Everyone is collectively squinting at their screens right now, because there’s a guy on TikTok who looks EXACTLY like Kevin James . . . and not in the “my friend says I look like Chris Pratt if you tilt your head” kind of way.
This art teacher, named Matt Taylor, could walk into a “King of Queens” reboot tomorrow and no one would blink.
Matt’s first TikTok dropped on the 15th, and since then he’s posted a few more, each one making the mystery even juicier. The voice? Spot-on. The delivery? Uncannily Kevin James-ish. He’s even got an Instagram, but here’s where it gets weird: he only follows one person: Ed Sheeran. Because… why not, right?
Naturally, fans have theories.
Maybe Matt Taylor is just a regular art teacher with an unfortunate (or very fortunate) case of celebrity doppelgänger face. But others think there’s something more Hollywood happening here.
Why? Because Kevin James just so happens to have a new movie coming out in February called “Solo Mio”. And, you guessed it, he plays a guy named Matt. In the movie, his character gets left at the altar in Rome and decides to go on his honeymoon alone, discovering himself and Italy in the process. No mention of teaching art, though, unless painting landscapes counts.
So is TikTok’s Matt Taylor actually Kevin James in disguise, doing a little viral marketing before the movie drops? The timing feels too perfect. But until someone catches both men in the same frame, the debate lives on.
One thing’s for sure: if this is Kevin, he’s pulling off the most wholesome celebrity undercover act. And if it’s not? Well, give that art teacher an agent.
(You can check out all of Matt Taylor’s TikToks here and decide for yourself.)
Get ready to rhyme your way through all 50 states. A brand-new Dr. Seuss book is hitting shelves next summer, just in time for America’s 250th birthday.
It’s called“Sing the 50 United States!” and stars the one and only Cat in the Hat, who’s trading in his usual antics for a musical geography lesson. The book will help kids (and probably some adults) learn the names of every U.S. state, Dr. Seuss–style.
Even though the book’s new to us, it’s actually an old treasure that was recently rediscovered. A complete manuscript was found in Dr. Seuss’ archives in San Diego, along with a cover sketch and his own notes on the art direction. Think of it like opening a time capsule from the mind of Theodor Seuss Geisel himself.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises CEO Susan Brandt said in a statement, “Uncovering a new work from Ted is like finding a time capsule of his imagination. ‘Sing the 50 United States!’ celebrates his boundless creativity, genius with words, and enduring ability to inspire young readers everywhere.”
The book will be released June 2nd, 2026, but it’s already available for preorder wherever books are sold. There will also be a special music video to go along with it on the Dr. Seuss YouTube channel.
If this sounds familiar, that’s because it’s not the first time a posthumous Dr. Seuss book has been discovered.
The last one, “What Pet Should I Get?”, came out in 2015, nearly a quarter-century after his passing in 1991.
Dr. Seuss’ stories have always found ways to spark joy and curiosity across generations, and this latest surprise should be no different. With the Cat in the Hat back on the scene and a patriotic singalong to boot, this feels like a perfectly Seussian way to celebrate America’s big milestone year.
Horror fans, sharpen your stakes and hide your kitchen knives, because “Entertainment Weekly” has done the impossible: They’ve ranked the 25 Best Horror Villains of All Time.
Predictably, Count Dracula swooped in and claimed the top spot, proving that sometimes the classics still have the sharpest bite.
Right behind him is everyone’s favorite refined cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, at #2. Frankenstein’s Monster rounded out the top three, showing that misunderstood monsters never go out of style.
The rankings highlight how horror villains have evolved — from gothic monsters and psychological terrors to supernatural slashers and modern nightmares. But no matter how high-tech horror gets, it seems nothing beats a vampire with a cape, a taste for blood, and a flair for the dramatic.
Here’s the full ranked list with quick notes on what makes each one unforgettable (or downright nightmare fuel):
Count Dracula – The original vampire icon: suave, immortal, and forever thirsty.
Hannibal Lecter – A charming genius with a taste for the finer things… and people.
Frankenstein’s Monster – A tragic creation who proves that humans can be the real monsters.
Norman Bates (“Psycho”, 1960) – The mild-mannered mama’s boy who redefined “mommy issues.”
Michael Myers (“Halloween” franchise) – Silent, masked, and unstoppable — evil in its purest form.
