I agree with this and add two more to the list:
The Pirate Movie and Blacula.
Halloween III is always a safe bet. When I was watching it my roommte walked in and asked me what the plot was. When I told him, he asked me if I’d been drinking. Well, yeah, but, like, so?
Battlefield Earth is hilarious if you view it as a comedy.
Tough Guys Don’t Dance: Incomprehensible “plot” and the unforgettable lines uttered by Ryan O’Neal: “Oh God…Oh man…Oh God…Oh man…Oh God…Oh man…Oh God…Oh man…Oh God!”
Have you ever tried the original movie “Red Shoe Diaries”? It plumbs unimaginable depths of awfulness, and if David Duchovny’s delivery of the phrase “Like a jackhammer” doesn’t leave you rolling on the ground, you have no soul.
There’s also the amusingly bad Dark Heritage, if low low low budget uncredited and badly adapted Lovecraft stories do it for you. Personally, I found it unwatchably bad, but many of my friends swear by it as the ultimate bad movie to love.
Reviews I’ve read of the fourth Crow movie, “Wicked Prayer”, suggest that it has very high amusement potential. Warning: some of the scathing reviews are so entertaining, you may choose not to bother with viewing the actual film.
Something Weird has a whole line of really strange and mostly awful movies on DVD. As a bonus, many of the DVD’s feature multiple movies, so if the main feature like Bad Girls Go To Hell or Dr Sex turns out to be too watchable, there’s still a back-up feature like Another Day, Another Man or Wanda the Sadistic Hypnotist to check out.
House of the Dead. Yes, it’s by Uwe Boll. Why did I mention that? Oh, it’s not important…
Bulletproof Monk Gag gag gag…just horrible
Oh, and Selkie…I’ve seen Crow # 4 with a devoted Brandon Lee fan, and he says it’s the best of the sequals. It has the lovely Emannuelle Chiqui in it, as well as David Boreanaz…I’d be interested to hear your opinion, also.
Have you seen Maniac? From Leonard Maltin’s Movie and Video Guide:
Rock and Roll High School
P. J. Soles. Ramones. stereotypes.
What more could you wish?
(checking IMDB, I realize I left out the random Van Patton. Almost as good as a spare Quaid)
Fascinating. The reviews I’ve read has been scathing - usually entertainingly so - so I’ve amused myself by reading the reviews without seeing the film. (I would have, but there’s basically one rental place in town, and their selection outside the major blockbusters is almost non-existent). Perhaps I’ll make a more concerted effort to find a copy…
I have also been dying to see the Crow: Wicked Prayer, but Hollywood Video doesn’t have it, and I really don’t like spending my money at Blockbuster, so I haven’t even checked. I read someone’s hilarious review of it some time back, and even if it’s bad, it seems like a contender in the so-bad-it’s-wonderful category.
I think that ANY bad movie night must, at some point, include the live-action Street Fighter. Based off of the video game.
Jean-Claude Van Damme. Ming Na. Kylie Friggin’ Minogue.
And NO conversation about “over the top villains” can be complete without Raul Julia - as M. Bison - in all his melodramatic glory.
Try these snippets of dialogue:
I’m tellin’ ya, it’s gold!
I’ve nominated this one before, but The Lair of the White Worm is the most godawful film I’ve ever seen. Closely followed by The Brotherhood III: Young Demons. And I really, really like trashy off the wall films.
Others to consider are Squirm, The Green Slime, The Food of the Gods and Count Yorga, Vampire. You just can’t beat 60’s and 70’s horror flicks for cheesy goodness.
Switchblade Sisters is intentionally out there, but it sure is fun and the actors are so darned earnest.
Ooh, can’t forget The Net. That one had me shaking my head, thinking WTF.
Perquitlam is a fine town that believes in the future. Why, young Jan is this close to developing a car capable of space travel. But aliens have sinister plans for the town, and the butcher’s new assistant is a homicidal maniac. Meat your fate with
Big Meat Eater
Things are bad in the farm belt- foreclosures, poverty, and a serial killer. Tiny Tim plays a man driven mad by the tragedy. He sings quite a bit.
