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===1990===

* The Pakistani movie ''International Guerrillas'' (1990). It shows the story of three Pakistani guys who, after seeing how one of their relatives is killed by the police during the demonstrations against Salman Rushdie's ''Satanic Verses'', decided to go and [[Comically Missing the Point|murder the famous writer]]. The movie becomes a cat and mouse game, with the guerrillas being always a few seconds too late, allowing Rushdie to run away while they are stuck fighting his armies of thugs. With some (hilariously bad) [[Bollywood]] dance segments in between. And a bunch of cut and paste action sequences (more like copy and paste, since all the sequences play at least three times before moving on to the following one). Finally, Rushdie catches the protagonists, but suddenly a literal [[Deus Ex Machina]] ([[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|a flying Ku'ran, symbolizing Allah]]) appears to save the 'heroes' and kill Rushdie with some [[Dramatic Thunder]]. All in glorious VHS quality. It has to be seen to be believed.

** Watch the final scene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eoNLlHzPhI&feature=related here]. Words, there are none.

* ''Rockula'' (1990). A vampire is cursed to experience the death of his true love (by ham bone) every 20 or so years. His mom is a nymphomaniac cougar. He courts his true love by becoming a rock star vampire. So wrong, and yet so right.

** [[Serious Business|Good lord, man!]] It's a ham bone wielded by a [[Pirate]] with a rhinestone pegleg! It's all an [[Excuse Plot]] to string together a bunch of music videos amid the [[Cliché Storm]], with a large dose of [[Our Vampires Are Different]] for spice.

*** The vampire in question also has a [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] relationship with his independent reflection (who may or may not be the ghost of Elvis). His mother is played by Toni Basil (of ''Hey Mickey'' fame), the girlfriend's manager is played by Thomas Dolby (yes, ''that'' one) who sells new-age coffins in his day job (and his advertisements are pure comedy genius) and it includes the unforgettable sight of Bo Diddley in skintight neon-yellow spandex.

* "Time Barbarians" (1990). What a terrible gem. At one point, {{spoiler|the main character pimp slaps the villain with the villain's dismembered hand. Yeah.}}

* ''[[Troll 2]]'' (1990) is considered a cinematic masterpiece by some, due to how hilariously bad it is. It features vegetarian monsters that turn people into lumpy green Jello (a plant-based version, apparently) so they can eat them. The monsters appear to be dwarves running around in cheap Halloween masks (actually designed, along with the costumes, by '70s erotica actress Laura Gemser). There is a sex scene that has to be seen to be believed (and then may require multiple viewings). The line, "You can't piss on hospitality! I won't allow it!" is included and is meant literally. Also, there are no trolls in the movie. Not a single one.

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"Nilbog! [[Sdrawkcab Name|It's Goblin]] [[Captain Obvious|spelled backwards!]]" }}

* ''Xtro II: The Second Encounter'' is a low-budget 1990 Canadian film that shamelessly rips off ''[[Alien]]''. Poor special effects, [[Large Ham|over-the-top]] acting, and a melodramatic score somehow combine to make [[Narm Charm]] rather than straight-up [[Narm]]. Extra amusing for anyone who's ever watched ''[[The X-Files]]'', as among the cast is a very young Nicholas Lea, who would go on to play recurring bad guy [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Alex]] [[The Chew Toy|Krycek]]. The [[Totally Radical]] dialogue and [[Eighties Hair]] just make it even funnier.

===1991===

* The Chinese adaptation ''[[Dragon Ball]]: The Magic Begins'' (1991).

* The Hong-Kong-Funded-Japanese-Manga-Adaptation called ''[[The Story of Ricky]]'' (''Riki-oh'') (1991) is best described as "''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' meets ''[[The Itchy and Scratchy Show]]'', meets ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', in ''live action.'' And the violence is as ridiculously bloody as you think it is.

* The obscure [[Sharon Stone]] film ''Scissors'' (1991) is full of bad acting and just plain hilarious plot threads like a pair of identical twins whose conflict just comes across as bizarre...but what it pushes it over the top is the ending, {{spoiler|where a pair of minor characters, one of whom had only been seen on the side of a ''bus'' previously, are revealed out of nowhere as the true villains and the hilariously awful twin plotline made all the more inexplicable for being so irrelevant}}.

* The film ''Zombi 7'' (1991) (also known as ''Zombie '90: Extreme Pestilence''), made by The Violent Shitters of [[Violent Shit]] fame has over the top low budget German [[Gorn]] combined with some [[So Unfunny It's Funny]] [[Gag Dub|English dubbing]] that it saves the film from entering Violent Shit's territory. [http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/12/08/zombi-7-aka-zombie-90-extreme-pestilence.aspx You can trust The Cinema Snob about this film with his great review here.]

===1992===

* The original ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' movie (1992). She's blonde, she's a cheerleader, and she slays vampires. Cheese at its finest.

* ''[[Mom and Dad Save The World]]'' (1992). In one word, this film is SILLY...and we wouldn't have it any other way!

