Top 10 Worst Movies -- Favorite Baaad Movies Review

Baaaad movies are fun to watch.  They can amaze you with their dogged awfulness every bit as much as great movies uplift and inspire you.     Well okay, not quite the same, but a good healthy bit of laughing and a reminder that all kinds of people make embarrassing mistakes and as bad a blunder as anything you ever did.   I take comfort in knowing my blunders can't be rented via netflix and viewed over and over again.

I don't know about you but when I watch some baaad movies I wonder just what in the world the writer-director-cameraman-actors-editors and producers/distributors were thinking.   They thought someone would really consider this film something good and that people would be excited about seeing it?

Some people are out to make entertaining movies and really good movies as well as really bad movies will entertain you.    So I've picked some my favorite baaaad movies and mention a few others to give you a list:  10 Worst Movies : the Baaaad fun ones.  These aren't of course the Worst movies ever made because the worst ones are films that are simply lousy rotten wastes of time that should be used to torture people you don't like.   These are a lot of fun to watch and I recommend them wholeheartedly for all their cheesy awfulness!!!  All of these are made to be watched by a group.. small or large.

10. The Brain That Wouldn't Die  1959/1962   Directed by

Want to know what the most entertaining baaad living head of evil movie is?  Made in 1959, released in 1962 . .  Here it is.  I did a big review with a look at other great ‘head' movies (cough cough)  right here :

HEAD ALIVE MOVIES

9. Frankenstein's Daughter   1958   Directed by Richard Cunha

An utterly preposterous excuse for a 50s horror film.  It is one of the most entertainingly fun baad movies of all times.    Read a full review of it here: 

FRANKS BAAAD DAUGHTER

8. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman 1958   Directed by  Nathan H. Juran

A very low budget twisted slightly sleazy outrageous bad movie classic like no other you have ever seen.  Legendary.     Read all about it right here:      BIG ANGRY BABE

7. GIRL IN GOLD BOOTS  1968/69  Directed by Ted V. Mikels

How about a hilariously goofy but G. rated musical satire that's got a lot in common with Showgirls?   How entertainingly bad could it be?  You'll have to see it for yourself.   If you insist on reading more about it.. please go here:  GO GO DANCER

6. BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL  1965   Directed by Doris Wishman

Here's a film which obviously served as a blue-print for such John Waters/ Divine films as PINK FLAMINGOS and FEMALE TROUBLE. It doesn't have the gross-outs of the Waters' films but the plotting, characters, and attitude are all here.  It was Doris Wishman's 10th film and first official ‘roughie'.  She was one of the most prolific woman directors of all time and made exploitation and sexploitation movies (an industry dominated almost completely by men ). 

Meg (Gigi Darlene)is a housewife in either Boston or Chicago (actually she's probably from Boston but lies to cover her tracks that she is from Chicago, but it is done so poorly it feels like a continuity error) who after making love with her husband is taking a shower and then is attacked by a buck toothed janitor. The janitor threatens to blackmail her. When she goes to confront about the attempted blackmail, he tries to attack her again so she kills him with a bowl. Really!!! We even get a dead man's p.o.v. shot of the bowl!!! It's brilliant.

Meg runs away and arrives via bus to the Big Apple changing her name to Ellen Green and she says she is from Chicago. Close ups of feet, and we hear birds too loudly chirping on the soundtrack when we go to Central Park. A seemingly friendly guy takes a sip of alcohol and starts beating Meg/Ellen with a belt. A newspaper headline states: POLICE SEEK BLONDE SUSPECT IN BOSTON MURDER !

Ellen rooms with Della, a lesbian who claims she is an acrobatic dancer. She stands on her head in her bra and panties to prove it. Ellen is uncomfortable about this. Later Ellen rents a room for 20 dollars a week and is then attacked by the landlady's husband.

She flees that scene and becomes a companion for an elderly woman but then discovers her son is a detective working on the Boston murder case.

Just as the long arm of the law closes in on Ellen/Meg. . . well perhaps I shouldn't spoil the ending but David Lynch would love it.

FROM THE ADS: "Possessed with sex, they know no shame!"