Candyman (“Candyman” franchise) – A vengeful spirit with a hook for a hand and a killer backstory.
Ghostface (“Scream” franchise) – The ultimate meta slasher who made horror self-aware (and terrifying).
Freddy Krueger (“A Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise) – A wisecracking dream demon who makes bedtime deadly.
Godzilla – The king of monsters: sometimes hero, sometimes villain, always destructive.
Pennywise (“It” franchise) – A shape-shifting clown who feeds on fear — and occasionally entire towns.
Jason Voorhees (“Friday the 13th” franchise) – Hockey mask, machete, and a serious grudge against camp counselors.
Carrie White (“Carrie”, 1976) – The bullied teen who turns prom night into an inferno of revenge.
Bruce the Shark (“Jaws”, 1975) – Proof that nature can be every bit as terrifying as the supernatural.
The Invisible Man – Science gone wrong; the danger of power without morality.
Pinhead (“Hellraiser” franchise) – A leather-clad demon who brings pain, pleasure, and plenty of pins.
Pazuzu (“The Exorcist”, 1973) – The demon that made everyone terrified of Ouija boards and pea soup.
The Phantom (“The Phantom of the Opera”, 1925) – The original tortured romantic villain, haunting opera houses for love.
If you’re the kind of person who loves a little fright with your playlist, Billboard just dropped the ultimate list for you: 20 of the spookiest music videos of all time.
Some of the picks make perfect sense, others might leave you thinking, “Wait, that song?” But hey, sometimes it’s the cheerful ones that hide the creepiest visuals.
The lineup includes everything from pop icons like Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter to horror legends like Rob Zombie and Ozzy Osbourne. Whether it’s the zombie dance that defined a generation or a surreal fever dream that makes you question your reality, these are the videos that prove music and horror go hand in hand.
Here’s Billboard’s spooky countdown (in no particular order):
“Thriller” – Michael Jackson
“All Good Girls Go to Hell” – Billie Eilish
“Look What You Made Me Do” – Taylor Swift
“Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” – Backstreet Boys
“The Dead Dance” – Lady Gaga
“Closer” – Nine Inch Nails
“Come to Daddy” – Aphex Twin
“Bark at the Moon” – Ozzy Osbourne
“Taste” – Sabrina Carpenter
“Demons” – Doja Cat
“Dinner & Diatribes” – Hozier
“Disturbia” – Rihanna
“Dragula” – Rob Zombie
“Everybody Scream” – Florence + the Machine
“Grave” – Kid Cudi
“How Low” – Ludacris
“All Nightmare Long” – Metallica
“Emperor’s New Clothes” – Panic! At the Disco
“Y Control” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Mary Jane’s Last Dance” – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is obviously the granddaddy of all spooky music videos, but newcomers like Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” and Lady Gaga’s “The Dead Dance” prove that the genre is still thriving. There’s everything from undead choreography to psychological horror to straight-up weirdness.
So, if you’re building a Halloween playlist or just want to creep yourself out on a random Tuesday night, this list is your new binge.
Before “Smells Like Teen Spirit” blew up MTV and changed rock forever, Nirvana’s first moment on the airwaves came from something a lot scrappier: their 1988 cover of “Love Buzz.”
The song, originally by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, was the band’s first studio recording to ever get radio play—and it marked the beginning of grunge’s slow climb from Seattle basements to global dominance.
Back in ’88, Sub Pop Records had just pressed a few test copies of the band’s debut single. One of those landed in the hands of Scott Vanderpool, a local DJ and Sub Pop insider. The minute it hit his mailbox, Vanderpool threw it on his Seattle radio show. That spin made music history, even if nobody realized it at the time.
That very same test pressing—a 7-inch vinyl stamped with the Sub Pop logo—is now up for auction.
As of last night, bidding had already hit $8,500 (and you might want to check if it’s climbed since). It’s a rare piece of early Nirvana lore, representing the moment they went from garage band to on-air artists.
“Love Buzz” went on to appear on Nirvana’s 1989 debut album Bleach, the raw, heavy record that first showcased Kurt Cobain’s growl and the band’s signature mix of punk energy and melodic hooks.
It might not have topped charts, but Bleach built the underground buzz that set the stage for Nevermind just two years later.
