# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/101 "2016-07-18T00:30:42Z")
anything that starts with “syfy” chiller" or “lifetime” channel presents… ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/102 "2016-07-18T00:36:29Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > **Lizstomania**. Franz Liszt battling Richard Wagner’s Nazi Frankenstein in a pipe organ fighter jet. > > Jaw hanging bad movie spectacle. More than once I’ve described _Lisztomania_ to others, only to be accused of making it up. I don’t think I’d be capable of making up such a movie, at least not without the use of controlled substances. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/103 "2016-07-18T03:16:46Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > More than once I’ve described _Lisztomania_ to others, only to be accused of making it up. I don’t think I’d be capable of making up such a movie, at least not without the use of controlled substances. I saw the ads for it on TV; they were weird enough themselves. ---
**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 18, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/104 "2016-07-18T04:59:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > The Ninth Configuration Featuring the sanctimonious, more precious-than-thou prolapsed dung heap Stacy Keach. Never could take more than a minute or two of him. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > “Looking for Mr. Goodbar”. Easily one of the top five genuinely creepiest, nastiest film endings…the Diane Keaton character is raped and then stabbed to death in her apartment. The only light is from a strobe light - the final image of the film is just her face - whitened by each strobe. Each strobe, in turn, matches with the sound of her final breaths/heartbeats. > [@Catamount](#): > > Mindwalk hey I like films with nothing but self-indulgent pontificating. Whatever Ullman and Waterston are doing in this, who knows. I always tripped out on that Mont St. Michel, in a sort of dark, acid nightmare kinda way, (as with Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia, which probably should have been in this as well - maybe they should’ve just swithced locations after a while, and maybe go ponder shit at, say, the Sistine Chapel.) And the slimy, pervert-over-your-shoulder-in-grocery-checkout narrator, with that unctuous, near-whisper voice. Highly dynamite-able. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > _Liquid Sky_ is the only movie that has gotten me slapped for recommending it. > > I saw it and told a friend about this awesome weird movie I had just seen. A couple of days later she walked up to me in class and slapped my face, hard, and told me it was in return for recommending it. > > Good thing I never told her about [Santa Sangre](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098253/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), huh? Hilarious! I actually took a first date to “Santa Sangre”. Wow by the time we walked out of the theatre it was like the souls had been wrung out of us - quite the intense visuals we were inundated with - which is exactly how Mr. Jodorowski wants it. That dying elephant scene - whoa. At one point I had scenes memorized from the joyous stupidity that is “Liquid Sky”. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/105 "2016-07-18T12:57:22Z")
> [@Nefario](#): > > Dang dude… \*\*[Eraserhead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/?ref_=nv_sr_1) \*\*is a good movie! It’s an art project but a good movie! \*\*Eraserhead \*\*is one of those movies that should only be watched under the influence of powerful mind-altering drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/106 "2016-07-18T13:57:14Z")
> [@Nefario](#): > > \*\*Dang dude… \*\*[Eraserhead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/?ref_=nv_sr_1) \*\*is a good movie! It’s an art project but a good movie! Exactly. That’s why I said earlier that it didn’t belong on this list. _Eraserhead_ should be seen as a significant piece of surrealist art as well as an important film. It has a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes and has been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. Selection for the Registry is based on a film being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. > **[Defying Explanation: The Brilliance of David Lynch's "Eraserhead" |...](http://www.rogerebert.com/demanders/defying-explanation-the-brilliance-of-david-lynchs-eraserhead)** > > An appreciation of David Lynch's "Eraserhead" on the release of the film on Criterion Collection Blu-ray. > **[Eraserhead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead)** > > Eraserhead is a 1977 American independent surrealist body horror film written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch. Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians. Shot in black and white, it was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of a man (Nance) who is left to care for his gros... ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/107 "2016-07-18T15:00:29Z")
My rule would be to exclude for this purpose anything that has an actual cult following (for being nasty, gross, weird, or even so-bad-it’s-good). Films like Liquid Sky and Eraserhead are out. So are films like The Human Centipede or A Serbian Film, or, for that matter, Sharknado. What you want are films that not even the most stoned punk teenage movie freak could find amusing, quirky, or hilariously offensive - that are just bad on so many levels, no-one would voluntarily see them twice (or even once). ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/108 "2016-07-18T15:17:17Z")
