# Movies that are so bad, they're good **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003 "2005-12-04T05:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/21 "2005-12-04T17:18:58Z")
“House of the Dead” I force all my friends to watch it. It is so bad you can’t believe your eyes. 12 minute gunfight with zombies! And hilariously bad “bullet time” effects! It uses screens from the video game it is based on as transition shots… actual screens from the game! It’s a wonderful mess. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/22 "2005-12-04T18:23:16Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > “House of the Dead” > > I force all my friends to watch it. It is so bad you can’t believe your eyes. 12 minute gunfight with zombies! And hilariously bad “bullet time” effects! It uses screens from the video game it is based on as transition shots… actual screens from the game! > > It’s a wonderful mess. Ah, yes, I will agree with this one. Uwe Boll is the Ed Wood of our generation. “Alone in the Dark” isn’t as good/bad, though. It’s mostly just boring. It’s great if you’re curious to see how badly Tara Reid acts, though. As I said in my Netflix review: when you’re out-acted by a red shirt who dies minutes after being introduced, you’re a bad actor. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/23 "2005-12-04T18:32:10Z")
**Children of the Corn** Oh good og. The acting isn’t _so_ bad, but it’s just so gory and… stupid. And not one resonably looking person in that entire movie. Besides, Issacs talks like Yoda! It’s a must see in the so-bad-it’s-good movie genre. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/24 "2005-12-04T20:55:33Z")
[Blind Fury](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0096945/) ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/25 "2005-12-04T21:07:29Z")
Demolition Man I can’t even begin to explain how stupid, how terrible this movie is. ---
**Author:** ![max\_yasgur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@max\_yasgur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/max_yasgur)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/26 "2005-12-05T01:39:50Z")
**Attack of The Killer Tomatoes** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/27 "2005-12-05T03:01:36Z")
**Blood of Heroes**. Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen star, so you know it must be good. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/28 "2005-12-05T03:49:47Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > Had fun watching _House of 1,000 Corpses_, _Alien v. Predator_, and _From Dusk Til Dawn_ recently. All three sucked but were moderately entertaining, if only for mockery value. _Aliens vs. Predator_ has the most unbelievable _Omigod, are they gonna MAKE OUT?!_ moment between Sanaa Lathan’s character and the main Predator. There’s a scene where they’re standing together on a cliff, gazing into one another’s eyes, and I swear to God I thought they were going to get down to some interspecies lovin’. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/29 "2005-12-05T05:17:31Z")
Showgirls… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/30 "2005-12-05T05:21:57Z")
Demi Moore’s _Scarlett Letter_. It’s an MST3K that writes itself. [King Kong Lives](http://imdb.com/title/tt0091344/) was one I remember laughing my way through, though this was in the late 1980s when I still smoked pot, so _To the Lighthouse_ may have seemed downright hysterical at the time. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/31 "2005-12-05T06:41:40Z")
Lake Placid. Too much fun making fun of this one. Volcano? Was that the one with Tommy Lee Jones in San Fran? Lots of fun making fun of that one too. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/32 "2005-12-05T07:15:16Z")
> [@max yasgur](#): > > **Attack of The Killer Tomatoes** Doesn’t count - it isn’t really a bad movie, but a parody of bad movies. I’ll go with [Robot Monster](http://imdb.com/title/tt0046248/) , the funniest unintentionally bad movie I’ve ever seen. The titular monster is a guy in a gorilla suit with a diving bell helmet who constantly rants against the hu-mans. There’s a scene where he comes after the remaining hu-mans and is shown walking down a canyon trail somewhere in southern California. He walks and walks and walks and walks and walks and walks and walks and walks. Then he walks some more, followed by more walking. This is intercut with the hu-mans passively awaiting their doom. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/33 "2005-12-05T07:45:33Z")
“Desperado” (With Antonio) “Showgirls” “Evil dead II” Any of the “Basket Case” movies… ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/34 "2005-12-05T07:56:46Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > Lake Placid. Or as I call it : _Ally McBeal Meets the Lake Monster_ ---
