The 50 Most Entertainingly Craptacular Films of All Time
08.15.11 at 3:02 pm
Burnsy
Frankenhooker is such an unheralded gem of a film.
08.15.11 at 3:05 pm
Dustin Rowles
Back in the days of VHS, the Frankenhooker box at Blockbuster had a button you could push, and the box would say, “Do me!” And so, that’s what every teenager in every small town in America would do on Friday nights in 1991. Go to Blockbuster to push that button. Over and over and over again.
08.15.11 at 3:29 pm
admin
I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to forgive you for including Pitch Black in this list, Rowles.
08.15.11 at 3:45 pm
The Middle Todryk.
“They Live” doesn’t belong here. John Carpenter knew quite well that he was making a cheesy film. This list should be populated by films that don’t actually know how dumb they are.
And that film is quite smart.
08.15.11 at 4:18 pm
Steve
Cobra, Over the Top, Demolition Man, The Specialist AND Assassins? Someone here is a Stallone fan lol. I’d have put “Tango and Cash” on there as well.
08.15.11 at 4:59 pm
dancingBaptist
Is it any coincidence that two of these films start Vanilla Ice?
I think not.
08.15.11 at 5:06 pm
245Trioxin
Conan the Barbarian, Pitch Black and The Mummy are all good films. Its absolutely silly to have them on a list like this. Most of the list matches the criteria that you set forth (highly entertaining crap that works for some odd reason), however those three films are actually well made and not goofy laugh-fests. The Mummy sequels are truly awful in every way, but the original is highly entertaining and very charming (almost on par with the first two sequels to Raiders of the Lost Ark). Conan the Destroyer and The Chronicles of Riddick are the ones that belong on this list. They are cinematic failures that still hold some entertainment value.
08.15.11 at 5:48 pm
Molly
Dude, where is Nic Cage’s “The Wicker Man”? That’s one of the best comedies of the last ten years!
08.15.11 at 5:54 pm
TheYellowSlant
This is more of a clerical thing, but could you have a next slide button at the bottom of the page? It’s kind of a pain to scroll back up.
/old-man-talk
08.15.11 at 6:10 pm
sevechild
Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo!
08.15.11 at 7:00 pm
CB
Should I be ashamed of the fact that I’ve seen 25 of these, or ashamed that I didn’t score higher?
08.15.11 at 8:56 pm
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
I will always remember They Live as the movie with the most awesomely slow fight scene ever.
08.15.11 at 10:27 pm
Spencer Tracy
Encino Man. That is all.
08.15.11 at 11:13 pm
Unobtainium
Where is The Core!!!
08.16.11 at 12:23 am
Me
Put. The bunny. Back in. The box. Con Air is a goddamned national treasure. (NO PUN INTENDED HAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
08.16.11 at 1:27 am
porky1
This list is only 49. For some reason Conan the Barbarian got out of your “Best movies of all time” list and slipped in with this other crap.
08.16.11 at 5:27 am
Blipbloopblap
I’ve actually seen all of these, some more than once. They’re not award material, but they’re excellent for when you don’t feel like being preached to, or made to reflect on life after watching one. Plus most of them are not crap, they are actually quite good in terms of production value, cast and story lines (compared to todays average budget movies).
08.16.11 at 10:27 am
Lunchbox
Yep, my suspicions were correct, Rowles is an idiot!
08.16.11 at 10:46 am
Tron67
Where are all the Milla Jovovich movies? Fifth Element, anything Resident Evil, etc. They define Craptacular!
08.16.11 at 11:09 am
Okuma
How can you call “Grandma’s Boy” a craptacular movie? It’s hilarious!
Also, I’ve seen most of these, and yes I love them.
08.16.11 at 11:22 am
rockseven
Nice try, but this thing could have been researched better. I agree with about half of these entries. The other half are either legit good films or movies so bad they have zero entertainment value. Swap out “Barbarian” for “Destroyer” in the Conan entry, add more Swayze- Point Break and Red Dawn come to mind. Swap Pitch Black for the first Fast & Furious movie. Less Michael Bay and more B-movies like Gymkata and Hard Ticket to Hawaii. Trade Last Action Hero for Commando. More effort, man!
