# Best Unintentionally Hilarious Horror Movie Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966 "2009-08-19T16:57:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/1 "2009-08-19T16:57:39Z")
We rented the movie Teeth yesterday because the thought of a horror movie based on vagina dentata was about the funniest thing I could possibly imagine. I was not dissapointed. For those of you who haven’t seen it the movie tells the story of Dawn, a religious young woman who encourages young people at her school to wait to have sex until marriage until she discovers that she has teeth down below. She then takes on an almost superheroesque attitude and goes out taking revenge and punishing men. It was the best crappy film I have ever seen! Now I feel a need to see other unintentionally hilarious films. What should I be adding to my Netflix queue? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/2 "2009-08-19T17:26:21Z")
**Flesh Eating Mothers** is up there although I don’t know how much is intentional or not. “A venereal disease gets out in a small suburban town and a group of about 6 mothers catch the disease. It starts out with simple hunger then mutates into blood thirst. Soon after, these mothers don’t know what they are doing and start eating their children and everyone else around them.” > **[Flesh-Eating Mothers (1988) ⭐ 4.3 | Comedy, Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097364/)** > > 1h 29m | R ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/3 "2009-08-19T18:46:30Z")
**Die You Zombie Bastards** is fully aware of its terrible B-movie status, but it’s still hilarious in its badness. _Red Toole (Tim Gerstmar), a serial killer with a heart of gold and a cape made of human flesh, is on a mission to save his wife, Violet (Pippi Zornoza), and the world’s population from wicked Baron Nefarious (Geoff Mosher). While Nefarious hatches an evil plot to turn everyone into zombies, Toole is hot on his trail, killing anything that gets in his way. Monsters and naked zombie girls add to the ambience of this undead superhero free-for-all._ ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/4 "2009-08-19T18:51:29Z")
Two movies come to mind: [Black Sheep](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/), though I can’t tell if it’s intentionally stupid or not. Man-eating sheep. Nuff said. [Dead Snow](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/). Nazi Zombies. Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/5 "2009-08-19T19:02:58Z")
I thought _Teeth_ was surprisingly well-done considering the subject matter. It isn’t just a piece of shit thrown together on top of a ridiculous premise that only works on a MST3K level. It was actually a good movie IMO. A 7 out of 10. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/6 "2009-08-19T19:09:09Z")
Are you sure “Teeth” is unintentionally funny? I haven’t seen it, but I cannot imagine that premise not being for laughs at some level. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/7 "2009-08-19T19:17:16Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Are you sure “Teeth” is unintentionally funny? I haven’t seen it, but I cannot imagine that premise not being for laughs at some level. It’s dark comedy with the emphasis on “dark” and off “comedy”. It’s a movie that gets talked about a lot for for a hard-R that never got a wide-release, and no one seems to have really disliked it, but at the same time people seem afraid to admit they liked it. All the discussions I hear of it are along the lines of, “what’d _you_ think? Eh? _Eh?_” ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/8 "2009-08-19T19:18:03Z")
The epitomie of lame-ass horror movies has to be _Night of the Lepus_. Giant killer … rabbits? Whoever thought that was a scary idea? > **[Night of the Lepus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus)** > > Night of the Lepus (also known as Rabbits) is a 1972 American science fiction horror film directed by William F. Claxton and produced by A. C. Lyles. Based upon Russell Braddon's 1964 science fiction novel The Year of the Angry Rabbit, the plot concerns an infestation of mutated rabbits. > The film was the first science fiction work for producer Lyles and for director Claxton, both of whom came from Western film backgrounds. Character actors from Westerns the pair had worked on were brought in to ... While the stupidity and lameness of the “special effects” is funny, fact is that this movie is just plain bad - too bad to really be worth watching, even for yuks. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/9 "2009-08-19T19:19:15Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Two movies come to mind: > > [Black Sheep](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/), though I can’t tell if it’s intentionally stupid or not. Man-eating sheep. Nuff said. That is Black Sheep’s brilliance, actually. There are moments where it feels like the director is winking at you, as if to say, “Come on, you’re not taking this shit seriously?” And then there are moment when it’s clear that the movie is very, _very_ sincere. It’s also surprisingly well done. The script moves right along, it’s got good production values, which increases the tension. Surely, nobody would waste so much time and energy on such a stupid idea if they were serious? Surely, nobody would waste so much time and energy on such a stupid idea they _weren’t_ serious. It’s also genuinely gross and frightening in parts. Like the director doesn’t want to hide a second of the derangement, as though it’s a serious look at what could seriously happen in this sort of situation. And the characters are so stereotypical for horror (the main guy is afraid of sheep, I wonder what his reaction will be when they start eating people?) and yet, somehow, at some point, they have actual depth and behave like they’re real people. It’s a strange flick. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/10 "2009-08-19T19:24:55Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > I thought _Teeth_ was surprisingly well-done considering the subject matter. It isn’t just a piece of shit thrown together on top of a ridiculous premise that only works on a MST3K level. It was actually a good movie IMO. A 7 out of 10. It was very well done for what it was. It was scary enough that my boyfriend had to walk away from it a couple of times so it was a success on that level, but come on, when she bites off the penis of the guy who lives in his garage and he picks it up and kind of attempts to stick it back on while it is still wearing a condom was hilarious and when her step brother’s penis literally falls out of her when she stands up was comic gold! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/11 "2009-08-19T19:32:52Z")
