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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]]'''''}}

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* One French website is entirely dedicated to "nanars", i.e. hilariously bad films. [http://www.nanarland.com You can take a look.]

** [[Captain Obvious|"Visits? That would indicate visitors."]]

{{quote| "Inspector Clay is dead... murdered! And '''somebody's''' responsible!"}}

{{quote| ''We're the Tur-tles''<br />

''You can count on us!'' }}

*** 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!"

* ''[[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.

* 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.''

** ''[[Pod People]]''. If all of humanity could love as [[Messianic Archetype|Trumpy]] does, then there would be world peace. And many many potatoes.

** ''[[Space Mutiny]]''. Gave us the trope name "[[Railing Kill]]", special effects lifted wholesale from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'', and a host of goofy nicknames for protagonist David Ryder ("We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese!")

** ''[[Catalina Caper]]'', a movie featuring a 3-minute animated opening credits sequence about a water-breathing Frenchman, his relationship with a mermaid, and a shark's attempts to part them. Unfortunately, this had nothing to do with the plot of the movie. It also has an extended Little Richard cameo.

** "[[Puma Man]]! He flies like a moron!"

** ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'', one of the stupidest films ever made. From the theme song to the ending credits...well, it's like a gruesome train accident or industrial disaster. You just can't look away. Apparently, the entire film was shot in a re-purposed aircraft hangar either on Long Island or environs. Oh...last but not least, [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=428349265473317718 the polar bear and the Martian robot must be seen to be believed].

{{quote| '''Martian''': The people of Earth do not realize that Santa Claus has been kidnapped by Martians.<br />

** "One more sacrifice before we go?" "Alright, but this is ''[[The Final Sacrifice]]''"

** ''[[Time Chasers]]'' - food court...''OF THE FUTURE!''

* The independent film studio Troma Entertainment specializes in films that are [[So Bad It's Good]] ''on purpose'', the best known of which is ''[[The Toxic Avenger]]'' and its sequels.

** And now there's a stage musical version! Can a radioactive mutant find love in a world that hates and fears him!?

** ''[[The Scorpion King]]''. Probably the most [[Cliché Storm|cliché-laden movie in history]], but still watchable.

** ''[[Krull]]''. A critical and financial disaster that probably contains some of the best British actors available at the time. James Horner's film score is also highly regarded.

** ''[[Hawk the Slayer]].'' Classic 1980s [[Fantasy]] "epic". Wow, it's hilariously bad.

** The terrible 80s gem "Time Barbarians". {{spoiler|The main character pimp slaps the villain with the villain's dismembered hand.}}

* 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.]] The very first movie, if you get the [[Subbing Versus Dubbing|sub instead of the dub,]] is excellent.

* ''[[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!"

* ''[[Reefer Madness (Film)|Reefer Madness]]''. It helps if you have smoked marijuana at least once in your life (and inhaled).

** One hilarious quote from the movie: A tough biker has just crushed a Klown's tricycle. The Klown retaliates by putting on a pair of boxing gloves. "What are you gonna do, knock my block off?" And yes, the Klown does just that.

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

* ''Hercules in New York'', Starring a 22 year old [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] in his first film role. He is, at best, [[The Unintelligible|marginally fluent in English]] and given a ridiculous amount of speaking lines. In addition, Zeus's lightning is bent rebar painted white, and Hur-ka-leez's fight with the "bear" is simply hilarious.

** Plus you can hear the background traffic noise in the "Mount Olympus" scenes, as it was shot in a public park.

* ''Ghost Fever'', starring Sherman Hemsley. Hard to find, but absolutely worth the search.

** Fortunately, it's now on Netflix streaming.

** 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.

** 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.

** 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.

** To give Jordan some credit, as bad as his acting is, you have to remember that, for the most part, he's supposed to be interacting with something that isn't even there.

*** That, and from the perspective of a ten-year-old, Jordan's stretch-dunk from half-court was the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|most awesome thing he'd ever seen]].

* The DVD compilation ''Sleazy Slashers'' has six movies, each of which fall into this trope. Maybe not ''Back Woods'', though.

