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I seen ASTRO ZOMBIES on WKZO Channel 41 Kalamazoo Shock Theater.
Even as an 10 year old in 1972 I knew this movie sucked.
After that I would purposly try to see all the s**t movies on the cover of Famous Monsters- like DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO COUNT DRACULA?

When I seen it it was in black and white because out TV was black and white.

http://youtu.be/6w0gtP14fLE (http://youtu.be/6w0gtP14fLE)

I think it was THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER that really won me over.

I'm 33.  So, a few things.

MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs, used to be on TNT back in the day.  Tons of 'not so good movies.'
MST3K--But, of course.

Also, there was a local station here in Philly, a UHF station of sorts, that showed all kinds of off the wall programming.  Like, mornings and afternoons were syndicated 60s sitcoms, nights might be religious programs.  Weekends were a hodgepodge of WWF programming, bad martial arts films, direct-to-vhs films, and old horror films from the 50s and 60s. 

I can't stand bad movies, I just like you guys.

That sounds like my kinda channel! When I lived in NYC in 1979-80  I watched Chiller and the Addams Family and Benny Hill-while I was high on angel dust that they usta sprinkle on the pin joints they sold at the corner. "Cheba!" It was called "Cheba!"

I take that back (not the liking you guys part) I used to love watching Elvira's Movie Macabre on Saturday nights when I was little, and her movies stank.

BURN HER AT THE STAKE! 

http://youtu.be/CcTECqIir_k (http://youtu.be/CcTECqIir_k)

Just kidding! I'm glad your on this board- you make me think.

What you make me think about is a whole 'nother thing!
But it is always interesting!  :thumbup:

Ok-yer forgiven.

 Elvira trumps!

This channel here was great.  I was unemployed for a bit and would just get blasted drunk on the weekend and watch the terrible movies and pro-wrestling.  It'd literally be like, a Bruce Lee film from the 70s, The Fly starring Vincent Price and then an Anna Nicole Smith film and then like, WWF shows at night or whatever  :buggedout:

That sounds like my life in the 80's when I lived at Village Commons in 1987 and just drank and watched USA Network and Head Bangers Ball.

I was also very fond of the more recent movie HATCHET.  To me, it captured everything that was fun about 80's slasher flicks!

I gotta say-Tiana LOVED Hatchet.

I thought it sucked-Sorry Indy-arrh! I couldn't stand it.

This: saw it when I was six - hated it.

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This: bleurgh. The Frank Capra version:  :thumbup: :thumbup:

George Kennedy? LOST HORIZON???

Unbelievable but yes  :buggedout:

I remember when I was very young going to see an Italian rip off of Star Wars in the cinema starring Richard Kiel and Barbera Bachman, and another time Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel and Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 9 (although I spent that movie rooting for the robot). Pretty sure it was movies like these that kick started my love for bad movies. These days I have all those films on DVD, but I'll never forget watching them on the big screen.

After watching and making fun of Black Samurai (1977). My sister and me were in tears from laughing so hard. When renting tapes we then made it a point to pick at least one movie that looked really bad, so that we could make fun of it. Soon enough we discovered A Night to Dismember (1983) and it blew our mind, and I was totally hooked on bad movies.
We used to watch A Night to Dismember religiously and it got more hilarious with every viewing.  :thumbup:

I used to watch T&A flicks (BARBARIAN QUEEN was my favorite!) as a teenager (for the T&A). Found them amusing. Then I saw a listing for PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE in the newspaper at 17 and it sounded like a hoot. But the one that really sold me on the whole concept was GLEN OR GLENDA? After I saw that I was totally hooked.

My love of bad movies started when I was a little kid (but I didn't really consider them to be bad movies back then!) I watched a lot of junk on TV (the Godzilla/Rodan/Mothra, etc., movies, the black & white monster movies from the 1950s, cheesy space movies) . . . I also made my mother take me to see a lot of Saturday matinee junk at the theater. Now I'm almost 54 years old and I own all that crap on DVD or blu-ray.

Even more shocking: Bobby Van?????

Mystery Science Theater Three Thousand Show 301 Reel One.

When I was about 13 years old (circa 1983), I saw Star Crash on local TV one Sunday afternoon.

I knew nothing about the movie but at the time I was a Star Wars crazed kid who would watch pretty much anything with the words "Star," "Space," "Galaxy," etc. in the title.

