Best so-bad-its-good films

Braindead (a.k.a. Dead Alive) is one of my favourite movies ever. It's disgustingly gory and completely over-the-top. But so well-made and entertaining.

Also special mention to Who Killed Captain Alex? An action film made in Uganda on an almost non-existent budget, and with hilariously cheap CGI. The film is loads of fun though, and is really funny, especially the video joker.

The entire film is on Youtube.

Braindead is a work of genius - I'd rather watch it than trudge through Jackson's interminable LOTR films. Also it's largely a tongue in cheek comedy so I don't think it belongs here.

Orgasmo those South Park boys are good at laughing at themselves

Bad Lieutenant

Redemption of a Rogue

Jaws 2, 3 & 4

Bad day for the Cut

I Went Down

Thought Bad Day for the Cut was also good enough. Definitely wouldn't put it, Bad Lieutenant, Jaws 2 or I Went Down as "so bad they're good", they're just decent movies.

I think this is pretty close to so bad its good territory but its scuppered by being mostly boring, the highlight is an unintentionally hilarious fight scene in a high rise car park from about 18:50 mark. I've met the "star" and director of this masterpiece and he definetly didn't make this with a nod and a wink. Very Tommy Wiseau-ish character.

All of the Sharknado movies

I certainly wouldn't call 'Carnival of Souls' a So-Bad-It's-Good film. It's low budget, for sure, but it's still a good horror movie. It's amateurish in its production and a bit in need of a second take or two in more than a few places. But that could be said for Romero's classic 'Night of the Living Dead', even if Romero's film is a vastly superior effort.

However, the problem with most of these So-Bad-It's-Good films is that they're just bad, end of story. They're more entertaining to talk about that to actually sit down to watch. Films such as 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' or 'Zaat!' are legendary in their So-Bad-It's-Good status, that most people understand them to be a laugh riot. But they're really not that funny for much of their running time. They're just crap.

And these days you have dickhead producers trying to corner a market in So-Bad-It's-Good and turn out dross like those rubbish Mega Shark efforts that are just tedious. These films set out to be deliberately bad, which kinda defeats the purpose. Bad movies are that way because the film makers are incompetent, not because the producers set out to make a joke movie.

But if I was to recommend a So-Bad-It's-Good film, it would probably be something like 'Space Mutiny' or 'Megaforce'. These movies aren't atrocious in the way that something like 'Zombie 90 Extreme Pestilence' is but they're actually a bit of fun to watch. And 'Megaforce' was even made on a pretty substantial budget for the time. Or perhaps some Canon films from the 80's, like 'Death Wish 3', which ends up being ludicrous and genuinely amusing.