What's one of the worst 80s movies you've ever seen? I'll go first:
Leonard Part 6. I walked out of that movie as a kid. You know how much a movie has to suck for a kid to walk out?
my firm belief this is the worst movie ever made
I haven't seen Rock N Roll Nightmare but thanks to MST3K I have seen Zombie Nightmare which is another movie with that feathered hair Hercules singer Jon Mikl Thor.
Jon Mikl Thor is a Canadian Treasure, had the pleasure of meeting him a few times, incredibly nice dude; always looking for that next profitable venture
I believe I saw that one .. was damn hard to find .. watch RARN. So damn good . You’ll probably throw your remote through the tv at the twist
I would highly recommend the Rifftrax version of Rock N Roll Nightmare then
I collected the cards but that movie was awful!
I had a garbage pail kid sticker stuck to my dresser for years and years and years.
My brother and I loved that disgusting movie.
I don't know how my folks let us watch that mess a million times on repeat.
Doubt they knew what we were watching.
My brother had a big collection until my mom finally looked at them and promptly threw them into the fire. How times have changed!
The only thing I know about it is the tagline "out of the garbage pail and into your hearts"
But… why?… I’ve had a fear of life sized puppets since I was a kid. “Today’s special” and other shows totally messed me up. Garbage pail kids eyes just moved weird and they were hideous and .. I dunno.. their ambition to let you love them despite it all was just too …. Ambitious ..
Man, the only thing I remember about Todays Special was Jodie. Then again that was a long damn time ago.
Yeah same here .. I don’t even know the things name.. the night watchman puppet.. dude didn’t even have eyes
Pretty sure that puppets name Sam Crenshaw.
That's a weird memory flash!
I had the cards, I never knew that this movie existed. Now I want to see it. haha
It's.... definitely one of the movies of all time.
Our local movie theater had the GarbagebPail Kids poster up permanently. Young me would stare at it while standing in line. Chilling.
Me, too. They are the stuff of actual nightmares, not the silly little toys, but the monstrosities in this movie.
I thought this was every Paul Rudd movie ever..
Did you see the one where Rudd claimed to be showing off his new podcast and just played the audio from Mac and Me? Pure genius
I knew Mac n Me was going to come up. 🤣
Saw this in a theatre near my house last year, which was playing a bunch of awful movies for fun. I was one of the only people in the theatre. It was a delight.
Leonard Part 6
That might be mine as well but it's hard to say as I haven't seen it since the 80s and I have only a few memories of it. But even as a little kid I thought it was the stupidest shit I'd ever seen and it's the only movie I can think of where the star told people not to waste their money on it.
In all fairness, I probably haven't seen it since the early 90s. I don't remember a whole lot except thinking it was horribly stupid.
I've never seen that one but I've heard it's bad
Incredibly bad, although not the worst thing Cosby has done...
Omg thank you for the reminder, I was forced to see that movie in the theater, for a birthday party, when I was a kid
It's bad, but it's kinda meant to be. I enjoyed it as a kid.
Agreed! “Melted Butter!” Hahaha. And WTH was the ladling soup on each other.
Barely, barely finished this one.
Mac and Me.
The one good thing about Mac and Me is that it gave us one of the best running gags in talk show history.
I've probably seen that one a hundred times. My brother loved that movie.
I'll go whatevereth: Howard the Duck. What's up with the whole bath scene???
I'll argue that it's so bad, it's actually brilliant !!
Plus, Lea Thompson is in it...
I loved this movie as a kid, so I watched it recently....Why did Lea fuck Howard? That whole scene was fucking nightmare fuel.
Even watching as a child that scene made me feel so weird. Like, what’s wrong with her to want to do that to a duck? I had a massive crush on that character too and was so weirded out by it. BUT it strangely gave me hope that if a duck can pull a 10/10 I should be able too
I will never not share this:
I was 12, and I walked out
Howard the Duck is amazing
Gymkata. Like, come on.
Lol. You're like the third person I've ever seen to know that that movie exists. It was awesome though, c'mon. Fell right in line with American ninja and those types of movies.
I feel like martial arts movies, especially 80s martial arts movies, deserve a pass. Who cares about dialog or story? I just wanna see the hero kick people in the face!
Make me #4 then, they used to play that shit on HBO a ton around 87, the full front male nudity was shocking and oddly placed. Decent martial arts tho ngl
Fond memories watching this movie with my cousin.
I can't remember if it's a show or movie that this character was in but they loved Gymkata lol.
Is it weird whenever i hear a movie is terrible, i automatically wanna see it?
No, that’s usually normal behavior.
The Toxic Avenger (is equally terrible and awesome)
I believe you meant to say it's just awesome.
Some of the first movie boobs I ever saw, don't you dare speak ill of Toxie
Pretty tame for a troma team flick.
Toxic Avenger totally does what it is supposed to and well. GPK is....well garbage.
Dude, did you just say a Troma movie was bad? Did you have a stroke or something?
Even the cartoon they made was awesome!!!
My GPK collection from when i was 9 yo sold for $37k. Best movie ever IMO. The whole thing was Punk AF. Some little girls collected Cabbage patch kids, I collected the babies nobody else would love. The market rewarded me.
Saturday the Fourteenth is pretty beautifully terrible
Saint Elmo’s Fire.
I know, it didn’t even have Elmo in it at all! Not even a cameo. Talk about a bait and switch.
That's a movie my parents have on VHS that in 30 years I've never once seen touched. So it must suck because there were points when we only had VHS tapes to watch.
Wife and I were alive (but young) when this came out. Had seen all the John Hughs films, but never saw this. Brat Pack doc came on the other day - we were like sure, we'll see that. Was a big R rated film before we were allowed. Must be pretty good.
It was in fact, not good. Bad plot, bad acting, whole group of protagonists were bad people. Miserable 1.5 hours.
Fuzzbucket?
“Fuzzbucket ,I love you .”
It looks like a Goosebumps book cover art...
Funny you should say that as goosebumps has recently produced a series of books based around GBK and you’re right the covers for those are of the same style
You should watch it. It's... Something.
Doubt I could last 10 mins now but my brother and I had that one on repeat when we were kids.
The Hotel New Hampshire. Rob Lowe and Jodie Foster. It's a movie that tries to be a light hearted comedy but had a brutal gang rape scene with Foster. It's just awful, awful,awful.
Krull (1983)) what a glorious train wreck
Highly recommend
Krull was GLORIOUS.
It had it all, man. That badass throwing star made of curved knives, the glave! That comes back to you magically after throwing it. That giant mutant demon at the end! The weird little shape shifting British chap who delivers some great, badly written "comic" relief dialogue. The mix of fantasy with sci-fi on a kindergarten play's budget. That creepy old man wizard getting possessed by a black eyed doppelganger. The god-damned awesome half lady half spider horror show that still haunts my nightmares occasionally, holy shit that's terrifying to a seven year old, let me tell you!
It's chock full of passion, cheese, and charm! It's like they sat down with a plan to copy Willow and Star Wars but used half the movies budget to get fucked up on ketamine. And, for it's time, the special effects were GOOD man. In a super 80s way.
I will die on this hill.
Is that the one with the super shiney armor?
As an adult, part of the funb of Krull is "which background actor will go on to be much more famous than the alleged stars of the movie?"
I think Liam Neeson won the contest.
I played the hell out of the (admittedly middling) arcade game, though, at the time.
Whatever else you can say about it, Krull's soundtrack goes hard. Like, even when the film isn't doing anything interesting or exciting, the soundtrack is right there, like "Fuck YEAH, these GUYS, they're AWESOME! They're WALKING across some GROUND!"
Soundtrack is same composer as Star Trek: The Motion Picture (also released that year) and yeah, great score.
TIL dude, you’ve just convinced me a rewatch and a fat J is the perfect way to spend my fourth 🍺
Excuse you, Kroll is fantastic.
The Blue Lagoon, I wanna know who thought it would be a good idea to make a movie about incest 😭
A lot of early Brooke Shields work is pretty suspect. This movie, Pretty Baby, and the Calvin Klein ads, poor girl was getting exploited to high hell.
She was eleven in Pretty Baby. ELEVEN.
Pre-teen incest makes it extra fun. What were their parents thinking letting them in this movie???
Ator the Invincible. Trash movie by Joe d' Amato. It's so bad it's good so I guess that is its saving grace.
Was this the one they did on MST3K?
Hardware. Some very badly done post apocalyptic nonsense. Lasted 45m and bailed. The bar has never been lowered.
Any movie with Ministry on the soundtrack and clips of super early Gwar concerts can't be that bad, man, c'mon!
Every list now shows "Henry and June" as the first NC-17 movie. I'd swear "Hardware" came out before it and was also NC-17. (It shows "R" most places now.)
Must be Mandela . . .
I'm surprised to find Hardware here because it shows up on so many "10 best" lists. I saw it a few years ago because I was going through Richard Stanley's body of work. It didn't strike me as great but I didn't fight it unwatchable, either.
I saw this in the fucking theater. jfc.
My mate used to collect their cards and stickers and gave them to me. He had 2 whole sets and lots of spares was gonna chuck them so gave them to me. I completely forgot all about them for years. Til I ended up selling one complete set in mint condition for $1500 on ebay and got nearly $3k all up selling all of them. From memory the movie did suck lol
Dang. Guess I shouldn't have stuck the one that was on my dresser.
Which by the way wouldn't come off. Had that on there till the dresser fell apart. And I was in my late 20s.
The correct answer is "Alien from L.A." starring Kathy Ireland, you're welcome.
I never knew they made this into a movie. Now I’ll have to watch it
Mac and me
I saw one of the last remaining prints of this at a theater near me years ago. An unbelievably bad film. Fun to see in a packed theate, though.
“We can do anything by working with each other.”
Troll. I don’t remember much about it other than not a lot happened and it was incredibly boring. Troll 2 on the other hand…
I used to get Garbage Pail Kids on vhs regularly - a real morbid fascination with this one. From the pretty psychotic bullies and both intentional and unintentional grotesquerie and uncanny valley-ness of the Kids themselves, it was a tonally weird movie. I always wondered why some of the more iconic Kids weren’t used. But the bit that always got me was the state home for the ugly and the fact that they’re too late to save the other Kids - who I always imagined were crushed in a garbage truck.
Troll 2 is the absolute worst movie ever, which is of course why there’s a cult following.
I had to see it when I heard about it. Bought the dvd and watched it once. Wow, it’s just SOOOOOOOOOO bad!!!
Watchers - I loved the book, and then saw they made movie of it but changed the main character from being an ex-special forces guy to a kid, one of the Corey’s at that.
I like a lot of his novels, but yeah, he has some bad luck when it comes to movie adaptations. Though I liked Odd Thomas, too bad there won't be any follow-up movies for that unless they start over.
This movie was terrible. I have the DVD and I’ve been trying to get rid of it for years. No takers.
Master of the Universe piece of crab.
It started so promisingly too. if they had changed nothing about the essence of the plot but kept it on Eternia it could have been amazing.
Bringing it to earth was such a shit decision
I thought this was the Masters of the Universe piece of crab.
I love the movie. Frank Langella steals the show. He’s amazing.
I just try to imagine it as a holodeck program made by a young Tom Paris who has the hots for Courtney Cox.
I was just saying to someone how this he man would be awesome to see nowadays. That and thunder cats.
There it is
Killer Klowns from outer space
Biker Chicks in Zombie Town
I had high hopes for Neon Maniacs (1986) but it's just shit.
The lesser Astin
But the art work was great though
What a movie poster lol
OP starting with fire!
For my money, the worst 80s movie I've seen has to be Hell of the Living Dead (AKA Virus, AKA Night of the Zombies). Its a Bruno Mattei knockoff of Dawn of the Dead and is just a painful slog to get through.
Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam.
My best friend at the time cajoled me into going to see it with him back in 1985. It was the only first run movie to ever play at our local discount, second run movie theater, and saw firsthand why it didn't play at the bigger first run theaters in our town.
It's so stupid it's obscene.
My brother and I LOVED that movie as kids! Watched it A LOT haha.
Copper Mountain (1983)
I think gpk depends on when you saw it as I absolutely love it, but that's probably massive nostalgia. Plus I collected the cards for ages
Mac and Me
Stan Lee's Lightspeed.
They put his name in the title.
Things. It’s an incoherent direct-to-video Canadian horror movie. You can watch it on RiffTrax.
Is it bad that these are all my favorite movies?
Why do you like this movie, just curious
I highly recommend watching this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3711708/
I decided to rewatch this masterpiece 35 years later. Big time crush on Tangerine. Still have the cards though.
What are your thoughts since you've rewatched it?
The cards were a different concept that somehow grew in popularity. The movie, on the other hand, was HORRIBLE. The State Home for the Ugly was hilarious. The only Dodger I recognize picks pockets for Fagin. Get bent Juice! They just can’t leave things alone. Gotta squeeze every penny from the audience. I felt the same way when I rewatched Alf.
Because it is just about an 80s movie: Things. Technically the most inept thing I’ve ever seen, and probably ever will, but somehow is kind of watchable. The Garbage Pail Kids is the only movie I have ever felt seething hatred towards while watching.
What age were you when you watched it? My brother and I were small kids in the 80s and watched that disgusting movie on repeat.
I wouldn't be able to do 10 mins anymore.
This movie was hilarious. It’s so bad it’s good
I respect your opinion but to me it was so bad it's bad
Hahahhahaha I know what you mean but I like bad movies.
A bad movie I actually enjoyed was Mac and Me.
Munchie
Munchie or Munchies?
I liked Garbage Pail Kids when I was younger. Just loved that disgusting stuff. As an adult, damn was it stupid.
I will ante up with My Pet Monster
I don't remember what yr it was but a movie called the killer tongue
The Willies
Lol
Don’t remember if the movie was any good as I was like only 7 but still have a ton of cards.
check out the pattern on those converses though!
The poster is good don't get me wrong, just not the movie.
Either Mannequin or maybe Killer Clowns From Outer Space.
Anybody remember the My Pet Monster movie?
Oh I remember from Nostalgia Critic's review
Arena (1989)
ok I haven't actually seen it, as it only lasted less than a week in the theater. Megaforce:
Fucking nightmare fuel
Ishtar, period.
I love how they copied the Marty McFly look on the poster.
Things (1989) takes the booby prize for me, and it's not close.
How have I never knew this existed? Or maybe I blocked it from my memory. Lol
Must see it now! Anyone know if it's streaming anywhere?
Abraxas
I know it’s low hanging fruit but Howard the Duck
Try watching the Care Bears movie as an adult. I don't think I've ever appreciated my parents more than when I tried to rewatch that and realized it's unwatchable.
I was 7 years old when I saw this movie. I don't even think I watched all of it. I remember thinking it was terrible a few minutes in(10-20).I loved gpk back then, and had a huge collection of the cards. Needless to say, it was a disappointing day lol.
Ratboy. God it was so bad. But if I was home sick it would be on twice that day. Damned if I didn't suffer both times. Teen Witch is another terrible yet wonderful movie. However I will always hold TW closer to my heart.
Clash of the Titans
Citizen Kane. Very confusing motion picture from the 40s presented out of order with a simply impossibly convoluted twist involving a toboggan. Balderdash.
Haha. Chuckled at this.
Has a cool cane in it, though.
Gave us one of the best episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures ever, that alone validates its existence.
Basketcase is hilariously bad and I absolutely love it.
My mom showed it to me because it was a movie that actually scared her as a kid and we laughed the whole time we watched it. Great memory.
The director, Frank Henenlotter, made a couple of sequels to that, along with a handful of other horror movies of similar quality. Worth tracking them down. Not to spoil it, but there's a great scene in his movie Brain Damage where the main character from Basket Case shows up briefly... with the basket.
Basketcase is awesome
Yeah it’s one of the better horror b’s actually.
Neverending story 2.
Technically, it's not an 80s movie. You aren't wrong though, movie was a trash fire. I remember this movie being the first time that I noticed that they re-cast the main character, took me right out.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space?
Hot take, but Evil Dead. My ex still owes me 90 minutes of my life back for that.
A nuclear hot take, Evil Dead was the vehicle that introduced the legend known as Bruce Campbell to the world!
The Outsiders….i fucking haaaaate that movie
Stay golden Ponyboy!
Top Gun
Totally agree!
The Wizard
The movie that had Fred Savage getting a 'wiz kid' to enter video game tournaments?
Yeah, it’s so bad 😎
Californiaaaaaa
It was amazing for the very small demographic it was aimed to please. 9 year old me loved it. DO NOT GO TRY TO REWATCH IT.
I wanted the Power Glove so fucking bad though.
User deleted comment
3d
Firewalker (1986)
Hellgate. It's a low budget South African horror movie, and the best comparison I can think of is to say that it's somehow in the same wheelhouse as Rock & Roll Nightmare and House II: The Second Story, but the filmmakers consistently made the worst choice in every situation.
I can't stand the movie Beaches.
The whole thing is a snowball of depression.
I remember renting this at my local small town video store (it was literally a little house in my town of 1,000) and being weirded out. I was probably 6 so it definitely left an impression on me.
Garbage pail kids scared the hell out of me as a kid .
Rock n roll nightmare .. if you haven’t seen it, watch it. B movie horror made by a feathered hair hercules singer and the twist at the end.. best twist of all time. You won’t be disappointed