The Next Great RiffTrax?
by TsarStepan | created - 27 Oct 2015 | updated - 03 Feb 2016 | PublicMystery Science Theater 3000 (1988) alumni, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson, have been riffing on terrible films since their cult television show ended in 1999.
Which of these horrendously bad films* deserve the RiffTrax commentary treatment?
Let us know which of these catastrophic films most deserves mocking and derision over here.
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1. Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Dracula travels to the American West intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance', outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Melinda Casey, Virginia Christine
Votes: 2,252
2. A Force of One (1979)
PG | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the detectives of an undercover police unit are being mysteriously killed by a martial artist, a professional kickboxer is hired to assist them.
Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Chuck Norris, Clu Gulager, Ron O'Neal
Votes: 4,335 | Gross: $20.17M
3. Meteor (1979)
PG | 108 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith
Votes: 8,207
4. The Octagon (1980)
R | 103 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.
Director: Eric Karson | Stars: Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Art Hindle
Votes: 6,169 | Gross: $18.97M
5. Raise the Titanic (1980)
PG | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Once they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on Earth could reach her. But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlantic grave.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer
Votes: 5,428 | Gross: $14.82M
6. When Time Ran Out... (1980)
PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert
Votes: 3,199 | Gross: $1.70M
7. Enter the Ninja (1981)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After passing a ninja master test in Japan, Cole visits a war buddy in the Philippines. He helps him fight men, who want his buddy's plantation.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Franco Nero, Susan George, Shô Kosugi, Christopher George
Votes: 5,484
8. Chained Heat (1983)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.
Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson
Votes: 2,628 | Gross: $6.15M
9. Gymkata (1985)
R | 90 min | Action, Thriller
An American gymnast travels to a foreign country to compete in a deadly game not won by anyone other than a native in more than 900 years.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Kurt Thomas, Tetchie Agbayani, Richard Norton, Edward Michael Bell
Votes: 4,569 | Gross: $5.73M
10. Born American (1986)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A trio of vacationing American students cross the border from Finland to the USSR during the Cold War and are soon imprisoned after a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Mike Norris, Steve Durham, David Coburn, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 2,184 | Gross: $3.39M
11. Solarbabies (1986)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a post-apocalyptic future ruled by the military, a group of renegade teenage orphans find a legendary orb, Bohdai, that can supposedly bring the rain back to dried up Earth.
Director: Alan Johnson | Stars: Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas
Votes: 4,956 | Gross: $1.58M
12. Assassination (1987)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A presidential bodyguard is assigned to protect an objecting first lady, as repeated attempts are made on her life.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Stephen Elliott, Jan Gan Boyd
Votes: 3,675 | Gross: $6.08M
13. Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
R | 83 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.
Director: Peter George | Stars: Gail Neely, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner, Dawn Wildsmith
Votes: 6,092
14. Black Eagle (1988)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama
CIA agent must outrace KGB agent in searching of super weapon lost in Mediterranean.
Director: Eric Karson | Stars: Shô Kosugi, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Doran Clark, Bruce French
Votes: 8,193
15. Sidekicks (1992)
PG | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A bullied teen who fantasizes about being Chuck Norris' sidekick trains in martial arts to fulfill his dreams.
Director: Aaron Norris | Stars: Chuck Norris, Beau Bridges, Jonathan Brandis, Mako
Votes: 9,772 | Gross: $17.18M
16. Boiling Point (I) (1993)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A pair of sociopath killers take on the police and the mob in order to make one last big score.
Director: James B. Harris | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich, Viggo Mortensen
Votes: 6,563 | Gross: $10.06M
17. Fire on the Amazon (1993)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Deforestation of the Amazon is forcing indigenous Indians away, so few men can profit from cattle. Opposition gets killed. A US photojournalist tries to investigate. Activist Alyssa helps him.
Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Sandra Bullock, Juan Fernández, Judith Chapman
Votes: 2,876
18. Pentathlon (1994)
R | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An Olympic gold medalist escapes to freedom in the US, only to be tracked down by his sadistic ex-coach.
Director: Bruce Malmuth | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, David Soul, Renée Coleman, Roger E. Mosley
Votes: 2,015
19. The Road Killers (1994)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
At a desert truck stop, a gang of joyriders kidnaps a man's family and kills his brother. The local sheriff is of no help, so the man goes after them himself.
Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Craig Sheffer, David Arquette, Josh Brolin
Votes: 1,778
20. Heatseeker (1995)
R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A kickboxing champion is forced to fight cyborgs in a tournament when the company kidnaps his fiancee.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Keith Cooke, Tina Cote, Norbert Weisser, Gary Daniels
Votes: 1,358
21. Hidden Assassin (1995)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Maruschka Detmers, Assumpta Serna, Gavan O'Herlihy
Votes: 2,380
22. Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
PG | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To keep the loyalty of a village during the Vietnam war, a U.S. Army officer and his unit struggle to deliver it a live elephant.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug
Votes: 9,706 | Gross: $24.70M
23. Dangerous Ground (1997)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother ... See full summary »
Director: Darrell Roodt | Stars: Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Thokozani Nkosi, Ron Smerczak
Votes: 2,020 | Gross: $5.08M
24. No Code of Conduct (1998)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A cop, his partner, and his father uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into Phoenix, Arizona.
Director: Bret Michaels | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Mark Dacascos, Paul Gleason
Votes: 1,631
25. Point Blank (1998)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a ... See full summary »
Director: Matt Earl Beesley | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo, Frederic Forrest, Werner Schreyer
Votes: 1,917
26. Sweepers (1998)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola uncovers a covert operation that is planting new and deadly mines.
Director: Keoni Waxman | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Payne, Claire Stansfield, Ian Roberts
Votes: 1,944
27. Airspeed (1999)
PG-13 | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After lightening strikes Flight 109, the only chance for survival is a young girl.
Director: Robert Tinnell | Stars: Elisha Cuthbert, Bronwen Booth, Joe Mantegna, Lynne Adams
Votes: 1,437
28. Corrupt (1999)
R | 69 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Silkk the Shocker, Ice-T, Tarsha Nicole Jones, Ernie Hudson Jr.
Votes: 1,255
29. Steel (1997)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A scientist for the military turns himself into a cartoon-like superhero when a version of one of his own weapons is being used against enemies.
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree
Votes: 15,072 | Gross: $1.71M
30. Frogs (1972)
PG | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke
Votes: 7,647 | Gross: $0.48M
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