Camp Classics that don't get talked about..

OP, what makes you think we don’t talk about The Best of Everything?

Also starring the divine Suzy Parker and some old dame.

I don't recall a thread. Does a woman as beautiful as Suzy Parker become so clingy when she could have any man she wants?

Madame X isn't talked about as much as camp staples such as Imitation of Life and Valley of the Dolls.

R2, that part wasn’t cast very well. Though in the book, Gregg was also beautiful, but in a blonde, childish way.

WHERE LOVE HAS GONE (1964)

FRANCES (1982)

BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970)

Julie with Doris Day flying an airliner predating Karen Black in Airport 75.

I',m gonna watch Three Coins In The Fountain . Is it campy?

Less so than the others mentioned, R7.

Connie Stevens is SCORCHY! (1976)

Featuring the ugliest table lamps and grooviest Harvest Gold refrigerator.

Some talked about Orphan when it first came out seems to be forgotten now...

"Orca".

"Jason and the Argonauts".

"The Cowbweb". Where in an all-star cast plays the patient and staff at a mental hospital, and they literally spend two hours arguing about the new window treatments.

imdb has no movie called cowbweb

Mommie Dearest, Show girls, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane

The Magilla Gorilla Show

The Magic Garden that was shown on Channel 11 in New York in the 1970's.

The Love Machine. Another "Shocking" Jacqueline Susann potboiler about the television industry starring dull as dishwater John Phillip Law and the outrageous Dyan Cannon. You can make a drinking game out of the number of times they say "faggot." The best scene is when Dyan catches JPL in the shower with two floozies and sets his bed on fire while Dracula is on in the background. Then the grotesque fight scene at the end when Dyan hits a "faggot" over the head with an Oscar. I also love the commercial for "Amanda" perfume - high 60's camp.

And the Dionne Warwick soundtrack is pretty damned good! I listen to it occasionally on LP.

I actually find the Love Machine more entertaining and unintentionally hilarious than Valley of the Dolls.

Only in Hollywood, faggots.

R13, those are probably THE most talked about camp classics.

I hate Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.

AIRPORT '75 is probably my favorite 70's disaster film of all time. There's no one to fly the plane! Thank God endearingly cross-eyed stewardess Karen Black is there to save the day! Gloria Swanson, Myrna Loy, Helen Reddy, Sid Caesaer, Dana Andrews, Jerry Stiller, Norman Fell, the grandkid from Maude, Charleton Heston and the ubiquitous George "Goddammit!" Kennedy all add delightful touches in this bad movie buffet 30,000 feet in the air!

Die! Die! My Darling! deserves to be discussed more than Baby Jane is around here.

R19, you need to write a bad movie book. I'd buy 10 copies!

Another vote for the unjustly overlooked "Julie." The first 3/4 of the film is Sleeping with the Enemy, only with Doris Day and Louis Jourdan. Julie's overheated narration is hootworthy: "All at once, I became aware of a feeling of being WATCHED. It was ominous. It was strangely disturbing."

Suddenly there is a complete narrative shift for the last 1/4 and "Julie" becomes a disaster flick, with Doris being called upon to land a commercial airliner with only the help of the air traffic controllers who keep calling her "honey."

Runner-up is Doris again, in "Midnight Lace," also starring Rex Harrison, humpy John Gavin, and Myrna Loy. Poor Doris is being stalked in London by a disturbingly high-pitched voice over the phone that begins its reign of terror by attempting to push her into London traffic in a heavy fog. It's all downhill for pitiful Doris from there...

Peyton Place !

They don't make movie stars like Karen Black anymore...

What's The Matter With Helen Shelly Winters doesn't take it very well when roommate and business partner wants to move and get married. Sweet Debbie Reynolds makes a great bitch...

I hope this qualifies!

Serial Mom is intentional camp - and fabulous.

[italic]Deadly Weapons,[/italic] starring Chesty "Two Watermelons in a Downhill Race" Morgan

DINAH EAST

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn. Gay for pay hustler ends up as lover of closeted movie star, gets busted while going on a drug run. Deliciously tacky.

The Diane Linkletter Story.....

[quote]OP, what makes you think we don’t talk about The Best of Everything? Also starring the divine Suzy Parker and some old dame.

Now you and your rabbit-faced wife can both go to hell!

[quote]I hope this qualifies!

"Elvira, Mistress of the Dark" doesn't qualify. It's intentional camp, as is the aforementioned "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."

A Place in the Sun.

Susan Slade

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS?

The Best of Everything.....

Oops I meant A Summer Place though the other qualifies as well.

The Naked Kiss....

"Duel in the Sun"

"Joy in the Morning"

"Paris Blues"

"I Want to Live"

"Dance With a Stranger"

I'm telling you, the Widow Gavin should have garnered every major award!

"Best Little Whorehouse"

I see your Karen Black and I raise you one Sylvia Miles.

HOMICIDAL

Thanks, r21! But there already is a fabulous book about this subject called Bad Movies We Love. I studied it like the bible when I first bought it and checked off all the movies I'd watch.

I just saw Strait Jacket with Diane Baker and you-know-who. "Bring me the axe!"

The Love Machine

Mahogany

I'm Daisy...I'm Violet.....one of us is a murderer....

R32 I came to this thread to holler, "SUSAN SLADE!" This movie is one of my youngest memories as a toddler watching inappropriate teevee! I distinctly remember the scenes of Susan's baby being hand smacked for playing with the huge cigarette lighter/case/ashtray coffee table set, then playing with the lighter again and catching on fire and being scooped up by a man with a blanket! My mom came into the room and turned it off or to a different channel but those scenes made a lasting impression. I never really thought of how to find out what movie I'd seen as a two/three year old, but John Waters describes this exact scene in his book "Role Models!" I looked it up online and only found it for sale on amazon, so I bought it. It was quite the technicolor gauzy buttercream fantasy fest, plus the burning up baby was the most terrible mannequin ever! So many laughs 50 years later.

If you ever want to read a campy (but incredibly astute and well researched) book about film and the Oscars (which, let's face it, are the campiest happening of the year), seek out Inside Oscar and Inside Oscar 2, written by the late Mason Wiley and Damien Bona.

Originally published in 1986, Inside Oscar went through several updates and topped out at 1994. Wiley died of AIDS related complications and no further updates were published, but in 2002(ish) Bona published Inside Oscar 2 which covered 1995-2000. It wasn't was good as the first volume because Wiley was the more professional of the two and I think insisted they only need observe and report and let the shenanigans speak for themselves. After Wiley died, Bona injected his own opinions about the films into the text and it felt more axe-grinding than reportage, but still very much worth a read.

I still kept hoping there would be an update of the 2nd volume, but Bona never revisited it and died in 2012.

I Saw What You Did for Joan's pickled performance alone. "You little tramp! Get OUTTA here!"

DOCTORS' WIVES

Not to mention Good Luck Miss Wyckoff....

Auntie Mame

Really, r51.....

[quote] "The Cowbweb". Where in an all-star cast plays the patient and staff at a mental hospital, and they literally spend two hours arguing about the new window treatments.

I thought you were kidding. You weren't.

"At a psychiatric clinic for the elite, Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) wants to institute a policy of self-governance among his patients. To further his goals, Dr. McIver proposes that residents collaborate to design and make new drapes for the clinic library. Though it seems inconsequential, trouble ensues when the clinic patients become locked in a power struggle with the equally unbalanced staff, including activities director Meg Rinehart (Lauren Bacall)."

The Gay Deceivers

[quote]It's intentional camp, as is the aforementioned "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."

BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is etchier. Russ Meyer was planning on something that was quasi-self-aware camp, but everyone else involved in the production and 20th Century Fox were being sincere. So much so that Susann actually sued Fox for damages even though she'd actually agreed to the licensing.

R46 same here. My mother would watch old movies while folding laundry and ironing, while I sat with her. I owe my love of old movies to her.

Wait, I know The Cobweb. I know someone who likes this film. I think. Not sure.

The Group

Orphan was a delicious piece of mainstream camp. Is it still too young a movie to be considered a camp classic? I've seen it numerous times since and I can't say that for most modern movies.

What about Sorority Row? It came out around the same time and was pure camp featuring bitchy sorority girls spouting campy one liners while trying to cover up a murder and not get murdered themselves. It was a remake of The House on Sorority Row, but the tone is completely different. It falls apart in the last act and just becomes inane rather than fun, but 80% of the movie is gold.

SHOCK TREATMENT - An actor hired to locate $1 million in stolen loot endures the rigors of an insane asylum.

With Stuart Whitman, Roddy McDowall, Carol Lynley and LAUREN BACALL as the evil psychiatrist.

Oh, no. "Dance With a Stranger" is too good for this thread!

the Initiation of Sarah

The Baby

THANK YOU for mentioning "The Baby."

It's the perfect double feature with "Private Parts" (the Paul Bartel version, not Howard Stern). The transparent water-filled sex doll with the girl's face on it is still disturbingly hilarious, or hilariously disturbing.

Terrorvision.

