Blake Walker | 21 Sep 2014 10:54 p.m. PST |
I should first say, I have horrible taste in movies. I've seen about 20,000 hours worth of bad television and movies. Hence, don't have me pick films for you. However, if you like really horrible, funny sci-fi/horror/zombie movies, you might like some of the following (Bill, please, please don't dawghouse me, I'm only putting up titles of films I've seen or know): Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), Night of the Ghouls (1965), Night of the Lepus (1972), The Beast of Yucca Flats (1962), Bad Taste (1987), The Brain from Planet Arvous (1958), Ants (1977), Empire of Ants (1976), The Navy vs. The Night Creatures (1966, it's about carnivorous trees), The Devil's Rain (1975 starring Ernest Borgnine, William Shatner, and John Travolta with technical advise from Anton Levay!), Class of Nukem High (1986), Mongolian Death Worm (2010 TV movie), Peter Benchley's The Beast (1996 TV miniseries), Dead Alive (also called Braindead in the UK 1992), Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter (2001 Canadian film), Zombie Bikers from Detroit (2001), Jingles the Clown (2009), Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988), Ghoulies (1985), Oasis of Zombie (1982), Battlefield Earth (2000), Yar: Hunter from the Future (1982), Ice Pirates (1985), Sorority Girls vs. The Creature from Hell (1992), It's Alive! (1965, one of the worst monster movies with a creature who has styrofoam eyes!), City Limit (1985), I Was a Zombie for the FBI (1986), Pornstar Zombies (2009), In Service for America (1987), Video Dead (1987), Night of the Demons (1987), Leeches (1995), Slugs (1988?), The Giant Leeches (1956), The Green Slime (1968), and the Giant Claw (1956). Don't let your children see the garbage I've watched, LOL. It'll warp them. However, if you love crap, I can probably come up with more titles. |
GarrisonMiniatures | 21 Sep 2014 11:19 p.m. PST |
Yes, that's about my level. They are enjoyable. Generally speaking, I often prefer films and fiction that others call rubbish because it's for entertainment. A really good book or film I see once and remember. A well-done or so-poorly-done-it's-good piece of rubbish I can keep going back to. |
Cyrus the Great | 21 Sep 2014 11:25 p.m. PST |
There's nothing wrong with your taste in movies. I've seen 20 of the movies mentioned and I turned out okay! Have any of those movies been featured on Leonard Pinth-Garnell's Bad Cinema? Bet not! |
the trojan bunny | 21 Sep 2014 11:32 p.m. PST |
A b-movie fan right here! I'd imagine I am far from the only MST3K fan on TMP as well… |
BrotherSevej | 22 Sep 2014 2:15 a.m. PST |
I'm a fan of Ghosts of Mars… |
MHoxie | 22 Sep 2014 2:24 a.m. PST |
Khurasan's "Planet 15" has knockoffs of many b-movie monsters and aliens: link |
Pete Melvin | 22 Sep 2014 3:21 a.m. PST |
Those films are just bad, THESE are awful: Cyborg Cop (1993) Cyborg Cop II (1994) APEX* (1994) American Ninja 1-5 (1985-1993) Robot Jox** (1989) Growing up my friends mum owned a video store and we had the run of the B-Movie section. *Anything this guy Phillip Roth touched is basically B-movie gold **"Crash and burn!" |
OldGrenadier at work | 22 Sep 2014 4:22 a.m. PST |
I saw several of these roaring drunk, back in the 80's. I'm not sure I could watch them now sober. :) |
Maddaz111 | 22 Sep 2014 4:43 a.m. PST |
We used to visit a really good video store, back when I was 20 or so – three films for a pound on one of the walls for overnight rental. the top shelf had "adult ? " movies – not as adult as most videos for pop songs these days – and some were really funny. However – about three rows down was a row of films with NINJA in the title. – every Friday night our D&D group rented three films from the wall. It was one from the top row – one from the Horror row – surprisingly at a child friendly bottom two rows of the display ! and one from the NINJA line! Most of the ninja films were incredibly bad… some were truly awful, and at least two films were so bad we had to rent them again to show other people how bad they were. This set up our regular gifting trend, finding the worst movies possible and giving them as birthday and Christmas presents… and trust me, some were really truly bad. |
Cherno | 22 Sep 2014 4:46 a.m. PST |
I recommend these resources for further research: link badmovies.org I think Giant Claw and The Creeping Terror are my two favorite so-bad-it's-good-films. "Crash and burn!" Me and my buddy, we still laugh everytime one of us makes this ridiculous macho hand gesture. As if regular bro-tastic fistbumps aren't enough… |
GoneNow | 22 Sep 2014 4:48 a.m. PST |
