For terrible and hilarious, I recommend TerrorVision (1986)
Summary of main characters: The mother and father, played by Mary Woronov and Gerrit Graham, are swingers. They have a teenage daughter named Suzy, very 80’s punk (think “Desperately Seeking Susan.”) Grampa lives with them, and he is a jewel. Crazy survivalist type. Their son, Sherman, is probably the most normal of them, although he’s been a bit tainted by Grampa. Suzy is dating a boy named O.D. who comes with all the accessories, mullet haircut, leather jacket, studded glove.
The father installs a satellite dish, which then pulls in a space alien that materializes through the television. “The monster,” is hilarious! (Definitely B grade or worse! ) There are a couple slow parts in the movie, but other than that, it’s just all funny, the clothes, the dialogue, the music.
I can’t remember the exact quote, and Grampa explaining the “lizard tail jerky” as a viable food source is not on the quotes page.
Something about pulling off the tail, “and he don’t give a hoot, he just grows another!”
[Quotes page]
(TerrorVision (1986) - Quotes - IMDb)
When O.D. finds out there is a space alien he references E.T.
I don’t know how old your kids are, so ought to warn you there might be an F-bomb or two. There is a lot of talk about sex, and the swinger parents have nude…um, “art” on the walls.
I don’t know anyone IRL that has seen it, that is, before I had them watch it. :eek: