I agree, films like Sharknado shouldn’t “count” because they are deliberately made to be bad, for fun.
Pretty much anything from the “How Did This Get Made” podcast but Solarbabies in particular.
We have all heard of RedLetterMedia, right? Best of the Worst - YouTube 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.
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.
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Starcrash II. Manages to be even worse than the original Starcrash.
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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”
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My personal favorite of this category of film: After Last Season.
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 (“Robot”).
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.)
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.
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.
Both are bad, but arguably not the correct kind of bad.
Another example of a movie famous for being so bad it is bad is *The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure *.
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. 
Did someone mention Gymkata and I missed it?
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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!
I always thought it was hilarious that the Martian version of hand phasers was the old WHAM-O air blaster!
Low-budget? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaah!Nice to know there’s another Candy fancier in the audience. “Oh, Manuel! Manuel!” :o
I have bookmarked this thread - and have no idea why.
If Leonard Part 6 is playing, might as well make it a double Cosby bill (get it?) and play Ghost Dad…
let me guess…because you wanna binge watch a crapload of shitty films, like I do?
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.
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.
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?