What's your favorite campy scene in a major motion picture?

"Don't say PENIS in this house!"

"PEEEEENIS!"

"Attention, attention, this is Miss Schuster" scene from The Swarm. Schoolyard full of dead children has never been this funny, thanks to the two time Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland.

Bassstard!

BASTAAAARD!!!

BAAAAASSSSTTAARRRD!!!!!

I just remembered this one.

Lindsay Lohan, playing Elizabeth Taylor, faints from shock -- an effect that could have been produced with a sack of potatoes in a bad wig.

The Amityville Horror

Buddy Hackett's death scene in "Bud and Lou" about Abbott and Costello

"WAGON WHEEL WATUSI!"

Every damn minute of "Valley of the Dolls"

When 2 male leads, supposedly straight buddies, share an uncomfortable moment of closeness that makes them question their sexuality and homoerotic feelings for each other, and they attempt to laugh it off.

The "No Dames" dancing sailors number in HAIL CAESAR - Channing was never better or camper.

Every scene of Debbie as THE SINGING NUN.

"But you ARE, Blanche! You ARE in that chair!!"

I would agree with you R11. Cheesytastic and some great hoofing by Tatum.

"Jack--this is where we first met!"

From opening credits to end credits...

Kim Basinger and Christina Ricci trying to escape the cult through the subway. (Wait for the end of the clip, its WORTH IT!)

Every moment Doris Day is onscreen in Midnight Lace.

Every moment Lana Turner is onscreen in Portrait in Black, or Love Has Many Faces or The Prodigal or The Rains of Ranchipur (with Richard Burton blacked up as an Indian in a turban) or Another Time Another Place (with a young Sean Connery no less) . Bet Lana and Richard banged a lot ....

Bette and Susan snarling at each other in Where Love Has Gone,

Gina Lollobrigida as a high class whore in 'Go Naked In The World' in 1960 - but Liz's tramp got the Oscar that in for Butterfield 8.

Jane Russell is another hardboiled prostitute in wartime Hawaii in 'The Revolt of Mamie Stover' in 1956, a big Fox movie, with lunk Richard Egan and Agnes Moorehead, in a blonde wig, as the madam.

It's hard to beat Miss Sheuster!

I like the birthday party in "The Birds". Especially when that one girl is on the ground doing the tantrummy kicking and flailing.

Tiffany Bolling's musical numbers in "Wicked, Wicked".

I came here to post what R2 posted.

More from "The Birds"

Ryan O'Neal in "Touch Guys Don't Dance."

Thread Closed dears.

Suddenly Last Summer

When Lady Liz is recalling Sebastian's grisly demise at the hands of the locals...she shrieks like a 50's melodramatic banshee that was so deliciously over the top... she raised the bar.

Steel Magnolias diabetic scene gets me every time.

"NO WIRE HANGERS"

R25 "..she shrieks like a 50's melodramatic banshee "

Only in every fukin film I ever did.

R27 for the win! You've chosen the best of the best. I surrender Dorothy. :-)

LOL R28

That would be unintended Camp, OP.

I vote for Elizabeth as Cleopatra:

Bitches this is how it's done.

I gotta a MAN waiting for me!

ANYTHING from this film -

But this scene will do.

"WHY, if it isn't darling STELLAAAAH!!!"

Was there every an A list Hollywood star who had a longer string of bombs than La Liz?

What more do you want of us? We've come all this way, no thanks to you. We did it on our own, no help from you.

We did ask you to fight for us but damn it, don't fight against us! Leave us alone! How many more sacrifices? How much more blood?

How many more lives?

Belle wasn't enough. Acres wasn't. Now this girl! You want another life? Then take me!

"Norman, Is That You?" Start to finish. The whole thing.

Marion Cotillard's death scene in The Dark Knight Rises.

In the water I'm a very skinny lady.

Do it for Johnny!

Speaking of bees, Nic Cage in the re-make of The Wicker Man.

Here's your double bill with "Norman, Is That You?"

Jennifer Jones throughout Duel In The Sun.

"Give my daughter the SHOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!"

Martha's one hundred and eight. Years old. She weighs somewhat more than that.

