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Title: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Patient7 on June 01, 2008, 01:35:19 PM
What B-film did you see before all others.  My first was The Creeps, a delightful peice about a scientist who brings the classic Universal monsters to life through the literature they were based on.  But a problem occurs and they become midgets.  :bouncegiggle:  It's wierd though, I though that either The Wolf Man or Mummy didn't have a book, I'm pretty sure it was Wolf Man but I'm not 100% on that.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: indianasmith on June 01, 2008, 06:54:45 PM
Hmmm . . . we used to have an afternoon show called FAMILY THEATER that started at 3 PM every Sunday.  When I was 5 - 10 years old I would watch it at my Aunt Willie's house every Sunday afternoon.  Lots of classic old horror from the 1930's to the 1950's, then later on they lightened it up with Abbot and Costello style comedies.  I saw THE MONOLITH MONSTERS, DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, THE WOLFMAN, DRACULA'S DAUGHTER, and a bunch of other cool films on that program.

My first modern (and by "modern," I mean, something with boobies in it) B-movie was probably either EXCALIBUR (great story, awful acting) or THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, which I still consider the greatest barbarian movie ever made.  I saw both those on the big screen when I was 17; the first B-Movie I saw on prime-time TV was HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP.  Ah, those were the days!


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: AnubisVonMojo on June 01, 2008, 07:12:29 PM
My first bad movie? My parents took me to a drive-in to see Mad Max when I was barely old enough to remember it. I think I was 2. The second oldest I can remember? I saw Godzilla 1985 in a theater when I was 4, probably because my parents nurtured my early love for dinosaurs.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: sideorderofninjas on June 01, 2008, 10:31:08 PM
Think it had to be Alligator when my parents went to the drive-in. 


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: hellbilly on June 01, 2008, 10:38:15 PM
Don Dohler's Fiend (1980) was one of my first bad movies. We rented it on VHS and we were like "this sucks". Fred Olen Ray's Scalps (1983) had pretty much the same effect. There was no joy to be found in Vultures (1983) either, that film nearly made me smash my VCR.
The first bad film that broke the ice and had us in stitches from laughter was Jim Kelly's Black Samurai (1977). We still reminisce about that historical night these days.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Mofo Rising on June 01, 2008, 10:44:35 PM
Black Samurai!

I only wish I could find a copy of that movie.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Shadow on June 01, 2008, 11:12:20 PM
The Giant Spider Invasion, which my dad took me to see in the theater back in 75' when I was six years old. I will never forget that day.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: ghouck on June 01, 2008, 11:33:04 PM
The first one I watched because I knew it was terrible was Bad Taste. A guy I worked with back in 1990 got this movie a couple of times and played it on the only TV in the barracks. I remember him laughing about how bad it was, and I didn't understand why he was laughing. I watched it again in 2004 or so and with that, somehow I found this site, and used Andrew's reviews as a basis for my collection.

Unintentionally, it was Bubba Ho Tep that I remember first, but I'm sure there were others.



Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: CheezeFlixz on June 02, 2008, 12:58:01 AM
The Brain That Wouldn't Die is the one that I seem to remember as the first.

When I was a kid (that would be the 60s) there was this late night Saturday night show called "Tale's from the Tomb" it was hosted by a guy that got out of a coffin and was dressed in a gorilla suit. He get out of the coffin and go to a podium and talk about the movie, making it sound far scarier than it was and then play the movie, they'd play a couple of movies and then the TV went off the air. I'd wake up to a test pattern or the National Anthem playing.
I lived right by the station and back in those days kids could stay out late and be fine, we'd go over to the station and watch off camera, sometimes we'd get to be on camera. It was a small station back in the day of 3 or 4 channels. You know VHF and UHF. We'd hang out for a while until one of our mothers called the station looking for us, about midnight.

It was a different world then ... damn shame it's gone down hill.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: sprite75 on June 02, 2008, 01:48:55 AM
A couple that stick out in my mind were the old movies "Find the Lady" and "It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time"  I came across the movies one day at Target, they were being marketed as before they were famous films of John Candy.  They were on sale for $6.99 so being a fan of Candy's work I bought the movies.