There is a series of grade Z gay movies that were filmed in Olympia, Oregon, with titles like “Traveling to Olympia” ,“Gods of Olympia”, “Revenge in Olympia” etc. They are hilariously incompetent, but there’s a fascination to them. I’m always trying to get friends to watch, but they shut them down after a few minutes.

The Carry On series.

The Emmanuelle series

I kinda like Luna Park, Unsolved Suburbia , and A Siren in the Dark . Even though I don't like he has started to use porn stars I wonder what kind of film Steven Vasquez would do with a budget bigger than .99....

Rome Adventure

Where the Boys Are

ALL the Gidget movies'

And leave us not forget DIAMOND HEAR

*Diamond HeaD, damn it all.

R70

Damn r63, you beat me to it.

[quote]Deadly Weapons, starring Chesty "Two Watermelons in a Downhill Race" Morgan

Fun(?) fact: Chesty was a Holocaust survivor.

"Who Killed Teddy Bear?" has EVERYTHING.

Sal Mineo as a sexually obsessed busboy at a '60s discotheque who can't stop making obscene phone calls to coworker Juliet Prowse.

Elaine Stritch as a hard-bitten lesbian.

Jan Fucking MURRAY.

A ridiculously lush "sexy" theme song.

A homoerotic sequence with Sal at the gym!

A trip to an actual seedy Times Square adult bookstore of the day!

And GO-GO DANCING!

nnnnn

The Cobweb directed by Vincente Minnelli

Dramatic School, starring Luise Rainer.

[quote] Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night.

Here's one of the funniest scenes, with Gale Sondergaard as Luise's bitchy drama teacher:

R73 - that's Jan FUCKING Murray to you.

Claudelle Inglish

Go Naked in the World

When I came out in the early 1970s, the two really big camp classics were Cobra Woman with Maria Montez (her legendary Cobra Dance!) and The Queen of Outer Space, with Zsa Zsa as the evil queen's rival. ("I HATE DAT KVEEN!")

You had to turn in you gay card if you couldn't quote them. Now they seem to have been totally forgotten.

So many fab recommendations. Suddenly, last Summer and Boom are two camp classics, particularly Boom which has Liz, Dick and Noel Coward in fine form.

My favorite camp classic/guilty pleasure is The Wicked Lady. Faye Dunaway basically does a 50's B-movie Joan Crawford flick right smack dab after Mommie Dearest. Her scenes with Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers) are worth watching alone. But it has Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliot, Joan Hicks (Mrs. Marples) and that pretty guy who was in The Bitch with Joan Collins.

Oh, and it has the infamous scene where Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: Next Generation) gets whipped topless by our Faye as Alan Bates is hanged in the background.

The costumes are beautiful, the locations are sumptuous and it has a great score by Tony Banks of Genesis.

I love it so much I can barely stand it.

Lol at that 80s tv level stuntwork in r81s clip.

Here you go, R12.

Thank you.

Guess who is r75 ?

"Rome Adventure" with Suzanne Pleshette and Troy Donahue

Never has someone ever been so miscast as Suzanne Pleshette in Rome Adventure.

That role screamed for Sandra Dee or an actress of the same type. Maybe even Hope Lange.

Suzanne was much too worldly to pull off the virginal teacher routine.

I do love it though.

Susan Slade baby scene.

Jump tp the 10:30 mark. I can’t believe they let this make it into the final cut.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Oh, if we're going to include horror flicks: 13 Ghosts and House on Haunted Hill.

And, of course, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Black Widow

R90 - I have to take issue with "Black Widow" as camp. I thought it was a bona fide good suspense film. Both leads were wonderful.

Contrast it with "Marnie" - which by all odds should own this thread.

I Want to Live - Susan Hayward

I Know Who Killed Me

Sliver

That little boy dancing bare asked in The Possession of Joel Delany. Then flashing his cock. Then the girl being forced to eat dog food. Shirley Maclaine finding the head on the fridge.

X, Y, and Zee

Secret Ceremony

A Walk on the Wild Side

And one of my favorites, The Legend of Lyla Claire

Ah yes, "The Legend of Lylah Clare"! I think it was Kim Novak's only campy performance, which was obviously 100% unintentional. She thought she was giving serious drama.

Coral Browne in a supporting role, knows damn well it's camp.

And Valentina Cortese aka "Miss Italy of 1922!"

For a camp classic of the "so bad you can't believe someone paid to make it" genre, you can't get much worse than "Cycle Vixens" (a.k.a. "The Young Cycle Girls."). Horrible in every aspect.

Stewardesses in 3D

Merle Johnson, Jr. Is the Crown Prince of 60s/70s/80s camp. Not only was he the brutal racist boyfriend in "Imitation of Life," but went on to be perfectly cast as Connie Corleone's grifter fiance' in "Godfather II," and every campy pretty boy role in between, e.g. A Summer Place, Parrish, Summer Love, Susan Spade, and tv's Curbside 6.

RIP Troy. I loved him and still have a photo signed to me when he and a good friend of mine later performed together on a cruise ship.

Orphan with Peter Saarsgard and Vera Farmiga. Not sure if I should spoil it for people who have not seen it, but let's just say... You probably won't guess the twist. Fun fact, it also Co stars Asia Argentos accuser Jimmy Bennett.

Liz Taylor's entire post–[italic]Virginia Woolf[/italic] oeuvre was spectacularly bad camp. [italic]Identikit[/italic] in particular was just nuts.

[quote] Never has someone ever been so miscast as Suzanne Pleshette in Rome Adventure.

Or as deliciously right playing Leona Helmsley in that campy TV film bio.

Does "Woman on the Beach" belong in this listing?

Don't know about that, r104, but Female on the Beach with Crawford sometimes comes perilously close.

There's only ONE thing wrong with the Davis baby......

^ $180 million, not $180, obviously.

^ Sorry, wrong thread.

Thanks for the correction r105. I loath-loved the older couple (Lovey pre her three hour tour!) who were pimping Jeff Chandler.

[quote] There's only ONE thing wrong with the Davis baby......

Wrong. TWO things. It was also deadly fucking dull.

Sharon Farrell had that former starlet off her lithium look.

Well YOU just try and be upbeat when......

Red Sparrow

The Wasp Woman starring the Legendary, the Iconic, the Diminutive......

R103-She was PERFECT as Leona Helmsley.

Indeed, r115....

R116 I'm watching it right now on youtube.

SUZANNE PLESHETTE fans/ these interviews from 15 or so years ago are phenomenal if you haven't seen them

You're ready to fly right out of here, aren't you R92?

Fall From Grace, featuring DL faves Kevin Spacey and Bernadette Peters as Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker!

Whoa! That’s a find r120.

It gets mentioned once in a while on this site. Director Edward D. Wood, Jr. is more famous for "Plan 9 From Outer Space" but this is another campy disaster piece from him.

Dr Jeckyl and Sister Hyde

Glenn or Glenda is actually fairly well know. Glen is a secret cross-dresser and his girlfriend isn't exactly thrilled when she finds out. That was pretty far out for 1953.

Model Shop (1969). Gary Lockwood at his most beautiful wears tight pants which reveal his fine butt and bulge. His character falls in love with Anouk Aimee, who works in a "model shop," where horny men can rent a camera and a girl, and have her pose for pictures. No disrespect of the sultry Ms. Aimee, but Gary's the one who should be renting himself out and dropping those pants for the camera.

Crimes of Passion with Kathleen Turner as a drab designer by day and cheap $20 hooker by night and Tony Perkins as a street preacher chasing her around with a sharpened dildo.

^Wasn’t that also the plot of Mahogany?

Die Mommie, Die, featuring a deliciously naked Stark Sands.

[quote]Contrast it with "Marnie" - which by all odds should own this thread.

Marnie is a camp classic.

The Big Cube

[italic]Skidoo,[/italic] a movie about hippies and LSD starring Carol Channing and Jackie Gleason

The sleazy “Love Has Many Faces” with Hugh O Brian and Lana Turner.

Where Love Has Gone

How did we get this far and no mention of Joan Collins' masterpiece?

Or an early but important addition to her [italic]oeuvre[/italic] "Land of the Pharaohs"

"Obsessed with his fate in the afterlife, the egotistical Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) recruits oppressed architect Vashtar (James Robertson Justice) and forces him to design the most lavish and well-secured pyramid ever built. Vashtar struggles to meet Khufu's lofty expectations, knowing that, if he does so, the ruler will release his enslaved brethren from bondage. As construction begins, Khufu's new wife, Princess Nellifer (Joan Collins), plots to secure her own piece of the tyrant's riches."

Hot Rods to Hell

The Eyes of Laura Mars, we get 1970's fashion photo shoots, with Faye Dunaway as a fashion photographer who experiences visions of a serial killer's victims before the murders actually happen.

Olivia De Havilland is.......Lady in a Cage!

The Fan - Lauren Becall stars as a fading diva, Sally Ross.

Douglas is a lonesome record salesman and a true fan of the actress Sally Ross. Every day he writes her gleaming letters of love. But the only response he gets are formal letters. So his love turns into hatred.

