I asked in the other thread, but I’ll also ask here. Does anyone have a copy of the George Pepard movie “Damnation Alley”? It’s horribly B rated, but a rare find.
Queen of Outer Space (1958), starring Zsa Zsa Gabor as the only girl on Venus with a Hungarian accent. “Ai hayd her—Ay HAY dot Qvinn!”
The Best of Everything (1959), the best awful “working-girls-in-New-York” soap ever.
Cobra Woman (1944), with Maria Montez: “I am jure seester. Can you look at me an’ dot eet?”
And of copruse, the dreaded, the heinous, the delerious Kiss Her Goodbye (1959—a good era for bad movies!).
Dude where’s my car?
Charlies Angels
Both Mummy movies.
Cabin Boy.
Tommy Boy.
They Live.
Evil Dead 2. Army of Darkness.
I’m gonna go with Red Dawn and Walking Tall. Love 'em. Can’t help it.
Evil Dead 2 was Dead By Dawn and it rocked!
Evil Dead 3 was Army of Darkness.
I think the whole trilogy was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek bad.
My choices are Duel and The Dirty Dozen
There have been a lot of films mentioned that I wouldn’t call “bad”. Maybe I have more guilty pleasures than I realized.
But, here’s the one I have to mention Freejack. You just can’t go wrong with Emilio Estevez & Mick Jagger
Elf - I hope that was a missed return on your keyboard. I assume you mean Army of Darkness and Evil Dead 2. They’re two diffrent movies.
I don’t consider Red Dawn to be a bad movie at all. Scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it.
There’s a difference between just plain bad movies and bad movies with cult status, right? I’d put things like Evil Dead, They Live, and Plan 9 From Outer Space in the bad cult status category, as well as Showgirls and Buckaroo Banzai.
I think Sandra Bullock may kind of have a corner on the questionable movie market, thanks to gems like Miss Congeniality (which I’ve seen more times than I can count), Practical Magic (I really like the way the colors look in it),Speed 2: Cruise Control, Two If By Sea, and While You Were Sleeping (redeemed by the presence of Bill Pullman and the fact that it takes place in Chicago).
One way to really see some bad movies is to channel into one of your fears or fascinations. I’ll watch anything with sharks in it, which means I’ve seen Shark Attack with Casper Van Dien (also a magnet for the bad; see Beastmaster 3: The Eye of Braxas, James Dean: Live Fast Die Young, Tarzan and the Lost City, and Python, if you have any doubts. Or just take it from me, because I’ve seen them all), Deep Blue Sea, and Jaws: The Revenge. This is not to mention a gazillion Shark Weeks, documentaries on the Indianapolis, or media coverage of “Summer of the Shark.”
I see I got a little distracted with the Casper Van Dien thing. He gives great bad. I cannot say it enough. Now if he ever stars in a movie opposite Sandra Bullock . . .
How about Valley Girl?
I think it’s a great 80’s schlock flick. Nick cage does a good job, plus there’s footage of the one and only Plimsouls in it, which is my main reason for liking it…
I have two different copies of The Beast of Yucca Flats (the normal edition and the mst3k edition). I’ve watched it at least 5 times. I not only like it, I can also follow the “plot.” There’s something wrong with me…
FYI, all of my friends love Hudson Hawk and Big Trouble in Little China. We actually gather for semi-annual viewings. Beautiful movies…
Another one that comes to mind is Roger Corman’s Battle Beyond the Stars. It’s awful. I love it. Soundtrack by the man who did the Titanic’s soundtrack, special effects by James Cameron. Stars George Peppard as a space cowboy. John Boy plays the lead role. Beautiful, beautiful example of 70’s scifi cheese (even if it was filmed in the early 80’s).
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Yes. I own this movie. I asked for it for christmas, and my sister (bless her heart) managed to find it for me.
All the Tremors movies - 1, 2 and 3. Oh, baby. Bad worm monsters and goo… and Michael Gross.
“Is your head up your ass for the warmth?”
BTW, I have never seen They Live, but it did indeed have Rowdy Roddy Piper in it: Quoth the Piper: “I’m here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I’m all out of gum.”
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Oh come on. Total cheese-fest. The Reds invade, and the first thing they attack is a high school in Colorado? Hee hee hee hee.
Still, as I said, I love it.
They Live is an absolute classic… a bad film, but a classic nonetheless.
And since when is Altered States a bad movie? I always thought it was actually pretty good. Any movie with Blair Brown in the nude has to have some merit, come on… 
Peter Jackson’s Dead-Alive (or Brain Dead) has to be my top pick. A total riot, so bad (intentionally, I think) that it’s funny. Favorite quote: “I kick ass for the LORD!”
Speaking of Roddy Piper, anyone ever seen “Hell Comes to Frogtown”? I love that movie. It is so bad!
zen101, Meet the Feebles is a great movie! Sick and wrong, but great!
My favorite bad movie has got to be Tank Girl. It’s utterly cheesy, but I love it. Tank Girl is so cool! And Jet Girl is really terribly cute. It’s a great movie to watch when you’ve had a lousy day.
My friend is having shirts made up that say “All I need to know in life I’ve learned from Burt Gumner.”. I would definatly give cult status to Tremors since they are making a TV series and another movie out of it. Micheal Gross has found his nitch. Just look at these quotes!:
“A lifetime of preperation so I could wind up a refuge. Why kind of supreme being could condone such irony.”
“I’m completely out of ammo. That’s never happend to me before.”
“It’s cannon fuse.”
“What do you use that for?”
“My cannon.”
And who could forget:
“Memo: 4 pound of C4 <debris falls on head> may be a little excesive.”
B Movie greatness.
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned this one yet, but I love Starship Troopers ! It always gets trashed on these boards and I know that it isn’t true to the book, but it’s still great, cheesy, tongue-in-cheek fun!
Tremors. Most defintely Tremors. That movie is a classic in our house.
I also love Bedazzled (with Bredan Fraser). I cannot flip past it on HBO without watching it. It’s not the worst movie ever made but defintely not on many people’s favorites lists.
I agree with most of your choices; I loves me some bad movies. Although, I have to question the sanity of anyone who watches The Beast of Yucca Flats on purpose. Yikes.
My addition: Cutthroat Island. Lord, I love it. Great fun, big explosions, a superb villain, and the ship-to-ship battle at the end is about the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on film.
Starz has been showing Dungeons & Dragons lately. While watching it the other day, I came to the realization that there is not one good thing about the movie. Not acting, story, music, costumes, effects, stunts, sets, nothing. But I still watched it.
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Whaaaaaaa? The worst of the three? Dost mine eyes deceiveth me? Everyone I know likes that one the best. Of course, most people I know were about five when that movie came out, but still!