In a similar vein, anyone know about this mashup?
It’s Martin Denny, the “Quiet Village” guy … and what the heck is this video?
I saw that last year at a film festival! One of it’s stars, Linda Haynes, is on my Deathpool list. It’s a themed list of Japanese monster movie actors.
If we’re going Canadian let’s go full north.
Anybody have the pleasure to screen The Wizard of Gore?
Every bit as wonderfully awful as Plan 9, but IN COLOR!
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS. I have it on DVD. It’s… quite amazing.
And no love for Gummo?
No list of this sort is complete without the incomparable Infra-Man.
As well the scene of Infra-Man being attacked by a swarm of disembodied arms.
Warning: Once watched, this movie cannot be unseen. Is this good, or bad? Yes, it is.
Regards,
Shodan
My Guilty Pleasure film is Undercover Blues. Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are a married couple of spies on vacation in New Orleans with their toddler daughter. Goofy plot ensues. At no point is anything taken seriously. Is it bad? I dunno. It certainly was unlikely to win any awards.
Noteworthy for talented character actors Stanley Tucci and Fiona Shaw competing for “Best Scenery Chewing” and “Most Ridiculous Accent”. For my money I think Tucci pips Shaw for both. “Mah nem ees MUERTE!"”
Legend has it Newman tried to track down and destroy every print of the film.
I saw it years ago at a repertoire theater in San Jose. They kept a book in the lobby where you could request films. When this was shown, paired with Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Shieks, in the notes printed was "We make no apologies for this. It was at the top of our request list. You guys asked for this!
And to add to the pile, I throw in Five Million Years to Earth. It has a 7.1 rating on IMDb; I have no idea why.
Not to hijack, but a semi-related question: is it even possible to do ‘bad’ camp? That is, attempt to do bad, and fail in achieving badness? What would a film failing in this endeavor look like?
Thank you, everyone!
I’m compiling my wonderfully bad movie list for the winter break – watch out couch, here I come 
I’m desperate to see this legendary film, but can’t find it in streaming format. Do you know where I might find it? I’d rather not purchase a DVD . . .
I would say Head starring the Monkees comes close but Cabin Boy could fit that as well.
While often mentioned in these threads, I found The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra to be a complete failure as a camp-style parody film. Not enjoyable at all. (And this from someone who actually enjoys some of Doris Wishman’s early films!)
Yes, it wasn’t funny enough or campy enough where it needed to be.
“The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” and “Five Million Years to Earth” were fun and I wouldn’t consider them bad.
Not to repeat the noteworthy examples, I’ll add:
Quatermass - Made into a movie from the TV Serial. Too disjoint to follow. The synopsis is “In the near future, civilisation has broken down to the barest fragment of recognisable life. Young people are forming gangs and dominating the wrecks of cities like London. But the strangest Earth-children are the Planet people, following plumb-bobs to sacred sites, waiting to be “Taken Up”. Professor Quatermass, seeking his granddaughter, teams up with Joe Kapp, who is trying to analyse strange signals from space using the last working pieces of electronic equipment. They find the Planet People at a nearby stone circle, a light appears, the signal appears, - and the hippy children are gone. Russian plot? Nirvana? Or something altogether more sinister?”
Young Einstein - The synopsis is “Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beautiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.”
I can’t really think of films that attempt to be bad. All the filmmakers on this list believed in their work. They wanted audiences to like it and amazingly many succeeded wildly in that regard.
If we go down a step to films attempting to be camp and failing, I’d say a lot of the “psychedelic” movies made in the late 60s qualify. Head is a failure. It was intended to be a spoof or at least commentary on the times, but incoherency sunk it. Skidoo, also mentioned, is a better example because it was a mainstream Hollywood product. The writer, Doran William Cannon, went on to write Brewster McCloud so it may be totally Otto Preminger’s fault. Were the movies of Ray Dennis Steckler or Russ Meyer meant to be camp? Some people say yes to at least some of them. *Beyond the Valley of the Dolls *was certainly meant by writer Roger Ebert to be deliberately funny and I think it’s too good to be on this list. Other hate it.
Maybe the worst of the worst is Magical Mystery Tour, which technically may not qualify since it was intended for television. When I was young I found it incomprehensible that no American tv network would play it. The Beatles! With Beatles songs! Then I finally saw it and understood.
Nazis At the Center of the Earth is pretty hilariously bad and managed to deliver exactly what the title led me to expect. Gary Busey’s kid leads a plucky team of scientists who get captured by, then fight Nazi zombies in their underground lair led by abortion-fueled mecha-Hitler as they try to conquer the world with their flying saucer. The crowning touch for me is that, to help preserve suspension of disbelief, the undead Nazis actually speak in subtitled German.
Candy.
Was it meant to be taken seriously? Well, Richard Burton, Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, James Coburn and John Huston would seem to think so. Not to mention John Astin and Ringo Starr.
Did it fail? This review says it all.
It’s only available in steaming format.
I couldn’t resist!
I like Magical Mystery Tour. It has Victor Spinetti as the sergeant! Lots of fun.
Don’t understand the hate.