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11 (well, 10 and a half) for me: Super Babies: Baby Geniuses 2 (at B Fest) 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (B Fest again) Glitter (watched at a friend's house) Manos: The Hands of Fate (MST3K version)
(Most, but not all of) Gigli Battlefield Earth (rented it[!], seen on cable) Hercules in New York (rented when I was a kid) Can't Stop the Music (only select scenes, as the friend who owns it refuses to show the whole thing) Teen Wolf Too (rented when I was a kid) Rhinestone (B Fest) The Beast of Yucca Flats (B Fest)
Manos: The Hands of Fate! And way back in the late eighties, I thought Hellcats was fantastic, a giant infomercial on how to dress hip and crazy. (I took cues from Barbarella too). I have no idea why I saw Jaws the revenge, I think it was on telly, much like Glitter was the other night. Monster a go-go was cool tho. I think I see a pattern. Me likes the 60s turkeys.
I have only seen 9! I can't believe it, because I love bad movies. However your favorite this list sucks. It does not contain either The Crater Lake Monster, which I think is probably the single worst thing I've ever seen (uh, more than once,) or Lake Placid, which is atrociously wonderful/wonderfully atrocious.
from me3dia's link I see that one of the films at this year's B-Fest is Krull, which is pretty much the quintessential '80s B-movie fantasy. Almost worth going to Chicago to see it on a big screen.
It also doesn't include A Boy and His Dog. Or Plan 9 from Outer Space (although that's probably just because Ed Wood groupies modded it up.) Or Gas-s-s-s, which was so awful even schlock-king Roger Corman hated it, and he directed it.
Prosero, B Fest is an absolute blast. You should come!
I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't seen any of these movies. I will attempt to rectify this oversight and apparent shortcoming in my pop culture education by renting Police Academy: Mission to Moscow and From Justin to Kelly tonight.
I've seen several through the filter of MST3K:
Hobgoblins
I Accuse My Parents
The Horror of Party Beach
Beginning of the End
The Creeping Terror
Eegah
Werewolf (I don't know, you had him last.)
Quest of the Delta Knights
I've also seen Rollerball several times, and I quite like it.
MGL, I LOVE Lake Placid! I vote "atrociously wonderful" on that one.
As for the list, I've seen only three of them, which is shocking to me. I think it's because the list is mainly new, crappy remakes and TV adaptations and such, while older classic bad movies don't attract as many votes.
I haven't seen any of those, except for catching parts of Glitter on Cinemax once because it was the only thing on at 5 am. I really don't think that should count because I didn't see the whole thing.
The restaurant scene in Turks Fruit, an early dutch film by Paul Verhoeven of Showgirls fame, is excruciatingly bad.
Of course that film has been chosen in the Netherlands as the best film of the last century...
For a moment I thought that with Manos: hands of fate, you meant the film that's repeatedly mentioned in Under The Volcano; Los Manos de Orlac con Peter Lorre.
Apparently that's a horror classic from the UFA era. The killing hands; must be good.
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Car 54, Where Are You?
Glitter
Leonard Part 6
Cool as Ice
Gigli
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
Can't Stop the Music
Teen Wolf Too
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Children of the Corn III
Mac and Me
Besides these, there are probably a few more I've forgotten (and a few that I've seen big chunks of)--I'd rather see a terrible movie than a mediocre one, and I'm a sucker for a mainstream big-budget trainwreck. It amazes me when anything so expensive and market-researched and focus-grouped, constructed over months, or years, by hundreds of people, for millions of dollars, manages to fail so completely.
This is a funny list. There's an anti-sequelness that seems downright knee-jerk. A lot of the canonical bad movies (I'm thinking mostly here of Ed Wood, but what about Waterworld, for Chrissake?) are conspicuous in their absence. Movies from the Internet era, and/or with geek appeal, seem overrepresented. And a movie's chances of appearing on the list seem to be greatly improved by its appearance on MST3k.
(Although I haven't seen it,) Larry The Cable Guy was down around #6 during its theatrical release, but now it's in the 40s. I can only assume that is due to its DVD release. Draw your own conclusions.
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