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{{quote|''"There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it."''|'''Roger Ebert''', in [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990507/REVIEWS/905070303/1023 his review] of '''''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]'''''}}
There are a lot of really bad movies out there. Some of them are watchable in their own twisted way. In fact, there are studios who make [[B-Movie|movies like this]] almost exclusively. Many of these have been saved through [[Ham and Cheese]].
[[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]]'s films and ''[[Troll 2]]'' are so extremely [[So Bad It's Good]] that they're [[Critic Proof|beyond criticism]]. Seriously, critics can't say anything bad about them because the films just speak for themselves. They're so bad, they're works of art.
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* ''[[Street Fighter (film)|Street Fighter]]'' 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!"
* Peter Bogdanovich's much reviled musical ''[[At Long Last Love]]'', realized without lipsynch in an attempt to recreate the atmosphere of classic musicals like ''Top Hat''. It was an enormous box-office bomb and gained scathing reviews, yet some have re-evaluated it, at least as an example of this trope. It can be really funny to watch (marvel at the "vocal" stylings of Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd!).
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* ''[[Birdemic]]'' may actually be almost as bad as ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]''. And it never stops with the hurting!
* ''[[Showgirls]]''. A bit like [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]]'s films, [[The Nostalgia Chick]] proclaimed it to be so bad that it almost swung round to be an art film.
* The ''[[Grindhouse]]'' movies, ''Planet Terror'' and ''Death Proof'', were generally regarded as [[So Bad It's Good]] by critics. ''Death Proof'' was actually criticized a bit for not being stupid enough. The director [[Quentin Tarantino]] has a different opinion: [http://www.cinemastrikesback.com/?cat=126 he doesn't believe in so bad it's good].
* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' is a textbook deliberate case of this. The plot (such as it is) is very like ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate|Manos the Hands of Fate]]'' (probably unintentional, given ''"Manos"'''s cliched plot and utter obscurity until ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' found it) with vast galloping amounts of homoerotica thrown in. The characters were, for the most part, based on those of the Bulgakov novel ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'' - itself a modern masterpiece, partly because all of its failed drama is [[Logic Bomb|deliberate.]]<br /><br />Richard O'Brien intentionally made it this way, as a tribute to the campy sci-fi films of the 50s & 60s (as evidenced by the opening number ''Science Fiction, Double Feature'')
* ''[[The Slumber Party Massacre]],'' a hilariously cheesy slasher flick. It contains [[Panty Shot|panty shots]], nudity, gore, and more fake-outs than you can shake a stick at. Oh, and it was originally written by a feminist as a spoof of slasher flicks - but the directors filmed it straight. The result is unbelievably goofy.
* The ''[[Van Helsing]]'' movie. [[Big Bad]] [[Dracula]] is over-acted; the only guy who gets any action is the sidekick; and there's a Frankensteinsicle. Plus, an [[Impossibly Cool Weapon|automatic crossbow]]. Stephen Sommers' other writing tends towards this trope.
* Danish monster movie ''[[Reptilicus]]'' boasts bad acting, [[Special Effect Failure|horrible special effects]] (the monster is a giant hand-puppet who attacks with Silly String), and a laughably implausible plot. (A forest in the ''Arctic''?). See jabootu.com for more details.
* ''[[Road House]]'' has been described as "[[Overly Narrow Superlative|The best movie ever made in which a philosophical bouncer finds love and confronts his demons while working at a rowdy honkytonk outside Kansas City.]]" That should tell you everything you need to know about it. ''[[Road House]]'' was one of a number of movies recommended by a self-help book called ''The Psychopath's Bible.''
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** The American remake of ''[[Godzilla (film)|Godzilla]]'' is laughably bad to the point of hilarity.
* ''[[Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter]]'' qualifies intentionally. It's a movie about how Jesus returns to Earth to fight [[Lesbian Vampire|lesbian vampires]] that are [[Our Vampires Are Different|immune to sunlight]]. With the help of an [[Mask Power|overweight Mexican wrestler]]. And it's got a few musical numbers. Also the only movie in which you'll hear someone say, "We're running low on skin. I suggest we harvest another lesbian!"
* ''[[
** The Showtime musical (based on the off-off-off Broadway musical with Christian Campbell, Ana Gasteyer, Alan Cumming and Kristen Bell) was [[So Cool Its Awesome|AWESOME]]! The DVD case smells like brownies.
* 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'', a cop movie that parodies and homages ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' (the main character is nicknamed "Dirty Barry"), among other movies. It is an extra included on the two-disc ''Hot Fuzz'' DVD and includes both a commentary by Wright, which is quite informative, and another commentary by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, which consists mostly of their tearing the movie to shreds. 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.
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** Adding to this, for some reason [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|the film is still rather popular on Latin American television]], and some viewers claim that being dubbed in Spanish makes it even funnier.
* ''[[Night of the Lepus]]'', a film whose plot centers around Arizona being under attack by [[Killer Rabbit|Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits]]. Yes, this is a real movie. Starring real actors, like Janet Leigh and Stuart Whitman (and [[Star Trek: The Original Series|De Forest Kelley]]), and made by real major studio MGM. It's all made even more surreal by the fact that the '''Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits''' are depicted by either (1) cute domesticated bunnies filmed in extreme close-up running around on scale-model sets, (2) hilariously awful-looking gore-smeared puppets, or (3) guys in tacky-looking bunny suits (for the attack scenes, naturally). In the end it has to be seen to be believed.
** Actually, this movie made it into the background of ''[[The Matrix]]''. It is on the background TV when Neo first goes to see the Oracle.
* The Japanese film ''[[Versus]]'' is like this as far as its acting, plot, and setting go. The action scenes, however, are spectacular. Another hallmark of it being [[So Bad It's Good]] is that the commentary features the director, the producer, and three of the actors, and they were probably all drunk when they recorded it. Japanese B movies seem to have an incredible ability to take a really silly premise, fill it with gore then play everything without a hint of irony.
* ''[[Space Jam]]''. Something about [[Michael Jordan]]'s super-mellow attempts at acting whilst surrounded by the biggest hams of [[Looney Tunes]].
** The part where Daffy kisses his own, Warner Bros.-emblazoned arse suggests [[Lampshade Hanging|they knew]] the film was blatant marketing fodder for all the attached [[Merchandise-Driven]]. Cemented by the point later on, where Bugs and Daffy complain that they don't get any royalties.
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* ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]'' is a ludicrously goofy film that seems to be deliberately aiming for this effect(complete with [[Lampshade Hanging]] of its own absurdity).
* The Lou Ferrigno version of ''Sinbad Of The Seven Seas''. How else would you describe a movie where [[The Incredible Hulk]] escapes prison by escaping on a chain of snakes?
** John Steiner's performance in this film. Why? One exclamation: "HA!" Also..."For the last time: I command you, in the name of all that is evil...Budge! BUDGE!"
* ''[[The Wizard (film)]]''. A film about an autistic kid who wants nothing more than to play video games. 90 minutes of [[Product Placement]] for [[Nintendo]]'s finest (''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'', ''[[Double Dragon]]'', and ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'', which hadn't even come out in America at the time yet) and, uh...not-so-finest ("I love the Power Glove, it's so bad.") Don't make fun of us for adding the entry to this list. It's very hot...* KO punch*
** This classic bit of dialogue:
{{quote|'''Haley:''' [http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}nAJk_gdXwrs "AHHHH! HE TOUCHED MY BREAST!"]}}
** It's an awesome film, just because it features Fred Savage from ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' and Jenny Lewis (of the band [[Rilo Kiley]]). You can't ''not'' love it at least a little.
*** There was a radio interview with Rilo Kiley where the host brought up ''The Wizard''. Jenny Lewis's reaction was the kind of, "Oh," you make when you've just been caught farting. The rest of the interview went downhill from there.
* ''Crocodile 2: Death Swamp!'' should definitely count. The deaths are ''completely'' predictable for the [[Genre Savvy]]. Also, there were several laugh out loud moments. For instance, {{spoiler|the pilot dying; the lawyer screaming "I have shoes! I'm more afraid of than you!" before being eaten; the Crocodile jumping at least 50 meters out of the water to latch onto a helicopter and drag it down so it explodes; and the finale with the line "LIGHT UP MY LIFE, MOTHERFUCKER".}} No, it doesn't make sense in context either.