My son Sebastian SAW the FACE of GOD!

It came out of the faucet that way, Eunice.

Dorothy Malone and smeared mascara throughout The Last Voyage.

Dorothy with her savior Woody.

"In the water, I'm a very skinny lady."

And Woody chucking Tammy Marihugh overboard! If you haven't seen The Last Voyage, do yourself a favor and find it. Camp doesn't get much better than this. Plus they scuttled a real ship - the Ile de France - to make the movie.

Trivia: Malone's plotline in The Last Voyage was based on an actual incident that happened during the sinking of the Andrea Doria. Except in real life, they couldn't free her, so they knocked her out with morphine and she went down with the ship.

Bow down pretenders!

Some observations on "The Last Voyage" - Woody Strode is HOT in that movie, what a body! Also that is a heroic role played by an African-American actor in an old Hollywood movie. Another movie (per "All About Eve" thread) where George Sanders plays against type in a tragic sympathetic role.

I'm scared!!

Thanks for The Last Voyage trivia. Can you tell I love that movie? Dorothy Malone deserves her own camp thread.

And Woody was smoking.

R48,R49, R51 Le grand paquebot SS Ile de France RIP

Ladies and gentlemen of the Academy, for your consideration, two scenes:

Tony Meltdown, "The Oscar."

Neely in the Gutter, "Valley of the Dolls."

Ile de France was one of the most beautiful and beloved liners who ever crossed the Atlantic. She was the hero in the rescue of the Andrea Doria survivors

Her demise in The Last Voyage was deplorable and yet allowed gorgeous color sequences of her interiors to survive. The film's producer leased her from the scrapyard owners who had bought her and he half-sank her for the film. Thereafter, The French Line included a clause in any of their later ships' purchase for demolition that their ships could not be be used for any other purpose than dismantling for scrap.

Sidney Poiter was originally cast in Woody Strode's part in The Last Voyage but he backed out.

[quote]The French Line included a clause in any of their later ships' purchase for demolition that their ships could not be be used for any other purpose than dismantling for scrap.

Even more..... in a true "Mary!" moment, French-style (Marie!) the government went so far as to state that anything identifying the company "CIE. GLE. TRANSATLANTIQUE", or the ship as "Ile de France" appearing on screen would result in future MGM productions being banned from France.

Jane Russell singing "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

You're barking up the wrong swimming hole, Jane.

"Gina Lollobrigida as a high class whore in 'Go Naked In The World' in 1960 - but Liz's tramp got the Oscar that in for Butterfield 8."

The campiest thing I've ever seen is Tony Franciosa's breakdown scene where he finds out she's a whore and speaks the immortal line "I'm hooked by a hooker!"

[quote]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Which takes us back to the Ile de France

R61 While we're at it, here's Jane and Marilyn in "Two Little Girls from Little Rock" from same movie.

Camp?

And here's French and Saunders' version of Little Rock.

Uncanny.

The scene in "Where Love Has Gone" where Susan Hayward says "When you're dying of thirst, you'll drink from a mudhole!"

"Two Little Girls from Little Rock" isn't camp. It's sublimely silly, but it ain't camp.

R59. Did Gary Morton talk him out of it?

R68 Any scene that makes a grown man get up and wiggle around like Marilyn Monroe is camp.

R61, that has got to be the gayest scene in movie history.

Monsters Ball and Halle Berry saying "Make me feel good! Make me feeelllll good!".

guess again R71

close but no cigar R73

Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren seemed to be having a contest to see who could be the campiest, big boobed, blonde on the silver screen. A drag queen's delight. And as their careers declined the camp got even worse. Funny, but for the wrong reason.

"Shoah" the entire movie

The MacLaine/Bancroft rooftop catfight in The Turning Point

This scene from Possession. I recently saw this in an arthouse with a very serious crowd, but I was laughing about halfway through.

Joan plays it straight.

R78 OMGG! THIS IS THE CLEAR WINNER!

Richard Burton yelling "Where you out there?" every 10 minutes in The Robe.

Shelly Winters in Poseidon...In the water, I'm a very skinny lady!

R78 - Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress Award at Cannes and the Cesar (French Oscar) for that performance.

