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They say you shouldn’t just a book by its cover, but it’s hard not to add a kick ass, crazy title to our Netflix queue. In the world of streaming, those insane attention-grabbing movie names help otherwise overlooked films stand out.
Right now, Netflix offers users such tantalizing titles as Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman, Prison Girls, and Wolfcop. Are these movies good? Are these movies bad? Are these movies actually anything like what their exciting titles suggest?
To sift through the mayhem, we offered our takes on what these movies sounds like they’re about, what Netflix says they’re actually about, and how many stars users give them. Oh, and for good measure, we excerpted choice quotes from Netflix user reviews.
So, behold the good, the bad, and the ugly of Netflix’s wackiest titles:
What It Sounds Like It's About: A crazy science fiction romp wherein an evil dictator wants to capture and decapitate a woman with a machine gun for a head.
Official Netflix Description: "In a small town, a sexy mercenary known only as the Machine Gun Woman runs afoul of the mob, which puts out a $1 million bounty on her head."
Netflix Rating: 2.4 Stars
Most "Helpful" Quote From A Netflix Review: "theres not much to it... it's Grindhouse in Spanish. If you dont like the American grindhouse tradition you wont like this movie, so please dispense with the "movie is so low quality and the acting terrible" crap."
[Watch Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman]Everett Collection
What It Sounds Like It's About: A bunch of scantily-clad women get drunk and wreck havoc on a tropical island.
Official Netflix Description: "A film producer on a Bermuda triangle island becomes entangled with a sexy temptress and soon finds himself the prime suspect in his friend's murder."
Netflix Rating: 2.9 Stars
Most Helpful Quote From A Netflix Review: "I can only assume that these folks wanted to party in the Bahamas and needed to make a movie to make it tax deductible."
[Watch Bad Girl Island]Good Looking Ink, LLC
What It Sounds Like It's About: A bunch of hot teenaged mean girls decide to start a coven so they can use sorcery to enhance their lunchroom cruelty.
Official Netflix Description: "In this heist film turned horror fest, a gang of thieves lands in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual -- and need a sacrifice."
Netflix Rating: 3.3 Stars
Most Helpful Quote From A Netflix Review: "I'm deeply conflicted about this movie. The basic premise is like an MRA's vision of the apocalypse. But it's so damn funny."
[Watch Witching & Bitching]Everett Collection
What It Sounds Like It's About: Well, I'm hoping it's about a bunch of ghosts creating a bomb that can destroy the entire world. Right? That's what you would be hoping it is, too?
Official Netflix Description: "Using witness testimony and archival film, this hourlong documentary looks at the effects of the 1951 detonation of a hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll."
Netflix Rating: 3.9 Stars
Most Helpful Quote From A Netflix Review: "Though the title, when combined with the description is misleading, this is an excellent documentary, and one I would recommend for anyone who is interested in the history of nuclear weapons."
[Watch World’s Biggest Bomb]
What It Sounds Like It's About: A mythic beast that is both half dragon and half wolf flies through an ancient countryside at night and burns villages. A great knight must defeat it, but only with the help of a beautiful sorceress.
Official Netflix Description: "In a cesspool of a city called the Devil's Cauldron, two rival hit men spark an all-out war when they are both seduced by the same woman."
Netflix Rating: 2.8 Stars
Most Helpful Quote From A Netflix Review: "Looks like some Germans wanted an excuse to carouse with prostitutes in Bangkok so they made this terrible movie."
[Watch Dragonwolf]Motionpictures, Well Go USA Entertainment
What It Sounds Like It's About: A mild-mannered man gets hit by a radioactive Winnebago and becomes Winnebago Man! His powers include turning his feet into wheels and the ability to physically expand when he's parked his body somewhere.
Official Netflix Description: "This documentary explores the life of Jack Rebney, who became an Internet sensation after a video of him furiously swearing made the rounds online."
Netflix Rating: 3.8 Stars
Most Helpful Quote From A Netflix Review: "This is one of the funniest, sweetest. most engaging documentaries I've ever seen, and I've seen more than a few."
[Watch Winnebago Man]Everett Collection
What It Sounds Like It's About: A group of elite martial artists who know how to make swords fly through the air hang out with their best friend, a dragon, and fight bad guys.
Official Netflix Description: "As the Ming Dynasty ends, ruthless warlord Yu tightens his grip on China, and Zhao Huai'an and his men meet at the Dragon Gate Inn to plan rebellion."
Netflix Rating: 3.6 Stars
Most "Helpful" Quote From A Netflix Review: "Really disappointed to find that this film was only available with dubbed audio. I turned it off after only three minutes, it's unwatchable for any fans of foreign cinema."
[Watch Flying Swords of Dragon Gate]Bona Film Group Limited, Indomina Releasing
What It Sounds Like It's About: A bunch of foreign psychopaths have great sex after they murder people.
