The scene where the cops run over the monkey deserves a place in bad movie history.

I think they spent most of the lighting and sound budget on getting Joe Estevez to sit behind a desk for a few hours. Features James Adams Tucker, Neil Delama, Don Stroud and Michelle Bauer. This movie only has two IMDb reviews, a 1 ("god awful") and a 10 (liked the occasional boobs).

Random car alert: a Hyundai Excel, Hyundai’s first model introduced to the United States.

As bad movies go, Eegah is in rare company. It’s not just bad, it’s legendarily bad. It’s the kind of movie that gets dug up every few years by people who can’t believe it’s real. Its presence on several “Worst Films Ever Made” lists is secure, its 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating proudly displayed like a fossilized footprint in cinematic muck.

Its greatest triumph? Providing Mystery Science Theater 3000 with one of its most beloved episodes—because without riffing robots, watching Eegah straight might actually kill you.

Eegah (1962) Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, played by Richard Kiel, who goes on an expected rampage.

To clarify I don't want just any Nollywood movie. I'm not looking for films which happen to have low production values, minimal budgets, and local actors but still convey intentional and meaningful stories to their target audience. I'm looking for those which are truly insane and incomprehensible. Any recommendations?

So bad it’s good 80’s Terminator knock off, would strongly recommend to anyone who has never seen it. It’s part of the £60 Arrow Enter the Video Store Video Vengeance box, but I guess that was the only way we were ever going to get it.

Been trying to trim down and build up my B-Movie collection with absolute bangers. Curious what you would recommend and make your top 5.

Edit: I took everyone's mentions from two different posts and created this list of the top 15 for anybody who is just looking for recommendations.

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How the f*ck did this crap-tastic movie ever see the light of day? Vivendi Universal picked it up for distribution! It's worse than most Ben Affleck movies! The chick in this scene was Wire from season 2 of the VH1 reality show Flavor of Love! She was voted off Flavor of Love 2 by the 2nd episode! This movie's so bad it'd be perfect for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000! It sucks! I hate it! Like the hot AF groupie chicks said in Cameron Crowe's movie Almost Famous, "Opie Must Die!!"

The hangout movie genre can claim many noteworthy titles such as Dazed and Confused, Friday, American Graffiti, Clerks ... and this gem from the mid-1970s. Plot? Um, I guess the closest thing to a plot is that it's a friend group of gals and guys who are trying to find some place where they can all get laid with a little bit of privacy. This is the par excellence of 70s sexy comedy exploitation flicks. Scenes happen, whacky situations ensue. Probably the most memorable scene is when the gang all go to a drive-in pizza parlor—which gets its own theme song in the movie—and it's like going to that hotdog stand in Chicago on a Saturday night where the staff insults the customers, because the carhop insults everybody in this movie, her best line being "Whatta you guys gonna have tonight, cup of coffee and pass it around?" Eventually chaos happens inside as an epic food fight breaks out that goes on for a very long time, and I mean a very long time.

The standout character is June East. Her actress chewed the scenery like it was taffy. Oh, and I mentioned the pizza shop gets its own song—well, all of the songs in this movie seem to have stupid little catchy choruses but some of the cheapest, most lazy rhymes in the verse lyrics. They're awesome.

This isn't exactly the most politically correct movie to hit the screen. There's a little person who goes by the name "Big Dick." One of the male characters, The Fenz (obviously a parody of Fonzie), is every loudmouth Italian-American stereotype turned up to 11, and he even refers to himself in the third person.

The movie even goes totally meta as the four female characters say, "This is the end" right before it cuts to the closing credits.

Ten out of ten and five stars!

I forgot what the title was exactly but I know it was a werewolf movie. I think it was set around halloween? All I remember is the beginning had two bad cgi werewolves fighting each other with like martial arts (kung fu? maybe?)

Then it hit to a young ish girl with this shovel acting all moody, and she finds a movie ticket on some fence and she goes to the theatre alone-

It's not a lot I'm sorry, but I can't forget it. I need to find it! It seemed relatively new-ish, like from 2016-2023

i've been thinking about this because i watched a neil breen movie and then a roger corman b-movie back to back, and they both sucked but in totally different ways? like one felt like watching someone genuinely try and fail spectacularly, and the other felt like the director was in on the joke. does that distinction matter to you when you're picking what to watch, or is bad movie entertainment pretty much the same either way?

Purportedly the worst game-based movie in history. Surprised to see Robert Patrick in it.

i'm genuinely curious if anyone else has that one film they'll rewatch despite knowing it's objectively awful. like is it the vibes, the actors, specific scenes, or just the comfort of knowing exactly how bad it's gonna be? trying to figure out if i'm alone in this or if it's a normal bad movies enjoyer thing.

I was looking for a dumb comedy with boobs when I came to this, the last movie in my Tubi "recommended" list. Unrelentingly dumb, tried to be a comedy, and yes a few boobs. I was mildly entertained.

Cast includes: Teri Copley, Ray Matuszak, Joseph Campanella, Jerry Mathers, Stella Stevens and Irwin Keyes.

Some random observations:

* I like when bad movies include posters for other b/bad movies.

* Typical cheap L.A. based action movie where the car chases take place in a warehouse district.

* Casual racism. La Cucaracha or similar music whenever we see a Mexican.

* Information the characters need instantly comes up on the news when they turn on the TV or radio.

Demonstrably terrible on almost all fronts, to the point where it is quite entertaining (even if it is clearly a cynical cash grab).

