11 Bad-Good Horror Movies You Need To See
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No genre exemplifies Bad-Good like the horror genre. Sure, there are a few action movies that are unintentionally funny, but for the most part all other movies are just outright good or outright bad. Horror films often pride themselves on the fact that they're awful, and that, honestly, is why I love them. Sometimes being awful can be an art. Here are eleven of the worst-best horrible wonderful retarded awesome movies ever made, what makes them bad, what makes them good and why you ought to watch them.  WHY IT'S BAD This is one Peter Jackson's early films, back before he began winning Oscars for The Lord of the Rings and being the size of an elephant. Believe it or not, Jackson used to make schlocky zombie films (as well as unwatchable puppet movies like Meet the Feebles) instead of epics about little hairy-footed people and CGI-fests about giant apes. Actually, come to think of it, maybe it's not all that hard to believe. Still, this movie is about a thousandth of the budget of Jackson's later films, and it shows.WHY IT'S GOOD This zombie movie is schlocky in the best sense of the word. There's so much blood and gore that it's beyond ridiculous, to the point of being laugh-out-loud funny. At no point does Dead Alive take itself too seriously, particularly when the best character of all time, Father McGruder, is introduced and says the following:  WHY YOU NEED TO SEE IT Just to behold the greatness and awfulness of Peter Jackson before studios started puking money at him.ALSO CHECK OUT... Bad Taste, Jackson's very first movie, a gross-out extravaganza about aliens. Featuring a young, thin Jackson himself as a guy who loses the back of his skull. WHY IT'S BAD Let me count the ways. Not only is it the third sequel to a film that didn't need any sequels to begin with, it also happens to feature exactly zero chainsaw deaths. Keep in mind that the film is titled Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. No chainsaw deaths. Add to that the fact that the only ostensible plot twist is all but given away on the DVD cover (Spoiler Alert! Matthew McConaughey is crazy!) and that for some inexplicable reason Leatherface has decided to become a transvestite, and you've got one hell of a stinker.WHY IT'S GOOD It stars Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey as Scared High School Girl and Crazy Tow Truck Man, respectively. Not only that, but these two very young, desperate soon-to-be-stars are just trying their damndest to put something of value into this movie. The result? Some glorious overacting by everyone in the cast, especially one scene where Crazy Tow Truck Man gaudily howls after Scared High School Girl as if he were confused for a moment and thought he was in a werewolf movie.WHY YOU NEED TO SEE IT To see two now A-listers slumming it in their early careers in what must still serve as a face-reddening embarrassment every time it comes up in conversation.ALSO CHECK OUT... Leprechaun, which most assuredly still makes Jennifer Aniston have night terrors. WHY IT'S BAD Because, as a parody, it fails completely. Made at the tail end of Leslie Nielsen's period of actually making decently funny movies, Repossessed was the beginning of his descent into being involved with embarrassing garbage like 2001: A Space Travesty, with its idea of humor being a priest training for an exorcism by boxing a fast bag and exorcising the devil with rock and roll. That's not funny, it's just...kinda dumb. And including Linda Blair as the possessed housewife (essentially reprising her character from The Exorcist) is not cute or clever -- it's simply a reminder that this movie is a failed parody of a movie that was actually good. WHY IT'S GOOD Because, despite the fact that it completely falls flat in terms of being intentionally funny, it still succeeds in being unintentionally funny. Leslie Nielsen's mugging performance is so awful that it's actually kind of endearing, and the possession special effects are actually laughably worse than they were 17 years earlier. Linda Blair's attempts a humor are sort of cringingly entertaining as well, and the inclusion of a character who's a stereotype of a stereotype (Ned Beatty's televangelist) is some kind of weird meta-funny.WHY YOU NEED TO SEE IT Because this movie taught me what an aglet is -- they're the plastic things on the ends of shoelaces. (Linda Blair's character is named Nancy Aglet.) WHY IT'S BAD Because it basically all takes place in a warehouse basement, for one thing. Also, there's a scene where some punks go to a graveyard and dance that makes me embarrassed not only for the punks, but for any dead people that they may be dancing on. The punks, also, are the most stereotypical teenagers you can imagine, in the worst possible way. Also, the explanation for the zombies' existence (chemical spill causes rain that raises the dead) defies the zombie movie convention of just having no explanation (there's a reason for that -- the explanations, like this one, are usually incredibly stupid).WHY IT'S GOOD It has the coolest zombies ever. Forget 28 Days Later, this was the original fast-zombie movie. Not only that, they talk. In fact, to my knowledge, this is the only zombie movie that actually features the zombies saying "Braaaaaains!" which may make it worth seeing in itself. Also, there's a scene in which, after the zombies have killed and eaten a group of paramedics, a zombie grabs the CB radio in the ambulance and insists that the dispatcher "Send...more...paramedics!"WHY YOU NEED TO SEE IT Braaaaaaaaains!ALSO CHECK OUT... Return of the Living Dead 3, the greatest zombie love story ever told. |
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Ah yes, Amityville II... The scene where the 'demonic presence' follows him up the stairs is absolutely the most needlessly slow and lingering chase scenes EVER.
How can you talk about unfunny s**t parodies like repossesed and have gigantic banners for disaster movie on the first page?
oh my god, the evil dead tree-rape scene.... I was watching literaly just like "they arent going to...oh apparently they really are going to go there"
How could you forget SLiTHER??? That is like the king of modern bad-good horror movies.
The 2005 version of Amityville, starring Ryan Reynolds, is actually pretty awesome.
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Why is Lifeforce not on this list? That film is batshit insane, full of female nudity, Patrick frakkin' Stewart's in it, and (like Serenity) it turns into a zombie movie at the end just because it can. Also, three words: Steve 'Mancock' Railsback.
Don't miss "Trance/The Eternal" (goes by either name) with Christopher Walken as an Irish guy who "defrosts" a "druid witch" in his basement. Bizarre, terrible, and hilarious.
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Plan 9 from outer space... there's nothing good about it. at all. it's so bad it kinda divides by zero and becomes awesome
Favorite lines in House of the Dead:
"But why do you want to be immortal?"
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My friend ran into Clint Howard at a bar once and was having a good conversation with him until my friend mentioned House of the Dead at which point Howard sort of cringed and walked away.
Clearly the sign of an excellent piece of film.
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"Dead Alive", "The Return of the Living Dead", "Them!", and "The Evil Dead" are some of my absolute favorite movies. You have great taste in cheesy horror flicks. =]
The tree rape scene in Evil Dead is one of my favourite scenes in movie history.
'Manos: The Hands of Fate' has got to be one of the most unbelievably horrible, yet at the same time hilarious, scary movies. Seriously! One of the lead actors was high the entire time--the producers said weed made him act better (ie: more prone to epileptic seizures).
unknownyeah, Evil Dead 1 is pretty much the most awesome and underapreciated movie of all time. I am one of those who think its outright good-good in several ways. 1) Interesting camera angles 2) doing so much with so little 3) Bruce Campbell at 20 years old
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