For fans of vinyl, Sub Pop, or Seattle’s legendary grunge scene, this auction isn’t just about owning a record—it’s about holding a piece of rock history. Not bad for a $1 single from a tiny indie label that once just hoped people would listen.
The phrase “Horror Sequel” can be a bad word. A really bad word. No, worse than that; a slur. The kind of horrific, dehumanizing slur you only hear from the mouth of a Quentin Tarantino character or a popular country singer.
But sometimes it’s a song. A transcendent lilt emanating from the golden throat of the most elegant songbird, directly into your undeserving earholes. Here are 10 of those cases:
“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2” (1986)
The only other film in the franchise directed by the original mad genius Tobe Hooper, and it shows. This movie gets several things right that few other “Chainsaw” flicks do, including Leatherface himself.
While so many sequels make him out to be a malicious, hulking, serial-killing monster, Leatherface is actually a frightened, confused child, who really only kills because he’s told to; or because he’s frightened by a sudden intrusion into his (slaughter)house.
“Chainsaw 2” takes Leatherface’s arrested development to the next level, by introducing a sexy DJ to oil up his blade. Add to that the career-making performance of horror hero Bill Mosely as Chop Top, and a hero played by Dennis FREAKIN’ Hopper, and you’ve got GOLD, baby.
“Troll 2” (1990)
I really believe the world would be a better place if everyone watched schlocky Italian exploitation movies from the late ’60s through the mid-’90s. I have no evidence to back that up, and no theories as to why it could be true. I just believe it.
Which is why “Troll 2” should be required viewing in every high school in America. This is a sequel in name only. It’s not remotely related to “Troll” (1986), which starred Sonny Bono and featured a character named Harry Potter and his son Harry Potter Jr.
Bad acting, bad special effects, and a ridiculous plot make “Troll 2” an absolute gem. One of the stars even made a documentary about it called “Best Worst Movie“ . . . and that title is pretty accurate.
“Halloween 3: Season of the Witch” (1983)
After “Halloween 2”, producers John Carpenter and Debra Hill were approached to produce a third installment. They agreed on the condition that they could retire Michael Myers, and thus, “Halloween 3” was born.
An evil toymaker produces Halloween masks that cause the wearers’ heads to rot like months-old pumpkins as snakes and all manner of insects escape from their upper orifices. But only when they watch the “big giveaway” on Halloween night, which is promoted incessantly with one of the most annoying ad campaigns ever. Yes, even more annoying than the Limu Emu. and Doug.
Unlike every “Halloween” movie that followed, “Halloween 3” is original, it’s creepy, and it stars the great Tom Atkins, who you may remember from “Night of the Creeps”, “Escape from New York”, “The Fog”, and “Creepshow”.
What’s the point of this horrible plot to kill millions of children on their favorite night of the year? To return Halloween to its bloody, Celtic origins. As our villain explains, “We don’t decide these things, the planets do.” As motivations go, that’s pretty damn cool.
Alas, the movie tanked, and everybody cried that Michael Myers wasn’t in it, so instead of an unique story every Halloween, we got 40+ years of bland, repetitive sequels. Thanks a lot, America.
“Jaws 2” (1978)
There are very few movies in the history of movies that can hold a candle to the original “Jaws”. And, full disclosure, “Jaws 2” doesn’t either. But it’s a fun ride and a damn good monster movie, not to mention that only other “Jaws” movie that’s worth your time.
Yeah, it’s completely implausible that another giant, killer shark would show up at the same beach where the first one went on a killing spree three years earlier. As one expert tells Chief Brody, “Sharks don’t take things personally.” (A line that became laughable in retrospect, after “Jaws 4” came out less than a decade later.)
But who cares? It’s a blast. It even presages the late ’70s / early ’80s slasher boom, focusing as it does on a group of terrorized teenagers stranded on a makeshift raft fashioned from their wrecked sailboats. The only difference is, the monster is killed by Brody once again, and not a by final girl whose abstinence from marijuana and premarital sex made her morally superior to her peers.
Oh, and did I mention that the shark sinks a flippin’ helicopter???
“Evil Dead 2” (1987) and “Army of Darkness” (1992)
One of the most brilliant and subversive things about the original “Evil Dead” trilogy is that each installment represents an almost entirely different film genre . . . and fans have followed the saga of Bruce Campell’s incompetent demon fighter Ash just as avidly through each one.
