My favorites -Valentine -Urban Legend -Black Christmas remake -Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
Really bad horror movies that you love
by Anonymous | reply 135 | June 8, 2024 4:24 PM |
The Killer Shrews
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 21, 2015 7:07 PM |
[italic]Bloodsucking Freaks
Criminally Insane[/italic]
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 21, 2015 7:13 PM |
[italic]Teeth[/italic] from 2007 - it's horror/dark comedy.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 21, 2015 7:18 PM |
I'm a sissy.
Halloween, the first.
Hands down.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 21, 2015 7:21 PM |
The Barber with Malcolm McDowell as a serial killer in small town Alaska.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 21, 2015 7:23 PM |
Troll 2
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 21, 2015 7:28 PM |
The original Evil Dead.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 21, 2015 7:32 PM |
"Ghost Ship' - I don't think it is 'bad' at all, but I am in the minority with that opinion.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 21, 2015 9:35 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 21, 2015 9:39 PM |
OP, that is one incredible list of bad films
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 21, 2015 9:43 PM |
I know what you did last summer
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 21, 2015 9:59 PM |
If I like it that makes it automatically not bad.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 21, 2015 10:15 PM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 21, 2015 10:20 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 21, 2015 10:22 PM |
Bad Dreams
Deadtime Stories
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 21, 2015 10:47 PM |
Oh...hands down Wrong Turn.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 21, 2015 10:49 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 21, 2015 10:55 PM |
Terror Train--it has a really good atmosphere with the train setting and the snow outside.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 21, 2015 11:39 PM |
IFC and Sundance used to air Motel Hell quite a bit in the past.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 22, 2015 1:48 AM |
Phibes is great.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 22, 2015 2:05 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 22, 2015 2:57 PM |
[quote]Halloween, the first.
Dammit, people, HALLOWEEN is not a "really bad" movie. Neither is BLACK CHRISTMAS, EVIL DEAD nor ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 22, 2015 3:23 PM |
TROLL 2 is the most accidentally funny film you'll ever see.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 22, 2015 5:41 PM |
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!"
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 22, 2015 5:45 PM |
Ishtar, but only the first half.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 22, 2015 5:45 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 22, 2015 5:50 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 22, 2015 6:03 PM |
TEETH is a clever movie, too. Not bad at all.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 22, 2015 6:18 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 22, 2015 6:34 PM |
This calls for some death by a popcorn seductress.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 22, 2015 6:40 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 22, 2015 6:51 PM |
The original I Saw What You Did.
More suspense than horror but [SPOILER ALERT] Miss Joan Crawford is killed in it.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 22, 2015 7:33 PM |
R30 reminded me ....'Popcorn' was a really decent horror movie that didn't do well and wasn't well received.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 23, 2015 1:12 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 23, 2015 1:14 PM |
Another one ..... REALLY cheesy special effects, bad acting by Meredith Salinger and Joanna Pacula (and others) ..... 'The Kiss'. So bad, it's good.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 23, 2015 3:57 PM |
What's an AWG?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 24, 2015 2:21 AM |
Data lounge re-discussed THE BABY recently, and that is some campy bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 24, 2015 2:26 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 25, 2015 8:52 PM |
I agree -- the WRONG TURNs released theatrically were good.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 25, 2015 9:17 PM |
"Legion" with Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid. Extremely silly yet I was entertained.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 26, 2015 12:26 AM |
'Sleepaway Camp". Hilariously campy and the story is ridiculous. Great ending though.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 26, 2015 12:52 AM |
Poltergeist III. Terrible movie but somehow entertaining. Great use of the high-rise set and Nancy Allen's gorgeous grey dress.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 26, 2015 1:07 AM |
Another vote for Sleepaway Camp. Also New Year's Evil, Halloween:Resurrection, Scream 3 and Silent Night, Deadly Night
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 26, 2015 2:32 AM |
10,000 Maniacs. Really terrible
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 26, 2015 3:19 AM |
"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.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 26, 2015 12:35 PM |
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:
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 28, 2015 4:51 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 28, 2015 5:32 PM |
"No One Lives" starring Luke Evans as a serial killer.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 28, 2015 5:45 PM |
The Alien Factor - cheesy but fun low-budget flick from 1978.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 28, 2015 7:43 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | October 28, 2015 7:45 PM |
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
by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 28, 2015 7:53 PM |
"Leprechaun." Would "Sleepaway Camp" be considered horror? It's terrible but I love it.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 28, 2015 7:55 PM |
OMG that Lisa shit is funny! LOL
by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 28, 2015 8:38 PM |
Shakes The Clown.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 29, 2015 8:36 PM |
Shakes the Clown wasn't a horror movie. It was a brilliant comedy and still a favorite of mine!
by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 29, 2015 8:39 PM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 60 | October 29, 2015 8:40 PM |
R39, why didn't she ever just say, "You're welcome" and let that be the end of it.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 29, 2015 8:48 PM |
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."
by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 29, 2015 9:08 PM |
[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."
by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 29, 2015 9:51 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | October 29, 2015 11:06 PM |
Yeah, Sleepwalkers was weird. I still think about it every time I hear that song.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | October 30, 2015 1:24 AM |
I watched PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE for the first time a few months ago and it truly is exceptional.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 30, 2015 1:37 AM |
That's more of a science fiction B-movie. I know it has Bela Lugosi, but it doesn't make sense.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 30, 2015 1:55 AM |
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".
