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Truly wonderful, awful SF flicks

  
  

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We're The Great Old Ones Now
13:59 / 01.05.02
There was Liquid Sky, and more recently there was Killer Tongue.

Movies which make no sense at all. They defy reviewing.

They're special.

They're not like Battle Beyond the Stars, where you knew what was going on, even if it was beyond appalling.

But somehow, these brave journeys into fantastically awful film are also fabulous.

Any I've forgotten?
 
 
videodrome
14:13 / 01.05.02
Har! Battle Beyond The Stars! Featuring the Ship With Tits!

That was a big favorite as a kid. Anything that combined space and breasts was great to a 12-year old.

Phantasm doesn't qualify as sci-fi (almost?) but it is truly, fascinatingly awful, without a doubt.
 
 
Rev. Wright
14:48 / 01.05.02
Phantasm and films of this ilk (by which I mean that the plot appears secondary to the content, or its dreamlike surrealism) appear to come from the European traditions of Bava and Argento, Fulci was also known for his rather confusing edits. It is rather unnusual to find Sci-fi films that follow this criteria. I once tried to watch Killer Tongue, but was utterly appalled by the bad production, and that says something for a man that loves Street Trash.

Note Battle Beyond the Stars was a remake of the Seven Samurai, its spaceship footage, became stock footage for later Italian Sci Fi fodder.
 
 
Polly Trotsky
16:21 / 01.05.02
Harware might qualify. The snippets in the background make more sense than the plot at large. And Iggy Pop narrates. Very Orange!
 
 
Polly Trotsky
16:30 / 01.05.02
That's meant to be Hardware, but I'm pleased the link works.

Even better is Crash and Burn! The link is to imdb's trailer, which suggests a plot you won't find.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
17:30 / 01.05.02
I always had a soft spot for the movie Electic Dreams for some reason. An ELO soundtrack, a LOT of music videos taking the place of the story and a plot that is so silly it makes no sense at all.

But I watch it every time they show it as weird hours on a cable network.
 
 
Saint Keggers
18:26 / 01.05.02
Space Truckers...
They've shipped everything from square pigs to anti-gravity beer... But now they've got a load of real trouble.
 
 
Utopia
18:46 / 01.05.02
i may have asked this before, but what was the name of the movie about the unfunny stand-up comedian who becomes a hit after growing extra arms? dennis(?) quaid was in it too. he licked a dead woman's breasts...
 
 
videodrome
19:02 / 01.05.02
Sounds like The Dark Backward, Utopia. Haven't seen that one in years.
 
 
Utopia
19:42 / 01.05.02
bless thee videodrome. several temples are to be built in you honor!
 
 
Rev. Wright
09:41 / 02.05.02
This little beauty was on the other night. Xtro
 
 
Margin Walker
09:47 / 02.05.02
I don't know if these count because they're animated, but the origional "Heavy Metal" is pretty bad. And "Rock & Rule" is noteworthily bad, especially because the wack prog rock score is littered with musicians that really should've known better (Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Cheap Trick, either Blondie or Debbie Harry solo,etc.)
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:01 / 02.05.02
Ice Pirates, which as it turns out had an absolutely kick-ass cast...
 
 
Rev. Wright
12:21 / 02.05.02
Interesting thing to note with Heavy Metal: the movie is that it is ripped off in Luc Besson's Fifth Element. Check out the first and last stories, teh first being about a reluctant taxi driving hero, and teh last about the ultimate warrior/weapon being a woman out to stop a evil force that arrives via an asteroid.

The ice Pirates was cool.

But my fave Low budget Sci fi/Post Apoc. films are Italian:

The New Barbarians



1990: The Bronx Warriors 1 & 2



Exterminators of the Year 3000



Final Executioner: The Last Warrior



The New Gladiators



But who can forget the great Australian Salute of the Jugger (The Blood of Heroes)?
 
 
Fra Dolcino
14:37 / 02.05.02
This was frickin' excellent:



Iyts got all the schlock sci-fi elements: War torn future, a group of misfits sets out to kill a mad professor and features a martial arts ninja type, a tracked android ('mandroid', who hates the professor for making him an abomination), and adventurer type, etc.

Look out for the slo-mo, when they have to jump through a giant fan!
 
 
Fra Dolcino
14:42 / 02.05.02
Poo. It was The Eliminators
 
 
Morlock - groupie for hire
15:43 / 02.05.02
Christ, I've seen The Eliminators. Can't remember if I liked it.

Robot Jox? Here if my webfu is up to it. GiantRobotFisticuffsGo!
 
 
videodrome
15:53 / 02.05.02
Robot Jox? Whew. That makes two Stuart Gordon films on this list....I'm beginning to see a pattern.

