Recommendations?

[Rowsdower3000]

Hello y'all. This is Rowsdower3000 from Vienna, Austria.

Like a lot of you, I became interested in these strange movies of varying quality through Mystery Science Theater 3000. I guess a friend is somewhat to blame as well for showing me the Weng Weng movies and The Room. Anyhow, over the last year I've seen my share of entertainingly bad movies but for some reason I haven't seen a gem in while.

Which is why I'm turning to your wisdom.

I guess if I list some of the movies I truly enjoyed, someone can see a pattern in the viewing profile and give me some recommendations:

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (especially the 80's movies like Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Space Mutiny, Puma Man, The Final Sacrifice, Squirm, Hobgoblins 2, Future War)
The Room
The Weng Weng Trilogy (man, did I trip when I first saw him)
Yor, Robowar and The Cage (Reb Brown rocks! Aiiihh!)
The Intruder and Korkusuz
Deadly Prey
Equinox
Undefeatable (the creepy antagonist and the final fight especially)
Die Hard Dracula
Megaforce (the gold jumpsuits made them look like naturists on flying motorcycles)
Starcrash (what is it with the dozens of colorful planets in these movies?!)
Turkish Star Trek (smiley Kirk!)
The Galaxy Invader
Blood Freak
Andy Sidaris movies (even though all felt like one long saga of silicone breasts)
Shark Attack 3
Creatures from the Abyss (wow...)
Zombie Lake
Hard Rock Zombies
Troll 2

Me and my friend both are in film school, so we really get a joy out of terrible scripts and continuity. Cheap 80's films and especially Italian rip-offs seemed to deliver that a lot.

I did have some negative experiences as of late. Part of the reason is we always got high for these special movie occasions and a lot of bad trips caused by some masterpieces made us pull the stop. We were so keen to see Robo Vampire, but it ended up disturbing us more than we wanted, especially because we tried to make sense of it. The Dark Planet was another one of those agonizing movies. Extreme gore and animal cruelty we try avoid seeing.

So yeah, I hope the smart minds frequenting this place can recommend me and my friend some entertaining movies.

Sincerely,
Rowsdower3000

[BTM]

Welcome to the board, my friend!  

It's a nice to place to hang out!  

As for some awesome adventures in film craziness, I'd recommend the following:

Hideous! - mutant fetuses kill people, yay!  

Bloody Birthday - three ten year olds go on a killing spree, yay!

Cemetery Man - Rupert Everett fights zombies and, more bizarrely, plays a straight guy

Death Wish 3 - last half hour is insane, it's like an old school Nintendo shoot 'em up game, Bronson takes out about a hundred gangsters

Dead Leaves - animated short film, described by some as 45 minute WTF moment.  

Burial Ground - baaaaad zombie flick, featuring slow as all get out zombies, bizarre ass "porno" dubbing (crank up the volume on some scenes and leave the room, you'd swear a porno was playing), incest, and really BAD ideas ("Hey, let's let them inside, maybe it's something in the house they want, not us!")  

Anyway, that's just a few off the top of my head.  I'm sure you've seen the classics like Evil Dead 2 and Romero's earlier works, and such.

[Rev. Powell]

I see a lot of colorful 1980s sci-fi there.  Try 2020: TEXAS GLADIATORS, SHE, WARRIORS OF THE APOCALYPSE, WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND, SOLARBABIES, LIFEFORCE, BREEDERS. 

Any 1980s CONAN or ROAD WARRIOR ripoff is usually good for a laugh.

Why not explore some crazy Japanese sci-fi like GOKE: THE BODYSNATCHER FROM HELL?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gYLuCsDWBc
	Small | Large

For some reason I think you'd like Frank Henenlotter (although he's "deliberately bad").  Try BASKET CASE and FRANKENHOOKER (Andrew's review). 

[Doc Daneeka]

You've got a thing (Like me) for some widely-panned crazyshoddy cinema! (Die Hard Dracula? Shark Attack 3? Troll 2? Undefeatable?)

I recommend my golden-boy DRACULA 3000 as well as the BASKET CASE trilogy (For you, emphasis on the rare part 3 with part 1 as a verrry close runner up). For weirdass monsters and silly actors like Equinox had, I recommend SPOOKIES.

Also, check out a copius amount of YouTube shorts, they can be the worst of the unintentianlly bad (HATCHET WOUNDS! ...And the more seriously-done-yet-cheesy AREA 49 films)

For something less obscure, see FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE, LEPRECHAUN 4 or TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION (Note that these are more obviously intentional comedies, but they are still rather lame). Also, see the JACK FROST duology... The horror series of course.

Finally, seek the entire POLONIA BROTHERS catalogue... I think they may have been the ones to sway me from bad movies, not due to revulsion like some, but because I knew I had found badfilm Nirvana! Seriously, I believe you shall be amazed though there is a good chance they will cross your quality line somewhere.

...ps: THE ITEM, SCARECROW, HOUSE IV, THE DEVIL BAT, DEADFALL

[Psycho Circus]

Robot Jox
Arena
Rock N' Roll Nightmare
Radioactive Dreams
Metalstorm: The Destruction Of Jared Syn
Spacehunter
Future Force

   

[Jack]

Creature (1985) - space explorers land on one of Jupiter's moons and are menaced by a monster - good fun.
Within the Rock (1996) - miners try to destroy an asteroid before it hits earth, but are menaced by a monster.

Check out some stuff by The Asylum:  http://www.imdb.com/company/co0043571/ 

[Rowsdower3000]

Thanks for the recommendations so far, everyone!

I only watched two so far:

Radioactive Dreams
Hey, it actually wasn't that bad. The premise is kinda neat. In fact, it feels like the movie heavily inspired the Fallout video game series.
The only thing that can get annoying is the 80's music. I didn't really have to laugh out loud at it's quality.

Creature
Again, a pretty decent rip-off, considering the lack of budget, professional actors and a good script. 

Next up: Some Road Warrior rip-offs.

[Rowsdower3000]

Burial Ground - baaaaad zombie flick, featuring slow as all get out zombies, bizarre ass "porno" dubbing (crank up the volume on some scenes and leave the room, you'd swear a porno was playing), incest, and really BAD ideas ("Hey, let's let them inside, maybe it's something in the house they want, not us!") 

Just saw it. Man, that kid, Michael, was the absolute highlight! That whole incest thing was so disturbing. A friend who downloaded this for me made up the theory that Michael was really Weng Weng after plastic surgery trying for a new career as a slightly taller Caucasian. 

Metalstorm: The Destruction Of Jared Syn

  

Yikes. The most memorable thing about this movie was its protagonist's constant staring. The ending really fizzled out, too. Oh, the villain escaped through the portal.

[Psycho Circus]

Metalstorm: The Destruction Of Jared Syn

  

Yikes. The most memorable thing about this movie was its protagonist's constant staring. The ending really fizzled out, too. Oh, the villain escaped through the portal.

Then may I recommend "Cherry 2000". 

[BTM]

Burial Ground

Just saw it. Man, that kid, Michael, was the absolute highlight! That whole incest thing was so disturbing. A friend who downloaded this for me made up the theory that Michael was really Weng Weng after plastic surgery trying for a new career as a slightly taller Caucasian.  

Actually, in all seriousness, I'm told the actor had some kind of condition or some such that made him really short, so it's not like they had a real kid in there, although considering some Italians in cinema, I wouldn't put it out of the range of possibility (Dario, "I have my own daughter do nude scenes in my films" Argento springs to mind.)

[Rowsdower3000]

I just read Pietro Barcella (a.k.a. Peter Bark) was 26 at the time.
I'm not to make fun of his condition, of course. It's just him being thrown into such a crappy movie, having to play such an incestuous role and on top of that with such a lightly spoken voice, which does sound familiar to Weng Weng's voice in "For Y'ur Height Only".

I guess I was just expecting more to come from the character. He could have a secret ability, like be a Damien kinda kid, being able to control the dead. But nope, just a biter.