What's Your Favorite Bad Movie?

Any movie with Maria Montez.

Death Become Her

White chicks

Valley of the Dolls

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

The Terror of Tiny Town

Strait Jacket

Grease 2

Death to Smoochy

Curse of the Black Widow, pure B- starring a scene chewing Patty Duke rocking a terrible yet wonderful fake French accent.

Mannequin, Desperately seeking susan

Swarm

Glen or Glenda (1953) the pioneering film about transexuals and transvestites.

And also directed by Edward D. Wood, the disasterpiece Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Manos The Hands of Fate. Be merciful to yourself and watch it with Mystery Science Theater 3000 commentary. Trying to watch that movie straight up is akin to deep torture.

You can find the original movie and the one with MST3K riffs at club-mst3k.com

First Knight

Nothing but trouble, showgirls, frankenhooker

Exorcist 2, especially when it pretends that Linda Blair is a great dancer.

Love Has Many Faces

Tons of beefcake, tons of fabulous clothes, tons of fabulous mid-century interiors, subject matter about older rich women buying young muscle studs tp pleasure them, and Lana Turner's "acting."

Trolls 2

It's a Bikini World - Tommy Kirk is an unlikely jock who has to pretend to be his own more sophisticated brother to win the heart of Deborah Walley, just before she got sucked into The Mothers-in-Law. Bobby "Boris" Pickett is on hand for comic relief as a teenager of about thirty. The beach provides a chilly backdrop. The low-budget flick was clearly shot in cooler weather as Christmas decorations can be seen in many public spaces. A coffin nail in the Beach Movie craze, its saving grace is that it features rare film performances from several decent pop/rock bands that were part of the scene in LA in the mid-to-late sixties.

Shakes the Clown Pink Flamingos

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Beyond The Valley of the Dolls

The Black Slipper

Lost Horizon with singing by George Kennedy, Sally Kellerman and Liv Ullman.

The Best of Everything

Can't Stop the Music

Monsignor- where nun Genevieve Bujold sees her GI lover Christopher Reeve is really a priest!

"The Bad Seed"

"Theater of Blood"

+1 to the musical "Lost Horizon"

Blood Feast

Mahogany: Diana Ross and Anthony Perkins at their campy, over-the top best...with some cool circa 70s fashions thrown in as the supporting co-star.

The Room

"Hush", with Jessica Lange.

Who's that girl. Myra Breckinridge.

The Nureyev biopic of Nijinksky.

Guffaws.

Theatre of Blood is a great movie

JawBreaker

It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

^Bad? I've seen worse. Fun movie to watch.

Vice Squad...I saw it with a hot to death italian boy and we were macking like mad as the theater was empty!

Dirty Grandpa

Sorry,heres the link.

Tremors with Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward and the incomparable Reba McEntire.

I have a soft sport for bad Sharon Stone thrillers: Sliver, Diabolique.

A Kiss Before Dying with Sean Young and Matt Dillon!

Those weird 90's Skinimax movies Shannon Tweed made where she always played a reporter or sex therapist that always ended up fucking one of her subjects/patients. You get to see 90's stud Craig Stepp's sizable semi in one called Indecent Behavior 2.

The Bad Seed isn't bad! The acting was geared to the theater so it's a bit over dramatic but not bad.

Gargoyles! Bernie Casey makes a sexy gargoyle king, and a very young and hot as fuck Scott Glenn graces the screen.

Troll 2 for the win!

Red Dawn

Nurse 3D

The worst movie ever made is Nell starring Liam Neeson and Jodie Foster. No other movie even comes close, so utterly pretentious and unintentionally hilarious.

Stayin Alive. JT can't dance for shit and the broadway show portrayed in the movie is just so so so bad.

Belles on their toes, the sequel to cheaper by the dozen

There's a musical number about baked beans and a racist song and dance with Deborah Paget called Japanese Sandman.

It does have the lovely Jeffrey Hunter though.

Berserk, starring Miss Joan Crawford.

She-Devil with Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr .

The Seduction with Morgan Fairchild and Andrew Stevens .

John Travolta! Ernest Borgnine! Eddie Albert! William Shatner! Keenan Wynn! Tom Skerritt! And ... Ida Lupino!

It must be ... THE DEVIL'S RAIN!

"Can't Stop The Music". Actually saw it in the movies when it originally came out and a short time ago when TCM aired it as a midnight movie. So kitschy!

R7 on what alternate universe is Desperately Seeking Susan considered a "bad" movie?

It has an 87% approval rating of critical acclaim on Rotten Tomatoes, was the #5 top earning movie of 1985 at the box office, received Golden Globe and BAFTA award nominations, and made Madonna a very hot Hollywood property as an actress, which she would screw up with her next 2 films which ARE generally "bad" movies.

Superman IV: The Quest For Peace

Undercover Angel, if you have never seen it, run, don't walk, well stream it, you cannot imagine...!

Oh, gosh, yes, 'Gargoyles!' Kept me up at night with the creepies.

And, of course, 'The Apple,' which is a Canadian 'Can't Stop the Music' meets 'Logan's Run' meets 'The Sin of Adam and Eve' meets MTV.

R40, Have you seen the original with Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward? The best thing about the remake was Matt Dillon's bare ass shot.

R15

Turner was a lousy actress. I found it funny that the movie was made in '64, released in '65 and yet all of Turner's clothes look very early 1950s.

R58

Woodward was only in the first 10, 15 minutes; then you had to deal with that Virginia Leith with that god awful monotone of an alleged cultured enunciation as the sister trying to solve Woodward's 'suicide'.

