Roger Corman's Legendary Fantastic Four Movie In It's Entirety On You Tube

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This is perhaps the king of all bad movies Marvel made in the 70s and the 80s. It took twenty years and better effects to do these characters and tales justice but for this one glorious time, the superhero movies were an embarrassment and a favorite rental at the video store. But this one was never available and soon fell into legend. Could it be as bad as everyone says. I have never seen it so I have to watch it and judge for myself.

Perhaps the most famously bad Marvel movie in history is now available to watch in its entirety online. In 1994, a low-budget The Fantastic Four movie was completed, but never released and has existed in infamy ever since. In an era long before the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and even a few years before Blade would help establish Marvel as a brand that could do business at the box office, this cheap monstrosity happened. And now, those brave enough can view it for themselves.

For those who don't know about the history of this movie, it's pretty fascinating. In 1983, the rights to the Fantastic Four were purchased by Bernd Eichinger and his Neue Constantin production company. After a full decade, no big-budget movie materialized and, if they didn't make something, the rights were going to revert back to Marvel. So, Eichinger recruited Roger Corman, a legendary producer famous for turning profits on micro-budget features, such as The Wild Angels and Death Race 2000, and they set out to make a low-budget Fantastic Four movie in order to keep the rights.
Upon its completion, trailers for the movie played in theaters and it was attached to the home video release of Carnosaur, one of Roger Corman's other productions that spawned a franchise and was released right around the same time as Jurassic Park in 1993.


However, despite having a completed movie and trailers out in the world, Fantastic Four never saw the light of day. Even though a release was scheduled for January 1994, it was pulled by the producers and that was that. Ever since, the movie has had a certain mystique surrounding it, even though the trailer was more than enough to showcase just how cheaply made and surely bad this movie was.

This one plays like a movie of the week with a soundtrack that plays every emotional beat like the sad plugs of the piano when anything bad happens. This is  more of a fan film than an actually film make by guys who knew something about the subject matter.

This one bothers me by the same thing that bothers me every time with this story. Reed took three unqualified people who were also his best and only friends into space with insufficient shielding and turn the three of them unto monsters. There needs to be a reckoning for that and no good FF film will ignore that fact or that arc of redemption.