Movies That Are So Bad They're...Something

[Deth Muncher]

Hey guys. So, in my spare time, I affiliate myself with an organization at a school I do not attend - William & Mary's Science Fiction and Fantasy Club, more commonly known as Skiffy. (There's a few other Skiffite playgrounders here too, if you know where to look.) A staple part of Skiffy meetings and gatherings is the showing of atrocious movies. Many of these are So Bad They're Good (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlethsq3mffp09i?from=Main.SoBadItsGood). Often, a few are So Bad They're Horrible (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n?from=Main.SoBadItsHorrible) and they fall into what is known as The Spite Bag, to be inflicted on people for the lulz at gatherings.

So I ask you, playgrounders, what are some movies you know that fall into these? I'll start you off with a short list of Skiffy Classics.

-Troll 2
-The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
-Pretty much anything that has Rifftrax
-Unico

[Dr.Epic]

-Pretty much anything that has Rifftrax

Really? To name a few...

Spider-Man
Iron Man
The Dark Knight


I believe you meant anything from MST3K.

[Mystic Muse]

Leprechaun in the hood? I haven't seen it personally but it was suggested on Conan O'brian so I imagine it's so bad it's something.

[Deth Muncher]

Really? To name a few...

Spider-Man
Iron Man
The Dark Knight


I believe you meant anything from MST3K.

Oh no, I meant what I said, though MST3K on its own also counts. See, those movies on their own are often dubbed "too good" for Skiffy, so you have to render them hilarious with Rifftrax.

[JonestheSpy]

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell.

That is all.




Yes it's a real movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102569/).

[SilentDragoon]

Do you also want the more popular movies that were awful (Hancock, Waterworld, Pluto Nash, etc.) or only the excruciatingly bad movies like MST3K?

[Deth Muncher]

Do you want the more popular movies that were awful (Hancock, Waterworld, Pluto Nash, etc.) or only the excruciatingly bad movies like MST3K?

Oh no, plain old awful movies are lame. Hillaribad movies are where this is going.

[Dienekes]

You are tearing me apart Lisa! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCj8sPCWfUw) The Room, one of the worst movies I have ever seen and one of my personal favorites
Lies and Illusions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d_iTWAq0iI). This movie starts off just plain boring. However the terrible acting and nonsense gets turned up to 11 in the last act and it all becomes worth it.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRq80QNnJM) A classic of bad
Battlefield Earth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWK85gJaxc) Ahh Travolta, you created a true masterpiece of crap.
Epic Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O49BdfLsF10), Meet the Spartans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CflRcI_pSG4), Disaster Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tihG_2BSUqg), How do these movies keep getting made?
And of course, what list of bad movies would be complete without the master
Uwe Boll (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8tosaARutQ)

[SilentDragoon]

A decent starting place might be the IMDB Bottom 100 (http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom), however there will be no sorting between the laughably bad like Manos and the just plain awful.

Edit: I think Battlefield Earth falls in the more well-known just plain awful category. I was considering including that in with Hancock and Pluto Nash, as I think it shares several box office bombs top ten lists with Pluto Nash.

[Saveducks]

Killers was terrible just horrific :smallfurious::smallfurious::smallfurious:not so bad it was good I just needed everyone to know it was the worst movie I ever saw

[Mystic Muse]

A decent starting place might be the IMDB Bottom 100 (http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom), however there will be no sorting between the laughably bad like Manos and the just plain awful.
.

Is number 1 the worst or number 100?

never mind.

[TheThan]

I’ll second A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell.

But it doesn’t stop there, there’s also Yor, hunter from the future (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PWaJ6URRU0) , space mutiny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oFuLybT9kE).

Then there are those that are so bad their awesome like Allan Quartermaine and King Solomon’s mines (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxIA-nOpEJU), and it’s sequel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3071D-KQ3E).

[Dienekes]

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell.

That is all.




Yes it's a real movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102569/).

That had the greatest trailer I have ever seen in my entire life. I thank you for introducing me to it, and I will soon add it to my collection of terrible movies.

[Cubey]

Just a few movies that are so bad, they're absolutely hilarious:

-Puma Man
-Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
-Hobgoblins

I know they were all included in MST3k, but that was not necessary for your enjoyment. These films are entertaining in their own unintended way even without the bots' commentary.

Especially Hobgoblins.

[Deth Muncher]

But it doesn’t stop there, there’s also Yor, hunter from the future (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PWaJ6URRU0)

No I'm not.

Sorry, that's the obligatory callback whenever someone mentions that movie in Skiffy.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Yor, Troll 2, and Plan 9 already got picked.

Adam West's Batman is always a classic. HOLY EXPLODING SHARKS!

[Starfols]

Some of the old Flash Gordon did it for me. The effects in there were bad. Real bad. Need a rampaging space dragon? Film an iguana. Undersea leviathan? Octopus. :smallsigh::smallbiggrin::smalltongue:

[Starscream]

But it doesn’t stop there, there’s also Yor, hunter from the future (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PWaJ6URRU0) , space mutiny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oFuLybT9kE).

Oh, heck yeah. Almost anything with Reb Brown in it qualifies. Yor in particular is positively insane. Check out Spoony's review (http://spoonyexperiment.com/2008/07/06/yor-movie-review/) to see why.

Another recommendation: The Elm-Chanted Forest. It's a Croatian animated film which I had on tape (in English) as a kid. I found it on Youtube recently and rewatched it just to make sure I didn't imagine the whole thing.

I've never done any sort of hallucinatory drugs, but if the experience isn't anything like watching that movie, I'd be very surprised.

[Deth Muncher]

I've done any sort of hallucinatory drugs, but if the experience isn't anything like watching that movie, I'd be very surprised.

Uhhh...typing fail?

[Starscream]

Uhhh...typing fail?