* If you want the best unintentional comedy of the 1990s, see the dubbed version of the Hong-Kong-Funded-Japanese-Manga-Adaptation called ''[[The Story of Ricky]]'' (''Riki-oh''), which is best described as "''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' Meets ''[[The Itchy and Scratchy Show]]'', starring Kenshiro of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', ''live action.''"

* ''[[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!"

** This classic bit of dialogue:

{{quote| '''Haley:''' [http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}nAJk_gdXwrs "AHHHH! HE TOUCHED MY BREAST!"]}}

*** 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.]

** 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''.

** The scene of rotating earth backwards in the otherwise flawless first movie of the series definitely qualifies.

* ''[[Hackers]]''. A completely clueless look at hacker subculture that still manages to be amusing. Practically defines the [[Everything Is Online]] trope and the Hollywood version of the [[Playful Hacker]]. Little known fact: cracking systems always involves [[Hollywood Hacking|flying through a 3D environment filled with floating incomprehensible algebraic equations and psychedelic backdrops]].

* 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?)

** ''[[Punctuated for Emphasis|AND IT IS]]'' '''[[Big Word Shout|GLORIOUS!]]'''

* 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.

{{quote| "Luckily, the script writers realized what they were working with and wrote some of the cheesiest, most badass dialogue in any movie ever. I don't know how they did it, but every single line in the movie is completely corny but awesome at the same time. This results in the audience getting a good laugh in the fifteen minutes of the movie when people aren't getting their arms ripped off or aliens aren't being exploded into pieces and spewing green fluid all over the place." }}

* A certain Asian grindhouse gem of a movie called ''Ninja Wars'' is a fantastic example of this trope. The plot involves a prophecy: "He who wins the heart of Lady Ukyodaio [sic] will hold the world in his hands" and an evil Japanese warlord concocting an aphrodisiac using the famous '''SPIDER''' teakettle to further his aims. The movie then veers off wildly and confusingly every which way, including several fight scenes involving the Five Devil Monks, one of whom vomits acid to attack, a plan to put Ukyodaio's severed head on the hero's girlfriend's body to fulfill the prophesy, and more hilariously bad dubbing than you can shake a stick at. The movie ends {{spoiler|With a [[Crucified Hero Shot]] in a rather confusing case of [[Faux Symbolism]].}} The dubbing is universally terrible.

* ''Ready to Rumble'', a movie made to capitalize on the [[Professional Wrestling]] phenomenon of the late '90s thanks to the [[WWE|WWF]]'s [[Attitude Era]], was produced '''with their competition!''' [[WCW]] used this to try to regain their popularity after [[Memetic Mutation|Mick Foley put their fans' asses in the WWF's seats]], and boy did it bomb! The only redeeming qualities about this movie is the unintentional humor and future WCW Champion David Arquette attempting the Spear.

* ''Sheena'', where Tanya Roberts stars as a [[Faux Action Girl]] who rides around [[Darkest Africa]] on a horse with zebra stripes painted on, while an implausible plot and [[Special Effect Failure|bad special effects]] happen all around her. Roberts' nude scene compensates for her lack of acting skills.

** There are no words that can adequately describe the horror of this film; after you recover from the numbing shock of it all you can do is laugh endlessly.

** 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.)

* 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."

** "WHY YOU EYEIN' MAH LEMON DRINK?"

* ''Liquid Sky'', a 1982 midnight movie involving aliens who feed on endorphins released from heroin and sex. It stars Margret, a cocaine-addicted fashion model who "kills with her cunt". The clothing and soundtrack is based off the trashiest parts of the early 80s, complete with glow in the dark makeup.

* ''[[Starcrash]]'' is an Italian Star Wars rip-off that is just mind numbingly horrible in every single way: acting, continuity, props, special effects, plot, it even has the robot sidekick. It truly is so bad it's good. Or at least endlessly funny. An early appearance of David Hasselhoff. And Marjoe Gortner with a lightsaber.

{{quote| Yor's world, he's the man!<br />

Yor's world, he's the man! }}

* ''Torque'' - a movie for those who thought ''The Fast And The Furious'' was too highbrow and grounded in reality. Hypnotically stupid. That Ice Cube is the best actor in the entire movie (by far) is just gravy.

