Really bad horror movies that you love

The Killer Shrews

[italic]Bloodsucking Freaks

Criminally Insane[/italic]

[italic]Teeth[/italic] from 2007 - it's horror/dark comedy.

I'm a sissy.

Halloween, the first.

Hands down.

The Barber with Malcolm McDowell as a serial killer in small town Alaska.

Troll 2

The original Evil Dead.

"Ghost Ship' - I don't think it is 'bad' at all, but I am in the minority with that opinion.

I don't think the first Halloween or even Evil Dead qualify as really bad movies.

One that I do like that's a guilty pleasure is Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.

OP, that is one incredible list of bad films

I know what you did last summer

If I like it that makes it automatically not bad.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes! Actually most Vincent Price flicks - including another one of my personal favorites - Masque of the Red Death - qualify under this category. One hopes that Price was laughing all the way to the bank with these movies because they are terrible!

R13, I don't think those movies are terrible. I do think that Masque is overrated by some(including its director, Roger Corman), but Phibes is a parody, and a well done one at that.

Bad Dreams

Deadtime Stories

Oh...hands down Wrong Turn.

Motel Hell - people that are captured and planted in the ground for food. They have their larynx cut out so they can't scream! I don't know why you can't get it on Netflix.

Terror Train--it has a really good atmosphere with the train setting and the snow outside.

IFC and Sundance used to air Motel Hell quite a bit in the past.

Phibes is great.

[quote]"Ghost Ship' - I don't think it is 'bad' at all, but I am in the minority with that opinion.

The opening scene is brilliant, but the rest of it is dull as dirt.

[quote]Halloween, the first.

Dammit, people, HALLOWEEN is not a "really bad" movie. Neither is BLACK CHRISTMAS, EVIL DEAD nor ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES.

TROLL 2 is the most accidentally funny film you'll ever see.

I never gathered that the Phibes films were parodies.

I thought they were naiive camp. Especially when Phibes rows down a stream at the bottom of an Egyptian pyramid singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow!"

Ishtar, but only the first half.

There's a scene where they "unscrew" the horn of a unicorn statue out of the body of a man that has been impaled on it, R24. It's parody.

Except for a very few films, most of Vincent Price's horror movies were intended to be tongue in cheek. Most horror men are excellent comedians as well.

TEETH is a clever movie, too. Not bad at all.

That's false, r27.

Price was in some of the most classic and iconic SERIOUS horror films of all time. THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE HOUSE OF WAX, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM and all his Edgar Allen Poe films are not silly. They're serious, genre-defining classics.

Even stuff that seems campy today, like THE FLY, THE TINGLER and other gimmicky stuff with William Castle were intended to be deadly serious and were taken as such in his day. We can look back at that stuff as camp today, but only because we're savvier and their aesthetics are dated and obsolete.

Wikipedia says that PHIBES was intentionally funny, and I haven't seen them in 25 years, so I'll grant you that.

But most of Price's classics have stood the test of time as serious and good.

This calls for some death by a popcorn seductress.

R29, if you think HOUSE OF WAX and PIT AND THE PENDULUM don't have a serious helping of camp to go along with the chills, I don't know what to say. Price is absolutely over the top in PIT. And that's a compliment from me, because it's my favorite of his Corman Poe films. THE TINGLER is a comedy. I agree that THE FLY was serious, and I think it still holds up very well.

The original I Saw What You Did.

More suspense than horror but [SPOILER ALERT] Miss Joan Crawford is killed in it.

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 2

R30 reminded me ....'Popcorn' was a really decent horror movie that didn't do well and wasn't well received.

The scene from r30 reminds me a lot of high school and the AWGs that I invariably developed crushes on and/or wanted to get into the pants of.

Now my jaded self wonders how the popcorn seductress could get even more creative with that ear of corn she's brandishing before the horny teenager.

Another one ..... REALLY cheesy special effects, bad acting by Meredith Salinger and Joanna Pacula (and others) ..... 'The Kiss'. So bad, it's good.