The book was actually a fun read, because entire story is written in memos, letters, notes, newspaper articles, etc.

The Fan is a datalounge fave - and deservedly so!!!!

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots. You haven't seen it all until you've seen Lynn Redgrave in a fake, high-pitched voice sing "Plant a Watermelon on My Grave (and Let the Juice Soak Through)"

The Cool Ones (aka Cool, Baby Cool) is a 1967 film starring Roddy McDowall and directed by Gene Nelson. Mrs. Miller performs in a cameo role, and the film features cameo performances by bands the Leaves and the Bantams, as well as a cameo appearance by Glen Campbell.

From the 1970s - Curse of the Black Widow, about a woman transforming herself into a human-sized black widow spider and preying on victims during the full moon.

It's got a camp cast - Patty Duke, Donna Mills, June Allyson, June Lockhart & Roz Kelly

Sweater Girl (1942). Shapely coeds get bumped off on a college campus. Quite a comedown for Nils Asther, who plays a professor, although he still looks good.

Tunnel Vision

Sweater Girl also features Phillip Terry aka Mr. Joan Crawford!!!

SWEATER GIRL its a nifty little movie with a great Jule Styne score, featuring the wartime hit "I Don't Want To Walk Without You, Baby" and the surprisingly risqué "I Said No" introduced by Betty Jane Rhodes.

Breakin and Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo will be on TCM this weekend

Blood Feast in 1963...ushered in the era of blood and gore drive in movies...atrocious acting and a laughably bad score.

"Something For Everyone."

All these posts and no mention of "Theatre of Blood" and the incomparably hammy Vincent Price? Co-starring, the actress, Coral Browne.

"The Last of Sheila."

"Motel Hell." Poor Rory.

"Elsa Maxwell's Hotel For Women" (1939) :

from IMDB: There's more secrets behind the stage door here than there was at the Footlight Club in the classic 1937 drama, "Stage Door". Like that Oscar nominated best picture and 1939's delightfully bitchy "The Women", this focuses on the female of the species, and of course, their favorite topic of conversation is men. There are men here, unlike "The Women", and like the ladies of "Stage Door" (as well as the clawing cats), these girls are all single. The story focuses on new to New York Linda Darnell whose boyfriend from Syracuse (James Ellison) has moved on with bitchy socialite and top VOGUE model Lynn Bari. Before you can say, "Get me a bromide, and put some gin in it!", she's a top New York model and Ellison is once again intrigued, triggering the fire in Bari's head.

Taking a secondary part just to be involved in this prestige film, Ann Sothern is a barrel of wisecracking wisdom as Darnell's neighbor, along with Jean Rogers, Kay Aldredge and a host of others. But the biggest source of advice comes from real life New York hostess and columnist Elsa Maxwell who was as powerful as Hollywood's Louella, and had no fear of some Hedda Hopper wanna be stepping on her toes. Unlike both "Stage Door" and "The Women", this sticks to the main plot line and doesn't divert from that with its huge supporting cast. But everybody has great moments, and views of various long gone trends of this era seem worthy of revisiting.

The plot twist of Bari's affair with the older John Halliday takes some of the plot line of "Stage Door" to another level that is quite intriguing. The script is filled with witty comments on life (energetically spouted by Ms. Maxwell) and bitchy asides coming out of the mouths of Darnell's more worldly contemporaries. Glimpses of Maxwell's famous party games and her own memories of how she went from poor girl to frumpy but lovable society doyenne add a historical viewpoint to the friction. Aside from Maxwell and the script, this is also memorable for the art direction, making me want to take a time machine back to late 1930's Manhattan where every day was a culturous adventure.

The McClelland Barklay poster for the film is dreamy!

I like the film Vincent Price did with Diana Rigg...

[italic]Someone I Touched,[/italic] a '70s TV movie in which Cloris Leachman catches VD

Hilarious viewing session for the above

Picture Mommy Dead...

I wish someone somehow would release Dear Dead Delilah . Agnes Moorehead gets to star in her own Baby Jane / Charlotte type of movie,,,,

^ Speaking of Picture Mommy Dead....how about Let's Kill Uncle?

[quote] I wish someone somehow would release Dear Dead Delilah . Agnes Moorehead gets to star in her own Baby Jane / Charlotte type of movie,,,,

Wish no more, my friend. Vinegar Syndrome is putting it out on blu ray imminently.

Hunky slab of Lorenzo Lamas in Body Rock as street smart rapper And breakdancer Chilly D. Hilarious but Lamas is at the peak of his beauty here.

The mention of Picture Mommy Dead reminded me of . . .

The Mad Room

Stella Stevens & Shelley Winters - and the dog walking around with the severed hand.

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (actually, pretty much anything Shelly did after 1965 or so would qualify)

Dear Dead Delilah is out now on Blu-Ray. I bought my copy and have yet to watch it. Never seen it before.

Blood Feast really is a hoot. And it's so short, too, that you never feel like you're wasting a lot of your time watching a shitty movie. It's hard to imagine anyone ever taking it seriously, but it's a blast. I saw it as a kid on VHS and, even as a kid scared of gore, I found it amusing. I think my intro to it was from the movie Serial Mom.

r152 "Theater of Blood" is my prime guilty pleasure when it comes to films. It was great seeing many familiar British character actors getting to be outrageous. I wonder if Miss Rigg cringes at the very thought of this movie?

From Hell It Came

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun; Mannequin; Hello, Again.

R161 I’m mad about Blood Feast... I first saw it after smoking a joint and drinking some tequila. Couldn’t stop laughing at the lead character Fuad, or Suzette, his potential victim. And the scene on the beach where he kills the woman but only knocks out the boyfriend....Whew! Too funny. His acting was so awful it was otherworldly. But then, he was in good company because all of the performances in Blood Feast were lousy. But that’s part of the charm.

Out of Darkness starring Miss Ross

r164 The Tabanga!

r163 The Tabanga!

Troop Beverly Hills

"Connie Stevens is SCORCHY! (1976)"

In 1976, I didn't even know what herpes was. It was years before Jeannie Bueller (a.k.a. Shauna) talked about her scorching case of herpes to avoid being attacked by real life pedophile and creepy 80s character actor, Jeffrey Jones.

And yet, I still thought of an S.T.D. when I saw Connie Stevens suited up for this movie. Maybe I confused her with Stella Stevens from the Poseidon Adventure. Maybe it was the Eddie Fisher connection. Who knows? It was the era of Bicentennial Minutes hosted by Linda Ellerbee and the shockingly daring Schoolhouse Rock cartoons. I'd just heard the mind blowing news that Jerry Mathers of Leave it to Beaver fame had died in Vietnam because he drank a Tab that was loaded with pop rocks by the Viet Cong.

Also, I was 100% certain I saw Patty Hearst buying a pack of Virginia Slims at the local Trader Joe's. Or maybe it was just a coed from Occidental College with an assault rifle. We all had assault rifles back then.

It was an exciting time.

Spider Baby

All the Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald movies are pretty campy

Just One of the Guys, so bad its great, Shalimar is on the soundtrack along with Sherilyn Fenn pre-Twin Peaks. The Trip...Dern, Fonda, Hopper and was "written " by Nicholson! Just amazingly dated.

And for horror: Demon Night, LOVE Billy Zane in that! From what I remember its a great laugh.

The First Nudie Musical....

I finally watched Dear Dead Del and was a little disappointed. Not on par with Charlotte or Baby Jane.

R13, in what world do Mommie Dearest, Baby Jane, and Showgirls not get talked about?

I view Barbra Steisand's entire filmography to be examples of low camp or high camp.

Ricardo Montalban - I adore him! And he's one of the CAMPIEST actors in the history of cinema. I like to find the camp factor in westerns. Try JOHN FORD'S Cheyenne Autumn. 1964. Well of course it's a very good movie, touching. It's John Fucking Ford. But Ford (suspect gay) could bring the camp and here he does. Ricardo, Carroll Baker, Sal Mineo!, Dolores del Rio, James Stewart and Edward G. Robinson (2 actors who could camp it up). Jack Smith must have came buckets when he saw this movie. It's to die for.

The Betsy (1978) it came with the tag line “The Harold Robbins women - what they say you do”

I saw a cowbweb in a barn once.

Mata Hari with Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro - The Moment By Moment of Hollywood's Golden Age

Ziegfeld Girl

Inside Daisy Clover

Finian's Rainbow

The Dolly Sisters

There's No Business Like Show Business

I Could Go On Singing

Dead Ringer

The Baby with Ruth Roman is one of my favorites. So bizarre and disturbing, yet compulsively watchable.

I just saw A Simple Favor in theaters and this has all the makings of a camp classic. It's genuinely funny and a blast to watch. All you bitches should go see it.

"A Summer Place" with the best theme song ever and a hokey plot

Clash of the Titans! Harry! Larry! Maggie! Ursula!

Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? is an actually disturbing movie in the Psycho-Biddy genre.

Norman, Is That You?

