I personally like what I've seen of films by Troma Films. They're just so hilariously over-the-top in their violence and bad special effects that they're just hilarious.
How about most of the Godzilla movies? You have a guy in a bad Godzilla outfit knocking down terrible models that are supposed to be a city. Yet,when you see Godzilla putting the smackdown on Mothra or Rodan, it's really cool.
Black Sheep, an Aussie movie about crazy killer sheep.
Black Sheep, an Aussie movie about crazy killer sheep.Wasn't that made in New Zealand?
Weren't YOU made in New Zealand?? It was...My bad.
Put me down for "Surf II." Eric Stolz as the surfer hero, and Eddie Deezen as the super-villain? Can you relate?
Okay, I want to know which movies are so bad that they have made your must see list. I pick Night of the Lepus. Killer bunnies in a 1950's B movie is always a must see.
Early 70s, actually. That's the only other thing aside from Star Trek that I remember seeing DeForrest Kelley in...
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Hmmmm... Armageddon? No, that one just sucks. The same is true of Deep impact and Pearl Harbour.
However, Robot Monster is kinda fun... A lame alien (some guy wearing a gorilla suit and a deep-sea diver helmet) hangs out in a cave, sending soap bubbles out of his radio and occasionally menacing surfer kids. Best enjoyed while drunk off your ass.
Good call on Night of the lepus. Pay close attention as the mega-bunnies turn over cars, and you might see the Matchbox logo! Still, my favourite is Russ Meyer's "masterpiece" Beyond the valley of the dolls, even though Meyer intentionally created a total turkey. Any movie that contains the phrase "Before this night is through, you shall drink the black sperm of my vengeance" is OK in my book.
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Okay, I want to know which movies are so bad that they have made your must see list. I pick Night of the Lepus. Killer bunnies in a 1950's B movie is always a must see.Early 70s, actually. That's the only other thing aside from Star Trek that I remember seeing DeForrest Kelley in...
True, although I was refering to the style when I called it a 1950's B movie. Perhaps atomic horror would have been a better phrase though.
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Buckaroo Bonzai
Demolition Man
UHF
Strange Brew
Kung Pow
Flash Gordon
Doctor Detroit
Honorable Mention: Tron
Did you mean UHF?VHF
I did! Thanks :)
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Split Second. An overweight Rutger Hauer and scantily clad Kim Cattral vs a human eating monster in a near future (set in 2008, made in 1992, things aren't quite as bad as the writers thought they would be) half flooded London.
"We need to get bigger guns. BIG F***ING GUNS!"
Like many of these films, best watched NOT sober.
I think what David Fryer was talking about are movies that have horrible production values, bad acting, and incredibly stupid dialogue, and are unintentionally hilarious, thus being highly entertaining to watch. This sets them apart from movies that are so bad they are painful to watch (i.e. Battlefield Earth, Dungeons and Dragons, ad infinitum…) I’ve seen dozens of them, as I am a self proclaimed bad movie connoisseur. While some modern efforts come close (i.e. Showgirls, Catwoman), none surpass the ineptitude of Plan 9 From Outer Space. Seriously, if you have never seen the worst dialogue ever written being performed by actors so wooden they would give cigar-store Indians a run for their money, you have not lived.
Truth be told, Plan 9 is probably not the worst movie ever made. There are movies with worse production values out there from the era. There are movies with as bad of acting (if there’s one with worse acting, I haven’t seen it). However, there are no movies that I have seen with worse dialogue. I still can’t believe that Criswell delivered the opening monologue with a straight face (how many times can you use the word “future” in one block of dialogue?) And there’s more. Glaring continuity errors (What do you mean you left the police station in a 55 Chevy and arrived at the cemetery in a 56 Chevy? It took you a year to arrive? What did you do, stop for donuts?), obvious stock footage usage (what B-movie makers would have done without stock footage we’ll never know) and the most ludicrous plot I have yet to see. What’s more is that it is done completely straight, and you can tell that the actors are giving it their all, which isn’t much. When you throw all this together, you get most entertaining bad movie out there.
If you are looking for a horrible-yet-entertaining movie, you can’t go wrong with Plan 9.
However, if you have seen it more times than you can count (like me) and are tired of it (I’m not…yet), here are a few others to get your MST3K riffing going…
Beginning of the End.