Viking Massacre (Yes, I know that’s not what IMDB calls it, but that’s the film that came up when I did a search.) A rambling, incomprehensible Italian film that doesn’t have a massacre in it (nor any Vikings, if the truth be known, just a bunch of Italians with bad bleach jobs). As a bonus, the lead looks something like Lee Majors, so you can have all kinds of fun making “b-b-b-o-o-o-i-i-i-i-n-n-n-n-g-g-g-g-g-g-g” sound effects. 
Nightmare in Badham County Tina Louise stars as a lesbian prison guard, while Mr. Brady is the warden of the prison. There’s a supposed true story in there about a couple of college girls being wrongly put in jail, with one of them winding up raped and murdered, but the film is so poorly done that you can’t help but laugh at it all. There’s a great scene where someone makes a comment about a Mustang II being “a hot car.”
Hell Comes to Frog Town Stars Rowdy Roddy Piper in a film about a post apocalyptic future with evil giant frogs. If you see only one movie about evil giant mutant frogs in your life, make this the one.
Laserblast Roddy McDowell must have been desperate for a paycheck to do this movie. Rambling, incomprehensible, it’s teh suxxor.
Crash & Burn “Papa Walton” stars in this movie about giant mechs in a Mad Max type future. It’s not really horrible, but lord, it ain’t good, either.
The Dark Side of the Moon The guy who played Tyrell in Bladerunner is the only person you’ll recognize in this bad sci fi film which doesn’t have any point (well, it does, in that the Bermuda Triangle is somehow connected to the far side of the Moon, aw gee, I probably should put this in a spoiler box). When you see the naked boobies, you can stop watching the film, there’s no point in torturing yourself any further.
Lady Beware Not really a horrible movie, but certainly not a good one. Worth watching for the bizarre window displays the lead character creates. At the time the film was made, there was simply no way many of them could have been considered “acceptable.” (A bit too risque, if you know what I mean.)
Blue Movies The Professor from Gilligan’s Island plays the bad guy, need I say more?
CarnosaurThis was Roger Corman’s answer to Jurassic Park, and as a friend of mine said at the end of the film, “WTF was the point of that movie?” It uses the same plot as an earlier Corman film (one where folks are exposed to radiation from a returning Mars probe), only it has dinosaurs in it!
Frankenstein Unbound Another Roger Corman gem. This film stars John Hurt as an accidental time traveller who ends up meeting Mary Shelley and becoming involved in the events of her novel Frankenstein. It ends with Frankenstein’s monster gaining control of a time machine. This movie has naked boobies too! (Of course, you have to suffer through John Hurt’s nakedness to see it, so there’s a bit of a downside.)
If you can find it, this version of the Fantastic Four, if you thought the film with Jessica Alba was bad, you’ll hate this one!
Oh yeah, I second Monster Dog. Pay close attention to the montage sequence where they’re “filming” the video in the castle. The music is The Raven by The Alan Parsons Project and it cuts out just before the vocals begin and is completely uncredited!
I’d say this film is ineligible. It has actuall good qualities and can be enjoyable.
[QAUOTE]Frankenstein Unbound Another Roger Corman gem. This film stars John Hurt as an accidental time traveller who ends up meeting Mary Shelley and becoming involved in the events of her novel Frankenstein. It ends with Frankenstein’s monster gaining control of a time machine.!
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No, it doesn’t.
It ends with Hurt finding himself in the future, but in his own lab. He uses the lasers installed in the lab to kill the Monster. Before dying, the Monster says ‘You have not killed me. I am not dead. I am unbound.’ Then Hurt wanders off to be 'at the end of the world, or the beginning of one
You also left out that Raul Julia plays Victor Frankenstein. It’s a good performance. But, I couldn’t believe him as a blonde German.
Well, it’s been years since I’ve seen the flick, so I’ve forgotten some of the details, but I wasn’t terribly off in how I said the film ended, I just left out the bits at the very end.
But, IIRC the Monster never has control of a time machine in the film. Hurt has one. Victor wants one. The Monster has the mind of a toddler.