I've seen so many bad movies in my time and most of them I would never watch again however there are a few that I just have to watch every time they're on TV.

Here are my top three "Best of the Worst"

"Night of the Lepus" -The story of giant, mutant rabbits that terrorize a small town. 

"Squirm"- Flesh eating earthworms.

This one is the greatest...

"The Thing with two Heads" -A dying rich racist decides he can save himself by transplanting his head on an inmate's body...who happens to be black.  The tagline for the movies was "They transplanted a white bigot's head on a soul brother's body".  Rosie Greer starred in this movie.

So what are some of your favorite awful movies??

this is actually one of my all-time favorite topics. i have the mst3k version of "Squirm" -- you know they did that, right? -- and it's quite hilarious. i've been trying to get a copy of night of the lepus for a long time. it has that amazing cameo on "the matrix," of course.

at the moment i'm rediscovering my love of bill rebane. i just happen to have this page open

http://www.poetryconnection.net/B000063W59/Giant_Spider_Invasion.html

abotu a movie from the 70s called "the giant spider invasion," (it also got the mst3k treatment, which is how i discovered it.) the director, bill rebane, also did a movie called "the invasion from inner earth," which i also loved, even though nothing whatsoever happens in it, just because it's prespammersitely weird. then he ran for governor of wisconsin. and, uh, lost.

my all-time favorite crap movies are a sexploit from the 60s called "the love captive," and this sci-fi thing from 1977, 78, called "Starship invasions," where aliens land in tights and workout leotards and beam rays to make everyone commit suicide. it's the coolest!

SSssssssss- dirk benedict turns into a snake
blue sunshine- college drugs cause people to pull their hair out and kill people
abominable dr.phibes-  ohhh, that organ!

this is actually one of my all-time favorite topics. i have the mst3k version of "Squirm" -- you know they did that, right? -- and it's quite hilarious. i've been trying to get a copy of night of the lepus for a long time. it has that amazing cameo on "the matrix," of course.

at the moment i'm rediscovering my love of bill rebane. i just happen to have this page open

http://www.poetryconnection.net/B000063W59/Giant_Spider_Invasion.html

abotu a movie from the 70s called "the giant spider invasion," (it also got the mst3k treatment, which is how i discovered it.) the director, bill rebane, also did a movie called "the invasion from inner earth," which i also loved, even though nothing whatsoever happens in it, just because it's prespammersitely weird. then he ran for governor of wisconsin. and, uh, lost.

my all-time favorite crap movies are a sexploit from the 60s called "the love captive," and this sci-fi thing from 1977, 78, called "Starship invasions," where aliens land in tights and workout leotards and beam rays to make everyone commit suicide. it's the coolest!


I never the the mst3k version of Squirm but I'm sure it's great.

My daughter had her bunny out one day and he was hopping around my son's trains and I just cracked up thinking about how we just re-created a scene from Night of the Lepus.  LOL!!

Have you ever seen "Invasion of the Bee Girls" (AKA Graveyard Tramps)?  It's another "sexploitation" film about women turning into bees and killing men by wearing them out sexually.  

oo! blue sunshine! that also comes highl;y recommended.

lemme see if they have that on netfdlix.s

I never the the mst3k version of Squirm but I'm sure it's great.

My daughter had her bunny out one day and he was hopping around my son's trains and I just cracked up thinking about how we just re-created a scene from Night of the Lepus.  LOL!!

Have you ever seen "Invasion of the Bee Girls" (AKA Graveyard Tramps)?  It's another "sexploitation" film about women turning into bees and killing men by wearing them out sexually. 
lol. i have invasion of the bee girls. it's really bad! but, um, kinda hot. it's actually really similar in mood to "giant spider invasion."

SSssssssss- dirk benedict turns into a snake
blue sunshine- college drugs cause people to pull their hair out and kill people
abominable dr.phibes-  ohhh, that organ!


Oh yesssss, I remember Ssssss!  LOL!!  It was a great bad movie.

I've never seen Blue Sunshine, gotta find it.

I remember seeing The Abominable Dr. Phibes, but I don't remember the plot, maybe I should see if I can rent it.