Ooops.  Good Idea wasn't even really a Candy film, his involvement wasn't what the packaging led me to believe.  Even so I did enjoy the films, even if they weren't as good as his later works.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Trevor on June 02, 2008, 03:52:34 AM
I don't know if it qualifies as a B Movie, but IMO it was and remains a bad one: Charles Jarrott's Lost Horizon (1973) with Peter Finch, George Kennedy, Liv Ullman and Sir John Gielgud.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

I saw this at the tender age of six and totally hated it ~ it almost put me off film watching for life. I'm glad that it didn't, come to think of it.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Jack on June 02, 2008, 07:30:51 AM
The Thing With Two Heads, on Elvira's Movie Macabre, back in about '82.  It starred Rosy Grier.  At least that's the first one I remember.  Growing up I used to watch a lot of made for TV movies in the '70s, and a lot of really bad kung fu movies. 


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: asimpson2006 on June 02, 2008, 08:17:26 AM
After some careful thinking I am changing my answer to this question.  My first bad movie would be Leonard Part 6.  When I was a kid I though the ending in the factory was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.  Saw it in whole for the first time last year and ending up feeling like I was just b*tch slapped.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 02, 2008, 09:13:45 AM
I don't know if it qualifies as a B Movie, but IMO it was and remains a bad one: Charles Jarrott's Lost Horizon (1973) with Peter Finch, George Kennedy, Liv Ullman and Sir John Gielgud.  :buggedout: :buggedout:
Doesn't qualify as a "B" movie, but certainly qualifies as a "bad" movie. 

The two that I remember being my 1st bad movie would either be Killer Klowns from Outer space, or Leonard Part 6.  I think though it was KKOS that was my first experience with b-movies...

Remember, a bad movie is not necessarily a "B" movie, and a "B" movie isn't necessarily bad

Oh, and my first "bad" movie was probably ATTACK OF THE MAYAN MUMMY...  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: JJ80 on June 02, 2008, 10:54:06 AM
I think it was "The Land That Time Forgot" around Halloween 1991. I loved dinosaurs and was very interested in both world wars so the film struck a very definite chord with me. I was mainly into westerns and war films before that.



Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 02, 2008, 04:05:51 PM
Probably MESSAGE FROM SPACE (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/messagespace/) when I was 10.  It was released to capitalize on STAR WARS and has a cool poster featuring schooners sailing through space.

When my mom dropped me off at the theater I assumed every space movie was going to be an exciting, awe-inspiring spectacle just like STAR WARS.  Instead I experienced... something Japanese.  I ended up walking out of the theater and standing around outside until my Mom came to pick me up.  I learned a hard lesson that day.

I'd like to see it again now that I'm older and more mature, though.   :teddyr:


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Doc Daneeka on June 02, 2008, 06:05:14 PM
Some of my earliest films ever were Godzilla flicks, I miss the old monsterthons!


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: sprite75 on June 03, 2008, 01:54:40 AM
Some of my earliest films ever were Godzilla flicks, I miss the old monsterthons!

I had a couple of the Godzilla movies on VHS.  They might still be around somewhere - in a box with all my other VHS tapes.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: peter johnson on June 03, 2008, 12:39:15 PM
I remember watching Plan 9 on TV in Virginia with a couple of my friends when I was 9 or 10 --
Even then I sensed that this movie was . . . something "different" from things like The Wolfman or Frankenstein, which they also showed. 
peter johnson/denny crane


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Echt on June 03, 2008, 01:40:28 PM
Jack Frost 2 was the first bad movie I remember seeing. I remember expecting to be scary and in the end I remember thinking, "This has to be a joke.". I've been hooked ever since, renting horrible movies and then laughing at them with friends.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Raffine on June 03, 2008, 01:55:15 PM
1972

Me: 10 years old

The Martin Theater - Albertville, Alabama

Feature Presentation: NIGHT OF THE LEPUS

   :tongueout:

The Backstory:

Due to the extremely frightening and mysterious (and, naturally, completely misleading) television ads there was some discussion amongst my and my friend's moms that this might be way too terrifying for my buddy Steve and me to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIsI7CwjH3M

We were feeling pretty adult when we were finally allowed to go see this and then it turned out to be . . . rabbits.