08.16.11 at 11:33 am
krom
Starship Troopers should top this list. Hands down, the best worst movie ever.
08.16.11 at 12:00 pm
Kevin
Grandma’s Boy is the funniest movie EVER!!!
08.16.11 at 12:13 pm
porky1
Upon further review, I’d like to add Burton’s “Planet of the Apes” remake to the list. I watched it again last night just to double check that it was indeed terrible, and it was…and yet I was thoroughly entertained by Chimps jumping 30 feet through the air like they had jet shoes, Michael Clarke Duncan delivering his lines without a hint of irony, and Mark Wahlberg giving his usual performance, featuring several uses of his patented “Wheezy and Confounded” delivery.
08.16.11 at 4:47 pm
Jeffrey
We all know what these movies are about, right? Would have been a much better feature to list each movie’s shitastic accomplishments.
08.16.11 at 6:03 pm
Mike Pants
Excellent list! I would like to add Reign of Fire, because: dragons.
08.16.11 at 8:59 pm
Ovamiat
I know of a few movies that were missed.
Super Mario Bros., Avatar (!), Plan 9 From Outer Space, Species, An American Werewolf in Paris, Wishmaster (any of the four, especially the last two; Wishmaster 4 is a glorified porno)
08.16.11 at 9:11 pm
Ocelotty
Spontaneous Human Combustion? (Tobe Hooper)So crap it was unbelievable and it got more crap as the movie progressed
08.16.11 at 9:21 pm
LarryBerger
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08.16.11 at 9:34 pm
BadKarma
The Rock? I feel like a fool to step in and defend the honor of “The Rock,” but here I go anyway. I know it wasn’t “Schindler’s List” but I hardly think The Rock was a bad movie on any level. It was a good action movie.
08.16.11 at 10:15 pm
phisherman
Whoa, this list has a huge gaping hole. Why is “Big Trouble in Little China” not on this list? That has to be the best bad movie of all time. Kurt Russell, a wise cracking chinaman, karate, monsters and magic. Need I say more.
08.16.11 at 11:41 pm
Dude Manrod
The trailer for the Cursed is the wrong movie. Christina Ricci version is just as shitacular as that one though.
08.17.11 at 12:12 am
TehComedian
Great list! And you had maximum overdrive on there! Kudos. I’d like to add mindhunters and wilie dynamite to get some blaxploitation on the list
08.17.11 at 1:21 am
Freedom Chipmunk
Someone has a love/hate relationship with Bruckheimer/Bay.
08.17.11 at 5:40 am
james
they forgot Highlander i mean if beastmaster is 20 then Highlander should be top 10 (There can be only 1)
08.17.11 at 9:52 am
Rich Mahogany
Word bitch, Phantoms like a motherfucker! What’s up now?
08.17.11 at 10:26 am
Q Ball
Is it bad that I have seen all but 2 of these movies?
08.17.11 at 12:46 pm
Deux Deux Deux
So am I to understand Hudson Fucking Hawk isn’t on this list?
08.17.11 at 1:30 pm
James D
Any craptacular film list that doesn’t start with “Battlefield Earth” is, well, a craptacular list.
08.17.11 at 5:48 pm
Eljacobo
Yeah starship troopers really should have been on the list.
08.17.11 at 7:45 pm
lol
Your coding sucks.
08.17.11 at 9:47 pm
Hairbob
3000 Miles to Graceland. Greatest awful yet undeniably entertaining movie ever.
08.17.11 at 10:25 pm
Chris M
‘They Live’ ?!?!?!?!
That is enough to completely discount this list.
08.18.11 at 1:49 am
Rodion
The Mummy was a fantastic movie. Shame on you for not being able to enjoy yourself.
08.18.11 at 10:22 am
Taco_Jones
Some of these are bad movies that are fun to watch, some of these are actual good movies, and a lot of these are just unenjoyable movies.
08.18.11 at 3:39 pm
ThisGirl
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa..Grandma’s Boy!! Really! That movie is HILARIOUS!!! You don’t know what you’re talking about. At all. Come on, man.