Lana Turner's 'car scene' in "The Bad and the Beautiful." She was fabulous, but the way the car was bouncing and the 1950s special effects are a hoot.

Miss Ross' car-crash freak-out!

R78 - you beat me too it! (I've linked that scene a number of times at DL since I've been coming here in the late 1990s.)

"She's my sister AND my daughter!"

The scene where Doris Day lands the plane in "Julie"

The incomparable Anne Baxter seducing Charleton Heston in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

Olivia de Haviland and Bette Davis out-camping one another in HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE.

Ladies, you're slipping.

Wow, I never actually saw that before I'm sure when it first played in theaters the audience must have looked like audience reaction to the Springtime for Hitler number

For Colored Girls

Joan the two faced woman

Bette

Her most camp movie

High camp with Lucy

" . . . Y'aint' NEV-AH gettin' out of that chair!!! Y-ain't NEV-AH leavin' this house!!! SO Y'AREN'T GOIN' ANYWHAR!!!!!!

Gene Tierney looking fabulous a white robe and Foster Grants:

"Take it easy. You don't want to give up when you've come so far."

r2, I live for the way Miss Olivia throws up the hand, like she wants to say, 'in the name of JeeeSUS'. LOL

Classic Filipino campiness

"You're nothing but a second rate, trying hard copycat!" throws drink in face

and the remake

r102, she should've kicked that bitch's ass!

Travolta

r84 This one has to be seen to be believed.

The funniest thing about Olivia's The Swarm scene is that there is a swarm of killer bees fast approaching and yet she still finds time for dramatic pauses and deep sighs in her PA announcement. Those poor kids never stood a chance.

Here's another equally horrible scene from The Swarm, this time with Katharine Ross:

R106 Ive never seen something so hilariously terrible!!!

R107 You should watch the whole movie. The Swarm totally lives up to its craptacular reputation.

This disclaimer in the closing credits is also a riot:

"I HATE DAT Q'VEEN!!"

Movie: "Queen of Outer Space"

R109 This Zsa Zsa quote from QoOS is even better, in my opinion:

The craptastic ending of the craptastic 1999 remake of [italic]The Haunting.[/italic] Perhaps too subtle to qualify as camp, but the dialogue is cringeworthy.

R110 "You're SO RIGHT, Baby!"

"I hate zat qveen" and "Vimmen can't be happy vidout men" should totally become new DL slogans.

Any scene from The Women with Norma "jungle red, mother!' Shearer, La Crawford or Roz Russell

surprised nobody's mentioned "TIIINAAAH BRING ME THE AXE!!!!" or "I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR FAAAAAANS!"

VEEEDAH!

Eve, Eve, Eve!

Anne Baxter in Ten Commandments

Liz Taylor in all of her films with Richard Burton, Suddenly Last Summer and Reflections in a Golden Eye is high camp at its finest

" . . . There's a name for women like you; but it's not used in polite societies, outside of kennels."

-- *Crystal

(*Joan Crawford, "The Women")

Re:119

Joan Crawford's role in the '56 musical remake The Opposite Sex was played by another DL icon named Joan.... Collins that is. There was a musical number where she and Carolyn Jones were basically in blackface.

The whole cast of that remake was full of DL faves: June Allyson (in Norma Shearer's role), Dolores Gray (in Roz Russell's role), Ann Miller, Ann Sheridan, Joan Blondell, Agnes Moorehead, Charlotte Greenwood, Alice Pearce, Dick Shawn..

THIS>>>

I've bookmarked it.

Liz plays ping pong

Faye Dunaway and Brenda Vaccaro in Supergirl

R120 I also LOVED "Crystal's" iconic glass bathtub in Cukor's "The Women"!

(I was all of ten years old when I'd first watched this movie. Even then I knew "Crystal" had all the best lines and finest pretties!)

Quit with your ying and your yang

Anne Baxter as a high diver in Carnival Story ('54) was unintentionally hilarious

Bette and Olivia in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

Barbara Stanwyck in The Night Walker ('64)

Any scene with Grayson Hall in Dark Shadows.

