Your favorite 'bad' movies.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

OK, so everyone who likes film has that one movie that they love, but said film is in every way absolutely awful. Movies with bad acting, bad writing, bad direction, bad cinematography, just bad everything. Sometimes they're big budget turkeys, sometimes they're grindhouse flicks, sometimes they're ego-driven indie projects....but they all suck so remarkably that it's impossible to turn away from the screen. It's the cinema equivalent of a guy on Youtube taking a tire iron to the nuts: it's awful but you just can't look away.

So, what are your favorites?

I actually have two favorite bad movies:

1. The Room, which proves that it IS possible for a film to be inept in every single possible way. This ego-driven vision of actor/writer/director/producer Tommy Wisseau is so hilariously bad....it's just hilariously bad. It's really one of those movies you just have to see in order to understand the 'hype'. Shitty acting, awful writing, plot lines and characters that change and are dropped without any rhyme or reason, two VERY awkward sex scenes, and a lead character who is.......well, he's Johnny and he's supposed to be a banker, but we never see him at his job and he only mentions it about three times the entire movie. And he seems to lack any kind of ability to recognize social cues or limits. And he has this bizarre accent that may or may not prove him to be an alien.

2. Thief In the Night, and its three sequels. This is a cycle of Christian End Times films that are so laughably bad and dated that its impossible not to laugh uproariously. It's the creation of christian film auteur Russel Doughten, who famously produced and directed the 1958 B-Movie classic The Blob. It's a really unsettling (in a funny way) look inside the minds of the Rapture-Ready crowd, and is more or less responsible for giving birth to all of the infamous tropes that have become common in Pre-Trib Evangelical ideology, including an anti-christ dictatorship who uses the U.N. to take over the world and then force The Mark of the Beast onto everyone as a tattoo (and mobile vehicles with guillotines to use against those who refuse The Mark), and an underground group of True Believers rebeling against their evil oppressors.

[Jimmie Higgins]

There's a range - there are incredibly contrived Hollywood-on-autopilot movies that sometimes are just endering or something despite themselves and then there are poorly or amaturly made movies which are a different thing. Either can be really enjoyable. Then there are just movies that are plain bizzare - which can be the best.

My personal favorite period is the counter-culture era for b-movies. Hollywood was struggling against TV and other entertainment and threw a lot of money towards smaller things that might appeal to niche viewers. I think the best-worst movie of all time has to be "Beyond the Vally of the Dolls". Infinately quotable, bizzare, poorly concieved, bizzare, and really of it's time and yet an obvious attempt to cash in on mod and hippie LA-lifestyle fascination. And it was written by Rodger Ebert. And it told the story of Phil Specter decades before it actually played out that way.

There are a lot of other strange exploitation and midnight movies from this era: "Wild in the Streets" comes to mind with it's hippie-dictatorship complete with mandatory LSD-dosing for people over 30.

Bad Sci-Fi can be really great too: "Xardoz" and "Reign of Fire" are two of my favorites. A movie which is not redeeming at all but very strange and mockable is "The Happening" - Marc Walhberg's ernest "I'm a science teacher" acting is the only redeeming thing.

[Pirate Utopian]

I like Wild in the Streets a lot too but I don't think it's bad. It's campy as fuck but not bad.

I like The Wicker Man remake, Cool as Ice, Troll 2, Enter the Ninja, Jaws 3D, Breakin' 1 and 2, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, amongst others...

I didnt include movies that are intentionally going for so-bad-it's-good like Dolemite, Pink Flamingos or Rocky Horror, I like those movies but they're not really bad.
Also some movies generally considered so-bad-it's-good are just kinda campy, have a bad rep and/or dated most of the time but not really bad sometimes they're great, like Wild in the Street, Death Race 2000, Caligula or Turkey Shoot

[Jimmie Higgins]

Troll 2 and Jaws 3D (in red-blue 3D) are hilarious.

[hatzel]

'Birdemic' is the very definition of aw(esome/ful)

If anybody comes to me even beginning to suggest otherwise, I'll laugh you out of the building. Nothing combines a shitty film with a strange attempt at genuine socio-political commentary quite like 'Birdemic'...

[Os Cangaceiros]

Drive-In Massacre
Deadly Prey
Raw Force
Violent Shit 3: Infantry of Doom
Premutos: The Fallen Angel
Wicker Man (2006)

and many others...

