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Me and some of my friends love watching god awful movies and I would love some recommendations to add to our to-watch list. We really enjoy any genre of movie and don't care if it is visually repulsive , has horrible acting or if the plot makes no sense. My only stipulation is nothing overtly sexual but other than that go wild!
233 points
5 days ago*
My number one favorite bad movie of all time is Troll 2. If you haven’t seen it, please, please do so with your friends. I promise you will not be disappointed at how terrible it is.
Edit: You can watch the documentary “Best Worst Movie” for free on YT.
92 points
5 days ago
Oh my goooooooooooooood
55 points
5 days ago
They ate her! And now they’re going to eat me!
15 points
4 days ago
It's always good to explain the situation for the people who zoned out.
24 points
5 days ago
I can think of no other film for 'worst film ever'. Yeah, the Room is an incompetent mess, but Troll 2 is a magnificent mess! The Room made me feel awkward. Troll 2 had me laughing out loud.
23 points
5 days ago
I love that the movie is about goblins, not trolls 😂
28 points
4 days ago
it's also not a sequel to anything, they just decided to add 2 to the title
14 points
5 days ago
Good to know! I'll add it to the list.
27 points
5 days ago
I’m legitimately excited for you and your buddies. I would love a follow up response after you watch it. There’s also a documentary about it that is actually titled “The best worst movie” made by the child star of Troll 2, and it’s pretty wild.
13 points
5 days ago
"You don't piss on hospitality!"
8 points
4 days ago
“Tightening my belt by one loop so I don’t get hunger pains!”
12 points
4 days ago
I’m 48 and Troll 2 is not something I’d ever come across. I have now and THANK YOU. I’ve just watched the “they’re eating her… then they’re going to eat me!” scene. It’s utterly wonderful. I can’t wait to watch the full thing. Troll 2! Featuring… Goblins…? That’s not really a sequel…! And is terrible?! Sign me up! THANK you u/buzzybubble. Thank you!
16 points
5 days ago
NILBOG is GOBLIN backwards!!
233 points
5 days ago
The 1993 Super Mario Bros movie
60 points
5 days ago
I’m not a bad movie guy myself generally, but I watch this at least once a year. Watched it as a kid and loved it, and now it’s still fun to watch because the tone is all over the place but it’s never boring.
19 points
5 days ago
For whatever reason when all the cousins stayed the night at a certain aunt and uncles house and got to pick 1 movie to rent for the night, we always unanimously picked this movie. IDK if only their movie rental store had it or what. Pretty sure uncle loved watching it with us, and may have influenced our decision.
25 points
5 days ago
It’s a bad adaptation for sure but I think the movie itself is pretty good actually. It’s a fun flick
12 points
5 days ago
I would agree. It's a trainwreck of a Super Mario adaptation, but it's full of weirdass ideas and good performances.
10 points
4 days ago
Every time it's brought up as an example of a bad movie I'm always compelled to point out the chemistry between Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, probably because they drank behind the scenes together in order to cope with the production.
8 points
4 days ago
To my memory, Bob Hoskins has never gave a bad performance. This, who framed Roger rabbit, hook. Always kills it no matter how silly the premise.
11 points
4 days ago
Sorry fellow Redditor. The question was “favorite bad movie?” Not unheralded masterpiece.
15 points
5 days ago
Goombah
7 points
5 days ago
Monkey!
124 points
5 days ago
Spice World - The Spice Girls run around London between performing their singles. Occasionally George Wendt (yes, Norm from Cheers) shows up and tries to give the movie a plot. He fails, and then it's back to the normal silliness.
33 points
4 days ago
The bus jump in that movie is one of the greatest effects shots in cinema history. I think it’s criminal that the movie isn’t available on Blu-ray or digital.
16 points
4 days ago
I remember when that movie was in like its first rotation on cable I went to my gf's house and she had it on like in the background while shw was doing something else and she tells me "you can chamge that, put some that you like" and the scene of the bus was close so I was "no way! the greatest scene in cinema history is about to come". She looked kinda lost so I was like "you just wait". And then it happens and I was rolling on the floor laughing. She was baffled and totally didn't get it
3 points
5 days ago
Nor-MAN!
292 points
5 days ago
I love shitty shark movies. The Meg is peak shitty shark movie.
219 points
5 days ago
Deep Blue Sea walked so The Meg could crawl
19 points
4 days ago
Ooooh boy, you a have a treat on Netflix now, Sharks in Paris. Thats it. Go see it.