Peter Graves (in quite a few B-movies from the 50’s, I might add) tries to save Chicago from being eaten by giant grasshoppers. The grasshopper FX have to be seen to be believed. And not in a good way. A classic from Bert I Gordon
Robot Monster
An alien (really a guy in a gorilla costume with a diving helmet for a head) conquers the entire world except for one family of refugees in Bronson Canyon. More horrible dialogue and special effects and stock footage (from One Million BC, the 1940’s version) follows. Highly entertaining from the mind of Phil Tucker
The Amazing Colossal Man
Another classic from Bert I Gordon. Col. Glenn Manning get irradiated after an accident with a plutonium bomb test. Instead of turning green and getting really strong when he gets angry, he starts growing. Because if I learned anything from watching 50’s sci-fi, it’s that radiation makes things big. Horrible special effects, and if any actual scientis watches this movie their brain may explode from all the wrong science.
Bride of the Monster
Another offering from Ed Wood. Bela Lugosi in one of his last roles as a mad scientist in a swamp trying to perfect a race of “atomic supermen.” With Tor Johnson as his assistant Lobo a mute hulking mutant who has an angora fetish. No I did not make that part up.
That should set you up for your Halloween bad movie viewing pleasure. If you need any further guidance in the matter please check out El Santo’s website [url=http://www.1000misspenthoursandcounting.com].
It has some of the funniest reviews I've ever read about bad movies from every era.
I did! Thanks :)Did you mean UHF?VHF
Blasphemy! Thou shalt not speak out against that most perfect of all film-ed stories!
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Badgers, we don't need no stinking badgers.
Turtles are nature's suction cup.
I have to plug Snakes on a Plane here. Watch that movie with a huge group of friends, each with about 10 rubber snakes to throw at opportune moments, and you will not be disappointed. Don't forget to shout out the ridiculous lines when they crop up!
EDIT: I also have to mention Silent Trigger, with Dolph Lundgren. I have yet to find a movie with more pauses. It is truly, truly ridiculous and absolutely hilarious, for all the wrong reasons. That, and he has the biggest damn rifle I have ever seen.
New additions:
Freejack
Robot Jox
Maximum Overdrive
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
I agree completely. All terribly wonderful and wonderfully terrible.
The first one that pops into my head is "Attack of the Killer Tomatos".
Anyone have any ketchup?
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The Mole People
Attack of the Crab Monsters
There's a third i cant remember the name of... Has to do with experimenting on some rodents(amking them larger) that turns into the size of a dog. Folks get stranded on the island during a storm, the rodents(look like big rats with a very poisenous bite) try to kill them as food. One of two escape in the end. 1950's flick. Anyone know which film im speaking of?
I actually wrote scenarios with all three flicks listed above for some advanced wfrp campaigning action.
The first one that pops into my head is "Attack of the Killer Tomatos".
Anyone have any ketchup?
And the song that killed them... Puberty Love
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There's a third i cant remember the name of... Has to do with experimenting on some rodents(amking them larger) that turns into the size of a dog. Folks get stranded on the island during a storm, the rodents(look like big rats with a very poisenous bite) try to kill them as food. One of two escape in the end. 1950's flick. Anyone know which film im speaking of?
I think you're referring to "Food of the Gods", and, IIRC, it was an early 70's movie, based on an H.G. Wells story.
Or maybe "The Killer Shrews" with a very young Roscoe P Coltrane and Festus Haggen?
Split Second. An overweight Rutger Hauer and scantily clad Kim Cattral vs a human eating monster in a near future (set in 2008, made in 1992, things aren't quite as bad as the writers thought they would be) half flooded London.
"We need to get bigger guns. BIG F***ING GUNS!"
Like many of these films, best watched NOT sober.
You know I completely forgot about that movie.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
This is the newest release by Cinematic Titanic with all new riffs!
I just saw this done live in St Louis the other night! DUDE! They were awesome. I totally admit hero worship/nostalgia colors my view of that night, but hai-keeba they were funny as hell! Joel, J Elvis, Mary Jo, Trace, and (TVs?) Frank tore it up. Should be available very soon.
Buckaroo Bonzai
Demolition Man
UHF
Strange Brew
Kung Pow
Flash Gordon
Doctor Detroit
Honorable Mention: Tron
MARS ATTACKS!