What's an AWG?

Data lounge re-discussed THE BABY recently, and that is some campy bullshit.

Thanks for the ride, lady!

r16, I didn't think the first "Wrong Turn" was any worse (or any better) than the more highly praised "The Hills Have Eyes" remake that came out a few years later. I enjoyed both of those films for what they were.

I agree -- the WRONG TURNs released theatrically were good.

"Legion" with Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid. Extremely silly yet I was entertained.

'Sleepaway Camp". Hilariously campy and the story is ridiculous. Great ending though.

Poltergeist III. Terrible movie but somehow entertaining. Great use of the high-rise set and Nancy Allen's gorgeous grey dress.

Another vote for Sleepaway Camp. Also New Year's Evil, Halloween:Resurrection, Scream 3 and Silent Night, Deadly Night

10,000 Maniacs. Really terrible

"Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet" starring the slutty neighbor girl from Roseanne, Eliza Dushku's brother and Billy Magnussen before he hit it big.

In the '80s, the UHF station in my hometown filled every weekend afternoon with campy horror flicks from the bottom of the barrell. Dr. Phibes, Shatner in Kingdom of the Spiders, Piranha and many others.

Seeing Joan Collins in Empire of the Ants was a gas:

Along the same lines as R48, here's [italic]Invasion of the Bee Girls[/italic] (1973), starring original [italic]Price Is Right[/italic] spokesmodel Anitra Ford.

"No One Lives" starring Luke Evans as a serial killer.

The Alien Factor - cheesy but fun low-budget flick from 1978.

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II is the very definition of fabulous. How this hasn't become a midnight movie extravaganza is one of the biggest mysteries of our time.

The Seduction with Morgan Fairchild is a hoot, too.

R44, I second that. There needs to be a cultural reappraisal of that movie a la Troll 2 or The Room. The flat, corny dialogue...the ridiculous acting...the 80s-ness of it all. If you haven't seen it yet, check out LISA by the same director. I think it came out a year or two later. It has the same essence of Poltergeist III, and is almost like a spiritual sister.

LISA is my offering of a really bad horror movie I love

"Leprechaun." Would "Sleepaway Camp" be considered horror? It's terrible but I love it.

OMG that Lisa shit is funny! LOL

Fort Apache; the Bronx

KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS silliness:

Shakes The Clown.

Shakes the Clown wasn't a horror movie. It was a brilliant comedy and still a favorite of mine!

All of David DeCoteau's movies are bad and I don't love them.

But I love looking at them boys with the sound off!

R39, why didn't she ever just say, "You're welcome" and let that be the end of it.

Can you imagine the car ride with the mangled hitchhiker bleeding everywhere?

"So, where you headed?"

"Just take me to the Black Lives Matter rally."

[quote]Shakes the Clown wasn't a horror movie. It was a brilliant comedy and still a favorite of mine!

"As soon as that camera is off, he gonna [italic]fuck[/italic] that little dog."

Sleepwalkers. Based on a Stephen King novel. It's a weird incest story about Mom and Son cat-people. I like it for some reason and I've never been able to listen to "Sleepwalk" by Rodeo & Johnny the same way since.

ALso seconds to Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2. It's camptastic. Also Popcorn.

Yeah, Sleepwalkers was weird. I still think about it every time I hear that song.

It's a real WTF

I watched PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE for the first time a few months ago and it truly is exceptional.

That's more of a science fiction B-movie. I know it has Bela Lugosi, but it doesn't make sense.

I LOVED 'Lisa' as a young junior high nerd and would always repeat the phrase "Hi....this is Richard, I'm in your apartment...and I'm going to kill you".

At the risk of derailing the thread, r63, I need to slip on Mama's candy red pantyhose!

Agree about Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2.

Mary Lou was such a bitch - loved her!

R68, I was thinking of the scenes with the zombies in the graveyard as kind of Gothic horror, but you're right that the film as a whole is more sci-fi.

