What are your top 5 favorite BAD movies of all time?
Not your best, but your worst! B-Movies abound!
Give us your sick, sad, filthy pleasure flicks that you love to hate.
Rules: The Room is too popular at this point and doesn't count.
My list:
- Hard Ticket to Hawaii
- Frankenhooker
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- Dead Alive
- Deadly Prey
Special Mentions:
- Cabin Boy
- Space Truckers
Black Dynamite is so bad it's good again!
Noooo not the childreeeen :D
Agree, Hard ticket to Hawaii is amazing!
In the same style, i would mention:
I love a bad movie but I could not handle Street Trash.
Oh man I loved Phantasm. I was blown away when I found out they made more than one.
Any chance you follow The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs?
I do not, should I check it out?
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but Cemetery Man is a bad movie‽ Maybe I need to broaden my definition, but I think it's great for all the right reasons! Is it gratuitous and gory? Sure. But bad?
"I kick ASS for the LAW-AD"
(And the whole subplot where he's earnestly trying to cut his own dick off.)
I mean I'm not trying to be negative; I thoroughly enjoyed it and I thought it had vision. Maybe I misunderstood the question though.
Oh, I get what happened! You're mixing up Cemetery Man (Rupert Everett is the caretaker of a cemetery where folks come back from the dead and he has to re-kill them in an Italian art-horror existential dark comedy) with Dead Alive (The Lord of the Rings' own Peter Jackson's gross out horror comedy where folks die from the bite of the Sumatran Rat Monkey only to return as semi-sentient zombies culminating in some magnificently over-the-top gore/monster set pieces).
I think they are both great (different flavors of the same subject), and both very watchable.
If you enjoyed some of the goofy/gorier parts of Dead Alive, I'd recommend Fist of Jesus - a short film where Jesus' resurrection power goes awry and...zombies. It borrows heavily from Dead Alive, but the gags are still pretty solid. https://youtu.be/GuKV2Z3eYTY
Oh wait... I think you're right about the crazy preacher being from Dead Alive. They're both thoroughly enjoyable though, yes.
Edit: And I thought back a little more and you're right about the broader point; some of the goofy stuff that I was attributing to Cemetery Man was from Dead Alive. Cemetery Man is definitely a mindfuck but it's not really a "bad" or shlocky movie like I was remembering. It's just its own thing.
Airborn (the one with the rollerblade race down Devil's Backbone, the biggest hill in Cincinnati)
Bubbahotep
Bloodsport
Krull
Bubba Ho-Tep is a fucking masterpiece and you'll sit in the corner and watch it as many times as you need to to change your way of thinking.
Joe Dirt!
It was so hilariously awful, I love it.
Don't really have a top list, but that's the one I always come up with when asked.
I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting, but here's what comes to mind:
Special emphasis on Sharkboy and Lavagirl. I don't see enough people talking about this one. It really sucks you in, and it feels impossible to stop watching.
Dead sushi and robo geisha
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey
I'm mostly just thrilled that Disney finally lost something to the public domain. (And, yes, I know it was acquired by Disney and not originally created by Disney.)
I'm not convinced that the legal right to make that film was there. Yes, the copyright has expired in the USA, however the film was produced and filmed in the UK. Winnie The Pooh is still under copyright until 2026 in the UK (70 years after the author died)
Good call. I didn't realize there were still places where the original works were still under copyright. But in retrospect, I should have thought of that possibility.
I suppose that makes Blood and Honey a pirate film, which is still good in my book. It'll be interesting to see if Disney decides to bring any legal cases in the UK or anything.
I guess I don't really watch too many 'bad' movies because I don't have many in my head, but the first thing that springs to mind is Velocipastor.
But is Velocipastor really a bad movie if it did exactly what it set out to do?
Reanimator
Basket Case
Terror vision
Nightmare in a damaged brain
Demons
Brain Damage
And I could go on
Nice to see love for Frank Henenlotter. Basket Case and Brain Damage are both quite good. I couldn't tell you why I had a preference for Frankenhooker. Maybe it's the Super Crack?
Reanimator was so bad, I enjoyed it
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Within a few minutes of watching it I knew it was going to be awesomely bad, and it lived up to my expectations
Zombeavers was pretty entertaining
Mausoleum, highway to hell, bodymelt, house of whipchord annnddd chopping mall 🤖🤖🤖
Iron sky: for the moon Nazis, it does not take itself seriously and benefits greatly. Cockneys Vs Zombies: better than it has any right to be
Ah Frankenhooker, a certified Jim Glickenhaus classic!
Timeline (2003) just for “Night Arrows!”
Thankskilling is truly a gem!
I only have one, and it is 'Samurai Commando Mission 1549'
The japanese self defense force goes back in time to defend Japan against from... Also the japanese self defense force. The plot never makes any sense, nothing gets resolved. But it's glorious.
I am a fellow connoisseur of bad film here are some of my favorite
Show Girls - Everyone in this movie is a top flight actor or dancer, except the star who is awful at both
The Room - Duh
Troll 2 - Double Duh
Leprechaun 5 - takes blacksploitation to another level, this movie is a wild ride
Bangkok Dangerous - Nic Cage stars in a stereotypical action flick that veers sharply off a cliff when his then wife at the time randomly appears and makes it a love story. However, she didn't really speak English so they made her character a deaf mute.
There are a ton of awful softcore porns from the 90s, would be glad if someone could add to the list but I really like playmate of the apes
The only possible answer is House of the Dead, followed by all other Uwe Boll movies.
Personally I love Battlefield Earth but I understand a lot of people find it terrible
My friends and I went to see this movie for shits and giggles in High School when it came to theater. We knew it was going to be bad. We got in late at the slow motion scene when he’s running through mirrors. Needless to say I was not disappointed.
Dungeons and dragons. The old one with Jeremy irons and Marion Wayans.
Irons totally makes that movie watchable. The sheer gusto and insanity behind his eyes as he chews the scenery is a marvel to behold.
Do you mean Iron Sky?
haha sadly, I don't... it's actually a cover of that movie afaik
All the classics of course, but to go for a lesser mentioned one: Frankenfish.
I only remember one for being so bad that it's good:
Superhero Movie
Teeth - when the doctor says "vagina dentata" is hilarious and seared in my brain.
That film is far funnier than it has any right to be. I also find it amusing towards the end where the guy that seemed nice wasn't, and her vagina teeth do their thing, she just seems mildly exasperated at the situation.
You probably already know of it.
Troll 2
Freddy Got Fingered
Anything TROMA. Hell, everything TROMA.
Tubi is a gold mine for awful cinema. Just a few I watched recently:
Hillbillies in a Haunted House
She-Devils On Wheels
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
Star Crash
Bermuda Triangle
Dark Star
Big Foot
Rock and Roll High School
Shriek of the Mutilated
Schlock
I think Lemmy farted and you ended up in the wrong thread…
Or maybe their choices are so bad they couldn't live with the shame of sharing them.
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Misread it first, it's about favorite bad movies. Let's start with the Expendables and let me think about it
It hurts me to type this, but I know Highlander is objectively a bad movie, but I will always love it regardless!
OP asked the wrong question. There can be only one
Star Wars sequels are there somewhere in that list.
Repoman is so underrated it is possibly criminal.
Club Dread is my favorite Broken Lizard film. I guess that is my humor, and it is not for everyone.