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.
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- The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
- Circuitry Man
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
- Bad Girls From Mars
Dog Soldiers starring Dr. Who and Lucius Vorenus! LOL. The others are all good choices too.
Iron Sky counts, right? Its budget is a bit high but it’s a B-movie and it knows it.
I had forgotten about that one, but yeah pretty solid B!
I’m going with little known/flops.
Gataca Fandango Byrdy (might be Birdy, saw it when I was young) Head office (old HBO movie)
Can’t find any reference to the first one, I remember Head Office though.
Gataca was a more recent film, like 2008 or something. It starred Ethan Hawk, Jude Law and Uma Thurman. Ethan plays a naturally born person trying to excel in a world where only generically (LOL typed generically instead of genetically)enhanced people seem to have any rights. It’s a little slow and cerebral but I like underdog stories. Fun fact, the name Gataca was derived from the four letters used to define genes G A T and C.
Oh I know Gattaca (it was 1997), thought you were saying Gattaca Fandango Birdy as one title. LOL
Yeah, I used a carriage return between them but I guess Lemmy doesn’t work that way.
Sounded like a fun movie though. Heh.
Torque
If Fast and Furious was motorcycles, but was dreamed up by a coked up meth head https://youtu.be/Aqmze9kIvMU
Drive
Stars the guy who hosts Iron Chef and Brittany Murphy. Legit martial arts mixed in the middle of an insanely bad it’s good movie. https://youtu.be/7y3sCYmqOz0
Solid picks!
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?
What it’s called, no, but NASA and Air Force use them for training. It’s like a giant gyroscope, simulates an accident, like a plane or helicopter falling out of the sky, and you have to try to complete a task while spinning.
I asked Lemmy, turns out it’s an Aerotrim
The Last Dragon, hands down.
A perennial favorite, I have the 4k UHD Steelbook of that one :)
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)
Hell comes to frogtown. Forgot that one on my list. Ole Rowdy Roddy in the house!
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
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”.
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 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.
Tremors series was fantastic
Chalet Girl - Solid B level romcom with Bill Nighy, Ed Westwick, and Felicity Jones. Story is kinda plain, but it’s one of my go to movies to cheer me up
Many good titles were mentioned here. So as not to add to the repetition, I will add some obscure, but I think fun-to-watch, movies:
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.
Haven’t heard of any of those, but the titles indicate “must watch” status.
By the time Velocipastor was over, I was sore from laughing.
The Replacements. Keanu Reeves playing a sub quarterback. It’s stupid fun even if you don’t like football and the supporting cast of football players are great.