Hit the Deck

r182, agree with you on There's No Business Like Show Business. Marilyn! The Merm! An uber campy Johnnie Ray!

Roller Boogie

Thank God It's Friday

Lost Horizon, the 1973 remake

Sextette

Rent-a-Cop

Once Is Not Enough

The Mirror Crack'd

Beverly Hills Madam

Where Love Has Gone, with DL icons Bette Davis, Susan Hayward and Joey Heatherton

The Blue Bird (both the 1940 Shirley Temple version and the 1976 remake with Liz Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson and Ava Gardner)

Tam-Lin (directed by Roddy Mcdowall and starring Ava Gardner and a young Joanna Lumley)

The Return of Captain Invincible

Lucky Lady

Billie ('65) with Patty Duke

Anything starring Liz Taylor from Cleopatra onward

Schindler's List

[quote]Where Love Has Gone, with DL icons Bette Davis, Susan Hayward and Joey Heatherton

Yes! It amazes me how few people have seen this ultra-camp shit fest based on the Lana Turner stabbing!

The costumes and sets were lurid perfection.

FLASH!!! AH-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! GORDON!!!!!

THE INVINCIBLE!!!

FLASH!!! AH-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! GORDON!!!!!

THE UNTALENTED!!!

With Brian Blessed and a young Timothy Dalton as whatever the fuck it was that was supposed to be.

Songs by Queen.

Diva

Zardoz.

Sean Connery in a diaper and Charlotte Rampling as a suicidal immortal (one of many).

Barbarella

Salome with Rita Hayworth and Charles Laughton as King Herod

Carnival Story with Anne Baxter as a high diver

Bedevilled ('55) with DL fave Anne Baxter and an over dramatic death scene

The divine Miss Susan Cabot's SORORITY GIRL....

I second Magilla Gorilla.

Disney camp -- "Million Dollar Duck" with DL faves Sandy Duncan and Dean Jones - their kid has a duck that lays golden eggs leading to complications galore - kind of fun actually

That cartoon dog that had a rather very vocal orgasm whenever you gave him a dog biscuit -- he'd jump in the air and end up lying in the ground very satisfied. Can't remember the show or the character's name, but he pretty unforgettable. Maybe one of you guys know?

I fiound it -- Snuffles from the show "Quick Draw McGraw".

[quote]Just One of the Guys, so bad its great,

Just One is actually pretty good, certainly better than most 80s teen dreck.

Rhinestone with DL icon Dolly Parton and a singing Sly Stallone

Striptease with Dummy i mean Demi Moore

The Conqueror with John Wayne as Genghis Khan and DL icons Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead

Bird of Paradise ('32)

Green Mansions ('59) with DL faves Audrey Hepburn and Tony Perkins

White Cargo ('42) with Hedy Lamarr in blackface as Tondelayo

"Flamingo Road," starring La Crawford as a carnival dancer.

Yeesh!

Caprice with Doris Day

Funny Lady

[quote]Rhinestone with DL icon Dolly Parton and a singing Sly Stallone

I saw it in a theater with a friend. When Stallone sang the original composition "Drinkinstein" we couldn't stop laughing and people got pissed off.

I know an earlier poster chastised others for only wanting to hear about films that were unintentionally camp & funny - but sometimes movies that were meant to be funnier seem even campier with it as years go by? Elvira definitely does - and last night I watched Drop Deap Gorgeous - the movie - with Kirstie Alley, Kirstin Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Alison Janney - even a very young Amy Adams. I remember thinking it was pretty funny when it came out - but it’s even better now! Sooooo much camp, trashy fun - it’s like they made a Divine film - without Divine! - and it’s none the poorer for it (think Ellen Barkin’s character would be the Divine role!)

It really is a hoot - should be like catnip for DLers!

Female on the Beach , starring a 50-year-old Joan Crawford whose character is addressed as "young lady" by another character!

The Disappearance of Aimee with DL icons Fate Dunaway and Bette Davis

Hush with Lange and Paltrow and heavenly Jonathan Schaech (sp?)!

Any scene with Nellie Oleson on Little House On The Prairie.

The Prodigal with Lana Turner and Edmund Purdom. They (20th Century Fox) tried to make him happen, but he didn’t. This lame Biblical epic didn’t help matters much. The best scene is when temple priestess Samara, played by Turner (she designed her own costumes for this), gets stoned to death by the angry mob.

Miss Lana makes like a pearl in Biblical Chic.....

r216, I LOVE Hush! Jessica Lange is a riot. You just know she was having so much fun chewing the scenery.

At Long Last Love ('75)

Rabbit Test ('78)

All of the Beach Party movies with Frankie and Annette

I don't think of At Long Last Love as camp, r221....

The New Yorker last week hailed "At Long Last Love" as a delightful film that was unappreciated in its day. Or something like that. Really...

Don’t know if anyone mentioned this yet, but “The Haunting of Julia” (aka “Full Circle”)—if only for the opening scene, where Julia (DL fave Mia Farrow) tries to perform a makeshift tracheotomy on her choking daughter at the breakfast table. It was not successful.

Really, r223??? Jesus. They're dead wrong and that ain't IMHO....it's fact.

anything with the adorable Pia Zadora in it

r219 why did bottom of an outfit like that look like a girdle???

Oh for chrissakes, r227, why do you think?

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Heartbeeps with Andy Kaufman and DL icon Bernadette Peters as humanoid robots

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

Abby: The Black Exorcist

Outrageous

Wonder Bar ('34) a bonkers Pre-Code with Al Jolson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Cortez and DL faves Dolores del Rio, Kay Francis and Patsy Kelly. Musical numbers directed by Busby Berkeley including the infamous "Goin' to Heaven" blackface finale with Jolson. This movie is also featured promintently in The Celluloid Closet

Rose Marie

The Magic Christian ('69)

Kansas City Bomber ('72)

Sahara ('83)

Brenda Starr ('89)

The Honey Pot ('67)

I'll Cry Tomorrow ('55)

With a Song in My Heart ('52)

The Night Walker ('64)

It's Fwancis, r232....

Dracula's Daughter ('36)

Chastity ('69) with Cher as a truckstop hooker

Ash Wednesday ('73)

Earthquake ('74)

Stolen Hours ('63) remake of Dark Victory with Susan Hayward in Bette's role

Yolanda and the Thief

The Pirate

All About Eve

Million Dollar Mermaid, with an over the top injury scene by DL fave Esther Williams + the Busby Berkeley production numbers

I'll see your Susie's Stolen Hours and raise you her Back Street, r236.

For the legions of Nancy Kwan fans.....

The 1974 pilot film for Wonder Woman with Cathy Lee Crosby is a hoot

Dracula A.D. 1972

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon ('70) with Liza

The Grasshopper ('71) with Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown and Joseph Cotten

Fathom ('67) with Raquel Welch

Fred Williamson is so hot in Junie Moon.

I don't think of Junie Moon as camp.....

The live action remake of 101 Dalmatians with Glenn Close as Cruella DeVille is borderline intentional camp but it's camp nonetheless, as is the unnecessary but still campy sequel 102 Dalmatians where Glenn/Cruella gets paint thrown at her by a PETA loon and gets baked into a giant cake by the puppies... no I'm not making this up

r249 You get points for spelling "Dalmatians" correctly, but it's Cruella DeVil, as in "devil" -- get it?

The Green Slime.

Lady with Red Hair ('40) with Miriam Hopkins (as a turn of the century wannabe actress who gets her so taken away because... shock.. she wants to go on the stage!), Claude Rains hamming it up as David Belasco and some of the bitchiest society women ever on screen

Send Me No Flowers ('64), with DL icons Doris and Rock plus Tony Randall and Paul Lynde!

The Bjg Cube ('69) aka Lana Turner on LSD

Send Me No Flowers also features Clive Clerk in a small role. It's so campy - there's even a scene where Rock and Tony get in bed together!

THIS: 'I've made 30 stag films and I've never faked an orgasm!' Before movie legend Jennifer Jones made her final screen appearance in the disaster flick Towering Inferno, she made this disaster. Rock star/cult leader Bogart Peter Styvenson corrupts a fat heiress and her stag actress mother and homosexual father. Like that bad night Tijuana, you hope the ordeal will fade from memory once the vomiting stops. Cruel and malicious, you can't stop watching as our jaw keeps dropping. Originally titled Angel, Angel Down We Go - the name was changed to capitalize on the still unfolding Manson Murders. Classy! One of my favorite "bad" films of all time.

Bunny O'Hare.

I don't remember Bunny O'Hare as camp, r255....

Has anyone seen "Who Killed Teddy Bear"? Is it good, is it camp? Sal Mineo, DL fave/frenemy Elaine Stritich and Juliet Prowse sounds interesting indeed.

Stritch, sorry

Chained heat!

I remember only catching probably the tail end of Carnival of Souls when I was a kid and how it totally creeped me out. It was on last night but I was too tired to watch it. I'm hoping it'll be on again.

The Damned Don't Cry with La Crawford was on TCM a few days ago

Goodbye My Fancy ('51)

X, Y and Zee ('72) - "why if it isn't darling Stell-lah!'