Where’s “Driven”? another Sly Stallone epic that was “based on” then rookie and non-existent ChampCar driver, Jimmy Bly – (Me!) what a POS That was too! I want Two hours and then Ten Bucks back!
08.19.11 at 3:15 pm
Mike Shields
What? No House of Psychotic Women?
No Billy Zane films.
08.19.11 at 3:25 pm
An Indian
@Taco_Jones adopt me !!!
08.19.11 at 4:06 pm
gazebo
Practically all the movies Dolph Lundgren is in should be included on this list. His movies are mostly pretty horribly acted and over the top action that they become fun to watch!
08.19.11 at 6:04 pm
Unruly Monkey
You spelled canister like Lannister. I like you. And this list is mostly a good one.
08.20.11 at 3:03 pm
Eme
Before I even started reading the list of the 50 Most Entertaining Craptacular Movies Of All Time, I couldn’t help but think of my two favorites. Basket Case & my top pick…..Re-Animator. Seen it at least 10 tens over the years. Turned lots of friends on to it, who also liked it it. It’s one of those movies you just have to watch with a group of friends! Fun & freaky! Imagine my surprise when both of my faves made the list!!! Unfortunately alot of these movies are not really all that crappy. I was hoping for a list of really off the wall flicks…..I need some recommendations! Most of these movies are just ordinary run of the mill flicks. Not great/not bad. I’ve seen the majority of these movies….Re-Animator trumps them all. Of course you have to be a bit twisted to like a movie like this. And you can’t have an aversion to a “bit” of blood. Love it. It’s a classic!
08.22.11 at 1:50 pm
Tommy Wisseau
how could you foget my mastapiece THE ROOM? i don’t mean for this list of craptacular movies, but your list of best films of all-time.
09.02.11 at 6:17 pm
Your criteria
What is it? Conan? Swap that for Commando. The Rock got a Criterion release. How about swapping that with JCVD in Cyborg? And there is a distinct lack of craptastic horror films on the list. Tremors? Piranha (the original)? Jason X? And how is Cliffhanger not top 5? Average rock climber-5’7″ 155 lbs 14″ arms. Stallone- 5″6 200lbs 18″ arms. John Lithgow chewing up the scenery as a bad guy? The opening shot? The in flight robbery? Craptastic!
09.05.11 at 2:07 pm
Celly C
They Live and Pitch Black? Seriously? Demolition Man is pretty underrated (it’s also eerily becoming true). Bad Boys, Con Air, and even Independence day were all entertaining movies too. You’re buggin’
09.06.11 at 5:18 pm
Carlos C.
I can’t stand it when a self proclaimed film expert tries to define a bad movie by comparing it to either an over rated piece of foreign crap or some high brow drawn out drama (that is only made to dry hump the Academy Awards committee to get a Oscar). Dude do yourself and the rest of the Internet a favor, save you pretentiousness list for some girl you are trying to impress and let the rest of the public (who don’t think of a real concessions stand sells cappuccino) decide what is a crappy movie.
09.08.11 at 11:17 am
Bob
It makes me sad that I’ve seen all 4 of the “straight-up bad” “films” you listed in the intro.
09.11.11 at 6:06 pm
BeckEye
Seems like most of these are action movies, which all sort of run together after a while. Here are a few bad flicks I find supremely entertaining: “Two of a Kind,” “Fraternity Vacation,” and, of course, “Troll 2.” But probably one of the best times I’ve ever had in a group dissing of a movie was during a viewing of “My Chauffeur.” It’s just terrible, but so much fun to rip apart.
09.12.11 at 9:15 pm
Chris H
to James D.: Battlefield Earth was NOT craptacular, it was just crap. 2 hours of my life I will never get back. To qualify as craptacular it has to have some entertainment value
09.13.11 at 10:18 am
Randalthor
Any movie that’s intentionally cheesy and doesn’t take itself seriously in any way shape or form doesn’t belong on this list. In other words, Beerfest, Shoot ‘em Up, and They Live shouldn’t be here.
