Stocker Stuffer…

Updated on October 21, 2010 By Ken Begg 14 Comments

A goofy ecological horror / animal attack film for $4?  Sign me up! Plus it’s an MGM disc with a predictably good transfer. At that price I assume they’re just clearing out stock, so you might want to grab ’em while you can. (I was amazed to see that they were sold out of Night of the Lepus DVDs, for instance.)

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  • Ericb

    $4 sounds about right for the movie’s budget.

  • To be fair, though, it’s only like the fifth most embarrassing movie Oscar winning Ray Milland ever starred in.

  • GalaxyJane

    Hmph, what would 1-4 be then? He did make some real stinkers, but at least X-The Man With X-Ray Eyes has some entertainment value to be wrung from it. Frogs is mostly just unpleasant people bitching at one another until they die (not by frog) and we breath a sigh of relief that they’re gone. Admittedly it’s been 20+ years since I last watched it, but I was distinctly underwhelmed.

    Do the TV movies count? And if so, how embarrassing is it really if no-one actually remembers it?

    Inguiring minds want to know!

  • Ericb

    He was certainly busy:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Milland_filmography

    I never realized he was British. I always he was some kind of stuffy, brahmin New Englander.

    I haven’t seen all those movie but I’d hazzard the guess tha Sea Serpent was the worst.

  • Oh, no, Man With the X-Ray Eyes is actually a very good piece of low-budget sci-fi, showing that you don’t need spectacular f/x in everything.

    We’ll, let’s see. Thing with Two Heads and Sea Serpent, obviously. Terror the Wax Museum I remember as pretty bad, but I guess that one might be debated…. OK, let’s call Frogs only the third or fourth worst thing he ever starred in.

  • Cautionary tale – I saw this stinker in the drive-in theater when it first came out. And I’m the kind of person who LOVED Prophecy. But I hated every second of FROGS. Man it was dull, confusing, and the characters were all tedious.

    Instead of Frogs, I urge you to use the link to pop to Amazon, and then scroll down to the “what people buy instead of this crap” and order Prophecy, or Sssss, or the Empire of the Ants / Tentacles double feature.

  • BeckoningChasm

    I have this one; to make space, I brought it to the used DVD store.

    They passed. (They also passed on “Another Rock & Roll Nightmare” so they can’t be easily fooled.)

  • Ericb

    If you don’t mind it used you can get it for 50 cents. I once saw a used cd on amazon for 1 cent. I guess they don’t let people just give stuff away.

  • Yes, used copies are great. The only difference would be if, like me, you tend to save up for a $25 order to get Amazon’s free shipping. if you did that, you’d be paying about the same for a new copy as for a used one with the postage.

  • Rock Baker

    Had the one sheet long ago. A hokey but fun poster, and one I can say I’ll never forget. Logic was wholey absent, as nothing in the image other than the human hand implied it was a giant frog, like it had just eaten Colonel Tom Thumb. Still, the image was as irrisistible as it was goofy. I would almost go so far as to call it iconic, as I doubt anyone who’s ever seen the poster has forgotten that frog with the human hand sticking out of its mouth.

  • GalaxyJane

    I don’t know. I ADORE The Thing With Two Heads. I definitely consider it better (or at least less dull, my measure of quality) that Frogs.

  • BeckoningChasm

    And of course they kind of did have a frog swallowing a human hand–an animated frog, after the credits were over, as if to say, “No, no false advertising here!”

  • Rock Baker

    Well, you have to admit, they did give what they promised!

  • BeckoningChasm

    Stocker Stuffer? More like Stoker Stencher! (I remember old Mad magazine articles.)