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.
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
- The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
- Circuitry Man
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
- Bad Girls From Mars
Star Wars
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.
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
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.
Bloodsport is one of the few movies with footage filmed inside Kowloon Walled City.
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
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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.
I feel like this is not a B-Movie, but I don’t care because this movie is awesome.
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:
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.
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!
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 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
- 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!
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.
