150 Movies You Should Die Before You See - Miller Steve [1]
Attack of the Giant Leeches (2008)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
Bite Me! (2004)
Boogeyman (2005)
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Die Hard Dracula (1998)
Evil Bong (2006)
The Fury of the Wolfman (1972)
The Giant Claw (1957)
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Jack Frost (1997)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Kung Fu Zombie (1982)
The Manster (1959)
Monsturd (2003)
The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)
Snowbeast (1977)
The Sound of Horror (1964)
Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters (2002)
Undead or Alive (2007)
The Wasp Woman (1959)
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1961)
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
Chapter Eleven.
Mysteries of the Orient
Attack of the Monsters (1969)
Black Magic Wars (1982)
City Hunter (1993)
Fantasy Mission Force (1982)
For Your Height Only (1981)
Gammera the Invincible (1966)
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Ninja Champion (1985)
Ninja the Protector (1986)
Reincarnation (2005)
Sister Street Fighter (1974)
Chapter Twelve.
Independent Oddities
The Ape Man (1943)
Buttcrack (1998)
Cadaverella (2007)
The Creeps (1997)
Dead Dudes in the House (1991)
The Demons of Ludlow (1983)
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1980)
Gothic (1986)
Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter (2001)
Nudist Colony of the Dead (1991)
Postal (2007)
Satanic Yuppies (1996)
Skeleton Key (2006)
Suburban Sasquatch (2004)
The Witches' Mountain (1972)
Chapter Thirteen.
Strange Superheroes
Danger: Diabolik (1968)
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Sgt. Kabukiman, N.Y.P.D. (1990)
Ultrachrist! (2003)
Chapter Fourteen.
Awful Aliens
Alien Blood (1999)
Bad Channels (1992)
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Xtro (1983)
Chapter Fifteen.
Test Your Stamina
Alone in the Dark (2005)
An American Carol (2008)
The Astro-Zombies (1968)
Back From Hell (1993)
The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
The Dead Talk Back (1993)
The Evil Brain From Outer Space (1965)
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Future Force (1989)
Graveyard of Horror (1971)
Hobgoblins (1988)
The Isle of the Snake People (1971)
The Killer Eye (1999)
Laser Mission (1989)
Maniac (1934)
Monster a-Go-Go (1965)
Night Crawlers (1996)
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
Ninja Phantom Heroes (1987)
Oasis of the Zombies (1981)
Ring of Terror (1962)
Rockabilly Vampire (1996)
Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
Sin, You Sinners! (1963)
See No Evil (2006)
Skeleton Man (2004)
The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
Transylmania (2009)
UFO: Target Earth (1974)
The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
INTRODUCTION
From when I was in my early teens, about the time we were the first family in our neighborhood to have a VCR, I've had a strange fascination with what People of Taste call “bad movies.” Whether it's weak plots or just nonsensical storylines; whether it's acting on the level of a bad high school play; whether it's special effects created in someone's kitchen with a Mixmaster and a bottle of ketchup; whether it's technical incompetence on the part of some or all members of the crew; or whether it's a mind-shattering combination of all of the above, there is something magical about bad movies. Something that makes them worth the sometimes considerable effort to sit through.
After watching and reviewing thousands of movies that even the most charitable reviewer would describe as “pathetic,” I've concluded that the reason we keep coming back to bad movies and the people who make them — because, as you will see, there are filmmakers whose long lists of credits don't contain a single good movie — is because for every minute of film time that is completely unwatchable, there are ten that are full of creative insanity that the makers of mainstream movies wouldn't dare to put on screen.
We, the lovers of bad movies, dig through the piles of trash, looking for those shining gems of pure cinematic magic. We prefer that quest over the blandness and uniformity of the “good movie” and its adherence to standards determined by convention and