“The Evil Dead”, released in 1981, is balls-out, unrelenting horror that just barely hints at the comedic turn the next two movies would take. “Evil Dead 2” threw in screwball comedy, but kept things bloody. It ended up as one of the keystone films in the “splatstick” trend of the ’80s that also included “Re-Animator”, “Return of the Living Dead”, and “The Toxic Avenger”.
“Army of Darkness” kept things R-rated by throwing in some F-bombs and a flash of boob, but other than that, it’s a swashbuckling medieval comedy-adventure with very little blood and a lotta yuks. Unlike its predecessors, this was an actual studio film, and they even got Danny Elfman to record a song for it.
“Evil Dead” also unique in that, as Mr. Campbell often points out, it’s possibly the only horror franchise where you root for the HERO, not the villain. Hail to the king, baby.
“Psycho 2” (1983)
A sequel to one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most celebrated films? Twenty-three years later? Without Hitchcock? This shouldn’t have worked, and yet somehow it delivered in a big way.
Anthony Perkins returning as Norman Bates is a huge reason why. Norman has finally been released from the nuthouse, and he’s trying to turn his life around. But suddenly, “Mother” starts sticking her nose in his business again.
Also not willing to let go is Lila Crane, played once again by Vera Miles, who’s determined to see Norman back in custody.
This one’s got a fantastic twist ending that’s worthy ol’ of Hitch himself.
“Dawn of the Dead” (1978)
Look up 10 different lists of the best zombie movies. Chances are, “Dawn of the Dead” will be on all of them . . . and #1 on most of them.
George A. Romero invented the modern movie zombie with 1968’s “Night of the Living Dead”, and lost absolutely no steam with this sequel a decade later. Everybody calls it a critique of American capitalism, and it is. But it’s okay if you just enjoy it as mindless, splatterific fun.
This is also the film that put FX master Tom Savini on the map as the go-to guy for gore well into the ’80s (because fuck CGI).
Tragic Epilogue: The Monroeville Mall outside Pittsburgh, where the movie was filmed, is still there. But not for long. Walmart bought it, and they’re demolishing it to build a “retail and commercial destination.” So if you wanna visit this piece of film history, which also houses the Living Dead Museum and bronze bust of Romero, make your plans ASAP.
“Exorcist 3: Legion” (1990)
Author William Peter Blatty and director William Friedkin had nothing to do with 1977’s “Exorcist 2: The Heretic”, and it was a shitshow. But Blatty himself directed “Exorcist 3” from a screenplay he wrote, based on his own novel. And it kinda slaps.
No Linda Blair or Ellen Burstyn this time around, but Jason Miller returns as Father Karras. If you’re wondering how that’s possible, you’ll just have to give it a watch.
Lieutenant Kinderman is also back, only this time played by George C. Scott, taking over for the late Lee J. Cobb. This time he’s trying to solve a series of murders that seem like they’re being committed by residents of an old folks home, and he meets an old friend along the way. Even a tacked-on exorcism that the studio forced Blatty to film doesn’t take too much away from the story.
You can disagree with me on the merits of this film, but one thing that can’t be denied: It has one of the best jump scares ever filmed.
“28 Years Later” (2025)
“28 Days Later” is a masterpiece. “28 Weeks Later” is okay. But “28 Years Later” is a return to something special. And it’s just the first part of a new trilogy.
There’s a message in here about British isolationism and societal regression, but what came to the forefront for me was the story of a son’s dedication to his mother, and a crazy guy, who turns out to be not so crazy, who helps them accept the inevitable.
Oh, and zombie dick. Massive, swinging zombie dick.
“Bride of Frankenstein” (1935)
Largely considered the first horror sequel, “Bride” is also one of the best. And if you ask me, it’s better than the original.
It’s a little scary, a little campy, a lot of fun, and yes, a little gay, thanks to Ernest Thesiger’s “coded” portrayal of Dr. Pretorius.
This, not the original, is also where you’ll find the classic scene of the Monster befriending the blind hermit . . . a scene that’s probably more famous in parody form in Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein“.