** Crystal meth, bike fights, and motorcycles that move so fast, they can ignite gasoline from '''DRIVING OVER IT'''. To put it in a word: [[Ansem Retort|"retardalicious"]].

* 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.

** 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?".

* [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|"Gameraaaaaaaa! Gameraaaaa! Gamera is really neat! Gamera is filled with meat! We've been eating Gameraaaa!]] Long story short, the ''[[Gamera]]'' films of the 1960s had [[Special Effects Failure|even worse effects than the Godzilla films of the 70s]], really bad dubbing, and some of the most ludicrous plots ever (For example, the ending of the first movie has {{spoiler|Gamera being tricked into a giant spaceship and launched into outer space.}}). This doesn't stop the movies from being cheesy fun for people of all ages.

* ''[[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.

** It could also be argued as a deliberately over-the-top [[Refuge in Cool]].

** Also contributing to the effect is the crippling multiple-genre-disorder ''Doomsday'' suffers from: Epidemic Movie --> Search-and-Rescue Team Movie --> Dystopian Apocalypse Movie --> Zombie Movie --> Swords & Sorcery Movie --> Car-Racing Movie --> It's-All-A-Government-Conspiracy Movie, and that's not even the half of it.

* ''[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Overlords_of_the_UFO_1976.aspx Overlords of the UFO]'' is a rare [[So Bad It's Good]] ''documentary'', though we do use that term lightly.

* ''Heartbeeps'', a somewhat obscure 1981 movie about two robots - played by [[Andy Kaufman]] and Bernadette Peters - who fall in love and build a child (whose beeps and boops were provided by Jerry Garcia). And it's scored by ''John Williams.'' Watchable only for the gorgeous costumes, Stan Winston's Oscar-nominated makeup work, and the excellent soundtrack.

* ''Fright Night''. A classic '80s vampire movie featuring Chris Sarandon as a vampire, lots of Special Effects and a wacky character named [[Meaningful Name|Evil Ed]]. It also features a character from ''Ghostbusters''; the rejected librarian ghost puppet.

* The ''oeuvre'' of one [[Roger Corman]] generally falls into this category.

* ''Deathstalker II'' was an over-the-top parody of the first ''Deathstalker'' movie. You don't have to see ''Deathstalker'' to appreciate ''Deathstalker II''; it's a great parody of adventurer movies with silly plots and premises, bad acting, and bizarre scenes that don't match up with the rest of the movie. But then they went and made a third just like the first, ignoring that the second existed.

** Oh, the first ''Deathstalker'' belongs here too. Where else can you get a movie with an immortal guy being killed, a random fight scene in a brothel where everyone pauses to let Deathstalker and the immortal guy chat before going right back to fighting, and the witch who Deathstalker tells not to speak in riddles, although everything she says is perfectly understandable?

* ''[[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.

* ''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!].

* ''Fantasy Mission Force'' is a completely incoherent mess that tries to be a war movie about a band of mercenaries trying to rescue Allied generals (including [[Abraham Lincoln]]) from the Axis, who took them to Canada. Just watch the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BfMgEa40tY restaurant scene].<br /><br />[[Jackie Chan]] himself gets about fifteen minutes of screen time as a minor character, who apparently wins at the end after all the main characters die. The movie includes such gems as sudden and inexplicable barbarian raiders, the Great American General Abraham Lincoln, and the deep and startling realization that a Chinese actor will never ever make a convincing Scotsman, even if you do dress him in a kilt. Watching the dubbed version just makes it all better.

* The whole concept is parodied in the French movie ''La Cité de la Peur'' (The City of Fear): the horror movie ''Red is Dead'' is a textbook example of [[So Bad It's Good]] and critics hate it with a passion. Then someone dressed up as ''Red'' 's serial killer starts hacking projectionists to bits with a hammer and a sickle, and it's instant glory. The star and publicist of the movie get to walk on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.

* ''Dragon Wars'', also known as ''[[D-War]].'' Lots of convoluted Korean mythology, plot holes as far as the eye can see. It's unintentionally hilarious.

* ''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.

