# Your "Wonderfully Bad" Movie List **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 5, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719 "2016-11-05T17:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/81 "2016-11-09T14:16:33Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > _[Deep Rising](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118956/?ref_=nv_sr_3)_. It was part of the wave of sea-going horror films from the nineties, with the action cranked way up. > I enjoy it because Treat Williams really seems to be in on the joke. He doesn’t so much chew the scenery, as he treats as a tasty snack. Something to nibble on occasionally. Indeed, it’s really enjoyable. I actually watched it twice, and I don’t watch many movies anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/82 "2016-11-09T15:50:37Z")
Can’t believe neither _Independence Day_ nor \*The Wicker Man \*remake have made it to the list yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/83 "2016-11-09T15:59:39Z")
[Roadie (1980)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081433/)is also guilty pleasure! ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/84 "2016-11-09T16:54:45Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > [General Kala, _Flash Gordon_ approaching.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/) > > FLASH!! aH-AAAAAH! > > I find most of the “so bad they’re good” movies to be just bad. But this one… I love this movie, especially for the Queen soundtrack. The sketchiness of the special effects seems appropriate for the comic/fantasy quality I think they were going for. Actually, I thought the special effects on the forest world were out of place, 'cuz they were better than the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/85 "2016-11-09T17:26:46Z")
[Spaced Invaders](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6nJ9gs7KZ8) Good God I loved this movie when I first saw it. I haven’t seen it in about 10 years or so but I think it’s a goofily funny little romp about a ship of dumb Martians who hear a War of the Worlds broadcast while in space and invade Big Bean, Illinois with hilarious results. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/86 "2016-11-09T20:54:11Z")
Came in to say Doc Savage, but will add The Night of The Lepus - giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south west starring Janet Leigh and Rory Calhoun > **[Night of the Lepus (1972) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/?ref_=nv_sr_1)** > > Night of the Lepus: Directed by William F. Claxton. With Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley. Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west. Zoltan - Hound of Dracula! - aka Dracula’s Dog (not such an electrifying title) with Jose Ferrer in which the hound is reanimated in 1979 and tracks down Dracula’s only remaining descendant - Mickey Dracula in the good old US of A. > **[Dracula's Dog (1977) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077470/)** > > Dracula's Dog: Directed by Albert Band. With Michael Pataki, Jan Shutan, Libby Chase, John Levin. Communist soldiers accidentally unleash the part-vampire servant of Dracula, as well as Zoltan, his vampire dog, during excavations in Romania.... MiM ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/87 "2016-11-10T19:41:48Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > [General Kala, _Flash Gordon_ approaching.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/) What do you mean, “Flash Gordon approaching?” _On a Hawkman rocket-cycle. Shall I inform his majesty?_ IMBECILE! The Emperor would shoot you for interrupting his wedding with this news. Fire when Gordon’s in range! > [@BlankSlate](#): > > [Skidoo](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063612/) > Three **Batman** villians: Frank Gorshin, Cesar Romero and Burgess Meredith. When Citadel Miniatures sculpted the second round of Space Marines in Mk VI (“Corvus”) Armour for Games Workshop’s _Warhammer 40,000_, the world’s greatest tabletop wargame, da Studio Ladz gave them names from the _Batman_ cast. Brothers Gorshin and Meredith are there, as well as Captain Romero, Brother West, Brother Ward, Brother Craig, Brother Napier, Captain Newmar, Brother Kitt, etc. I guess we know what they were watching over there in Merry Olde England. > [@ftg](#): > > [_Battle Beyond the Stars_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080421/). _The Magnificent Seven_ in spaaaace. Strangely not listed in recent lists of _Seven Samurai_ remakes/sequels when the most recent _Magnificent Seven_ film came out. It had Robert Freakin’ Vaughn in it! He was in the original _Magnificent Seven_, the TV show version and something called _The Magnificent Eleven_. What? No mention of a young(-ish) George Peppard? He was Hannibal Freakin’ Smith in _The A-Team!