Oh The Horror: In honor of ‘The Bye Bye Man’, here are the worst-named films in movie history

99 and 44/100% Dead

This is why it’s sort of important to make sure your titles stay timeless and relevant. This 1974 Richard Harris crime thriller, directed by the legendary John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds), took its title from a now-obsolete Ivory Soap ad slogan, and the fact that the filmmaking was so heavily of its time (nothing says 1974 like a hitman with ivory pistols going up against a one armed killer called “The Claw,” daddy-o) helped assure it’d stay a part of its era forever. As a result, this film disappeared into the annuls of forgotten movies, and it didn’t even get a DVD release until 2011. We saw this movie a lot growing up on some of the pay cable channels, and it stuck with us as the worst title we’ve ever come across in the wild.