Yes, sorry, fixed. Typing at 1 am makes my brain hurt.:smallredface:

[Deth Muncher]

Yes, sorry, fixed. Typing at 1 am makes my brain hurt.:smallredface:

Especially if it's 2AM. (Assuming you're actually in Florida.) :smallamused:

[Starscream]

Especially if it's 2AM. (Assuming you're actually in Florida.) :smallamused:

I am, but it's the panhandle. We're central time here.

[Deth Muncher]

I am, but it's the panhandle. We're central time here.

O_o

-brainsplode-

[Jokasti]

Volcano. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120461/) Just Volcano.

[Makiru]

Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City.

Basically, anything done by Todd Sheets is a terrible comedic masterpiece.

[factotum]

Inspector Gadget. If there's a movie worse than that one, I really don't want to ever see it!

[Yulian]

-The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra


No. You have entirely missed the point of that film, I'm afraid.

It is an homage made to deliberately ape the style of bad 50s sci-fi films. It is not, in and of itself, bad because it is poorly made. In fact, it was made with a great deal of care to appear like one of those.

Anyhoo, as for actually bad films, man, where to start. You kids have a rating cap? No R-rated films or anything like that?

Because of not, go grab a film variously titled City of the Living Dead or Gates of Hell...okay, this movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_the_Living_Dead

The "maggot cannon" scene is not to be missed and swiftly goes from gross to hysterical.

Let's see, if Rs are out, Syngenor has some gloriously laughable FX scenes. Warriors of the Wasteland has some amusingly...unfortunate implications. Speed Demon should be particularly apt currently, because it is amazingly homoerotic (get those twitards watching) yet also laughably bad. Desert Warrior is a crazed, post-apocalyptic romp starring the inimitable Lou Ferrigno. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom is a magical piece of crud and you'll see the FX used in it in several other low-budget flicks.

That should get you started.

- Yulian

[Totally Guy]

Wild Zero. A japanese movie about how awesome a guy called Guitar Wolf is.

Basically a rock and roll band funded a movie featuring themselves as themselves. It ended up with zombies, flying saucers, superpowers and violence.

There's a trans-friendly subtext. That's quite rare.

And lots of loud music.

[AslanCross]

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell.

That is all.




Yes it's a real movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102569/).

"Where the prehistoric meets the prepubescent"?! What this is I don't even


American Ninja. (And I don't mean Beverly Hills Ninja, I mean the '80s classic with Michael Dudikoff. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Ninja))

Full of lame war cliches, cheesy action, and Conservation of Ninjutsu. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConservationOfNinjutsu?from=Main.ConservationOfNin jitsu) It also gave me a few good laughs to notice that it was shot in my country.

Certain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8BwU0m2ssc) Bollywood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naEY1V9JSRA) movies. Don't know the titles, but these are just hilarious---and to a certain extent, remind me of local movies. :P

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Seconding The Room and Flash Gordon. I've seen The Room in the cinema, and it's absolutely amazing.

[The Rose Dragon]

To someone who doesn't speak Turkish, Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (also known as The Man Who Saves the World, AKA Turkish Star Wars (with Indiana Jones theme music)) is So Bad It's Good. To someone who does, it's So Bad It's Beyond Horrible, All Sense and Sensibility and Morality As It Applies to Humans.

The translations I've seen don't do justice to how utterly atrocious this movie is. If you don't know Turkish, you will enjoy watching it. If you do, you will a funny aneurysm. The kind that is lethal.

[kamikasei]

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (exactly what it says on the tin). It's fully aware of how bad it is, but still falls under "so bad it's good".

The Calamari Wrestler (a Japanese wrestler revives his career by transforming himself in to a squid) is a little different. It's not very good, but more bizarre than bad. Highly entertaining though.

I haven't seen Six String Samurai but I hear it's likely to satisfy your needs. It may be more justly described as just deliberately silly and weird, which is a different thing than So Bad It's Good, but pushes a lot of the same buttons. I'd also put The Rocky Horror Picture Show in that category. Be warned that the latter will cause you to start singing about being a sweet transvestite at random intervals for weeks afterward, though.

[The Rose Dragon]

Be warned that the latter will cause you to start singing about being a sweet transvestite at random intervals for weeks afterward, though.

It will also make you do the Time Warp again.

[Terraoblivion]

I'm going to throw out a couple that get treated as fine art despite their utter atrociousness. These definitely belong in the So Bad It's Horrible category.

The first is Lars von Trier's made-for-tv Medea movie. A one hour long borefest taking one of the most twisted Greek tragedies and moving it from Greece to two old fishermen's huts in the marshy sea near the border between German and Denmark. And then instead of using actors who understood the medium, he chose to use classically trained theater actors, but Shakespearean actors they are not. In Denmark at least theater actors have been drilled an acting technique of loudly declaring every line with vague profoundness but little emotion, leaving the audience with maximum confusion and the dialog with minimal flow. In a final twist of absurdity he decided to have Medea's children aid her in killing them, the symbolism of which is never quite explained and which the analyses of the movie i was forced to read largely just skips.

The other movie is also one i was forced to watch in my classics class. It is Pier Paolo Passolini's Oedipus Rex. .wrapped in a mindscrew revolving around the parallels between the director and Oedipus or possibly that they are some on metaphysical level even the same person, it is never quite made clear. However, the movie is mostly a two hour long series of footage about the titular character biting himself in the back of the hand, while a shrill flute plays a few notes in the background. Largely devoid of speech and with even limited body language in the interactions between the characters, the hand-biting main character is mostly left to wander the desert wasteland of North Africa occasionally bumping into bits of the actual Greek tragedy. These are generally handled in the form of people wearing costumes about as creative and well-made as those of the goblins in Troll II, though admittedly with slightly larger diversity and budget, with a metal bucket over the head being the most common feature. Since there is little talking and little body language, the acting mostly consists of looking sternly at the camera and cackling a few strange, disjointed lines before the movie reverts to what it is really about, a man biting his own hand.

