# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/61 "2016-07-13T20:52:57Z")
I agree, films like Sharknado shouldn’t “count” because they are deliberately made to be bad, for fun. ---
**Author:** ![cherry\_pez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@cherry\_pez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry_pez)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/62 "2016-07-14T03:04:35Z")
Pretty much anything from the “How Did This Get Made” podcast but _Solarbabies_ in particular. ---
**Author:** ![TipTapTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@TipTapTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TipTapTwo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/63 "2016-07-14T03:15:12Z")
We have all heard of RedLetterMedia, right? [Best of the Worst - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_TJFLc25JR3VZ7Xe-cmt4k3bMKBZ5Tm) Here is a link to their Best of the Worst videos; wherein 3 people watch 3 random bad movies back-to-back in order to (hopefully) find one that is at least entertaining and not soul-suckingly terrible. If you do not want to actually sit through bad movies (that’s me) and instead prefer to watch the worst/best highlights of the films while other people MST3K over them, and generally regret their life choices that led them to start this show, then they are for you. From them I can safely say that if **CalMeacham** wants true dregs, then I suggest: The Star Wars Christmas Special, Crazy Fat Ethel 2, Theodore Rex, and The Jar If you want some surprisingly competent comedy and cute story that will forever embarrass Ronald Bilius (Ron Weasley), then I choose Thunderpants. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/64 "2016-07-14T04:19:07Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > If _Star Crash_ and _Attack of the Giant Claw_ aren’t on the bill, I ain’t coming. > > Then again, if Star Crash is in the mix, there will be a lot of the audience coming. **Half for Caroline Munro, half for David “Mascara” Hasselhoff** (my bold)… For me, it was half Marjoe Gortner (maybe my favourite shit-celeb in the universe), and Sid Haig. And a beaming Christopher Plummer makes the odd cameo, probably taking up most of the film’s budget. The requisite robot team member had a stereotypical US southern accent - I guess that was the production’s idea of being jaunty or quirky. Classically fucking awful. I would watch it several more times. [quote=“mbh, post:41, topic:759761”] _Starcrash II_. Manages to be even worse than the original _Starcrash_. [/QUOTE] I did not know this. Jotted down. Speaking of Marjoe Gortner, he changed my life around, for good, in **“Food of the Gods”**. When he took on that big chicken, I was like, ok - I’ve found my saviour. With the great Ida Lupino (almost criminally underappreciated for the films she directed - when she was still an upcoming actress taking on filmmaking that NO women did, back in the early 50’s) standing at the kitchen sink, and then all of sudden she does a freaked-out double take and suddenly it cuts to a shot of a huge maggot or two in the sink. With blood suddenly everywhere. Isn’t **“Forbidden Zone”** too intentionally camp for this thread? Great flick, especially Gramps and Henderson! “Star Crossed Roads” is about a down and out country singer - just watching it makes you feel hungover - too many scenes in bars with beer-stained terry-cloth’ed tables. With Marty Allen, so you know it’s quality. Then there’s **“Driller Killer”** and **“Combat Shock”** ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/65 "2016-07-14T04:39:53Z")
**Zardoz** ---
**Author:** ![Tehanu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@Tehanu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tehanu)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/66 "2016-07-14T05:37:39Z")
My personal favorite of this category of film: [After Last Season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPPRB6ErOIU). I’m also a fan of Indian sci-fi for really incomprehensibly nutty scenes and characters, though these movies tend to be overly long and riddled with song and dance numbers. Check out the trailer for [Enthiran](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODxHJasuCx4) (“Robot”). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/67 "2016-07-14T12:21:46Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I shudder to think of what happens in _Cool Cat Finds a Gun_. :eek: > > [Cool Cat Finds a Gun (Video 2013) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2808810/?ref_=tt_rec_tt) Not to worry! This short seems to have been edited into the feature-length Cool Cat film, so you need not miss out. (Nothing too educationally ill-advised _or_ gory happens, though. Unfortunately.) ---
**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 14, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/68 "2016-07-14T16:28:40Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > **Lizstomania**. Franz Liszt battling Richard Wagner’s Nazi Frankenstein in a pipe organ fighter jet. > > Jaw hanging bad movie spectacle. I agree. Even the music of Rick Wakeman couldn’t save this (and Wakeman gets an acting turn in it, too). The fantasy sequence with the giant penis in a guillotine is wacko, and we get Ringo Starr as the Pope. Lots of wonderfully awful films, here, although there are a couple I’d still classify as “enjoyably bad”, Plan Nine and Robot Monster among them. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/69 "2016-07-14T17:21:04Z")
[Human Centipede](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_(First_Sequence)) [I Spit on Your Grave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave) ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/70 "2016-07-14T17:24:29Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Human Centipede](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_(First_Sequence)) Heh, I’d disallow it because its creators were intentionally trying to be gross and offensive - in short, its badness is deliberate. Same with A Serbian Film. > **[A Serbian Film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film)** > > A Serbian Film (Serbian: Српски филм/Srpski film) is a 2010 Serbian exploitation horror film produced and directed by Srđan Spasojević in his feature directorial debut, with Aleksandar Radivojević co-writing. It tells the experience of a financially struggling pornstar who agrees to participate in an "art film", only to discover that he has been drafted into a snuff film with pedophilic and necrophilic themes. The film stars Serbian actors Srđan Todorović, Sergej Trifunović, and Jelena Gavril Both are bad, but arguably not the correct _kind_ of bad. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/71 "2016-07-14T17:32:00Z")
Another example of a movie famous for being so bad it is bad is \*The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure \*. > **[The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oogieloves_in_the_Big_Balloon_Adventure)** > > The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (also referred to as The Oogieloves) is a 2012 American interactive educational children's musical adventure comedy film loosely based on the children's television series My Bedbugs by Alex Greene and Carol Sweeney. > It features the voice talents of Malerie Grady, Stephanie Renz and Misty Miller as the three Oogieloves and also stars Toni Braxton, Cloris Leachman, Christopher Lloyd, Chazz Palminteri, Cary Elwes and Jaime Pressly. > Marketed as an "interac... Has the dubious distinction of being the worst bomb of all time for a film released in 2,000 theatres or more. ““To put that in perspective, if each location played Oogieloves five times a day on one screen at an average ticket price of $7, that would translate to fewer than two people per showing”, according to Box Office Mojo”. Quite possibly as horrific as _the Human Centipede_, but it isn’t supposed to be. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/72 "2016-07-14T18:21:31Z")
Did someone mention _[Gymkata](http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/gymkata/)_ and I missed it? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/73 "2016-07-14T18:38:30Z")
[Julien Donkey-Boy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192194/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Don’t watch unless you want to be horribly depressed. Leonard Part 6 - _drops mic_ too and didn’t even notice it Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - insanely campy The Erotic Adventures of Candy is great! - uh… so I’ve been told They Live - That’s a Classic! ---
**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 14, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/74 "2016-07-14T19:45:39Z")
> [@Corner\_Case](#): > > Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - insanely campy I always thought it was hilarious that the Martian version of hand phasers was the old WHAM-O air blaster! Low-budget? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaah! > [@](#): > > The Erotic Adventures of Candy is great! - uh… so I’ve been told Nice to know there’s another Candy fancier in the audience. _“Oh, Manuel! Manuel!”_ :o ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/75 "2016-07-14T20:10:53Z")
I have bookmarked this thread - and have no idea why. ---
**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 14, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/76 "2016-07-14T22:56:02Z")
If Leonard Part 6 is playing, might as well make it a double Cosby bill (get it?) and play Ghost Dad… ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/77 "2016-07-15T03:59:48Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I have bookmarked this thread - and have no idea why. let me guess…because you wanna binge watch a crapload of shitty films, like I do? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/78 "2016-07-15T04:20:01Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I’ll never understand why Tod Browning’s Freaks is considered a classic. Basically a bunch of side show pros who **cannot act.** Turner Classic Movies shows this all the time. It’s TERRIBLE! I did get a DVD and the commentary and extras were far better than the movie itself. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/79 "2016-07-15T04:24:55Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _[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. I don’t think “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” was either. That’s why I’m Tivo-ing tonight when TCM shows it as well. Even if I only last 5 minutes or so, at least I can say I’ve seen it. I do know that the book was a huge best-seller that quickly went out of print. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/80 "2016-07-15T04:28:22Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Plenty of scope for taking the piss out of [Battlefield Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)). My local newspaper prints the NYT best-seller list, and this book is currently the #1 best-selling mass market paperback. 😕 You don’t suppose it’s for the same reason “Dianetics” is a perennial best-seller - that Scientologists buy up large quantities of it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761.md?page=5)