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Guilty pleasure films: crappy movies..which you like
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I liked the Haunted Mansion movie with Eddie Murphy. Not a good movie at all but I remember so much from it.
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I don't know if this counts, but Saw V because everyone thought it was ######### and I honestly don't see why people think this.
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It's in no means a bad film (in my opinion at least), just regarded as one of the weakest of the series. I like it too.
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Cabin in the woods!
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You know that awful movie by Robert Rodriguez?
Yeah this.
That one.
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That's a great film.
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Doom movie. I know it's not a proper doom movie and I know it's not great but I really enjoy it. I can literally put it on anytime and watch it easily. Also quite enjoyed seeing the rock in it.
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That movie is not a crappy movie. It was very enjoyable.
As for me, I really liked Miss Congeniality and Idle Hands.
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Matter of opinion really. I found it cheesey as hell, still enjoyed it though.
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No! Your opinion is wrong! Only my opinion, which is fact, is correct! How dare you go against me! Rawr!
In all seriousness, I think it felt a little cheesy because it wasn't a typical horror movie. It was meant to be a metaphor. The old gods were basically us, the viewers and the workers in the facility represent the movie industry. The old gods got tired of the simple old ritual sacrifices and wanted a whole show before the death. The workers in the facility had to produce entertaining ways for the victims to die in order to appease them.
Same as it is with movie goers and the movie industry. Movie goers are not satisfied with the simple stories of older movies due to being desensitized from all the readily available content, thus the movie industry have to work their butts off to please their clientele or risk destroying their careers.
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I understand 'crappy' can be a subjective term, but I meant films universally slated and regarded as low quality trash...but which you personally find fun to watch.
Another example from myself:
Jaws - The Revenge
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In that case....
Green Lantern :)
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I think little things like the guy who smokes his weight in dope and looks constantly comatose figures out this is all a setup was what got me triggered the most. But hey, at least we had Thor without muscles xD
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I loved the way the film flips on it's head from the intriguing slow build to utter chaos. It's good fun and I recommend it.
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I will fight you.
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I never thought I would type these words on this forum, let alone twice in one day, but: Hudson Hawk.
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Also, most Friday the 13th films are just really not great. With the exception of 6, 4, the reboot (STFU I will fight you), and most of 2, they're all uniformly stupid movies. But I LOVE them. I guested on an episode of a horror podcast not that long ago, because I am a noted huge fan of Jason Takes Manhattan. That movie strains all logic and credibility, and it is a dumpster fire of a movie, but it's so much fun.
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I agree. I was going to mention the Friday 13th series.
Looking at the films impartially, they're not works of art.
I genuinely like Jason Lives (VI). It's a good horror film. Jason Takes Manhattan (VIII), whilst being crappy, has a special place in my heart as it was the first Friday 13th I saw when I was around 11-12 years old.
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Jason Lives is a legitimately good horror movie on its own merits. It did the Scream thing and the New Nightmare thing way ahead of them. It (along with the reboot, STFU I will fight you) is the only film in the series with a proper arc and a protagonist.
My first slashers were all the ones that came out in 1988 -- Friday Part 7, Nightmare 4, and Halloween 4. I remember seeing them on cable when I was a kid; that's what got me hooked on horror. Then came Fangoria, USA Up All Night, and Drive-In Theater with Joe Bob Briggs. I love even the horrible stuff in the big franchise slashers! Except Jason Goes to Hell. That is just about the only one that I would actively turn the channel on because it's so beyond bad.
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Yeah I remember in 1993 on my way to school, seeing the Jason Goes To Hell flames poster up in the video shop. Pestered my parents all week to rent the VHS. Oh...the disappointment 😔
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God, that movie is so OFFENSIVELY bad. I've seen interviews and stuff with the cast and crew as part of the Crystal Lake Memories documentary (which you really should watch if you are fond of these movies -- it's fascinating, and it's currently available on Shudder), and they make it sound like they just wanted to take it in this wild new direction. I still maintain the theory that it was a script that had nothing to do with Jason, that got retrofitted to be a Friday the 13th movie after New Line bought the franchise from Paramount. I don't know how else anyone in their right mind would have given it the go-ahead, ESPECIALLY as their first foray into this long-running film property that they just bought.
Like, I remember, as a 13-year-old kid, seeing that first scene with the woman at the cabin, and Jason just busts in and starts chasing her. And even back then, I was like "Something seems wrong here. How is Jason here? He was in a Manhattan sewer at the end of the last movie..."
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Yeah I never understood that.
I suppose it could be argued that he made his way back to Camp Crystal Lake, leaving a trail of bodies and was followed by the FBI.
Still, terrible film, but that FBI agent at the start 10/10😄
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Let's see, other good horror stuff...
- Part of me likes Halloween 6 (either cut) despite how mind-numbingly dumb it had gotten by that point. Thank goodness for the reboot(s). (EDIT: Except for the Rob Zombie ones. Those movies can, frankly, have spirited sexual relations with themselves.)
- Halloween III is underrated, and is a good movie on its own merits, disconnected from the larger franchise. It's almost like a proto-Stuart Gordon film.
- On that note, Dagon is great, even though it's probably Stuart Gordon's worst Lovecraft-inspired movie.