[AslanCross]

I haven't seen Six String Samurai but I hear it's likely to satisfy your needs. It may be more justly described as just deliberately silly and weird, which is a different thing than So Bad It's Good, but pushes a lot of the same buttons.

Six String Samurai is pretty awesome, actually. I love the premise. The king of post-Apocalyptic America is Elvis? That's...that's gold.

EDIT: Undefeatable (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY) is home to one of the goriest villain defeats ever, punctuated by intended-pun one-liners. AND A KNIFE LICK.

[Southern Cross]

Actually,compared to the 80's remake, I think that I prefer the original Flash Gordon serials and the 70's Filmation cartoon -the only good movie the deadly Dino ever produced was Danger Diabolik! and that was largely due to the fact that the late great Mario Bava was the director.
And as for truly awful giant monster films I hereby nominate Reptilicus as the absolute worst.
And for a truly bad gore film, I have to nominate Event Horizon.

[Terraoblivion]

Ahhhh, Reptilicus. A poorly made puppet, American generals speaking fluent Danish with an upper class accent, silly janitors and little kids doing a musical number, all trying to be part of a serious monster movie. What is not to love?

[kamikasei]

Oh!

Total Recall, if it doesn't already have an MST3King. Very silly, fun cheesefest.

[Closet_Skeleton]

I'm going to throw out a couple that get treated as fine art despite their utter atrociousness. These definitely belong in the So Bad It's Horrible category.

The first is Lars von Trier's made-for-tv Medea movie. A one hour long borefest taking one of the most twisted Greek tragedies and moving it from Greece to two old fishermen's huts in the marshy sea near the border between German and Denmark. And then instead of using actors who understood the medium, he chose to use classically trained theater actors, but Shakespearean actors they are not. In Denmark at least theater actors have been drilled an acting technique of loudly declaring every line with vague profoundness but little emotion, leaving the audience with maximum confusion and the dialog with minimal flow. In a final twist of absurdity he decided to have Medea's children aid her in killing them, the symbolism of which is never quite explained and which the analyses of the movie i was forced to read largely just skips.

The other movie is also one i was forced to watch in my classics class. It is Pier Paolo Passolini's Oedipus Rex. .wrapped in a mindscrew revolving around the parallels between the director and Oedipus or possibly that they are some on metaphysical level even the same person, it is never quite made clear. However, the movie is mostly a two hour long series of footage about the titular character biting himself in the back of the hand, while a shrill flute plays a few notes in the background. Largely devoid of speech and with even limited body language in the interactions between the characters, the hand-biting main character is mostly left to wander the desert wasteland of North Africa occasionally bumping into bits of the actual Greek tragedy. These are generally handled in the form of people wearing costumes about as creative and well-made as those of the goblins in Troll II, though admittedly with slightly larger diversity and budget, with a metal bucket over the head being the most common feature. Since there is little talking and little body language, the acting mostly consists of looking sternly at the camera and cackling a few strange, disjointed lines before the movie reverts to what it is really about, a man biting his own hand.

Hmm... I think my Greek Tradgedy teacher at school had that second movie. We didn't have to watch all of it. If any of it, my mind's gone blank for a second.

We definately watched the Pier Paolo Pasolini version of medea. That was just... over-wrought and meh. The dubing just made in painful.

In fact, I think my GT teacher had every film version of a Greek tradgedy she could get her hands on and didn't view any of them as worth showing to her pupils.

[SDF]

Terror Tunes was the worst Friday the thirteenth rental I've ever made.

Nothing compares to the horror that I consider the worst movie ever made. Live Freaky Die Freaky

[grolim]

Add Ice Pirates, who can ignore a movie with a ship that gets herpes.

[Deth Muncher]

On the horribad horror area, I'm throwing One Missed Call out there. There's a scene in the beginning with a pond...hehehe. Oh man it's bad.

[Athaniar]

So Bad It's Horrible
Two movies that I just could not continue watching because they were just too boring were Eragon and Alone in the Dark. OK, so I decided to watch them just to see how bad they were, but still.

So Bad It's Good
I'd put Pluto Nash in this category, and Armageddon. Starship Troopers and Street Fighter are So Bad They're Totally Awesome.

EDIT: How could I forget the Sci-Fi Channel's movies? Ridiculous special effects (especially when the monster kills someone), the same plot in every movie, but still fun!

And before somebody mentions Catwoman: I still don't think it's a bad movie. Mediocre, yes, but not bad (which means it comes between SBIH and SBIG on my list).

[Tengu_temp]

Prince of Space is definitely So Bad It's Good. Terrible acting, terrible special effects, a story that insults your intelligence even if you're a little kid... And, since something always happens, you never get bored, and the whole thing has a weird charm to it.

On the So Bad It's Horrible end, we have Monster A Go-Go as described here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8837077&postcount=143). The Beast of Yucca Flats is a bit better, but still hard to go through even with the MST3K riffing.

In fact, I think these movies show the major difference between So Bad It's Good and So Bad It's Horrible - in the former something always happens, cheesy papier mache monsters and cheap explosions attack you from every corner. The latter attacks you with boredom, showing footage of cars riding for half an hour or people you don't care about droning to each other in a dialogue that absolutely fails to be interesting, or funny.

[Dragosai]

Contact......yeah just typing it made me die a little inside. Well I take it back for me I guess it falls into the so awful bad if there was a way to remove it from time and space forever I would do anything and everything to help make it so.

