We accidentally watched the worst movie EVER on Friday night. We meant to watch a highly rated psychological thriller called The Tenant. But we somehow downloaded a phenomenally bad horror film called The Tenant.
The movie hadn’t even been on for a minute when we looked at each other and said “This is really bad.” Bad acting, bad writing, bad everything.
Here’s the really bad trailer.
Despite its badness, we watched the whole thing. Partly because we didn’t know it was the wrong movie, and partly because it was so bad it was funny. For example, the pregnant wife of the insane asylum doctor starts vomiting voluminous quantities of blood. She freaks out and wonders if the babies are okay. Her doctor husband tells her it’s perfectly normal…the boy twin is just pushing the girl twin into the birth canal, which is causing some broken capillaries. Hence the vomiting of blood.
The whole movie was so bad and so stupid it was riveting (the closest analogy I can think of is Larry O’Brien’s mayorship).
When it finally ended, GC said “I can’t believe we watched the whole thing.”
That’s when I wondered aloud if there might be another The Tenant out there. A quick search on the Internet turned up Roman Polanski’s 1976 film. THAT was what we meant to watch. Duh.
I find myself very amused by this. It’s like a miniature version of one of those mistaken-identity plots.
Really bad horror films can make for really good entertainment (if you’re not looking for things that make sense!)
I have walked into the wrong theatre and sat through a horrible movie, because it took me a while to figure out that I wasn’t where I thought I was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOQkKPID6qE, the similarities seem remarkable! When I was pregnant with Darkmirror I saw a whole bunch of horror movies with pregnancy themes, Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers and the Brood, Rosemary’s Baby and 76 The Tenant, this would have fit right in!