A couple of others...

Frogs.  Well, I guess you can tell by the title it's about frogs and other repitles that attack.

Empire of the Ants, starring Joan Collins.  She plays a real-estate agent trying to sell land in Florida but the area has been takne over by giant ants.

frogs has been on my netflix queue forever. it's like number six or something now, finally. i should maybe bump it.

i've never seen empire/ants OR dr. phibes. over to netflix.com!

ah!  Food of the gods!!!!!

at the end we find out it's going into the children's school milk!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!! http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/07/nut.gif

ah!  Food of the gods!!!!!

at the end we find out it's going into the children's school milk!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!! http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/07/nut.gif


Is this the one with the giant rats?

Is this the one with the giant rats?
well, it hardly matters since we KNOW THE ENDING NOW. >:(

there was a hilarious movie called "village of the giants" (featuring an embryonic ron howard) that was based on "food of the gods" in that both featured giant geese. well, except "food of the gods," which, as far as i know, did not.

also mistied. when the giant goose is dancing on stage, crow pipes in with, "this scene is particularly faithful to the vision of H.G. Wells." he waits until the goose is wagging its ass in a particularly gratuitous fashion. it's genius!

well, it hardly matters since we KNOW THE ENDING NOW. >:(

there was a hilarious movie called "village of the giants" (featuring an embryonic ron howard) that was based on "food of the gods" in that both featured giant geese. well, except "food of the gods," which, as far as i know, did not.

also mistied. when the giant goose is dancing on stage, crow pipes in with, "this scene is particularly faithful to the vision of H.G. Wells." he waits until the goose is wagging its ass in a particularly gratuitous fashion. it's genius!


Don't yell at me, I've got PMS!   :\'( :\'(  LOL!!

Did I really give away the ending?

I've never seen "Village if the Giants".


One of my family's favorites "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes".  Even my 5 year old likes it. 

well, it hardly matters since we KNOW THE ENDING NOW. >:(


yeah mike. food of the gods is so suspensful and well written that you never would have guessed the end...

I didn't mention Legend of Boggy Creek (hope Ceekay sees  this)...the film looms large in our family history..it almost got us all killed!  a close call at the gas station, fights, i got bonked on the head with a big piece of wood...the entire clan almost wiped out by the sheer panic caused by one of hte worst movies ever made...


I have it on DVD. gonna go watch it on our big screen right now.

they mistied boggy creek ii. i've never seen boggy i that i can recall.

I was watching a 70s movie the other night that was very bizarre, yet I couldn't seem to turn away.  I don't know what it was called, but in it, these two old guys are engaged in road rage as they drive down a city street, eventually both crashing into an oil tanker truck.  The next scene cuts to Dustin Hoffman jogging in the park.  Suddenly, my cable cuts out, and I never got the name of this movie :(

Was it by chance 'Marathon Man'? (which is a movie i have never seen before)

that's probably marathon man.

i love max von sydow. he was in a john hough movie called "brass target," about a fictional assassination attempt on george patton.

BARBERELLA - 1967
DEATH RACE 2000 - 1975
ROLLERBALL - 1975
BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD MOVIE - 1997

Troma!

http://www.troma.com/movies/

"Toxic Avenger!"
"Class of Nuke 'em High!"
"Surf Nazis Must Die!"
"Tromeo and Juliet!"

And many, many, many, many, more.  Troma has made the best (worst!) B-movies for the past 30 years.  They were one of the first studios to get the idea of the Internet -- inviting fan-submitted material for future gags/scenes/movies as far back as 1995. 

And they're still going strong, even in 2006.

Hawk, the Slayer's top 5 Hilariously Bad Films

5. Chopper Chicks In Zombietown
4. Hell Comes To Frogtown
3. Tremors
2. Hell Night
AND! Hawk's Favorite Bad Film:
1. The Michael Jackson Story

Hawk, the Slayer's top 5 Hilariously Bad Films

5. Chopper Chicks In Zombietown
4. Hell Comes To Frogtown
3. Tremors
2. Hell Night
AND! Hawk's Favorite Bad Film:
1. The Michael Jackson Story


Ah yes, the classic "Chooper Chicks in Zombie Town".  I saw that one!!