So some that are more what the OP is looking for;

Overdrawn at the memory bank - its sci-fi meets Casablanca!
Serenity – So easy to make fun of the MST3K of this movie would have to be longer then the real movie just to fit it all in.
X-MEN 3 – To keep my sanity I mostly tend to believe that this movie was never made, but you could just watch it as a mock-umentary on how to destroy a good movie series. So if you can get past the urge to throw up in rage that this movie was ever made there is a lot to laugh at and the laughter might let the healing begin.

[Knaight]

The Gospel According to Harry, a movie that is obviously extremely artistic, and also one of the most boring and pointless pieces of junk I have ever scene, despite understanding the symbolism overall. It can't even be explained, one has to see it personally.

Pluto Nash fits in again, its so bad you can't help but love it.

Donny Darko is not, by any means, a good movie. It is however, a cult hit and with good reason.

[SpiderMew]

Black Dynamite (http://www.blackdynamitemovie.com/)
*warning may contain content NSFW*

Its a spoof on all the 70's blaxploitation movies.
Its hilarious, i was watching it on netflix and i was rolling in my chair with laughter

[Mr. Scaly]

Kaw. Just Kaw.

See, all the crows or ravens or whatever decide it would be a good idea to swarm and mob a small rural town, a la The Birds. It's just so...appallingly bad. There's no redeeming value about this movie whatsoever! And i was laughing so hard...

[The Rose Dragon]

Pluto Nash fits in again, its so bad you can't help but love it.

Yes, I can. Just because you couldn't doesn't mean everyone else couldn't. :smalltongue:

[TheEmerged]

Puma Man.

I actually have a fond memory about this one. My late father worked second shift, and one of the big kicks of my childhood was waiting up for him to get home on Friday nights (Monday Mornings). We'd then eat ice cream and whatever was on late-night TV. It was usually Roy Rogers... but this one night, it was Puma Man.

We were laughing so hard at how stupid it was we woke my mother up :smallbiggrin:

[JonestheSpy]

Six String Samurai is pretty awesome, actually. I love the premise. The king of post-Apocalyptic America is Elvis? That's...that's gold.


Hear that. Six String Samurai, is a flat-out great movie, albeit low-budget and very surreal. It's an amazing piece of mythic storytelling, mixing modern and classic archetypes into a dreamlike collage.

And one of the best soundtracks ever.

[Rutskarn]

I would recommend--and I use this term so loosely I am technically not even speaking English right now--the worst movie I've ever seen, the worst thing Sci-Fi has ever brought itself to air, and the thing that single-handedly ruined the Highlander setting for me. No, not Highlander 2: The Quickening--I'm referring to the worst movie in the series. No, that isn't the worst one. Yes, this one does cause exotic tropical diseases if watched all the way through. No, I couldn't bring myself to actually do so. Yes, I would have thrown it away, but when I place my fingers on the disc a chill runs down my spine and all of my saddest memories, of friends lost and families torn apart, come rushing back as one.

I am referring to the celluloid nightmare known as Highlander: The Source. I have a theory regarding why it exists, and it goes like this:

Somebody was impatient with the speed at which the Highlander franchise was dying, sick of it flopping about on the shores of wretchedness and gasping out unwatchable film after unwatchable film--obstinately refusing, time and time again, to pass forever into cultural memory. Though it should have died more than a decade ago, it clung to animation, becoming a hollow mockery of a living franchise--becoming, in a sense, undead. Something had to be done; some weapon had to be devised that could slay it forever. And so, that anonymous somebody devised a plan: they would systematically ruin everything that made the series good. Not just ignore it, like H2 did, ruin it. Ensure that the production value was poor, the actors were sullen and resentful, the storyline was brought to the most insulting conclusion possible, and bucketloads of unnecessary and ludicrous cruft were added to the mythos. How could all of this be done? How could this anonymous agent ensure that this next Highlander film be rendered as badly as possible? The answer was both simple and diabolical:

Film it as a Sci-Fi original movie.

I need say no more.

[Deth Muncher]

Crazy Rustkarn rant.

:smalleek: Oh God. Why. What the I don't even

[Rutskarn]

The fact that a Highlander Sci-Fi original movie exists is shocking, sure, because surely even the suits wouldn't expect such a movie to profit or not suck cajun spices out of a goat's sensitive regions. But what's almost more shocking is that it's worse than you'd expect.

[TheThan]

X-men 3 was a good movie, it just wasn’t a good X men movie, the only real bad thing is that the plots were poorly handled.

Attack of the killer tomatoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebfLWAB8bY4) was pretty bad. Its totally worth watching though.

[Rutskarn]

X-men 3 was a good movie, it just wasn’t a good X men movie, the only real bad thing is that the plots were poorly handled.

Probably gonna disagree with you on that one, chief. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't something I'd watch again, either.

[TheThan]

Probably gonna disagree with you on that one, chief. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't something I'd watch again, either.

Well yeah, it wasn’t awful its just that people have been so disappointed by it that they make it out to be a much worse movie than it really is.

[Bhu]

On the horribad horror area, I'm throwing One Missed Call out there. There's a scene in the beginning with a pond...hehehe. Oh man it's bad.

The original or the American remake?

[Bhu]

http://lostskeletonreturnsagain.com/

Crazy Lips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xui0hFmEpOU

The Gore from Outer Space http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIKkbb4pLD0 NSFW!!!

Matango http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyRYjJoZfc

For Your Height Only http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5KeUMxyAwM

Twister's Revenge (Cant find good clip)

The Killer Tongue http://www.videodetective.com/movie_trailer/KILLER_TONGUE/movie_clip/P00943687.htm

Theres others this is just off the top of my head

[Deth Muncher]

The original or the American remake?

American Remake. I didn't know there was an original.

[Dr.Epic]

Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Avatar

that first Hulk film that was rebooted

[Mauve Shirt]

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZAxN9M0Ehs)

[Bhu]

American Remake. I didn't know there was an original.