** [[Phelous|Phelous's]] [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/phelous/32430-crocodile-2 review of the film.]
* ''[[Superman IV]]''. ''Terrible'' if you watch it with the mindset that it's a serious movie; ''hilarious'' if you watch it with the mindset that it's endearingly and riotously bad. See: Christopher Reeve's delivery of the line "''Stop'', don't ''do'' it, the ''people''!". [[Special Effect Failure|Incredibly obvious wires]]. Jon Cryer calling Superman "The Dude of Steel!". [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|Superman's Rebuilding-the-Great-Wall-of-China-vision]]...
** And all that without even ''mentioning'' the whole [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|everybody-breathing-in-space]] thing...honestly. Space has an atmosphere, in this movie. You really haven't lived until you've seen Supes posing heroically against the star-spangled void, cape flapping madly.
*** Breathe in space? In their fight scene, Superman and Nuclear Man ''walk'' on space. They ''walk'' on an ''invisible floor'' in ''space''. They step around each other, ''in space''.
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* 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?)
* ''[[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]'' is one of those rare ''intentional'' examples of this trope, an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the worst of the worst B-movies of the '50s and '60s, with nonsensical dialogue, wooden acting, and plenty of [[Special Effect Failure]].
** ''[[Punctuated!
* John Candy starred in ''quite a few'' movies with this trope in during the '90s. Notable examples include ''[[Nothing but Trouble]]'' and ''Once Upon A Crime''. In the late seventies though he starred in a drama-horror flick titled ''The Clown Murders''. The funny thing being that the villain in ''The Clown Murders'' is a guy in a clown mask and only appears ''a few minutes'' later on in the movie.
* And then there's ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]''. [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/starshiptroopers.html Badass of the Week.com] explains best:
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** Some fans of ''[[Star Trek]]'' also consider the movie [[So Bad It's Good]]-the type of fan who also love "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3 E1 Spocks Brain|Spock's Brain]]" and "Threshold".
** That, and it does have its moments. Also, no individual "terrible" aspect of the movie would ruin any other Star Trek movie on its own; it's really that Star Trek V was unfortunate enough to have so many of them that it really became bad.
* The somewhat silly Russian fairy-tale movie ''[[Morozko]]'' ("Father Frost", or "Jack Frost" on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''). It aired every Christmas on Czechoslovak TV during the Communist era, over time becoming a cult classic. Not only did television stations continue to air it after the revolution, but a musical and a video game based on the movie were made. (The film was recently redubbed into Slovak, so that Slovak televisions don't have to air it in Czech.)
* [[Jensen Ackles]] might have tried his hardest and he certainly plays the "[[Supernatural (TV series)|pretty-boy]] [[Dark Angel|woobie]] with [[Smallville|issues]]" very well, but ''Devour'' will now and forever be a hot, yet entertaining, mess.
* If you watch ''[[The Happening]]'' as a comedy rather than a horror film, then it's one of the best movies ever made. As one person put it: "Never before has a movie made people dying so hilarious."
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* The animated version of ''[[The Hobbit (animation)|The Hobbit]]''. [http://www.lordotrings.com/images/movies/hobbitbig.jpg Here's Bilbo.] [http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/tolkien/h-1-2441-gollum.jpg And this is Gollum.] Now imagine sitting through 90 minutes of that, including songs.
** Hippie folks songs, at that. Even children watching this movie would have to ask "[[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]"
* You want a real Christian preaching [[MST|MST3Kable]] film? Look no further than ''Megiddo: [[The Omega Code]] 2''. This movie truly has it all: acting and dialogue so awkward and bad you wonder if the writers, actors and the director were somehow [[Wild Child|deprived of human contact]] and think people actually act like that; Udo Kier playing a character that does nothing but follow the [[Big Bad]] around wearing a [[Black Cloak]] and sounding like he had just left the ''[[Command
** The first ''[[The Omega Code]]'' also qualifies, with Casper Van Dien and Micheal Ironside in addition to Micheal York. Their performances are so fun to watch. Its also rather subtle for being a End Times film (until the end). Its a bad flim, but enjoyable.
