What are your favorite campy films? I'm looking for recommendations. My personal favorite is Showgirls.
Best Campy Movies
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | February 21, 2021 6:35 AM |
Earth Girls are Easy!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 22, 2015 12:53 AM |
To Wong Foo,....
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 22, 2015 12:54 AM |
Return To The Valley of The Dolls, the far superior sequel written by Roger Ebert, featuring a deranged trans character far ahead of its time.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 22, 2015 12:55 AM |
Are you forgetting me, fellas?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 22, 2015 12:56 AM |
Myra Breckinridge
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 22, 2015 12:58 AM |
R3 Beyond
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 22, 2015 1:03 AM |
Can't Stop the Music
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 22, 2015 1:05 AM |
Mommy Dearest
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 22, 2015 1:06 AM |
Young Frankenstein and Lust in the Dust. Have at it, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 22, 2015 1:06 AM |
Die, Mommie, Die!
Paula (old movie with Loretta Young)
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 22, 2015 1:06 AM |
Die Mommy Die is fabu.
Also, Girls Will Be Girls. "Take some for the road you big fat cow!"
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 22, 2015 1:12 AM |
Legend of Lylah Clare
Point of Terror
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 22, 2015 1:12 AM |
The Boy Friend
The Women
The Pirate
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 22, 2015 1:13 AM |
R11 Stephen, it that you?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 22, 2015 1:18 AM |
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 22, 2015 1:23 AM |
Faster, Pussycat! and Dead Ringer are two of my favorites.
They're harder to find, but any of Pia Zadora's 1980s movies are great camp: Butterfly, Voyage of the Rock Aliens, Fake-Out (aka Nevada Heat) and ESPECIALLY The Lonely Lady.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 22, 2015 1:33 AM |
Fatal Attraction
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 22, 2015 1:39 AM |
The one where Divine gets fucked by a lobster.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | February 22, 2015 1:44 AM |
Jackie's Back! A mockumentary about a washed up soul diva trying to make a comeback.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 22, 2015 1:45 AM |
Sophie's Choice.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 22, 2015 1:49 AM |
Xanadu
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | February 22, 2015 2:11 AM |
The Killing of Sister George
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | February 22, 2015 2:17 AM |
Love At First Bite & Once Bitten
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | February 22, 2015 2:21 AM |
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | February 22, 2015 2:22 AM |
Female Trouble with Divine.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | February 22, 2015 2:31 AM |
Spaceballs
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Glitter
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
But, I'm a Cheerleader
Howard the Duck
The Blob
Weird Science
Little Shop of Horrors
The Warriors
Tremors
The Burbs
Rocky Horror Picture Show
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | February 22, 2015 2:33 AM |
Black Swan
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | February 22, 2015 3:44 AM |
Reptilicus! (The Danish take on Godzilla)
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | February 22, 2015 3:55 AM |
Clue
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | February 22, 2015 3:58 AM |
Valley of the Dolls Thread Closed!!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | February 22, 2015 4:00 AM |
What do they have to do with camping?
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | February 22, 2015 4:27 AM |
First Wives Club, The Women, Mommy Dearest, Whatever Happened to Susan Jane? (a tough one to find. I have it on VHS.)
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | February 22, 2015 5:33 PM |
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Brain From Planet X
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | February 22, 2015 5:39 PM |
Do TV miniseries count? If so, then "Lace."
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | February 22, 2015 5:42 PM |
Little Darlings
Troop Beverly Hills
Death Becomes Her
Overboard
Gia
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | February 22, 2015 5:49 PM |
Vibes
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | February 22, 2015 5:53 PM |
Cobra Woman
The Queen of Outer Space (I hate dat Quveen!)
Desert Fury
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | February 22, 2015 6:10 PM |
Also a fan of "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" In fact my friend bought an autographed copy directly from Russ Meyer before his passing.
I would add the Ed Wood classics "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and the baffling "Glen or Glenda?"
"Queen of Outer Space" with Zsa Zsa, and th much later "Vegas in Space"
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | February 22, 2015 6:16 PM |
Any Ken Russell film. Valley of the Dolls The Love Machine Mommy Dearest Baby Jane What's the Matter with Helen Lolita
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | February 22, 2015 6:17 PM |
[quote]What's the Matter with Helen
She's a little touched, you know.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | February 22, 2015 6:17 PM |
Serial Mom
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | February 22, 2015 6:44 PM |
The Godfather 1, 2 & 3
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | February 22, 2015 7:25 PM |
Gone Girl.
But because it was made by the well-respected David Fincher and a straight production crew, it's considered a "pulp thriller"
When something is called "campy", it's usually just veiled homophobia.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | February 22, 2015 7:32 PM |
Vibes! Oh man, that movie....Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Golblum as actual human beings!
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | February 22, 2015 8:13 PM |
[quote]When something is called "campy", it's usually just veiled homophobia.
Loosen your ascot, grandpa.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | February 22, 2015 11:33 PM |
Gone Girl is not camp. Camp is an aesthetic style with a theatrical sensibility, not a homophobic slur. See Sontag's essay 'Notes on Camp'.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | February 23, 2015 12:12 AM |
Pay it Forward - Helen Hunt as an alcoholic stripper, Angie Dickinson as her homeless mom, Kevin Spacey as a disfigured teacher and that The 6th Sense brat as some annoying kid who tries to change the world. If that's not high camp then I don't know what it is!
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | February 23, 2015 12:23 AM |
Sleepaway Camp
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | February 23, 2015 12:37 AM |
Trilogy of Terror, starring the late crossed-eyed Karen Black.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | February 23, 2015 1:07 AM |
R53 You forgot to mention Jon Bon Jovi as an abusive father. But I would't really call that movie campy; it belongs into the unintentionally funny movies category.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | February 23, 2015 1:08 AM |
Michael Musto presents Jayne Mansfield's finest pick-chah: "Single Room Furnished" (1966)
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | February 23, 2015 2:15 AM |
I'd give you the finger R50, but I'm too refined.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | February 23, 2015 2:37 AM |
Barb Wire
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | February 23, 2015 2:46 AM |
The Ten Commandments
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | February 23, 2015 9:32 PM |
NELL
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | February 23, 2015 9:37 PM |
Caca
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | February 20, 2021 10:43 PM |
Death Becomes Her
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | February 20, 2021 10:52 PM |
I like when they try to make a campy film, then it fails and becomes unintentional camp. "Can't Stop The Music" is like that: bad acting; forgettable songs... But Allan Carr thought he was making an homage to Busby Berkeley musicals- featuring "the music of the 80s!!" (though Disco had died the year before).
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | February 21, 2021 12:19 AM |
Polyester!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | February 21, 2021 4:00 AM |
Steel Magnolias
Death of a Cheerleader
Beaches
Stepmom
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | February 21, 2021 4:12 AM |
Beaches
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | February 21, 2021 6:11 AM |
The Color Purple
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | February 21, 2021 6:26 AM |
Army of Darkness
Serial Mom
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | February 21, 2021 6:35 AM |