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 30, 2015 2:05 AM |
At the risk of derailing the thread, r63, I need to slip on Mama's candy red pantyhose!
by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 30, 2015 2:10 AM |
Agree about Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2.
Mary Lou was such a bitch - loved her!
by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 30, 2015 2:20 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 30, 2015 2:26 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 30, 2015 3:06 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | October 30, 2015 6:01 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 30, 2015 6:08 AM |
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
by Anonymous | reply 76 | October 30, 2015 6:14 AM |
The crazy outfits, cheesy one liners and the very badly acted gay sex scene, also make it campy.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | October 30, 2015 6:25 AM |
BEE GIRLS was quite the soft porn, r49 :)
by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 30, 2015 5:39 PM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 80 | November 1, 2015 6:14 AM |
I liked in Prom Night II when Vicki (possessed) comes on to her father. And he is turned on!
by Anonymous | reply 81 | November 1, 2015 4:42 PM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 82 | November 13, 2015 5:19 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | November 13, 2015 5:34 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | November 13, 2015 5:42 PM |
The Forsaken is like crack to me.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | November 13, 2015 5:47 PM |
Anybody remember Night of the Comet (1980s)? TERRIFIED me as a kid.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | November 13, 2015 5:52 PM |
Was the aunt in Sleepaway Camp trans as well?
by Anonymous | reply 87 | November 13, 2015 8:07 PM |
She did seem a little ambiguously butch LOL
by Anonymous | reply 88 | November 14, 2015 1:37 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | November 14, 2015 2:50 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | November 14, 2015 11:19 PM |
My fave is Dead Silence. Is that considered horror though?
by Anonymous | reply 92 | November 14, 2015 11:53 PM |
Stepfather and Ghoulies 2
by Anonymous | reply 93 | November 15, 2015 12:53 AM |
"I'm a sissy.
Halloween, the first.
Hands down."
The original "Halloween" was a GREAT movie, you big dumb sissy.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | November 15, 2015 12:57 AM |
Blood Feast from 1963. Directed by Herschel Gordon Lewis. Hysterically bad acting and special effects.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | November 15, 2015 1:07 AM |
I like the 4th Prom Night, too. The 3rd is stupid, but kinda fun. The only one I hated was that "remake." Gross.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | November 15, 2015 1:11 AM |
basket case is good.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | November 15, 2015 2:07 PM |
OPEN YOUR LEGS
by Anonymous | reply 98 | November 15, 2015 2:19 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | November 16, 2015 3:21 AM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 100 | November 20, 2015 10:20 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | November 27, 2015 6:22 PM |
That looks scary as shit, R101
by Anonymous | reply 102 | November 27, 2015 10:08 PM |
Killer Klowns from Outer Space Night of the Creeps Crawlspace (any film with Klaus Kinski is worth seeing he is Demented)
by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 10, 2016 9:25 PM |
I saw THE BOY, and it's actually very good and scary. It has Maggie from THE WALKING DEAD, too!
by Anonymous | reply 104 | May 10, 2016 9:33 PM |
Dolls and Pumpkinhead are two of my favorites.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | May 11, 2016 3:34 AM |
"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.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | May 11, 2016 3:41 AM |
Any of the Final Destination movies.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | May 11, 2016 3:49 AM |
Bad Ronald
by Anonymous | reply 108 | May 11, 2016 4:09 AM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 112 | May 11, 2016 6:47 AM |
STEEL MAGNOLIAS!!!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 113 | May 11, 2016 6:56 AM |
Night of the creeps
Silent night, deadly night
Dr Giggles
Book of Shadows
The Gate
by Anonymous | reply 114 | May 11, 2016 7:42 AM |
Ghoulies 2
by Anonymous | reply 115 | May 11, 2016 1:37 PM |
Sleepaway Camp.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | May 11, 2016 1:41 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | May 11, 2016 1:43 PM |
Tremors. Michael Gross as head of a military gun nut family cracks me up all the time.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | May 11, 2016 2:05 PM |
Another vote for Ghost Ship.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | May 11, 2016 2:49 PM |
"Tremors" wasn't a "really bad horror movie." In fact, I thought it was one of the better ones.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | May 11, 2016 6:52 PM |
976-EVIL
by Anonymous | reply 121 | May 12, 2016 2:16 AM |
Lisa
I Know What You Did Last Summer
House of Dark Shadows
When a Stranger Calls Back
by Anonymous | reply 122 | May 12, 2016 5:42 AM |
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 !!
by Anonymous | reply 123 | May 12, 2016 5:54 AM |
Wait -- people actually "love" Blood Sucking Freaks?
Why???
by Anonymous | reply 124 | August 5, 2019 7:03 PM |
Frogs, starring Sam Elliot's hairy chest.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | August 5, 2019 7:22 PM |
Ohh
by Anonymous | reply 127 | February 20, 2021 11:43 PM |
r127 fuck off
by Anonymous | reply 128 | February 20, 2021 11:46 PM |
R126 Whoa. Never seen it but apparently it's a performance that is still being dissected by academics.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | July 18, 2021 4:56 AM |
R113 what did you find scary about it?
by Anonymous | reply 130 | October 28, 2021 4:06 AM |
"Drag Me To Hell"
That goat was fucking hilarious.
"You tricked me! You black-hearted whoooore!"
by Anonymous | reply 131 | October 28, 2021 4:39 AM |
bump
by Anonymous | reply 132 | October 21, 2022 6:08 AM |
More thriller than straight horror but you’ve gotta love The Fan.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | June 8, 2024 4:24 PM |