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BY9cvgrP1c The Apple]'': A disco musical about the futuristic world of 1994 that's also an allegory for the Book of Revelation. Really, every single element of this movie will make you say "WTF?".
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** ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'' has [[Ho Yay|gay assassins]], James Bond in a moon buggy with flailing arms, Blofeld dressed as a woman, and missiles exploding due to [[Kill Sat|laser satellite]] with really [[Special Effect Failure|cheap and dated effects]].
** ''[[Octopussy]]''. [http://www.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Bond.jpg Nothing else needs to be added, really.] It doesn't cross into any worse category due to the surprisingly solid plotline under all the cheese.
** ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]''. The sheer hilarity of watching Roger Moore trying to infiltrate a soul food shack in ''1970's Harlem'' has to be experienced. Yaphet Kotto turning into a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade float and then exploding, the weird sub-plot/theme involving voodoo and ''the'' Baron Samedi and the ridiculous alligator pit escape. Paradoxically, it has what may arguably be the best Bond Theme of all the films and a fantastic boat chase scene.
* ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'' is an odd example, being a shot at ''deliberate'' [[So Bad It's Good]]... that failed miserably, but thanks to [[Development Hell]] (the film went through [[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup|six directing teams]], and it ''shows''), a cast studded with wasted talent ranging from [[Woody Allen]] to [[Orson Welles]], an incomprehensibly muddled "plot," and a finale that ''completely defies description'', it manages to be [[So Bad It's Good]] at ''being'' [[So Bad It's Good]].
* ''Kunoichi: Lady Ninja'' is about a bunch of women becoming ninja to get revenge for the sacking of their village with the help of a one-eyed samurai, or something like that. Not much stuck with me except for the thing that makes it awesome: one of the women had some kind of power that related to her virginity, so when she and the samurai were trapped, she told him to bang her so that blood from her ''torn hymen'' would fall on his sword and save them.
* 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''.
** One home economics video where had the narrator saying, "Quiche. Pronounced...keesh" in a monotone. Also, possibly in the same film, the narrator says something about never touching pans in the oven with your bare hands and then proceeds to do so, going "Ouch. That's hot" again in a monotone.
** In the same vein: a certain Spanish video, with the line, "This is my brother, Antonio. [[Shaped Like Itself|We call him 'Antonio'.]]"
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** ''Deathstalker 4'', also known as ''Troll 3''. What kind of fool tries to capitalize on ''[[Troll 2]]''?
* ''[[Surf Ninjas]].'' "Cigarettes?" "Yeah, yeah, I know I should quit." This is in a kids movie too.
** [[Leslie Nielsen]] portraying a very hammy evil Asian cyborg overlord. Who keeps missing his phone calls that end up on his answering machine, though his minions never bother leaving a message.
* ''[[Surf Nazis Must Die]]'' has scary scary gangs consisting of about three twelve year olds, stock surfing film for padding, camp Nazis ... and it's terribly entertaining.
* ''Fatal Deviation'' is without a doubt the most incredibly awesome Irish martial arts movie to ever exist. [http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHSCNMH4wE See for yourself!].
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* ''[[The Machine Girl]]''. 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]].
* ''Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare'', also known as ''The Edge of Hell.'' It's a 1987 Canadian horror film that was filmed in seven days and went straight to video. Features Jon Mikl Thor as Triton, lead singer for a metal band, who fights Satan himself. Clad a cape, studded codpiece and tons of makeup and hairspray. Includes Muppet demons, cycloptic starfish creatures and the line:
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmxtDl-u1aQ " Ah, you've killed no one bub- or is it less familiar to call you BEELZEBUB!"]
* The [[Nicolas Cage]] remake of ''[[The Wicker Man]]''. As far as some viewers are concerned, it is the best [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo comedy] of 2006.