Yup. The original was by Takashi Miike, and istn so bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpsZQrJazq0

it inspired two sequels which unfortunately werent by miike
http://www.nipponcinema.com/trailers/one-missed-call-2/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1uPK0Io9vg

A lot of ghost films now are remakes of either thai, korean, or japanese films

[Cespenar]

Transformers, which actually went beyond wasting my two and a half hours, probably causing some permanent brain damage on the way as well.

[Jerthanis]

The worst movie I've ever seen in my entire life was a movie called "The Gene Generation"... avoid it at all costs. It's not even funny-bad, or even cheesy. It's just boring, stupid, poorly acted, confusingly plotted and contains Bai Ling's nipples. Seriously, the high point of the movie was when one of the main protagonists puts his mouth over the barrel of an antagonist's gun, begging to be killed, gags on the gun and pukes all over the barrel and the floor. I'm not kidding, that's the best part of the movie.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was pretty terrible as well.

[Dr.Epic]

Transformers, which actually went beyond wasting my two and a half hours, probably causing some permanent brain damage on the way as well.

Yes! I agree. The first movie was awful and I heard the second was a real stinker. I have no idea why people like them.

[Athaniar]

I have yet to see any of them, but I guess it's Megan Fox.

[FoE]

Howard the Duck. I win.

[Jinura]

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

I've also heard "good" about Attack of the Killer Condoms

[Kiroth6]

Could be worse, could be The Veil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUsJwxtQhQI).

Seriously though, my friends watch bad movies for fun and even they couldn't stand 2 hours of shaky camera, bad black and white and incomprehensible dialogue through gas masks.

Also Mega Piranha. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587807/) Just Mega Piranha. Or about any movie by the Asylum.

[chiasaur11]

Anyone mentioned After Last Season?

It's... something.

[Tengu_temp]

The Earthsea made for TV movies (there's two of them, covering - and I use that term very loosely - the first two books). If you're not familiar with the books, they're cheap ripoffs of Hercules or Xena, with a nonsensical plot, unlikable, stupid characters and terrible special effects. If you're familiar with the books, they're an atrocity, and you will want to get your hands on the director after you're done watching.

[OracleofWuffing]

I think last time this sort of question came up, I suggested the Ator the Barbarian series. (Ator the Invincible/Fighting Eagle, The Blade Master/Cave Dwellers, Quest for the Mighty Sword/The Hobgoblin, Iron Warrior- sorry for the confusing way of listing the titles, they're called something different just about everywhere.) From trainwreck plot conflict resolutions to world's worst snake demon costume, they've got just about everything swords and sorcery can touch in the so bad it's _____ genres.


To someone who doesn't speak Turkish, Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (also known as The Man Who Saves the World, AKA Turkish Star Wars (with Indiana Jones theme music)) is So Bad It's Good. To someone who does, it's So Bad It's Beyond Horrible, All Sense and Sensibility and Morality As It Applies to Humans.
Also, this movie should totally be mentioned on every single page. Let me explain something if it wasn't clear: It's earned the name Turkish Star Wars because the directors of the movie spliced footage from Star Wars Episode 4 directly into the film for video. And the Star Wars footage is done in a completely different aspect ratio than the rest of the movie. It is awesome, even though I only had subtitles to go off of.

[Capt Spanner]

I once played a drinking game, drinking for physics mistakes in the recent G.I. Joe film.

Yeah, that didn't end well.

[chiasaur11]

I think last time this sort of question came up, I suggested the Ator the Barbarian series. (Ator the Invincible/Fighting Eagle, The Blade Master/Cave Dwellers, Quest for the Mighty Sword/The Hobgoblin, Iron Warrior- sorry for the confusing way of listing the titles, they're called something different just about everywhere.) From trainwreck plot conflict resolutions to world's worst snake demon costume, they've got just about everything swords and sorcery can touch in the so bad it's _____ genres.


Also, this movie should totally be mentioned on every single page. Let me explain something if it wasn't clear: It's earned the name Turkish Star Wars because the directors of the movie spliced footage from Star Wars Episode 4 directly into the film for video. And the Star Wars footage is done in a completely different aspect ratio than the rest of the movie. It is awesome, even though I only had subtitles to go off of.

Well, on that note there's Turkish Superman, Turkish Exorcist...

[Cealocanth]

Jumanji. Because all they do is pull encounters out of their a** for the entire movie.

[Cespenar]

Jumanji. Because all they do is pull encounters out of their a** for the entire movie.

Aw, probably because I saw it as a kid, but I loved that movie.

[AslanCross]

There's a local horror film series entitled Shake, Rattle, and Roll. Each movie is actually made up of three short movies about a particular horrifying thing.

Get this: The series has gone on for eleven movies. The first was in 1984, and the most recent was in 2009.

The most iconic of the stories was about a man-eating refrigerator.

[FoE]

Jumanji. Because all they do is pull encounters out of their a** for the entire movie.

I disagree, as I enjoyed it. "Pull encounters out of their a**"? All of those monsters fit the Theme Park Version of a dark jungle pretty well.

Remember: just because you disliked a film does not mean it's So Bad It's Horrible. Only those films that failed to appeal to anyone beyond a few demented souls should be submitted for consideration.

[Mystic Muse]

Remember: just because you disliked a film does not mean it's So Bad It's Horrible. Only those films that failed to appeal to anyone beyond a few demented souls should be submitted for consideration.

And there are a few in this category that should not be mentioned at all.


Maybe Garbage Pail kids. Haven't seen this but it looks so bad it's horrible.

Possibly A troll in central park.

[FoE]

For instance, I really disliked No Country for Old Men, but I'm not submitting it for this list because I recognize other people probably did like it a lot.

I would also submit Hercules in New York, which is just goddamn awful. But it's a lot of fun to riff on. If you need convincing, look up the scene on Youtube where Hercules battles something that's supposed to be a bear in Central Park.