Leith however is in one of my favorite bad films, THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE in which she plays 'Jan in the pan'. Think I'm kidding ? That's actually her credited tole !!

"Nell" - the movie Jodie Foster thought was gonna get her another Oscar.

"Tay in-uh weeeeen!"

At Long Last Love

Anatomy of a Love Seen - made in 2014-piss poor plot performed by two lesbians who to this day no one has ever seen or heard from since. Thinly based on The L Word

R61

" ana tay onatay .....tay...fiafey........ "

" fi fi fe fo fi fe fe ........... " or is that Maxine Waters' private number ?

THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN

R64 "Ish Mae..."

No-one can top this so y'all might as well pack it up now.

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S LAST RESORT (1994, dir. Zielinski) starring Corey Haim & Corey Feldman. What must be the greatest failure of experimental lowbrow comedy in existence....and it's a good time. It's a 4th-wall breaker and leans heavily on in-jokes between the Coreys and about their oeuvre, and that's about all that will help with understanding the madness. It is a dumb, cheap and trashy film that bombed deservedly, but it's charming to me. At the least, it's a plus that Haim is very attractive in it and it's pretty cool how Dread Zeppelin show up to play some original tunes.

That said, to watch it you need to switch off your rational mind. Somehow I have seen and enjoyed this movie around four times on cable and yet I still cannot explain the plot to anyone or even remember It clearly. I watched the trailer back 5 minutes ago as a refresher, and it doesn't help.

Honorary mentions to two other Corey classics: wacky caper comedy DREAM A LITTLE DREAM II from 1995 (yes, Dream had a sequel), and the 'erotic' (seriously) thriller BLOWN AWAY from 1994. Yikes to all three movies but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a great time watching them.

Forgot to mention the Corey Feldman solo vehicle ROCK N'ROLL HIGH SCHOOL FOREVER (1991, dir. Brock), sequel to that Ramones movie from the 70s. To save you time, the best scenes are those featuring school 'freak' Tabitha, the torturing of the Preppies, and the Mojo Nixon dream sequence.

Words fail me on trying to describe this one in more detail, so I'll let the podcast WeHateMovies (and Mojo Nixon with a 'Roger Corman, high as fuck' story) run it down for ya.

[quote] "Everybody loses in this movie." "Yup, just like high school." "Nobody is asked to change, nobody has to question themselves. The main characters just fuck with people. They don't even meet the main goal they had for this movie, as main characters."

[quote] "This whole thing is held together by hope. ARMY OF DARKNESS looks like it cost $50 million dollars, compared. And why have a sequel to a cult flop in the first place? This is like having a sequel to MEET THE FEEBLES."

[quote] "This movie is all just silly vignettes, "oh man, that's gross", then no follow up. Every setup gets discarded by the movie itself, or disregarded by the protagonist (Feldman). It's constantly stuck in Act I, it's the Groundhog Day of screenwriting."

[quote] "Your movie is probably dogshit if Clint Howard refuses to reprise a role."

I'll second "Berserk", third "Theater of Blood" and add "Dead Ringer."

Pan 9 from outer space....Hilariously bad....

THE BIG CUBE, one of Lana "Stomach" Turner's last performances.

I think she died of shame.

Karate Kid III. It seems like it was written while jacked.

Who ever would have thought we'd see 30-year-old Daniel-san finally give up on girls and give in to the seductions of an older man? K3 is worth repeat watches if only for that man Terry Silver, a minor God of 80s sleaze & richesse.

R57 - beat me to it "The Apple" - horrid. The lead actor.. George ? was the only positive thing about this turd.

Jaws 3D - a psychic, stalker shark...okay.. smh.

Godzilla - Kinda gets a break from me. But the production values were literally threadbare.

R71 that looks incredible ."There's nothing wrong with me--!" *montage*....I love 70s narcotic movies so I will definitely be watching in full.

My favorite of that genre is GO ASK ALICE (1973). Jamie Smith-Jackson does dope-panic superbly, and her weepy monologues about her addiction troubles are a thing of beauty.

[quote] "You're looking for Magic!" "I'm looking for HELP!"

X-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND, and only for nostalgia reasons and because I had a cute crush on Aaron Stanford (and the hots for James Marsden) when I was a teen and saw it in theaters.

If it's ever on TV now I'll still stop what I'm doing and watch for a while, despite knowing what garbage it is compared to X2, FIRST CLASS, and now LOGAN.

My sister has a fondness for the god-awful WOLVERINE: ORIGINS, acknowledging that it's trash and that LOGAN was better.

Superman III- I love it, love it, love it

From the slapstick Three's Company style opening credits with a "dumb blonde" to it being an 80s Richard Pryor comedy as well as a superhero film. There's even prison rape jokes and cocaine jokes! And when Superman turns evil thanks to Pryor's bad Kryptonite, he becomes an unshaven, creepy, pervy bastard especially towards Lana Lang and of course the Bea Arthur like Vera Webster, played by Jazz legend Annie Ross who has some great bitchy and catty dialogue with Pamela Stephenson as the not so dumb blind bombshell Lorelei Ambrosia who even gets to fuck "evil Superman", being taken in by the Ultimate Computer and transformed into an evil cyber robot! That scene scared the hell out of me as a kid

It's so 80s, so bizarre, so lighthearted (compared to all the "dark" superhero movie bullshit of today), so campy, so "were not taking Superman seriously, this is a fun tongue in cheek superhero/comedy".

That's why it works for me

SHANGHAI SURPRISE

Eyes of Laura Mars - Faye Dunaway is dreadful as a Manhattan fashion photographer who, for no discernible reason, starts seeing a serial killer murdering people through her own eyes.