* ''Body Rock''. A 1984 break dancing movie about a guy named Chilly who finds fame and then forgets his friends, although it takes a few viewings to actually comprehend this. Features terrible dialogue, an ostensibly crackhead mother who doesn't care what her son does with his time, a random black child who inexplicably hangs out with 20 year olds and gives dancing lessons in the street, a gigantic boombox, rhinestones adorning the face of the male protagonist, a pleather trench coat with "Chilly" graffitied on the back, and a really frightening song.
* ''[[Shark Attack 3: Megalodon]]'' is most notable for featuring [[Special Effects Failure|some of the most stupidly hilarious special effects]] and an infamous cheesy line from a pre-''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[John Barrowman]] among other silly things.
* ''Flight Of The Living Dead''. ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'' with zombies instead of snakes, and without high production values and any shred of self-awareness.
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** The Romanians of several centuries ago in the film somehow speak American-accented English.
** Most [[Syfy]] Original Movies in general shoot for the So Bad It's Good Trope.
* ''[[Ben 10]] Race Against Time'': The TV show was cliche enough but as a live action flick its fall flat on it cliche ridden fridge logic face. Least it had some decent SFX. And then there's Lee Majors as Grandpa Max.
* [[Prom Night 2008|The 2008 remake]] of the 1980 slasher flick ''[[Prom Night]]'' is hilariously bad. First off, it's a ''slasher flick'' rated PG-13. As if that wasn't bad enough, the movie plays out almost every possible applicable cliché, but in a tremendously boring way. The plot is lousy, the acting is bad, even for this genre, the suspense is as exciting as watching grass grow, and the teenage melodrama bullshit is pathetic.
** Also, it tried really, really hard to jump-scare the audience with bedroom decor. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc7ZaZz4CoU Lamp DUN!]
* [[Frank Miller]]'s directorial debut ''[[The Spirit (film)|The Spirit]]'' is by all rights, a terrible film. However, Miller dials the cheesiness up to such ludicrous levels that one can't help but be at least slightly entertained by it.
{{quote|"[[And This Is For|This is for Sand! This is for me! And this...is for MUFFIN!]]"}}
:: [[Samuel L. Jackson]] plays The Octopus as [[Large Ham|over-the top as possible]]. It's a significant surprise when he appears for the first time, you expect a menacing character...and then he whacks The Spirit over the head with a toilet while explaining that toilet humor is always funny.
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** Specifically, it was intended to be just offensive, but the portrayal of Hitler (either by a hippie or the [[Camp Gay]] director) made it So Offensive It's Hilarious.
* ''[[Zardoz]]''. It represents the collision of high ideals and low abilities perfectly, and contains the line: "The gun is good - the penis is '''EVIL'''!" Also notable for featuring [[Sean Connery]] in [[Fan Disservice|a red diaper]].
* ''Absolute Zero'' is like ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' ''but even worse''. Think new Ice Age in Miami.
* ''Starving Jesus'' is a film by two pastors trying to get people off the pews and into missions. It starts off by them picking fights with hotel receptionists and ends with one of the pastors sniping about how he thinks the other is sneaking food (they're supposed to be fasting). Generally not something that you want to introduce people to Christianity with. However, amazing to watch, the best part probably being the colonoscopy scene. Awesomeness ensues.
* ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'', is known for being campy and embarrassing because it ruined the once promising careers of its four main stars, Peter Frampton and The [[Bee Gees]] and many [[Beatles]] fans and purists, just don't like hearing other people (badly) sing their idols songs.
** If the movie and the music are so awful, why is [[Aerosmith]]'s "Come Together" from the movie a popular fixture on classic rock radio stations.
*** Because one good song and performance do not a good movie or soundtrack make.
** The movie had so many teenyboppers thinking Frampton and the Bee Gees created Sgt. Pepper that Capitol records re-released the Beatles' version with an affixed label "The Original Classic." The movie [[Yellow Submarine]] also made new rounds in syndication (with its on-screen credit "Starring Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band").
* ''[[Robo Geisha]]''. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig trailer] is just so ridiculous, it's hilarious.