Basically this year I've challenged myself to see just how bad bad movies can be (earlier this year I posted my findings on Science Crazed, and I should probably get around to reporting Die Hard Dracula, Space Mutiny and The Rollerblade Seven. But Night of Horror, In the Name of the King 3, Repligator etc, are films i never want to mentally revisit again). Well these 2 were on the list, so i decided to double bill them when I got time to myself. And oh boi....

Ax Em first as im sure thats the most famous of the two. This is complete nonsense. As a slasher there are too many characters, too few kills, and I have no idea who or what the killer actually is (its implied that hes the victim of a murder suicide, but the actor doesnt match the age, size or ethnicity of the actor in the flashbacks). And that really is the least of the problems here. No shot works, and its always a mercy when theyre in focus. But even if they were shot by Dean Cundy, the editor would've killed the tension and logic anyway. Its obvious they were using the cameras mic, because the audio quality is so poor, and there's often 5 people talking at once (big part of the confusion with...everything really). Apparently it was shot as a comedy but edited as a horror (10 years later by York Entertainment), which accounts for some things (like the out of nowhere comedy shots, and the film opening with a "Yo Mama" rap battle), but not others. Mostly I want to know what was supposed to be funny, and what was just the result of the director having no control over the set.

But all that being said, just like Science Crazed, I found it to be accidentally artistic, hypnotic, oddly entertaining despite my hate for it, and I felt compelled to watch the whole thing. Everyone I've seen review it calls it one of the worst things they've seen, everyone hates it. I dont love it, but its too unique and engaging for me to dislike it.

I followed it with Suffer Little Children, and they weren't the only ones to suffer. A very 1980s British shot on video horror, apparently made by a multi-generational acting school. You can tell because of the house decor, the outfits and especially the teeth. But also you can tell because the performances actually aren't bad. Sure, you can tell when the kids just heard "action", but everyone is doing a fair job. Its literally every other technical aspect that lets it down. The camera is awful, the editing is so bad that there are actual black frames and static from in-camera cuts left in. But topping that is the worst audio I have ever heard in film. I dont exaggerate when I say you cannot understand what people are saying for huge chunks of the film. Plus the usual issues of black backgrounds bring obvious curtains, an orphanage clearly being grandma's house and actors clearing arsing around in the back.

This one mostly was boring, something I didnt realise Ax Em wasn't until seeing this. Its a little girl acting like Damien in an orphanage, and for the longest time its a dry take on that. But then came the last 20 minutes (in a merciful 70 minutes runtime), and those were magical. That was some of the funniest, most exciting and kinda morally troubling (acted out violence involving children on a no budget set) stuff I've ever seen in a bad movie. I think i lost my shit when the evil girl became a demon lady, and then Jesus Christ inexplicably showed up to save the day...though not the kids. And the thing is, that 20 minutes pay off wouldn't have worked without the 50 minutes before it.

All in all, I should probably take a break after this. Both were detestable, but really rewarding watches. And just like Science Crazed and Space Mutiny, I want to own a copy of them. I feel like ill revisit them again throughout my life. And if I never see them again, im definitely not forgetting them, and I say that fondly.

Oh why, r/badmovies did you make me pick a flair to post about this cosmopolitan work of brilliance? It's like asking Bjork to pick a single genre title to describe her music.

Existing in that weird uncanny valley of being a movie that doesn't explicitly telegraph whether it's a sincere satire of noir or if it's an earnestly made exploitation flick, where do I start with this thing: The kitschy country and rockabilly songs throughout? The audio recording mcguffin / exposition device plucked literally from Mission: Impossible? The woman who tries to answer the phone with her breasts? The male lead who has to be Greg and Duane Allman's long lost brother? The priest who gives minutes-long monologues and religious incantations delivered in a diction best described as a bad 1960s pulp sci-fi novel if crossed with Shakespeare? The woman drinking nitroglycerin? Dialogue that finally answers the age-old taxonomic question about safe crackers: What's the distinction between a "finger man" and someone who does explosives? (Which raises the question: How does Ocean Eleven's title, "Basher" fit into that distinction?) The wrists-tied-behind-the-back gunfu? The fact that this movie is probably responsible for countless emerging bondage fetishes for people who became sexually aware in the 1970s? That's not even getting into the part about cramps.

Instead of getting into all of that, I think I'll just leave the Tubi description instead:

A criminal couple on the run encounters a UFO cult led by a sorcerer at a remote farm, where women’s bodies are implanted with the souls of aliens.

This is the most "staying home sick from school and flicking through channels to find this movie just starting so you grab some crackers and watch the whole thing including commercial breaks and when it ends American Ninja 3 starts and you're stoked but then realize it's not the same dude" movie ever. 

Nowadays the closest I can get to this experience is streaming it on Tubi after the kids go to bed only to doze off immediately and then wake up to my wife going "ninjas?!!" and pinching my cheeks as she walks by. 

NINJAS ARE NOT CUTE!!

They are a deadly group of stealth assassins dressed in all black who are, apparently, pretty easily beaten up by two hunky army rangers. 

Don't pinch my cheeks!

Anyways, American Ninja 2 has everything you want in a bad Cannon movie. 

Plus it’s always fun watching the Cannon movies on this level because you know at least 1 to 6 actors or stuntmen were nearly killed during the filming.

These are hard to come by. Bye Bye Man didn’t live up, neither does Midnight Man, Tarot or the lesser Blumhouse catalogue. What potential gem am I missing?