[super dark33]

the movie in mystery science theatre 3000

[Bhu]

OO wait I just remembered the Devils Sword!

It has crocodile men zombies, a crocodile princess who steals attractive men for her harem (and sometimes makes out with them as a croc), an old witch who can behead people with a straw whip, a cyclops with a car headlight for an eye, everyone knows some bizarre form of poorly conceived kung fu, and a man who can fly by riding boulders he kicks into the air. Its an hour and a half of solid WTF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jamq8djx3HU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNKH_x7nDVQ

For the curious Mondo Macabro puts it out. About all their stuff is pretty weird.

[The Rose Dragon]

the movie in mystery science theatre 3000

Which one? There are, like, hundreds of them.

[Innis Cabal]

Which one? There are, like, hundreds of them.

I think he means the actual Movie. I can't recall the name of the movie they riff on though.

[factotum]

I think he means the actual Movie. I can't recall the name of the movie they riff on though.

Wasn't it "This Island Earth"?

[Deth Muncher]

Just watched the original Batman movie.

"What weight six ounces, sits in a tree and is highly deadly?"
"A sparrow with a machine gun!"
"Of course Robin! That is the only possible answer!"


Buhhh.

[Uncertainty]

As a connoisseur of such films, I would like to submit Die Hard Dracula (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162930/) as my personal favorite. It's just about as bad (or awesome?) as it sounds, and I highly recommend it.

Also, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094834/) deserves an honorable mention.

Edit:
Oh, and also Starcrash (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/). I think that someone once summed it up as being a movie where David Hasselhoff battles killer robots using a lightsaber. What's not to like?

[Makiru]

Could be worse, could be The Veil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUsJwxtQhQI).


:mad: Why do you insist on constantly bringing that up? Yes, I realize that it's a valid argument in a lot of situations, but still, why?!

Anyway, My Name is Bruce is actually a pretty bad movie. It really is just 84 minutes of Bruce stroking his ego to his more devoted fans and saying "Hey, remember this movie I did?". It gets a few chuckles, but the Ear Worm that is the Guan-Di song just ruins it.

[super dark33]

Wasn't it "This Island Earth"?

yes thats what i meant

[chiasaur11]

Just watched the original Batman movie.

"What weight six ounces, sits in a tree and is highly deadly?"
"A sparrow with a machine gun!"
"Of course Robin! That is the only possible answer!"


Buhhh.

That is the best movie ever, pal, and any disparagement is morally indefeasible.

[OracleofWuffing]

Has anyone here besides me seen Smarkus? It's a movie about kids that find a computer program that takes them on a learning adventure because

Yeah, that's it. I think it's implied they win prizes at the end, but it never really goes beyond that.

[chiasaur11]

Has anyone here besides me seen Smarkus? It's a movie about kids that find a computer program that takes them on a learning adventure because

Yeah, that's it. I think it's implied they win prizes at the end, but it never really goes beyond that.

Smarkus and Company?

1982, made for TV?

With Vic Vykukal as the NASA technician?

No. Never heard of it.

[Closet_Skeleton]

That is the best movie ever, pal, and any disparagement is morally indefeasible.

I agree... partly...

On tuesdays.

[eggynack]

On the same line as Plan 9, Glen or Glenda is a brilliantly horrible film that combines Ed Wood's transvestitism with Bela Lugosi fueled awesome to create pure hilarity. The Last Airbender was also so bad it's good for its massive innaccuracies and overall terrible film-making.

[Bhu]

http://www.videodetective.com/movies/FRANKENSTEIN_VS_THE_CREATURE_FROM_BLOOD_COVE/trailer/P00617426.htm

this ones a bit of a stinker

[Southern Cross]

I have to put The Angry Red Planet in the So Bad it's Good category. Yes, it's made by Sid Pink,the man responsible for Reptilicus, but it at the very least,has far more monsters in it, and it has a better plot. (And it's one of the few films where the Odious Comic Relief gets eaten!) The Cinemagic effects alone (used for the Martian surface) make the film worth watching.
I also agree with Dragosai. Contact was an abomination, as was Zardoz.

[nanobot_swarm]

So bad it's good? Why, that title would go to one of my favorite movies of all time, Surf Nazis must Die
No I'm not making this up, here's the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LV1S2q2GA)
The title alone explains why this is a awesomely bad movie

Also the Super Mario Brothers movie fits this category too.

[Eldpollard]

I have to echo the call for The Room. Never have I laughed at a film more. I recommend you go and acquire it right now.

No, I mean now. And of course Plan 9 From Outer Space is pretty good/bad.

[Ravens_cry]

Street Fighter: The Movie.
Bad acting?
Check.
Inapproprioate casting?
Check
Terrible choreography?
Check.
Hammy cheesy villains to die for?
Check, check and double check!
"Every Bison dollar will be worth five British pounds. That is the exchange rate that the bank of England will implement after I kidnap their queen." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblbYcbWDo0&feature=related)

[JonestheSpy]

That [the Adam West Batman movie] is the best movie ever, pal, and any disparagement is morally indefeasible.

"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" is probably the funniest moment in the history of cinema, in my humble opinion.

[Lawless III]

Donny Darko is not, by any means, a good movie. It is however, a cult hit and with good reason.

I disagree with that first sentence completely. It's a cult hit because of great acting, great camera work, and a screenplay as brilliant as it was unusual.

Frankly, there are not any means by which it is not a good movie.

[Mystic Muse]

I just watched the Nostalgia critic's review of "The room"

Does that movie count? It looked Horribibble. Yes I'm aware I spelled it incorrectly.

[Deth Muncher]

Heh, Surf Nazis Must Die I've heard of. As well as a few others here. And Chisaur, Adam West Batman was atrocious. Don't you dare say otherwise. Especially the final scene.

"Here Robin, let's escape unnoticed. Use your Bat-Rope, and we can leave from the window."