LMAO!!!  at your number 1!!

ah!  Food of the gods!!!!!

at the end we find out it's going into the children's school milk!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!! http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/07/nut.gif


Those rats freaked me out! Well, rats scare me terribly anyway. So imagine a little kid seeing a promo on tv for it!!!


BARBERELLA - 1967


I love this campfest!!!

The Thing with Two Heads was weird for sure.

OMG I LOVED Ssssssssssssssssssss, I probably haven't seen it since the first time I saw it.

Others I love (that are totally cheesy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tVoVVsTWok]Sgt. peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (starring Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees, George Burns, Steve Martin, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper)

Bad Ronald - a tv movie about a kid that accidently kills a playmate then his mother hides him from the police and everyone in a "secret room" of her house, then she dies and the house gets sold and he;s still living in this secret room....spying on the new tenants. 

Lathe of Heaven

Innocent Blood

Most every Godzilla and Gamera movie from the 70s

Other Bad Faves Of the Hawk's:

-The Entity (Barbara Hershey film about getting attacked by unseen phenomena)
-Wraith (early Charlie Sheen film- actual claim to fame: World's Fastest Car- Guiness Book of World Records)
-The Blob (a.k.a. "Attack Of the Killer Jell-O")
-My Tutor (early '80s entry, that was better classified as soft-core porn)

BARBERELLA - 1967





Ah yes, Barberella. Can you say Camp (with a capital "C")? But yeah, I do like this movie.


Flash Gordon
Rocky Horror Picture Show (one of my all-time favorites but it is a pretty bad movie).




Cat

Other Bad Faves Of the Hawk's:

-The Entity (Barbara Hershey film about getting attacked by unseen phenomena)


The book was better

The book was better
Isn't that always the case?

Isn't that always the case?


Definitely!! You can always count on it!

I just watched Xanadu again.

Just can't get enough of that ..wait. what's his name? Michael  Beck.  How did Steve guttenberg NOT get that part?  Or David naughton!!!

David Naughton was filming "Hot Dog: The Movie" at that time.
Steve Guttenberg was in "Police Academy", which was casting at the time it came out.

lol. hot dog: the movie. that flick changed my life.

lol. hot dog: the movie. that flick changed my life.


It made me wanna try skiing...until I learned that I couldn't really get laid that way. :-[
But David Naughton is still a favorite comic actor of mine.

David Naughton was filming "Hot Dog: The Movie" at that time.
Steve Guttenberg was in "Police Academy", which was casting at the time it came out.


Wow!!! bad 70s actor schedules..
YOU know your sh**!
awesome.

Wow!!! bad 70s actor schedules..
YOU know your sh**!
awesome.


Quick trivia note- David Naughton also released a song, called "Making It", in 1977- it was later put onto an LP released by K-Tel, called "Star Tracks", or something similar. I still have the record here, somewhere.

Quick trivia note- David Naughton also released a song, called "Making It", in 1977- it was later put onto an LP released by K-Tel, called "Star Tracks", or something similar. I still have the record here, somewhere.


It was the theme to the TV show.
It was like a tV version of Saturday Night Fever.

anyone ever check out david hasselhoff in "Revenge of the Cheerleaders" (1976)? it's quite stunning, even when taking david hasselhoff's generally stunningly bad career into account.

plus, if you get really inebriated and eat all the fungus growing in your yard, revenge of the cheerleaders becomes the best movie of all time.

http://www.suite101.com/files/articles/105000%5C105736/RevCL2.jpg

lol. hot dog: the movie. that flick changed my life.


Is that the one with the immortal subtitles that include the words "beautiful" "Mt. Fuji", "rub", and "face"? 

If so, that's a frame-grab on a par with Airplane!'s "Golly!"

Quick trivia note- David Naughton also released a song, called "Making It", in 1977- it was later put onto an LP released by K-Tel, called "Star Tracks", or something similar. I still have the record here, somewhere.


