bricks and goes on a surreal adventure. Whatever it was called.
Haven't got around to Unfriended yet, am waiting for someone else with it to coerce me so I can blame the experience on them instead.

 

[Laughing Man]

I dunno, is Sharknado a horror, I mean yeah the movies are a horror to watch but are they actual horror movies? I dunno the almost self aware level of how stupid the concept of the movie worked enough in the first movie but the fact they are on to the fifth one of these things now.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Killer Clowns from Outer Space are a couple that come to mind from my childhood.

^This^. Me and my brother got into trouble for pelting tomatoes at one another making a huge mess due to that movie...

 

[Gal_mor]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Killer Clowns from Outer Space are a couple that come to mind from my childhood.

^This^. Me and my brother got into trouble for pelting tomatoes at one another making a huge mess due to that movie...

LOL, at least you had fun.

 

[Queen Michael]

I watched the trailer that OP linked to, and it seems very boring. It looks like it's just "We're stuck in the pool and we're cold, and we're stuck in the pool and we're cold, and now we're still stuck in the pool and it's cold..."

On-topic: Zombies. Of the regular variety, that shambles and is surprisingly easy to defeat. No creature in horror movie history has ever constituted less of a threat than a regular zombie.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Sharktopus, surely.

nm, google exists ... I am already looking for means to watch it.

 

[Thaluikhain]

On-topic: Zombies. Of the regular variety, that shambles and is surprisingly easy to defeat. No creature in horror movie history has ever constituted less of a threat than a regular zombie.

None at all? Zombies are rather rubbish, yeah, but surely...

Now that you mention it, I can't think of anything off the top of my head less threatening that a movie has used a a threat.

 

[dscross]

special police unit gets trapped in a mansion after being chased in by dogs. Turns out to be full of zombies (from a virus) with an underground lab in the garden.

 

[Silvanus]

Sharktopus, surely.

nm, google exists ... I am already looking for means to watch it.

NB: It's not just one film; it spawned a whole franchise. Sharktopus VS Whalewolf, Sharktopus VS Pteracuda, etcetera.

 

[TrulyBritish]

Hardly an original thought, but any ghost movie where the ghosts are essentially trolls. Like just causally opening cupboards or sticking furniture to the ceiling. I just can't help imagining them as the idea of a fat middle aged man giggling as he pulls the covers of a sleeping couple.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Sharktopus, surely.

nm, google exists ... I am already looking for means to watch it.

NB: It's not just one film; it spawned a whole franchise. Sharktopus VS Whalewolf, Sharktopus VS Pteracuda, etcetera.

Not going to lie ... you had me at Whalewolf.

 

[Natemans]

The Purge.


That has got to be one of the stupidest concepts I've ever heard