Five Misleading Movie Titles

Don't you hate bad titles? No? Too bad, I do.

5. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (A Nightmare on Elm Street 6)

     Freddy's been dead since part one of this franchise, so that's nothing new. This was a 3D "horror comedy" mess only worth watching for the always entertaining Robert Englund. 

     More importantly, Freddy doesn't stay dead as this is NOT the final Nightmare film. In Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (a misnomer in and of itself) we get a hint of the then unproduced and vastly underrated Freddy vs. Jason. They'd been planning this almost since both series began. They KNEW this wasn't the last film.

4. Cloverfield

     This is misleading in the best J.J. Abrams style. No clovers, and no real field, unless you count central park. Legend has it the title refers to the clover-like prints left by the monster, but this is yet unconfirmed. So...yeah, I got nothing.

3. Honey I Blew Up the Kid

     Rejoice all ye parents! The kid isn't a smoldering crater. Granted, the original title of the movie was Big Baby and wasn't related to Honey I Shrunk the Kids at all. So, they did their best. Kinda.

2. The Pod People

    No, not That Movie. This is a 1983 spanish movie that has "Nothing to do with pods, nothing to do with people, and EVERYTHING to do with hurting." in the words of Dr. Clayton Forrester. The original and more accurate title is "The New Extraterrestrials". It's more or less E.T. meets Alien. It's one of my favorite Joel era episodes of MST3K. 

1. Attack of the Puppet People

     They aren't puppets, and they don't attack. They ARE people, so it's got that going at least. I recommend watching this with Rifftrax, as it's slightly more bearable. It was made as B feature by Bert I. Gordon, the genius behind The Amazing Colossal Man (a clip of it plays in the movie!) and Village of the Giants. Don't expect anything new here. The effects aren't the worst, but the scale issues are unforgivable. Are they barbie sized? Six inches tall? Something else entirely? Fucked if I know!