[Red Nightmare]

There are some movies that are so bad that it is entertaining to watch to see how bad they are.

My favorite "bad" movies are:

Batman vs. Robin
Troll 2
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
Weird Science (although I don't consider it to be bad, just really campy)
The Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie
Enter the Ninja

[Comrade Samuel]

FDR: American Badass- If you have netflix and you're ready to lose your sanity this is the film for you!

[Red Flag Waver]

Cobra (1986)
House II: the Second Story
Deadfall (1993)
Troll 2
Ninja III: the Domination

[Pirate Utopian]

Cobra isn't bad at all. It's just very 80s.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Another favorite of mine:

Sucker Punch.

Snyder originally wanted this movie to be a deconstruction of the 'action girl' trope in geek culture that sometimes is nothing more than a fetishization of women with little actual substance.

Instead, despite Snyder's ambitious vision, the movie ends up becoming the opposite of his intention and comes off as shallow and misogynistic.

Still great fun to watch, though.

[Ele'ill]

I like watching bad sci-fi trying to be taken seriously but this film here was the worst I've ever seen

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the entire thing is about how captivity is a great (but controversial) thing.

[Skyhilist]

How has no one mentioned Reefer Madness? That movie is hilarious :laugh:

[Red Flag Waver]

Cobra isn't bad at all. It's just very 80s.
It's not as bad as some of the other movies listed here, but its levels of cheese content are still dangerously high.

[Os Cangaceiros]

"Hey dirtbag, you're a lousy shot...I don't like lousy shots."

[Comrade Samuel]

How has no one mentioned Reefer Madness? That movie is hilarious :laugh:

I couldn't stop laughing at the fact they put it on Netflix on 4/20 this year. :laugh:

[Jimmie Higgins]

Another favorite of mine:

Sucker Punch.

Snyder originally wanted this movie to be a deconstruction of the 'action girl' trope in geek culture that sometimes is nothing more than a fetishization of women with little actual substance.

Instead, despite Snyder's ambitious vision, the movie ends up becoming the opposite of his intention and comes off as shallow and misogynistic.

Still great fun to watch, though.

Did he also intend for "300" to be a deconstruction of "barbarian" vs. (white) civilization tropes or Leni Riefenstahl-esque film imagry?

IMO that's an example of a bad-bad movie and practically unwatchable. Everyone yells their lines, the action is all in slow-motion, racist imagry of sub-human "enemies", all in a package that looks like a car commercial flimed by Nazis.

...or at least that's my Amazon.com review:lol:.

[Red Nightmare]

Did he also intend for "300" to be a deconstruction of "barbarian" vs. (white) civilization tropes or Leni Riefenstahl-esque film imagry?

IMO that's an example of a bad-bad movie and practically unwatchable. Everyone yells their lines, the action is all in slow-motion, racist imagry of sub-human "enemies", all in a package that looks like a car commercial flimed by Nazis.

...or at least that's my Amazon.com review:lol:.

This makes me a little bit worried about Man of Steel.

[Eleutheromaniac]

Thankskilling...Netflix it.

[Il Medico]

Thankskilling
FDR: American Badass
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus
The Giant Claw
Shark Attack Three: Megaladon
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Dog Soldiers
S.S Doomtrooper
Wraiths of Roanoke

Also, pretty much every other scifi original movie you can think of. Those were just chalk full of bad acting, bad special effects, silly monsters/weather events, and third rate Baldwins. They were the best.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Thankskilling
FDR: American Badass
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus
The Giant Claw
Shark Attack Three: Megaladon
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Dog Soldiers
S.S Doomtrooper
Wraiths of Roanoke

Also, pretty much every other scifi original movie you can think of. Those were just chalk full of bad acting, bad special effects, silly monsters/weather events, and third rate Baldwins. They were the best.

I don't think that Dog Soldiers was necessarily "bad", it was just really low budget and kind of boring IMO. I really like Neil Marshall's other films, though ("The Descent", "Doomsday", "Centurion" etc)

[Jimmie Higgins]

"Killer Klowns" - good one.

Another movie that I never even knew about until I read "mosnters of the market" is a low-budget horror movie sort of in the vein of "They Live", called "Society".