A gem: One Dark Night. Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. A young Meg Tilly, E.G. Daily ("If you want my love, say it, say it") and Adam West were in it.

[quote]Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II is the very definition of fabulous. How this hasn't become a midnight movie extravaganza is one of the biggest mysteries of our time.

I liked this one too. It's been years since I've seen it.

[quote]Would "Sleepaway Camp" be considered horror? It's terrible but I love it.

I discovered it on a '10 Under-rated Horror Films' list, so technically, I guess. Not very scary but so campy and a great reveal at the end. Love it.

Why wouldn't Sleepaway Camp be considered horror ? Slasher at a summer camp .......... total horror trope.

It is only the very ending (and the unusual aunt) that make it so campy .......... plus the very beginning with the boat accident involving Dad #1 and Dad #2

The crazy outfits, cheesy one liners and the very badly acted gay sex scene, also make it campy.

BEE GIRLS was quite the soft porn, r49 :)

It's the realism that gets you.

Just watched PROM NIGHT II. Yeah, that had some campy shit.

I particularly like when the father knocks his own son unconscious for trying to save the day. Abrupt and hilarious!

I liked in Prom Night II when Vicki (possessed) comes on to her father. And he is turned on!

I finally got around to finishing SLEEPAWAY CAMP.

"Camp" is right. What tacky queen produced this? Forced transsexualism and gratuitous, Guido beefcake everywhere.

When the killer stabbed through the wall of the shower, the victim was kind enough to throw her back against the blade LOL

People talking to themselves; building up a snotty teenager to hate so you can take pleasure when the killer slaps and kills her; very poor taste all around!

Agree with Valentine and Wrong Turn. I also think Leprachaun 4: Lep in the Hood was underrate and I'm serious.

My absolute favorite is Ghost Ship.

Wasp Woman. It's scary cuz a lady in a wasp mask RUNS AT YOU REALLY FAST.

Chopping Mall. Extremely slow robots terrorize kids at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. I'm actually a sucker for any '80s mall film.

Prom Night with Jamie Lee Curtis. I love horror with a disco theme.

Frogs. Ends with death by a thousand disinterested-looking frogs attacking a southern patriarch.

The Forsaken is like crack to me.

Anybody remember Night of the Comet (1980s)? TERRIFIED me as a kid.

Was the aunt in Sleepaway Camp trans as well?

She did seem a little ambiguously butch LOL

I'm in love with Aunt Martha. Desiree Gould, man. Talk about an actress making the most out of her 5 minutes on film. I'd love to see her do more. She still does indie horror flicks here and there, piggybacking off of Sleepaway Camp's cult fame, and she still looks fantastic.

So glad to hear all the love for Hello Mary Lou. It used to get air time on USA all the time when I was a kid and I always made time to watch it. I'd love to see it get a Blu-Ray release. It's one of the most 80's movies I can think of.

Night of the Comet and Chopping Mall (both starring Kelli Maroney) are terrific as well and very re-watchable. What was it with the 80's and re-watchable movies? It seems like my most re-watched movies are from the 80's.

Anjuhluh ( Angela) has boobs now.

There were some really fun 'bad' movies back in the day ..... I think primarily because there was such a glut of them (especially with video). This thread has nailed a bunch of them. Chopping Mall and Night Of The Comet are two other faves of mine as well.

The 4th Prom Night - Deliver Us From Evil was actually pretty good. Got away from the campy aspect of # 2, which was also a good one.

My fave is Dead Silence. Is that considered horror though?

Stepfather and Ghoulies 2

"I'm a sissy.

Halloween, the first.

Hands down."

The original "Halloween" was a GREAT movie, you big dumb sissy.

Blood Feast from 1963. Directed by Herschel Gordon Lewis. Hysterically bad acting and special effects.

I like the 4th Prom Night, too. The 3rd is stupid, but kinda fun. The only one I hated was that "remake." Gross.

basket case is good.