WHUT. (Although it's funnier when you know what's going on in the last scene, but I won't spoil it.)

[Yulian]

Transformers, which actually went beyond wasting my two and a half hours, probably causing some permanent brain damage on the way as well.

Hey now, the first one was...servicable. The second is a crime against humanity. And sentient machines. And celluloid.

Oh, someone mentioned long movie series. How could we collectively forget the Puppet Master series! It started with an okay horror flick with a wacky gimmick, then quickly plunged into the depths of Full Moon Studio's crud factory.

I don't even know how many there are by this point.

I see that we're nearing the depths. Okay, time to haul out the big guns.

E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial ripoffs are some of the most agonizing films you can possibly shove into your eyeballs.

Mac and Me, Nukie, these movies will damage your soul. Watch with care and take appropriate precautions.

- Yulian

[Zovc]

I'm trying to make a collection of awful* movies for my friends and I to watch.

*Movies that are bad enough to be enjoyable. Preferably, the movie's badness will be humorous to a great extent.

Any suggestions?

[SolkaTruesilver]

Whatever people ever tell you about that movie, never, Never, NEVER try Star Wars Holiday Special.

It's beyond bad. (http://xkcd.com/653/)

[Jinura]

If you're looking for so bad it's horrible movies there are a lot, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Planet 9 from Outer Space, Mega Shark versus Giant Octupus..

[Zovc]

I'm pretty sure the most notorious one I've got my hands on so far is The Room (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/).

[Lord Seth]

The Wild Women of Wongo. Having watched that film at a geek convention, I can tell you readily that it is a perfect film to watch to make fun of.

From my experiences at the same convention, stay away from Eegah unless you plan to fast-forward through most of the middle. For a large chunk of the middle of the movie, there's so little happening there's just nothing to make fun of, at least not in the spontaneous way you do for such viewings (I assume the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version is funny, but those guys watch it multiple times in order to write the script, rather than just watching it once and making fun of it spontaneously, thus resulting in it being more polished mockery)

[Dr.Epic]

See every episode of MST3K.

A lot of the movies in the Scary Movie franchise (even the ones whose genre mockery isn't horror). Personally, I think Meet the Spartans is the worst film ever made.

[Bhu]

How explicit in terms of sex and violence are these films allowed to be? If you allow gore and boobies the list expands mightily.

[TheBST]

There's far worse to watch, but the original Death Race is endleslsy riffable.

[TheLaughingMan]

If you're feeling particularly masochistic, there's always Monster A Go-Go.

[Ravens_cry]

Street Fighter:The Movie
Van Damn mumbling his lines, Raul Julia hamming it up with extra cheese. What's not to love?
Plan 9 from outer space
It's a classically bad movie for good reasons, it's just that bad.
The acting, the script they are acting, the effects, the sets, the broad daylight scenes of Béla Lugosi, the guy pretending to be Béla Lugosi, just everything is so terrible. What carries it through is that Ed thought he was making good movies. It's so tragic, it's hilarious.

[Starfols]

So bad they're bad? Pluto Nash.

So bad they're good? Seconding Plan 9

[Dr.Epic]

Oh, and also both Fantastic Four movies.

[Morph Bark]

Dragon Ball Evolution was rather enjoyable, though a bad movie.

[Axolotl]

Stiff Odds.

I haven't seen it myself but I have a friend who quit watching horror films and tried tosell all his B-movie collection because of how bad it was.

[Yora]

See every episode of MST3K.
And Nostalgia Critic (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic).

[Dr.Epic]

The Adventures of Mark Twain (It's a claymation cartoon).

[doliest]

The Adventures of Mark Twain (It's a claymation cartoon).

We can always make more.

[Dr.Epic]

We can always make more.

If we need them.

[Lord Loss]

Any of the Asylum Ripoffs, like Snakes on a Train, Transmorphers or Alien vs Hunter (which I saw). I'm a horrible actor and I could have done better than that! Also anything by Uwe Boll, such as ''Alone in the Dark" Not as bad as the Asylum, but the guy is known to be worst director Evah. For the worst imaginable movie, see plan 9 from outer space...

[zyphyr]

Zardoz. Nothing beats the red outfit Sean Connery wears.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Plan 9 of course. I'm going to throw the Adam West Batman movie. It's hard to beat exploding sharks.

[Dr.Epic]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

[doliest]

Plan 9? Worst film ever? No no no; that film is funny. It's nowhere near the worst film ever. It's not even the worst Ed Wood film.

[Deth Muncher]

I have a thread about this, that's still on the front page of this subforum.

[Decoy Lockbox]

Pathfinder was an execrable pile of "movie". After watching it, I became so enraged at it's badness, that I couldn't sleep. I was seething with rage.

[UnChosenOne]

Starship Troopers 2... I don't think that I need to explain why.

[factotum]

Zardoz. Nothing beats the red outfit Sean Connery wears.

Outfit? I'm not sure there's enough material in what Connery wears in that movie to make it an "outfit"... :smallsmile:

[Popertop]

There are a few classics,
like Plan 9

Street Fighter with Van Damme is a favorite of mine, Guile with an Austrian accent is just too good to beat. Don't even mention every actor completely failing at remotely resembling their SF counterpart.

Space Thunder Kids by Joseph Lai is good if you are into terrible anime.
It's pretty funny to watch, there are all these mistakes in the animation, like a guy getting punched and pulled through glass that doesn't break, certain people's clothes switching colors inexplicably, the main bad guy being voiced by the main good guy, and a tank sequence over 4 minutes long showing nothing but the tanks driving.
Here, see for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPIR_S1Zrcc
as well as this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6-Hi755Rb4&feature=related

basically anything written by Joseph Lai is going to be terribly horrible.