_ > [@Sparky812](#): > > Lots of good picks here… but I submit > > [_Sword and the Sorcerer_ (1982)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084749/?ref_=nv_sr_1) > > And who could forget… > [_Ator, the Fighting Eagle_ (1982)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085183/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) > > and of course [_The Blade Master_ (1984)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086972/?ref_=tt_rec_tt)better know as _Cave Dwellers_ in the MST3K episode. If you’re gonna throw those early 80’s fantasy/sci-fi trash-fests in here, you should include [_ **Megaforce** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084316/?ref_=nv_sr_1), [_ **Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084316/?ref_=nv_sr_1), and – Emperor’s Teeth, I can’t believe I’m suggesting this - [_ **Krull** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). Marc Singer was great in [_ **The Beastmaster** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3), as long as you never find out there were sequels. I liked him in the original _V_ as well. > [@August\_West](#): > > I’m pleased to be the first to proffer [A Boy And His Dog](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/), starring a young Don Johnson. > > A young man and his telepathic dog wander the dystopian wasteland searching for women until they discover an underground society full of circuses, clown-faced robots, and sperm-milking machines. > > And if that weren’t enough, don’t miss the cannibalistic plot twist at the end! This movie is based on a great Harlan Ellison story. I read [Richard Corben’s comic adaption](https://www.amazon.com/Vic-Blood-Chronicles-Boy-His/dp/0312034717), which is beautiful (remember “Den” from _Heavy Metal?_), and I thought the movie version was a decent adaption. ============== I would suggest [_ **Robot Jox** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). I love the hell out of this movie despite its problems. It has [some elements](http://www.peteandkellie.com/images/misc/ani_robot_fist_crack.gif) of _Pacific Rim_, but with armatures, models, and stop-motion animation instead of CGI. Joe Haldeman, author of _The Forever War_, was tapped to write the screenplay. He was trying to paint a picture of a desperate Market, its citizens poor and hungry\*, never more than one fight away from losing Alaska and its “precious natural resources” to the Confederation. Meanwhile, director Stuart Gordon is on the set going, “no, no, we need a fun movie where kids can go see the giant robots duking it out!” - = It’s clear that Earth is rebuilding from the consequences of global war, which is now outlawed and replaced by matches between nations’ champions, the titular Robot Jox. Propaganda posters encourage having more children to repopulate, and Achilles’s brother and his wife inform him that she is pregnant again so the government will give them a bigger apartment to live in. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/88 "2016-11-10T21:50:19Z")
[Strangeland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangeland_(film)), a body modification horror movie written by and starring Dee Snider. And that’s all you need to know. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/89 "2016-11-11T12:32:50Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > If you’re gonna throw those early 80’s fantasy/sci-fi trash-fests in here, you should include [_ **Megaforce** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084316/?ref_=nv_sr_1), [_ **Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084316/?ref_=nv_sr_1), and – Emperor’s Teeth, I can’t believe I’m suggesting this - [_ **Krull** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). > > Marc Singer was great in [_ **The Beastmaster** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3), as long as you never find out there were sequels. I liked him in the original _V_ as well. LOL, I saw _Metalstorm_ in the theatre in 3-D! I know _Megaforce_ well, Tod Howarth’s 707, wrote and performed the theme song which he rewrote for Frehley’s Comet. Saw Beastmaster at the Drive-Inn but remember when it came out on home video we wore out the tape rewinding and pausing the Tanya Roberts’ nude scene! How about [_Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089901/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Sadly, the adventure alse ended there… or _[Action Jackson (1988)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094612/?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:** [November 11, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/90 "2016-11-11T14:37:50Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > LOL, I saw _Metalstorm_ in the theatre in 3-D! > > I know _Megaforce_ well, Tod Howarth’s 707, wrote and performed the theme song which he rewrote for Frehley’s Comet. > > ! > > How about [_Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089901/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Sadly, the adventure alse ended there… > > ]\* I saw these, too (including Metalstorm in 3D), but Remo Williams is SPECTACULARLY bad. It was written by Christopher Wood, the same guy who wrote the most puerile of the 1980s James Bond movies ( **The Spy who Loved Me** and **Moonraker** – the two with Jaws), and it shows. Joel Grey is pretty impressive, but it’s still a white guy playing an Asian role. They clearly hoped for this to be the first in a series (there were umpteen Remo Williams: The Destroyer paperbacks), but it was too dumb and too poorly-attended to go on. Another failed “series” movie, which I have shown at my Bad Film Festival, is the Matthew McConaghey flick **Sahara** , based on the Clive Cussler novel. There had already been a Dirk Pitt movie many years previously – **Raise the Titanic!