09.14.11 at 11:23 pm
ererererererer
FACE OFF
09.22.11 at 12:41 pm
Silevmkd
You didn’t include Shark Attack III! That stuff is GENIUS.
09.22.11 at 5:07 pm
Nugs
Shoot Em Up and Crank are actually pretty awesome.
Other than that, I actually own five of the other movies on this list. Unironically.
I’m not saying which ones though, because I’m embarrassed. *dies a little*
09.29.11 at 3:41 am
josh
you missed the best bad movie ever…
Mom and Dad Save the World
10.02.11 at 6:41 pm
Fredo
Bad Boys is on this list as craptacular? How dare you?!
10.04.11 at 9:43 am
chris
A craptacular movie list withought trolll 2?
thats shameful
10.05.11 at 1:25 am
sean
wow…i never would have thought transporter would have been on this list…
There is a film, entitled City Dragon, that I believe should be mentioned. I discovered it my freshman year, at the shitty gas station across the street from my dorm. Every human being on Earth should be required by law to watch this masterpiece of a film.
That is all.
10.06.11 at 10:41 am
I Am The Axe
A friend sent me a link to this list, comparing it to how completely horrible the placements were on the Rolling Stone 500 Albums list. I figured he was just being his usual bitch-about-anything self but, now I know he was right! Outside of Showgirls, NONE of these are “craptacular.” If you redid the list and included movies that actually ARE entertaining-yet-terrible, these need to be on it: Conan the Destroyer, All three Star Wars prequels, Red Heat, Vibes, anything Uwe Boll has directed (except Rampage), Megaforce (which is actually AWESOME!), Too Young To Die (feat. Gene Simmons as a transvestite), Miami Vice, and plenty of others.
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Frankenhooker is such an unheralded gem of a film.
Back in the days of VHS, the Frankenhooker box at Blockbuster had a button you could push, and the box would say, “Do me!” And so, that’s what every teenager in every small town in America would do on Friday nights in 1991. Go to Blockbuster to push that button. Over and over and over again.
I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to forgive you for including Pitch Black in this list, Rowles.
“They Live” doesn’t belong here. John Carpenter knew quite well that he was making a cheesy film. This list should be populated by films that don’t actually know how dumb they are.
And that film is quite smart.
Cobra, Over the Top, Demolition Man, The Specialist AND Assassins? Someone here is a Stallone fan lol. I’d have put “Tango and Cash” on there as well.
Is it any coincidence that two of these films start Vanilla Ice?
I think not.
Conan the Barbarian, Pitch Black and The Mummy are all good films. Its absolutely silly to have them on a list like this. Most of the list matches the criteria that you set forth (highly entertaining crap that works for some odd reason), however those three films are actually well made and not goofy laugh-fests. The Mummy sequels are truly awful in every way, but the original is highly entertaining and very charming (almost on par with the first two sequels to Raiders of the Lost Ark). Conan the Destroyer and The Chronicles of Riddick are the ones that belong on this list. They are cinematic failures that still hold some entertainment value.
Dude, where is Nic Cage’s “The Wicker Man”? That’s one of the best comedies of the last ten years!
This is more of a clerical thing, but could you have a next slide button at the bottom of the page? It’s kind of a pain to scroll back up.
/old-man-talk
Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo!
Should I be ashamed of the fact that I’ve seen 25 of these, or ashamed that I didn’t score higher?
I will always remember They Live as the movie with the most awesomely slow fight scene ever.
Encino Man. That is all.
Where is The Core!!!
Put. The bunny. Back in. The box. Con Air is a goddamned national treasure. (NO PUN INTENDED HAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
This list is only 49. For some reason Conan the Barbarian got out of your “Best movies of all time” list and slipped in with this other crap.
I’ve actually seen all of these, some more than once. They’re not award material, but they’re excellent for when you don’t feel like being preached to, or made to reflect on life after watching one. Plus most of them are not crap, they are actually quite good in terms of production value, cast and story lines (compared to todays average budget movies).
Yep, my suspicions were correct, Rowles is an idiot!
