Watch: SUPERMAN III Recut as a Horror Film
A couple of years before Man of Steel came out, I reviewed every Superman film that had been released in one massive article. To put it mildly, I did not have nice things to say about Superman III. From that piece:
There's no nice way to say this: Superman III is an absolutely terrible movie. From the bullshit slapstick opening sequence that rings totally false with the series' own history to highlighting comedian Richard Pryor as a comic force to battle Superman, this movie is the definition of "bad idea." Lois Lane is put on a bus to Bermuda, leaving Clark to head back to Smallville to rekindle his feelings for Lana Lang (played by Annette O'Toole, future Martha Kent on TV's Smallville). There's no Lex Luthor to be found, instead replaced by some jackass businessman whose claim to fame is building a snowy hill on top of Metropolis skyscraper. Wanna know what kind of movie this is? Richard Pryor, in full skis, falls from the top of this building - at least 100 stories, mind you - and lands in the street upright, with no broken bones or ill effects at all...This film is true idiocy at its finest.
I still stand by those statements, but the team at One Perfect Shot managed to create something watchable from that steaming pile of crap: a recut trailer of the film as a horror movie. It's an old concept that's been done to death, but I've never seen it applied to this film, and since there are so many bonkers scenes in this movie that have no business being in a Superman story, it ends up working pretty well.
Via: io9