Great 1970s fashion and a horrible theme song by none other than Barbra Streisand!

R78 and Eyes of Laura Mars was written by John Carpenter, the same year Carpenter wrote, produced and directed Halloween and he married Maude co star Adrienne Barbeu

R79 And Eyes of Laura Mars was produced by Jon Peters, who wanted his girlfriend Barbra Streisand to star in it. But Babs thought the subject matter was too grisly, so she opted to just sing the theme song instead.

'Backstreet' with Susan Hayward is pretty nasty. But it does have the best 'pedal to the metal' scene ever put on the silver screen. Last night, I watch a few minutes of 'Earth Girls are Easy' and I had get some fresh air.

And for your listening pleasure, the "love theme" from "Eyes of Laura Mars," "Prisoner," by Barbra.

"Inside Daisy Clover" is pretty bad. Actually, it's so bad that it's kind of good -- but still bad. Both Natalie Wood and Robert Redford needed tighter direction. Ruth Gordon is a hoot though, as always.

Any of those lame, tame gay romantic Japanese dramas (the genre is 'BL' or 'Boisu-Rabu') you care to name are awful, but can turn a frown upside down.

2008's tender, cute-sy student rom-com 'Ai No Kotodama' (eng. 'Words of Devotion') is the movie equivalent of comfort food or a warm blanket. It's like a boring fan-fiction written by a 12 year-old girl come to life (it's based on a RL manga, for those who care) . Nothing surprising happens, everyone is nice & pretty, every tense moment or conflict is an easily-resolved misunderstanding and every meaningful beat is overscored by a syrupy piano ballad. This movie and most of its ilk are badly-written, predictable and look/sound offensively cheap, but dammit, there's that heart & sincerity. Other BL-commendations are 'Itsuka No Kimi E' (if twin-fantasies and psychodramas are your thing) and 'Sukitomo' (if like boxers, and you don't mind in cestuous overtones).

'Ai No Kotodama' is so bad but you have to like it, as you'd like a chirpy sexless friend you patronised in high school because she's cute & sweet and just wants everyone to get along. The only interesting thing about it is the unsurprising but still somewhat sad revelation that young gay Japanese couples are still comfortably not accepted by their society, and often acquiesce to the closet as a necessary sacrifice to keep the peace and keep their jobs and families (it's implied that the couple in the movie would struggle to get a lease or get hired if they were more openly gay).

It's funny how Japan can produce some of the most shocking and interesting cinema in the world when they feel like it (pick up anything by Takashi Miike)....and then there's all the BL.

Speaking of Japanese film and of Miike, my favourite one of his is the critically-reviled Yakuza-vampire flick (yes, really) 'Moon Child', from 2003.

It doesn't even feel right to call it a 'bad movie' - it isn't, exactly, just overwrought and unsure of itself. It was written as a vehicle for two pop/rock stars (Gackt & HYDE) to break into acting so it was never going to win awards, anyway. In spite of itself it's very beautiful to look at, richly imagined, and poignant if one can look past the meandering plot, over-ambitious premise and bad FX. Most fans of Asian cinema never acknowledge it as part of Miike's body of work and it is sadly considered an embarrassing failure. The imprint who released it also release skinflicks, so there's that.

I should have included a clip.

I cannot explain why I loved this movie so much. It's just a bunch of insanity.

VOTD

SPEEDWAY JUNKY (1999) is an adorable little curio, an also-ran fever-dream confection of a sexually-confused raver. It's the trashy & vapid little sib of MOPI, and beguiling for it.

The rawness in the final 3rd is a shock to the system, and the audacity and stagey camp of JTT playing his schmarmy Prince of Hustlers is almost unbelievable.

The highlights are Jordan Brower, Daryl Hannah, and the unrequited love angle. Everything else in it is loopy, dopey E-numbers.

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Mysterious Monsters

"Hard Ticket to Hawaii," a horrific 1987 "boob" movie that for some unexplained reason just aired a few weeks ago on TCM. The plot involved two jug-jiggling DEA agents who relax in the hot tub a lot before taking on the bad guys. And one of the bad guys is a drag queen who works behind the bar of a fancy restaurant in Hawaii. It must be seen to be believed.

Malibu's Most Wanted. Jamie Kennedy was surprisingly fuckable. Also Scary Movie 3.

I also like Blood Feasts. It's a screamer of a horror movie.

The Magus. But Renata Adler in the NYT liked it also. I think that's one reason she didn't last very long.

The 1988 remake of THE BLOB...it was a cheerful cheesy B movie that didn't even try to be anything else. And I liked it. Especially Shawnee Smith and her overacting.

Malibu Express - the blonde bombshell lead was a guy. He was 1984's version of fine as fuck. The hotdog dick prank by the brunette bombshell guy was hilarious.

The Wild Life - when I first laid eyes on super hot Hart Bochner. Omg. I don't think my jaw ever left the floor every time he was onscreen.

Hollywood Knights - was a bad movie. I was about 16, and laughed my stoned ass off. An early cable classic.

Magic Mike. Funniest movie I've ever seen. McConnaughy is pure gold.

A Chorus Line (1985), maybe because I first watched it at an age (9) when I didn't yet know it was bad, and had no knowledge of the source material.

The late comedian Richard Jenny has a hilarious bit about jaws 3. Its on YouTube.

Dangerous Beauty, Flashdance

Grease 2

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

"Lambada" (1990). It is, absolutely, the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life and I love every magnificent, campy moment of it. J. Eddie Peck is gorgeous and really tries to make it work but is trapped in one of the dumbest pieces of character development I've ever witnessed onscreen.