Where are all the Milla Jovovich movies? Fifth Element, anything Resident Evil, etc. They define Craptacular!
How can you call “Grandma’s Boy” a craptacular movie? It’s hilarious!
Also, I’ve seen most of these, and yes I love them.
Nice try, but this thing could have been researched better. I agree with about half of these entries. The other half are either legit good films or movies so bad they have zero entertainment value. Swap out “Barbarian” for “Destroyer” in the Conan entry, add more Swayze- Point Break and Red Dawn come to mind. Swap Pitch Black for the first Fast & Furious movie. Less Michael Bay and more B-movies like Gymkata and Hard Ticket to Hawaii. Trade Last Action Hero for Commando. More effort, man!
Starship Troopers should top this list. Hands down, the best worst movie ever.
Grandma’s Boy is the funniest movie EVER!!!
Upon further review, I’d like to add Burton’s “Planet of the Apes” remake to the list. I watched it again last night just to double check that it was indeed terrible, and it was…and yet I was thoroughly entertained by Chimps jumping 30 feet through the air like they had jet shoes, Michael Clarke Duncan delivering his lines without a hint of irony, and Mark Wahlberg giving his usual performance, featuring several uses of his patented “Wheezy and Confounded” delivery.
We all know what these movies are about, right? Would have been a much better feature to list each movie’s shitastic accomplishments.
Excellent list! I would like to add Reign of Fire, because: dragons.
I know of a few movies that were missed.
Super Mario Bros., Avatar (!), Plan 9 From Outer Space, Species, An American Werewolf in Paris, Wishmaster (any of the four, especially the last two; Wishmaster 4 is a glorified porno)
Spontaneous Human Combustion? (Tobe Hooper)So crap it was unbelievable and it got more crap as the movie progressed
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The Rock? I feel like a fool to step in and defend the honor of “The Rock,” but here I go anyway. I know it wasn’t “Schindler’s List” but I hardly think The Rock was a bad movie on any level. It was a good action movie.
Whoa, this list has a huge gaping hole. Why is “Big Trouble in Little China” not on this list? That has to be the best bad movie of all time. Kurt Russell, a wise cracking chinaman, karate, monsters and magic. Need I say more.
The trailer for the Cursed is the wrong movie. Christina Ricci version is just as shitacular as that one though.
Great list! And you had maximum overdrive on there! Kudos. I’d like to add mindhunters and wilie dynamite to get some blaxploitation on the list
Someone has a love/hate relationship with Bruckheimer/Bay.
they forgot Highlander i mean if beastmaster is 20 then Highlander should be top 10 (There can be only 1)
Word bitch, Phantoms like a motherfucker! What’s up now?
Is it bad that I have seen all but 2 of these movies?
So am I to understand Hudson Fucking Hawk isn’t on this list?
Any craptacular film list that doesn’t start with “Battlefield Earth” is, well, a craptacular list.
Yeah starship troopers really should have been on the list.
Your coding sucks.
3000 Miles to Graceland. Greatest awful yet undeniably entertaining movie ever.
‘They Live’ ?!?!?!?!
That is enough to completely discount this list.
The Mummy was a fantastic movie. Shame on you for not being able to enjoy yourself.
Some of these are bad movies that are fun to watch, some of these are actual good movies, and a lot of these are just unenjoyable movies.
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa..Grandma’s Boy!! Really! That movie is HILARIOUS!!! You don’t know what you’re talking about. At all. Come on, man.
Airborne should have been on this list!
[www.imdb.com]
Where’s “Driven”? another Sly Stallone epic that was “based on” then rookie and non-existent ChampCar driver, Jimmy Bly – (Me!) what a POS That was too! I want Two hours and then Ten Bucks back!
What? No House of Psychotic Women?
No Billy Zane films.
@Taco_Jones adopt me !!!
Practically all the movies Dolph Lundgren is in should be included on this list. His movies are mostly pretty horribly acted and over the top action that they become fun to watch!
You spelled canister like Lannister. I like you. And this list is mostly a good one.