Liz Taylor in Night Watch

The Sandpiper ('65) with Taylor and Burton

A Letter for Three Wives ('49)

Mix Me a Person ('62), little known UK film starring DL fave Anne Baxter

The Phynx ('70)

Call Her Savage ('32) w/ Clara Bow as a "half breed" + sexy Gilbert Roland and Bow' s catfight with Thelma Todd

The Glass Bottom Boat ('66) with DL faves Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Paul Lynde, Dom DeLuise, Ellen Corby and the Kravitzes from Bewitched

Drums of Africa ('63)

Hannie Caulder ('71)

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini ('66)

Las Vegas Hillbillies ('67)

Lady of Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck as a stripper caught up in a murder, based on a novel by Gypsy Rose Lee which was also the basis for the play The Neon Woman with Divine!

A House Is Not a Home

The sex scenes in Good Luck Miss Wyckoff, where the frigid spinster teacher gets the hot-bodied BBC she craves — in the classroom! — then gets caught and pretends it's rape:

Isn't "The Queen of outer space" starring Zsa Zsa Gabor supposed to be quite camp yet I hear it mentioned little?

Desk Set Silent Night, Lonely Night New York, New York Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? Magic Can’t Stop The Music The Wiz

Wild in the Streets with Christopher Jones as president and Shelly Winters as his mother.

[quote]Has anyone seen "Who Killed Teddy Bear"? Is it good, is it camp? Sal Mineo, DL fave/frenemy Elaine Stritich and Juliet Prowse sounds interesting indeed.

Parts of it are camp — Juliet Prowse plays a "discotheque deejay" whose (stereo) equipment seems to be a record player and about a dozen albums in a living room where people do the twist. And Sal Mineo is homoerotic camp throughout.

But much of it is fascinating, especially some on-location Times Square stuff where he goes to a circa-1965 dirty bookstore, and late in the film where he's running through the streets of lower New York. Apparently they didn't get a permit and just shot it early one morning, and it's very effective.

R260 the lead actress looks just like Iggy Azalea . Eerie film though. Very much ahead of its time.

The I Don't Care Girl with DL icon Mitzi Gaynor

The Concorde: Airport '79

Head with The Monkees

The Terror of the Tongs - silly Hammer Studios film from the early 60s

My Forbidden Past - with Ava Gardner

The Merlin Jones movies with DL faves Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk

I Thank a Fool w/ Susan Hayward

Faster Pussycat Kill Kill

"The Glass Bottom Boat" is actually very funny - great cast!

"Nine Girls", a forgotten Columbia "B" movie from 1944. Bitchy, back-stabbing Sorority queen Anita Louise gets bumped off. Which sorority sister did it? Featuring beautiful Jinx Falkenburg, Ann Harding, Evelyn Keyes, Nina Foch, Marsha Mae Jones and Jeff Donnell, playing a sports-enthusiast nicknamed "Butch".

r280, that looks like a scream. Love the crypto dyke character.

The Snake Pit with DL faves Olivia de Havilland and Celeste Holm in the looney bin!

It feels like just about any Liz Taylor film from the sixties on - when she started looking matronly and a little blowsy - all seem unintentionally camp. Some have already been mentioned - but thinking about them - they all seem to have that campy element in spades. Liz just can’t help herself!

The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster

[italic]Take Care of My Little Girl,[/italic] an early-'50s look at college sorority life starring Jeanne Crain as a nice girl who gets a bid to her legacy chapter, the bitchy but top-tier Tri-U's. Co-starring Jean Peters, Mitzi Gaynor, Betty Lynn, and Miss Natalie Schafer as the snooty housemother.

R76- I watched Dramatic School recently. Luise's elfin reads like brain damage.

Eyes of Laura Mars is on Amazon Prime now and I’m watching The Mad Room with Stella Stevens and Shelley Winters as I type.

The Mad Room isn’t as good as Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice by the same director.

All About Eve is on TCM right now - perfect timing.

[quote]I think it was Kim Novak's only campy performance, which was obviously 100% unintentional.

Have you see her in "Jeanne Eagels"?

Where Kim does Jeanne doing Sadie Thompson like a drag queen.

Any Hugo Haas film

The Manitou

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Any of Shirley Temple's movies from 20th Century Fox

Another Part of the Forest, the prequel to The Little Foxes with Ann Blyth in Bette' s role

Queen Bee with La Crawford

Smash Up: The Story of a Woman w/ Susan Hayward

The First Traveling Saleslady w/ Ginger Rogers, Carol Channing and a young Clint Eastwood

Billie w/ Patty Duke

Elephant Walk w/ Liz Taylor

"A Rage to Live," the story of a nymphomaniac (gasp), is a true camp classic starring Suzanne Pleshette. She plays a young upper-class housewife whose craving for cock ruins her life.

It's very relatable to DLers.

The Day the Fish Came Out (1967)

I think that Kings of the Sun (1963) about the ancient Mayans is campy. George Chakiris is the Mayan king and Yul Brynner is his captive.

Anything starring a Hepburn.

R257 In the late 90's "Who Killed Teddy Bear" played at the Quad cinema for a few weeks. It's pretty amazing in the camp/sexy/disturbing/what were they thinking/i see why this film has been out of circulation for 40 years--vein.

It really is doing like 50 things all at once:

Crime thriller. Surreal look at childhood abuse. Psycho-sexual study. Beefcake expose for Sal Mineo in tighty whiteys. In a role she was born to play--Stritch as a predatory lesbian adorned in swinging mod 60's fashion. (Stritch also gets attacked in a brutal and endless scene where she screams in baritone over and over. I can't imagine what the set was like on that day.) And a dance showcase for Juliet Prowse in tight sweaters, tight skirts, and tight high high heels.

Juliet Prowse at one point feels she is being watched through her window by someone unseen. She looks out her window only to see that it faces only a brick wall. And she says "What was i worried about? A peeping brick?" and then laughs. I don't why that has always stuck with me. But it has. A peeping brick. A peeping brick. Someone wrote that line and got paid. For real.

The opening titles are really spooky. "Who killed Teddy Bear? Does anybody care?" Is the lyric under the titles. Sung by a woman in a baby-talk voice cooing.

Oh! This has made me want to see it again--right now. On Christmas Day. A new tradition?

R296 Gazzara is absolutely smoking in that. Some major VPL.

Please don't let me be the only person who has seen the exceptionally trashy [italic]Impulse[/italic] (1974), starring William Shatner in a career-worst performance as a psychopathic killer who sports some of the most hideous costumes ever committed to celluloid.

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, the quasi sequel to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell returns, but with Jeanne Crain in support. Jack Cole did the choreography, and the campy centerpiece features a bevy of chorus boys in blackface as African warriors + Alan Young in a gorilla suit + Russell and Crain being cooked in a giant pot

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad with Roz Russell and Jonathan Winters.

The mention of Shatner's name reminds me that he appeared in Devil's Rain. I've never watched it but the stills suggest campiness galore.

Who Killed Teddy Bear? Is AMAZING. I have it on DvD, but it is probably a bootleg of an old VHS tape.

Olivia De Havilland and James Caan in Lady in A Cage (1965).

Liv in an Elevator!

Maps to the stars. Batshit camp mess, it must be seen to believed.

Maps To the Stars kinda flew under the radar, didn't it? All I remember is thinking it was some of the best work Julianne Moore had ever done. There was some scene where she finds out she got a role, because the kid of the actress they chose over her was killed. She starts jumping up and down and doing this crazy dance by the pool. It was hilarious and haunting at the same time.

R309 haha ,yeah I remember that. She starts singing that song "Na Na HeyHey" song and grabbing her assistants hand. It was just drove home how completely morally stunted and empty she was. That was one of many scenes in the film that took a lot of guts, many actresses would be afraid to be seen as Julianne's character, but Moore just went for it. Lol. I'm actually a bit surprised the film isn't mentioned more often on DL, I would think it would be a fave.

"Screaming Mimi" (1958) with a stunning but zombified Anita Ekberg as an "exotic dancer" with post traumatic stress disorder doing a number where she writhes around semi-naked in chains in lesbian proprietress Gypsy Rose Lee's "nightclub" El Madhouse. Meanwhile people are being murdered left and right...

Wicked Woman

Wasp Woman

Girls Town with DL fave Mamie Van Doren and a young, baby faced Paul Anka

Untamed Youth, also with Mamie is quite the hoot

Let’s Scare Jessica To Death starring the great but forgotten Zohar Lambert.

I believe you meant the great but clearly forgotten Zohra Lampert. I enjoyed watching her in the Bob Newhart episode where she tried to seduce out-of-town Bob, girlfriend to psychopath Robert Redford in Alfred Hitchcock, and I think an episode of Naked City, among others.

She won an Emmy for an episode of Kojak.

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Sssssss

Two on a Guillotine with overacting DL fave Connie Stevens playing both mother and daughter

R316 I love Lampert. She was in Splendor in the Grass as Beatty's wife, at the end. I was saddened to learn that she is married to gasbag Jonathan Schwartz.