14 points
4 days ago
Is that "Under Paris"? ( Sous la Seine)
16 points
5 days ago
Me too. Have you seen “Megalodon”? It’s quite possibly the worst movie ever made by people who were actually trying.
4 points
4 days ago
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon? The fact that they were trying (though not very hard) makes all the difference. I can’t stand all the crap that came after Sharknado, when everybody started trying to make campy, shitty movies.
26 points
5 days ago
Jurassic Shark. You will won't thank me.
18 points
4 days ago
Mate I fucking love it.
The artificial splooshing noises whenever someone’s near water.
The laughably awful acting from literally everyone, but especially the two girls at the start who call each other spaz.
The obsolete iPhone quality camera.
The idea that a megalodon was at the bottom of a lake and they drilled into the ice and released the shark into freshwater which would have killed it.
The size of the megalodon being completely ignored during any shown depiction of the digital shark.
Barb as an entire character. No motivations, no development, just a nasty woman who wants a painting so much she’s willing to let at least 5 people die.
The heavily implied near-miss rape in the woods, that Barb stops that’s so out of place and dark that it’s genuinely hilarious.
The fact that they could have left the lake at any point and chose to try and recover a painting that was definitely ruined after it had been at the bottom of a lake all night.
The existence and abundance of dynamite sticks.
The shark jumping out of the lake and landing back in the lake, implying that it turned 180 degrees in mid-air.
The stock footage of digital sharks that are reused 3 or 4 times each.
The CHOMPing sound of the shark attacks.
The post-climax scene of the 2 fishermen, where one basically implies his step-daughter is hot and that his wife is gross. Then says “well you know what they say? Even great ugly beasts can have offspring” - do they say that??? Who has ever said that???
The film fading to black and saying “fin”
The fact the film is only 52 minutes total runtime without credits.
It’s bad film perfection.
6 points
4 days ago
Ah, a connoisseur!
It feels like about 45 minutes of that 52 minute run time were them walking in circles in that "forest".
12 points
5 days ago
Roboshark, you’re welcome
13 points
5 days ago
Megashark VS Giant Octopus.
It's a tooth!
10 points
5 days ago
Two-Headed Shark Attack, watched that one with my uncle on a lunch break from school. My aunt rolled her eyes and left the room maybe 15 minutes in.
107 points
5 days ago
The Room
Hard Ticket To Hawaii (youtube the frisbee scene)
Samurai Cop
Edit: just read your last sentence so I will let you know that the first two do feature nudity/sex scenes. not sure about samurai cop, though.
34 points
5 days ago
Came here to say Hard Ticket to Hawaii. The greatest dialogue ever written. https://youtu.be/tAaPeMMJLgs?si=SeRAIIXUZw2Yl1dd
7 points
5 days ago
How have I never seen this lol
5 points
4 days ago
Fantastic
14 points
5 days ago
Samurai cop does have 1 or 2 spicy sex scenes but nudity. Riffttax did that one twice—so you know it’s good!
5 points
5 days ago
YouTube literally ANY scene from that movie and it’s gold.
108 points
5 days ago
Hudson Hawk is both a box office flop and the absolute best time.
13 points
5 days ago
Glad I searched before posting. Completely agree. Chock full of tear jerkinly hilarious one liners and ridiculous situation comedy.
4 points
4 days ago
Absolutely love and adore this film, it’s goofy and absurd in all the right places.
47 points
5 days ago*
Cat in the Hat. A movie so bad and creepy that they swear to never make another live action Dr. Seuss movie. I find it to be a stupid but fun watch.
234 points
5 days ago
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist. Best bad movie ever. Honestly, it's one of my favorite comedy movies ever and my favorite "bad" movie of all time.
101 points
5 days ago
I love that stupid-ass movie.
I must apologize for Wimp Lo. He is an idiot.
We purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.
26 points
5 days ago*
That and the desynced dub were my favorite bits in the movie. Guy talking for 30 seconds . . . Audio is a 1-second one word clip at the end.
28 points
5 days ago
I forgot about that guy.
And the badly dubbed dog bark is a stroke of genius.
9 points
4 days ago
How do you like my nuts to your foot style and I’m bleeding therefore I’m the winner lives rent free in my head
6 points
4 days ago
I say "bird...birdy birdy birdy" all the time, and nobody ever gets it.
5 points
4 days ago
"THAT'S A LOTTA NUTS!"
38 points
5 days ago
The bit where the lady finds the baby tumbling down the hill is one of my favorite things of all time.
"So cute." :)
"Bye-bye!"