Interestingly enough, the Bride herself, who’s not only the title character but also one of the most indelible movie monsters 90 years later, only appears for a few minutes. Just long enough to reject her intended mate, leading to the film’s explosive conclusion.
Most celebrities prefer to quietly update their looks and hope nobody notices. Jennifer Lawrence? Not so much.
In a new interview with The New Yorker, the Oscar-winning star got brutally honest about her body after having two kids, admitting she’s planning a little repair work in the breast department.
“Everything bounced back, pretty much, after the first one,” she said. “Second one, nothing bounced back.”
Lawrence didn’t shy away from the details, saying she’s not trying to drastically change her appearance—just restore what motherhood, as she put it, “took away.”
The Hunger Games actress also revealed she gets Botox, but she has to be strategic about it, because she needs her forehead to move when she acts.
It’s a refreshingly candid take in a world where Hollywood stars usually deny, deflect, or blame “great lighting” for visible changes. Lawrence’s willingness to be open about cosmetic work fits perfectly with the personality that made her famous early on: unfiltered, funny, and sometimes too real for her own good.
She also acknowledged that her no-filter approach has rubbed some people the wrong way over the years. “Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality,” she explained. “But it was also a defense mechanism.”
The honesty is vintage J-Law—mixing humor and humility in a way that feels more relatable than Hollywood-polished.
In an era where stars carefully curate their image down to every selfie and soundbite, her openness feels like a breath of fresh air.
And while fans might debate her decision to tweak a few things, one thing’s for sure: Jennifer Lawrence is still as unapologetically herself as ever, just with a little extra help from modern medicine.
The movies have given us some ridiculous monsters.
Who knows what these filmmakers were thinking. Maybe they dreamed bigger than their budget should have let them. Or maybe the mushrooms hit a little too hard. Whatever the case, here are 10 of the most ridiculous movie monsters in history.
Killer Bunny Rabbits: “Night of the Lepus” (1972)
Three years before “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” did it as a joke, this movie made rabbits into killing machines . . . and asked us to take it seriously. But did I mention they’re GIANT rabbits, made massive by hormone experiments intended to make them stop breeding?
Did I also mention that DeForest Kelley . . . Dr. McCoy from “Star Trek” . . . and Janet Leigh from “Psycho” are in it?
Vampire Turkey Man: “Blood Freak” (1972)
When Something Weird Video rescued “Blood Freak” from obscurity years ago, they promoted it as “The World’s Only Turkey-Monster Anti-Drug Pro-Jesus Gore Film.” And unless another one’s come along since, this statement is completely accurate.
Herschell is a Vietnam Veteran who becomes a turkey from the neck up thanks to a combination of bad weed and tainted poultry. He’s also a vampire, who must feed on the blood of other addicts. I mean, you try taking a hit off a joint with a turkey beak!
This is a terrible, terrible movie, and if that’s your bag, it’s a must-see.
Bad Movie Bonus: Co-director Brad F. Ginter appears intermittently as a narrator, warning us of the dangers of drugs and chemically altered food . . . while smoking a cigarette that at one point sends him into a coughing fit. I guess the budget didn’t allow for second takes.
The Were-Cicada: “The Beast Within” (1982)
1981 was a landmark year for werewolves, thanks to the release of both “The Howling” and “An American Werewolf in London”. But 1982 belonged to the Were-Cicada. And I am not kidding.
17-year-old Michael MacCleary hasn’t been feeling so hot. Turns out he was conceived when his mother was raped by a strange creature in the woods off a rural Mississippi backroad. The assailant was a man who used Native American magic to turn himself into a cicada-like creature, then impregnated a woman so that his offspring would emerge 17 years later, as cicadas do, and exact revenge against his enemies.
“The Beast Within” is a darn good movie with one exception: The monster. Thanks to budget and technological limitations, it looks NOTHING like a cicada. Or any other insect for that matter. It actually looks kind of like E.T., if he pumped himself with steroids but didn’t lift.
In 1986, David Cronenberg would insectify the crap out of Jeff Goldblum in “The Fly”, so maybe they should have just waited a few years for the technology to catch up.
The Demon Bed: “Death Bed: The Bed that Eats” (1977)
This movie is so ridiculous, it’s kind of genius. Yes, it’s a bed that eats people, but it’s so much more. First of all, the bed doesn’t have a mouth, or teeth. People who lay on it just sink into it. You can even see its stomach acid as it dissolves the people and things it devours.
