Just plain bad
by NoWireHangers | created - 26 Mar 2011 | updated - 14 Dec 2022 | PublicI love bad movies! As long as they're good, that is. These movies are not "so bad they're good". They're just so bad they are.... awful, in some cases painful to watch.
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1. Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
Where are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström
Votes: 20,341 | Gross: $0.00M
2. Playtime (1967)
Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, France Rumilly
Votes: 25,914
3. Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Not Rated | 70 min | Horror
A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.
Director: Harold P. Warren | Stars: Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, Diane Adelson, Harold P. Warren
Votes: 37,534
4. Nukie (1987)
PG | 99 min | Family, Sci-Fi
An alien called Nukie searches for his brother Miko, who has been captured by the U.S. government.
Directors: Sias Odendaal, Michael Pakleppa | Stars: Glynis Johns, Steve Railsback, Ronald France, Siphiwe Mlangeni
Votes: 1,444
5. Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
Director: Steven Paul | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, John Abbott
Votes: 1,065
6. Drive in Massacre (1976)
R | 74 min | Horror, Mystery
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
Director: Stu Segall | Stars: John F. Goff, Steve Vincent, Douglas Gudbye, Verkina Flower
Votes: 2,150
7. Haunted Boat (2005)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
HAUNTED BOAT is a mystical, mind-twisting psychological horror film about six teenagers going on a boat trip and getting lost in parallel dimensions where they have to face their greatest fears.
Director: Olga Levens | Stars: Courtney Scheuerman, Sarah Scott, Tien Pham, Travis Hammer
Votes: 820
8. Psycho Shark (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Beautiful girls are in danger. At Sunny Beach, a huge shark is waiting for his prey. College students Miki and Mai arrive on a private beach on a tropical island. They can't find the hotel ... See full summary »
Director: John Hijiri | Stars: Nonami Takizawa, Airi Nakajima, Megumi Haruno, Jun Kanaki
Votes: 682
9. Igor and the Lunatics (1985)
R | 82 min | Horror
After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.
Director: W.J. Parolini | Stars: Joseph Eero, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola, T.J. Glenn
Votes: 456
10. Lust for Frankenstein (1998 Video)
82 min | Horror
Moira Frankenstein, the grand-daughter of noted mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein, has become obsessed with the work of her ancestor and she decides to pick up the family business where he left off.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Michelle Bauer, Lina Romay, Analía Ivars, Carlos Subterfuge
Votes: 372
And I LIKE Jess Franco, but he sure has made some real stinkers, like this one.
11. Copper Mountain (1983 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy, Music
Two friends travel to a ski resort, with one looking to hit the slopes, while the other spends time trying to pick up women.
Director: David Mitchell | Stars: Jim Carrey, Alan Thicke, Dick Gautier, Ziggy Lorenc
Votes: 2,610
12. Nude on the Moon (1961)
Unrated | 83 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A rich rocket scientist organizes an expedition to the moon, which they discover is inhabited by nude women.
Director: Doris Wishman | Stars: Marietta, William Mayer, Lester Brown, Pat Reilly
Votes: 1,283
Can a movie with this title really be bad? Unfortunately, yes.
13. The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (1979)
R | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Hollywood Strangler ("Johnathan Click") kills young models... Skid Row Slasher kills winos ... What will happen when they meet?
Director: Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Pierre Agostino, Carolyn Brandt, Chuck Alford, Jim Parker
Votes: 556
14. Blood Shack (1971)
Not Rated | 55 min | Horror
A young woman inherits a ranch that is supposedly haunted by a murderous beast called "The Chooper."
Director: Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Carolyn Brandt, Ron Haydock, Jason Wayne, Laurel Spring
Votes: 648
15. Bloody Wednesday (1987)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Harry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff. The lines of his mental illness and reality become extremely blurred as some of his strangest events are indeed witnessed by others. As Harry becomes more frustrated by not being able to distinguish fact from delusion he turns to violence.
Director: Mark G. Gilhuis | Stars: Raymond Elmendorf, Pamela Baker, Navarre Perry, Teresa Mae Allen
Votes: 546
16. Red Zone Cuba (1966)
89 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Escaped convict Griffin and his friends ran all the way to Hell...with a penny, and a broken cigarette.
Director: Coleman Francis | Stars: Coleman Francis, Anthony Cardoza, Harold Saunders, John Carradine
Votes: 6,527
John Carradine sings the themsong. Epic! After that the movie is just 90 minutes of boredom.
17. Omega Doom (1996)
R | 84 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After Earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the Earth, in fear of the rumored... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Shannon Whirry, Norbert Weisser, Tina Cote
Votes: 3,334
18. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a gypsy fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The gypsy turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree.
Director: Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Ray Dennis Steckler, Brett O'Hara, Atlas King, Sharon Walsh
Votes: 5,305
19. Curse of the Zodiac (2007 Video)
R | 82 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Though decades have passed since the multiple murderer held the state of California hostage with fear, the mystery of the identity of the Zodiac killer has never been solved.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Cassandra Church, Jack Quinn, Victoria Ullmann, Lyn Beausoleil
Votes: 937
20. Green River Killer (2005 Video)
R | 83 min | Crime, Horror
Along twenty years, the deranged serial-killer Gary Ridgway has killed at least forty-eight prostitutes and dumped their bodies in Green River.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: George Kiseleff, Jacquelyn Aurora, Georgie Donovan, Shannon Leade
Votes: 1,006
21. The Manson Family (1997)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, History
A dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies.