1929' s Untamed was on TCM a few nights ago, with DL legend Joan Crawford as (what else?) a hellraising flapper named Bingo. Like most early talkies it goes by at a snail's pace and besides Joan and Robert Montgomery the rest of the cast is an overacting mess

Did anybody else see this when it was on?

r319, wasn't DL fave Cesar Romero in that, too?

I grew up on Bette Davis films but didn’t really care for Joan Crawford. Recently I watched Harriet Craig and Queen Bee and loved them.

R323 Did you love the films or love Joan?

I have weird relationship with Joan because my mother actually resembles her but I could tell Joan was a pushy, unloveable, mannish person..

Thanks, Op. Now you made me go buy The Best of Everything on Amazon Prime Video.

Re: 319

Yes and so is Dean Jones. There's a nightmare dream sequence where Connie is buried alive in a casket that must be seen to be believed.

R324 I admired Joan as a movie star but would hate her as a mother. My mother was good as gold but my father is more like Joan and all my 5 siblings are control freaks.

Christina has said Queen Bee was exactly how Crawford was in real life. I always considered Mommie Dearest exactly like a late Crawford movie.

I have tried to watch Legend of Lylah Clare but it becomes a chore. Is it so bad it’s good or just plain bad ?

In Best of Everything Joan leaves comes back to the company later and Hope Lange is very nice to Crawford when she didn’t have a good relationship with her before. They never explain.

I think Crawford comes to respect Lange.

Re: 328

It's so bad it's good, it almost revels in its campiness

Same director as Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ?

Robert Aldrich directed a bevy of camp classics: Baby Jane, Lylah Clare, Killing of Sister George, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Big Knife. Autumn Leaves, Sodom and Gomorrah

Which director has the record for camp classics? I was thinking John Waters but his movies are intentionally campy

GRRRRR... YOU think Amazon has everything but they don’t have Two on a Gullotine or The Legend of Lylah Claire.

Re: they have them, both are Warner Archive DVDs

2...........joan crawford...straight jacket....... and also the other william castle flick......homicidal.........featuring a drag queen/cross dresser like main character as the murderer....they are on a double bill same dvd if you get your netflix the old fashioned way thru the mail.

Yeah. Streaming has spoiled me.

A Beautiful Boy.

Mark. My. Words...

10-20 years, tops.

I taped Butcher , Baker, Nightmare Maker just for the Jimmy McNichol gratuitous nudity. I was reading about it and some think it’s a good film. It is directed by William Asher once married to Elizabeth Montgomery and helmed classic TV like Bewitched and I Love Lucy. Jimmy has a strange relationship with his Aunt played by the beyond over the top Susan Tyrell. Also has young Julia Duffy TCM recently aired this and it might be on their app..

Back to the Beach ('87) with Frankie and Annette for one last hurrah, with Connie Stevens, a pre Full House Lori Loughlin, Pee Wee Herman, Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughan (!), plus cameos by Don Adams, Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., and Edd Kookie Burns

“Back to the Beach” was delightful!

Stepping Out ('91) with DL icon Liza with a Z and DL faves Ellen Greene, Shelley Winters, Jane Krakowski, Julie Walters,Andrea Martin and Nora Dunn

Surprised no one has mentioned Ziegfeld Girl, pretty much a 40's version of Valley of the Dolls. With Lana Turner' s dramatic staircase fall, Judy's phallic looking Carmen Miranda turban, Hedy Lamarr, Jimmy Stewart as a mobster, Eve Arden, musical numbers by Busby Berkeley, Adrian designed showgirl costumes which were definitely an inspiration to Bob Mackie

What's not to like?

Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker is a great one. It's basically a really, really dark Lifetime movie on crack that crosses over into camp heaven thanks to Susan Tyrrell's wild performance. It must be seen to be believed. It's an awesome movie.

I wouldn't call Let's Scare Jessica To Death a camp movie. It's far too quiet and sedate.

As for directors known for camp, I always feel like Paul Verhoven and Dario Argento are a bit campy in all of their films. There's a garish, theatrical quality to most of their work. In fact, I feel like once Argento dropped all the baroque camp from his work after Opera, his fan base dwindled. Maybe he's just not able to secure the same kinds of budgets he used to, so he has to make movies that look like TV movies. Compare Suspiria and Inferno to it's sequel, Mother of Tears, and you'll see what I mean. Those films have lavish set designs, campy performances, and gorgeous lighting and Mother of Tears is shot like a bland, CSI episode.

Most of Betty Grable' s Technicolor musicals are underrated camp gems

I saw Butcher B.... recently it was a hoot. Poor Jimmy not only has to deal was his bat shit crazy ‘Aunt’ he has to deal with a evil severely homophobic cop played by Bo Svenson and great Marcia Lewis as a nice nosy neighbor

I wonder if original script had Jimmy gay. Once he is called gay right away he’s bonking Julia Duffy Jimmy MbNichol has a long nude scene and is shirtless most all the movie. He actually is good in movie and looks like he stepped out of a William Higgins movie. Also a young and sexy Bill Paxton has a small role as a High School mean boy.

Ruby Gentry ('52) with Jennifer Jones in a role originally intended for Ava Gardner

Montana Belle ('51) with DL fave Jane Russell as Belle Starr

R328, that's by Robert Aldrich, IIRC. He did at least two other Hollywood-themed films: Baby Jane and The Big Knife. Also, Charlotte and Kiss Me Deadly. So he often verges on camp. I love him.

Darling Lili ('70) with Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson

Rabbit Test ('78)

Shanghai Surprise ('86)

I just remember SS as a bad bad movie. Who’s That Girl almost makes it as a so bad it’s good movie.

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

Midnight Lace with Doris Day overacting up a storm.

.....

"Midnight Lace with Doris Day overacting up a storm."

Julie is another Doris movie that is high camp!

The Boy Next Door - J.Lo's Midnight Lace!

THE EYE OF THE CAT (1969) - Not well known, but it's a great campfest. Youtube has the whole movie, great quailty.

"Obsessed" - Crazy Ali Larter goes batshit stalker in her attempts to seduce faithful Idris Elbra from his wife Beyonce!

Obsessed = Beyonce's Midnight Lace!

Catalina Caper with DL faves Tommy Kirk, Lyle Waggoner, and special guest star Little Richard

They did Catalina Caper on MST3K - it was a riot

Tap Roots ('48) with Susan Hayward finally getting her chance to play a Scarlett O'Hara like role. I don't think this one's on DVD, except for bootlegs

This Woman Is Dangerous ('52), La Crawford's last movie for WB, a reworking of Dark Victory (!!!) But instead of a socialite, Joan plays a lady mobster

Tap Roots is on youtube

Mrs. Pollifax, Spy with Roz Russell

The Blue Bird, both the 1940 version with Shirley Temple and the 1976 version with La Liz, Ava Gardner, Jane Fonda and Cicely Tyson

Blonde Venus with Marlene Dietrich and (in one of his first movies) Cary Grant, yes this is the one where she sings "Hot Voodoo"

The Maze

Bwana Devil

From Hell it Came

R73 Who Killed Teddy Bear? was the first film I thought of when I saw this thread, but wanted to add watch it as a double bill with Satan in High Heels (1962) with big busted Meg Myles looking much older than she really was (badly photographed, not her fault), and seducing a wealthy businessman and his very young son, and even campier, Grayson Hall as a presumed lesbian (like Stritch) named Pepe. Hall, who got nominated for an Oscar two years later for playing a closeted lesbian in "The Night of the Iguana", refused to talk about this film years later. I wonder if Meg Myles & Grayson Hall ever crossed paths on the ABC set in 1982 when Myles was on "The Edge of Night" and Hall was on "One Life to Live".

"Satan in High Heels" is the best movie title ever!

Pieces. It's a Spanish lensed slasher flick from the early 80's with the double team of Christopher and Lynda Day George. It must be seen to be believed. It's drenched in gore, but the plot is so goofy and the acting so overbaked (and poorly dubbed) that it turns into a hilarious comedy. Literally everyone I've shown it to has ended up loving it.

What about Blood and Lace with DL fave Gloria Grahame? It was once called the sickest PG movie ever made (well, it was actually rated GP at the time). Ol' Gloria plays the headmistress of a sorta halfway house/orphanage for troubled teens and they keep trying to run away and turn up dead. There are some moments that are a real hoot and the entire film seems to have been scored with the world's most bland library music. It only just recently made its home video debut on Blu-Ray, but it used to turn up on cable every now and then.

R367 - J'adore Lynda Day George. :)

Christopher and Lynda Day George made some real howlers in the early 80's. Mortuary is another good one with The Walton's Mary McDonaugh and a young Bill Paxton. Graduation Day doesn't have Lynda, but it does have Chris and it's a scream, too. Aw, I miss that time. Even the bad movies were at least a good time.

LDG gets better with each "Bastard!"