Apparently it was more or less buried in the US... for some reason Hollywood didn't really put it's weight behind a movie that suggested that the eliete rich of Beverly Hills were insestious (litterally and metaphorically) consumers of human life.

This one isn't a "it's soooo bad it's good" movie it's just a little amaturish, but really in an average low-budget 80s horror movie way.

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[Doflamingo]

I haven't posted in here? Well, I love The Room, and I love basically any Adam Sandler film (especially Little Nicky and Eight Crazy Nights).

[GerrardWinstanley]

I love Red Sonja with Brigitte Nielsen. Not only because it's entertaining and funny from beginning to end, but also the genuinely excellent Ennio Morricone soundtrack.

I'm also fond of the Creepshow series, which are ideal viewing for anybody who likes 80's slasher cheese. The Hitchhiker is the most memorable snippet. OY9gvIre4Zk

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

I love Red Sonja with Brigitte Nielsen. Not only because it's entertaining and funny from beginning to end, but also the genuinely excellent Ennio Morricone soundtrack.

I'm also fond of the Creepshow series, which are ideal viewing for anybody who likes 80's slasher cheese. The Hitchhiker is the most memorable snippet. OY9gvIre4Zk

I LOVE the first Creepshow movie. Seeing Stephen King play a hillbilly is one of the highlights of my life.

"Meteor shit!!!!" :p

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Masters of the Universe (1987) (Skeletor is superb, one of my favourite screen villians.)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) (Vanilla Ice doing an impromptu ninja turtle performance? Gold)
Transformers The Movie (1986) (little known 'fact', this is actually the greatest movie ever ever ever :))

[Kalinin's Facial Hair]

Green Street Hooligans

And pretty much anything football-related.

[Red Flag Waver]

How could I forget Killer Klowns From Outer Space?

Classic badness: Plan 9 From Outer Space and The Robot Monster.

Another one to add, not exactly bad but ridiculously over-the-top, is Wes Craven's People Under the Stairs. A black kid from the ghetto battles the local petit bourgeoisie, who happen to be murderous inbred psychos.

[Goblin]

The phantom menace. It was the first Star Wars movie i saw, so it has a special place in my heart. Episode 2 really sucks though, while episode 3 is just ok.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Oh god, Star Wars ep 1 is truly awful.

[DasFapital]

Manos: the Hands of Fate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdTyTRnGn14
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do (batshit insane christian propaganda from the 70s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5o_LwqX77I

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do (batshit insane christian propaganda from the 70s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5o_LwqX77I

"Why you stoopid li'l foo!" *decapitation!*

[Turinbaar]

The Magic Christian
Peter Sellers is a rich man who adopts Ringo Starr (yes), who is a homeless man in a park, and the two of them use money to get people, including some of the Pythons, to do the most absurd things. Various awkward psychedelic shenanigans ensue and the world is made that much more aware of how strange it is.

Pink Flamingos
Holy fucking shit this movie is disturbing. It has a plot...somewhat, and it also includes anal winking, chicken fucking, and Divine eating dog shit. It's directed by John Waters and should only be viewed once.

[KarlLeft]

"Trail of the Screaming Forehead" was intended to be a homage to those super-bad sci-fi films of the '50's but was actually turned out pretty funny in a bizarre sort of way.

One late night years ago, I saw this thing called "They Saved Hitler's Brain". Actually, they saved his entire head and a group of old Nazi's were trying to find a suitable body to attach it to. That was a strange one...

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

The Room?

THE ROOM IS NOT A BAD MOVIE, IT'S A BRILLIANTLY META INTERROGATION OF AMERICAN MASCULINITIES. IT POSITS A WORLD IN WHICH BOTH PATRIARCHAL TRIUMPH AND PATRIARCHY'S DARKEST FEARS OF "THE OTHER MAN", THE CRUEL NATURE OF WOMAN, ETC. ARE ENTIRELY REAL . . . WITH CONTRADICTIONS THAT ARE INEVITABLY UNRESOLVABLE!

[Jimmie Higgins]

Pink Flamingos
Holy fucking shit this movie is disturbing. It has a plot...somewhat, and it also includes anal winking, chicken fucking, and Divine eating dog shit. It's directed by John Waters and should only be viewed once.