* ''Berry Gordy's [[The Last Dragon]]''. The Hero is a Bruce Lee fanboy and the main villain claims to be "The Shogun Of Harlem". And then there's [[Ki Attacks|The Glow]]. How can you '''not''' love this movie!?

* ''[[Stan Lee]]'s Harpies'': Bad acting, ridiculous plot, and the most cheesiest special effect in town. Screams TV movie.

** The Romanians of several centuries ago in the film somehow speak American-accented English.

** Most [[Sci Fi Channel|Syfy]] Original Movies in general shoot for the So Bad It's Good Trope.

** Also, it tried really, really hard to jump-scare the audience with bedroom decor. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc7ZaZz4CoU Lamp DUN!]

{{quote| "[[And This Is For|This is for Sand! This is for me! And this...is for MUFFIN!]]"}}

* ''[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]]...So yeah...[[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|fool!]]

* ''[[The Room]]'', which is supposedly "the best worst movie ever made", dubbed by one ''Entertainment Weekly'' reviewer "the Citizen Kane of bad movies." [[The Onion]] explains it [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-room,25723/ here]. ''[[The Room]]'' supposedly has more than just a bad plot and bad acting - its full of failed drama and has terrible focus and transitions. It not clear if the director did so on purpose.

* ''[[Grease 2]]'' makes the first one look like ''Les Miserables'' by comparison. Among the changes: an inferior script, much less angst (and most of what is there qualifies as Wangst), far less actual sex, much more singing about sex. It's a good time!

* The obscure Sharon Stone film ''Scissors'' 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}}.

** [[Bat Deduction|The bizarre methods of figuring out which villains are involved]] are roll-on-the-floor hilarious ("It happened on the sea...C! For Catwoman!") as are the amazing speed at which they figure out the riddles ("A sparrow with a machine gun!"). And the dehydrated pirates

{{quote| "I never thought it would be the bees. They were always our friends!"}}

** This movie is [[So Bad It's Good]] even by some critics' standards (at least those who knew not to [[Took the Bad Film Seriously|take the film seriously]]). For example, Alfonso Duralde of MSNBC, who generally doesn't like ''anything'' save very few exceptions, said the movie was "both entertainingly ridiculous and ridiculously entertaining."

* The ''Springtime For Hitler'' play ([[Springtime for Hitler|that one]]) from ''[[The Producers]]''.

* ''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.

*** 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").

* The 2005 [[Sy Fy]] channel original movie ''Alien Apocalypse'', starring [[Bruce Campbell]]. Astronauts return to Earth after 40 years in suspended animation to find it conquered by alien termites who have enslaved humanity to... harvest wood? Cue [[La Résistance]], cheesy special effects, Dr. Ivan kicking ass, bad acting, and lots of green ichor.

** Nearly everything on the [[Sy Fy]] channel is this trope. And what a great channel it is!

* ''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 [[Sci Fi Channel|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.

* You can watch... ''[[Suspiria]]''... you can laugh... at ''[[Suspiria]]''... but you cannot escape the bizarre silliness that is...''[[Suspiria]]''!

** You gotta love that [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Goblin score]] though.

** ''Jason X'' easily takes the cake. When a slasher movie can best be summarized as "Like the previous 9, but [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]", you know you've got something good before you even start watching.

 

* ''[http://twitpic.com/3ux7t Galaxina]'' arguably does this on purpose...when you make ''AVERY FRIKKIN' SCHREIBER'' a starship captain, you've already decided you aren't making the next ''[[Star Wars]]''.

* The German movie ''Die unglaublichen Abenteuer des Guru Jakob'' (''The Incredible Adventures of Jakob the Guru''). Starring German ex-child star Tommi Ohrner as the [[High School Hustler]] (wannabe) [[The Danza|Tommi]] and Israeli Zachi Noy, veteran of the soft-sex comedy film series ''Lemon Popsicle'', as the titular Jakob Feierabend, who spent his time [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|getting fired from various jobs]] and being rejected by girls, until he is mistaken for an Indian guru, like Baghwan, by the people of an Upper Bavarian village, who are looking for somebody to buy the old castle of the village, and soon unwillingly starts [[Church of Happyology|his own cult]], with Tommi as his manager. Add porn star Sibylle Rauch as [[Ms. Fanservice]] and [[Ethnic Scrappy|a Chinese restaurant owner]] for [[Chop Sockey]] kung fu action and [[Unfortunate Implications]]. It's like a mixture of slapstick, sex comedy, [[wikipedia:Heimatfilm|Bavarian Heimatfilm]], youth movie and "let's pretend we warn people of the danger of strange sects"-film. Oh, and the repeatedly played song "Hey, ho, nochmal Schwein gehabt" (Hey, ho, got lucky again).