Giant, killer rabbits.

Star Trek trivia: To give you an idea as to how insignificant and out of the public's mind Star Trek was still in the early 70's the trailer doesn't mention DeForest Kelly, who actually had a fairly major part. A couple of years later and his name would have been above the title!



Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Dennis on June 04, 2008, 12:55:06 AM
The Deadly Mantis, I saw this at the Tumbleweed theater in El Monte, Ca. as a boy, it's the first of many films that provoked me to say "I can't believe I paid to see this !" I actually took my wife to see "Night of the Lepus". The advertising was very misleading, a giant black eye surrounded by fur, this had to be a "Lepus", even if I looked the word up I probably still would have taken her to see this film. It does have a couple funny moments, especially the sheriff's announcement "There is a herd of killer rabbits approaching." I wonder how long it took to get him to say that with a straight face. My wife doesn't seem to appreciate "B" movies of this type, tonight she played bingo on our laptop rather than watch Marshall Thompson in the cinematic masterpiece "Fiend Without a Face" with me. No accounting for taste I guess.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Andrew on June 04, 2008, 10:29:17 AM
My wife doesn't seem to appreciate "B" movies of this type, tonight she played bingo on our laptop rather than watch Marshall Thompson in the cinematic masterpiece "Fiend Without a Face" with me. No accounting for taste I guess.

"Fiend Without a Face" is great.  I was terrified of that movie as a young boy.  First off, the creatures are invisible and they strangle you to death.  Once they appear they are horrific hopping brains that push themselves around with their spinal columns!  And they're full of raspberry preserves!


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Dennis on June 05, 2008, 08:21:37 AM
I recently joined Netflix, now I can watch the all the "B" type movies that I enjoyed as a youngster. Fiend Without a Face is actually still good to watch, haven't seen it in years but it still works as Sci-Fi horror, the brain creatures as shown were state of the art special effects at the time. If you make allowance for that and some other dumb science concepts (blowing up the control room of a nuclear reactor has never struck me as a good way to shut the reactor down) this film is a pretty good "Bad Movie"
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q122/DENNISDURWARDHAMMOND/untitled-7.jpg) 
The girl getting out of the shower wrapped in just towel is pretty good also.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: ghouck on June 06, 2008, 10:58:01 AM
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Jack Frost 2 was the first bad movie I remember seeing. I remember expecting to be scary and in the end I remember thinking, "This has to be a joke.". I've been hooked ever since, renting horrible movies and then laughing at them with friends.

That'sa good one. I talked to someone in a rental store, and they said they had several people rent it, thinking it was a sequil to "Jack Frost", the family movie with Michael Keaton, and were disturbed by the error.

I assume you've seen the first Jack Frost, Killer Mutant Snowman? The Sheriff's kid was the creepiest character in the whole film.

I love the part where he's dropping the icycles on the girl and keeps missing, then just sayd "F-it" and trops the huge anvil on her. Classic. .


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Kester Pelagius on June 06, 2008, 12:54:41 PM
If you mean in the theater I honestly have no idea what the first bad movie I saw might have been.  If I had to guess it was probably something by Disney.  (Wasn't there some horribly 'comedy' with a flatulent hound dog that they put out in the 80s?)  As for TV and video. .

Contenders for the first bad movie friends showed me would probably be something by Ed Wood or John Waters.  There may have been others, probably involving singing cowboys or Ilsa, but those two directors movies can scar you for life!   :wink:

However the first bad movie I remember getting together with others at a friends house to watch was probably CREATURE.  IIRC I was the only one who liked that movie.  I thought it was hilarious.

