bipolarber wrote:
When you try to pick what you consider the "worst" effect is, I think it best to have some criteria to judge by. I tend to cut some slack to films that are shot on $1.98 budgets. Sometimes, you just gotta fly with what you got...


It was around 1970 and a friend of mine looked at Paul Blaisdel's "Marty the Mutant" (Day the World Ended) in one of my books, and said that's what he hated about grade B science fiction films, asking "Why do they (the monsters) *have* to look like *that*?!"
If I knew then what I know now, I would have said "Because the guy who made that usually made those things overnight for no money. Considering that, it's pretty good. You try it."
Or, as in Steve Niel's law: "They want a masterpiece, they want it overnight, and they don't want to pay you anything."