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* Nearly everything on the [[Syfy]] channel is this trope. And what a great channel it is, if you ''love'' that stuff.
* Any trailer made by the Ghanan guys who made ''2016'' seems to fit this trope, with poor CGI graphics, hilarious images (a lion leaping into a woman's belly, a disembodied hammer smacking people in the head, a cat leaping out of the Grim Reaper's mouth etc.) and a wildly enthusiastic guy shouting the title of the respective film every five seconds.
* Noboru Iguchi's films are Japanese exploitation action shlock, with young girls and lots of gore.
** ''[[The Machine Girl]]'' (2008). Gatling Gun Arm attached to a schoolgirl, Ninjas that look like Football players, and 1970s violence despite being a 2008 movie, and a Drill Bra. What makes this so hilarious, is its genre is listed Action/Adventure. A lot of schlocky movies are hard to watch because of [[padding]]. This film replaces padding with [[High-Pressure Blood]].
** ''[[Robo Geisha]]'' (2009) is just so ridiculous, it's hilarious. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig (Trailer)]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmpGlAi3iAE Semi-Conscious Driving in the Real World] is a video about driving around trucks shown in driving schools.
** In that same vein, a film called "Seven Deadly Shipmates," a US Navy training film from the 70s, in which seven people do rather silly things (most of them, like removing air-caps from a breathing-mask manifold, rather inconsequential) that ultimately result in the sinking of a ship due to fire; other things, like stacking garbage in the middle of a passage-way, resulting in hilarious panicked-sailor pile-ups, seemed like very funny common sense issues to avoid (but it is the military, after all). They were still playing it in boot camp as recently as April 2009. Seriously, ''nobody'' saw that hatch open?
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* ''[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Mr__T_s_Be_Somebody____Or_Be_Somebody_s_Fool_1984.aspx Mister T's Be Somebody...or Be Somebody's Fool]''. Considering that in many ways T. is either the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] or the patron saint of [[So Bad It's Good]] You better watch this, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|fool!]]
* ''Star Ballz'', a parody of [[Star Wars]] is probably the worst animated porn film ever made, but it is incredibly hilarious. The dubbing is bad, the animation is bad, the dialogue is... astounding but it is absolutely hilarious. Especially since you can make a brain-killing drinking game by naming all the references to popular movies and anime of the time.
* If the [[YouTube]] comments are any indication, the "educational" film ''[[Unarius The Arrival]]'' (1969), put out by Unarius Academy of Science (a space cult) is this. The sparkly special effects and goofy costumes of the then-cult leader Uriel (Ruth E. Norman) are fun to look at, the spaceships are actually kinda cool, and it's often hilariously cheesy. A great film to snark at that probably won't make you want to chew your own arm off to get away from.
* ''[[Ben 10]] Race Against Time'': The TV show was cliche enough but as a live action flick, it fall flat on its [[Fridge Logic]] face. At least it had some decent SFX. And then there's Lee Majors as Grandpa Max.
* The ''oeuvre'' of [[Roger Corman]] generally falls into this category.
* A great many educational films are so campy and badly made that they end up being just plain funny. There's one about electrical safety, with a [[Jerkass]] villain reminiscent of Beetlejuice called ''Electrojuice''.
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* The films of Godfrey Ho, or any of his aliases, particularly his later masterworks ''Honor & Glory'' and ''Undefeatable'', both starring Cynthia Rothrock. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY The latter film] has [[Memetic Mutation|become something of a sensation]] of late.
* John Candy starred in ''quite a few'' movies with this trope during the '90s. Notable examples include ''[[Nothing but Trouble]]'' and ''Once Upon A Crime''.
* Anything by ''[[John Waters]]''.
* Andreas Schnaas's gore movies. They're fun ''because'' of their bad dubbed voices, horrible effects (the baby cut into half a la [[Mortal Kombat|Kung Lao]] is a plastic doll!) and worse titles (''[[Violent Shit]]'', anyone?)
* [[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 [[MI 5]] 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.
* The original English language dubs of ''[[Godzilla]]'' movies achieved this status by accident.
** Recent Godzilla movies have a lot more money for props and use good modern CG for energy weapons and vehicles, but you can still see the [[Special Effect Failure|traditional zippers on the rubber monster suits.]].
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