I think it's tremendous.

More "Lambada". Oh God, I love it so much. It's such a hot disaster:

If only we could all come together over "Lambada". Our country would be healed.

The Gay Deceivers

Over 100 posts and no votes yet for Torch Song. Makes berserk look like Citizen Kane. It has everything--Joan does her big dance number in black face--or beige face , really-- and Michael Wilding as the blind musician with a cane. Bette must have loved it

R98 I've been sad about Rich Jeni for what feels like a thousand years.

He's sorely missed, they don't make stand-up like that anymore. The 'Jaws' bit never gets old.

R94 I'm the only gay in the world who had a crush on Jamison Newlander as a kid. He was cute in The Blob.

Richard Jeni's bit was about "Jaws: The Revenge," the fourth and final Jaws movie, not Jaws 3-D.

R105

My wig and I are fab in it.

I'd have to present ATLANTIS THE LOST CONTINENT (1961)

Loved it when it first came out. I was 12. The older I got the worse it seemed. MGM picture that used all kinds of sets and props from previous MGM pictures, including FORBIDDEN PLANET, KISMET, and QUO VADIS, including that big green pagan idol from THE PRODIGAL. Not to mention being so cheap as to use added mattes to recognizable footage from QUO VADIS.

The script and acting are just awful, with one of the only known actors a queeny Jon Dall, playing evil, conniving courtier Zaren, who's constructing a giant crystal death ray.

However, it does have one of my favorite lines from cinema. Greek fisherman Anthony Hall rescues Atlantean princess Joyce Taylor from a shipwreck. She later awakens in the bedroom of his hovel, dressed in what appears to be a burlap bag. So she demands of him, "Where is my robe? This cloth offends my skin!"

Precious...

Late comedian Patrice O'Neal explains the joy of any given Steven Seagal movie.

[quote] O'NEAL: He never. Gets. Hit.

UNDER SIEGE II: DARK TERRITORY (1995) where Seagal clings po-faced to the side of a train, gun-in-hand, as it races toward destruction. It's so insane and high-octane but with this clunky 80s Narm-charm that makes it watchable and not assaulting like action movies are today.

No-one seems to like Seagal's 00s releases and they're critically panned as the worst of the canon, but EXIT WOUNDS (2001) and BELLY OF THE BEAST (2003) are a thrilling watch imo. Not favorites, but still good enough to while away an otherwise-boring night-in with.

For bizarre Wonderland adaptations the British experimental film ALICJA or 'Alice' (1982, dir. Bromski/Gruza) is up there, more disconcerting in it's clinical way than that soft-core 'X-Rated Musicale Fantasy' from 1976.

ALICJA is a true-crime film pretending to be a romantic musical. The characters are all adult people in our dreary world, no anthropomorphic creatures or wide-eyed kids here. The main-plot is supposed to be how most of the characters are 'in love' with Alice and unconditionally so to the point it drives them to dark deeds, but this is hard to believe as she's so self-absorbed and gloomy. The action takes place in a factory, a drizzly park or a cheap hotel for the most part and it's raining all the time - not very high-fantasy. There's 'groovy' interstitial numbers (Lulu did a song for it I believe?) and puns going on throughout even though the plot features hitmen and suicide. ALICJA wants to be edgy and 'hip' but even by 70s standards it's just a massive fail.

ALICJA was shot and in-the-can by '79 but was shelved until '82 because no-one knew what to do with it. It's hard-to-watch, from the spinning camera to the dark palette and botched overdub...but everyone's so eloquent and glamorous! (factory girls in a full makeup? reading literature and playing chess in their spare time?) It's grimly fascinating, like a 2hr Stevie Nicks video. 70s working-class Britain looked and sounded nothing like this but a couple of Polish directors thought strongly enough otherwise to make a musical about it.

The jangle-pop opening card sequence is hysterical as it's so tonally inappropriate for what follows.

Subway Riders 1981 by Amos Poe. Has an incredible shooting up scene with Susan Tyrrell at 1:03:29

Stayin Alive. I really wish that there could just be one live performance of the shitastic production that they put on at the end. Hell's something?

I agree, R76. I watch SUPERMAN 3 at least once a year. It's a very witty movie, but since its not an epic adventure like the first two(which I also love), it's ignored by the general public, even though it did make money when released.

What's more horrifying than murder by popcorn?

always a toss up between "Desert Fury" and "Johnny Guitar"

Bravo, r111. Atlantis was on TCM recently and I saved it. I had a horrible experience when I saw it the first time at age 16. Wonderfully gruesome!

"Queen of Outer Space" with Zsa Zsa. She is hilariously bad and decades older than many of her co-stars.

Oh r111, thanks for mentioning THE PRODIGAL!!! It has one of my favorite scenes when Lana Turner tries to calm down the crowds, and they stone her and she falls into the fire!!! Gives me the giggles every time I see it.

"Bad Kids Go To Hell" Cameron Dean Stewart is so hot in it!

"House of Wax"(2005)- Chad Michael Murray, Jared Padeleki, even Paris Hilton. Not really a Padeleki fan, but love seeing him as a big dumb naked jock strapped into a machine and sprayed with wax to turn him into a wax figure while he whimpers pitifully and helplessly.

Jaws: The Revenge

The movie that convinced me that Michael Caine is a complete hack who will do anything for money.

R123 Caine has admitted to as much in several interviews. He says he likes buying nice things for him and his wife, so that's why all the shitty films.