Needless to say, the sight of Caroline Munro in that leather space bikini and boots made quite an impression! :D

That was my intro to the wild 'n' wacky world of Italian/Euro exploitation films and I was immediately hooked!

my dad left the air force and we moved to my massachusetts hometown in early '66. and my big brother discovered uhf channel 56...from then on in,we were doomed with a love of bad movies,especially horror/scifi/fantasy stuff.
   july of that year, my momma found a drivein the next town over, and that was seriously it for her too, doomed, i say!
   i was 4, my brother 8 at the time. and i am proud to say that we passed our doom on to our baby sister as well. and al also proud to say that we contributed to the doom of their children,my 4 nieces,and are ALL now contributing to the doom of my greatniece and greatnephews.

I'm a life-long Massachusetts resident and grew up watching lots of trash on channel 56 and channel 38. We had at least 6 or 8 drive-in theaters within a reasonable driving distance of where we lived. Good times.

Funny, yesterday I asked my dad if he liked watching bad movies and he said in high school he and his friends liked watching this Elvira-like show hosted by a crazy local character called the Kool Ghoul. He said Kool Ghoul was better than his movies, and it's a shame he was before my time. Now I'm going to go find Kool Ghoul on YouTube.

(Imagine if my question about bad movies led my dad to this site. Man would the tone of some of my posts hafta change...  :buggedout:

 
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You are a pig.   :bouncegiggle:

MST3K and these

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I found a lot of humor in these

Terrible Japanese scifi/kaiju films.  

Yeah,  I'm a deeply scarred vet....

They could make troll 3 now and add the horror of trolls coming out of your monitor screen...

Now we know what Bobby was doing in between shooting episodes of 'Match Game' and 'Tattletales':

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My parents watched a lot of MST3K, so there's a start.

really? i grew up in middleboro, bottom of the cape, the drivein was in lakeville. and you?

I grew up in Saugus. So, we had drive-ins in Saugus, Revere, Lynn, Medford . . . all around the area. I spent a lot of summers down the Cape. My aunt and uncle had a summer home in Wareham.

And don't forget his short-lived show "Make Me Laugh."

Perfect timing on my part.

I was a kid during the 70s growing up in a tiny town in north Alabama. We had one of the few locally owned movie theaters around, ran by the wonderful Bill Harris and his wife. During the week they'd run a current 'A' movie For us that meant stuff like BILLY JACK and WALKING TALL. These would play for months, it seemed.

Saturday was 'Kiddie Movie' time. Yes, this meant the latest live action Disney nonsense like THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES, but was also got tons of PINK PANTHER and WOODY WOODPECKER cartoons. We also got many of the current horror movies like FROGS, DRACULA AD 1972, and NIGHT OF THE LEPUS mixed in with the Disney and the cartoons. Occasionally we'd get a classic like a GODZILLA movie or a Harryhausen SINBAD movie.

They also held several old fashioned 'Spook Shows' with old movies and people dressed like ghosts and monsters running around in the audience. A bonus was the theater was right across from the city jail. Yelling back and forth at the prisoners was a good way to pass the time when waiting for your mom to pick you up.

It was the PERFECT breeding ground for a bunch of Monster Kids and fans of weird movies.

There used to be a film club at my university during my undergrad years (2011-2015). It would show different genres on a daily/evening basis. As I recall it was Wednesday evenings they had a "B-Movie Night" which was attributed to a book called "The Golden Turkey Awards" (Harry & Michael Medved).

I only went at the insistence of a couple of film-geek friends, but it was fortunate that on my first attendance they showed "Plan 9 from Outer Space", "The Swarm" and "Zardoz" - and that's when I realised what a B-Movie Bomb looked like. :bouncegiggle:

www.raru.co.za (http://www.raru.co.za) wants ZAR400 for a DVD of Lost Horzintally [about $40]: that is about ZAR399.99 too much.  :buggedout:

