WEIRD WISCONSIN: THE BILL REBANE COLLECTION Blu-ray Review
Directed by Bill Rebane
Prior to
Arrow Films’ announcement of “Weird Wisconsin: The Bill Rebane Collection” I had neither heard of the man nor any of the six features contained therein. That’s not necessarily a red flag but after shredding my brain with a three-day Rebane-a-thon I came to understand why his films aren’t more widely discussed: they aren’t very good.
Now, I will say over the course of six films I did find some occasional charm from the low-budget aesthetics and regional acting – famous faces are scarce in Rebane country – but most of the pictures, for me, felt like they were produced with that age-old grindhouse mantra in mind: shoot it cheap and hope it hits big. Rebane is like Wisconsin’s H.G. Lewis, a fitting comparison considering Lewis stepped in to finish Rebane’s first feature,
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50 Horror Movies With the Worst Ratings on Rotten Tomatoes
On 5/16/21 at 12:00 PM EDT
Horror films are notoriously hard to crack. A genre saturated with cliches, from isolated cabins to flesh-eating zombies, many movies were better not to have seen the light of day.
Rotten Tomatoes is a convenient tool to check which films were received particularly poorly. The aggregation review site encourages fans to rate every movie on their Tomatometer scale. A consistent score of 75 percent or above warrants a certified fresh seal of approval, while total turkeys are rated rotten .
Below, is a roundup of the worst remakes, low-budget flicks, and cheesy thrills, as rated on Rotten Tomatoes.