Really, I think it's kinda sweet in a way. The dog shit is pretty nausiating though. Female Trouble is fantastic too though I think his "mainstream" movies like "Polyester" and "Hairspray" and "Pecker" are better movies as much as I love lo-fi "punk-rock" (or I guess counter-culture since Flamingos pre-dates punk) films for their immediacy. Waters' Hairspray is probably a movie I could watch once a week and still enjoy it.

[Pirate Utopian]

Pink Flamingos is one of my favorite movies and John Waters is one of my favorite directors. I dont think it's so-bad-it's-good because I am enjoying his movies exactly the way he intended them to be enjoyed.

[zoot_allures]

OK, so everyone who likes film has that one movie that they love, but said film is in every way absolutely awful.
No. The idea of liking something that you think is awful in every way has always seemed to me to be either incoherent, or based on an objectivism about aesthetic value, which is false.

[Point Blank]

OK, so everyone who likes film has that one movie that they love, but said film is in every way absolutely awful

Any science fiction B-movie from the 50s-60s. :blushing:

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

I can't believe I forgot to mention this, but....

Titanic: The Animated Movie

aka Titanic: The Legend Goes On...

(aka Copyright Infringement: The Movie)

A godawful animated muscial that, yes, is actually about the Titanic. Features singing mice, the geese from Dumbo.....

.....and a rapping dog. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHNztg0X3s)

(and yes, this is REAL. I own it on DVD. The Nostalgia Critic did a piece on it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVo9l9IJVT8))

And what's even worse...this film is actually a rip-off of ANOTHER animated Titanic movie called The Legend of the Titanic which, although with a better budget, is even MORE offensive that this piece of shit.

[Zukunftsmusik]

.....and a rapping dog. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHNztg0X3s)

haha, holy shit. what's up with the mice from looney tunes?

[Red Commissar]

Some crappy favorites I've watched with some friends

The Room: Self explanatory. Tommy and friends in a pocket dimension resembling San Francisco.

Robot Jox: Because this

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Starcrash: Italian knock off of Star Wars featuring a young David Hasselhof

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Maximum Overdrive: Some movie Stephen King made while coked out of his mind

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Birdemic: A horror movie that tries to also do an environmentalist message. Featuring CGI birds from hell.

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Transformers the Movie: 80s cheese

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Judge Dredd: I AM DAH LAWHHH

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2019: After the Fall of New York - Set in the FAR OFF YEAR OF 2019

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[Invader Zim]

Dog Soldiers



That film isn't a 'bad' film in anyway shape or form. It is a brilliant and loving if satirical homage to the horror genre. It is supposed to look, sound and feel precisely the way it does. It succeeds where films like Death Proof failed.

[MarxSchmarx]

Actually, one pretty bad movie that someone on revleft recommended which I kind of liked inspite of it was some movie about some naxalite I forgot what it was called

Other bad movies I liked:

Oubtreak
arachnophobia
Independence Day
The Postman

[Os Cangaceiros]

Independence Day is awesome, haha. Bill Pullman as the president of the USA leading a resistance movement against alien imperialists, yeah

[Os Cangaceiros]

I actually think that the special effects in films like "Independence Day" and "Armageddon" still hold up surprisingly well, too. Those movies were made back in the days when Hollywood was still incorporating a lot of practical effects into their films, before it became often entirely CGI

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

I already brought this up in another post, but.....

The Legend of the Titanic.

This is the movie that that OTHER movie (the one with the rapping dog) is a rip-off of. Even though it has a better budget and the animation is better, it's actually somehow worse than the other.

I'm serious, not only does it have a shitty shoe-horned in plot about saving the whales (seriously), not only does it have a gang of evil sharks for villains (again, seriously), not only does it have a giant octopus with a puppy face (I am not shitting you), but it also manages to completely insult the several hundred people who actually died on the Titanic by....

.....You know what? I'm gonna let the Nostalgia Critic handle this one. (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/30972-the-other-animated-titanic-movie)

I will say this though:

Of all the NC videos I've seen, this is literally the only one I've ever watched where he is quite literally stunned into silence.

That's how bad it is.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

mega piranha

why, you ask, would I love such an unmitigatedly bloody dreadful film?

there's a scene where a guy fucking pedals away giant piranhas with his motherloving feet and it's the best scene in all cinema ever