Wondering what people’s favorite “bad” movies are. Can be low budget, box office flops, foreign, so bad it’s good, whatever. I’m pretty big on Cannon Group stuff and cheesy Turkish pop cinema (Tarkan vs. the Vikings, etc.). Mostly go for 80s stuff as that’s my generation.
Velocipastor is so much better than it has any right to be.
Helen Keller vs. Night Wolves has the most hilarious opening song and is the very definition of a B movie.
Super Hybrid is another B movie that has no right to be as good as it is. Highly recommend.
As mentioned in some other comments Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is an absolutely ridiculous romp from Troma.
Class of 1999 - The movie The Faculty kinda ripped off.
Turbo Kid - Mad Max on BMX
American Gothic - Fun little horror movie
Final Girls - Meta horror movie
Waxwork - Sooooo much fun!
Class of 1999 was pretty fun as I recall. Waxwork is classic!
The whole Tremors series
Action USA is an amazing action movie done solely by stunt people
Babylon was a massive bomb, and i dont understand why. I think it’s a masterpiece.
Pig was another underappreciated masterpiece. When Nic Cage did his AMA on Reddit (one of the best ever), he said it was one of the acting jobs that he’s most proud of. He deserved an Oscar for it, but wasn’t even nominated. The screenplay, too.
You’re gonna laugh, but I have a lot of love for Legend with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. How Tim Curry managed to chew the set that hard with horns that size is beyond my acting skill to comprehend. And the fact that Tom Cruise ran around saving unicorns from Satan with a motley crew of fairy sidekicks is a sentence gay enough to make me puke rainbows. I’m already gay, man, I puke rainbows all month during June.
Seriously, it’s a good and awful movie. It has no plot, it’s just aesthetic art. But if you want a really good fantasy movie about unicorns… The Last Unicorn. Full stop. It has made me cry since I was a child. Not a B Movie, just a cult classic.
But if you REALLY want a B movie? Time Bandits. How the hell Kenny Baker went from R2-D2 to one of the gremlin thieves on strike because God wouldn’t let them have a turn on the time machine… I can’t. And kidnapping The Generic English Schoolboy as their sidekick was just… interesting. At least Sean Connery did a great job as Agamemnon.
Legend and Time Bandits are two of my favorite movies and I have multiple copies of each as they are some of the movies I rebuy each time there’s a format change or a special edition! I have never actually seen The Last Unicorn so I’ll have to check it out.
- The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
- Circuitry Man
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
- Bad Girls From Mars
Star Wars
Dunno if it counts but I’m a sucker for Jean Claude van Damme movies. And the only others I can think of off the top of my head are a couple of Albert Pyuun movies called Omega Doom and Knights, really bad sci-fi flicks. I actually need to save this thread for future watching material.
Recently watched Pyun’s Radioactive Dreams (his post-apocalyptic coming-of-age hardboiled detective sci-fi musical!) Post in Lemmy B-Movie Bonanza.
I tried watching Knights a few week ago but the… “copy” I got switched from English to French about ten minutes in. :D I’ll try another source soon.
Haha that looks great, going to have to check it out. It’s a little disappointing to see that there’s no cyborgs in it though. On that note, I was also going to mention the movie Cyborg because there’s a director’s cut called Slinger that makes it clear that JVCD did miracle work salvaging it for the theatrical cut of Cyborg lol.
Good suggestions and that’s why I posted the question, future watch list :)
Bloodsport is one of the few movies with footage filmed inside Kowloon Walled City.
Dagon. It’s basically HP Lovecraft’s “Shadow Over Innsmouth” except it’s set in probably Spain I think. It’s silly and gorey and frankly terrifying, definitely worth the watch
One of the better adaptations (well, one of the entertaining at least) of HPL imo. It’s hard to capture the feel of his stories. The only really “Lovecraftian” thing I can say that really felt like it succeeded without extra cheese was season one of True Detective.
Many great recommendations.