As bad as all this stuff is, though, it's a little off from the original question. Liquid Sky is bad and impenetrable in a way that a lot of the other films mentioned aren't - most of them are just BAD. I wish I could conjure up more films along the line of the original question.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:47 / 03.05.02
In a kamayamaya of webfudom..

www.badmovies.org
 
 
Saint Keggers
04:45 / 03.05.02
I've said it once, I'll say it again...

C.H.U.D
 
 
Margin Walker
05:21 / 03.05.02
The Forbidden Zone is beyond belief. It stars Herve Villachaize as The King of the 6th Dimension, the Mystical Knights of the Oingo Boingo & had a cameo of Danny Elfman as Satan. It was shot in black & white and is just bizarre beyond words. The best I can describe it is if Harold Lloyd was lost in 20's cartoon where everybody sings Cab Calloway tunes constantly.

  
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
08:30 / 03.05.02
I know it doesn't really fit - as it's "horror" more than SF, but Cannibal Hookers really needs to be mentioned here. Truly. Fucking. Awful. Impenetrable. And made by the American Home Video Association.

Mark of quality, that.
 
 
Knight's Move
12:31 / 03.05.02
KRULL. or maybe He-man. or The Last Starfighter. or Leprechaun 4. or Krazy Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

There are many. Sci-Fi is such a convinient platform to place anything on (Repulsor Boots. Re-route the power through the primary couplers and disenmatriate the Argon boosters! Teleporters.)

It allows for anything from Demonseed style modern tech gone terribly wrong to full-on intergalactic war, and I think we can all think of hundreds of candidates for this (by the way has anyone ever heard the Rah Band Clouds Across the Moon about a woman calling her husband who is indeed, so the premise has it, fighting an intergalactic war. A tragic tale.).

You can do anything you want, and more so than fantasy because you can include fantasy in it (see He-man).
 
 
Fengs for the Memory
14:01 / 03.05.02
A question - This film had Peter Straus and Molly Ringwald in it, This thread made me think of it and now it's bugging the shit out of me, and I'm holding you all indirectly responsible.
 
 
Knight's Move
14:35 / 03.05.02
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. (imdb is a great place). Three women make an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff (Strauss) goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their talents, they try to rescue the women.
 
 
rizla mission
14:40 / 03.05.02
Can I derail this to talk about The Killing of Satan, a phillipino horror movie which is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my entire life by a long, long way?
 
 
ill tonic
00:11 / 04.05.02
HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN
Mr. R. Piper as the last fertile man on earth - that in and of itself makes me snicker.
 
 
rizla mission
16:00 / 05.05.02
Is that real?

What a title.. I mean, I guess it's not about an invasion of monstrous frogs if the town's already named after them .. maybe the townsfolk are used to giant frogs and the 'hell' in question is something even worse .. BUT WHAT COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE?

Please tell me it's about a town where everyone's a frog (in full frogsuit) and old fashioned demons attack it .. that would rule.
 
 
Trijhaos
16:08 / 05.05.02
It's a real movie.

Hell Comes to Frogtown
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
18:19 / 05.05.02
The Prophecy II is spectacularly bad seeing as it came after the pretty good Prophecy I. I'm basing my dislike of it on the fact that it lacks Elias Koteas, Eric Stoltz and Viggo Mortenson but instead has Eric fucking Roberts, it has no budget and what minimal plot there is is cobled together to link the action scenes which are more or less the same ones from the first film reshot from different angles. Prophecy II was on Sci-fi the other night but unfortunately I missed it as I'm assured by others it sucks even harder.
 
 
Jack Fear
13:06 / 06.05.02
Hell Comes To Frogtown:



Ohhhhhh yes.
 
 
e-n
12:00 / 08.05.02
I know it was mentioned waaay back at the beginning of this thread ut have any of you seen the movies that use the effects shots from Battle beyond the stars but have a completely different story?There may even be two of them.The one I reemember best is avbout a little boy who escapes the big bad black ship to hang with some pirates on the breasty one?Every one dies in the end too.
Which is nice

And ice pirates is the best movie ever...No question.
 
 
Bear
12:18 / 08.05.02
This isn't really the right thread for this (or maybe it is) - I was wondering if anyone could tell me the name of a horror/sci-fi movie from the 80's.

The main points I can remember are -

A large church
Something to do with Satan
And allot of goo (pink I think)

Any ideas?
 
 
uncle retrospective
12:44 / 08.05.02

I'm not taking the piss here.
but Was it The Church by Dario Argento, or one of his side kicks?

Weird movie involving a church that the Templars built. Loads of people get trapped inside.
Something bad happens.
That the one?
 
 
Bear
13:02 / 08.05.02
Could be, I'll go check imdb !
 
  

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