Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! fits the bill perfectly, but it’s not exactly obscure, so y’all might have already seen it.
The Heroic Trio is not only a great bad Hong Kong movie, but it has three of the most beautiful women in Hong Kong cinema – Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, and Anita Mui.
And Wishmaster is another very bad movie, but is fun to watch because the guy playing the genie is just so into it. It’s not that obscure, though…
I love his voice “Maykuh youreh wijjezzzzzzzzzzzzzz”. IMHO Wishmaster is a crappy script with a bad actress in the lead. But the villain and some of the people making cameos are great.
Nope. I don’t remember the exact details, only that the Monster is some kind of power mad creation with the mind of a genius. He plans on ruling the world and Hurt works to stop him, somehow, they both end up in the future, which is where Hurt zaps the monster with a laser. The Monster’s voice echoes through Hurt’s Fortress of Solititude (it’s some place with lots of snow) saying, “I have become unbounded.” Meaning, like the dude in The Lawnmower Man he’s now had his power upgraded and he’s even stronger than before. IIRC, Hurt begins working on a way to stop the Monster once and for all.
Oh, another film I forgot to mention is Time Rider about a guy on a motorcycle who gets sent ~50 years into the past. It manages to work in a number of the time travelling cliches, and as an added bonusWhen the “calvary” arrives, and slices up the villian with the blades of their helicopter, you can see that they just stuffed watermelon in his boots to make it look like flesh.
“Hell Comes to Frogtown”
This is a great movie. I accually like it but I am sure that it is considered “bad”
If you are old enough to remember Roudey Rody Piper of wrestling then you will get even more of a kick from it.
Tuckerfan
You’re misremembering the film. Victor is a power mad genius etc. The Monster has the mind of a kid. At one point, he asks Victor
“Who made her?”
“No one made her! She was born of woman!”
The Monster has trouble grasping the idea that not everybody was stitched together and animated in a lab like he was. Shortly after, he asks “Who made God?” not as a deep theological query, but because somebody has just told him about God for the first time.
[spoiler] It’s Victor who wants Hurt to take him to the future. When Hurt sabotages the time machine, it’s Victor who gets pissed that his plans have been thwarted.
Vic “Make it like it was!”
Hurt “I can’t”
Victor responds by pulling out a musket and firing it. But, the newly reanimated Elizabeth steps in front of Victor to end her new life.
It’s also Victor who was so curious about the future, he went through Hurt’s things and found that the future envelopes have dried glue already in place, and that it tastes like (with this word Victor revealed what he’d done) “Peppermint.”
The Monster’s only inteligent lines come in the last two minutes or so in the lab. They are totally in conflict with the portrayal of the Monster in the rest of the film.[/spoiler]
I dunno, it’s been ages since I’ve seen the film, but I don’t recall thinking that the Monster (who, if it’s really following the books should be named “Adam”) had the mind of a toddler. I don’t remember the scene that you’re describing at all. I just remember the part where Hurt gets zapped back into the past and his car says something about it not being the 20th Cent., the boobies, and the ending.
Which books? In the craptacular original, the Monster has no name. I’ve read the book Frankenstein Unbound (also craptacular) but that was years ago and I don’t recall if the author gave the Monster a name. The FU book does differ significantly from the FU film, including that in the book the Monster is inteligent (though not powermad).
Hurt’s a scientist whose work with lasers and stuff leads to disintegration. This results in holes in the space time continuum, or as Hurt’s talking lab computer says “Time space unbound.” Things ( like large buildings) start disappearing. Things (like rampaging medieval cavalry) start appearing. Hurt and his funky car (a weird one of a kind with seperate bubbles for driver and passenger) get sent to the past. The car also has a talking computer. It’s got a nice printer and prints out a copy of Shelley’s Frankenstein for Hurt once he realizes what’s going on.
