# The really most bad most god awful movies ever made thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129 "2005-04-07T00:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/81 "2005-04-08T15:05:48Z")
I was going to mention _Highlander 2_, but there’s no way I can top **RickJay** ’s description. I’m glad he didn’t describe any plot or scenes from the movie, because I’ve almost succeeded in erasing it from my mind. **Star Trek V** , directed…by…WILLIAM…SHATNER…is an embarassment to the whole ST genre, and certainly to the movie industry in general. But, I’ll let [this guy](http://www.jabootu.com/startrekv.htm) explain in full detail why it sucked so bad. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/82 "2005-04-08T16:09:11Z")
I was going to let someone else post this, as I assumed everyone had heard of it by now…but the thread is at two pages and no one has mentioned “Night of the Lepus”. I won’t say it’s the worst movie ever, as I (happily) haven’t seen some of the contenders in this thread, but it deserves mention. I mean, it has everything: Poor lighting. Nonexistent acting. Bad rubber suits–furry ones. Bunnies sitting in a tiny model of a town, looking disinterested. Yawning bunnies with roaring sounds dubbed over them. DeForest Kelley trying desperately to keep a straight face so he can collect his paycheck. The National Guard fighting the same stock closeup of a running rabbit over and over. Ill-conceived and worse-executed, “Night of the Lepus” is a Bad Movie. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/83 "2005-04-08T20:15:12Z")
> [@Daylon](#): > > My vote for an all time horrible movie is Soldier with Kurt Russel Ha! I love that movie! I think I am the only one. It is Kurt’s understated killing machine attitude, no machismo, no charisma, just kill who he is told to kill. A rather “realistic” super-soldier. I also liked Blair Witch, but not as a movie, more as an experiment of how to make movies. The fact that the director and crew were not on site but leaving little notes and the cameras were manned by the actors themselves made for an (singular, I am not a masochist) interesting viewing. Especially when they were panicking and the camera was spinning all around without cuts. It was refreshing, not scary, not creepy, kinda like a Long Island on a hot day. My pick for bad would be the 10 minutes of Left Behind that I have seen. Followed by Dark Man. ---
**Author:** ![Barely\_Adequate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@Barely\_Adequate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barely_Adequate)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/84 "2005-04-08T20:47:02Z")
“Whipped” is my Personal Worst of the Millenium… …and I say this as one who is probably mere baby-steps removed from an Amanda Peet-induced TRO. -Richard ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/85 "2005-04-09T00:17:33Z")
It’s probably not the _worst movie ever,_ but if we’re putting together a list of bad theatrical-released films, I want to make sure [**Robot Jox**](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/) doesn’t get overlooked. I could tolerate the bad acting, the thin plot, and the one-dimensional characters, but the whole point of the movie – seeing big robots slug it out to the death – was also _boring as hell._ Total disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/86 "2005-04-09T00:28:36Z")
HO-leeee _shit_, I forgot all about Leonard Part the Sixth. DAMN YOU ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/87 "2005-04-09T01:57:53Z")
[Fist of Fear, Touch of Death](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080741/). Someone bought up a bunch of stock footage, slapped it together, and threw some narration on top. Absolutely dreadful. I love kung fu movies, the worse the better, and I don’t think I managed to finish this one. If I did, I’ve successfully repressed the memories. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/88 "2005-04-09T02:07:34Z")
[Career Opportunities](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101545/) I haven’t seen it in eons so imagine my surprise to find out Jennifer Connelly was in it. I love this review though: > [@](#): > > “Career Opportunities” is not only one of the finest films of the Last Great Golden Age Of American Cinema–the early 1990s, specifically, 1991 (“Another You”, “For The Boys”, “Highlander 2: The Quickening”–do I have to list more?)…" (especially for the Highlander II reference that seems so timely considering recent mentions here.) The movie was just out and out bad. ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/89 "2005-04-09T02:15:51Z")
> [@Leviosaurus](#): > > Depressing how many of these I’ve seen, and how many I’ve actually enjoyed on some level. > > But none hit the depths of [Leonard Part 6](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093405/). I’d rather watch \*Highlander II \* twice before seeing LP6 again. I don’t blame the rest of you for blocking it from your memory. > > Special mention: [A Life Less Ordinary](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119535/#comment). THANK YOU! I was wondering why no one had mentioned this Bill Cosby fiasco. I’ve never seen a worse movie in my life (and I liked Cool World and Satisfaction…). ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/90 "2005-04-09T03:15:20Z")