Nick Nite is the absolute worst one I've ever seen, NOTHING HAPPENS in the entire movie, its just this guy driving around having conversations ABOUT NOTHING AT ALL with random hobos. I couldn't even watch it, it was that bad.

[StreetPizza]

Ratatoing. Yuck. Think of it as Ratatouille, but y'know. Bad.

[onthetown]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. It's an older B-movie that is absolutely hilarious, though I think they were trying to go for that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebfLWAB8bY4

By today's standards, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is pretty corny.

The Assassination of Jesse James (by some kid whose name I can't remember) is a recent movie but it's terrible. I guess it's okay if you like watching possibly mentally challenged protagonists awkwardly sift through their lines as Brad Pitt stares off in silence and twitches with only a few spots of action, but I honestly couldn't get through it. It just seemed terrible.

[Avilan the Grey]

I think we need to define what we are looking for. Are we looking for films that are OBVIOUS So Bad They Are Good, or are we looking for films that we can make fun of because they should be so much better?

In the first category: Dinoshark, Insectocide, Megashark Vs Giant Octopus, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter...

Second Category: The Assassination of Jessie James, Street Fighter, Catwoman

[comicshorse]

Ok what did the Assassination of Jesse James do to deserve this ?
I think it's a great movie. Obviously not relying on things mindlessly blowing up but instead relying on atmosphere, dialogue and some great performances. Particulalrly from Casey Affleck who manages to project a character who is just not right mentally from akward silences and body language.
If I hadn't seen Defiance in the same year I'd have said hands-down it was the finest film that came out that year

[Morty]

If you can get a hold of an English version, the Witcher - also known as the Hexer, I think - movie and the TV series are both godawful. Although if you're not a Polish fantasy fan, it becomes merely a nonsensical story with bad dialogue rather than a complete travesty.

[Deth Muncher]

Allow me to reiterate - I made this thread not a week ago, located here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159255). Which this thread should really be merged with, IMHO. It's not even off the first page.

[Yora]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. It's an older B-movie that is absolutely hilarious, though I think they were trying to go for that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebfLWAB8bY4
That really doesn't count. It's really a parody on B-movies and I think it's vrey obvious that it's all intentional. And its awsome. ^^

[Telonius]

Movies so bad they're good:

Rocky Horror - obvious reasons
Plan 9 from Outer Space - obvious reasons
Hercules in New York - most hilariously awful "man in a bear suit" combat in cinematic history
Flash Gordon (1980 version) - Queen did the music, and contains BRIAN BLESSED
Anything with Bruce Campbell in it

[Lord Loss]

Go to your local video store and ask the guy at the cash '' excuse me, do you have ''attack of the killer tomatoes''?. Do it now.

[Dogmantra]

In the first category: Dinoshark,

This man is the most right. No man can be more right.

There's a drinking game too: take a drink every time someone's accent changes. Make sure you use something weak.

[Ravens_cry]

Go to your local video store and ask the guy at the cash '' excuse me, do you have ''attack of the killer tomatoes''?. Do it now.
Eh. . .like Yora said, it's a parody of the 'genre'. That kind of takes something away. That makes it a comedy, quite likely a very good comedy, but it doesn't have the fail quality a movie that was meant to be good but came out something terrible, like Ed Woods masterpeice or Troll "OH MY GOOODDDDD." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4) 2

[Alindo]

A decent starting place might be the IMDB Bottom 100 (http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom), however there will be no sorting between the laughably bad like Manos and the just plain awful.

Edit: I think Battlefield Earth falls in the more well-known just plain awful category. I was considering including that in with Hancock and Pluto Nash, as I think it shares several box office bombs top ten lists with Pluto Nash.

I think all zombie movies fall in the awful category. Scared the hell out of me back then though.

[Callos_DeTerran]

I don't know if it's on here or not, but I dare forum goers to try and watch Robot Holocaust and not laugh their butts off or vomit at just how bad it is.

[Bhu]

has anyone mentioned Mega Pirhana yet? OMG this is bad...

[Bacon Barbarian]

Really? To name a few...

Spider-Man
Iron Man
The Dark Knight


I believe you meant anything from MST3K.

... Spider Man is bad ... But your crazy to think that Iron Man and the Dark Knight are bad

[smellie_hippie]

Hows about we add a few Peter Jackson films to this list? Early Peter Jackson mind you...

Bad Taste (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/). This is his first film... it's about 90 minutes long and he had only planned on shooting a 10 minute short. That's about the amount of effort put into this glorious piece of cinematography... :smallsmile:

Dead Alive (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/). This was once dubbed the "goriest film of all time". This film has some of the most hilarious one liners I have ever heard. I would say not for the squeemish... but you can't miss. :smallamused:

Also, is there any chance that the first poster might be able to compile a list in the first post? I could use a few more recommendations for bad films...

[Bacon Barbarian]

The live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender film ... Such a wonderful series reduced to a Popcorn binge

[Southern Cross]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being- DO NOT WATCH. If you want to watch lots of bare breasts, you're better off watching Invasion of the Bee Girls.
And another example of So Bad it's Good is Lady Frankenstein. Any movie in which its tagline accurately describes its plot is worth watching.
(For the curious, the tagline is "Only the monster she made could satisfy her strange desires").

[Dr.Epic]

... Spider Man is bad ... But your crazy to think that Iron Man and the Dark Knight are bad

I don't know what this "Spider Man" is but Spider-Man is a great film.

Also, Ultraviolet. Technically I've never seen it but based on the name and the trailers I've seen it looks like the bastard film of Space Mutiny and the Matrix Revolutions.

[Deth Muncher]

I don't know what this "Spider Man" is but Spider-Man is a great film.

Also, Ultraviolet. Technically I've never seen it but based on the name and the trailers I've seen it looks like the bastard film of Space Mutiny and the Matrix Revolutions.

I...think I saw it? That's how bad it is.