* [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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* ''Beyond The Valley of the Dolls''. A Hollywood camp-fest about a band of female musicians, taken to the Nth power and waaay beyond. Infamously, Roger Ebert helped write the script.
{{quote|"This is my happening, and it freaks me out!!"}}
* The original ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' movie. She's blonde, she's a cheerleader, and she slays vampires.
* The [[Syfy]] original film ''Vampires: Los Muertos'' starring Bon Jovi as a surfer/vampire slayer. He tries to stop a vampire takeover with the help of a naive teenage boy, a half-turned woman, a priest {{spoiler|Or is he?}} and a big black guy with a machine gun.
* So ''[[Dragonslayer]]'' was groundbreaking in its day. That doesn't stop it from being absolutely friggin' ''hilarious''. The part where the evil knight gives a (completely logical) rant about how stupidly credulous everyone's being about the wizard? And the wizard asks him to stab him if he truly thinks he's powerless? And when he does, the wizard keels over and dies? Priceless.
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* The film ''Zombi 7'' (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.]
* ''[[Space Marines (film)|Space Marines]]'' a 1996 film with warp effects stolen from ''[[Babylon 5]]'', a grenade blast that launches a mook like a rocket and space pirates with eye patches and AK-47s. Has John Pyper-Ferguson of ''[[Caprica]]'' as an over the top villain looking like a confederate officer with a handlebar mustache, goatee and a habit of recording himself then playing it back. Glorious.
* ''Bloody Mallory'' is a french "horror" flick about a woman trying to save the pope from [[Our Demons Are Different|demons]]. She does such with a [[Wholesome Crossdresser|transvestite]], a government agent and a [[Psychic Powers|mute telepathic girl]] who has a mind battle with one of the enemies, complete with over the top music and intense staring. Mallory's dead demon husband shows up here and the entire English dub is on par with the ''Godzilla'' dubs.
* ''[[Ninja Assassin]]'': A glorious example of martial arts cinema, complete with [[Ludicrous Gibs]], nonsensical backstories about warring ninja clans, overdramatic angst, a fight in a laundromat that ends with a girl's severed head in a washing machine, and immortal dialogue such as "Plants don't have hearts." "Everything has a heart." "I don't."
* ''[[Cobra]]''. It's a [[Cliché Storm]] starring [[Sylvester Stallone]] using every single trope from [[Dirty Harry]] and the renegade cop films it inspired. [[Cowboy Cop]] main character with an endless stream of one liners who's called in to do the dirty work? Cobra is the trope image. Ethnic sidekick who gets injured in the line of duty? Check. [[Da Chief|Overbearing chief]] who insists upon doing things by the book? Check. Antagonizing fellow cop who has the audacity to stand up for the criminals rights? Check. Love interest caught up in the case but otherwise useless? Check. [[Ax Crazy]] serial killer villian? Check. Car chases, gun fights, explosions, and a final fight in a steam factory with [[No OSHA Compliance]]? Very check. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5fUOxPyt5U Just watch the opening action sequence.]
* ''[[The Core]]''. As [[Roger Ebert]] puts it: ''"I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it."''
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* Bruno Mattei's ''Hell of the Living Dead''. Have you ever imagined something more ridiculous than a soldier deciding while there are zombies all over the place to put on a tutu and a bowler hat before singing "I'm singing in the rain" ? Have you ever imagined somebody actually thinking "yeah, no problem, let's put this in our movie !" nonetheless ?
* ''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.
* Only a trailer has been released, but the film "2016" looks to embody this. The plot appears to revolve around two Xenomorphs who arrive in the African nation of Ghana, where they throw cars on women, kick babies into the sky, and perform kung-fu kicks on innocent pedestrians, while a guy keeps yelling, "Twenty Sixteen!" every five seconds. Oh yeah, and the [[The Terminator|T-800]] shows up for some reason. The whole thing appears to have been made on a budget of ten dollars, and filmed on a street. See it for yourself [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYmFqEkCGQ here]
** For that matter, any trailer made by these guys 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.
* ''Starballz'' 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... astonding but it is absolutely hilarious. Especially since you can make a brain-killing drinking game by naming all the references.
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