Azilut: Well, my favourite is Flash Gordon (AAA-AAH!). For me it just hits the perfect level of cheese ("Check the angular vector of the moon!")

But here are a few others that I love (by no means the full list):

Dead Alive, Evil Dead Trilogy, Star Crash, The Carrier, Blood Car, Tremors, The People Under the Stairs, Reanimator, Bride of Reanimator, From Beyond, Robot Jox, The Road Warrior, Salute of the Jugger, Mister Freedom, Batman: The Movie (1966), Battlefield Earth (yeah I know, but I just can't stop laughing), Conan the Barbarian, Raiders of Atlantis, Ninja Terminator, Rollerball (1975), Death Race 2000, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Master of the Flying Guillotine, The Super Inframan, Brain 17, Fist of the North Star (animated dub), Lao Mao, Riki-Oh, Radioactive Dreams, Shogun Assassin, Uzumaki, Zardoz

Azilut: My friends and I recently organized a Space Vampire Marathon, so this seems like an appropriate thread to comment on it.

Movie #1: Lifeforce. Naked space vampires from Halley's Comet come to Earth and suck out people's (highly explosive) life energy, thereby turning them into electro-zombies. Unlike the other movies we watched, this one is an actual real movie, with actors and and a plot and everything. Legitimately enjoyable, with some kick-ass practical effects and a wonderfully weird scene in which an astronaut is psychically compelled to make out with Patrick Stewart.

Movie #2: Dracula 3000. Wow. Just wow. So Dracula is on a spaceship, because... because. This movie is so bad it's fascinating - in fact, it's borderline experimental. The camerawork seems to have been done by someone's hyperactive eight-year-old who wanted to see what every button on the camera did. The main character dies 2/3 of the way into the movie. There isn't any climax - the movie just meanders around until it's time to roll credits, at which point the ship explodes for no apparent reason and then freeze-frames. Oh, and Coolio is in it. His take on "vampire" is like an attempt to mix "Ruby Rhod" from Fifth Element with "The Cat" from Red Dwarf, while failing at both. This one must be seen to be believed.

Movie #3: Vampirella. Peace-loving vampires from the planet Drakulon live contentedly by drinking from the planet's blood-rivers, until the evil Vlad betrays them and flees to Earth to drink human blood just to be a dick. Scantily-clad vampire Ella ("Vampir-ella", get it?) hunts him down to seek revenge while wearing a bat-signal on her crotch. This one just sucked. There's some slight amusement to be had in watching Vlad run around a hydroelectric dam holding his cape out like a kid with a towel playing superman, and the minions who seem to have made their costumes out of industrial bin liners, but overall it was just forgettable.

So after subjecting my friends to that lineup, I have for some reason been asked to organize more movie marathons in a similar vein. Dracula 3000 is gonna be a tough act to follow, though. I think I might have hit 'em with a triple whammy of Battlefield Earth, Star Crash, and Turkish Star Wars. Here's hoping we survive!

MaridAudran: The Last Supper.

Low-budget film about a group of liberal arts grad students who live collectively in a house and undertake a sort of murder-spree via dinner trial to eliminate the scourge of advocates/extremists of right-wing causes, and recycle their bodies as fertilizer for tomato plants.

As a teenager, this film was a fantasy for me the way comic books or fantasy-genre flicks were for others my age.

B-movie all the way, down to the limited number of locations scenes were shot at, reliance on vast amounts of dialogue to advance plot, and preachy nature of the script. But damn fun.

crazy_dave: Hmmm ... when the OP said bad, I was thinking more B- to C and D movies, because a couple of these are B movies they're actually quality B movies, more like B+, even A- :P

I realize you are saying you still enjoy them btw, it's just this list covers a wide range of production values and objective quality. Like Conan the Destroyer was C movie material, but Barbarian I think deserves more credit :).

Azilut: Well, this is where you start getting into trouble when you talk about "bad movies" - what do you mean by "bad"? Unless people are more specific, I generally just assume that they're talking about enjoyably cheesy movies (whether by design or disaster) and respond accordingly.

crazy_dave: Sure ... I know :), it's hard to judge but I think even amongst cheese there are different levels. Of course where people draw the line is going to be different, so ... you know ... carry on :)

Azilut: Oh I agree with you. But when I nerd out and start describing bad movie theory and taxonomy to people, they tend to get this funny look on their faces and then run away and/or apply for restraining orders.

Nirth: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Army of Darkness
Meet the Spartans
The Punisher(2004)
The Core
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and an absolute favourite: The Room!

ReynardFox: Oh you did NOT just call Army of Darkness a bad movie...

ReynardFox: Battlefield Earth, no question.

It is a perfect bad movie, a true train wreck in in every conceivable way, so completely and utterly devoid of competence or intelligence that I just find it mesmerizing.

aluinie: For me it is Flash Gordon the acting is terrible the script so bad the lines spoken make me want to scream but the music makes up for it and it has plenty of action to boot.

Kunovski: does Sucker Punch count?

it got very bad reviews all around, but I love it :)

Nirth: I can't say I find it that well done to be honest, it's mediocre I guess but I find it bloody hilarious so it becomes one of those movies I find artistically rather poor (at least in execution) but they managed to get something right.

Azilut: Does it make you as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of kerbango?