- The Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 reboot was not that bad. I will fight you.
- Every single Child's Play/Chucky film is great.
- Chopping Mall, which I have now brought up on this forum three times, is a dumb bad awesome '80s horror movie.
- Dawn of the Dead's 2004 remake is secretly way better than the original.
- John Dies at the End is one of the most awesome modern Lovecraftian horror films ever made.
- Same goes for The Void, which they somehow miraculously made for next to nothing.
- Night of the Creeps is one of the greatest cult classics in all of horror, and I legitimately want a DBD chapter based on it.
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I actually remember 9 quite vividly. I don’t know if that counts, since it is very... niche.
Halloween 3 is interesting. A bond-like thriller instead of a horror movie. Sure, it’s gory, but it’s not that bad. It’s from a time when John Carpenter wanted an anthology series with the Halloween franchise, not just about Myers... I’m sure you can tell how well that worked.
And I like the Star Wars prequels.
I don’t really watch a lot of movies, tbh. They just don’t interest me much anymore.
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A few more frowned upon horror films I happen to have a soft spot for:
-Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers
This has my favourite horror film intro of all-time. Excellently shot with eerie, foreboding music. The film itself isn't all bad and the ending was memorable.
-Maniac Cop
One of my favourite slashers. It has a cult following but overall reviews are not that favourable. There's not much to it, but it's all good fun.
-Silent Hill: Revelation
Watched the original at the cinema. This one wasn't well-received widely by fans and critics. I however, enjoyed it more than I remember with the first film.
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I've liked a few remakes that were considered bad or at least 'meh'
- Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 - I'm probably one of the few who actually like remake Freddy. He was much darker and scarier imo.
- Friday the 13th 2009 - My favorite version of Jason. Hated the overly cringy teenagers tho ick.
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 - idc what anyone says, this movie was tense asf. One of my favorite remakes.
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You speak the truth!
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I recently re-watched the Elm Street remake and I was left underwhelmed. It's not an awful film, it's just forgettable.
I do however, feel the 'mother end scene' is better in 2010 than the 1984 film. I'll give them that.
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I think Halloween 4 is pretty underrated. Outside of the 2018 sequel, it's the one that comes closest to matching the original movie's tone. It had a great score, it had the rare gifted child actor as its lead, and it was just a pretty good, tense slasher movie. Somewhere, there is an alternate dimension where they properly followed up on that ending, and gave us another awesome branch of Halloween continuity.
And I know a lot of people like to make fun of the H4 mask, as it definitely looks nothing like the original Shatner mask. But it is literally a cheap knock-off that he grabs at a neighborhood drug store, probably inspired in-universe by THE MASK THAT HADDONFIELD'S NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILER MICHAEL MYERS WORE! That's how I like to think of it, and that mask is really creepy on its own merits.
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Chappie. Was not well received by the critics, at all.
Its one of my all-time favorites and from my point of view its a masterpiece and an emotional rollercoaster.
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@Dr_Loomis And while we are on the subject of Halloween, H20 was also a really great survivor story, despite having that '90s Dawson's Creek sheen that every Dimension horror movie of the era had. The scene where Laurie sends the kids out and locks herself inside the school, then grabs the fire ax and screams Michael's name as the Halloween theme wells up behind HER and not him, I swear is one of the greatest moments ever captured on film.
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I watched it at the cinema and maybe once on VHS. I remember it being quite forgettable but will have to rewatch at some point.
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I also liked the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. I didn’t understand why it didn’t do well enough for a sequel.
Freddy vs Jason was another I enjoyed.
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I think if Freddy had been played by Robert Englund, the conversation around that remake would be very different.
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Its a shame since the actor did a good job.
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He really did. He's super-creepy, and they go all-in on his awful child abuser history instead of just dancing around the obvious in the original film. I think that made a lot of people recoil, but I would argue that he is supposed to be a repulsive, horrible character, so the movie did its job well in that regard. I think a lot of people are down on Jackie Earle Haley's Freddy because of this, and because they have been trained to expect wacky wisecracking cartoon character Freddy, which this most certainly was not in any way. His version of "I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy" is much, much more skin-crawling than Robert Englund's was, considering the context of the line delivery.
The thing that actually sucked about the movie was Rooney Mara's phoned-in performance, which did a huge disservice to the 1980s' most iconic horror heroine. The story goes that she intentionally tried to bomb her audition, got he role anyway, and turned in the performance she did because she hated horror and didn't want to be known for this kind of thing.
Everything else was pretty great, though. I actually think this is the best Nightmare film that Wes Craven didn't touch at any point (that is to say, Nightmare 3, Nightmare 1, and New Nightmare are the only ones that top this one in my book).
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I didn't realize that about Rooney, it's a shame, since I liked her as an actress. Why even audition if you're not interested? Makes no sense.
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It's probably a situation of "I'm your agent and I got you this gig, so you'd better take the audition."
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All the films from resident evil directed by paul anderson (plz god forgive me)
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The stand mini series from the 90s, people hated that ######### because of the guy who played Randall Flagg. I found it entertaining, as it's one of my favourite books.
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Disaster movie was extremely terrible.
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Bad Boys and it's sequels count right?
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