Very similar here. 
I'm also 33.  I watched a LOT of random stuff when I was little, because I had an open mind and nobody told me I couldn't, I guess.  I also watched a lot of Joe Bob Briggs Monstervision on TNT.  As soon as I saw them play movies like the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead and Return of the Living Dead, I was hooked for good. :teddyr:  I used to watch and record every older scifi and horror movie that I possibly could from AMC and the Scifi channel before they turned to total crap. :hatred:  I also rented lots of VHS movies, too.  I always liked the hunt of finding some odd ball movie that I enjoy that pretty much NOBODY else does.  Ever since I got the internet, I looked up, bought, and downloaded loads more.  And, most newer movies in general just don't interest me.  A lot of them are just CGI crap fests that lack the charm and personality that older movies had on a small fraction of the budget.  So, I happily keep searching for old movies that interest me. :wink:

Speaking of Joe Bob, he was a huge influence on my taste, but only in his printed column. Seldom watched him on TV. His appearance and demeanor didn't match the vision of him I had in my mind, nor was he as funny as in person as in his writing, and  on top of it all, the movies were edited.

The thing is- I had SEEN lotsa so called 'bad' since 1967- on Double Creature Feature and Shock and Chiller- but I didn't think of them as bad until the early 70's.  I remember watching FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR on channel 28 on a Saturday afternoon when a golf game was cancelled- so they threw this on. I sat threw the whole thing straining my eyes waiting for the Frankenstein Monster. He never showed up.

Thank's Sam Sherman!  :lookingup:

Probably an extension of my interest in old Sci-Fi/Fantasy movies.

And I'm a cheapskate, so instead of being appalled at these films' quality I think "Hey, maybe I could do this..."

When I was about 6 or 7 years old, my friend saw it at the drive-in. He told me it was a werewolf movie and the Frankenstein monster wasn't in it. I didn't believe him. Years later I read about it in the Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film and eventually I bought the DVD. He was right. No Frankenstein monster in sight. Just some half-assed intro that talks about "Wolfstein." Sam Sherman, you marvelous bastard!

My buddies and I used to search through Blockbuster Video and Hollywood Video for random Troma films.  Cheaper, yeah, but at least they weren't cheesy CGI knockoff films that we got in the late 90s.

USA Up All Night--I watched this a lot too.  Where I first saw some Troma films. 

I think it was a gradual thing to be honest... one of my earliest memories is of watching a very fleeting clip of Mike nelson era MST3K on the Sci-fi channel in the UK during its very VERY fleeting broadcast over here...I suppose I really started to get into weird and bad movies when I was about 12 or 13...I really got into horror films starting with the mainstream ones (Nightmare on elm street, Halloween, Friday the 13th) and then after watching almost all of those (Pocket money couldnt afford me Halloween 6 or Jason goes to hell xD) I moved onto the slightly more obscure horrors (Hellraiser, Prom Night, Monsters crash the Pyjama party) but I wasnt perticularly well grounded it was pretty much a case of what I could find and what I could afford. I suppose I owe quite a bit of my exploration advice to James Rolfe and his "Monster Madness" series...as without him I probably would have never heard of things like "Tourist trap" or "House (Hasu)" or any of the Universal Monster Sequels. I suppose I should also toss some Karma over to Brad Jones (The Cinema Snob) as pretty much from 2008 to my graduation from university in 2014 he was terrifically helpful in finding some of the more goofier movies out there...So I dug away at various B-movies and lesser mainstream titles (It was at this time I discovered "Dolla Morte" what I thought was the worst film ever made until last year when I saw "Let's ruin Dads Day") through most of my teens and I suppose a breakthrough moment for me was when I hit about 18 years old and I reintroduced myself to MST3K (My first episode was Manos) and I was just totally hooked from then on in...from there I'd dig through the first 3 seasons with my flatmate before deciding to finally branch out and explore again for myself.

By sheer chance in the UK Arrow Video were just starting to come into prominence  and through them and several random searches through Flea markets I've been able to track down all manner of random good stuff :) and that brings me to the modern day :) where I watch bad movies pretty much all the time and i'm currently giving back to the community in the form of tracking down and reviewing very obscure films that either have minimal or no presence on youtube and google helping to pretty much pool all the information I can about them together into one bitesize video :) its really given me something fun to get on with and it stops me slouching about the house in my down time...my partner doesnt really get it, but she lets me get on with things (Unless the "To watch" pile starts getting a bit unweildy) xD so yeh...thats my story :)

i am SO jealous! i would have loved to see a spook show inreallife as a kid/teen...

this is interesting.. you're 2 years younger than me, it's entirely possible we went to the same arcade in wareham during the summer, my da's best friend had a cottage we borrowed! it was on pine tree road, i think.

