Topic: Enjoyable bad movies

[metaldams]

Hearing about the 1976 porn musical of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, I figure it's time we started a "bad movie" thread.  I don't mean THE TITANIC bad, I mean Ed Wood type bad.  You know, stuff that's actually enjoyable.  To start things off, I'll ask if anybody feels that way about any Stooge films, because SWEET AND HOT actually fits the bill for me.  I used to HATE SWEET AND HOT, but have actually found Muriel "Tiny" Landers to be camp material and enjoy this short.  Heck folks, she was also in BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA, so she's a legend.  So, who else here likes cheesy bad movies?

[shemps#1]

When talking bad movies anything from Ed Wood is a must.

Other than that I'll recommend 1987's Hell Comes to Frogtown starring Roddy Piper as the last man on Earth with potent sperm for now.

[Dunrobin]

I love "bad" movies, and I especially have a weakness for a lot of the "B" (more like "C" or even "D") sci-fi movies from the 50's.  Ed Wood was certainly a "master" of the genre, even if he wasn't deliberately trying to be.

I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite bad movie, but I'll nominate Yusei oji from 1959 - better known to Americans as Prince of Space.  It has got to be one of the cheesiest films ever made!  I saw it many years ago (perhaps in the 70's?) and can remember cracking up over it, so you can imagine my delight when the very first time that I watched MST3K they were showing Prince of Space!

Good call on the Piper film, Hell Goes To Frogtown, Jim.  Rowdy Roddy Piper was my brother's all-time favorite wrestler, so needless to say he hunts down any film that has Piper in it.  He's had a VHS tape of Frogtown for years, and I've watched it several times.  It's fucking hilarious!

[Dog Hambone]

TCM showed 2 of them recently, back to back. One I hadn't seen before was "The X From Outer Space". They showed it in the original Japanese with sub-titles. One of the funniest things about it was the music - it had probably the cheesiest bad polka-like music I have ever heard. And what's funnier was, the music would just start up no matter what was happening on-screen.

The 2nd movie is a bad movie cliche, I know, but it was "Plan 9 From Outer Space". It's still as good (or should I say as bad) as it's hyped up to be. Awful acting, cheaply done, and the special effects were in a class by themselves - made those falling dummies in a couple of the Stooges shorts look believable!

Needless to say, I whipped out a blank VCR tape & recorded both of them. It was my duty to posterior!     

[Sadistic Stooge]

Oh I got one for you  .
The 1968 Car crash starring Jackie Gleason SKIDOO  I always wanted to see this film and a few months ago on TCM it was on late night so I checked it out . I Got to say all the reviews I seen on this movie were right on the money
bad bad bad !!!! You would think with a cast  like Jackie Gleason , Carol Channing , Frankie Avalon , Peter Lawford , Burgess Meredith , George Raft , Cesar Romero , Mickey Rooney and Groucho Marx in his last movie role It would be a little funny ? hell no !  But for some strange odd reason I cound not look away  .

So if any one ever comes across this film on TCM or the net check it out , and the same thing might  happen to you .

I seen other bad Movies, but I could turn them off this on had a hold on me  I feel so ashamed 



 

[Moe Hailstone]

Since I am a HUGE MST3K fan, any of their movies that you can watch on their own (without the jokes) and not die from the pain is worth doing...at least once. 

Some movies that are bad (but watchable), that MST3K didn't do:

Neon City (1992) -

"In the year 2053, the earth has been devastated by a military experiment gone awry. The ozone layer is gone, radioactive clouds drift across the plains, and unpredictable, intense bursts of ultra-violet sunlight (called "brights") incinerate anyone caught outside. In these conditions, a group of travelers are trying to get from the frontier town of Jericho to the paradise safe haven of Neon City: A doctor named Tom (Nick Klar), an old man with a mysterious past (Arsenio ‘Sonny’ Trinidad), a prostitute (Valerie Wildman), a spoiled rich girl (Juliet Landau), an untalented comedian (Richard Sanders), and a bounty hunter named Stark (Michael Ironside) with his valuable prisoner Reno (Vanity). They board an armored truck converted into a passenger transport driven by an ex-convict named Bulk (Lyle Alzado). Along they
way, the travelers deal with passing though radioactive Xander clouds, 150F degrees of "brights", unstable paved roads, and nomadic motorcycle riders whom kill anyone venturing though their territory. During the journey, few, if any, of the passengers turn out to be what they initially appear."

Cherry 2000 (1987) -

"In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of ‘The Zone’, Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes, but of real flesh and blood!"