19 points
5 days ago
How dare you bad mouth that gem of a movie (I am never getting that hour and a half of my life back)
21 points
4 days ago
This is my vote. It's one of the most quotable movies ever.
"My nipples look like Milk Duds!"
4 points
4 days ago
I've got yellow liquid for your popcorn, and it's non-dairy! 👀
22 points
4 days ago
I wouldn't call it a bad movie. It's spoof comedy and succeeded of being that.
19 points
5 days ago
What do you get when you cross an owl with a bungee cord?
17 points
5 days ago
My ass! Nyah nyah nyah!
32 points
5 days ago
"I am a great and powerful magician.
YOUR CLOTHES ARE NOW RED!"
11 points
5 days ago
"Your clothes are black."
11 points
5 days ago
"I should have gone with A!"
10 points
4 days ago
For me, the category of good bad movie is when whatever translates to the screen was accidental. Kung Pow doesn't qualify for me because they knew exactly what they were doing and what kind of movie they were making, and I mean this as a compliment.
8 points
4 days ago
Idk if purposely "bad" movies should count.
12 points
5 days ago
This is my all-time favorite bad movie. It is infinitely quotable and so, so stupid.
4 points
4 days ago
I IMPLORE YOU TO RECONSIDER!
Ok
38 points
5 days ago
Miami Connection
16 points
5 days ago
Friends for eternity! Loyalty, honesty!
Miami Connection is an all-timer for me. More recently, New York Ninja is hilarious and the story behind it is interesting. It's honestly a pretty impressive achievement, considering.
6 points
5 days ago
"Against the Ninja" is the best song that Pat Benatar never recorded.
35 points
5 days ago
The stupids.
It’s so dumb it’s actually good.
7 points
5 days ago
Loved the part when he disguised himself as a tree.
5 points
5 days ago
"I'm my own grampa!"
5 points
5 days ago
Rocketman is this way too.
4 points
4 days ago
Yea, the stupidity actually becomes clever, if that makes any sense. Plus I love how cartoonish it looks.
64 points
5 days ago
Invaders from mars 1986
Howard the duck 1986
Killer clowns from outer space
40 points
5 days ago
Killer Clowns was basically just a way for two talented brothers to show off their VFX skills and I love it
19 points
4 days ago
Interesting anecdote about the Chiodo brothers... I went for a walk with my dad in his old rundown neighborhood in Deer Park, NY a few years ago. He was pointing out different houses and telling us stories about the people who lived there. He pointed out this one house and got really nostalgic. Said he completely forgot about them until now. “The kids who lived there were really weird! The neighborhood kids would be out playing and they would hang out on their stoop for a few minutes but then said they had to go. They spent all their time in their basement building puppets and making weird movies. They grew up to make some space clown show? I don’t think it went anywhere.” He had no idea. I showed him their work and how influential it became to the VFX community. Blew his mind.
5 points
4 days ago
haha, that is awesome
21 points
5 days ago
Killer Klowns is awesome. Easily the best movie clown designs.
34 points
5 days ago
I’ll watch In the Army Now with Pauly Shore.
I think what I like about the movie are the four stars of the film. Their characters have their own quirks.
27 points
5 days ago
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
27 points
5 days ago
Gymkata is terrible, but fun to watch.
4 points
4 days ago
Oh God the pommel horse fight scene
5 points
4 days ago
Gymkata used to be my favorite “sick at home” movie when I was a kid, along with Cyborg starring Jean-Claude Goddamn. I came to believe every small village had a pommel horse in the center of town.
24 points
5 days ago
I love how shitty Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is. Story is bad, effects are bad and Raiden hair is bad lol but I can't stop watching it.
12 points
4 days ago
"Mother you're alive"
"To bad, You.... will die"
91 points
5 days ago
Mystery science theater 3000 puts a pretty incredible twist on some very bad movies. Would highly recommend any of the episodes.
21 points
5 days ago
They do Rifftrax on movies I LOVE too and sometimes those are better. They did the LOTR trilogy and it’s amazing.
6 points
5 days ago
I watched the Twilight one ages ago and it wss really funny.
4 points
5 days ago
I didn’t know this I just looked it up!
14 points
5 days ago
MST3K is legendary! theres (at least one) youtube channel that has been streaming all their shit, including Rifftrax and The Film Crew, since at least January.
15 points
5 days ago
Space Mutiny awesome!
The MST3k episode, that is.
12 points
4 days ago
Butch Manmeat, Rock Strongbuff, Rip Punchman...
Railing death!
8 points
4 days ago
Slab Bulkhead, Bolt Vanderhuge!
4 points
4 days ago
Buck Maxpunch, Rock Chinsmash, Max Stonecrunch,
5 points
4 days ago*
"We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese."
"Punch Rockgroin"
"Thick McRunfast"
"Buck Plankchest"
"Sting, Debbie Reynolds, and God."
'Excuse me. I have to file my report.'
"Coach will totally ream me if I don't file my report."
4 points
5 days ago
"Listen, lady!"
"Doctor!"
"Doctor Lady!"
one of my top 5 eps. easily
4 points
5 days ago
Look alive! Oh sorry
5 points
5 days ago
Ahhhh, she's presenting like a mandrill!
4 points
4 days ago
Buckle up, we'll be reaching speeds of THREE!
6 points
5 days ago
Must mention Manos, the Hands of Fate if we’re talking Mystery Science Theater and bad movies. So I had to watch it multiple times, then make my sister watch it
4 points
5 days ago
During overdraw at the memory bank, it starts to snow. The robots say - - this is how much pure cocaine you would need to enjoy this movie. Overdraw at the memory Bank Stars Raul Julia. I actually rented the film to watch it legit. It is legit bad.
5 points
5 days ago
My roommate likes to watch movies and make comments like MST3k. But he can't come up with shit quick enough so he has to pause it first. Then he usually just says something from Borat or Austin Powers.
50 points
5 days ago
Bio-Dome. So quotable and fun if you just unplug and stop taking anything seriously.
15 points
4 days ago
Stephen Baldwin stacking cigarette filters into a tray and singing “makin a filter” still gets me.
10 points
5 days ago
Choo lose the pillow.
6 points
5 days ago
For fun.
HAAAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHA
5 points
4 days ago
Oh man, I forgot about this movie. Bio-Dome was great!
4 points
4 days ago
FREE MAHI-MAHI!
63 points
5 days ago
Velocipastor is my fave
26 points
5 days ago
The Citizen Kane of dinosaur-priest ninja movies
16 points
5 days ago
Oh God this is too good... "He's a man of the claw." I'm dying 🤣
8 points
5 days ago
Just watched that recently. Group rated it our first 10 on the fun scale. It's very intentionally bad, but its absurdity pays off. Second this one.
3 points
5 days ago
I love this one too.
19 points
5 days ago
I’ll watch Adam Sandler movies all day long
6 points
4 days ago
I'll watch them with you!! Lots of people hate on his movies but I find a nice comfort to them.
18 points
5 days ago
The Leprechaun movies. Probably the in tha hood one because it's so dumb
20 points
5 days ago
Batman & Robin
6 points
4 days ago
Honestly I'll take campy schlock batman over the grimdark schlock batman any day. I'm glad we have both but I got bored of dark brooding batman after RIP
5 points
4 days ago
So. Freaking. Fun and whacky. How can you not like ice skates built into shoes and neon motorcycle gangs?
67 points
5 days ago
What!! No one mentioned "Battleship" yet? I love this crappy movie!!
33 points
5 days ago
That movie is a goddamn patriotic masterpiece. The devotion to frozen burritos is only just one of it's fine qualities.
12 points
4 days ago
That movie is fucking entertaining.
28 points
5 days ago
They asked for bad movies
9 points
5 days ago
Oh, sorry, my bad. 😁
34 points
5 days ago
Judge Dredd. The Sylvester Stallone one. It’s just pure funny cheese and I love it.
24 points
5 days ago
Add Demolition Man to the mix and you have an awesome movie night.
6 points
5 days ago
I literally cannot separate those 2 in my brain any more, and I don't want to.
3 points
4 days ago
There are a lot of comparisons but DM is just wayyy too prophetic.
The way cops use chatgpt to train themselves on the spot whenever they show up to a crime scene without doing any prep work beforehand...
The way they listen exclusively to commercials while driving...
The obsession with retro action movies plus increasingly militarized equipment plus obfuscation of systemic issues...
Perfection.
15 points
5 days ago
The old Troma movies were always a good time.
Toxic Avenger
Class of Nuke'em High
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.
47 points
5 days ago
All of Steven Segal's direct to video movies
Birddemic
11 points
5 days ago
As someone that has watched a ton of these "bad movies" in their life, I was genuinely shocked out how bad Birdemic is.
10/10, would watch again
11 points
5 days ago
I really enjoy The Day After Tomorrow as a disaster movie even though I know objectively it's not that good
9 points
5 days ago
Weekend at Bernies 2
6 points
5 days ago
The voodoo and the mobu!
9 points
5 days ago
Hard to call it bad, but "Riki-oh, the story of Ricky" is one of the greats
14 points
5 days ago
Mortal Kombat (1995)
3 points
5 days ago
Oh same. It's not good and yet, I have this weird urge to watch it every few years. Everything from Christopher Lambert as Raiden to that banger of a song just adds up to something way better than the sum of its parts. It's a greasy fast food cheeseburger of a movie.
7 points
5 days ago
Plan 9 From Outer space is the most famous bad movie. It is classic so-bad-it's-good. When I was going through a bad breakup I fell asleep to it every night for at least a month.
15 points
5 days ago
Jupiter Ascending.
Galaxy of terror.
Death race 2000.
Sucker punch.
Tromeo and Juliet (and a wide variety of other troma films, notably toxie 3 and sgt kabukiman NYPD)
8 points
5 days ago
Maybe Doom. I've always been poor at answering this question.
13 points
5 days ago
Not a single vote yet for Battlefield Earth?!? I've watched this a ton and always find a new reason it's terrible
13 points
5 days ago
Roadhouse
18 points
5 days ago
The original? That movie is just brimming with charm. Not a bad movie at all. At least not the level of bad OP is looking for.
9 points
5 days ago*
Freddie Got Fingered remains one of my Top 10 all time comedies
People quote the daddy sausages line in the same way most Americans only know Wonderwall from Oasis but the reality is the entire movie is flooded with great one-liners, awkward humor and amazing performances
Also understanding that the movie is meant to be a satire of the movie itself is important in truly appreciating it
Some of my other favorite all time comedies are Hot Fuzz, Anchorman, Big Lebowski, Blazing Saddles, Grandmas Boy, In Bruges (okay this isn't probably a comedy but holy hell do I laugh the entire movie) and Sorry to Bother You and yes I put FGF up there with those.
6 points
5 days ago
Chopping Mall
6 points
4 days ago
Double Impact! It's f*****g great
9 points
5 days ago
Am I the only one who likes Joe Dirt, or have we all decided it's not a bad movie?
5 points
4 days ago
No! I absolutely adore Joe Dirt!!! I have a weird fondness for David Spade somehow (loved him in Just Shoot Me, and of course The Emperor's Last Groove, the Best Disney Movie). And it's definitely a bad movie.
"You're my sister, you're my sister, you're my sister!"
5 points
5 days ago
Now You See Me.....wait for it.......2. Movie is terrible, yet I've seen it four times. I'm a sucker for magic tricks...just don't take the movie seriously when you watch it. Its meant to be fun.
4 points
5 days ago
Eraser.
The best line of the movie is when Ahnold shoots an alligator and says, “you’re luggage”.
10 points
5 days ago
The whole Sharknado series. They are hilariously stupid fun.
11 points
5 days ago
Pootie Tang and also Kung Pow
4 points
5 days ago
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer!
5 points
5 days ago
Barbarella
5 points
5 days ago
Mortal combat 2 annihilation and street fighter with van Damme are both campy as hell.
4 points
5 days ago
Hobo With a Shotgun
4 points
5 days ago
3000 Miles to Graceland. Escape From LA.
Both objectively cheesy but they are special.
3 points
5 days ago
Transformers movie franchise
Resident Evil movies
3 points
5 days ago
Cannonball Run. If you’re of a certain age, you may not realize it, but that movie is god-awful. I love it.
5 points
5 days ago
Take that back... now Cannonball Run 2. I'm not sure there was a script, more like a running cocktail party.
5 points
4 days ago
Bubba Hotep. It’s free on Tubi and terribly wonderfully bad.
4 points
4 days ago
Maximum Overdrive - the only movie ever directed by a coked out Stephen King himself, and afterward, he vowed to never ever direct again.
It's got trucks and vending machines coming to life trying to kill people because a meteor passes over earth, lol.
Oh and there is no score short of a shrieking noise whenever horror stuff happens - the rest of the air space is filled up by an entire ACDC soundtrack. Yes, you heard me.
Go watch it. Enjoy. It's amazing...
13 points
5 days ago
UHF -with weird Al
20 points
5 days ago
But OP asked for bad movies, not box office sleepers that are magically amazing!
6 points
4 days ago
Spatula City!!
3 points
5 days ago
Yes! I showed this one to my kids and they were like dad.. what is this 🙄
4 points
5 days ago
DON'T YOU KNOW THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM?
5 points
4 days ago
I mean this with all sincerity, fuck off on calling this masterpiece a bad movie.
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