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.

  • dditty@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 minutes ago
    • The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
    • Circuitry Man
    • Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
    • Bad Girls From Mars
  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 hours 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.

  • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    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

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    3 hours 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.

  • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    4 hours 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

  • proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    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.

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    12 hours 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
      7·
      12 hours 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
        6·
        11 hours 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!

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    12 hours 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

  • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    13 hours ago

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