My aunt & uncle's place was on Overlook Road in Shangri-La Village.

Joe Bob Briggs definitely was a huge influence, but for me in his printed column, not his TV shows. I was in Dallas when he was just hitting his stride, 2 years into his career, and his column was like nothing else in the world---hilarious, with reviews of terrible movies. When I saw him on TV I was a little disappointed that he didn't match the picture in my head and that he was not as funny as he was in print.

He's campaigning to get a new show on Shudder. But he hasn't even been writing movies reviews for years. He still has a column but it's all politics and culture war stuff.  :thumbdown:

I kid around a lot about my ignorance of movies, which compared to the background in them so many of you have makes me a candidate for the special bus crowd, but I wanted to thank each of you because over the years you've taught me a lot about movies, just from having followed along as you've posted, but I especially made use of that list of suggested films most of you were kind enough to take a moment to contribute to last year. Since I looked every one of them up, then even in the cases where I may not see a particular movie itself, I came away expanding my appreciation of the cinematic art form. So this is as good a place as any to once more say thank you.

do you recall the arcade that was on the main drag down to the white beach? meaning white sand,not white people, lol! it was dead center on the block before the beach,there was an ice cream shop on the side closest to the beach, and on the far side was a "fried everything"  place? they had THE best french fries, and my momma loved their scallops. you had to go up a block to get a burger or hot dog...
  i haunted that arcade the summer i was 11, i was obsessed with pinball,and the gypsy fortune teller machine... smile..

I probably went to that arcade, but I really don't remember. We took day trips to Lincoln Park and Rocky Point Park every year and I definitely remember spending time in those arcades.

i belong to a "hometown" group on facebook, there's a guy who is a historian and posts pictures for us. just recently he posted a bunch of pics of lincold park, i'll see if i can figure out how to get them here. most are from time we grew up and went there, late 60's to mid 70's. brought back some great memories!

Google images also has pictures of Lincoln Park.

really? cool! thanks!

hmm, think I need to see A Night To Dismember, always looking out for early 80s slashery horrory stuff I've not seen yet...


in the mid 90s me and one of my brothers bonded over  THE BEAST MUST DIE (1974) which randomly came on tv and we both fell about laughing...think we can both quote the entire movie and it crops up in pretty much every conversation we have to this day! that was possibly my bad-movie gateway, although I have always had an affection for anything that was endearingly crappy...music, video games, whatever.

nice...what uni were you at?  I was in a film club at my uni (Leeds) but they only showed 'good' ones. They screened A CLOCKWORK ORANGE the week Stanley Kubrick died, which iirc was the first time it had been unbanned here.

My own assessment of "bad movies" differs from much, if not all, of this forum.  I think movies may be classified as "bad" not just for poor production, bad acting, or dopey script.  I think some movies are "bad" because they are in bad taste, or perhaps bad for you. 

That being said, I think I have to chalk up my fondness for "bad" movies as beginning with a film that I think in many ways is GREAT:  CARNIVAL OF SOULS.  I love the soundtrack, the script is adequate, but the cinematography is exceptional.  It is, however, creaky (not just creepy) with crappy dubbing and low production values.  I first saw CARNIVAL OF SOULS in an afternoon broadcast one weekend around 1969.  I didn't understand anything about what I wrote above at the time, it was simply memorable and scared the bejeepers out of me.
In the subsequent decade, I was introduced to lots of Horror and SciFi films on late night TV, like DEATHDREAM, GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE, HOUSE OF SEVEN CORPSES, CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, CYBORG 2087, SILENT NIGHT BLOODY NIGHT, THE INNOCENTS... not all of which can be classified as "bad".  But a pattern should seem to emerge from liking - or loving - each of those films.   

I can agree with that definition, but I don't enjoy that sort of bad movie. (Usually.)

I really liked "Pigs in Space" on the Muppet Show and also the live action Spiderman on electric company. I was just born to appreciate heap stuff with ambition way beyond its means.

As cheeseball as the things were then we were absolutely TERRIFIED when the lights went down and some people wearing rubber dime store masks ran up and down the aisles pretending to 'get' you.

Probably my BEST experience at that theater was when they ran IT'S ALIVE and the audience of mostly preteens started screaming at the first note of music (I know now it was Bernard Herrmann slumming for his pal Larry Cohen) and pretty much yelling and screaming for the entire movie.

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