All of Mickey Rooney's scenes in Boys Town.

What was the movie where Phoebe Cates screamed to 3 women "Which one of you bitches is my mother!?"

Mickey and Judy rally the troops from Babes in Arms, the first of the let's put on a show movies

Bette taking her Academy Award for a boozy drive in The Star. "Come on Oscar, let's you and me get drunk!"

Madge in Body of Evidence

That is magnificent R105

Showgirls

More Showgirls

Grace Jones in Boomerang

She's flyin' it herself!

" . . . You aren't too smart, are you; I like that in a man."

Kathleen Turner, "Body Heat"

Willem Dafoe is lucky he still had a career after R132.

The Godfather II, DIANE KEATON....God fucking damn it she was terrible. Don't know white chicks sweat her so hard, nor do I understand why so many think HER performance was great/good/ok cuz it was TERRIBLE. The scene where she tells her husband she had an abortion.....and that line "just like our marriage is an abortion...." Jesus, I was so happy when he slapped the shit out her lol! Her acting in the movie was bad but THAT scene....who do I complain to in my community? Ugh.

Don't know *WHY*.....just had a slice of pizza, ice cream and only 5 hours sleep

Burt Lancaster and telling Katherine Hepburn she is pretty in The Rainmaker

I always look at this when I need a little pick-me-up

You're nothing but a railroad tramp!

Dreadful movie

Diane Ladd's freak-out in "Wild At Heart"

Mae West in MYRA BRECKINRIDGE, folks.

Cross-eyed Karen Black landing a plane in Airport 75

Just about every sequence in the Olivia de Havilland movie The Screaming Woman is a campy scene.

Raquel in Myra Breckinridge

Strait Jacket

R151 LOL That scene is a classic. I'm surprised the clanking of her jewelry didn't wake her husband up.

Shelley Winters in Bloody Mama and Cleopatra Jones... scenery chewing galore!

More from Liz Taylor's shitty-movies period

Fuckin' brat

Speaking of brats

Anything from the Beach Party movies, including this

Babs in Funny Lady, unfortunately I couldn't the number where she's in the plane

Babs and a Fidel Castro lookalike, from the little known Up the Sandbox

YOU BIG FAT MOVIE STAAAAH!

Bette in Beyond the Forest

Baby getting punished in THE BABY

anything by John Waters, although that might be classified as intentional camp

Jane Fonda in Barbarella

Stanwyck vs, Capucine

One of the all time greatest staircase falls

Kim Novak vs. Coral Browne

Taylor and Burton BBQ

Staircase ('69) with Richard Burton and Rex Harrison as gay men

Anne and Patty

Joan and Jeff Chandler

Molly! What a divine name!

r146, I LIVE for Diane Ladd as Marietta Fortune! I would love to see her play that character again.

Buster Keaton in Seven Chances

Have they forgotten what a STAAAH looks like?

Shelley Winters goes berserk

[quote]Every moment Doris Day is onscreen in Midnight Lace.

AUNT BEEEAAAA!!! HELLLP ME!!! HHHAAAAAACK! HHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! AUNT BEA!!!!!!

Otto Titsling

The Fountainhead

"Martha, Martha?" "I'm LA Joan." From Nashville.

"Two Weeks in Another Town"

Kirk Douglas and Cyd Charisse go for a wild drive!

Beatnik poem from High School Confidential

Is Parker Posey's turn as HBIC Darla Marks in DAZED & CONFUSED too wry for camp? Her smirking & cackling is part of the character but said character is so lurid that its hard to take her seriously.

[quote] "Suffer, Sisters! SUFFFFEEEEERRRR!!!!!"

AAAHH A TURD!!!

Dinner party

Jessica Lange and GOOP in "Hush".

Ms. Lange does the camp gods and goddesses justice.

I'm not sure why my post/vote didn't seem to "take" last time - so I'll try again.

Natalie Wood's freak-out scene in Splendor in the Grass.

I can't find it but Susan George has an amazing death scene in Venom.

I WAS YOUR WHITE WOMAN FOR 11 YEARS!

R186 I hate it when actresses put their fingers on their lips when they're talking - like Natalie did in this scene - because it's difficult to understand them. They think it's an acting technique but it's actually annoying and a tad superficial.