For the record, I enjoy TRON and DEMOLITION MAN quite a bit. :)
"Mwbeeler, you are fined one-half credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute. However, You are an incredibly sensitive man, who inspires joy-joy feelings in all those around you."
- END OF LINE -
*resurrection!*
I recently found Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn on Netflix. This movie is awful and I love it! I used to watch this all the time on HBO when I was a kid and I'd forgotten all about it.
Way of the Samurai. I thought it was a great comedy. When I later found it was a drama... just wasn't the same.
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Flash Gordon? Demolition Man? Freejack? Oh, such harsh judgements!
I could see Flash Gordon, actually, with only the soundtrack totally saving it. "Flash! Aaaa-aaa! He'll save every one of us!"
I'd add Starship Troopers and The Fifth Element to that list. Both go so far past 'over-the-top' that they go right around and become hilarious, IMO.
Somebody said Kung Pow! and I couldn't have said it better myself. I have never laughed so hard at such a stupid movie in my whole life. It was almost so ridiculous as to be profound. I actually think I gleaned some wisdom from it unintentionally.
-Apparently there is a version of Japanese zombie/action/martial arts movie VERSUS that was dubbed by 'an all black urban cast'. I have never actually seen it though, but I'd imagine it's pretty bad.
-That said I liked VERSUS but the look of horror on the faces of the other people watching made me wonder if I was missing something...
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I have been wracking my brain to remember the name of this movie. I just can't. It is a cyberpunk dystopian future thing, made with poor special effects and worse acting but a fun script, the first half of the movie that is. The second half of the movie seems like it was a different movie and was written by well someone else. plot point changes and we go from witty dialog to a big explosion and fight scene that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to the film.
The best scene in the movie... One of the big billy bad assed cyborgs pushes this little old lady with a shopping cart around while searching for the main character. As he turns around after knocking her out of his way this little old lady reaches into her shopping cart pulls out a really big gun from under all her stuff and shoots, what is up till now the main villain in the back of his head, cusses him out and leaves him dead on the sidewalk. Thereby letting the main character escape to by the tough guy at the end of the movie. Its almost worth watching just the first half an hour or so of the movie and then stopping it leaving it up to your own imagination as to how the protagonist lives.
Bubba Ho Tep kicks mighty ass, Elvis and JFK versus a Mummy in an old people's home. In fact anything with Bruce Campbell is a sure-fire hit in my house. I've seen The Killer Shrews, it's fab! Anything with swarms of or giant mutant animals is always a winner, see Them, Empire of the Ants (starring Joan Collins!), The Swarm (Micheal Caine I think) and a host of others. Micheal Caine was also in The Hand, another winner if you're in the mood for something dumb. Jaws 3D too, what the hell was he doing in the 70's? Destroy All Monsters is my fav of the godzilla movies although vs King Kong gives it a good run for it's money. Nice to see another fan of The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension. Cool World is a fantastic film if you get the chance, as is Crimewave (Directed by Sam Raimi), great films that manage to capture the energy of a Warner Bros cartoon in full length movie. Why has no-one mentioned Death Race 2000 (starring Sylvester Stallone!) yet? Or Rollerball (70's version) for that matter? Big mention to the original Planet of the Apes series of films (all 5 of 'em) if you fancy an all-nighter. In fact there's so many great SF films from the early 70's it's ridiculous. No budget but big ideas. A Boy and His Dog, there's another one for you. Blah blah blah...
Death Race 2000 (not, I repeat, not the remake)
Deathsport
Cannonball (not, I repeat, not Cannonball Run)
The Gumball Rally
Okay, I want to know which movies are so bad that they have made your must see list. I pick Night of the Lepus. Killer bunnies in a 1950's B movie is always a must see.
I saw that movie (Night of the Lepus) back in the 70s. Great film!