> [@kelly5078](#): > > \*\* > > BTW, I love **Plan 9** , especially the way they got rid of Bela Lugosi (hit by a car off-camera; all you hear is a squeal of tires and a scream). Well, that’s what happens when the lead dies before you can film his death scene. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/91 "2005-04-09T03:22:35Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I was going to let someone else post this, as I assumed everyone had heard of it by now…but the thread is at two pages and no one has mentioned “Night of the Lepus”. I won’t say it’s the worst movie ever, as I (happily) haven’t seen some of the contenders in this thread, but it deserves mention. > > I mean, it has everything: Poor lighting. Nonexistent acting. Bad rubber suits–furry ones. Bunnies sitting in a tiny model of a town, looking disinterested. Yawning bunnies with roaring sounds dubbed over them. DeForest Kelley trying desperately to keep a straight face so he can collect his paycheck. The National Guard fighting the same stock closeup of a running rabbit over and over. > > Ill-conceived and worse-executed, “Night of the Lepus” is a Bad Movie. I saw this as a kid, but I thought it was hilarious. The concept of Rabbits tearing of cities was too funny. And it’s the only non star-trek movie I’ve ever seen Deforest Kelly in. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/92 "2005-04-09T03:35:38Z")
The movies I’m looking for need not be released to theaters. They just need to be available on a video medium. And yes there is a level way beyond theater releases. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/93 "2005-04-09T05:15:31Z")
I just discovered a new low: **Showgirls** - edited for VH-1. It’s even worse with all the language and nudity edited out! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/94 "2005-04-09T07:08:35Z")
Since most of the really good terrible ones are taken, I’ll give these two that I saw on cable while in motels in my teens and still remember: [The Hills Have Eyes 2](http://imdb.com/title/tt0089274/)- a no budget sequel to _Hills Have Eyes_ (which was a no budget that made money), horny teenagers try to cross through a track of desert occupied by an inbred family of cannibals. The movie is so bad that it features a flashback of pieced-together scenes from the first _from the perspective of a DOG_! [Humongous](http://imdb.com/title/tt0082537/)- horny kids on an island are picked off by a creature who had a really bad childhood. Tries to steal from _Psycho_ and _Friday 13_, etc., but it’s petty theft. The strangest thing is: the title makes absolutely no sense whatever- the killer is a human, a bit deformed and monstrous maybe but not humongous. In the end only one horny kid is left alive- she kills the monster but is stuck on the island because she’s blind. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/95 "2005-04-09T23:56:45Z")
Like the “Holloween” series of crap movies. the first one wasOK, but the movies got progressively worse and worse. Of course, Donald Pleasance made a career out of “Halloween”, but the plots got sillier and sillier. Eventually, you get tired of watching beautiful, sexy teenagers get filleted and skewered. What was that other teen, mass-murder series (it was set at a summer camp, and everybody gets killed)/Of course, you get to see a lot of sexy girls stripping down (before the psychopath breaks in and kills them). ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/96 "2005-04-10T00:30:09Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Like the “Holloween” series of crap movies. the first one wasOK, but the movies got progressively worse and worse. Of course, Donald Pleasance made a career out of “Halloween”, but the plots got sillier and sillier. Eventually, you get tired of watching beautiful, sexy teenagers get filleted and skewered. What was that other teen, mass-murder series (it was set at a summer camp, and everybody gets killed)/Of course, you get to see a lot of sexy girls stripping down (before the psychopath breaks in and kills them). That would be **Friday the 13th**. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/97 "2005-04-10T00:36:06Z")
> [@rorty](#): > > [Yor, the Hunter from the Future](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084935/) > > I caught this stinker on Sci-Fi around 3:00AM a couple years back. It’s absolutely the worst film I’ve ever seen. Everything about it is bad. Let’s run down the list: > > Plot advanced by completely random and illogical happenings. Check. > An extremely blonde, buff, and dumb hero wearing a loin-cloth. Check. > Cavemen fighting papier-mâché dinosaurs. Check. > Straight-outta-the-80s cheese rock soundtrack. Check. > Spaceships, androids, and lasers, oh my! Check. > A most ineffective Evil Overlord. Check. > > Never in my life have I laughed so hard because of a film. I was literally in tears the entire time. I’m currently trying to buy it on VHS, but it’s a hard one to find. Damn… that was mine. You forgot to mention the excellently cheesy Queen-esque theme song that played whenever Yor did something “total”… _YORRRRR, he’s the mannNNNNNN!!!_ Since I have to to come up with another, I will submit the horrible (not even horribly good) ET ripoff, [Mac and Me](http://imdb.com/title/tt0095560/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9bWFjIGFuZCBtZXxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=21), which is actually just a 95 minute long ad for McDonalds and Coca-Cola. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/98 "2005-04-10T00:38:32Z")
Whoops, you actually _did_ mention the soundtrack. \Never mind.\ ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/99 "2005-04-10T00:50:31Z")
**Big Bad Voodoo Lou** > [@](#): > > Hell Comes to Frogtown, actually. And Rowdy Roddy Piper starred in one really good B-movie, John Carpenter’s They Live, which might feature the best fight scene of all time. There was a best or worst fight scenes in movies thread recently and folks really railed on the scene from They Live. I gotta agree though that I think it’s one of the best ever. And rabbits and cats make the worst actors. They just can’t focus! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/100 "2005-04-10T01:44:40Z")
How could we get this far without mentioning _The Gong Show Movie_? Holy Jesus on a striped camel!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129.md?page=6)