LogFAQs > #983251508

In recent years, board 8's burgeoning film community has watched all sorts of genres, from crime films to horror to romcoms to musicals to artsy films. In fact, several recent films we've watched have been legitimate Academy darlings, including Best Picture winners and Best Screenplay winners, as well as films that critics consider some of the greatest movies ever made.

Yeah...screw that noise, time to go back to our roots with some legitimately terrible crap! That's right, I'm gonna subject all of you to how I felt having to watch things like A Clockwork Orange and The Shining and...thinking about it, prettty much ANY Kubrick movie.

But I kid. There has long been a low-key movement among film-watchers to enjoy and respect the truest of crap produced by Hollywood (or outside of Hollywood, in some cases). We've already watched a movie like Rocky Horror Picture Show for the musicals list, and that's a perfect example of a film that's less-than-good, yet it's developed a cult following for how campy and weird it is in spite of imperfect film-making. This list is meant to highlight a good number of similar movies that were made with the best of intentions and just...turned out terrible. So terrible, in fact, that they loop back around to being hilarious in their own right.

As such, we've got some truly iconic films on this list, even if they're infamous, rather than famous. I've scoured the internet for films considered "so bad they're good", as well as seeking examples from some experts in the "bad movie" genre. And now, we have thirty movies from 1936 to 2019 to determine if they're so bad they're good...or just so bad.

For now, I'm setting a due date of February 28th, 2025 for those submitting lists, giving us about 2.5 months to through all the movies and send write-ups.

THE MOVIES:
Reefer Madness (1936)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Mommie Dearest (1981)
The Instructor (1981)
Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983)
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Cry Wilderness (1987)
Deathstalker II (1987)
Miami Connection (1987)
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)
Mac and Me (1988)
Road House (1989)
Troll 2 (1990)
Samurai Cop (1991)
Undefeatable (1993)
Showgirls (1995)
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Ryan's Babe (2000)
The Room (2003)
Suburban Sasquatch (2004)
Dangerous Men (2005)
The Wicker Man (2006)
The Happening (2008)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
Fateful Findings (2013)
Wish Upon (2017)
Gotti (2018)
Cats (2019)

If you haven't participated before, all you have to do is watch the movies and rank them from best to worst. Write-ups are optional but highly encouraged, but the write-ups can be anything from a single sentence to a whole essay depending on how passionate you are about a particular movie. Once completed, the rankings can be sent to [email protected] (ideally in the form of a Google doc or sheet).