This flick is so cheaply made I think the director’s mother paid the cast and crew in grilled cheese sandwiches. But it’s a lot of fun, and it’s got some really interesting lore involving a demon crying tears of blood and a young artist watching everything from his prison behind a painting, which the bed long ago banished him to.
This one’s about as weird as they come, but I promise you’ll remember it.
The Space Herpe: “The Ice Pirates” (1984)
A criminally forgotten sci-fi comedy swashbuckler starring the late Robert Urich, Anjelica Houston, and Ron Perlman, “Ice Pirates” is a funny, exciting, and sure, sometimes politically incorrect romp. It was the ’80s, people.
In a universe where water is scarce and controlled by the evil Templars, Urich and his band of misfits cruise around the galaxy stealing giant blocks of ice from the Templars’ ships to make a living.
But one of their raids yields more than just frozen H20. After falling out of a crate they’ve pilfered, the fast-moving slug-like SPACE HERPE hatches from a pod and runs rampant through the ship. It’s eventually caught, but not before biting a crew member and ruining what looked like it was going to be a delicious turkey dinner.
Annoying Giant Teenagers: “Village of the Giants” (1965)
A precocious little kid called Genius invents a substance he dubs “Goo”, which makes animals grow to incredible size. Some annoying teenagers, including Beau Bridges in an early role, get their hands on it, ingest it, and become SUPER-annoying, 30-foot-tall teenagers who take over the whole town.
Ultimately, Genius . . . played by Ron Howard, I’ll have you know . . . develops an antidote. But delivering it to these post-pubescent monsters requires a distraction, which comes in the form of a seductive go-go dance by a normal-sized Toni Basil. Yes, THAT Toni Basil, 16 years before her “Hey Mickey” fame.
Perhaps you’ve seen the film’s most infamous image, of a guy hanging off a gigantic Amazon chick’s cleavage. They even used it on the poster.
Robert the Car Tire: “Rubber” (2010)
Nothing to see here, just a rubber tire that suddenly comes to life, stands up and starts rollin’ down the highway. Oh, it also has telekinetic powers, and can make people . . . and small animals . . . explode.
This one is intentionally absurd, and to paraphrase Quint from “Jaws”, it’s either very smart or very dumb. Online opinions vary widely. But “Rubber” lets you know what you’re getting into from the jump, thanks to a character breaking the fourth wall to tell us that film, just like life, is full of things that happen for no reason. And it just keeps getting weirder.
A Volkswagen Dressed Up as a Giant Spider: “The Giant Spider Invasion” (1975)
Sometimes a simple premise and a little gusto is all you need, and that describes “The Giant Spider Invasion” perfectly. Spiders from outer space crash land in a small town inside meteors, grow to enormous size, and start doing what movie monsters do.
This one occupies a sacred spot in the so-bad-it’s-good bin, largely thanks to the awful, low-budget spiders. One of the bigger ones is actually a Volkswagen Beetle in a spider costume!
Bonus: The sheriff is played by Alan Hale Jr., a.k.a. The Skipper on “Gilligan’s Island” . . . and early in the film, he calls another character “Little Buddy”.
The Vagina Dentata: “Teeth” (2007)
Every feminist’s dream, every man’s nightmare: The Vagina Dentata. If you’ve heard this term before, there’s a good chance it’s because of this movie. If you’ve never heard it, you can probably guess what it is just from the name, plus the title of the movie.
Dawn O’Keefe is a teenage spokesperson for a Christian abstinence group, and somehow, she keeps finding herself in the company of sexual predators who want to take advantage of her. She discovers her “gift” by accident, but by the end of the flick, she’s using it very deliberately . . . only on guys who deserve it, of course.
Hermaphrodite Gene Simmons: “Never Too Young to Die” (1986)
This film poses, but ultimately does not answer, an important question: Can one be a drag queen, or king for that matter, when one possesses both male and female sex organs?
If you’re thinking to yourself, “Wait, Gene Simmons isn’t a monster,” then you’ve never faced him in a trademark infringement case, or seen him chew the scenery in “Never Too Young to Die”. Here, Gene plays Velvet Von Ragnar, who’s the psychopathic leader of a gang he must have stolen from a “Mad Max” casting pool, a god-awful nightclub singer with unfettered access to Cher’s wardrobe, and an evil supervillain plotting to poison the water supply of a major U.S. city and hold it for ransom.