I have a pretty sizable collection of sword & sorcery and post apocalypses films from the 70s through the 90s. Mostly on VHS, the only true media to watch bad movies. I think at last count there were nearly 200 cassettes with another shipment coming from my brother, who does my collecting for me, in the next couple weeks. Albert Pyun made some of the best of the worst of these films. |
Allen57 | 22 Sep 2014 4:53 a.m. PST |
Add in all the TOHO stuff and Them, Tarantula, The Quatermass movies, the SF serials from the 30's, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Giant Gila Monster, and tons more. I love em. On DVD I have around 50 of these oldies but goodies. |
15th Hussar | 22 Sep 2014 5:27 a.m. PST |
Yeah, there are a lot of people who have NO IDEA what the difference is between a GOOD Bad Horror Movie is and a simply terrible movie. |
chuck05 | 22 Sep 2014 6:22 a.m. PST |
One of the worst movies I ever saw was a gem called Tetsuo Iron Man. Its a Japanese movie where a guy wakes up one day and realizes he's turning into a machine. |
Legion 4 | 22 Sep 2014 6:43 a.m. PST |
If I liked real awful movies, I'd leave the SyFy Channel on everytime they show one of their "home" movies ! Pure trash ! Won't waste my time … |
45thdiv | 22 Sep 2014 6:56 a.m. PST |
You should add "Offerings" from 1987 to your list. My first film work. Learned a lot about how not treat the cast and crew. I made a finger for one scene that the killer had ripped off the hand, showing bone and torn flesh. The director did not like the bone sticking out so he had someone buy a fake finger at a joke shop. I was gobb smacked. In another scene a nurse gets a syringe stuck in her forehead. I tried to get him to have it go through the eye because the forehead is one of the thickest part of the skull. It was then the I realized that he was making a comedy. It is really bad. |
willthepiper | 22 Sep 2014 8:41 a.m. PST |
If I love it, it isn't awful. It's just a reflection on MY taste in entertainment is superior to that of lesser mortals. I see a few of my favourites in the OP (JC:VH, Braindead/Dead Alive, Bad Taste). Other faves include Mr Jackson's other early works such as Meet the Feebles. Of course, I quite enjoyed Zardoz as well. |
Dynaman8789 | 22 Sep 2014 9:11 a.m. PST |
THEM is not a bad movie. It is a B movie but a good one! "Make me a sargent, pass the beer…" Many of the movies listed have been subject to the MST3k/Rifftrax treatment – making them even MORE fun to watch. Additions The Sword and the Sorcerer. (riffed!) Space Mutiny (MST3K) LaserBlast (MST3K – and Leonard Multin gave this sinker 3 stars…) Santa Clause Conquers the Martians. (Riffed, MST3K, and Cinematic Titanic) |
Dynaman8789 | 22 Sep 2014 9:14 a.m. PST |
One more (MST3K). Beginning of the End! The creatures were regular cockroaches – for a special effect they were shown crawling on a postcard of a building. Double Bonus. (MST3K) Teenagers from Outer Space. The monster was the shadow of a lobster. |
Great War Ace | 22 Sep 2014 9:28 a.m. PST |
Your priorities are in the right place by putting "Plan 9" at the head of your list…. |
MahanMan | 22 Sep 2014 10:31 a.m. PST |
Heh. I watched MST from its debut in 1988 to the bitter end on the SFC, so I've been exposed to *so* many "bad" movies, I've lost count; it's gotten where I can hardly sit through a "normal" movie without wanting to riff on it (a couple of exceptions apply, of course). (Pssst! Dynaman! They used grasshoppers, rather than cockroaches…) |
Parzival | 22 Sep 2014 11:11 a.m. PST |
Green Slime-- a classic! Everyone hum the theme song: YouTube link Inspiration for the Tom Wham game The Awful Green Things From Outer Space. Watch movie + play the game = great evening! P.S.: There's no question that Alien was a remake of this film. Eggs, unkillable man-eating monsters, a fight on a spaceship; it's all there. Total rip-off master, that Ridley Scott. |
Mithmee | 22 Sep 2014 12:23 p.m. PST |
Night of the Lepus What it is not a bad movie. What is wrong about Giant Man Eating Bunnies. |
Shagnasty | 22 Sep 2014 1:32 p.m. PST |
"Them" and "Creature From the Black Lagoon" are great little flics. No way they belong on an "awful" film list. |
MHoxie | 22 Sep 2014 1:59 p.m. PST |
Frankenstein Island (1981): YouTube link Amazons, zombies, metempsychosis, ghosts, the Frankenstein monster, UFOs, I'm probably forgetting some stuff. Climactic fight scene arguably the funniest thing ever filmed. |
M C MonkeyDew | 22 Sep 2014 2:25 p.m. PST |
Sky's Wyvern was Badawesome. Picture a dragon descending on the cast of Northern Exposure. Sharktopus was also great with Eric Roberts there to up the ante. Have seen most if those mentioned above. Here are two Hammer epics I cannot remember the name of. One had Oliver Reed as a werewolf in Spain. The villager mob scene at the end was insane. The other featured a French woman on her way to take up a teaching post in Transylvania. Vmpirism ensues with some hilarious performances. |
Bunkermeister | 22 Sep 2014 3:51 p.m. PST |
I love these movies and so does MRS Bunkermeister. We watched the Giant Claw just last week for my birthday! Them!, The Beginning of the End, I watch these movies at least once a year. Dinosaur Planet, The Abominable Snowman, The Crawling Eye are a few I would add to the list. I even have a Science Fiction Movies of the 1950's Facebook page. link Mike Bunkermeister Creek Bunker Talk blog
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MHoxie | 22 Sep 2014 4:50 p.m. PST |
The Oliver Reed wolf movie is "The Curse of the Werewolf." The one with the French teacher may be "The Brides of Dracula." imdb.com/title/tt0053677 |
Cherno | 22 Sep 2014 5:06 p.m. PST |
I have to state that "The Ice Pirates" is not a bad films by any means, it's a comedy and intentionally done in a campy style, but the acting is solid and the costumes and effects are decent. Them!, Tarantula and Creature from the Black Lagoon are classics. |
Noldor42 | 22 Sep 2014 7:18 p.m. PST |
I love watching old low budget and/or bad sci-fi movies & have been collecting them for many years. And there are some newer very entertaining movies made in that style (The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra & The Lost Skeleton Returns again, & Alien Trespass to name a few.)On the other hand, I feel like I lose points of I.Q. every time I watch a SyFy channel original movie. |
John Leahy | 22 Sep 2014 9:06 p.m. PST |
I agree with Shagnasty and Cherno. Those are quite good movies. No way they are awful. Thanks, John |
Covert Walrus | 22 Sep 2014 9:19 p.m. PST |
I am shocked that no-one has mentioned MANOS:HANDS OF FATE here . . . |
Dynaman8789 | 23 Sep 2014 5:07 a.m. PST |
If your going to bring up Manos (everyone really ought to see it once) then I have to bring up Liquid Sky. |
Cherno | 23 Sep 2014 5:49 a.m. PST |
I never watched Liquid Sky but is it actually considered a bad movie? Wiki says it was fairly influental in creating the punk aesthetic of the era.Also, SyFy/Asylum movies are mostly just bad-bad. They may have funny titles but they are just boring and the special effects are not bad enough. |
Old Slow Trot | 23 Sep 2014 7:02 a.m. PST |
And someone has been trying to do a sequel,working title ;Manos-Return To Valley Lodge,with some surviving cast members from the orginal movie(Tom Neyman as The Master,for one). |
Khusrau | 23 Sep 2014 8:03 a.m. PST |
Zombie Strippers.. the title has everything, the film has nothing. I switched it off after 25 minutes. (And I watched the whole of Plan 9) – so bad it almost caused physical pain |
Dynaman8789 | 23 Sep 2014 9:22 a.m. PST |
> Wiki says it was fairly influental in creating the punk aesthetic of the era That movie is the worst bit of feces I have ever seen and I have seen Manos. My guess is that the authors of the wiki were smoking/injecting/snorting the same stuff the makers of Liquid Sky were. |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 23 Sep 2014 1:02 p.m. PST |
Zombie Strippers.. the title has everything, the film has nothing. I switched it off after 25 minutes. (And I watched the whole of Plan 9) – so bad it almost caused physical pain Aw c'mon now, it wasn't THAT bad. I actually found it amusingly entertaining, intentiionally or not I can't say. And it was done in the tongue-in-cheek style of the Troma films. |
wminsing | 23 Sep 2014 6:24 p.m. PST |
Robot Jox** (1989) Don't you dare disparage Robot Jox. It is one of the VERY few live action giant robot movies. I must have watched that thing like 1000 times when I got it on VHS as a kid. I still have that VHS, come to think of it! :) -Will |
capncarp | 23 Sep 2014 6:54 p.m. PST |
<What is wrong about Giant Man Eating Bunnies?> Oooh, was that alternately titled "Hugh Heffner vs. the 50-foot Woman"? Or was it "REALLY Deep Throat"? |
Coelacanth1938 | 24 Sep 2014 8:41 p.m. PST |
I grew up in Southern California during the 1960s/1970s. At one time we had no less than five different monster movie hosts fighting to be number one. Elvira is great. No doubt about that. But the best monster movie host of all was Seymour who had to be the funniest man on Saturday night until SNL came along. I remember one Saturday night when all five monster movie shows screen Susan Cabot's Wasp Woman almost simultaneously. Ah..the joys of independent television stations. |
Mithmee | 24 Sep 2014 8:50 p.m. PST |
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