Heavenly Bodies. Two hours of aerobic dancing. Even the sex scenes were boring. (And I was a hormone-crazed teenager when I made that assessment.)
Starcrash II. Manages to be even worse than the original Starcrash.
Reminds me of a porn film I watched at about the same age in which the action was so boring, the camera wandered over to give long, loving shots of the customized superbike there in the “garage” with the actors.
So bad it’s bad eh?
How about “Night of the Leapus” - a horror movie about … killer rabbits? Not at all funny, played totally straight, and just plain bad.
Or how about the infamous all-little-person singing western, “The Terror of Tiny Town” ? Not in the least funny, or at least not “ha ha” funny, it is just bad. After two minutes you ‘get’ the idea (everyone is small!), and you realize you are watching a standard singing Western featuring little actors who cannot act or sing.
Night of the Lepus is a good choice. Featuring a post Star Trek DeForest Kelley.
Eraserhead doesn’t belong on this list.
I was part of a bad movie viewing group in grad school. Some of our favorites were:
Rudy Ray Moore’s Greatest Hits: Dolemite & The Human Tornado
The Collected Works of Rowdy Roddy Piper: They Live & Hell Comes to Frogtown
The Greatest Film Ever to Come Out of New Zealand: Black Sheep
The Wizard of Gore
Try this: turn it into a drinking game. Everybody does a shot when you see an egregious editing mistake. Last one standing “wins”.
[del]Brad Majors[/del]Barry Bostwick in Megaforce, the ultimate Hal Needham special effects abomination.
Check out the trailer.
I’ll give you The Human Tornado for it’s poor production values and I’ll agree that Hell Comes To Frogtown is a self-consciously “B” movie that lacks sufficient charm to overcome budgetary decisions, but all the rest of what you listed are good (or at least decent enough) movies.
They Live is a classic that, like so many of John Carpenter’s flicks, successfully straddles the line between auteur-with-a-vision and amateur-with-no-budget. It as a bunch of great visual effects, a solid and unique story, great performances and two utterly classic bits of cinema: the best fight scene ever and the immortal line “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.”
Dolomite is Dolomite. 'Nuff said.
And although Black Sheep went on a bit too long, it’s a decent flick that knows it’s premise is silly but runs with it anyway, much like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! did nearly 30 years before.
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Then there’s The Incredible Bulk…
I’m impressed. There are a lot of awful movies listed here. Some of them are downright terrible, the kind of stuff used in extreme psychological torture. These movies suck, keep up the good work.
Aha! Jogged my memory…
The third “Frogtown” movie, Max Hell Frog Warrior. It’s like the first two, except without the charm, or budget, or fun, or basic technical competence, and adding a nice gout of pretension.
Cool Cat Saves the Kids. It’s not that words can’t describe it, it’s just that such words are found only in the Pnakotic Manuscripts.
The oeuvre of Las Vegas architect and cinematic bane of laptops Neil Breen. From what I’ve seen, and quite unlike the other filmmakers above, Breen actually seems like quite a nice fellow. I guess that just comes with being alien cyber-Jesus.
Santa with Muscles starring Hulk Hogan
I shudder to think of what happens in Cool Cat Finds a Gun. :eek:
I’ll never understand why Tod Browning’s Freaks is considered a classic. Basically a bunch of side show pros who cannot act.
The Black Gestapo, with an unbelievably hot Uschi Digart in her prime! :o
What, no Sharknado?
But for the worst of the worst, with a big budget too, The Wicker Man remake with Nick Cage.
Not the Beeessss!!!
That’s what makes it so much fun.
A lot of these, like Sharknado and Terrorvision, are entertainingly bad.
For sheer bad with no redeeming qualities, I’ve got to go with Ghost Fever, easily the worst film I’ve ever seen in a theatre. (First half of a $1 night double-feature, otherwise I would have walked out. Second movie was good - Reanimator). The only movie I’ve seen with the infamous Alan Smithee directing credit. Just painful to sit through.