Wondering what people’s favorite “bad” movies are. Can be low budget, box office flops, foreign, so bad it’s good, whatever. I’m pretty big on Cannon Group stuff and cheesy Turkish pop cinema (Tarkan vs. the Vikings, etc.). Mostly go for 80s stuff as that’s my generation.

  • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Many great recommendations.

    Some other that I don’t think were mentioned so far:

    • The Baron Against the Demons / El barón contra los Demonios (2006) - Completely insane Spanish action/scifi

    • Hellevator (2004) - Crazy Japanese scifi with action/horror elements

    • Zone 39 (1996) - Cool low budget Australian cyberpunk-adjacent movie

    • Nirvana (1997) - Excellent Italian cyberpunk thriller

    • Shocking Dark (1989) - 80s Italian ripoff of two famous scifi/action movies from the time

    • Webmaster / Skyygen (1998) - Solid Danish 90s style cyberpunk thriller

    • Neon City (1991) - Solid post-apocalyptic flick

    • Cold Harvest (1999) - Kungfu flick with a post-apocalyptic setting

    • Def-Con 4 (1985) - Post-apocalyptic action/adventure

    • Slipstream (1998) - Post-apocalyptic film with beautiful mountain cinematography, with Mark Hamil as the bad guy

    • Cyborg (1989) - Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks ass in a post-apocalyptic future

    • Radioactive Dreams (1984) - A strange mix of post-apocalyptic movie and 40s era pulp detective

    • Nightflyers (1987) - 80s space horror based on a novel by George R R martin

    • Terminal Invasion (2002) - Low budget The Thing ripoff with Bruce Campbell

    • Shadowzone (1990) - Horror set on an isolated base

    • Population 436 (2006) - A Stephan king style horror with Fred Durst

    • The Langoliers (1995) - A unique, almost scif-fi, horror/thriller based on a Stephen King novella

    • Black Mountain Side (2014) - Isolated norther research station horror

    • Butterfly Kisses (2018) - A somewhat novel take on the found footage genre, has flaws though

    • The Last Winter (2006) - Norther isolated research station horror

    • The Presence / Danger Island (1992) - Solid thriller/horror tv movie.

    • Cyber Bandits / A Sailor’s Tattoo (1995) - Wholesome adventure/cyberpunk movies from the 90s with Martin Kemp

    • Mars (1997) - Olivier Gruner visits a Martian colony to kick ass

    • Alien Cargo (1999) - A somewhat well done TV movie Alien ripoff, but more a thriller than a horror

    • Lord of the Deep (1989) - The Abyss ripoff (even more low budget than DeepStar Six and The Leviathan)

    • Future Fear (1997) - Solid softcore action/scifi

    • Hybrid (1997) - Solid softcore horror/action vaguely based on Alien

    • Forbidden World (1982) - Softcore vaguely based on Alien

    • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Well, there goes my next 28 free evenings!

      (Well, 26. I watched Radioactive Dreams last week, and rewatched Cyborg a few months ago.)