** A lot of critics made the mistake of thinking it was meant to be a serious film, [[Comically Missing the Point|unfortunately.]] Given how over-the-top the gore factor is, one wonders ''how'' they could have thought that, but as a result even some of the ''reviews'' are hilarious.

** There is a brief argument about whether one of the characters, a Jew, would come back as one of the [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|Nazi zombies]]...

* ''The Conqueror''. All you need to hear is "John Wayne is Genghis Khan" to know that this is going to be hilarious.

** "SaaaAAAyyyy ... you're beautiful in your wrath!"

** And [[One-Scene Wonder|Gene Kelly]] showing that despite being in his eighties that he is still one of the best dancers in Hollywood.

* ''[[Deadly Prey]]''. A Vietnam vet gets kidnapped by garbage men stripped down to his pants and has to survive being hunted by mercenaries. Rambo meets Running man minus any sort of budget.

** Mike Danton cuts a man's arm of and beats him around the head with his own severed limb and then finishes by scalping him.

*** The best insults are directed and the evil female such as "kiss my ass", "Bitch". And a personal favourite "Fuck You!" before knocking her out cold with one hand.

** Ron would later go on to win the Worst Newcomer [[Golden Raspberry Awards|Razzie]] for 1988 (as "[[The Danza|Himself]]").

* The 1995 film "Mosquito" with Gunnar Hansen is hands down one of the funniest movies ever made. Unfortunately, it's supposed to be a horror movie.

* ''[[Deuce Bigalow]]: Male Gigolo''. 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 movie ''Runaway'' is a really bad movie set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] involving Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons and acid spitting spider robots. How could you go wrong?

* ''[[Shadow Man]]'', produced and written by and starring [[Steven Seagal]]. The movie is a hilarious patchwork of badly shot exposition, cheaply done action scenes, over-the-top terrible acting and the ineffable Seagal himself, playing himself. Himself as an ultra-sexy, uber-badass, martial artist, special agent, MacGyver-esque business genius. Naturally. Not one to share the limelight, he decided against hiring decent actors. It's awesome!

* ''[[Streets of Fire]]''. Willem Defoe looks like a vampire.

* ''[[Big Bully]]''. It may have Tom Arnold in it, but his character Roscoe, the eponymous [[The Bully|bully]] and his gold tooth on the other hand... And the antics between him and lead character [[Butt Monkey|David Leary]] that occur as adults.

* A little-known gem from 1972 called "Blood Freak" is quite possibly the world's only anti-drug mutant-monster horror film with a Christian message. (I'll let you go back and read that again.) It's the saga of a Vietnam Vet who gets introduced to pot by a barely-legal cutie, gets instantly hooked, then starts a job at a local turkey farm where he is asked to eat some experimental turkey meat one day (for quality-control purposes). The hormones in the turkey meat react with the drugs in his system to turn him into a turkey-headed monster who goes on a three-block rampage, killing other addicts and drinking their blood (because, see, that's the only way he can get high now) -- but then at the end he is saved by Faith In Jesus. The production values themselves also make it look like the budget consisted of about twelve cents and a handful of pocket lint.

* The 1955 film ''Picnic'' is one of the great unintentional comedies, embracing every cliche about [[The Fifties]], highlighted by dialogue that's pure camp ("Neeeewoooolllaaah!"), a melodramatic score, and a middle-aged William Holden playing a supposed [[Chick Magnet|sexy drifter]] in his early 20s.

* The film ''Killjoy'' is a prime example of this. A killer clown offers drugs to "gangstas" in an effort to entice them into the back of his magical ice cream truck so he can kill them when they are transported to an abandoned warehouse. The special effects are laughable, the acting is terrible, the plot is ludicrous, and the whole film is so bad it is awesome.

* ''The Swinger,'' a 1966 vehicle for the vivacious Ann-Margret that reunites her with ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]''/''[[Viva Las Vegas]]'' director George Sidney, is one of the earliest attempts at a "sexy" comedy. But it's so dated, [[Values Dissonance|sexist]] and [[Camp|kitschy]] it winds up being the rarest of cinematic beasts: a comedy that's only funny [[So Unfunny It's Funny|when it's not trying to be]].

* ''Dead Heat'' is the best [[Overly Narrow Superlative|80s zombie buddy cop action horror comedy]] you will ever see. A cop investigating jewelry store heists (performed by zombies) is killed and brought back from the dead and has 12 hours before he melts into goo. His partner is [[Joe Piscopo]] whose entire existence is dedicated to terrible one-liners. [[They Fight Crime]]. It also includes bad acting, obvious continuity errors, a plot that makes little sense and reanimated Chinese food.

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

** Would it be out of line to say [[Bollywood]] - particularly Bollywood action flicks - just ''runs'' on this trope?

* If the [[YouTube]] comments are any indication, the "educational" film ''[[Unarius The Arrival]]'' 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.

* 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.]

* ''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."

* ''[[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."''

* ''Fahrenheit 451'' struggled to have anything to do with the book, instead focusing on a romance that didn't have much to do with the rest of the plot, which alone would have made it just sort of bad, or even possibly okay. Add in the special effects, though, particularly the amazing jetpack rivercrossing scene towards the end, and it suddenly becomes ''hilarious''.

* ''Deadfall'', a trashy 1993 noir/comedy film that would be terrible if not for [[Nicolas Cage]]'s [[Large Ham|hilarious overacting]]. His delicious [[Ham and Cheese]] performance is considered to be among his best performances not to be taken seriously. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZhciDUvnlY&feature=related here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1fEnhawu_k&feature=related here] to see just how bad the acting is.

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdEoyNi5I9w Laser Mission]''

* Both of [[Robert Rodriguez]]'s latter two kids' flicks falls squarely in here:

** ''[[Spy Kids]] 3D: Game Over''. The first two ''[[Spy Kids]]'' films were fun if simplistic kids' action movies. This one, however, was simply the pits. It features lazy 3D effects, an unlikeable-to-the-point-of-absurdity supporting cast (the only one who isn't a [[Jerkass]] is the protagonist's girlfriend, who bizarrely {{spoiler|turns out to be [[The Mole]]}}), [[Plot Coupon|Plot Coupons]] appearing out of nowhere, toads on pogo sticks, giant robot monkeys, a cowboy ''branding'' a giant robot monkey, Ricardo Montalban in [[Powered Armor]], Elijah Wood appearing out of nowhere just to die, [[Sylvester Stallone]] as ''a [[Mad Scientist]]'', and a ''very'' unfortunate hairstyle from Daryl Sabara. [[Oh Crap|And there is a fourth one (yet without Sabara and Vega, due to them getting too old.)]]

* ''Ninja Terminator''. Richard Harrison communicating with the Ninja Empire via a Garfield phone. "I must reform the Ninja Empire!"

* While the film itself has more than a few unironic fans and thus doesn't really belong here, there are probably very few who would dispute the inclusion of Hayden Christensen's ''acting'' in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' on this page.

* ''Netforce'' features the most horrible technical jargon and computer mumbo-jumbo a script writer can come up with while maintaining a high degree of [[Critical Research Failure]] of how computers, the internet and hacking works. And just like a big rig collision on the information superway, it's impossible to look away!

* 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 ?

* 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.

* ''[[The Blair Witch Project|Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2]]'' makes no sense, has nothing to do with the original, has unlikable characters and a tonne of unanswered questions. However, there's something oddly... charming about it.

* Back in the 90s [[Archie Comics]] made a [[Made for TV]] movie based on the cartoon named ''Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again''. One of the scenes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBojt6fDVvw features a middle aged Jughead attempting to dance to hiphop].. It's as awkward as you'd expect.

* Most certainly [[The Boondock Saints]], with the OTT performance from Willem Dafoe and the [[Cluster F-Bomb]]s and all.