When he’s not busy trying to coax superstar gymnast-turned-spy Lance Stargrove, played by John Stamos’s hair, into bed, that is.
Has Gene, or his acting, ever been this horrific? Are we lucky that this film failed to launch John Stamos to action movie stardom? And did the Chinese-American actor who played Stamos’s nerdy friend who builds cool electronic gadgets ever apologize to the Asian community?
The answers to these questions are NOT in “Never Too Young to Die”. But Prince’s one-time muse Vanity is, and that alone is worth checking out.
We all have that one movie we’ll defend with our whole heart, no matter how much critics tear it apart.
Maybe it’s nostalgia, maybe it’s the soundtrack, or maybe we just like bad movies. Either way, the people of Reddit have spoken, sharing their favorite films that scored 20% or less on Rotten Tomatoes, and it’s a surprisingly relatable list.
According to the thread, cult favorites like “Out Cold” (8%), “Jingle All the Way” (20%), and “White Chicks” (15%) are some of the most-loved “bad” movies out there. Each one might have bombed with critics, but fans can quote every line, and that’s what really matters.
Here are some of the top mentions:
“Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” (2011) — 18%. Nicolas Cage on a flaming motorcycle. Enough said.
“The One” (2001) — 13%. Jet Li fighting alternate versions of himself. Is it high art? No. Is it awesome? Yes.
“Kung Pow! Enter the Fist” (2002) — 13%. An absurd martial arts parody that’s either genius or madness.
“Grandma’s Boy” (2006) — 15%. Stoner humor and video games … the ultimate early-2000s combo.
“Encino Man” (1992) — 17%. A thawed-out caveman in modern-day California? Brendan Fraser made it work.
“Christmas with the Kranks” (2004) — 5%. It’s aggressively cheesy, but somehow still a holiday staple.
“The Master of Disguise” (2002) — 1%. “Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club?” lives on forever.
“Troll 2” (1990) — 13%. Universally considered one of the worst movies ever made, and that’s the point.
Even rom-coms got some love, like “A Cinderella Story” (11%) and “Couples Retreat” (10%). Sure, the dialogue might be rough, but if it makes you feel good, who cares what the tomato meter says?
If you’ve ever found yourself saying “hear me out,” you’re in good company. Some movies aren’t meant to win awards; they’re meant to live rent-free in our hearts and on our streaming queues forever.
So, what’s your “so bad it’s good” favorite? Bonus points if you can quote it from memory.
Michael Keaton just got his hometown hero moment in Pittsburgh, and it came with an unfortunate typo.
The legendary actor was inducted into the inaugural class of the new Pittsburgh Walk of Fame on Monday, but eagle-eyed fans noticed a pretty big mistake: his name was misspelled on the plaque.
While the star itself got it right, the paragraph beneath listed him as “Micheal Keaton” instead of “Michael.” (Ouch.) For a man who’s been Batman, Beetlejuice, and a symbol of Pittsburgh pride, that’s not exactly the tribute he deserves.
The executive director of the project was quick to own up to the slip-up, saying, “I’m so sorry that this happened. He was so gracious when he was here, so expressive about his love for Pittsburgh and the people here. I can only hope he shows some grace and forgive me for this faux pas.”
A corrected plaque is reportedly already in the works.
It’s not clear if Keaton noticed the mistake. During his acceptance speech, he shared heartfelt words about what the honor meant to him: “There’s nothing like being recognized by your hometown, because it’s actually the place that makes you who you are. I hope when kids walk through here and look down at this star of mine and all these others, they look up and just wonder what’s possible.”
Keaton joins an impressive first class of honorees that also includes George Benson, Nellie Bly, Andrew Carnegie, Rachel Carson, Fred Rogers, Dr. Jonas Salk, Andy Warhol, Roberto Clemente, and August Wilson.
Still, Pittsburghers can’t help but laugh at the mix-up. It’s the kind of mistake that reminds you: even when honoring perfection, humans are gonna human. At least the city gets another chance to spell it right, because if there’s anyone who deserves it, it’s Michael Keaton.
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