Before I even started reading the list of the 50 Most Entertaining Craptacular Movies Of All Time, I couldn’t help but think of my two favorites. Basket Case & my top pick…..Re-Animator. Seen it at least 10 tens over the years. Turned lots of friends on to it, who also liked it it. It’s one of those movies you just have to watch with a group of friends! Fun & freaky! Imagine my surprise when both of my faves made the list!!! Unfortunately alot of these movies are not really all that crappy. I was hoping for a list of really off the wall flicks…..I need some recommendations! Most of these movies are just ordinary run of the mill flicks. Not great/not bad. I’ve seen the majority of these movies….Re-Animator trumps them all. Of course you have to be a bit twisted to like a movie like this. And you can’t have an aversion to a “bit” of blood. Love it. It’s a classic!
how could you foget my mastapiece THE ROOM? i don’t mean for this list of craptacular movies, but your list of best films of all-time.
What is it? Conan? Swap that for Commando. The Rock got a Criterion release. How about swapping that with JCVD in Cyborg? And there is a distinct lack of craptastic horror films on the list. Tremors? Piranha (the original)? Jason X? And how is Cliffhanger not top 5? Average rock climber-5’7″ 155 lbs 14″ arms. Stallone- 5″6 200lbs 18″ arms. John Lithgow chewing up the scenery as a bad guy? The opening shot? The in flight robbery? Craptastic!
They Live and Pitch Black? Seriously? Demolition Man is pretty underrated (it’s also eerily becoming true). Bad Boys, Con Air, and even Independence day were all entertaining movies too. You’re buggin’
I can’t stand it when a self proclaimed film expert tries to define a bad movie by comparing it to either an over rated piece of foreign crap or some high brow drawn out drama (that is only made to dry hump the Academy Awards committee to get a Oscar). Dude do yourself and the rest of the Internet a favor, save you pretentiousness list for some girl you are trying to impress and let the rest of the public (who don’t think of a real concessions stand sells cappuccino) decide what is a crappy movie.
It makes me sad that I’ve seen all 4 of the “straight-up bad” “films” you listed in the intro.
Seems like most of these are action movies, which all sort of run together after a while. Here are a few bad flicks I find supremely entertaining: “Two of a Kind,” “Fraternity Vacation,” and, of course, “Troll 2.” But probably one of the best times I’ve ever had in a group dissing of a movie was during a viewing of “My Chauffeur.” It’s just terrible, but so much fun to rip apart.
to James D.: Battlefield Earth was NOT craptacular, it was just crap. 2 hours of my life I will never get back. To qualify as craptacular it has to have some entertainment value
Any movie that’s intentionally cheesy and doesn’t take itself seriously in any way shape or form doesn’t belong on this list. In other words, Beerfest, Shoot ‘em Up, and They Live shouldn’t be here.
FACE OFF
You didn’t include Shark Attack III! That stuff is GENIUS.
Shoot Em Up and Crank are actually pretty awesome.
Other than that, I actually own five of the other movies on this list. Unironically.
I’m not saying which ones though, because I’m embarrassed. *dies a little*
you missed the best bad movie ever…
Mom and Dad Save the World
Bad Boys is on this list as craptacular? How dare you?!
A craptacular movie list withought trolll 2?
thats shameful
wow…i never would have thought transporter would have been on this list…
[www.imdb.com]
There is a film, entitled City Dragon, that I believe should be mentioned. I discovered it my freshman year, at the shitty gas station across the street from my dorm. Every human being on Earth should be required by law to watch this masterpiece of a film.
That is all.
A friend sent me a link to this list, comparing it to how completely horrible the placements were on the Rolling Stone 500 Albums list. I figured he was just being his usual bitch-about-anything self but, now I know he was right! Outside of Showgirls, NONE of these are “craptacular.” If you redid the list and included movies that actually ARE entertaining-yet-terrible, these need to be on it: Conan the Destroyer, All three Star Wars prequels, Red Heat, Vibes, anything Uwe Boll has directed (except Rampage), Megaforce (which is actually AWESOME!), Too Young To Die (feat. Gene Simmons as a transvestite), Miami Vice, and plenty of others.