# The Ultimate Bad Film Festival **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761 "2016-07-12T23:37:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/1 "2016-07-12T23:37:07Z")
For years (and starting before MST3K was around) I used to host a Bad Film Festival, at which I’d show bad movies, and invite the guests to make snarky comments. The thing is, you can’t just use any old Bad Movie – they have to be _entertainingly_ bad. But at one of these I had the theme of “Failed Cult Movies”, and I showed _The Forbidden Zone_ , an off-the-wall flick that featured Herve Villechaiz, Danny Elfman, and The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo (arguably before they were less well-known than Herve). I thought it was a perfect piece of fluff to rank on, but my wife-to-be asked me to stop it _during the opening credits_. She was voted down, but everyone else opted to kill it after five more minutes. You gotta choose your Bad Films carefully. That said, I’ve occasionally reflected that you could make a party-killing combination of truly non-entertaining Bad Films. Realizing that one person’s Bad Film is another person’s Overlooked Gem, I propose the following partial list: \*\*The Forbidden Zone Eraserhead The Room Manos – The Hands of Fate Terror in the Tropics \*\* and to top it off: **The Star Wars Holiday Special** You want to add anything to the list? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/2 "2016-07-12T23:45:21Z")
In honor of the “[Horsehead Bookends](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=798166)” thread, [Student Bodies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Bodies). ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/3 "2016-07-12T23:46:56Z")
Braindead/Dead Alive ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/4 "2016-07-12T23:54:30Z")
The Forbidden Zone also featured [Susan Tyrrell, Queen of the Bad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Tyrrell). Forbidden Zone is at the bottom of my list (which is where the worst movies go). ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/5 "2016-07-13T00:08:56Z")
**The Room** ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/6 "2016-07-13T00:10:46Z")
So bad it’s good…(sing it with me)… **Attack of the Killer Tomatoes** ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/7 "2016-07-13T00:15:19Z")
[Zontar: The Thing from Venus](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061217/) ---
**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:** [July 13, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/8 "2016-07-13T00:19:32Z")
**Titanic.** ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/9 "2016-07-13T00:21:41Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **Titanic.** Just having Leonardo DiCrapio in a movie doesn’t qualify it for ultimate badness. It just makes it a worse than average movie. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/10 "2016-07-13T00:27:44Z")
[Myra Breckenridge](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066115/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Oh, you’ll think it’s camp. The movie thinks it’s camp. You’ll want it to be camp. You’ll wait eagerly for it to shift into camp. But it’s just bad. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/11 "2016-07-13T00:33:47Z")
**Batman and Robin** **Pearl Harbor** - my entire department went to see this one when it was in the theaters. After about 15 minutes, the rest of the audience joined us in loudly deriding the movie at every turn. I saw no-one leave in a huff because of our snarkitude. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/12 "2016-07-13T00:38:03Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Braindead/Dead Alive I would say definitely show this movie, but because it is awesome. Not because it is bad. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/13 "2016-07-13T00:40:33Z")
[The Brain From Planet Arous](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050210/) [The Beast of Yucca Flats](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054673/) [Fiend without a Face](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050393/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**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:** [July 13, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/14 "2016-07-13T00:49:27Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > So bad it’s good…(sing it with me)… > > **Attack of the Killer Tomatoes** No, you see, it IS so bad that it’s good. It’s enjoyably bad. It has no business being in a Worst of the Worst film Festival. Ditto, IMHO, for \*_Zontar, the Thing from Venus_ The Brain from Planet Arous Fiend Without a Face \*\*\*\* But I WILL give you **The Beast of Yucca Flats** _Actually a remake of Roger Corman’s **It Conquered the World** , with Lee van Cleef and so pretty decent Paul Blaisdell monsters. Zontar was part of a package of even lower-budget remakes by Larry Buchanan that included **Attack of the Eye Creatures** (a remake of Invasion of the Saucer Men_) and **Crerature of Destruction** (remake of **The She Creature** ). Awful as such second-tier horror is, it’s still watchable. \*\* This film is actually available on DVD from Criterion Video, which shows that THEY think it’s not all that bad. When I was a kid, I gave this one a pass because it featured animated monsters. If someone goes to the trouble of actually doing stop-motion animation, the film is usually salvageable. (But not always. **Monsters from Green Hell** belongs in the Unwatchable category, despite the animation, because there’s so little of it, and it’s lame. ) ---
**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:** [July 13, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/15 "2016-07-13T00:56:35Z")
**Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.** A serious attempt to make a bad movie. That fails. If you set out to fail, and you don’t succeed…what have you done? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/16 "2016-07-13T01:01:36Z")
\*\*\*They Saved Hitler’s Brain Dr Black and Mr Hyde Blackula Billy the Kid vs Dracula Ninja vs Mafia Journey to the Seventh Planet\*\*\* And the ever-popular _ **Plan 9 from Outer Space** _ ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/17 "2016-07-13T01:05:42Z")
[Bloodsucking Freaks](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077247/?). The most misogynist movie ever made? Sure, why not. [Birdemic: Shock and Terror](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1316037/). Saw this when Rifftrax tackled it, would never have made it through otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/18 "2016-07-13T01:23:42Z")
[I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097550/). Hilariously cheesy, it’s got Anthony Daniels (C3PO) as a trike-riding priest, Satanists, and a Norton that runs on blood (but only at night). Best watched with plenty of cheap beer. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/19 "2016-07-13T01:24:19Z")
_[Moment by Moment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_by_Moment)_ - Good luck on finding this as it was never released for home viewing on any format in the United States. _[Toys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys_(film))_ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/20 "2016-07-13T01:30:17Z")
Since Zontar didn’t make the cut, how about [From Hell It Came](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050414/) ? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761.md?page=2)