Invasion the Bee Girls (1973) -

"In the small town of Peckham, California, many men die for excessive effort during sexual intercourse. When a scientist from the Brandt research laboratory is found dead in a motel, the government sends Agent Neil Agar (William Smith) to investigate the mysterious deaths. He suspects that the deaths may be related to some experiments of Dr. Susan Harris (Anitra Ford), who is researching bees in the Brandt facility."

[shemps#1]

Let us not forget the 1932 Todd Browning classic Freaks. The midget couple in the movie were actually brother and sister in real life.

"One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble, gooble gobble!"

[metaldams]

Let us not forget the 1932 Todd Browning classic Freaks. The midget couple in the movie were actually brother and sister in real life.

"One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble, gooble gobble!"

Call me crazy, but I actually think FREAKS is a good movie.  Strange, but good.

[Dunrobin]

Let us not forget the 1932 Todd Browning classic Freaks. The midget couple in the movie were actually brother and sister in real life.

"One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble, gooble gobble!"

I finally saw Freaks for first time on TCM sometime in the last year or two (I don't remember just when it was on.)  I damned near fell on the floor laughing when that scene came on.  I had always wondered what had inspired Matt and Trey to do that restaurant scene during "Butters' Very Own Episode" on South Park.   

[Pat The Stooge]

Let us not forget the 1932 Todd Browning classic Freaks. The midget couple in the movie were actually brother and sister in real life.

"One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble, gooble gobble!"

Okay. Here's a list of terrible films you should watch just laugh at how awful they are:

Howard The Duck(1986) This was a favorite of mine as a kid. I was only 3 when my mother took me to go see it it's so moldy and lame it hurts. Jeff Jones' acting actaully looked like a 4 year old kid improvising.

Color of Night(1994) A really weird,absurd erotic thriller starring Bruce Willis and Scott Bakula. The diolouge is extremely cheesy and tired, the sex and full frontal nudity with Jane March is monotomous and stupid, and the music is godawful atrocious.

Lenard Part 6(1987) Bill Cosby in a bender. It's so bad that Cosby himself told people not to go see it.

Showgirls(1995) It blows my mind to this day that Elizabeth Berkley of "Saved By The Bell" starred in this overhyped,overblown NC-17 mess of a flim. There is nothing I'm mean NOTHING good about this dull-ass T&A romp. The sex scenes were pure boring and would even make the most hardcore pornographer fall asleep and the dancing and lounge signing nary a appluase to be had. The only thing that coulda saved this dog would to have Dustin Diamound(Screech) in this film, I rather watch a softcore hentai( anime porn) then this.

Cool World(1992) I've always been a huge fan of Ralph Bashki, i especially enjoyed his work in "Fritz the Cat", "Traffic" and "Heavy Metal" but this my God this is so bad  it actaully made me crack up on how terrible it is. Yes, it will make you laugh till you cry because this film sucks horribly. Luke Perry "Don't have sex with a doodle." Priceless on horribly lame diolouge Plus, Gabriel Bryne is such a loser, Why the hell would someone want to have sex with something he drew? Kim Basinger just pissed me off, what a jerk. I literally wanted to see the other chick push Holly Would's slutty ass of that hotel rooftop. Ha Luke becomes a doodle! Just hilarious! Like we really wanna see a character that has no reason to live brought back as a cartoon.

Drop Dead Fred(1991) I really had high hopes for this film when mom took me to go see it I was crushed to find out what a stupid money making vehicle is was for Phebe Cates who ruined her career in this lame excuse for a Jim Carrey ripoff film. There is nery a laugh to be had in here. Her imaginary friend is that type of guy that advocates "justifiable homicide" I swear you'll feel like killing Fred yourself. Better yet how 'bout having Stanley Ipkiss/Loki going over to Fred and kicking his sorry ass? Like this film? Go pick your nose, it's much funnier then this.

St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts club Band(1978) You've probably seen this one before. It's like the entire cast and film crew were high on cocaine when they dreamed this up. The only way to enjoy this surreal,bizzare and abstract muscial is to get stoned which is probably what the audience did before they went to go see this.

The Wizard(1988) Fred Savage of the Wonder Years enters a Nintendo video game tornument and discovers Super Mario Bros. 3 sounds fun right? Yeah that's about as fun as having The Applegates visit Three Mile Island,PA.

Meet The Applegates(1991) A guilty pleasure. Mainly because its so weird,twisted and satircal. The Applegates aren't your normal family, they're actaully alien mantises' who face everyday life. The acting is lame and the dolouge is a parody of 1950s social life, there date rape, adultery, drug use,abortion, and refrences to lesbianism. It's bad. But it's got an appeal to it.

[busybuddy]

How's come no one has mentioned the worst film of all time, Stoogemania?!