Speaking of 80's horror movies, Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (a.k.a. Night Warning) is a camp lover's dream. Susan Tyrrell plays the craziest bitch you've ever seen who quite clearly wants to fuck her nephew, Jimmy McNichol. It feels like one of those psycho biddy movies Joan Crawford or Bette Davis would have made in the 60's, but with an extra layer or two of depravity. It's a must see!

Torch Song - Typecast bitch Joan falls for blind pianist (!) Michael wilding. Joan’s blackface number is over the top.

[quote]"Satan in High Heels" is the best movie title ever!

Well, this is a close second.

"Evil Under the Sun." Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Jane Birken, Nicholas Clay's ass (much discussed here,) tunes from Cole Porter and Roddy MacDowell finally playing a gay character. That scene near the end with Jane and the stairs (you know what I'm talking about,) is so delicious.

I haven't seen this film, but the trailer sure is campy.

Raintree County (except for Eva Marie Saint

MAGNIFICIENT OBSESSION

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS

LUCY GALLANT

Most biblical epics made between Cecil B. De Mille's "Samson & Delilah" and George Stevens' "The Greatest Story Ever Told."

Curly Sue

The name alone!

Mom and Dad Save the World

The part that always stuck with me is when the dad opens the garage and backs up and gets the newspaper and pulls back into the garage.

Robot Monster, 1953.

This book should be made into a movie.

^ I can't stop laughing at that!

Angel Angel Down We Go('69)

Roller Boogie ('79)

Lizzie ('57) a knock off of Three Faces of Eve with Eleanor Parker in the title role

Lizzie is a scream, plus Johnny Mathis has a cameo in it

"The Oscar," the most entertaining bad movie ever made, is a total camp fest. Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Joseph Cotten, Eleanor Parker, Milton Berle, Tony Bennett, Edie Adams, Jill St. John and Ernest Borgnine star in this earnest mess. There used to be a terrific edit on-line with all the most delightfully cringe-worthy moments, but it seems to be gone. Instead, here's Bennett chewing up the scenery in his big moment.

"Birdseed, Frankie!"

Madame Sin ('72) with DL icon Bette Davis as a Eurasian murderess and DL fave Robert Wagner. Apparently this was a made for a TV movie that was meant to be a pilot for a possible series, but later released theatrically

I love this movie. There was a soap opera loosely based from it in the early 70’s.

I Married an Angel ('42) the final MacDonald-Eddy film was on TCM a few weeks ago and it was unbelievably campy

Most Eddy/MacDonald movies are pretty camp.

Interval (1973) with Merle Oberon and her star fucking cougar bait, Robert Wolders...unbelievably bad.

I Love Melvin with DL icon Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor mainly for two musical numbers: Debbie as a human football with dancing football players plus a later number where she dances with chorus boys in creepy Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly masks (I'm not making this up)

Dear Dead Delilah

The Black Slipper.

Goodbye My Fancy and Payment on Demand are both going to be on TCM in the next few weeks, two underrated camp classics starring you know who

White Cargo with Hedy Lamarr in blackface as Tondelayo

R393 But "I Love Melvin" has the wonderful Donald O'Connor in a number on roller skates in a gazebo, which I remember seeing as a kid on tv and making me a life-long fan of Mr. O'Connor. He and Debbie also have a great song and dance number in the living room, plus Debbie looks absolutely adorable in a tutu at the beginning of the film, and later on does a fun production number called "A Lady Loves" which she clearly enjoyed making and is enjoyable to watch. Yeah, the human football number is indeed very campy though.

White Cargo is a laugh riot

John Waters' Pecker.

All his early movies get talked about, but Pecker, from the late '90s, isn't mentioned as much. It had some fun moments.

And this.

r398: Glad to see the love for I LOVE MELVIN. This and GIVE A GIRL A BREAK are my favorite MGM musicals from the '50s. Unpretentious and charming with nifty scores by Mack Gordon & Josef Myrow for the former and Ira Gershwin & Burton Lane for the latter.

I Loved a Woman ('33) with Edward G. Robinson and Kay Fwancis was on TCM a few days ago and it's so bad it's good.

The wavishing Kay Fwancis actually still is pretty watchable. TCM still holds quite a few Kay Francis Days; she made a lot of films and was a really big star in the 1930s. She's one of the biggest of that period who is mostly forgotten these days except for TCM and its viewers. "Trouble in Paradise" by Ernst Lubitsch co-starring Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall, is terrific, stylish, funny and still holds up.

R402 They do make a great double bill. "Give a Girl a Break!" has that crazy title song ("My singing has them winging", sings a very heavyset lady who actually does have a nice voice), and then there's the Bobby Van/Debbie balloon dance, plus the "Applause! Applause!" number.

R404 Kay (closely followed by Barbara Stanwyck & the two Joan B's (Bennett & Blondell) remains my favorite of the 1930's leading ladies, and even though Kay herself said she couldn't wait to be forgotten (and was until TCM came along), she is more popular than ever. "One Way Passage" can be a bit over-the-top (it did warrant a Carol Burnett spoof), and 1937's "Confession" shows Kay in a Garbo/Dietrich type role where she is truly magnificent. She deserved Academy nominations for "Trouble in Paradise", "Confession" and "In Name Only" (a terrific bitch!), and her three Monogram films are a notch above what Monogram usually did. Kay's campiest for me is probably "Mandalay" (1934), although "A Notorious Affair" (1930) is really outrageous as well, showing Kay seducing everybody from the stable boy to Basil Rathbone. The way she ogles them is quite unique, considering she's supposed to be a great lady. It reminded me of "Another World's" Donna Love making a play for stable boy Catlin Ewing, obviously showing that she had an itch "down there" that needed to be "scratched".

Dance Girl Dance with DL icon Lucille Ball as a burlesque stripper and Maureen O'Hara as an aspiring ballerina who winds up as Lucy's stooge during her costume changes. Plus there's one of the best hair pulling catfights on film

Shanghai Surprise

I see at the Little Church Around the Corner that the guy who does those "Tired Old Queen at the Movies" is going to be doing a movie night of "With a Song in My Heart".! Talk about camp.

"Tired Old Queen At the Movies" is a lot more fun than Pewdipie.

I’m watching the extremely mean spirited Eyes of a Stranger right now on WachTCM. Lauren Tewes ain’t bad and a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a deaf and blind girl who I suspect is about to get raped and murdered. What is really awful an attack when she was younger somehow caused her blindness and being deaf. .

I just yelled at the TV ‘ why doesn’t that bitch Julie never call the police’.

All Kay fans need to check out this episode of the "You Must Remember This" podcast.

It's an excellent summation of bisexual Kay and her "don't give a fuck" attitude about her life and career.

Bette Davis in The Empty Canvas with as improbable a look as as her 1964 creations in Where Love Has Gone, Dead Ringer, and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Did any other actress ever contribute as much to Camp in a single year?

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Liz Taylor appeared in Taming of the Shrew, Dr. Faustus, Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Comedians all in 1967+ winning the Oscar for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf which went into general release that year

That Hagen Girl ('47) with DL fave Shirley Temple and Ronald Reagan was on TCM a few nights ago... so bad it's worth watching

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Reagan plays Shirley' s love interest who might or might not be her father (I know wtf) others in the cast include Rory Calhoun, Lois Maxwell (aka Miss Moneypenny from the James Bond films) and a very young Conrad Janis

Kismet ('55), lesser known Freed Unit musical, Howard Keel intentionally camps it up, DL faves Monty Woolley, Sebastian Cabot, Dolores Gray and Ann Blyth...

Les Girls ('57) worth it just for Gene Kelly impersonating Brando in The Wild One in a musical number with DL icon Mitzi Gaynor

Designing Woman ('57)

A lot of these are not camp, IMHO:

Certainly not:

Desk Set,

A Letter to Three Wives

Taming of the Shrew

All About Eve

The Honey Pot

Evil Under the Sun

And several others.

For R315, R316

Re: Zohra Lampert

The Kojak episode you mention was "The Queen of the Gypsies" from January 19, 1975. Season 2, Episode 18.

It's not until the very end, that the viewer and Kojak come to realize what her character is about and why her character says

[quote] I always worked with my father.

Wonderful episode. I still remember it. She deserved that Emmy.

Andy Warhol's Bad

TWIGGER WARNING!

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All About Eve isn't camp?!?? Surely you must be joking...

R417 Dolores Gray is the epitome of camp in "Kismet", and gets to be flashy and flamboyant in "Designing Woman". It's a shame she only made a handful of movies. "Thanks a Lot But No Thanks" in "It's always Fair Weather" is equivalent in tacky fun to anything that Ann Miller ever did.

"Les Girls" has the over-the-top title song and "Ladies in Waiting" which I've always pictured as a drag number. "You're Just Too Too" is also fun with delightfully cheezy lyrics. While it's secondary Cole Porter (he's obviously trying to emulate his songs from all those French themed musicals of the 1930's that hardly anybody anymore remembers), it's still a lot of fun.

As far as other forgotten MGM musicals, the last two Mario Lanza films ("Seven Hills of Rome" and "For the First Time") are quite campy in spots. There's a "Let's throw a party!" number in "Seven Hills" that is quite amusing. And of course, "For the First Time" features Zsa Zsa!