However the first bad movie I recall intentionally seeking out on video was likely  FLESH GORDON.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: SynapticBoomstick on June 06, 2008, 04:37:00 PM
Jason and the Argonauts, age 4-6 (no exact recollection)


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Dr_Malavaqua on June 06, 2008, 05:41:05 PM
First bad movie(which I knew was regarded as one) in a theatre:
"Terror in the midnight sun"  My dad took me when I was too young to understand how bad it was. I remember him pointing out and explaining all the moviemistakes, as I probably wouldn't have reflected upon them myself - tender as my mind were. :tongueout: The town we saw it in (Gällivare) is actually located not too far from the filming location: Abisko.

First bad movie(which I didn't know was one) in a theatre: "Carnosaur"! I remember that I actually thought it was a bit scary and dark, but was totally amped because it had dinosaurs in it!
(I actually watched "Delicatessen" before this, but I consider/ed that a good movie. :teddyr:)

I was about nine years old when all this happened (ca 1991).


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Neville on June 07, 2008, 10:22:02 AM
I was exposed to "King Kong vs Godzilla" at a very tender age, and to "Firewalker" in 1986, at age 9.

Still, I consider my first b-movie an obscure slasher the clerk at the rental store fervently endored. It was among my very first rentals, and it involved a group of people spending the nigh together in a shopping mall and being attacked by surveillance robots. I think it was the first time I was 100% aware of the "so-bad-it's-good" appeal of certain movies, and also a first time in having fun at the expense of the movie I was watching.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Andrew on June 07, 2008, 10:53:36 AM
Still, I consider my first b-movie an obscure slasher the clerk at the rental store fervently endored. It was among my very first rentals, and it involved a group of people spending the nigh together in a shopping mall and being attacked by surveillance robots. I think it was the first time I was 100% aware of the "so-bad-it's-good" appeal of certain movies, and also a first time in having fun at the expense of the movie I was watching.


That is "Chopping Mall!"  Matt Steenburg wrote a review for it years ago.  I have a soft spot for that movie as well.

http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies/chopmall/


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Mr. DS on June 07, 2008, 11:15:12 AM
I don't recall exactly which one I saw first but there are a few that come to mind. 
Return Of The Living Dead and Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things come to mind.  They used to be on Saturday afternoon along with awful kung fu flicks.  I used to watch them a lot growing up.  My first exposures to horror were Jaws, Friday The 13th and Poltergeist.  My brother had a laser disc player and we'd watch them frequently. 


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Castroph on June 07, 2008, 07:52:13 PM
Monsturd was my first bad movie, it was so crappy and terribly done that it made me bellow out with laughter each time the monster appeared.


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Joe the Destroyer on June 09, 2008, 01:20:48 AM
Jeez, there are several that I can accredit as being the first.  Friday the 13th part 3, The Prey, and Swamp Thing are all likely candidates, as they all essentially got me into bad film.  I was about 3 or 4 when I saw these movies, and still remember watching them even when I was that little. 

Hell, I think King Kong vs. Godzilla might even predate those. 


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: GLKnight on June 11, 2008, 10:08:47 AM
Ninja Wars.

Seriously, I was three years old, with nothing but Disney, Transformers and Anime until then. Same tape had the Advetures of Lion Maru, a kaiju/sentai ninja show, Captain Future, and The Dragon Vs. Needles of Death. Then they allowed me into all the other 500(!!) VCR cassettes we had.

Not to mention I first saw a Troma movie at the age of 6 (Toxic Avenger baby!). Man, I miss shows like USA Up All Night...

Let's just say I got a head start of all my friends.

(My favorite example: "What you haven't seen 'Meet the Feebles'? I saw that when I was 9!")


Title: Re: Your first bad movie.
Post by: Justy on June 11, 2008, 05:39:01 PM
It's really hard to look back and see which one was the first. I watched a lot of movies when I was a kid. If I have to guess, perhaps The Day of the Triffids. Although my earliest favorite was Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. Those psychedelic scenes were awesome.