5. GODMONSTER OF THE INDIAN FLATS    1973  Directed by Frederic Hobbs

Hey with a title like this you know it's going to be GREAT movie right?   It's a true one of a kind film that almost, but not quite defies description, and classification.  It's a wild ride of movie.   After you watch it.. you won't believe what you have just seen and probably be tempted to watch it again.  More about this movie right here:   GODMONSTER

4. BLOOD FREAK  1973  Directed by Brad Ginter

I truly do not know where to begin in terms of trying to describe the inspired awfulness of this film.   We even have a narrator that at one point has a coughing fit... and they leave that in the film !!!  Really.   Steve Hawkes a muscle guy is Herschel the chopper riding Vietnam Vet who is fed drug spiked brownies and goes on a bad trip, winds up eating something bad at a Turkey farm and consequently sometimes turns into a half-man, half turkey creature with a paper mache'd head and gobble noises who goes after drug dealers.  There's also a religious sub-plot.    You do need to know there's quite a bit of gore and a nasty torture scene in here, so if low budget gore bugs you, don't watch this one.  Otherwise... don't miss jaw-dropping, hilarious bad film.  One of the best and more entertaining Baaaaad films you'll ever see.  The Something Weird DVD packaging includes some fascinating odd-shorts as add ons.  I proudly own this one..

3. PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE    1958  Directed by Ed Wood Jr.

One of Ed's most entertaining bad movies. Yes he made several bad movies including Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Beast, Jailbait and Night of the Ghouls.   This is his best known and so I'll put it on my list as something very much worth seeing for your baaad movie night. (And then watch the others I mentioned!!!)  My favorite DVD version includes a low budget documentary that is longer than the movie itself as an extra. It is called  Saucers Over Hollywood and meticulously details the making of the movie including late 80s interviews with most of the cast members.  Some of the really cheap DVDS feature terrible dupes of damaged t.v. prints. I'd avoid those.

2. ROBOT MONSTER   1953   Directed by Phil Tucker

Another legendary baaaad film.  It was very low budget, had 3D sequences and the writer-director had a nervous breakdown when the movie was laughed at and barely released.   Later Tucker got a marketing job at Warner Brothers and made a couple more bad movies. This is the one where most of the earth's population has been wiped out.  One of the aliens-Ro-Man has been given the task of killing a few earth stragglers that are alive in Bronson Canyon.   Ro-Man ‘s appearance is...a guy in a gorilla suit with and old style diving helmet over his head.  He's wearing pantyhose over his face which you can see a few times.  His headquarters is Bronson Cave in Griffith Park (a location used by at least 50 low budget films in the 50s and 60s (and still used too). He even has a bubble machine!!!!   It's a ridiculous film with some of the worst but truly hilarious dialogue you have ever heard outside an Ed Wood Jr. movie.  Nuff said.

1. MESA OF LOST WOMEN  1953  Directed by Ron Ormond

What can I say about a movie that fails on every single level you can imagine and then some.  I mean why even try to have a flashback within a flashback.. let alone a flashback within a flashback by someone who was not even around to experience what they are supposedly flashing back on.... Got that? NO?  Ahhhhh wait till you see the rest of this film.  Ormond actually got footage of incomplete movie and took it upon himself to finish the movie and release it.  Some insist that Ed Wood Jr. must have helped with this film or at least written it... but that is not the case.  It certainly has many awful lines of dialogue, but the non-linear totally bizarre structure of the film is not Ed Wood.   Because it is awful in so many ways with continuity errors, structural errors, character name errors, terrible dialogue, ludicrous plot, bad acting and laughably awful special effects and make-up-it's my pick for the most entertainingly baaad movie ever made.   It's just over an hour long.     Yep,.   Yep that's Uncle Fester of the Adams Family in a major role (Jackie Coogan who once starred as a child with Chaplin in THE KID!).  Oh and that awful guitar music?  Ormond let Ed Wood Junior use it for one of his movies: Jailbait. Ormond made many Lash LaRue Western movies then became an independent regional filmmaker who made some controversial sexploitation  and juvenile delinquent films (Monster and the Stripper-another wonderful baaaad movie)  before nearly dying in a plane wreck. He then became a born again Christian and madeb many religious films with his family and friends.