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Originally posted by Mutt
For me to enjoy a really bad shlock movie I have to have the feeling that everybody involved was aiming for much more, that they took the film as seriously as Francis Ford Coppola took Apocalypse now. That's what makes it good to me. I don't want the director to be in on the joke.
That's why that Frankenhooker movie doesn't look like I'd like it. It looks like it's an intentionally bad movie. Samuel Arkoff made movies like that, he was just a smart businessman who found a formula to make a lot of money. He never had any pretensions that he was making art.
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For the most part, I agree that the good bad movies are those in which the director is seriously creating his masterpiece (or attempting to). But, camp movies (which are intentionally bad) can be fun too, it's just a different mindset when watching.
Some other good bad movies I enjoy that make others cringe are:
Battlefield Earth (one of the few big budget bad movies on my list)
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (the casting of Gunnar "Leatherface" Hanson as the leader of the chainsaw cult was pure genius.)
Anything Troma
Anything Fred Olen Ray
Anything Jim Wynorski (the only man to have a shower scene in every movie he has ever made)
Anything Herschell Gordon Lewis (ok, Gruesome Twosome is hard for even me to watch, but we'll forgive him the minor misstep after such classics as Wizard Of Gore, The Gore Gore Girls (Henny Youngman rules), 2000 Maniacs and the godfather of splatter movies: BloodFeast!)
Anything Frank Hennenlotter (ok, so his only movies are the Basket Case series and Frankenhooker)
Speaking of good bad movies, I finally got to see "The Pool" last night (called "The Swimming Pool" in Europe). For people like me who have a weak spot for slasher movies, this is a ncie throwback to the classic splatter movies, not bloodless drivel like "Scream" and "I Know What You Did...". It has all the standard cliches, bad acting and wooden dialog, but it delviers the goods when the machette starts to swing...let's just say, you'll always be a little apprehensive about sliding down a dark waterslide after watching this bad boy. The location is unique (a HUGE inddor swimming pool), the motive of the killer is very poor, but there are a few scenes that current watered-down Dawson's fucking Creek bullshit American slashers wouldn't touch. The movie is German made and or a directing debut, the movie is technically a good one, with great lighting, effects and tons of the red stuff....run, don't walk to NetFlix.com and put this bad boy at the top of your queue ;)))