** – but they were hoping to jump-start the heart with this other attempt. After all, Cussler’s novels were huge bestsellers, and they’re clearly cinematic. But they’re also incredibly Dumb. This turkey got shot down, and it’s unlikely that anyone is going to try to film another Cussler novel soon. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/91 "2016-11-11T16:30:29Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Have none of you seen The Room? Yes. That’s why I’m in therapy. > [@E-DUB](#): > > The brain that wouldn’t die. I love this movie. It has everything: A surgeon who does random mad science in his family estate out in the woods who carries his girlfriend’s head like a football after she was decapitated. A monster in the closet who has a psychic connection with the girlfriend’s head. A bad Peter Lorre-esque assistant. Buckets of fake blood. And just for kicks, a cheesecake catfight in the second act. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/92 "2016-11-11T21:43:42Z")
Here’s something obscure, the films of Argentine actress [Isabel Sarli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Sarli) that she made with her partner Armando Bó. Cheap exploitation films with a Latin flavor. Start with _Feugo_. Don’t miss her first big film _El Trueno entre las hojas_ or _Una mariposa en la noche_. Are they camp? John Waters is a big fan and has presented screenings of them. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/93 "2016-11-12T00:34:38Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > My number one. Most on my list have been named - > > Star Crash (in restored Blu-Ray to appreciate the nuances!) > Giant Claw > Ssssssss! > Ice Pirates > Big Trouble in Little China (pretty good to be on this list, I admit) Oh, I LOVE Ssssssss! The ending always freaks me out. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/94 "2016-11-12T01:54:53Z")
Fun flick about the making and aftermath of a wonderfully bad film: [Best Worst Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1144539/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/95 "2016-11-12T04:35:08Z")
Just in time for Thanksgiving: [_Blood Freak_ (1972)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Freak) It’s a wonderful little morality tale about a meathead biker who eats some experimental turkey which looks a lot less wooden than all of the acting, and ends up as a turkey-headed freak who feeds on the blood of junkies. The director shows up to smoke, cough, and read off a series of cue cards in the most wood-paneled room ever captured on film. [The Agony Booth has a good recap of this amazingly awful turkey.](http://www.agonybooth.com/blood-freak-1972-3264) ---
**Author:** ![MsKaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MsKaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsKaren)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/96 "2016-11-12T05:33:27Z")
Well, I love Michael Moriarty so two of my favorite ‘so bad’ movies are Q and The Stuff. Q also has Richard Roundtree and David Carradine as the detectives! Q is, of course, Quetzalcoatl in NYC at the Chrysler Building. The Stuff features an alien life form disguised as yogurt. It also has Paul Sorvino and Garret Morris. It also has one of my all time favorite movie lines. ‘You’re not as dumb as you appear to be.’ Moriarty replies in southern accent, ‘No one is as dumb as I appear to be.’ ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/97 "2016-11-13T02:14:18Z")
Warriors…come out to play-yay. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/98 "2016-11-13T02:30:08Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > My favourite movie of all time is “Slaves of New York”. I love the book. Can it be that no one has mentioned _Reefer Madness_ yet? or is it too common? I own a 16mm print of it. A little more obscure, and just as bad, is _Motel Hell_ (“Meat’s meat, and a man’s gotta eat!”) And yes, you can do bad camp: I give you _Attack of the Killer Tomatoes_. Don’t forget the rich vein of Blaxploitation films. How about _Blacula_? and they spawned an imitator know as Deafsplotation. There’s a _Deafula_ about a Deaf vampire, and it’s one of the few all ASL films. And there’s a _Deafenstein_. I think they’re on Youtube. One of the worst movies of all time that few Americans have seen is the Nazi propaganda film _Titanic_. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/99 "2016-11-13T03:06:31Z")
Speaking of Blaxploitation, there is nothing quite so wonderful as [Dolemite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolemite) and [The Human Tornado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Tornado). Except the Mad TV [parodies/homages](https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+mad+tv+dolemite&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8). ---
**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:** [November 13, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719/100 "2016-11-13T03:22:14Z")
A terrifically awful movie about a tree monster:[From Hell It Came](https://youtu.be/fflKv-lrQkY) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wonderfully-bad-movie-list/770719.md?page=6)