Thank you r420: The feel-good clip to start my week on a high note!

I have seen that movie. I know better to click on that link. And I am really depressed and wanted to feel good.

Almost any movie with Susan Tyrel. Bad is probably her most subdued she plays the only nice person. Also Fat City when she was nominated for Oscar.

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The obvious baby doll/dummy lol,

The Tall Guy

The Fat Spy ('65) with Phyllis Diller and Jayne Mansfield

Rabbit Test ('78) directed and written by Joan Rivers, with Billy Crystal as a pregnant man which predates Ahnuld in Junior

Desire Me ('47)

Raintree County ('57)

Decameron Nights ('53)

Faithless ('32) with DL icon Tallulah Bankhead as a hooker

The Apple ('80) one of three disco musicals that came out that year (the others being Can't Stop the Music and Xanadu)

Phantom of the Paradise ('75)

Filth

The WIcker Man with Nicholas Cage. He goes to an island off the coast of WA, looking for his missing daughter. Oh shit! the island is the home of a coven of pagans. Before you know it, NC is designated to be a human sacrifice and is being chased by a swarm of homicidal bees. The (over)acting by NC is ridiculous and this film is pure dreck.

Pretty much anything Nicholas Cage has done in the last 20 years would qualify.

All of Yvonne DeCarlo' s B-movies from the '40s and '50s like Salome:Where She Danced and Buccaneer' s Girl

Wait, I thought “Black Drag Queens Inventend Camp.”

Do tell!

The Phynx ('70)

Fedora ('78)

The Boy Friend ('71)

The Singing Nun, with DL icon Debbie Reynolds as, well you know...

The Haunting. Not any of the classic remakes, the one with Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor and the extremely youthful Catherine Zeta-Jones. She doesn’t look a day over eighteen in this one.

It’s about a shrink that wants to scare people in a haunted house, apparently because he’s an asshole. Lili Taylor is the guest that is happy to be there, ghosts and all.

For a while, I was working late at night. I would put this movie on, and every once in a while I would glance up. Invariably one or more of the malicious-looking cherubs carved out of bronze or wood all over every square inch of the Victorian Gothic house, would suddenly change form, get a Chucky Doll evil look on its face, and reach out with various arms or tentacles of some sort and start grabbing people.

It’s actually quite relaxing after the tenth time or so.

They must have spent more on this than The Avengers and every penny was wasted. Ridiculously expensive set. It would have been cheaper to gold plate everything.

Forgot the clip:

Julie, starring Miss Doris Day

Most of Mamie Van Doren' s movies from the '50s: Untamed Youth, High School Confidential, Girls Town, Born Reckless, Sex Kittens Go to College, just to name a few

The I Don't Care Girl ('52) with DL icon Mitzi Gaynor as Ziegfeld Follies star Eva Tanguay

I Walked with a Zombie ('43)

Caprice ('67) with DL icon Doris Day (RIP) and Richard Harris in this knockoff of Charade

Eating Raoul

Videodrome

The Outrage ('64), a western remake of Rashomon with Paul Newman as a Mexican in brownface with an accent that's a cross between Anthony Quinn and Speedy Gonzales, 54 minutes in is a beyond campy flashback with Claire Bloom

^ That was Paul's worst performance

"Looking for Love" with DL fave Connie Francis. I'd never heard of this movie before, but it popped up on TCM recently (thereby further diminishing the word 'classic'.)

R447 with her friend Johnny Carson in a cameo.

The Jungle Jim films with Johnny Weissmuller are pure low budget schlock

Paid (1930), the only 'women in prison' film Joan Crawford ever did. This pre Code gem was on TCM a few weeks ago. There's lesbian undertones galore, especially in one scene where Joan hits the showers with the other inmates and the butch matron yells "DISROBE!!" Reminded me of Ladies They Talk About with Stanwyck

R445 the film is an English remake of Rashomon.

Toys in the Attic by Lillian Hellman is too well acted to be camp but the plot is over the top with Geraldine Page in love with her brother Dean Martin who is married to clingy beautiful 20 year old Yvette Mimieux who could have any man she wants. The film will be on TCM website for a little longer.

Satan Met a Lady ('36) offbeat version of The Maltese Falcon starring DL icon of icons Bette Davis

The Name of the Game is Kill!

Don't miss the shocking twist ending!

Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things ('71)

R453 That's a subtle poster.

Elephant Walk ('54) with La Liz (who was a last minute replacement for an ailing Vivien Leigh) and an elephant stampede

I just bought The Best of Everything on Audible. This thread made me do it !

The Girl in Black Stockings ('57) wirh DL faves Anne Bancroft and Mamie Van Doren

Daisy Kenyon ('47) with La Crawford in the title role

Flowers in the Attic. Victoria Tennant is supposed to be this raving beauty (at best, she's pleasant looking) who fucked her uncle and had 4 kids with him. He dies and she doesn't know how to get a fucking job, so she brings her and her kids to live at her parents' huge mansion. Her mother is Louise Fletcher (who makes the entire movie) who's a religious freak who says the kids are the spawn of the devil and locks them up in a secluded room upstairs. The book had actual incest between the two older kids, but the film only hints at it, which somehow makes it even more icky.

The finale is camp heaven. I remember the books being interesting trash, but the acting in the film isn't always top tier (except Fletcher who's brilliant throughout) which causes it to dip into camp every 10 minutes or so.

The Lifetime remake somehow drained all the fun out of the story, but at least had Ellen Burstyn in the Fletcher role and actually cast a beautiful woman (Heather Graham) in Tennant's role. If I remember, Graham played the role in a mix of ditzy, over-medicated, and "I'm just reading these lines for the first time."

The Watcher in the Woods with DL icon of icons Bette Davis and DL faves Carroll Baker and Kyle Richards

The Love Machine - Valley of the Dolls without musical numbers.

The Apple - so inept it's amazing.

The Apple is streaming on Amazon Prime right now and I urge everyone to see it. It's ridiculous, but you certainly can't say it's boring.

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash ('81) with DL icon Carol Burnett

Once Is Not Enough ('75)

The Cabin in the Cotton

"I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."

Ok not the campiest of movies but you gotta love that line!

I wonder what the Peckerwood Wiggle looks like...

another Joan Crawford classic: The Story of Esther Costello. Joan plays a rich woman who adopts Esther, a.poor irish kid who is blind deaf and mute after an accident with a granade. Crawford basically plays The Miracle Worker with her. Oh, and the girl becames "normal" again after another shock: being raped by Rossano Brazzi. A crazy movie.

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Sounds like a schlocky reworking of Johnny Belinda

Yes, and i think Almodovar remembered that movie for Talk to Her l, where a comatose woman wakes up after being raped by the nurse.

Conspirator ('49) with La Liz as a young socialite married to Commie spy Robert Taylor. Liz overacts to the hilt, there's a few scenes where she just runs... and runs... and runs....

Angel Angel Down We Go was on TCM a few nights ago... definitely a camp classic, and it should be more well known

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo with DL fave Shelley Winters was also on TCM not too long ago

'Never Wave at a WAC', starring Rosalind Russell as a snooty Washington, DC socialite who ends up, for some contrived reason, enlisting in the Womens Army Corp. She doesn't take it seriously, but then after enduring some moral lessons she is humbled and starts to respect the military. My mother was in this movie, as she was a WAC serving at Fort Lee, Virginia at the time, and was filmed as part of the marching groups of lady soldiers, but I have yet to be able to discern her from the masses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvY2Ivz0480

Three Bites of the Apple with a young David McCallum and Sylvia Koscina.

Alice Sweet Alice. It's veers between campy and creepy a good deal and is notable for being Brooke Shields' first film, but the other actors are all playing for the back row of the Schubert and it can be a bit much at times. An effective film, though.

The Sharkfighters ('56) with Victor Mature

Athena ('54) with DL faves Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds plus plenty of bodybuilders including Steve Reeves, Kip Behar and Ed Fury

The Big Cube with Lana Turner on acid and George Chakiris as a drug dealer with an over the top death scene at the end

Tugboat Annie 33

Stella Dallas 37

Dinner at Eight 33

Billie - patty Duke in a gender bender about a high school track star who has got The Beat.

Morgan the Pirate - drool worthy Steve reeves in this campy swashbuckler

Two Moon Junction - stud Richard Tyson in an embarrassingly naked on the floor sex scene with Sherilynn Fenn. He’s still very hot and the widescreen on the dvd shows his erect penis. Oops!

[quote]Athena ('54) with DL faves Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds plus plenty of bodybuilders including Steve Reeves, Kip Behar and Ed Fury

Was just on TCM. (Jane Powell is the Star of the Month.) Also has hotties Edmund Purdom and Vic Damone.

Butcher Baker Nightmare maker in on TCM in a couple hours.

Endless Love

Never Wave at a WAC sounds like a precursor to Private Benjamin.

The Fat Spy with DL faves Jayne Mansfield and Phyllis Diller

The early Bond films are so campy.....Goldfingaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!