OPEN YOUR LEGS

Another underrated one was 'Curtains'. Not perfect, but pretty good overall.

And it is a stretch as 'horror' (sci fi ? thriller ??), but 'Looker' is pretty great too ('They're killing all the girls who are perfect') ........ great 80s music too.

The first 'Slumber Party Massacre' is also a (tacky) winner, as is Wes Craven's 'Deadly Blessing' with (SPOILER ! SPOILER ! SPOILER !) Lisa Hartman as an 80's Caitlyn Jenner.

Oh yes, "Basket Case." Belial, the misshapen parasitic conjoined twin who sought revenge on the people who caused him to be cut off of his normal twin. So cheap, so terrible, I will be forever fond of it.

Am I the only one who found Vincent Price extremely sexy?

Speaking of the devil, Hollywood is now having a bonanza of Santo and Johnny Farina's "Sleepwalk!"

Not only is the classic R&B instrumental in Tom Hardy's current gangster flick, LEGEND, but it's being heavily rotated in the trailer for the upcoming horror flick THE BOY, which looks even campier than SLEEPWALKERS.

It's all thanks to Dataloungers, whose constant dishing about horror films in October opened the Fourth Gate of Hell.

That looks scary as shit, R101

Killer Klowns from Outer Space Night of the Creeps Crawlspace (any film with Klaus Kinski is worth seeing he is Demented)

I saw THE BOY, and it's actually very good and scary. It has Maggie from THE WALKING DEAD, too!

Dolls and Pumpkinhead are two of my favorites.

"Basket Case" was a good cheap horror movie. It did so well there was a sequel, which was dreadful, as sequels tend to be.

"Pumpkinhead" was good, too. It starred Lance Henriksen, a very good actor. It too did well enough to warrant a sequel, but I think that too was a crummy sequel.

Any of the Final Destination movies.

Bad Ronald

Blood Diner

Street Trash

I find Street Trash to be highly hobophobic.

It is deeply problematic R111 . In its favor, most of the hobos are white, so the population isn't a racial stereotype. On the other hand, isn't this just erasing hobos of color? It's a conundrum.

Brain Damage. It even has a shower scene!

STEEL MAGNOLIAS!!!!!!!

Night of the creeps

Silent night, deadly night

Dr Giggles

Book of Shadows

The Gate

Ghoulies 2

Sleepaway Camp.

Sorority Row (the remake with Rumer Willis in it). The head bitch girl played by Leah Pipes is hilarious and makes it all worth it. She has so many amazing one liners.

Tremors. Michael Gross as head of a military gun nut family cracks me up all the time.

Another vote for Ghost Ship.

"Tremors" wasn't a "really bad horror movie." In fact, I thought it was one of the better ones.

976-EVIL

Lisa

I Know What You Did Last Summer

House of Dark Shadows

When a Stranger Calls Back

THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF (1962)

When I was a kid, like most boys I loved scary movies. On Saturday nights we had the GHOST HOST THEATER on tv at 1 am. They usually showed really low end badly dubbed movies. One I liked was THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF. DR. ORLOFF kills a succession of beautiful girls in order to restore his catatonic daughter's face.

The doc's henchman is a cretin named MORPHO. I later caught all kind of hell because I convinced my sister that MORPHO lived in our attic which was accessed from her closet. The poor kid was terrified of sleeping in her room for years and my mother gave me a raft of shit for that one !!

Wait -- people actually "love" Blood Sucking Freaks?

Why???

My vote for BLOOD FEAST.

Frogs, starring Sam Elliot's hairy chest.

Ohh

r127 fuck off

R126 Whoa. Never seen it but apparently it's a performance that is still being dissected by academics.

R113 what did you find scary about it?

"Drag Me To Hell"

That goat was fucking hilarious.

"You tricked me! You black-hearted whoooore!"

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Making of TCM2

More thriller than straight horror but you’ve gotta love The Fan.