Right now a strong candidate is "The Phynx" (1970)

Good tunes, lousy acting, sad excuse of a screenplay, cameos of "world citizens" (Col. Harland Sanders, Ruby Keeler, Leo Gorcey, Dorothy Lamour, Johnny Weissmuller, Richard Pryor, Trini Lopez, Patsy Kelly). Gorgeous color though.

The film is about a rock and roll band named The Phynx and their mission in foreign affairs. The group is sent to the country of Albania to locate celebrity hostages taken prisoner by Communists.

Weekend at Bernie's.

r170, I loved the Phynx only because of the cameos. I love the way they were presented, being announced . The only reason reason for the movie was the cameos.

r127 quite right. I don't know how I missed Guy Lombardo and Sally Struthers (and who was Fritz Feld?), but seeing James Brown, Butterfly McQueen, Busby Berkeley and George Jessel all in the same film was a hoot.

I agree with so many films listed already! Thanks for all the ones I've never seen - I'll look for them.

Killer Klowns From Outer Space is really bad - acting, script, etc just lame. But it's one of those so bad it's hilarious movies. It's a cult classic.

For a comprehensive source of reliably bad movies I think there's nothing better than Mystery Science Theater 3000. I've linked a great MST3K site where you can watch all the original films and/or the MST3K version where the show riffs on the awfulness of the movie being viewed. It's great writing, good gags, and really dedicated to honouring the lame and cheesy spirit of bad movies. They include many short films which are actually some of my favourites. A Date With Your Family is one of the best!

Sci-fi horror BRAINSCAN. Can't help but love for how tragic-looking & desperate the production is. It's probably the best B-movie going that depicts 90s heavy-metal/Fangoria culture.

There's cheesy gore abounding here but honestly the most disgusting part is watching Eddie Furlong chug milk; it's going all over his face, all over his Aerosmith t-shirt...then he starts getting the murder-sweats, revolting. Shrill & sloppy as his performance is you can fully believe Eddie's character would have zero empathy for others, he's more of a creepster than the main villain.

T. Ryder Smith steals the entire reel as the campy delight, 'Trickster'.

The Creeping Terror.

The 'monster' is five guys under and old rug. It doesn't so much insult your intelligence as jump it in a dark alley, fuck it in the ass, and piss on it for good measure.

[quote] There are some movies that insult your intelligence, that present you with inane dialogue, bad direction, non-existent plots, and sloppy acting. Some movies contain one or more of these factors...some contain all of them in varying degrees. But in The Creeping Terror, each factor is included and ramped up to a Spinal Tap 11. The Creeping Terror is the worst movie I have ever seen. It takes badness to a level I had previously thought unattainable. Motion pictures of this anti-calibre (Manos: The Hands Of Fate is another example, and even THAT is better than this ultra-turkey) are so mind-bendingly awful they achieve a kind of transcendent brilliance that is impossible to describe in words.

"Dolomite" and the better somewhat sequel "The Human Tornado" are a couple of my favorite bad movies. Terrible acting, bad dialogue, fake stunts, boom mics and sound men on screen (at least in Dolomite), many scenes where it's just, wtf were they thinking.

ONLY YOU (1992). Marketed as a sexy, funny romp but is more like a milquetoast episode of a chirpy daytime soap-opera.

Helen Hunt/Andrew McCarthy, clearly a winning combo for romantic lead couple. Kelly Preston was honestly great as the ditz in it, though.

Casino Royale (1967), Desperately Seeking Susan, Car Wash (1976)

TL; DS St. Elmo's Fire is my favorite bad movie of all time. Booga-booga-booga. Ah-ah-ah!

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK.

Right down to Judi Dench as a gassy-sprite witch and the art deco underverse decor.

Nothing will ever top 'Valley of the Dolls' for me

The Baby (1973). It must be seen to be believed. In fact, you can see it right here.

Another vote for Dolemite!

R134 You get my vote - Car Wash was a great bad movie! Lots of inside jokes and Richard Pryor with Pointer Sisters chorus in a time that didn't age well. The Native American (Cherokee?) actor, Henry Kinghi, a truly badass stuntman in real life, was married to Lindsay Wagner. There are too many other good cameos to name right now.

DR. MORDRID (1992), or really any Charles Band release under the Full Moon imprint (for B-horrors - any lurking Lesbians may know Band better for his softcore girl/girl movies on the Surrender subsidiary of his company). It's hard to pick just one Band horror, they're all fucking nuts.

MORDRID wins by a hair for the baby Alex Band cameo. He features for 30 seconds as the gayest little kid in the world, it's so cute.

St. Elmo's Fire

Xanadu for the win.

Mark of the Devil

Salome's Last Dance (Ken Russell directing). Low ratings, but I loved it.

YOUNG GUNS II. It's popcorn, tongue-in-cheek innuendo for the most part, and brighter and funnier than the first serious outing.

James Coburn's performance aside, it is nothing more than an audio-visual cookout of quips, bullets, slaps and chaps. The pace is choppy and there's way too many characters to the point it feels like a series pilot more than a movie sequel, and the hacky voiceover device is just so cheesy. Coburn, all the camp, Bon Jovi's MTV-esque soundtrack and the fine young things playing the main cast are really what save this.

POI: Lou Diamond Philips and Christian Slater wrestling homoerotically and in very tight pants, a young-ish Viggo Mortensen in his last villainous Western role, Balthazar Getty losing his V-card to a whore and delicious belle Jenny Wright riding buck-naked out of Dodge.

Brian De Palma's "Body Double" --- I'm the only one I know of who has always enjoyed this film, and it got fairly high ratings too.

I love Body Double r147. I'll watch that anytime it comes on.