After some other stuff, Hurt wants to go home. Victor also wants to go to the future in order to gain more knowledge and power. Hurt sabotages the time machine, sending them to a random time. It turns out to be a future at least several centuries distant. Hurt finds his old lab still operational. has a nice chat with the Monster, and then kills him by using a series of dramatic gestures to activate the green laser thingies. The movie ends with Hurt alone trying to figure out where to go and what to do.
Dammit, Tucker. I was going to say Time Rider. My fiance loves that movie. Yes, we own it on DVD.
I think this started as a kids movie. Giant preying mantises from the Rainforest disguise themselves as humans and head to America on a mission to protect the environment. Something happened. The movie takes some very dark turns. We have drug abuse, rape, murder, and other unpleasantness. If you ever wanted to see Ed Begley Jr play a giant bug disguised as a human, this is the film for you.
Wanna see a truly horrible, yet widely released movie? Check out Brothers Grimm. My God…the horror of it all…
It was so bad I plucked out my wifes eyes so she couldnt look at me and know I actually watched it.
Geez, Doc - I’d successfully blocked that one. Thanks for reminding me… yech.
Not as bad as Da Hip Hop Witch though.
Weird…I own Lair of the White Worm and Switchblade Sisters and consider them two of the finest movies in my collection. But then, my tastes are a little skewed.
For bad but very fun, I’d suggest H.G. Lewis’ Gore Gore Girls or Blood Feast 2. Gore Gore Girls has terrible acting, hideous strippers and Henny Youngman! Blood Feast 2 has terrible acting, a sexy lingerie party and music by Southern Culture on the Skids! 
I caught Switchblade Sisters on cable late one night and absolutely loved it. I didn’t mean that it was bad bad.
Lair of the White Worm, on the other hand, just left me flat. It’s not as if I didn’t give this film a fighting chance, either. I have watched this thing in its entirety 3 times on the theory that I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind when I first saw it.
The rumor I heard was that Damon Wayans wanted to be fired and that is why he acts the way he does. It’s plausible.
I’m also a fan of Lair Of The White Worm. At times the creatures are talked about as though they are venomous snakes. At other times, they are discussed as though they were something like common earthworms. After a certain encounter, the second hand on somebody’ watch changes to resemble a serpent. That bit of symbolism is probably from Stoker’s original story. It doesn’t fit in a modern film. The film also repeats the old myth that snakes are hypnotized by reed instruments.
But, IMO there are plenty of good things in the movie. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it (my copy is on Beta and my last Beta broke several years ago), but OTTOMH-the metal/morris dance hybrid theme song, the characters behave like actual people (somebody is scared and just wants to leave town, the nerd continues to be nerdy rather than suddenly turning into Rambo, the cocky guy who doesn’t take anything seriously continues to be cocky and sure that he can easily kill the bad guys- but he doesn’t take stupid risks), the villain isn’t pure evil all the time. In some scenes, the villain comes across as just another villager. In others, they make it clear that they are only doing all this as part of a genuine religious devotion.
There’s some reference in Shelley’s book to it being called “Adam” by Victor, however, I’m fuzzy on the details, and don’t feel like digging through a copy to find the specifics.Hurt’s a scientist whose work with lasers and stuff leads to disintegration.
The car is actually one of GM prototype models from the late 80s, though it does rather resemble “The Homer.”
I think that there may have been a sequence where the monster says that something about travelling to the future has increased his intelligence. IAC, you’re forgetting the most important part of the film: Boobies!
Not to mention Dick Miller, a great character actor, and the star of Corman’s Bucket of Blood.
Rock and Roll High School was one of the films we showed in a bad movies course I taught many years ago, along with a couple of Ed Wood movies, our Yvette Vickers double-feature of *Attack of the 50-Foot Woman * and Attack of the Giant Leeches, Invasion of the Bee Girls, and of course Ray Dennis Steckler’s (of *Rat Fink a Boo Boo * fame) magnum opus The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?.
Lawnmower Man II: Beyond Cyberspace
Beyond bad