R180

TCM should use that clip of KIRK for that stupid promo they run, narrated by his POS son MICHAEL going on & on about his father: "take another look ............ I think you'll like what you see."

R188

I think BASSETT thought that was going to be her Academy Award winning moment; the dramatic anthem for black gals everywhere.

Like the talent portion of the MISS BLACK AMERICA contest. If they don't sing, or do one of those wonderful interpretive dance routines then it's always a dramatic recitation, something along the lines of the film clip. You know, the black female who has put up so much.........

" I done heard that ! "

"Reflections in a Golden Eye"

Julie Harris and Zorro David

Reflections in a Golden Eye is an underrated camp masterpiece

Just about every film made by Andrew L. Stone and his lovely wife Virginia.

Also every movie in which Doris and Lana tried to "act" .

Lana in The Big Cube ('69)

Happy endings.. All around you....

"Mama, face it - I was the slut of all time!"

Most of Brokeback Mountain. R.I.P. Heath - You are missed.

Shelly Winters (again) and dead Debbie Reynolds -- "What's The Matter With Helen?" ending:

LANA overacted and stunk. I can't think of one role she ever did in which I thought that she alone could have done it.

Grayson Hall screaming at Sue Lyon on the beach in "Night of the Iguana". "CHARRRRRLOOOOOOOOOTTTE!"

The opening sequence (and the rest) of A Bucket of Blood...

Ralph Macchio's penultimate scene in NAKED IN NEW YORK (1993) veers completely off-road and into camp, which grates against the muted and even tenderly subtle performance he gives through the preceding hour of the film.

The scene is question is a coming-out of sorts, and while Macchio does hit a note of broken-voiced panic & fear well, it is horribly overplayed by adolescent hand-on-hip action, eye-bugging and far too much Italian spice in the gesticulation. You come away thinking Ralph is playing a completely different character in the third act than he started with, or that he's been swirling coke to dissolve into his spritzers before these final takes. It feels wrong-headed, somehow.

And it's so sour & rushed & amateur compared with the lovely, high-concept kiss scene 15 minutes before it...

Mitzi

Beans, beans

Mitzi was camp in everything she did.

Ryan O'Neal (past his prime) as straight cop & John Hurt as mousy gay one in the dreadul 1982 PARTNERS, where they have to infiltrate the gay village to find a serial killer. It is so antgay, treating them like aliens. Its a scream to see now.

Debbie, excruciatingly nice as THE SINGING NUN a total travesty of the real nun's life.

Shelley, going over the top again, as madam Polly Adler in the 1964 A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME, at least it spawned that hit song. Young Raquel Welch is one of the 'girls' lounging around the bordello in slinky evening gowns.

Another Shelley hooter if you can find it is the 1954 Italian made MAMBO, where she has the hots for star Silvana Mangano, but of course it could not be, Shelley gets hit by a truck. Her husband Vittorio Gassman is also in it. Some of it is on YouTube,

Debbie, coming back reincarnated as a man in the odd Minnelli from 1966 - GOODBYE CHARLIE. with Curtis and Pat Boone ! Its bizarre.

Lana and Ruth Roman paying for those beach boy gigolos in LOVE HAS MANY FACES IN 1966

R207 - I still remember one of the outfits O'Neal had to wear to "look" gay

Did John Hurt ever look youthful ? Even almost 40 years ago he was sort of aged.

It's not from a 'major motion picture' or a fictional film, but the scene in Decline II: The Metal Years where Ozzy Osbourne chars a fry-up Breakfast in a leopard robe is glorious trash-camp to me.

Day of the Locust

You girdle snapper you...

The bonkers Busby Berkeley finale for The Gang's All Here

The entirety of Schumacher's THE LOST BOYS (1987), with special note to any scene where Star, David or Sam says "Michael--!" in a beseeching or exasperated way.

[quote] Did John Hurt ever look youthful ? Even almost 40 years ago he was sort of aged.

He was born with a rare disease called "Angela Lansburiolitis". It's quite common among Brits.