[The Car](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Car). Boy, was that funny. Demonic car kills people by running them over, laying on the horn as an added bit of terror. The Car succeeds in doing this by approaching terrified bicyclists that scream and peddle faster, until they get run over, hitchhikers that stand there screaming until they get run over, terrified townsfolk who run around screaming…in the street…until they get run over. Etc etc. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/12 "2009-08-19T19:56:06Z")
I didn’t see the movie, but when I went to see _Borat_, the audience laughed harder at the trailer for _Turistas_. And that’s saying a lot, since Borat was one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/13 "2009-08-19T20:01:02Z")
In the same vein as “Teeth” (which I thought was pretty good) is “Killer Condom,” a German film about, well, a killer condom that is attacking men in seedy motels in New York City. It’s done as a hard boiled detective film, but the detective is gay, and there’s mad scientists and aliens, and all kinds of bizarre things. I don’t know if I’d say it was “unintentionally” funny, but it makes a good double feature w/ “Teeth.” ---
**Author:** ![Ataraxia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Ataraxia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ataraxia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/14 "2009-08-19T20:10:25Z")
Blood freak. A biker is turned into a giant turkey headed monster by a mad scientist and proceeds to kill exclusively drug addicts for their blood. Atrociously bad production values; at one point you can actually hear the director say “Action”. I don’t know if this is more sci-fi than horror, but Big Meat Eater. A low budget Canadian feature about an Ontario meat butcher who battles space aliens who have brought the mayor back to life as a zombie and are conspiring to tear down the butcher’s shop, where a valuable material called balonium is underground. Matters are complicated by the machinations of Abudullah, a psychotic serial killer employed by the happy-go-lucky butcher. Oh, and it’s a musical. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/15 "2009-08-19T20:11:45Z")
Oh, man, there are lots of these, especially older ones My favorite is the abysmal **the Giant Claw** from the 1950s. They shot all the “real action” scenes first, then had no money left over for the monster or the effects. They ended up using the WORST puppet monster model I’ve ever seen in a major US production, along with footage from the much better “Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers” to show the destruction of Washington DC. Unbelievably bad. I can’t believe MST3K never did this one. **Killers from Space** , starring a very young Peter Graves. The Bad Aliens (the titular “Killers from Space”, although they don’t actually kill anyone. They even SAVE the life of Graves’ character) are played by guys in stretch jumpsuits and with ping pong balls over their eyes. The jumpsuits aren’t flattering, especially to the guy who plays the leader, and looks as if they paid him in beer. The monsters are rear-projected or blue-screened lizards and insects that don’t look at all convincing. (They’re even worse in the out-takes, which I have some of). The climax is a view of one of the naval atomic shots, seen through a window. It’s an aerial shot, and the angle’s all wrong. But you know it’s a powerful blast, because the shock wave makes the venetian blinds rattle. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/16 "2009-08-19T20:41:33Z")
_Teeth_’s humor was definitely intentional. But back to the thread, see _Brain Dead_. I think there’s a little wink-wink/nudge-nudge here too, but when the brain sucking alien worm is represented by a talking sock puppet, it’s worth the ride, intentional or not. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/17 "2009-08-19T20:44:33Z")
> [@](#): > > But back to the thread, see Brain Dead. I think there’s a little wink-wink/nudge-nudge here too, but when the brain sucking alien worm is represented by a talking sock puppet, it’s worth the ride, intentional or not. oh, **Brain Dead** is clearly wholly intentional. The aforementioned beastie is voiced (yes, it talks) by horror host **Zacherley** (!) The movie also has one of my all-time favorite monster-movie lines. Upon learning what the couple who has been harboring it named the Beast, the quasi-hero bursts out: “_ELMER!!!_ You _fucking_ named it Elmer?” ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/18 "2009-08-19T21:09:08Z")
No one has mentioned **Plan Nine From Outer Space** , Ed Wood’s masterpiece? I thought this thread was about it when I saw the title. It is the definition of _Best Unintentionally Hilarious Horror Movie Ever_. I have a feeling if you look the phrase up in the dictionary, the poster for the film will be there. ---
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leprechaun in da hood. Or maybe the original leprechaun. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966/20 "2009-08-19T21:40:08Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > It’s dark comedy with the emphasis on “dark” and off “comedy”. It’s a movie that gets talked about a lot for for a hard-R that never got a wide-release, and no one seems to have really disliked it, but at the same time people seem afraid to admit they liked it. All the discussions I hear of it are along the lines of, “what’d _you_ think? Eh? _Eh?_” Actually, you said what I wasn’t really able to articulate. In fact I was debating whether or not I should say if I liked the film. I don’t think it was the best film I ever saw, but I liked it well enough. I’m not sure classifying it as horror is a good decision, though. There are horrifying things that happen, and I feel like a lot of it is meant to be dark humor. And that a lot of the laughing is kind of nervous laughter because some of these situations are pretty horrifying. It’s definitely different. I don’t think I’ve seen another movie quite like it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-unintentionally-hilarious-horror-movie-ever/506966.md?page=2)