Some other that I don’t think were mentioned so far:
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The Baron Against the Demons / El barón contra los Demonios (2006) - Completely insane Spanish action/scifi
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Hellevator (2004) - Crazy Japanese scifi with action/horror elements
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Zone 39 (1996) - Cool low budget Australian cyberpunk-adjacent movie
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Nirvana (1997) - Excellent Italian cyberpunk thriller
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Shocking Dark (1989) - 80s Italian ripoff of two famous scifi/action movies from the time
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Webmaster / Skyygen (1998) - Solid Danish 90s style cyberpunk thriller
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Neon City (1991) - Solid post-apocalyptic flick
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Cold Harvest (1999) - Kungfu flick with a post-apocalyptic setting
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Def-Con 4 (1985) - Post-apocalyptic action/adventure
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Slipstream (1998) - Post-apocalyptic film with beautiful mountain cinematography, with Mark Hamil as the bad guy
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Cyborg (1989) - Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks ass in a post-apocalyptic future
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Radioactive Dreams (1984) - A strange mix of post-apocalyptic movie and 40s era pulp detective
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Nightflyers (1987) - 80s space horror based on a novel by George R R martin
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Terminal Invasion (2002) - Low budget The Thing ripoff with Bruce Campbell
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Shadowzone (1990) - Horror set on an isolated base
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Population 436 (2006) - A Stephan king style horror with Fred Durst
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The Langoliers (1995) - A unique, almost scif-fi, horror/thriller based on a Stephen King novella
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Black Mountain Side (2014) - Isolated norther research station horror
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Butterfly Kisses (2018) - A somewhat novel take on the found footage genre, has flaws though
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The Last Winter (2006) - Norther isolated research station horror
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The Presence / Danger Island (1992) - Solid thriller/horror tv movie.
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Cyber Bandits / A Sailor’s Tattoo (1995) - Wholesome adventure/cyberpunk movies from the 90s with Martin Kemp
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Mars (1997) - Olivier Gruner visits a Martian colony to kick ass
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Alien Cargo (1999) - A somewhat well done TV movie Alien ripoff, but more a thriller than a horror
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Lord of the Deep (1989) - The Abyss ripoff (even more low budget than DeepStar Six and The Leviathan)
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Future Fear (1997) - Solid softcore action/scifi
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Hybrid (1997) - Solid softcore horror/action vaguely based on Alien
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Forbidden World (1982) - Softcore vaguely based on Alien
Well, there goes my next 28 free evenings!
(Well, 26. I watched Radioactive Dreams last week, and rewatched Cyborg a few months ago.)
That’s quite a list! A true connoisseur!
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Equilibrium https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/ A mixture of all dystopian sci-fi with a never seen before (or after, for obvious reasons) martial arts style called Gun-kata.
This would have been as big as the Matrix if it hadn’t come out at almost the same time.
Nah.
Equilibrium’s character arc hinged on the idea that murdering puppies is bad. It’s not exactly deep.
I feel like this is not a B-Movie, but I don’t care because this movie is awesome.
The Replacements. Keanu Reeves playing a sub quarterback. It’s stupid fun even if you don’t like football and the supporting cast of football players are great.
Many good titles were mentioned here. So as not to add to the repetition, I will add some obscure, but I think fun-to-watch, movies:
I don’t know how Rutger Hauer went from arthouse fare like Turkish Delight to straight-to-video action flicks… but I’m damn glad he did!
Another one for the Rutger b-movie pile: Split Second.
Torque
If Fast and Furious was motorcycles, but was dreamed up by a coked up meth head https://youtu.be/Aqmze9kIvMU
Drive
Stars the guy who hosts Iron Chef and Brittany Murphy. Legit martial arts mixed in the middle of an insanely bad it’s good movie. https://youtu.be/7y3sCYmqOz0
During early pandemic, I watched/rewatched a whole bunch of mid-80s to late-90s action flicks (action’s heyday?) and remember Drive not just as great fun but one of a whole slew that had that same… exercise machine?
The one with three concentric rings, and you strap into the middle and spin around in all directions. I think Universal Soldier, Fortress and a bunch more had it too. I should have turned it into a drinking game, as it seemed to be crammed into every 90s sci-fi flick.
Here’s my terrible attempt at drawing what I mean.
Does anyone know what it’s called?
Solid picks!