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Bubba Ho Tep kicks mighty ass, Elvis and JFK versus a Mummy in an old people's home. In fact anything with Bruce Campbell is a sure-fire hit in my house. I've seen The Killer Shrews, it's fab! Anything with swarms of or giant mutant animals is always a winner, see Them, Empire of the Ants (starring Joan Collins!), The Swarm (Micheal Caine I think) and a host of others. Micheal Caine was also in The Hand, another winner if you're in the mood for something dumb. Jaws 3D too, what the hell was he doing in the 70's? Destroy All Monsters is my fav of the godzilla movies although vs King Kong gives it a good run for it's money. Nice to see another fan of The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension. Cool World is a fantastic film if you get the chance, as is Crimewave (Directed by Sam Raimi), great films that manage to capture the energy of a Warner Bros cartoon in full length movie. Why has no-one mentioned Death Race 2000 (starring Sylvester Stallone!) yet? Or Rollerball (70's version) for that matter? Big mention to the original Planet of the Apes series of films (all 5 of 'em) if you fancy an all-nighter. In fact there's so many great SF films from the early 70's it's ridiculous. No budget but big ideas. A Boy and His Dog, there's another one for you. Blah blah blah...
- Bubba Ho Tep - yes!
- Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai in the Eighth DimensionAdventures of Buckeroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension - yes!
- Cool World - wasn't that the one where the character gets sucked into the seeming swarmy cartoon world, and then things go poorly?
In service,
Rich
http://zhalindor.com
You know I completely forgot about that movie.Split Second. An overweight Rutger Hauer and scantily clad Kim Cattral vs a human eating monster in a near future (set in 2008, made in 1992, things aren't quite as bad as the writers thought they would be) half flooded London.
"We need to get bigger guns. BIG F***ING GUNS!"
Like many of these films, best watched NOT sober.
RuneStone -- Mark E. Rogers wrote the short story that became the movie.
In service,
Rich
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Some of the sci fy channel monster movies come to mine.
Mega Phython vs Gateroid was an absolute hit at bad movie night with my friends. Awesomely Bad, to the max!
The recent movie the Expendables was also so bad it was good. I have never before seen more then half of a movie written entirely in one liners. Sly is clearly a genius visionary that has developed a new movie genre all his own.
"Mazes and Monsters" is a must see for serious RPGers.
Man, I cannnot wait until I get to 9th level and can make up my own spells too!
In service,
Rich
http://zhalindor.com
Some of the sci fy channel monster movies come to mine.
Mega Phython vs Gateroid was an absolute hit at bad movie night with my friends. Awesomely Bad, to the max!
The recent movie the Expendables was also so bad it was good. I have never before seen more then half of a movie written entirely in one liners. Sly is clearly a genius visionary that has developed a new movie genre all his own.
My favorite scene is when Sly is getting his butt kicked and then Stone Cold sees his men down a hallway just getting blown away by Terry Crews and he decides to book it. Those goons getting blasted back 20 feet with each shot was epic.
70s Rollerball was great. The only thing good about the remake was they showed the 70s one on AMC. It's like every sci-fi post apocalyptic dystopia, but with roller derby!
If you want to find a movie that is so bad it is good, put "Arnold Schwartzenegger" in IMDB. Especially everything made when he was a big action star. Running Man. Epic.
Death Race 2000 (not, I repeat, not the remake)
Deathsport
Cannonball (not, I repeat, not Cannonball Run)
The Gumball Rally
In all fairness Death Race (remake with Statham) was fun. But then again Jason Statham has become that guy, you know the one who's movie isn't going to be very good, but still fun to watch? Yea that's him now. Not like the Guy Richie days...
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This thread seems like a good spot to place this warning:
Do not watch R.O.T.O.R. (available now on Netflix streaming)
R.O.T.O.R. is a 1988 sci-fi movie about a rampaging, android, motorcycle cop with a pornstache and a comically high-pitched and incoherent digitized voice. Everything about this movie is awful. It isn't so bad it's good. It's so bad it must only be viewed as a reminder of the evils men might commit to film so that an abomination such as this is never permitted to happen again.
I'm not making up that part about the Beach Boys. While meeting with a room full of scientists, Dr. Coldyron actually answers questions by stealing lyrics from a number of Beach Boys songs.
well lets see:
Rock and Rule
Light Years
Monster Dog (featuring Alice Cooper)
Squirm
*resurrection!*
I recently found Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn on Netflix. This movie is awful and I love it! I used to watch this all the time on HBO when I was a kid and I'd forgotten all about it.
Ugh. I actually saw that movie in the theater as a kid, complete with 3D glasses. It was awful. Not even good awful. I'd go with Flash Gordon any day.