Indeed, it’s really enjoyable. I actually watched it twice, and I don’t watch many movies anymore.
Can’t believe neither Independence Day nor *The Wicker Man *remake have made it to the list yet.
Roadie (1980)is also guilty pleasure!
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.
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.
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
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.
MiM
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!
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.
What? No mention of a young(-ish) George Peppard? He was Hannibal Freakin’ Smith in The A-Team!
If you’re gonna throw those early 80’s fantasy/sci-fi trash-fests in here, you should include Megaforce, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, and – Emperor’s Teeth, I can’t believe I’m suggesting this - Krull.
Marc Singer was great in The Beastmaster, as long as you never find out there were sequels. I liked him in the original V as well.
This movie is based on a great Harlan Ellison story. I read Richard Corben’s comic adaption, which is beautiful (remember “Den” from Heavy Metal?), and I thought the movie version was a decent adaption.
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I would suggest Robot Jox.
I love the hell out of this movie despite its problems. It has some elements 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.
Strangeland, a body modification horror movie written by and starring Dee Snider. And that’s all you need to know.
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 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.
Yes. That’s why I’m in therapy.
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. 
Here’s something obscure, the films of Argentine actress 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.
Oh, I LOVE Ssssssss!
The ending always freaks me out.
Fun flick about the making and aftermath of a wonderfully bad film: Best Worst Movie
Just in time for Thanksgiving: Blood Freak (1972) 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.
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.’
Warriors…come out to play-yay.
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.
Speaking of Blaxploitation, there is nothing quite so wonderful as Dolemite and The Human Tornado. Except the Mad TV parodies/homages.
A terrifically awful movie about a tree monster:From Hell It Came