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.

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Does Big Trouble in Little China count?

    Otherwise, and in no particular order:

    • UHF
    • Six String Samurai
    • Hudson Hawk
    • Repo Man
    • Hobo with a Shotgun
    • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
    • Death Race
    • Dead Alive
    • WolfCop
    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      I had a friend in college who was so proud of his VHS of UHF. Solid choice.

      Repo Man is also a solid, underrated choice.

      “That’s why I don’t drive see… The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.”

      • Mooseford@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        The largest volume of fake blood in all movie history. It always shocked me that Peter Jackson was ever considered to do LotR, since I was quite familiar with all of his previous work. I remember nearly falling over when I heard the announcement and let me tell you, the images in my head at that point were NOT what we got in the theaters!

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Buckaroo Banzai is one of my all-time favorites. It is the quintessential New Wave film, featuring John Lithgow’s most unhinged performance - “Laugh while you can, monkey boy!”

      Also “No matter where you go, there you are.”

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Jennifer’s Body made some money but was poorly critically received, but it is actually a pretty good horror movie that was marketed poorly

    Lake Placid is meant to be a goofy comedy horror movie that is a fun watch and made just enough to trigger endless terrible sequels like Hellraiser and Amityville, reviews treated it like it was trying to play seriously but some of the lines are so cheesy

    Kelly Scott: The lake is so black and still.

    Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, we wanted to call it Lake Placid, but someone said that name was taken

    If you’re into 80s action/thriller The Guest is an homage that does a really good job, and has a unique soundtrack

    Brick, early 2000s neo noir with the cast talking like a bunch of 1920s private eyes and gangsters. Like The Guest it was received well critically but just had a really small release.

    Blue Underground has a bunch of stuff no streaming service would ever touch

    • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Jennifer’s Body was impressive enough (when I saw it on a whim years after it came out) that I looked up its writer (Diablo Cody) and what else she’d done. Which led me to Young Adult. Wow! And: Ooof! Powerful stuff.

      Or as one critic put it: “Young Adult may be the year’s most engaging feel-bad movie”.

      • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        This actually has surprisingly good writing and character development, until it fell into the usual trap of an overblown, cliche, and boring 30 minute final battle. Also check out Carry On, which is the literal definition of ‘So bad it’s good’…… until an overblown and boring 30 minute final battle that almost ruins everything else.

  • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Iron Sky counts, right? Its budget is a bit high but it’s a B-movie and it knows it.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago
    • Deadly Prey
    • Hard Ticket to Hawaii
    • Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
    • Bad Taste
    • Dead Alive
    • Frankenhooker
    • The Boys from Brazil
    • Freaked
    • The Lawnmower Man
    • Lake Placid
    • Legend of the Red Dragon aka New Legend of Shaolin (forget subtitles, the english dub is unhinged)
    • Johnny Mnenomic
    • Samurai Cop
    • Six String Samurai
    • Snake Hotel
    • Space Truckers
    • Surf Ninjas
    • Tammy and the T-Rex
    • Tiger on the Beat
  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Mooseford@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • KMAMURI@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    Death race 3000

    Rollerball

    Attack of the killer tomatoes

    Malibu Beach

    Coffee

    Ilsa she Wolf of the SS (bad timing for sure)

    Heavy Metal

    Any Grindhouse or whateversploitation really. I also love effedupmovies (NSFW) webpage if you’re into really weird shit.

  • jonesy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    These are my favourites so far, don’t discount the new movies though, there’s some really talented people making dumb movies right now in the spirit of the 80s B-movie!

    • Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1986) (and the rest of Andy Sidaris’ movies)
    • Dead Alive (1992)
    • Samurai Cop (1991)
    • Lieutenant Jangles (2019)
    • Panman (2011)
    • The Greasy Strangler (2016)
    • Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
    • Furious (1984)
    • Father’s Day (2011)
    • Miami Connection (1987)
    • Orgazmo (1998)
    • Lake Michigan Monster (2018)
    • Black Dynamite (2009)
    • Black Sheep (2007)
    • Toxic Avenger (1984)
    • Turkey Shoot (1982)
    • Hell Comes to Frog town (1988)
    • Blades (1988)
    • Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)
    • Terror vision (1986)
    • Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1991)
    • Australiens (2015)
    • Masters of the Universe (1987)
    • Amsterdamned (1988)
    • Gymkata (1984)
    • Space Babes from Outer Space (2017)
    • KMAMURI@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Hell comes to frogtown. Forgot that one on my list. Ole Rowdy Roddy in the house!

    • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      During early pandemic, I watched/rewatched a whole bunch of mid-80s to late-90s action flicks (action’s heyday?) and remember Drive not just as great fun but one of a whole slew that had that same… exercise machine?

      The one with three concentric rings, and you strap into the middle and spin around in all directions. I think Universal Soldier, Fortress and a bunch more had it too. I should have turned it into a drinking game, as it seemed to be crammed into every 90s sci-fi flick.

      Here’s my terrible attempt at drawing what I mean.

      Does anyone know what it’s called?

  • shadowplay@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Hard Rock Zombies

    Street Trash

    The Stuff

    Toxic Avenger (the original, I haven’t seen any of the others)

    Hamburger: The Motion Picture

    Slime City

    Basket Case

    Frankenhooker

  • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Many great recommendations.

    Some other that I don’t think were mentioned so far:

    • The Baron Against the Demons / El barón contra los Demonios (2006) - Completely insane Spanish action/scifi

    • Hellevator (2004) - Crazy Japanese scifi with action/horror elements

    • Zone 39 (1996) - Cool low budget Australian cyberpunk-adjacent movie

    • Nirvana (1997) - Excellent Italian cyberpunk thriller

    • Shocking Dark (1989) - 80s Italian ripoff of two famous scifi/action movies from the time

    • Webmaster / Skyygen (1998) - Solid Danish 90s style cyberpunk thriller

    • Neon City (1991) - Solid post-apocalyptic flick

    • Cold Harvest (1999) - Kungfu flick with a post-apocalyptic setting

    • Def-Con 4 (1985) - Post-apocalyptic action/adventure

    • Slipstream (1998) - Post-apocalyptic film with beautiful mountain cinematography, with Mark Hamil as the bad guy

    • Cyborg (1989) - Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks ass in a post-apocalyptic future

    • Radioactive Dreams (1984) - A strange mix of post-apocalyptic movie and 40s era pulp detective

    • Nightflyers (1987) - 80s space horror based on a novel by George R R martin

    • Terminal Invasion (2002) - Low budget The Thing ripoff with Bruce Campbell

    • Shadowzone (1990) - Horror set on an isolated base

    • Population 436 (2006) - A Stephan king style horror with Fred Durst

    • The Langoliers (1995) - A unique, almost scif-fi, horror/thriller based on a Stephen King novella

    • Black Mountain Side (2014) - Isolated norther research station horror

    • Butterfly Kisses (2018) - A somewhat novel take on the found footage genre, has flaws though

    • The Last Winter (2006) - Norther isolated research station horror

    • The Presence / Danger Island (1992) - Solid thriller/horror tv movie.

    • Cyber Bandits / A Sailor’s Tattoo (1995) - Wholesome adventure/cyberpunk movies from the 90s with Martin Kemp

    • Mars (1997) - Olivier Gruner visits a Martian colony to kick ass

    • Alien Cargo (1999) - A somewhat well done TV movie Alien ripoff, but more a thriller than a horror

    • Lord of the Deep (1989) - The Abyss ripoff (even more low budget than DeepStar Six and The Leviathan)

    • Future Fear (1997) - Solid softcore action/scifi

    • Hybrid (1997) - Solid softcore horror/action vaguely based on Alien

    • Forbidden World (1982) - Softcore vaguely based on Alien

    • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Well, there goes my next 28 free evenings!

      (Well, 26. I watched Radioactive Dreams last week, and rewatched Cyborg a few months ago.)

  • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          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!