Flesh Gordon

[italic]Happy, Texas.[/italic] While it's a light little throw-away movie, it's lots of fun to see Jeremy Northam and Steve Zahn as a couple of escaped cons who wind up in the town of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for being gay and soon get involved with running a child beauty contest.

R149, does a full version of 'Flesh Gordon' still exist? I read it had been edited so many times there weren't any complete copies left.

No votes for the original Road House with a super buff Patrick Swayze? It was more stupid than bad. "Pain don't hurt" is one of the philosophical high points of this flick. Ben Gazzara's character should have been named Snidely Whiplash, he was such a cartoon villain. When I watch this movie, I marvel at the fact that it was even made at all.

R152

R151 I've seen it online, it didn't seem edited.

Under The Brooklyn Bridge with Elliot Gould (as Albie) and Margot Hemingway...one of the worst pieces of badly acted crap ever. I loved it.

sorry, its Over the Brooklyn Bridge but either way, it's awful

I like this one. It's so bad it boggles the mind how it got made.

So Evil, So Young...UK crap about a women's prison. Jill Ireland's film debut. She survived it I guess.

[quote]Happy, Texas. While it's a light little throw-away movie, it's lots of fun to see Jeremy Northam and Steve Zahn as a couple of escaped cons who wind up in the town of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for being gay and soon get involved with running a child beauty contest.

I actually think it is a cute movie.

One of my favorite bad movies in Bacall, Stapleton, and Garner in "The Fan".

I can't believe it took til r143 to mention "Xanadu". Killed Michael Beck's career, and I was always amazed the Tubes agreed to participate. Their number that merges 40's music with "heavy" rock is shitastic personified.

The end number with Liv and all the muses is fabulous and embarrassing in equal parts.

When it's on, I never miss​ it!

Bless The Child.

R160, it is quite chaotic and I know I've spotted some Solid Gold dancers in there.

R162 yes! The black one, Darcyanne, or something like that. I remember her because when I was a young one my best friend was always making comments about her ass and I pretended to give a shit.

Signs I was gay, part 1, though I had no idea at the time

Berserk. The portrayal of Monica Rivers by Joan Crawford is unforgettable.

[italic]The Brazen Women of Balzac,[/italic] a softcore porn comedy from the late '60s. Sort of Benny Hill meets Emmanuelle.

The House Bunny

Shelley: The eyes are the nipples of the face.

Shelley: Manhole. I like that word. Manhole.

Shelley: My heart is pounding like a nail!

Shelley: Instead of the Mahi-Mahi, can I get just the one Mahi, because I'm not that hungry?

Mrs. Hagstrom: [about the college] This is not a brothel. Shelley: Oh, I'm not looking to make soup.

Shelley: I don't think he likes me. He didn't fall for any of my tricks. Natalie: That's impossible. Your tricks always work. Shelley: I did sexy. I did other guys want me. I worked every angle in the book but, I don't know, he just stared. Natalie: What if Oliver is one of those guys who wants to have, like, a conversation with a girl before he hooks up with her. Shelley: He's gay?

Rita Alexander in a film directed by Dale Berry, the undisputed king of bad film

And 'The Lair of the White Worm' with Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Sammi Davis, Peter Capaldi and the amazing Amanda Donahue as the blood-sucking, dildo wielding, snake-worshiping Lady Sylvia Marsh.

Anything staring Elvira...I love her.

MEN AT WORK (1990).

You get both Estevez/Sheen brothers when they were at their cutest and hadn't become lame or creepy yet. The comedy is pure schlock and the pacing is awful, but the in-jokes between the brothers more than make up for it. Me and my sibs give each other the 'Golf Clap' to this day.

Red Scorpion has one very camp (homoerotic) scene.

surely someone has noted "ishtar" and "heaven's gate"

Dramatic School, starring DL fave Luise "Viennese Teardrop" Rainer. Hard to find, but campy and hillarious.

now that russia is our bff, can we still count "red dawn"? do the trolls still jerk off to it?

Midnight In The Garden is kind of bad but not because of the actors...it was because of Eastwood. But I still love the film.

I really love Death Becomes Her and never thought it was a bad film.

Anaconda with Jennifer Lopez, before surgical enhancements.

R54, Desperately Seeking Susan may have been all the things you wrote but it was still a crap movie for many who tried to watch it and confirms that Madonna is not an actor.

"Gods of Egypt" is a relatively recent one. It's supremely stupid, but in a campy, over-the-top way that I found hard to resist.

I agree that 'Theatre of Blood' is a wonderful movie,. And for Vincent Price fans (who isn't), there's 'The Abominable Dr Phibes' with Price and Joseph Cotten, and 'Dr Phibes Rises Again'. Wonderful casts, costumes and sets.

R174 alls I know is that Josh Peck got really fine all of a sudden in that 2014 remake they did of RED DAWN.

R177 sorry don't try to rewrite history hater. DSS was a big hit in 1985 and Madonna was being touted as the next big Hollywood comedy actress, her performance earned UNIVERSAL raves from the critics, she even signed on for the role that Bette Midler wound up playing opposite Danny Devito in Ruthless People, she dropped out to make that horrible flop Shanghai Surprise, her and Sean Penn were both DREADFUL in that movie

Of course, the reason why Madonna was good in DSS is because she was basically playing herself, no acting required.

Shanghai Surprise was also widely known as Shit Surprise, IIRC.

Fletch

Nuns on the Run

Any Pauly Shore movie, with ENCINO MAN at the top.

Center Stage

Wildcats

My Tutor

Every movie that Adam Sandler ever made. Yes I know that a few good ones are in there but it was because he was trying to change his image or get an Oscar or something. And I hate everything that he makes in the future.

