# Favourite bad movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756 "2003-10-27T01:19:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/41 "2003-10-28T00:42:21Z")
Are we talking so bad they are good? Many of the 50’s drive in movie flics are just plain awful but so much fun to watch. A short list of my favorites. The Wasp Woman It! The terror from Beyond Space. (I just watched this one) The Giant Gila Monster The Killer Shrews…(make up! That dogs costume is slipping!) Attack of The Crab Monsters The Undertaker and his Pals Just about everything by Roger Corman up to his Poe series. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/42 "2003-10-28T01:07:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nitroglycerine \* > > **Motel Hell** definately counts. With Rory Calhoun and Nancy Parsons as the cannibalistic Smoked Meat makers and the slogan, “It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent Fritters!” Classic stuff! > > Jon \*\* Second the motion on “Motel Hell.” I’m partial to films that cast Wolfman Jack as a fundie preacher. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/43 "2003-10-28T02:47:10Z")
**Masters of Menace** That guy who was in the Sledge Hammer TV series as the leader of a biker gang. Their mechanic Gyspy (Jim Belushi) dies and they take his body cross country, parole officers giving chase. Cameos by all sorts of people (George Wendt, Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, etc). ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/44 "2003-10-28T05:39:16Z")
Hell Comes to Frog Town? ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/45 "2003-10-28T06:28:31Z")
\*\* Masters of the Universe\*\* Cheese galore, but damned if I don’t catch it whenever it comes on cable. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/46 "2003-10-28T06:29:12Z")
Grease 2. Beastmaster. Battle Beyond the Stars. I’m sad a couple of people have nominated Tremors for this thread, Tremors was a GREAT movie! ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/47 "2003-10-28T06:36:36Z")
\*\* Masters of the Universe\*\* Cheese galore, but damned if I don’t catch it whenever it comes on cable. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/48 "2003-10-28T14:13:18Z")
I’ve mentioned this in another thread recently, and I’m certainly not proud of it, but here goes: _Nothing But Trouble_ has a strange hold over me. I cannot _not_ watch it if it’s on. I second all the 50s sci-fi/horror flicks mentioned here, the ones that I’ve seen, anyway, which haven’t been many. ☹ [hijack] For all of you who mentioned horror movies, I recommend the nonfiction book _Danse Macabre_ by Stephen King. It’s an interesting look at the tradition. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/49 "2003-10-28T14:52:23Z")
**Stop! or my mom will shoot!** I love that film, though its absolute crap. i bought it for 99p on video at blockbusters. **Super Troopers** **Flash Gordon** etc ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/50 "2003-10-28T15:24:43Z")
Dungeons and Dragons: The Movie is utterly awful in a wonderful way. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/51 "2003-10-28T15:29:00Z")
A few others: **Tarzan, the Ape Man** (The Bo Derek one) **Invaders from Mars** (the original version. Some people say this Mezies film is a classic. I don’t think they’ve seenm it in a while. The remake is pretty bad, too.) \*\* The Manster Star Crystal\*\* (They defeat the alien by converting it to Christianity!) **The Creature that Wasn’t Nice/Starship/The Naked Space** (another Bruce Kimmel offering – “Alien” as a musical! With Cindy Williams! And Patrick McNee! And Leslie Nielsen!) > [@](#): > > It! The terror from Beyond Space. (I just watched this one) Them’s fightin’ words! “It!” is one of the overlooked gems of 1950s cheap film SF. “Alien” ripped off its plot, and jettisoned "It!'s logic and SF aspects for “Old Dark House” spookiness (although they had a better-looking Creature). Jerome Bixby, who wrote the screenplay for this and other neglected films (The Atomic Missile, Curse of the Faceless Man), and who wrote the story “It’s a _Good_ Life” that has become Twilight Zone canon, desrves to be better remembered. ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/52 "2003-10-28T15:53:55Z")
**Red Dawn.** A pretty bad movie, but I couldn’t help watching it over and over on HBO when I was in college. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/53 "2003-10-28T16:24:06Z")
Star Crash with Marjoe Gortner and Caroline Munro. Contains the greatest cheap out ever: “Hey, we’re trapped inside a planet that will explode in five seconds!” “Imperial Battleship … stop the flow of time!” ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/54 "2003-10-28T16:29:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Babbington \* > \*\*and Tomorrow Never Dies. Denise Richards saying, “Someone walking around with a kilo of weapons grade plutonium is no laughing matter.” To which James Bond should have said, “Ok, Cupcake,” but didn’t. \*\* That was **The World Is Not Enough**. That chick who played Lois on _Lois and Clark_ (Terri something) was the Bond babe in **Tomorrow Never Dies**. And all I have to tell you is that I am the World’s Biggest Madonna Fan. Ergo, my list is _pages_ long. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/55 "2003-10-28T17:57:42Z")
Monster stomping is always fun, but give me a big-budget disaster movie every time. Just make sure the premise is ridiculous, the cast is famous enough to have known better than to sign up, and the script is totally, woodenly pretentious, just as long as the SFX crew was given free rein. Any of the _Airport_ sequels, but not the original pretty-decent original though. _Airport '75_, with the rescue pilot being lowered through the broken cockpit window of the 747, is a classic. The one with the sunken 747 and the one with the Concorde crash-landing on a ski slope are must-see’s, too. _Independence Day_ - President Bill Paxton’s inspirational speech before getting into his F/A-18 to attack the alien mother ship is a highlight of the genre. _The Towering Inferno_ - Possible O.J. Simpson’s finest acting work, even including his Barbara Walters interview. _The Poseidon Adventure_ - you’d never think Gene Hackman went on to a decent career after that. _Goliath Awaits_ - another forgotten jewel with an all-star cast. A sunken luxury liner provides a survival habitat for its trapped passengers for 40 years, letting them form their own society complete with Morlocks. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/56 "2003-10-28T18:03:00Z")
I gottta go with **Road House** as well. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/57 "2003-10-28T18:10:41Z")
You want bad disaster movies? Try **The Swarm**. An all-star cast in a no-star movie. And the musical **Lost Horizon** is appalling. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/58 "2003-10-28T19:22:49Z")
**Leningrad Cowboys Go America**. I think this movie’s hilarious, but I appear to be one of the few. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/59 "2003-10-28T19:29:06Z")
I agree with **skeptic\_ev** about [Nothing But Trouble](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/). It’s one those films that has a strange appeal for some people, but everyone else hates. I think another movie that deserves a mention in this thread is [Dark Star](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945/). ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756/60 "2003-10-28T22:10:07Z")
from the 1980s, so bad it’s good: Swamp Thing - with Louis Jourdan and Adrienne Barbeau. (!) Still in some theatres, so bad it’s good: Once Upon A Time In Mexico. yep, it’s my guilty pleasure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-bad-movies/209756.md?page=4)