Director: Jim Van Bebber | Stars: Marcelo Games, Marc Pitman, Leslie Orr, Maureen Allisse
Votes: 3,386 | Gross: $0.02M
22. Minotaur (2006)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When the villagers offer their brethren as a sacrifice to the Minotaur, Theo (Tom Hardy) sets off on a harrowing quest to the labyrinth to kill the evil bull-god.
Director: Jonathan English | Stars: Tom Hardy, Michelle Van Der Water, Tony Todd, Lex Shrapnel
Votes: 5,101
23. New Rose Hotel (1998)
R | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two businessmen are hired to steal secrets from a rival, and decide to use a beautiful call girl to do so.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra
Votes: 6,228 | Gross: $0.02M
24. Super Christian (1980)
27 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Story of Clark Kant, the titular Super Christian who needs to learn a lesson on being more humble.
Director: John Schmidt | Stars: Jim Schmidt, Chuck Bolte, Esther Vlases, Al van Beenen
Votes: 56
25. The Apocalypse (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In this epic disaster film of faith, a mother and father search for their only child as a giant asteroid headed for Earth triggers a series of apocalyptic events.
Director: Justin Jones | Stars: Rhett Giles, Jill Stapley, Kristen Quintrall, Tom Nagel
Votes: 2,874
26. The Last Sin Eater (2007)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama
In seeking her own redemption from the man of whom she is most afraid, ten-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Louise Fletcher, Henry Thomas, Liana Liberato, Soren Fulton
Votes: 1,997 | Gross: $0.38M
Tedious film with bad acting. Even the great Louise Fletcher is bad in it!
27. The Steam Experiment (2009)
R | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller
A deranged scientist locks 6 people in a steam room and threatens to turn up the heat if the local paper doesn't publish his story about global warming.
Director: Philippe Martinez | Stars: Val Kilmer, Armand Assante, Eric Roberts, Megan Brown Martinez
Votes: 2,833
28. The Wizard of Gore (2007)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery
Montag the Magnificent (Glover) is a master illusionist who performs at underground venues, selecting female volunteers from his rave-like audiences. To their hysteria, it appears he's ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Kasten | Stars: Kip Pardue, Bijou Phillips, Crispin Glover, Jeffrey Combs
Votes: 2,943
Instead of improving on the original they made it worse...
29. Getting There (2002 Video)
G | 90 min | Comedy, Family
Cute twins get driving licenses, a party and a convertible on their 16th birthday. 6 months later they're off on a road trip with 2 friends to the Winter Olympics in Utah. 3 male friends follow in their car. Things don't go as planned.
Director: Steve Purcell | Stars: Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Billy Aaron Brown, Heather Lindell
Votes: 2,890
30. Romeo + Juliet (1996)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau
Votes: 244,692 | Gross: $46.35M
Painfully pretentious. Unwatchable. DiCaprio as bad as ever.
31. The Sobbing Stone (2005)
Not Rated | 76 min | Mystery
Science can't explain it. No one can. A seemingly ordinary stone has been brought to the attention of four of the best paranormal experts in the world. As the hours progress, they find out ... See full summary »
Director: Robert G. Christie | Stars: Kevin Mayberry, Natalie Hultman, Shirlethea Tanya Holmes, Ben Irvin
Votes: 416
Probably the worst Christian movie ever made outside of Nigeria (and at least "666 Beware the End is at Hand" had some entertainment value). Inept in every way.
32. The Encounter: Paradise Lost (2012)
104 min | Drama
Seven years after the world's most devastating tsunami in Thailand six strangers find themselves trapped in a beach side resort on the brink of an oncoming hurricane. Each of their hearts ... See full summary »
Director: Bobby Smyth | Stars: David A.R. White, Bruce Marchiano, Gary Daniels, Robert Miano
Votes: 1,191
Same old tired religious discussions, again, with some of the worst action scenes I've ever seen.
33. 2047: Sights of Death (2014)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Ryan Willburn (Stephen Baldwin), a Green War rebel Agent sent on a mission to collect evidence against the Confederate Central Government, for its heinous crimes. The mission quickly turns chaotic when he meets Tuag (Neva Leoni), a mutant survivor.
Director: Alessandro Capone | Stars: Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Stephen Baldwin
Votes: 1,562
34. Angels Fallen (2020)
86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After the tragic loss of his wife battling the forces of darkness, Gabriel is persuaded to rejoin his former team of demon hunters traveling from relatively obscurity in America to the deep... See full summary »
Director: Ali Zamani | Stars: Nicola Posener, Houston Rhines, Michael Teh, Li Jing
Votes: 1,789
35. 2025 - The World enslaved by a Virus (2021)
92 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
We are in 2025: since the appearance of covid-19 in 2020, the world is no longer the same: a new system with a single world government has been put in place.
Directors: Joshua Wesely, Simon Wesely | Stars: Joshua Wesely, Antonia Joy Speer, Matthew Dougan, Laura Wieder
Votes: 2,481
36. Hearts Are Trump (2020)
112 min | Drama
This is the heartfelt tale of two extended families who, discerning a threat to liberty in America, forge an unbreakable bond in attempting to do their part to preserve the nation they love.
Director: Donald James Parker | Stars: Danielle Superior, William Row, John Goad, Juli Tapken
Votes: 173
37. Samson (2014)
72 min
Revealed by an angel of the Lord as the one who will deliver the Israelites from the rule of the Philistines, Samson is granted supernatural strength that allows him to do heroic feats. ... See full summary »
Director: Jeffrey Scallon | Stars: Jeffrey Scallon, Alyse Nicole Merritt, Michael Michael, Mary Anne Letourneau
Votes: 20
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