The only movie Sandler is tolerable in is AIRHEADS (1994), where he can shtick in the background and it doesn't drag the comedy down.

AIRHEADS is actually a stellar choice for this thread. Skinny punk Buscemi is pure Datalounge. "Quit neckin' on me, you FEMMES."

Nearly 200 replies and no-one said GLITTER yet. I don't believe there isn't a one of you Queens that doesn't own this on Blu-Ray and get it out after every breakup for a singalong.

I have many, offhand, "The Lair of the White Worm", a wacky Ken Russell film involving a skull and a huge dragon-worm, starring Hugh Grant, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Capaldi and Catherine Oxenberg!

1970s film, "Equinox", which many swear was the inspiration for "The Evil Dead" films. Stars Frank Bonner from "WRRP in Cincinnati" and Ed Begley Jr. is listed as an assistant cameraman! There are too many coincidences for this film not to be an inspiration for the "Evil Dead".

MERRY CHRISTMAS, DRAKE & JOSH plays in my apartment every holiday since my niece forgot the DVD at my place.

It must be the gayest TV movie I have ever see (D&J must have had sex in real life) and it is a riot, but it is bad.

My latest favorite is "Queen Bee" starring Miss Joan Crawford and which TCM has had on demand recently. I'd read about it in "Bad Movies We Love" years ago, but had not seen it. It lives up to its reputation. Joan Crawford giving a performance as a bad female impersonator doing his worst, most elocutionary Joan Crawford imitation--and thinking he can still do "sexy" even though perimenopausal and unable to do anything about the eyebrows. Lucy Marlow the most insipid, moon-faced ingenue ever to grace the screens. Betsy Palmer, usually perfectly fine, giving a performance worthy of the New Rochelle PTA's production of "Auntie Mame" with Palmer as Sally Cato. Fay Wray, clearly more frightened of Joan than of King Kong (as well she should be). John Ireland scowling because he probably had to service Joan with his legendarily big cock. Barry Sullivan playing an alky Heathcliff and none too convincingly. Two bratty kids, one of whom was Tim Hovey, who committed suicide as an adult (the PTSD of having Joan as his mom in the film probably was too much to bear). Delirious fun. Can't wait to read the novel it's based on.

r177 is just a professional Madonna Hater.

The Big Chill.

Gawd, what a narcissistic pile of crap. I had to listen to one late-60s type after another prattle on about how groundbreaking it was, and that I was just too young to remember the period blahblahblah. Well, as David Crosby famously said, "If you remember the 60s, then you weren't there". I may have been a kid, but I recall that decade rather well, and it was in many ways a horrible period-how anyone could be nostalgic for it is beyond me. I guess it was great if you were a privileged kid drugging and fucking your way through college on deferment.

Besides which, it was a rip-off of a far better film (lookitup)

Sure, it's your niece's copy, r190.

R193 God, I agree. I grew up in the 1960s, and this movie was STILL insufferable! Upper middle class assholes whining for 2 hours. I wanted to walk out of the theater. Yes, I saw it when it was first released and I paid money to see it. I'm that old.

Eurotrip, which I really don't consider to be Bad but won't hold to DL's taste.

Middle School me got to see a beach full of dick, ass, nice tits (I enjoy a good set of tits), and the lead was boy next door cute.

And

Dude, Where's My Car? - Ashton Kutcher and Sean William Scott making out was unbelievably hot as a big American Pie and That 70's Show fan. I learned about my DVD player's repeat function and lost a lot og loads from that scene alone.

CAMP ROCK, that garbage Jonas Brothers/Demi Lovato vehicle from about 10 years ago.

It's tragically bad, vapid & pointless even by Disney Channel standards, but the Jonas' squabbles are funny enough to save it. Eldest brother Kevin is the highlight, deliberately queening it up for the camera on purpose and smug that his flamey anticking will be on a Disney feature for all eternity and his horrid fundie parents/brothers have to live with it.

Also noteworthy is the blonde chickie (believe her character name is Tess?) who bullies Demi's character and becomes her rival. She's a fabulous little bitch, and she trounces Ashley Tisdale's Sharpay for catty any day of the week.

The Room;

Independence Day;

Steven Segal everything

Recently I've fallen back in love with Ant & Dec's first & last foray into film acting, ALIEN AUTOPSY (2006).

It's simplistic & by-the-numbers so the quirky British charm & humour has to work overtime to save the film (and it does). The period details go a long way also and make the film a delightful artefact - just look at those brick phones!

AA is a bit of a gay treat, too; Ant & Dec's partners-in-crime downplay their usual shouty Centerparks camp theatrics and instead show each other a stripped-bare love & devotion throughout (seriously, its good acting). In a deleted scene Dec's character tells Ant's character that he can't do without him and follows this with a gently flirtatious rib of "are we supposed to have sex now?". Where a film like this would normally resort to laddiness, AA brings the gay banter.

Clifford with Martin Short

Held Up with Jamie Foxx

My Boss's Daughter with Ashton Kutcher

One of the trippiest bad movies ever from 1969. With a cast including Roddy McDowel , Lou Rawls and Jennifer Jones. You have to see it to believe it. I am surprised more people dont know about it. The soundtrack is actually pretty good.

Tarantula. With John "Mr. Shirley Temple" Agar, Mara "Mrs. Richard Long" Cordray, Leo G. "Man From UNCLE" Carroll, etc. Mad scientist causes his co-workers (and himself) to be horribly deformed while growing rabbits and spiders to spectacular sizes. Mayhem ensues.

