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.
- 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
Lol just watched Hard Ticket to Hawaii last night. Good list!
Just came back to say I forgot Cherry 2000!
I just watched Buckaroo Bonzai having heard nothing about it. Fucking brilliant movie. I need to watch it again now that I know what I’m in for
Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man are B movies?
If you’re not laughing at how absurdly bad both of these films are, I don’t know what to tell you. The comedy of them is what makes them B-Movies to me.
I want to get online. I need! A computer!
I don’t know what to say the delivery kills me every time. So over the top and absurd.
Considering Leonard Maltin gave Laserblast the same 2.5 stars as Temple of Doom I guess B is in the eye of the beholder
I want room service!
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!
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.
…I’ve seen a lot of those movies on effedupmovies… TIL…
P.S. Hundy P gonna watch some more!
Ilsa she Wolf of the SS
This wasn’t on your mind because it’s been making the rounds on *cough private trackers *cough eh?
If so, a tip of the ol’ pirate hat, friend.
Not this time friend. I’m just old as dust. Been sailing for decades without stopping at Port once. They’ll just bury me at sea one day.
effedupmovies is quite the list!
New posts almost weekly as well.
Is there an effedupmovies site? All I can find are lists on other sites (Letterboxd, IMDB, Ranker etc).
Thanks.
LOL, just .com on the end, I wonder why my search engine just wouldn’t find it.
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.
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
Big Trouble counts as one of the greatest movies of all time. :)
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.”
I have a collector’s edition DVD of Repo Man that came in a metal tin shaped like a license plate
Used to love watching Moviedrome, where Repo Man’s director Alex Cox would introduce some amazing cult films and what he loved about them.
+1 for Dead Alive
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!
Trust me, as a Dead Alive fan I had the exact same thoughts.
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.”
Big trouble and buckaroo bonsai are two of my favorites.
- 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!
I thought it was ok for what it was. But then again, I like b-movies and especially mystical horror b-movies.
It’s actually pretty hard to find!
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.
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”.
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
- 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.
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
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
Solid picks!
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!
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.
