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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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:
Equilibrium https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/ A mixture of all dystopian sci-fi with a never seen before (or after, for obvious reasons) martial arts style called Gun-kata.
This would have been as big as the Matrix if it hadn’t come out at almost the same time.
I feel like this is not a B-Movie, but I don’t care because this movie is awesome.
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
- Maniac Cop
- Anaconda
- Dean Koontz’s Phantoms
- Ruthless
- Deep Blue Sea
- The Baker
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LOL Phantoms sitting at 9% on Rotten Tomatoes. Definitely checking that one out!
It’s actually pretty hard to find!
I thought it was ok for what it was. But then again, I like b-movies and especially mystical horror b-movies.
Jennifer Lopez was in a more recent one that was high budget but was so bad it reminded me of Anaconda.
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.
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
Basket Case is another fine Henenlotter along with Frankenhooker, which I also suggested.
Yeah all the Troma stuff was the first thing that popped in my mind too, Nukem high, toxic avenger, etc
Great (awful?) 80’s musclebound heroes movie.
A Cannon classic!
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
Star Wars
- The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
- Circuitry Man
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
- Bad Girls From Mars
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.
2.8 on IMDB! Holy cow that’s quite impressive in its own way!
It’s a real gem. Dad and I used to watch it every week.
I’ll have to check it out and apparently I need to create another list of movies to marathon based on title words since I just watched The Sasquatch Gang.
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
One of the better adaptations (well, one of the entertaining at least) of HPL imo. It’s hard to capture the feel of his stories. The only really “Lovecraftian” thing I can say that really felt like it succeeded without extra cheese was season one of True Detective.
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.
Good suggestions and that’s why I posted the question, future watch list :)
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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!
Many great recommendations.
Some other that I don’t think were mentioned so far:
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The Baron Against the Demons / El barón contra los Demonios (2006) - Completely insane Spanish action/scifi
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Hellevator (2004) - Crazy Japanese scifi with action/horror elements
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Zone 39 (1996) - Cool low budget Australian cyberpunk-adjacent movie
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Nirvana (1997) - Excellent Italian cyberpunk thriller
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Shocking Dark (1989) - 80s Italian ripoff of two famous scifi/action movies from the time
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Webmaster / Skyygen (1998) - Solid Danish 90s style cyberpunk thriller
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Neon City (1991) - Solid post-apocalyptic flick
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Cold Harvest (1999) - Kungfu flick with a post-apocalyptic setting
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Def-Con 4 (1985) - Post-apocalyptic action/adventure
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Slipstream (1998) - Post-apocalyptic film with beautiful mountain cinematography, with Mark Hamil as the bad guy
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Cyborg (1989) - Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks ass in a post-apocalyptic future
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Radioactive Dreams (1984) - A strange mix of post-apocalyptic movie and 40s era pulp detective
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Nightflyers (1987) - 80s space horror based on a novel by George R R martin
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Terminal Invasion (2002) - Low budget The Thing ripoff with Bruce Campbell
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Shadowzone (1990) - Horror set on an isolated base
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Population 436 (2006) - A Stephan king style horror with Fred Durst
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The Langoliers (1995) - A unique, almost scif-fi, horror/thriller based on a Stephen King novella
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Black Mountain Side (2014) - Isolated norther research station horror
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Butterfly Kisses (2018) - A somewhat novel take on the found footage genre, has flaws though
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The Last Winter (2006) - Norther isolated research station horror
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The Presence / Danger Island (1992) - Solid thriller/horror tv movie.
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Cyber Bandits / A Sailor’s Tattoo (1995) - Wholesome adventure/cyberpunk movies from the 90s with Martin Kemp
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Mars (1997) - Olivier Gruner visits a Martian colony to kick ass
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Alien Cargo (1999) - A somewhat well done TV movie Alien ripoff, but more a thriller than a horror
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Lord of the Deep (1989) - The Abyss ripoff (even more low budget than DeepStar Six and The Leviathan)
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Future Fear (1997) - Solid softcore action/scifi
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Hybrid (1997) - Solid softcore horror/action vaguely based on Alien
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Forbidden World (1982) - Softcore vaguely based on Alien
That’s quite a list! A true connoisseur!
Well, there goes my next 28 free evenings!
(Well, 26. I watched Radioactive Dreams last week, and rewatched Cyborg a few months ago.)
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- America 3000
- Shaolin vs Evil Dead
- Battle Beyond the Stars
I kinda feel like actual kung fu movies (not things like Kung Pao: Enter the Fist, etc.) are their own special category, lol! Had almost forgotten about America 3000, yet another Menahem and Yoram gem!