LOVED that song, in fact it's been stuck in my head the last couple of days for some unknown reason.

Just remembered to add another one

There was a t.v. movie, I think it was called Sooner or Later, starring Rex Smith??  I read the series of books, and I liked the movie too.  Rex Smith (I think that was his name) sang this sappy love ballad (which I also loved) called "You take my breath away"

Completely off topic, but here's Rex Smith's webpage (I just found it)... time has been very kind to that man.  hubba hubba  lol

http://www.rexsmith.com/

Is that the one with the immortal subtitles that include the words "beautiful" "Mt. Fuji", "rub", and "face"? 

If so, that's a frame-grab on a par with Airplane!'s "Golly!"


No, that's another movie you're thinking of.
No subtitles in "Hot Dog", but here are a few memorable moments:

-The snow hockey game between Dan Callahan's team & Team Germany, led by Rudolf Garmisht
-"What-a za F**k is-a Chinese Downhill?"- asked by Japanese skier Kendo Suzuki
-The introduction of a formidable drink: The Headsplitter (aka "The Legspreader")
-any scene involving Shannon Tweed
-"Squirrel" Murphy's now-infamous tram ride

what thread was it where someone brought up "frogs"? 1972 movie where frogs go insane because of pollution and attack a house in the florida everglades? real real bad but goofy fun. and oh! i saw it yesterday while killing time waiting for the party to start and it turns out it's set on... the fourth of july! spooky huh? i wonder if that coincidence has anything to do with all the croaking i'm hearing in the yard.

No, that's another movie you're thinking of.
No subtitles in "Hot Dog", but here are a few memorable moments:

-"What-a za F**k is-a Chinese Downhill?"- asked by Japanese skier Kendo Suzuki


Aight, so what movie *was* I thinking of, because Kendo was exactly the guy I was thinking of when I thought of subtitles, a word that shall not be named, the adjective "beautiful", and "Mt. Fuji". 

Even if you've convinced me to get a copy of "Hot Dog" to prove it one way or the other :)

I'm not too sure of it just now, but it was most definitely NOT "Hot Dog".

There was another film, about Med school students, that had a Japanese foreign exchange student.
I seem to recall subtitles in there. I'm wanting to call it "Young Doctors In Love", or something like that.

I'm not too sure of it just now, but it was most definitely NOT "Hot Dog".

There was another film, about Med school students, that had a Japanese foreign exchange student.
I seem to recall subtitles in there. I'm wanting to call it "Young Doctors In Love", or something like that.


I like Young Doctors in Love. Sean Young's in it.

Of course, if you're REALLY talking about Japanese subtitles, there's always "Major League II".

what thread was it where someone brought up "frogs"? 1972 movie where frogs go insane because of pollution and attack a house in the florida everglades? real real bad but goofy fun. and oh! i saw it yesterday while killing time waiting for the party to start and it turns out it's set on... the fourth of july! spooky huh? i wonder if that coincidence has anything to do with all the croaking i'm hearing in the yard.


Um, I think it was this thread. LOL!!
It's one of my favorites, one of Ray Milland's finest.  ;D

Um, I think it was this thread. LOL!!
It's one of my favorites, one of Ray Milland's finest.  ;D
you know what else ray milland was in???????????

ha, it was this thread where you brought up frogs. no wonder i couldnt find it.

you know what else ray milland was in???????????

ha, it was this thread where you brought up frogs. no wonder i couldnt find it.


Uh, "The man with X-ray Eyes"? "The Thing with Two Heads"?  Ah, I bet you're thinking about "Escape to Witch Mountain".

Uh, "The man with X-ray Eyes"? "The Thing with Two Heads"?  Ah, I bet you're thinking about "Escape to Witch Mountain".
the man with x-ray eyes! great flick! and surprisingly so, given that it was roger corman.

it's funny how, for such a great actor, ray milland turned up in so much great cheesy stuff. i mean after "the lost weekend" he coulda pretty much wrote his own ticket, so i figure he took parts like "frogs" because he wanted to.

the man with x-ray eyes! great flick! and surprisingly so, given that it was roger corman.

it's funny how, for such a great actor, ray milland turned up in so much great cheesy stuff. i mean after "the lost weekend" he coulda pretty much wrote his own ticket, so i figure he took parts like "frogs" because he wanted to.