**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:** [December 5, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/35 "2005-12-05T13:45:55Z")
I’ve been having my annual _Bad ilm Festival_ since well before MST3K. (In fact, when friends first told me about MST3K, they said “Somebody’s doing the same thing you do, only on TV”). Here are some of the flicks we’ve done over the years: \*\*Plan Nine from Outer Space Robot Monster\*\* (These two are the classic bad films) \*\*Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend The Giant Claw\*\* (you _must_ see this one, if only for the monster) \*\*Lisztomania Forbidden Zone Megaforce Sorceress\*\* (The Roger Corman film of that name) \*\*The Sword and the Sorceror Catwomen on the Moon Zardoz Altered States The Creature That Wasn’t Nice/Starship/The Naked Space The First Nudie Musical Star Crystal \*\* ---
**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:** [December 5, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/36 "2005-12-05T14:23:41Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > “House of the Dead” > > I force all my friends to watch it. It is so bad you can’t believe your eyes. 12 minute gunfight with zombies! And hilariously bad “bullet time” effects! It uses screens from the video game it is based on as transition shots… actual screens from the game! > > It’s a wonderful mess. That really might be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. When they first started showing those video game shots as transitions, I thought it was incredibly stupid and they annoyed me. But I soon began to look forward to them, because they were _much better than the actual movie_. Once I realized that, I knew what a rare thing this movie was. Uwe Boll has a rare “gift”. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/37 "2005-12-05T14:24:02Z")
> [@Jeff Lichtman](#): > > Doesn’t count - it isn’t really a bad movie, but a parody of bad movies. > > I’ll go with [Robot Monster](http://imdb.com/title/tt0046248/) , the funniest unintentionally bad movie I’ve ever seen. The titular monster is a guy in a gorilla suit with a diving bell helmet who constantly rants against the hu-mans. There’s a scene where he comes after the remaining hu-mans and is shown walking down a canyon trail somewhere in southern California. He walks and walks and walks and walks and walks and walks and walks and walks. Then he walks some more, followed by more walking. This is intercut with the hu-mans passively awaiting their doom. Phew. I had a hard time sitting through Robot Monster. Keep in mind that I regularly watch **and enjoy** the Beast of Yucca Flats. Seriously. A friend and I make a regular habit of watching current-release Hong Kong action and drama films. Most of them would fall in this category. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/38 "2005-12-05T15:53:10Z")
I’m assuming no one has yet mentioned “Mommy Dearest”, “Reefer Madness”, “Showgirls”, “Logan’s Run” or “Basic Instinct” yet because they seemed like such obvious howlers. Anyway, here’s a few more: [Santa Claus Conquers the Martians](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058548/) [Chopping Mall](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090837/) (Classic tagline: There are more than prices being slashed at…the Chopping Mall!) [Satan’s Cheerleaders](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076665/) ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/39 "2005-12-05T17:15:39Z")
It’s surprising how many schlock ‘classics’ are actually duff. For instance, [Tenebrae](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084777/) is supposedly a masterpiece. I managed to watch 15 minutes of the DVD (that I had bought, mind you) before ejecting it in favour of some channel-surfing. [Space Mutiny](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096149/) is an awesomely bad movie. Vanilla or MST3K version, it doesn’t matter, because even if it was playing in an empty room with the volume down there would still be the sounds of laughter and mockery at the golf-cart-chase-in-the-basement scene. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003/40 "2005-12-05T17:48:21Z")
[Buford’s Beach Bunnies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103894/combined): Jim Hanks (Tom’s lesser-known brother) as a 30-something coitophobe whose dad offers a hundred grand to the first one of his waitresses who can lay him. Characters have names like “Amber Dextrous” and “Beula Lugosi” “Dr. Van Horney” and “The Amazing Foreskin”. [Nice Girls Don’t Explode](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093617/combined): Michelle Meyrink as April Flowers, a girl whose mom wants to keep from being intimate with boys by telling her that she’ll explode if she has sex. It seems to be true because whenever April is with a boy, things start spontaneously exploding. Until the day that one boy finally sees through mom’s charade and makes a stand. Featuring Wallace Shawn as an inept burglar with an unfortunate name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/334003.md?page=3)