Official Netflix Description: "Titillating vignettes recreate the deviant sexual behaviors recorded in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's medical text that shocked Victorian sensibilities."
Netflix Rating: 1.9 Stars
Most "Helpful" Quote From A Netflix Review: "The movie is very clinical, not that it is a bad thing. Just not very interesting. The shadow puppets were well done and amusing."
[Watch Psychopathia Sexualis]Everett Collection
What It Sounds Like It's About: A sexy Brazilian babe who looks like Gisele Bundchen carries us through a series of highly pornographic scenes.
Official Netflix Description: "A young woman abandons her adopted family to become a high-priced prostitute in Sao Paulo, and documents her new life on a popular blog."
Netflix Rating: 3.2 Stars
Most "Helpful" Quote From A Netflix Review: "I love how people talk about how predictable it is. I am from Brazil, and happen to know that this story is real. This girl studied at my school and decided to become a prostitute because she liked sex and wanted to make a living out of it." [Watch Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl]Phase 4 Films
What It Sounds Like It's About: A vampire bites a massive, scary dog and turns it into the most terrifying creature on Earth.
Official Netflix Description: "An enduring friendship forms when a boy adopts Fang, a 600-year-old vampire dog, and together they try to stop a mad scientist who wants Fang's DNA."
Netflix Rating: 3.9 Stars
Most "Helpful" Quote From A Netflix Review: "All I got to say for Hollywood, California is look out to Canada to surpass you in making quality movies. I love the whole concept of a vampire dog that likes red jello. They called it jelly in this movie. The gag reel at the end of the movie was very funny." [Watch Vampire Dog]Everett Collection
What It Sounds Like It's About: A werewolf becomes a cop so he can clean up the streets.
Official Netflix Description: "After being transformed into a werewolf, a boozy cop uses his new powers to tangle with devil worshipers, shape-shifters and other minions of evil."
Netflix Rating: 3.1 Stars
Most "Helpful" Quote From A Netflix Review: "A fully self aware werewolf cop with a donuts and drinking problem to boot, and it's the booze that actually makes him stronger. Hopefully they'll really make Werewolf Cop 2, I know that I'll definitely enjoy it." [Watch Wolfcop]Everett Collection
What It Sounds Like It's About: An elite team of badass All-American commandos are dispatched with a top secret mission to murder Adolf Hitler. What's stopping them? Dames, booze, and Nazis.
Official Netflix Description: "Hear the true story that inspired the Tom Cruise movie, "Valkyrie," in which an ambitious Army officer mounts a plot to assassinate Hitler."
Netflix Rating: 3.8 Stars
Most "Helpful" Quote From A Netflix Review: "Nice documentary. Particularly if you have seen the Tom Cruise movie. The biggest thing I take from this documentary and the movie, is not a critic of either, but an understanding that Stauffenberg was a hero." [Watch Mission To Murder Hitler]Smithsonian Channel
What It Sounds Like It's About: David the Gnome is back and he's back for revenge. He's going to murder every corporate goon who is out to destroy nature!
Official Netflix Description: "An investigator looks into a rash of sex murders that's engulfed the city and soon realizes that the carnage isn't the work of human hands."
Netflix Rating: 2.3 Stars
Most "Helpful" Quote From A Netflix Review: "If you like soft core porn from the late night movie channels and combine it with a very bad script attempting to make a horror movie, then go for it. The only reason to get it is if you wanna see some naked women." [Watch Blood Gnome]Turning Point Productions
What It Sounds Like It's About: It's Orange Is The New Black, but unlike that critically-acclaimed show, it's not written by feminists.
Official Netflix Description: "A prison psychiatrist prepares six female inmates for parole by granting them a weekend furlough, during which each of them has a sexual encounter."
Netflix Rating: 2.7 Stars
Most "Helpful" Quote From A Netflix Review: "Well this is a great movie if you want to remember those Grindhouse days of Sexploitation in prison which there are so many sadly they are not all streaming on Netflix and I must say nice to see the grain from the original has not been removed." [Watch Prison Girls]Desert Island Films
What It Sounds Like It's About: A David Fincher-esque thriller about a homicidal maniac who commits matricide and then is haunted horror-film style by her vengeful ghost.
Official Netflix Description: "This semiautobiographical drama chronicles the caustic relationship between gay teenager Hubert and his overburdened mother, Chantale."
Netflix Rating: 4.2 Stars
Most Helpful Quote From A Netflix Review: "Written, directed, and starring Xavier Dolan, who was only seventeen himself when he composed the screenplay, "I Killed My Mother" possesses a refreshing authenticity that would have been lost had it been helmed by a more experienced (and therefore older) person." [Watch I Killed My Mother]Everett Collection
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