‘Up All Night’ on TBS in the 80’s specialized in so many trashy dumb movies. ‘Star Hops’, and ‘Chopper Chicks in Zombietown’ stand out, in a bad way. There were shelves and shelves of VCR tapes at video stores just chock full of dumb bad movies, all you had to do was look for a caricature of a bimbo with basketball size boobs on the cover, or a douchey guy with a popped collar and sunglasses. Peering over the sunglasses. … The best parts of ‘Up All Night’ were the hosting bits by Gilbert Gottfried and later Rhonda Shear. They were pretty hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/109 "2016-07-18T16:42:37Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > _Liquid Sky_ is the only movie that has gotten me slapped for recommending it. > > I saw it and told a friend about this awesome weird movie I had just seen. A couple of days later she walked up to me in class and slapped my face, hard, and told me it was in return for recommending it… Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you had it coming to you. > [@Malthus](#): > > …What you want are films that not even the most stoned punk teenage movie freak could find amusing, quirky, or hilariously offensive - that are just bad on so many levels, no-one would voluntarily see them twice (or even once). Yup, that’s _Liquid Sky_. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/110 "2016-07-18T17:00:53Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > ‘Up All Night’ on TBS in the 80’s specialized in so many trashy dumb movies. ‘Star Hops’, and ‘Chopper Chicks in Zombietown’ stand out, in a bad way. There were shelves and shelves of VCR tapes at video stores just chock full of dumb bad movies, all you had to do was look for a caricature of a bimbo with basketball size boobs on the cover, or a douchey guy with a popped collar and sunglasses. Peering over the sunglasses. … The best parts of ‘Up All Night’ were the hosting bits by Gilbert Gottfried and later Rhonda Shear. They were pretty hilarious! this was the usa network it was shear on Fridays and gottfried on Saturdays shear got herself in trouble with fronting a dating service that was investigated for fraud and I think Gottfried just quit because at one point they had different guests host (even bobby heenan and gorilla monsoon from wwe at one point and then it just ended … ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/111 "2016-07-18T20:22:38Z")
I have to nominate [**The Brown Bunny**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brown_Bunny), Vncent Gallo’s self-indulgent crap fest that is so bad even a blowjob scene with Chloe Sevigny couldn’t save it. Absolute Dreck. **[Xtro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtro)** was also a pretty bad, truly awful movie with very little to recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/112 "2016-07-19T00:29:41Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > I have to nominate [**The Brown Bunny**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brown_Bunny), Vncent Gallo’s self-indulgent crap fest that is so bad even a blowjob scene with Chloe Sevigny couldn’t save it. Absolute Dreck. I’ll see your Brown Bunny and raise you a [Gummo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo). Like no plot? Like people pimping their sisters? Like people pimping their sisters with Down syndrome? Like boys roaming the town killing cats? Then this is the movie for you! ---
**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:** [July 19, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/113 "2016-07-19T03:37:19Z")
[Buford’s Beach Bunnies](http://www.tvguide.com/movies/bufords-beach-bunnies/review/129702/) starring Jim Hanks, Tom’s less talented little brother. ---
**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 21, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761/114 "2016-07-21T18:22:20Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > \*The Crawling Eye \*sounds like it ought to be the worst of the worst. I remember the older kids in my family talking about it being on the old Million Dollar Movie back in the '60s. I actually watched it on YouTube last week, and was surprised to see that it was fairly decent for the “1950s black-and-white no budget creature feature” genre. I grew up, watching The Crawling Eye. It’s really The TRollenberg Terror, a British 1950s SF movie that, like many British 1950s SFD movies started out as an episodic TV show, has a really gross monster, and stars Forrest Tucker as the quintessential American He-Man Hero. If you like the film, try to get hold of the tenth episode of the first season of the cartoon show **Freakazoid** (In Arm’s Way/The Cloud). “THe Cloud” is a straight-on parody of The Crawling Eye, right down to the typeface used for the credits [http://tviv.org/Freakazoid!/In\_Arms\_Way](http://tviv.org/Freakazoid!/In_Arms_Way) > **["Freakazoid!" In Arm's Way/The Cloud (TV Episode 1995) ⭐ 8.0 | Animation,...](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582654/)** > > 22m | TV-G [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-bad-film-festival/759761.md?page=5)