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Name some bad movies you consider perfect examples of the genre.

The green slime/X from outer space.  Scifi campiness, laughable fx, bad acting, wooden actors, ridiculous drama,  hilarious monsters.... What could be better?

THE LOST EMPIRE from 1984.  The bad movie that got me hooked on bad movies for life.

Did you remember to thank the makers of it?

For me, Godzilla and Ray Harryhausen movies are my main diet of what a lot of people would call bad movies.  Although many of those are influential masterpieces.

I do like H e l l comes to Frogtown and its direct to video sequel.  Ridicules premise, cheap sex appeal, and some spfx that can look good if your tired of CGI

Miami Connection - Good pacing, don't have slow moments, bad dialogue, great music, too many ideas thrown in and great bad action scenes.

sci-fi: SCANNERS 3 (1992)

slasher: THE MUTILATOR (1984)

action: SAMURAI COP (1991)


and the best intentional parody of such things:
GARTH MARENGHI'S DARKPLACE (2004)

Lost Horizon (1973)  :buggedout:

FASTER p***yCAT, KILL! KILL!  (1965) RUSS MEYER's Messterpiece! 


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Horror of the blood monsters. 1970

You gotta hand it to Al Adamson. The effort and ingenuity he put into this movie was amazing. I mean,  he took black and white movies, put them in a color movie and came up with an excuse to fit them into a color movie.

It really was impressive how he made this movie work, even if he had to spend a lot of the movie explaining it. I really have to hand it to him. I kinda wonder if if had put this much effort into making a good movie how it would have been...

But still this movie was a product of low budget, high ambition genius...

For Y'ur Height Only (1981)

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Personally, I consider the perfect bad movies those with low budget and unknown actors, but that still make a great movie. In some cases, better than big budget productions.

EVIL DEAD II would be one of the best examples in the horror genre. Cheesy, outrageous, funny, scary, memorable, and with awesome special effects. That movie has everything.

   Al as a King.

Pamela's Prayer every time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ddVa-7Brc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ddVa-7Brc)

I'd call a couple of those listed good genre movies (FASTER p***yCAT, EVIL DEAD II). But everyone's definitions are a bit different in the marginal cases.

I think I'd go with GLEN OR GENDA? Really bad, full of what-was-he-thinking? choices. But at the same time sincere, likeable, with a good heart, and the iconic presence of Bela Lugosi. There's a reason Ed Wood is still the poster boy for bad movies.

Well, if it's featured in the badmovies.org official review section, then it counts!  :tongueout:

Troll 2, The Room, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Samurai Cop, Glen or Glenda, Mommie Dearest, Robot Monster, Turkish Star Wars, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, Ben and Arthur, Fatal Deviation, Hobgoblins, Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies, the entire Sharknado franchise, Lavalantula and its sequal 2 Lava 2 Lantula

I watched two PERFECTLY BAD movies last night: 

COFFY (1973) 

FOXY BROWN (1974) 

These are both bad in every way I describe "bad" in a movie, perhaps mostly "bad" for you.  Bad subject matter, bad script, bad acting... and yet, enormously entertaining (titillating and I ain't talking just PAM)!   Both of these movies are well shot and sometimes superbly directed (for a director that KNOWS his audience) but equally lurid, sleazy, exploitative... COFFY might be my 2nd favorite movie but I can't claim it's a masterpiece, in fact, it's trash!  I'm like Manny the rat in CHARLOTTE'S WEB ...Get me a big spoon! 

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Point Break (1991) - it is a highly respected action cult movie but there is so much unintentional funny stuff going on for me that I can't help but to laugh whenever I watch Point Break. I know I'm on my own with this and that's ok. It is a bad acting Keanu Reeves movie who gets abused throughout the film. It is quite hilarious when you keep that in mind.
The bank robbery surveillance footage scene is bad cinema goodness. How can you not be amused by it? Especially since they are so sincere and serious about it.

Not counting anything from Ed Wood, these would be my picks...