Faster Pussycat, Kill.Kill!

Sextette, but only if I'm high.

"Showgirls"

[quote][R177] is just a professional Madonna Hater.

No, he volunteers his time gladly for free.

[quote] Clifford with Martin Short

Oh my god, I thought I was the only one who actually saw that movie in a theater when it was a new release. I think my Dad is still harboring a grudge about all the movies I made him take me to when I was a kid.

Avatar. Oh and Slumber Part Massacre 2&3. Just awful but fun.

R203, HOLLY NEAR? She was also a folk singer, a lesbian folk singer. "Near was probably the first out lesbian to be interviewed in People Magazine."

Jordan Christopher, the hot guy singing in the film, was married to one of Richard Burton's ex wives, Sybil. Sybil survives him, he died in 1996.

"Angel, Angel, Down We Go" reminded me of "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", another camp classic!

r203, I saw "Angel" in one of those tacky theaters on Market Street in San Francisco. I rememmber Jordan Christopher's ass.

Jordan Christopher reminded me of Christopher Jones, the actor from another camp classic., "Wild in the Streets".

Chris was married to Susan Strasberg.

I like Dr. Jekyl & Ms. Hyde (1995) for two reasons:

1. There's a scene where Tim Daly is handcuffed to the bed wearing only tighty-whities.

2. Tim shows his bare butt. Twice.

The Horror of Party Beach is one ....

... and Manos the Hands of Fate is the other.

"Manos: Hands of Fate" might be the worst movie ever made. Even on MST3K, TV's Frank apologized to Joel and the bots for sending it to them.

Reform School Girls - intentionally terrible trash but still hilarious.

Both mentioned above, but definitely:

Desert Fury, a truly and deeply bizarre 1940s technicolor film noir about a girl in love with a gangster... enraging his male lover

Queen of Outer Space, outrageously sexist space soap opera featuring desperate space women in cocktail dresses, plus a Gabor in a sparkly trick or treat mask! It will literally make you want to do drag.

Just watched Disney Channel's 'The Suite Life Movie' (2011) recently. It's better than the tv show, and I'm not a Disney fan generally so that's high praise. It's a rib-nudging caper with a late-60s feel, a little bit Jetsons and a little bit Scooby in tone.

It's neither thrilling nor astonishing, but it is a fun little distraction if one wants to waste an hour or raise a smile. I found myself chuckling at the occasional injection of subtle adult humor (some of it a little darker/kinkier than expected), enjoying the silly sci-fi shenanigans and getting caught up in the rapid-fire banter between the leads. The Sprouse twins have excellent chemistry.

Not a classic, yet, like Showgirls or Valley of the Dolls, but in the same over the top craptastic train wreck of Gods of Egypt, a science fiction movie with gazillions in CGI, major acclaimed actors, major gay costumes, plenty of semi naked muscular men and a plot you can tell in ten minutes, ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Jupiter Ascending!

I don't remember the name of the movie, but Channing Tatum's girlfriend had an accident that wiped out her memory. He spent the bulk of the movie trying to remind her of who he was and get her to fall back in love with him.

It was banal, cliched, repetitive. A big bore. And she was so bland I couldn't understand why he wanted her. But by the end of the movie I was hooked on him. Embarrassed but hooked.

2004's Catwoman.

National Lampoon's Class Reunion. (1982)

I really enjoy the terrible Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell and Danny McBride. I love that they took a kids show from the 70s and turned it into what is essentially a stoner comedy. It's awful. I adore it.

Also the the above movie, Matt Lauer is a villain. Foreshadowing!

The Aykroyd/Belushi vehicle NEIGHBOURS (1981). Terrible, but in a compelling way.

The jokes aren’t technically funny and the premise is dull, but the irreverent chemistry makes it work.

The Warriors. Terrible cheesy dialog, delivered in a stilted style. But I can never resist watching it when it's on.

SHOOTFIGHTER and SHOOTFIGHTER II. Gory, grainy, and grasping fruitlessly for a plot.

William Zabka was sweaty and half-naked throughout both, so these faults hardly mattered. And in fairness, the first one did shoot for some interesting characterisation and had sweet fight choreo.

Tommy Boy

Superstar

The mother of them all, Mommie Dearest.

Marines let’s go......HORRIBLE

Mannequin.

Watching Showgirls always cheers me up, but while we're on the subject of backstage musicals, I have a soft spot for 42nd Street. Yes, it's an acclaimed classic musical, but it's actually a pretty shitty film, in the best way. Ruby Keeler can't sing, can't act, and dances like a horse in high heels, but everyone spends the whole movie telling her how amazing she is. The scene where Ginger Rogers' hardened chorus girl character gives up the lead (even though she's fucking the main investor in the show and he wants her in the part) because Ruby Keeler's ingenue is supposed to be THAT amazing is pure comedy gold.

It's also pre-Hayes code, so it's actually got some pretty dirty jokes in there.

You can watch Ruby clodhopping her way through the title number right here:

“Midnight Meat Train” with Bradley Cooper and Brooke Shields

The Thing With Two Heads

[quote]“Midnight Meat Train” with Bradley Cooper and Brooke Shields

What a bizarre film, based on a Clive Barker short story, so you know it's going to be creepy.

For some reason, this film is currently in heavy rotation on premium cable. What a creepy movie. Don't forget the co-stars Leslie Bibb, Roger Bart, Vinnie Jones, the great Barbara Eve Harris, who has been in way too many TV shows to list and Peter Jacobson from "House".

Midnight Meat Train is not a bad movie. The script is ok, not fantastic, but also not poor. The direction is PHENOMENAL.