What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworkers?

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:18pm

I work in an entertainment media publishing house. Last week, I had people laughing till they cried over Cry-Baby and Mommie Dearest. I'm planning to buy Pink Flamingos and Serial Mom to liven up the place even more.

Any other suggestions?

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:21pm

A classic film turkey: Plan 9 From Outer Space

It's an Internet series, but... Happy Tree Friends! (Not for the faint of heart, or those of a weak stomach...)

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:22pm

'Mary Reilly' is very bad and has some funny, funny moments.
Glenn Close cracks me up.


Andy Worlhol's HEAT is hysterical.
So bad but sooooooo good.
I'm addicted to it.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:22pm

You consider Serial Mom bad??!!

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:25pm

Crimes of Passion with Kathleen Turner.

Updated On: 11/6/05 at 01:25 PM

[Craig]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:25pm

I was going to say the same about cry-baby


here's a few turkeys

Glitter

Dude, Where's My Car

Troll

[Plum]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:25pm

Oh, you mean funny-bad? Because I can give you a lot of just plain bad.

-Anything with the word Pokemon in the title
-Fantastic Four
-Virtuosity
The Musketeer
-Baby Geniuses
-Batman and Robin

Then, there's ones I haven't seen but have a...reputation:

-Gigli
-Glitter
-Kazaam
-Anything Deuce Bigelow-related
-Captain America and the old Punisher
-Ninja Turtles, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and Mario movies

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:27pm

Myra Breckinridge, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Savage Streets, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Mandingo

[Plum]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:28pm

Battlefield Earth and Swordfish, if you want to go on a John Travolta run.

Freddy Got Fingered! The Adventures of Pluto Nash! Man, I'm a roll. Updated On: 11/6/05 at 01:28 PM

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:29pm

No, I think Cry-Baby and Serial Mom are GREAT but John Waters knows he is the king of "deliberately bad." That's what makes him so fantastic!

I've seen the Warhol film HEAT and loved it. Any Warhol/Paul Morrissey film with Joe Dallesandro in it is bound to be great. There must be a collector's set somewhere.


I'll have to check out the other films you all mentioned. I do mean funny bad (Batman and Robin doesn't count because it's just boring).

Updated On: 11/6/05 at 01:29 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:30pm

Hmm...how about From Justin to Kelly? I haven't seen it so I can't say where it falls on the spectrum of awful.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:31pm

I have Heat on video. I've always wanted to see Bad w/ Carroll Baker.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:32pm

Wow, you're all so educated on bad films. I LOVE IT.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:32pm

Ooh, I know. The Ladies Man. You know, that guy with the magic belt. That was really something else.

Meet Joe Black! Okay, the movie was mostly boring, but the car accident at the beginning is hysterical.
Updated On: 11/6/05 at 01:32 PM

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:34pm

LOL.

Let me add to my own list FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN. Bad and sexy - a perfect combination.

I also have to get down to seeing The Bad Seed. The Bailiwick in Chicago (which is on the same block as my publishing house) put on a stage production of that recently. I like movies about little girls who are either being tormented or are the subject of someone else's torment.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:35pm

Good site

http://www.coolcinematrash.com/movies.htm

The Apple must be seen to be believed.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:40pm

I can't believe Imitation of Life (1959) is on that list. That has to be one of my favorite movies. I know other people laugh at the over the top moments, but I find it so... touching. I know I'm not the only one who feels that way about the film (and its beautiful opening song).

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:48pm

Alone in the Dark. I haven't seen it, but the reviews of the movie on Rotten Tomatoes are so hilarious, it has to be horrible.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:12pm

robbiej's avatar just reminded me of another: Flash Gordon.

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:21pm

You'll have to get it online, but this Hugh Grant gem, "The Lady and the Highwayman," based off a bad romance novel, is well worth the eight bucks on Ebay. My best friend and I have SO many so-bad-they're-wet-your-pants-funny lines that we quote to each other constantly. Every once in a while, when life gets rough, we just have to have a "Lady and the Highwayman" evening and laugh our rear ends off.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 3:37pm

Really really bad... "Epicenter" with Traci Lords. And no, it's not porn. It can't decide if it's a disaster movie or a cop movie, and it ends up failing so miserably at both it's very funny. The earthquake scene is SO bad that I was laughing the whole time.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 3:47pm

DD, I actually had a dream about Supervolcano last night. So if Epicenter is worse than that, I MUST see it.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 3:57pm

Laugh out loud funny:

Johnny Guitar (BIZARRE -- Joan C and Mercedes McCambridge with lesbian subtext in th old west)
Lost Horizon (The musical version from the 1970s)
Cobra Woman (Maria Montez -- HILARIOUS)
Naked Kiss
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Boom (Taylor, Burton and Noel Coward)
Candy
Beyond the Forest (Bette Daavis "What A Dump")
Caged (1950, if you can find it -- the ORIGINAL women in prison film with Agnes Moorehead)

Updated On: 11/6/05 at 03:57 PM

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:19pm

Oh yes, OS... it's much worse. Nothing like a shoot-out in the middle of a 7.5 earthquake - and everyone has perfect aim.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:22pm

JAWS 3D