DRAMA: The Room (2003), a bit basic of an entry but most other bad drama movies are just pretentious and boring

COMEDY: Sex Pot (2012), I'll admit that I only watched this movie at first to see Christine Nguyen naked. But it still was funny in a dumb stoner sort of way

ROMANCE: The Guest House (2011), Ever wonder what it would be like if you mixed the vibes of Hallmark Channel Original Movie with a very mild Skinemax softcore flick and gave it a sappy plot about lesbians? This is what you'd get.

ACTION - MARTIAL ARTS: The Dragon Lives Again (1977), If Fanfiction.net existed in the 70's, this movie would be a fic in the site's crossover section.

ACTION - WAR: Operation Nam (1986), One of the more underrated later entries in the "Macaroni Combat" subgenre of flicks IMHO

GANGSTER: Gigli (2003), Need I say more on this one?

WESTERN: Cut Throats Nine (1972), The sleaziest and most grimdark Western ever made

SCI-FI - CLASSIC: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), A film so iconic yet so poorly made. It spawned a slew of imitators and did for the giantess kink what Robin Hood and Sonic the Hedgehog did for furries.

SCI-FI - SPACE: Star Crash (1978), Still a better Star Wars film than anything Disney ever made.

SCI-FI - DYSTOPIAN: The Bronx Warriors (1982), The best two-for-one mockbuster you could ever see

HORROR - SLASHERS: Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor (1992/2012), Yeah it's a glorified clip show but I still liked it as a guilty pleasure and as a "What Could Have Been?" sort of deal

HORROR - ZOMBIES: Hell of the Living Dead (1980), Bruno Mattei's magnum opus in my humble opinion

HORROR - VAMPIRES: Embrace The Darkness II (2002), This movie is the answer to the question "What if the guys who made Vampire: The Masquerade did a sleazy erotic thriller?"

HORROR - EXTREME: The Necro Files (1998), Words cannot do justice for this bizarre work of shot-on-video VHS sleaze

HORROR - DEMONS: Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966), Another basic pick but it earned its reputation

ADULT - SOFTCORE COMEDY: Ghost in a Teeny Bikini (2006), IMHO this is Fred Olen Ray's best movie in his post-2000 output and is both hilarious, campy, and full of nudity

ADULT - SOFTCORE THRILLER: Poison Ivy 3: The New Seduction (1997), It's a glorified remake of the first film on an even smaller budget, but with actual nudity. Twice the sleaze with none of the class.

ADULT - HARDCORE: The Geek (1971), Sleazy Bigfoot film with one of the lamest yet unintentionally funny endings in history

ADULT - ROUGHIE/EXTREME: The Taming of Rebecca (1982), This movie fails miserably at being arousing unless you're The Corridor Killer but it works as a messed up psychotic horror flick with a few moments of unintentional comedy whenever George Payne hams it up or whenever blatantly unlicensed music is playing during unfitting moments.

I love how wacky that is  :bouncegiggle:

What is a "perfect" bad movie? To me, it's a movie that fails in every way possible but is still strangely watchable. It's the kind of movie that you can't help but marvel at, even as you're cringing in disbelief. Perfect bad movies are few and far between, but when they come along, they're an unforgettable experience.


One perfect bad movie that comes to mind is The Room, which is often hailed as the worst movie ever made. The acting is atrocious, the writing is painfully on-the-nose, and the plot makes absolutely no sense. And yet, for all its flaws, The Room is strangely captivating. It's the kind of movie that you can't help but watch again and again, trying to wrap your brain around its inherent strangeness.


Another perfect bad movie is Plan 9 from Outer Space, which is widely considered to be one of the worst films of all time. Plan 9 is a mess from start to finish, with shoddy effects, wooden acting, and a plot that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But like The Room, there's something about Plan 9 that keeps you coming back for more. Maybe it's the film's charming innocence or its campy sense of fun. Whatever the reason, Plan 9 from Outer Space is a perfect bad movie - and one that I highly recommend checking out.

I had that with Godfrey Ho's Robo Vampire

Exactly.  :thumbup: