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After looking at the "Worst Film" thread, i thought I'd start one with films that are so bad, they're good.

My vote, and I genuinely love this film, is for "Psychomania" Fantastic British horror, which provides far more laughs than scares. Brilliant soundtrack by John Cameron too.

A friend of mine has recommended "The Room", which is supposed to be brilliantly awful (awfully brilliant), but I've yet to pluck up the courage to watch it.

 

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

little miss sunshine:rofl:

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

toyota man wrote:

little miss sunshine:rofl:

 

But that's a *great* film, nothing bad about it!

 

I vote for The Hunchback Hairball of L.A.  Smile

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

Atomic Twister. Brilliant, if only for brightening the otherwise boring afternoon in work which was spent predicting what was about to happen in the next scene of the movie, and being right 99% of the time. 

It's a movie about a Twister or two hitting a nuclear power plant. Possibly written by a 5 year-old.

As it says on Wikipedia:

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The film has been heavily criticized for having no level of realism compared to an actual nuclear reactor

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

Star Crash (purchased after someone nominated it as the worst film of all time in the other thread  excellent! )

 

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

BenLaw wrote:

toyota man wrote:

little miss sunshine:rofl:

 

But that's a *great* film, nothing bad about it!

 

Entirely agree.

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

Any tacky Spaghetti Western. I love the out of synch lip movement/sound.

There was one, can't recall the title, starred Lee Van Cleef (I think), it was meant to be 1850 something and they were resting their horses in the scrubland. In the corner of the screen, very faintly, I noticed a very modern 'high speed' train whizzing past. Priceless.

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

Isn't there a film about a tyre?  puzzled

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Great thread!

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus,

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Pretty much any of the giant mutant animal films on the SyFy channel rockin out

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

I watched an old British horror the other day called 'The Vault Of Horror', with Tom Baker, Terry-Thomas, & Curt Jurgens among others. 5 short stories of men all telling tales of visions of their demise.

It was pretty bad, but compelling with it.

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

Big Chris wrote:

I watched an old British horror the other day called 'The Vault Of Horror', with Tom Baker, Terry-Thomas, & Curt Jurgens among others. 5 short stories of men all telling tales of visions of their demise.

It was pretty bad, but compelling with it.

I watched that too, I must admit it was cheesy to say the least but I was compelled to watch it to the end........which was an anti climax.

Still my vote goes to Avatar.

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bigboss wrote:

Isn't there a film about a tyre?  puzzled

 

Rubber.  I thought it was hilarious, but many thought it was a one trick pony that gets boring after 15 minutes.

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'Horrible Bosses'.  A terrible yarn but worth it for Jennifer Aniston's nympho dentist and the 'hand job' guy...

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

eggontoast wrote:

Still my vote goes to Avatar.

I'm afraid that one goes in the Films that are so bad category as far as I'm concerned.

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RE: Films that are so bad, they're good

professorhat wrote:

Star Crash (purchased after someone nominated it as the worst film of all time in the other thread  excellent! )

 

I think I spotted your admiration for this in the other thread, which gave me the inspiration for this one.

I just checked out some reviews of Starcrash, and it looks perfect for so bad it's good, I might well have to buy it too.

I highly recommend Psychomania. Beryl Reid, George Sanderson, Nicky Henderson, Dot Cotton (from Eastenders) and Bill Pertwee, you can't go wrong.

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Paul Hobbs wrote:

bigboss wrote:

Isn't there a film about a tyre?  puzzled

 

Rubber.  I thought it was hilarious, but many thought it was a one trick pony that gets boring after 15 minutes.

I bought it, I watched it, I fell asleep during it, and then I sold it.

It was trying a little too hard to be clever for me, and would definitely fit into the so bad, it's good category, but isn't that what the director was trying for? I'm still confused.

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