The Fantastic Four (1994)

Made primarily to help a German production company hold on its copyright on the property, 1994's The Fantastic Four holds the odd distinction of being the only Roger Corman produced film never to be released. That's right this film was never released, not in theaters, not on video, even though its exactly the kind of film my brother would have had us rent from our local Hastings back in the mid 90's. In fact for a time the film was even thought to have been destroyed, but at least one copy survived, and was further copied and in what increasingly seems the way of all things ended up on the internet. In 2005 a much more professional looking version of The Fantastic Four was finally released in theaters, but I could never get more then 10 minutes into that movie, while this lost version of FF is at least watchable, and oddly admirable when you learn the backstory. It remains to be seen however if the forth coming third FF origin movie will prove to be at least decent, my love of all things Kate Mara makes me hope so. For this original The Fantastic Four I give **

Learn more, and even see the movie here:http://www.vice.com/read/remembering-the-1994-fantastic-four-movie-that-was-supposedly-too-shitty-to-be-released-265?utm_source=vicefbus