I can't find it anywhere, but the scene from Poseidon Adventure where Carol Lynley is screaming and Stella Stevens shakes her yelling "SHADDDUP! SHADDDUP!!" is pure camp

Ann Miller and the disembodied orchestra

The scene in "Suddenly Last Summer" at the end where Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor) finally explains what happened to Sebastian on the beach.

"It was like a music made of NOISE!"

[quote] He was born with a rare disease called "Angela Lansburiolitis". It's quite common among Brits.

Maggie Smith also had it. It's common among heavy smokers.

Some of you are very unclear on the thread's concept.

John Waters movies are expressly NOT "major motion picture(s)." They were little indie films.

Bette in The Anniversary

Jackie Gleason on acid in Skidoo ('68) with DL icon Carol Channing

Lee Grant in Damien: Omen II

"Here are your daggers, Richard"

"I'M TRASH, TRASH I TELLS YA!" - Jennifer Jones from Duel in the Sun

Meryl Streep making the big choice as Sophie. It's supposed to be devastating but it's laugh out loud funny.

So basically, anything with Liz Taylor.

Guess we just must be wired up differently, R225.

Betty Grable and June Haver as The Dolly Sisters, with some showgirls in costumes that probably had an influence on Bob Mackie

So, R225, you've piqued my curiosity. Might you give us a few examples of films that you did find to be emotionally devastating?

Any Nic Cage appearance, ever.

WICKER MAN is the ultimate. The funniest moment is the bearsuit ploy but the campiest is when it goes south and he gets recaptured: "you BITCHES!! Killing me won't bring back your GODDAMN HONEY". And: "how'ditgetburned? HOWD'ITGETBURNED? HOW'DITGETBURNED?"

Secondary mentions to "Haveyoueverbeendraggedonthesidewalkandbeatentilya----PISSED---BLOOOOOOOD?!!!" in MATCHSTICK MEN; the "NOOOO!!!" in THE THIN RED LINE; and whichever movie it is when he starts screaming and nails the woman with him at the card table in the face with a glass by accidentally sideswiping it. All meant to be seriously terrifying (and tearjerking in the case of THE THIN RED LINE).

Nick Cage must have the campiest filmography of any straight actor

Midnight with Madeline

Lana takes a tumble

This, directed by Steven Spielberg:

From MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND

"Written on the Wind" Marylee's Death Dance

I was going to post what r22 posted, but I wasn't sure it adhered to the criterion "straight people trying to be serious."

Any scene with Karen Lynn Ghouley in Saturday Night Feevuh.

The scene where the dweeby guy takes a header off the Verrazzano Bridge. "HOW COME YA NEVUH CAAAWLED MEEEEE "

Shirley Jones as hooker Lulu Baines, cackling her head off, after blackmailing Burt Lancasters Elmer Gantry

THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE is right up there in the camp department.

Here is KIM NOVAK at her uh, best.........

more Liz, from Raintree County

Lesley Ann Warren doing her best Judy Holliday impersonation in Victor/Victoria

I don't think R242 quite gets it.

R218 - en francais!

Keanu Reeves as Don John, in surferish voice, in Much Ado about Nothing:

"The recital was divine, didn't you find?"

I love Keanu, but this was just too much, too early, too bad. It became an in-joke among my family and friends who had seen the film (played to death on HBO or whatever back then)

More Betty Grable

The Taylor-Burton movie The Sandpiper was on TCM a few weeks ago and oh boy was it bad. There was one scene where Liz chases her ex lover out of her beach house with an ax after he tries to assault her, I burst out laughing.

"It's VEERY expensive" should be a new DL tagline

I know it's not from a motion picture, but it makes me cringe and get horny at the same time.

The car crash scene in BUTTERFIELD 8. Go to 3:00. It gets good there.

James Spader as Steff McKee in PRETTY IN PINK (1986, dir. Hughes) plays his bullying fairly slant the whole movie, so anything lurid the character does skirts true camp for the most part. However...

