100 essential bad movies, as chosen by you

[AndyC]

While I'm thinking of the 80s, I'll mention...

52 - Weird Science - This movie has it all: Kelly Le Brock, geeky high school kids getting in trouble while the parents are away, computers with quasi-magical powers, bras on heads, Vernon Wells and Micheal Berryman, wacky 80s fashion, an out-of-control house party, a nuclear missile, and especially Bill Paxton in the role that pretty much set the tone for his career.

[Doc Daneeka]

I wish I could have mentioned more than one, because this is something of a companion piece to the last one I mentioned

53. Never cry Werewolf (2008) - Basically Fright Night, except with a werewolf instead of a vampire, and a female heroine.

Essential example of a perfect ripoff; characters, events, settings, all taken from a superior movie without giving credit in any way to the original, not even dropping hints with an eerily similar title.

[Allhallowsday]

54. STRAIT-JACKET (time for some WILLIAM CASTLE cheez). 

[Andrew]

Just thoughts: we are missing or week in some genres.  Here are some, but there are more:

Blaxsploitation
Wrestling/ex-wrestlers
Kaiju (giant rubber monsters)
Fantasy
Martial Arts
60/70s Exploitation

I'm going to advance one that needs to be on the list, just because it is so awful:

Sextette

[AndyC]

It's a tough choice, but if I had to nominate a kaiju flick based on entertaining cheesiness and all-around 'WTF?' factor, I'd have to say Gamera vs. Guiron for #56.

[AnubisVonMojo]

Definitely with Andy for Guiron. By far my favorite old skool Gamera flick and Guiron is the greatest rubber monster movie ever created. He's got a giant friggin' Ginsu for a head and he shoots throwing stars out of his ears! 

57. - As for the lacking blaxploitation genre, there are a lot of possibilities, but I just saw an amazing mash-up of four of the greatest blaxploitation actors of all time as Jim Kelly, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, and Fred Williamson all teamed up for One Down, Two to Go. If it had Rudy Ray Moore and they all fought Blacula, it'd be the greatest movie of all time.

[Rev. Powell]

Just thoughts: we are missing or week in some genres.  Here are some, but there are more:

Blaxsploitation
Wrestling/ex-wrestlers
Kaiju (giant rubber monsters)
Fantasy
Martial Arts
60/70s Exploitation

I'm going to advance one that needs to be on the list, just because it is so awful:

Sextette

I noticed some of these were missing, though I did nominate FANTASY MISSION FORCE earlier, which at least represents the martial arts.

Blaxplotation, you say?

58. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song:  Melvin van Peebles dropped too much acid just before he thought up this tale of a black stud in a live sex show who beats up corrupt honky cops and runs to Mexico.  The first balxploitation movie.

(Anubis posted while I was typing, but I still want SWEETBACK).

[the master]

It's a tough choice, but if I had to nominate a kaiju flick based on entertaining cheesiness and all-around 'WTF?' factor, I'd have to say Gamera vs. Guiron for #56.

56 1/2. make it the gamera series if thats okay for the list to say it

[AnubisVonMojo]

(Anubis posted while I was typing, but I still want SWEETBACK).

Everybody needs some sweetback every once in a while Reverand... 

[RCMerchant]

Just thoughts: we are missing or week in some genres.  Here are some, but there are more:

Blaxsploitation
Wrestling/ex-wrestlers
Kaiju (giant rubber monsters)
Fantasy
Martial Arts
60/70s Exploitation

I'm going to advance one that needs to be on the list, just because it is so awful:

Sextette

Sextette is WORSE than bad...IMHO....it's EVIL! EVIL!!!! Painfully torturous!  That movie can induce suicide or murder! Ahhhhhh!  Ouch! Ouweeeeiiiieeee! God...please bury me under the dirt....deep! In the ground! UNDER VAST AMOUNTS OF DIIIIIIIIIIIIRT!!!!!!!!!

Oh...That outta my systym...the ultimate blaxpo-Satan movie....

59. ABBY-Dam Carol Speed is SCARY!!!!

This combines Blaxpo and satan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSNyD9Lz0TU

[CheezeFlixz]

It just occurred to me that speaking of giant rubber monsters ...

60. Godzilla (1954) is not on the list ... but you know it pronounced Godzirra.

[Patient7]

51. Fright Night (1985) - Teenage horror fan gets caught up in the R-rated exploits of a vampire moved in next door...

Essential viewing as the quintessential Friday-nite flick, as well as a good "first-'cool'-horror-film" with boobs, cool effects, a horror-savvy hero, a hot girl-next-door, a smugly terrifying villain, and an eccentric monster-hunter.

... and Marcy from "Married... With Children".

Yes... AS the hot girl-next-door

Don't get out much do you. 

[AnubisVonMojo]

This list needs some a little more "post-apocalyptic carnage" representation, so I nominate for No. 61: The Road Warrior.

And I'll let Lemmy make my argument for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Vw402IaII&NR=1

[Doc Daneeka]

51. Fright Night (1985) - Teenage horror fan gets caught up in the R-rated exploits of a vampire moved in next door...

Essential viewing as the quintessential Friday-nite flick, as well as a good "first-'cool'-horror-film" with boobs, cool effects, a horror-savvy hero, a hot girl-next-door, a smugly terrifying villain, and an eccentric monster-hunter.

... and Marcy from "Married... With Children".

Yes... AS the hot girl-next-door

Don't get out much do you. 

Of course not! There are vampires out there in the night, and hideous sun-demons every other time! It's just like that Russian Dozer series ya' know??

By the way, since something got posted before I did, I'll go ahead and mention that The Road Warrior is one of the few movies my dad actually likes all the way through!

[CheezeFlixz]

It's just like that Russian Dozer series ya' know??

Good stuff, movie not to bad either.