===1993===

* The 1993 [[Made for TV Movie]] ''The Man from Left Field''. A bunch of poor kids looking for a baseball coach find Burt Reynolds, a Mysterious Figure who has gotten [[Easy Amnesia]] and forgotten everything but his Good Solid Values. Since it's three times as long as your typical [[Very Special Episode]], they compensate by having three Very Special Storylines. One kid is teased by the obligatory rich rival team about his working-class father, cuing an [[Author Filibuster]] from Burt about how Money doesn't matter as much as Values. Another kid is abused at home (his alcoholic father beats him with his fists, which somehow results in the kid getting lash marks on his back) so Burt [[Right Makes Might|kicks the dad's butt]]. The [[Token Minority|token black kid]] loses his grandfather to [[Soap Opera Disease]], which is somehow resolved by Burt saving the kid from drowning (no, you read that right). In the midst of all this, the film achingly struggles to be "cute" and there's also a lame [[Token Romance]] with [[Reba McEntire]] thrown in for good measure, even though the film seems to be aimed at ten-year-old boys (the kids have no girls on their team). Finally, the scene where Burt regains his memories has to be seen to be believed.

* ''[[RoboCop]] 3'' (1993) is quite substandard when compared to its previous entries, but when taken by itself, the film is ''hilarious''. A Japanese competitor of OCP's sends over robot ninjas to stop Robocop, a 9-year old girl uses a computer terminal to hack an [[The Dragon|ED-209]] unit and there's [[Special Effect Failure]] galore. Add to that unintentionally funny moments (including Robo commandeering a pimp's car (complete with reaction shot), a man's suicide is played for comedy, a children's tricycle being used for barricade material, Robocop [[Big Damn Heroes|flying in]] [[Merchandise-Driven|on a jetpack]] and two robots who simultaneously cut each other's heads off) and script howlers ("Come and get me, Mr. Robocop!", "Oh my God, Johnson, our stocks have dropped to nothing!", "You got a ghost cop? A vampire cop?" and Robo's immortal line "Don't count on it, chum!"), along with a score that makes these moments epic, and you've got the perfect storm for SBIG. And Jill Hennessy as eye candy.

* ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros]]'' (1993). An infamous "adaptation" of the hit [[Super Mario Bros|video game]] for the [[NES]]. It's a punchline of the gaming world and a pioneer of the [[Video Game Movies Suck|awful video-game-to-movie trend.]] It doesn't keep it from having absolutely insane scenes featuring [[Dennis Hopper]], though.

* [[Edgar Wright]], director of ''[[Spaced]]'', ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'', and ''[[Hot Fuzz]],'' did quite a few little amateur films when he was younger. A notable one is ''Dead Right'' (1993), a cop movie that parodies and homages ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' (the main character is nicknamed "Dirty Barry"), among other movies. The movie itself is schizophrenic, switching between, as Wright describes it, "sub-Zucker Brothers nonsense" with random humor, a cop movie parody, and a splatter film.

** Notable scenes include the killer, wearing a bright orange raincoat, hiding from a woman by simply pressing up against a doorway (she walks straight past him despite his being in plain sight with no camouflage); Detective Barry Stern being assaulted by a cat; a very lengthy, gory (if [[Kensington Gore|food colouring]] counts as gore) fight scene where Barry and an MI5 undercover agent (who looks like "every sound-man" according to Frost) decimate a gang of "box-monsters" (all in the killer's gang; the killer kills people who buy Weetabix, so he's a ''cereal'' killer); and a scene of almighty [[Fourth Wall]] breaking where the murderer kills Edgar Wright himself.

===1994===

* ''[[The Shadow (film)|The Shadow]]'' (1994).

* ''[[Street Fighter (film)|Street Fighter]]'' (1994) is the epitome of this trope. While normally this movie would be another case of [[Video Game Movies Suck]], it casts [[Raul Julia]]--who, dying of cancer, asked his children to choose his final film role--as M. Bison. Raul plays it as a crazy [[Large Ham|over the top]] villain with such memorable lines as "For you, the day Bison graced your village is the most important day of your life. [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|But for me...it was Tuesday]]," and "A Bison dollar. It's worth five British pounds... For that is the exchange rate the Bank of England will set once I kidnap their Queen!" For God's sake, he has a chandelier [[Nothing but Skulls|made out of human bones]] and he wonders why people [[Obviously Evil|think he's a villain]]?

** One of M. Bison's lines was a Screw Attack.com movie quote of the week, done by [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]: "FOR I BEHELD SATAN '''AS HE FELL FROM HEAVEN''' '''''LIKE LIGHTNING!'''''"

*** There's also just a whiff of [[Stealth Parody]] about the script, especially with regard to Guile's gung-ho motivational speech.

** "QUICK! CHANGE THE CHANNEL!"

===1995===

===1996===

* ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' (1996), starring [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. The "Turbo Man" stuff is particularly hilariously bad, but Ah-nold is a pretty good comedic [[Straight Man]].

* ''[[Kazaam]]'', a 1996 movie about a [[Totally Radical|rapping genie]] that's released by a kid. Some of the scenes are strange and [[Nightmare Fuel|extremely creepy]]. And Shaq's god-awful rapping skills. "Let's [[Green Eggs and Ham]] it" indeed.

===1998===

===1999===

* ''[[Baseketball]]'' (1999).

* ''[[Deuce Bigalow]]: Male Gigolo'' (1999). C'mon, you know it is. A ridiculously offensive blind person stereotype is able to "see" after having sex with a stereotypical black guy? And then saying "You're black?! I knew it."

* ''[[The Rage: Carrie 2]]'' (1999). A [[Dolled-Up Installment|dolled-up]] sequel to [[Carrie|a horror classic]], made over two decades after said movie came out in order to cash in on the success of ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' and other teen horror films in the late '90s. While it doesn't hold a candle to the original in terms of quality or tension, it makes up for this with buckets of blood ([[Accidental Pun|no pun intended]]) and every late-'90s [[Teen Drama]]/horror cliche in the books.