Either that or he blew all of his money and just took what he could get.  LOL!!

What about Basket Case?  I know it was made in 1982 but I couldn't resist.  A guy carry around a basket with his deformed Siamese brother...Good one!!

basket case is awesome. long as we're experiencing 80s scope creep how about "return of the living dead"? that bit when the guy starts hitting the "split dogs" with the broom is seriously the single funniest moment in cinema history. yip yip!

basket case is awesome. long as we're experiencing 80s scope creep how about "return of the living dead"? that bit when the guy starts hitting the "split dogs" with the broom is seriously the single funniest moment in cinema history. yip yip!


OMG!!  YES!!!  LOL!!  Funny stuff.

Also It's Alive and It Lives Again are two that I really like.

OMG!!  YES!!!  LOL!!  Funny stuff.

Also It's Alive and It Lives Again are two that I really like.
back to the 70s, nice. i had a freaky dream when i was a little kid because they had this commercial for "it's alive" WAY BACK in the day where they show this birthday cake and play this nice music, right? and then the freaky it's alive baby, his claw comes out and swipes off a piece of the cake and it's all scary. so i had a babysitter once and this commercial scared her so much that we were watching t.v. and then the it's alive commercial comes on -- and she starts screaming and howling, right!? "oh my god, turn it off! turn it off! this commercial scares me so much! i can't stand it! change the channel!" so i have to jump up outta my seat and change the channel in a panic, right? because ms. freaky neurotic goofy babysitter chick can't take the it's alive commercial.

so, and i'm seriously like four or five years old, this moment with the babysitter going postal over the it's alive commercial spooks me so bad i end up having this awful nightmare about the it's alive baby and the psycho babysitter, and it's one of those nightmares where, just like in the movies, you think you wake up but you're really still dreaming and the monster, whatever, comes at you again. i don't remember the dream but i remember for years i thought of it as the scariest dream i'd ever had.

wow, i broke the wayback machine. i'd totally forgotten about that. the funny thing is, i've never even seen "it's alive"!

the director of it's alive, i was gonna bring up a couple of other movies he did -- "god told me to" and "Q," starring, um, david carridine? kung fu guy? both classics of the "bad but also good" genre. name of the director escapes me for the moment but he still does screenwriting, wrote the screenplays for "tollbooth" and "cell phone."

back to the 70s, nice. i had a freaky dream when i was a little kid because they had this commercial for "it's alive" WAY BACK in the day where they show this birthday cake and play this nice music, right? and then the freaky it's alive baby, his claw comes out and swipes off a piece of the cake and it's all scary. so i had a babysitter once and this commercial scared her so much that we were watching t.v. and then the it's alive commercial comes on -- and she starts screaming and howling, right!? "oh my god, turn it off! turn it off! this commercial scares me so much! i can't stand it! change the channel!" so i have to jump up outta my seat and change the channel in a panic, right? because ms. freaky neurotic goofy babysitter chick can't take the it's alive commercial.

so, and i'm seriously like four or five years old, this moment with the babysitter going postal over the it's alive commercial spooks me so bad i end up having this awful nightmare about the it's alive baby and the psycho babysitter, and it's one of those nightmares where, just like in the movies, you think you wake up but you're really still dreaming and the monster, whatever, comes at you again. i don't remember the dream but i remember for years i thought of it as the scariest dream i'd ever had.

wow, i broke the wayback machine. i'd totally forgotten about that. the funny thing is, i've never even seen "it's alive"!

the director of it's alive, i was gonna bring up a couple of other movies he did -- "god told me to" and "Q," starring, um, david carridine? kung fu guy? both classics of the "bad but also good" genre. name of the director escapes me for the moment but he still does screenwriting, wrote the screenplays for "tollbooth" and "cell phone."