It's different story in a couple of scenes of his louche, bitter, grinning violence, in particular the part where he hassles Molly Ringwald's Andie Walsh by her snazzy pink Karmann Gia (sp?) as she rolls up to school one morning. He's waiting for her in his Wayfarers and crushed linen, ready for a verbal joust to win her heart, and she tiredly shuts him down. Angered by this, Steff snatches back all control by abruptly ending their brief and nasty conversation good, biting a cigarette and sneering right in her face as he leans into her beloved car: "you're a BITCH. You really ought to get that looked at, it could be a condition." It is cruel and unnecessary and an instance of verbal bullying, but it's just so fucking funny in the delivery you can't feel too bad for Andie. It's a miracle she didn't laugh. Interestingly, Andie's crush Blane McDonough (Andrew McCarthy), an obscenely wealthy friend of Steff, later echoes this exact sentiment calling Andie a bitch to her face again, but it's more of a quiet miserable affair than screamingly camp.

The other great camp Steff moment is when Steff comes across Blane lurking in the record store where Andie works. Steff hustles inside, glances around with utter disdain, and asks in a totally deadpan voice: "what are you doing, Blane? Shopping for records, or something?" It's written as a sarcastic quip but Spader's delivery gives it the olde-worlde air & bemusement of a preppy marvelling at the world of the white and blue-collared. What tips this scene into full camp is Steff's next comment: "are we gonna shoot some Trap or what? 'Cause if we wanna shoot we gotta shake it, man." 'Shoot Trap' as an after-school activity? It's hard to believe any high-schooler did that in leisure time, even in the 80s. Ridiculous.

When Travolta breaks the fourth wall in a movie and yells at the top of his lungs "I'm gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay"..........well, maybe someday.

Carmen Miranda and the phallic bananas

A precursor to Jane Russell's muscle man number in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Natalie in Inside Daisy Clover

r254's number was choreographed by Jack Cole. Natch.

The Snake Pit with DL faves Olivia de Havilland and Celeste Holm

Most of PURPLE RAIN, especially the part where Prince wrestles with Apples on the bridge, and he isn't strong enough to do more than slap her and steal her cape. Iirc he also throws her earring back at her.

The hotel staff in DL fave What's Up, Doc played all of it with a great appreciation of camp humor.

The character actor who played desk clerk Fritz (aka Hans) and John Hillerman as the prissy manager especially seemed to get the tone right. Playing off divas like Streisand, Ryan O'Neal and the great Mabel Anderson as Mrs Van Hoskins must have been intimidating.

The volleyball scene from Top Gun

Joan Crawford's Norman Maine-esque death scene from Humoresque ('46)

I know it's a TV movie, but the ending of Holiday Heart is unintentionally hilarious

"I am Gypsy Rose Lee-- and I LOVE HER!"

We're Having A Heat Wave.

Marilyn in There's no Business Like Show Business.

The whole of "Showgirls."

The crip kid in the wheelchair in MAC & ME

Grizelda Brown sits on Peggy Gravel's husband's head killing him.

Gory camp. To be honest, I'm not sure there's any way to do this scene that wouldn't be campy.

Mel Gibson's Hamlet. So bad, unless you think of it as one big joke he wasn't in on. Then it's fun!

R269

Speaking of which any truth to the rumor that MEL wants to make a musical comedy update of SCHINDLER'S LIST ?

Walk on the Wild Side: Barbara Stanwyck bitchslaps Capucine, then launches into a fantastic monologue ("Tell him about the mud you've rolled in for years!")

My fave is the 'dance of death' scene performed by Dorothy Malone and Rock Hudson in Written on the Wind.

Mambo!!

Betty 'Deep, rich FLAVAH' Bacall appears at the end of the clip as an extra campy bonus.

Gah R236 I missed your post. Well, it bears repeat watching.

This stupendous scene teases at the edge of camp until the pitcher of water pushes it all the way over.

Miss Minchin

Mrs Voorhees gets beheaded

Ann Margret in The Swinger

Richard Burton and everyone else in this scene from The Medusa Touch.

I'VE DROPPED IT A FEW TIMES, BUSTER!

Speaking of Joan..

