Wondering what people’s favorite “bad” movies are. Can be low budget, box office flops, foreign, so bad it’s good, whatever. I’m pretty big on Cannon Group stuff and cheesy Turkish pop cinema (Tarkan vs. the Vikings, etc.). Mostly go for 80s stuff as that’s my generation.
The Blob (1988)
Night of The Comet (1984)
Night of The Creeps (1986)
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Dog Soldiers (2001)
Dog Soldiers starring Dr. Who and Lucius Vorenus! LOL. The others are all good choices too.
I think my favorite has gotta be Birds Of Prey. Bad movie, and kinda woke, but I had a blast with it and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Second favorite would have to be Love Hurts. It sucks but somehow really works for me.
The Bee Movie.
I recently watched “Pieces” and I was laughing my ass off through the movie, It’s a weird little slasher. It felt like if Terrifier embraced the fact that it was a complete trash movie. Hell maybe even Terrifier was inspired by this .
Other than that I’m a sucker for low budget foreign horror. There is something about bad Indonesian horror films that just makes me smile every time. Late 90’s and 2010’s Japanese horror action films like “versus”, newer ones like “Tokio gore police”, “Robo Geisha” and “meatball machine”
Tetsuo the Iron man is probably one of my favorite films of all time, but I don’t consider that a bad movie by any means.
Velocipastor is so much better than it has any right to be.
Helen Keller vs. Night Wolves has the most hilarious opening song and is the very definition of a B movie.
Super Hybrid is another B movie that has no right to be as good as it is. Highly recommend.
As mentioned in some other comments Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is an absolutely ridiculous romp from Troma.
By the time Velocipastor was over, I was sore from laughing.
Haven’t heard of any of those, but the titles indicate “must watch” status.
Class of 1999 - The movie The Faculty kinda ripped off.
Turbo Kid - Mad Max on BMX
American Gothic - Fun little horror movie
Final Girls - Meta horror movie
Waxwork - Sooooo much fun!
Action USA is an amazing action movie done solely by stunt people
Babylon was a massive bomb, and i dont understand why. I think it’s a masterpiece.
Pig was another underappreciated masterpiece. When Nic Cage did his AMA on Reddit (one of the best ever), he said it was one of the acting jobs that he’s most proud of. He deserved an Oscar for it, but wasn’t even nominated. The screenplay, too.
The whole Tremors series
Tremors series was fantastic
Tremors 1 seems like it set out to be a B movie creature-feature, but had such good dialogue and acting that it overshot the mark.
- The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
- Circuitry Man
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
- Bad Girls From Mars
Star Wars
You’re gonna laugh, but I have a lot of love for Legend with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. How Tim Curry managed to chew the set that hard with horns that size is beyond my acting skill to comprehend. And the fact that Tom Cruise ran around saving unicorns from Satan with a motley crew of fairy sidekicks is a sentence gay enough to make me puke rainbows. I’m already gay, man, I puke rainbows all month during June.
Seriously, it’s a good and awful movie. It has no plot, it’s just aesthetic art. But if you want a really good fantasy movie about unicorns… The Last Unicorn. Full stop. It has made me cry since I was a child. Not a B Movie, just a cult classic.
But if you REALLY want a B movie? Time Bandits. How the hell Kenny Baker went from R2-D2 to one of the gremlin thieves on strike because God wouldn’t let them have a turn on the time machine… I can’t. And kidnapping The Generic English Schoolboy as their sidekick was just… interesting. At least Sean Connery did a great job as Agamemnon.
Legend and Time Bandits are two of my favorite movies and I have multiple copies of each as they are some of the movies I rebuy each time there’s a format change or a special edition! I have never actually seen The Last Unicorn so I’ll have to check it out.
Dagon. It’s basically HP Lovecraft’s “Shadow Over Innsmouth” except it’s set in probably Spain I think. It’s silly and gorey and frankly terrifying, definitely worth the watch
Dunno if it counts but I’m a sucker for Jean Claude van Damme movies. And the only others I can think of off the top of my head are a couple of Albert Pyuun movies called Omega Doom and Knights, really bad sci-fi flicks. I actually need to save this thread for future watching material.
Recently watched Pyun’s Radioactive Dreams (his post-apocalyptic coming-of-age hardboiled detective sci-fi musical!) Post in Lemmy B-Movie Bonanza.
I tried watching Knights a few week ago but the… “copy” I got switched from English to French about ten minutes in. :D I’ll try another source soon.
Haha that looks great, going to have to check it out. It’s a little disappointing to see that there’s no cyborgs in it though. On that note, I was also going to mention the movie Cyborg because there’s a director’s cut called Slinger that makes it clear that JVCD did miracle work salvaging it for the theatrical cut of Cyborg lol.
How did I not know this???
- Searches for “slinger” in… the usual places ;) : “Ooh boy, that’s a lot of porn!”
- Searches for “cyborg” in the usual places : “OK; now I see one or two results are ‘Director’s Cut’.”
Thanks, I’m going to check it out!
Good suggestions and that’s why I posted the question, future watch list :)
Bloodsport is one of the few movies with footage filmed inside Kowloon Walled City.