Man, I don't know whether to laugh or cry...that's so freakin' funny!! Sorry.  :-[ 

Larry Cohen was the director.

I used to freak out, run and hide, screaming crying kind of freak-out when the open to Chiller Theater would come on...

http://www.dvddrive-in.com/Chiller/chiller.htm

Scroll all the way down the page to watch...I swear I'm hyperventilating right now, I had to mute my computer...LOL!!

larrry cohen! that's him.

man, that lineup of chiller theater movies is sweet. the giant claw! atomic brain! monster zero! i love all those flicks.

How about Phantom of the Paradise?

How about Phantom of the Paradise?
that's a hot one! i saw the preview for that on a copy of "rocky horror."

"Phantom Of the Paradise"- I have never got to see that all the way through!
Paul Williams as the Devil...AAAUUUGGGH!

Here's one- "Monster Dog". Notable for Alice Cooper's role!
Cheesy, but KEENLY cheesy!
A bit tongue-in-cheek!

How about Phantom of the Paradise?
I saw in a double bill with The Rocky Horror Show and I get the two mixed up.

Of course, if you're REALLY talking about Japanese subtitles, there's always "Major League II".

I saw that one. I kinda liked it...although I haven't seen it televised very much lately. :-\\

Any of The Twilight Zone series were just fantastic

Snakes.

http://snakeplay.pbwiki.com/script

On a mu*cough*kin plane.  I saw it opening night in front of a snae-throwing crowd of demented geeks.  This weekend may be your last chance to see it the way it was meant to be seen.  After this, there's nothing but the barren wasteland of your DVD player, upon which th emovie is wasted.

Snakes.

http://snakeplay.pbwiki.com/script

On a mu*cough*kin plane.  I saw it opening night in front of a snae-throwing crowd of demented geeks.  This weekend may be your last chance to see it the way it was meant to be seen.  After this, there's nothing but the barren wasteland of your DVD player, upon which th emovie is wasted.
aw, it'll be out for a little while. you won't even get the real experience till it starts playing the dollar theaters!

but yeah, i liked it too.

I can't believe it!

I went to a yard sale, and I saw a copy of "Chopper Chicks In Zombietown", in a Director's Cut!

Who would've thought such a thing EXISTED?

Naturally, I had to buy it, watch it, then promptly give it to a buddy of mine whose taste for horrible cinema is far worse than mine could EVER be!

I'm so upset...

The other night on one of the movie channels they showed "The Monster That Challenged the World".  You know the one about the giant prehistoric mollusk monsters.

Maybe I'll catch it next time.

Just remembered to add another one

There was a t.v. movie, I think it was called Sooner or Later, starring Rex Smith??  I read the series of books, and I liked the movie too.  Rex Smith (I think that was his name) sang this sappy love ballad (which I also loved) called "You take my breath away"

Completely off topic, but here's Rex Smith's webpage (I just found it)... time has been very kind to that man.  hubba hubba  lol

http://www.rexsmith.com/

I found this VHS on Ebay and just had to get it!!  I loved this movie. It was actually an Afterschool special I think.

1. From Beyond (by the same director/writer of "Reanimator") . This one is so bad, but soooo good.
2. The Last American Virgin- 80's teenploitation.. in the same vein as "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" - Lots of Great songs on this one.
3. any of Kevin Smith's movies, particularly, "Chasing Amy" and "Dogma". I loved these. I don't list "Clerks" as I firmly believe Clerks is actually a Great Movie, deserving of praise. Actually I am going to say Kevin Smith is great, deserving of praise!

I love some really terrible '70s horror flicks. This includes Silent Night, Bloody Night and Don't Look in the Basement, two horror films about insane asylums!

Legend of Boggy Creek, favorite
CC & Company
Equinox
Frogs
The Giant Spider Invasion (must see. highly amusing)
The Creature from Black Lake
Food of the Gods
The End
The Villain

Fastbreak (1978)

Gabe Kaplan reprises his Mr. Kotter role from the TV show as the coach of a basketball team of lovable ghetto misfits from Brooklyn who get to go to the national finals in Nevada.

It's total trash, but it's fun!
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