Troll 2

The Mirror Crack'd with DL icons Liz Taylor and Kim Novak

Finally found Joan's death scene from Humoresque

The opening to Ziegfeld Follies ('45) with Fred Astaire, Lucy and Cyd Charisse

When Rizzo throws her dirty undies at Olivia Newton-John and challenges her to wrestle.

Slightly OT, but Stanwyck aged more gracefully than her peers ever did. She wasn't ashamed to let her hair go gray. And her skin didn't wrinkle like Crawford's or Davis', and she didn't get all flabby and saggy like Davis either.

r283, I love that movie! The whole thing is a campfest

DL icon Faye Dunaway in Eyes of Laura Mars

I've written a let-ah to dah-dee...

Okay, r290 wins

Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow in Avalanche ('78)

cougar Joan Crawford tries and fails to seduce Ty Hardin in Berserk ('68)

Would Wild At Heart be considered camp?

[quote] "You are sweaty male construction-types, for Christ's sakes!"

Cathy Moriarty was hissing, hackled, feather-spitting camp throughout CASPER (1995, Universal).

"A Haaandbhaaaaaggg"

5:47 for the money shot.

I love Gershon because it seemed intential camp to her against Berkley who seemed to be taking it seriously like her big break.

R295 she's channeling Kathleen Turner there, big time.

Helen Sinclair

Sharon Stone in Catwoman

Bette releases the hounds

Shelley Winters in Who Slew Auntie Roo

More Liz in Suddenly Last Summer

Bette Midler in FOR THE BOYS..

When her uncle, played by George Segal gets fired, Bette runs through the party, screaming...

WHO DID THIS? WAS IT YOU, LUANA, YOU SMUG BITCH?!

And ends the scene pushing James Caans character atop the gigantic cake & reading him to filth.

r302, good one. Pretty much anything Shelly did in her later years was camp - love her.

Liz in The Sandpiper

Look how funky he is!

THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HEEEEEEEERREEEEE!!!

Oprah loses her shit

Joe Jonas flaming all over CAMP ROCK (yes, really, that's the title), the second-most successful Disney Channel Original Movie after the HSM franchise. There's no one scene particularly that trumps the others, he just flounces & shrieks through the entire production while approximating the right emotion. It's fun.

His older brother Kevin is also very campy but I believe his performance is more calculated.

Billy Baldwin in that abomination SLIVER.

[quote] The volleyball scene from Top Gun

I cannot believe how many young, hetero males still take Cruise seriously as an actor playing the ultra-virile, testosterone fueled action stud... Are they blind? To me he was ALWAYS the campiest thing in cinema, and it's especially apparent now with his several obvious facelifts, pancake makeup and wigs a-plenty!

Anne Heche and her unrestrainedly out-of-sync performance (along with the equally awful Vince Vaughn) in the Psycho remake.

Joan Collins in "Land of the Pharaohs." Joan's scheming character realizes too late that she's being sealed up in a pyramid along with the dead Pharaoh's loyal entourage.

They both won Oscars for this. Probably even for this very scene. But it is just so hilarious to me. Especially at 07:30 mark.

And I always thought Helen Keller was blind and deaf. Not fuckin' retarded!

r311, Sliver is hilarious. It's one of those movies that should be a camp classic, but isn't

R310 DCOMs are campy feasts, but that doesn't count unless it's disproved that 2/3 of the Jonai are actually gay.

The very gay ribbon dance in Disney's CADET KELLY with Hilary Duff & Christy Carlson-Romano.

"You're no hero! You're a drunk...a Drunk...a DRUNK!"

The sports biopic MIRACLE is underplayed for the most part, and is about serious political turmoil etc.

This all gets tossed out the window when minor character Rob 'Mac' McClanahan pops off on his coach Herb Brooks (who calls him a 'candyass'). He's mad, but in such a screechy tone that I lose it every time. The actor who plays Mac is also tiny and fey which makes it 10x funnier over intimidating.

"I want you to be a hockey player!" "I *AM* A HOCKEY PLAYERRRR!!!!"

R321 why d'you wanna play Cawlidge Hawkey, ya sieve?

Every scene in All About Eve

R199 BROKEBACK, camp?

I’ve heard many criticisms about it but that’s a new one. I don’t see how it is...?

Slap scene in a summer place