The Weird, the Bad and the Cheesy
by kvisaheyra | created - 31 Jan 2018 | updated - 21 Apr 2020 | PublicList of movies that are so strange or corny that they are great fun to watch with mates.
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1. Hercules (1983)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Fantasy, History
The story of the Greek mythological figure, updated in this '80s version.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Lou Ferrigno, Brad Harris, Sybil Danning, Rossana Podestà
Votes: 4,408 | Gross: $10.68M
Mechanical Monsters, throwing bears into space and Gods on the moon.
2. Flash Gordon (1980)
PG | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol
Votes: 61,582
All Sci-fi movies should have a footballer in them.
3. Starcrash (1978)
PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil Count Zarth Arn.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff
Votes: 7,972
Random psychic powers, space battles and David Hasselhoff.
4. Batman: The Movie (1966)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Dynamic Duo faces four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero
Votes: 35,816
Best detective work ever done!
5. Howard the Duck (1986)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invasion with the help of a nerdy scientist and a struggling female rock singer.
Director: Willard Huyck | Stars: Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale
Votes: 50,781 | Gross: $16.30M
Raises a lot more questions than it answers.
6. Armour of God (1986)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) and his bumbling sidekick are sent on a quest through Europe to find a mysterious treasure held by a shadowy organization of monks.
Directors: Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang | Stars: Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Lola Forner, Rosamund Kwan
Votes: 22,083
Escape scenes like Indiana Jones, a car like Bond and Jackie Chan action.
7. At the Earth's Core (1976)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant
Votes: 5,477
Lots of Monster suits.
8. Fantasy Mission Force (1983)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue Generals that are captured by the Japanese and save the war effort with the promise of gold and/or pardons of past crimes.
Director: Yen-Ping Chu | Stars: Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Jimmy Wang Yu, Yueh Sun
Votes: 2,001
Why did Japanese Nazi's kidnap Abraham Lincoln?
9. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
G | 84 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An Okinawan prophecy appears to foretell Earth's destruction at the hands of Godzilla, only for the true Godzilla to reveal his doppelganger as a mechanical alien weapon.
Director: Jun Fukuda | Stars: Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima, Akihiko Hirata
Votes: 7,929
Godzilla + Robot Godzilla = Awesome.
10. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Mothra's egg washes ashore and is claimed by greedy entrepreneurs who refuse to return it to her fairies. As Godzilla arises near Nagoya, the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yû Fujiki
Votes: 10,340
Mothra is the best idea for a monster ever.
11. Son of Godzilla (1967)
PG | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A reporter stumbles upon weather experiments on a tropical island, discovering giant mantids, a cast away woman, and an infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.
Director: Jun Fukuda | Stars: Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Bibari Maeda, Akihiko Hirata
Votes: 5,891
Is Godzilla the mother or the father?
12. Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
Unrated | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.
Director: Noriaki Yuasa | Stars: Nobuhiro Kajima, Miyuki Akiyama, Christopher Murphy, Yûko Hamada
Votes: 3,051
One of the strangest fight scenes from guys in giant rubber suits that I've seen.
13. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
PG | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.
Director: John De Bello | Stars: David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor, J. Stephen Peace
Votes: 14,964
The tomato sound effect is great.
14. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A rough-and-tumble trucker and his side kick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong
Votes: 154,140 | Gross: $11.10M
Truck drivers and ancient Kung Fu masters.
15. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
Director: W.D. Richter | Stars: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum
Votes: 29,383 | Gross: $6.25M
Basically 'They Live' but stupider.
16. The Ice Pirates (1984)
PG | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In a distant future scarce of water, space pirates get caught after stealing ice from a spaceship. They are sold to a princess looking for her dad. He might have found a planet abundant with water.
Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts, Anjelica Huston
Votes: 11,849 | Gross: $14.26M
The final fight scene gets weird.
17. Masters of the Universe (1987)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The heroic warrior He-Man battles against the evil lord Skeletor and his armies of darkness for control of Castle Grayskull.
Director: Gary Goddard | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Billy Barty
Votes: 44,352 | Gross: $17.34M
By the power of Grey Skull!
18. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When journalist April O'Neil discovers an ancient scepter with magical powers, the Turtles must cow-a-bunga their way back to 17th century Japan to rescue her from the evil clutches of Lord Norinaga.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson, Sab Shimono
Votes: 36,463 | Gross: $42.66M
TMNT, Feudal Japan. Its all lame, but all good.
19. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
Director: Stephen Chiodo | Stars: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon
Votes: 45,528 | Gross: $15.63M
Both funny and creepy just like a clown should be.
20. The Last Dragon (1985)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In New York City, a young man searches for a Master to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the Glow.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney, Julius Carry
Votes: 17,500 | Gross: $25.75M
kick, punch, GLOW.
21. Eliminators (1986)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
Director: Peter Manoogian | Stars: Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Conan Lee
Votes: 2,514 | Gross: $4.60M
a little slow in the middle but such a weird premise.
22. Return to Oz (1985)
PG | 113 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.
Director: Walter Murch | Stars: Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie
Votes: 30,388
It was great when kids movies were creepy.
23. The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Jonathan Brandis, Kenny Morrison, Clarissa Burt, John Wesley Shipp
Votes: 27,555 | Gross: $17.37M
like the first one only cheesier and makes less sense
24. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed
Votes: 56,898 | Gross: $8.08M
I assume this is what the world looks like when your high.
25. Time Bandits (1981)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 68,403 | Gross: $42.37M
A great way to study for history class.
26. Batman & Robin (1997)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman
Votes: 268,251 | Gross: $107.33M
So much cringe its great.
27. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
Unrated | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A Chinese soldier in an ancient civil war flees the battlefield and gets caught up in a fantastical quest to save the world from evil.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin
Votes: 3,056
Basically Kung Fu wizards
28. Mortal Kombat (1995)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Three unknowing martial artists are summoned to a mysterious island to compete in a tournament whose outcome will decide the fate of the world.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Votes: 124,689 | Gross: $70.45M
So many eccentric characters.
29. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A giant egg is unearthed at a construction site and soon opened, releasing the terrible Ivan Ooze, who wreaks vengeance on Zordon for imprisoning him millennia ago. With Zordon dying and their powers lost, the Rangers head to a distant planet to find the mystic warrior Dulcea.
Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Karan Ashley, Johnny Yong Bosch, Steve Cardenas, Jason David Frank
Votes: 30,014 | Gross: $38.19M
Power Rangers were always ridiculous, a hour and a half of it even more so.
30. Infra-Man (1975)
PG | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Princess Dragon Mom and her mutant army have risen, and only Infra-Man can stop them.
Director: Shan Hua | Stars: Danny Lee, Terry Liu, Hsieh Wang, Man-Tzu Yuan
Votes: 2,267
If power rangers aren't weird enough for you then try Inframan.
31. The Guyver (1991)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Young man merges with mechanical device, becoming cyborg superhero. Strange creatures emerge, seeking to reclaim device. He uncovers plot to genetically engineer monstrous creatures.
Directors: Screaming Mad George, Steve Wang | Stars: Greg Joung Paik, Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, Peter Spellos, Michael Berryman
Votes: 5,941
Basically power rangers but during it's moody teenage years when it wanted to be dark and edgy.
32. The Ship of Monsters (1960)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Two extraterrestrial women are sent on a mission by the regent of Venus to search for a male of another planet.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Eulalio González, Ana Bertha Lepe, Lorena Velázquez, Consuelo Frank
Votes: 460
5 different types of aliens, then one becomes a vampire alien and all because the aliens on Venus need a man of course.
33. Battlefield Baseball (2003)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Battlefield Baseball is a tough game--it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their ... See full summary »
Director: Yûdai Yamaguchi | Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Atsushi Itô, Hideo Sakaki, Yoshikazu Ebisu
Votes: 1,522
A bit of Dragonball, a bit of Battle Royal and pretty much no actual baseball.
34. Rubber (2010)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A homicidal car tire, discovering it has destructive psionic power, sets its sights on a desert town once a mysterious woman becomes its obsession.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida, Wings Hauser, Jack Plotnick
Votes: 40,347 | Gross: $0.10M
A great premise, learn to fear the wrath of tyres.
35. Night of the Lepus (1972)
PG | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 5,457
The extended family of Monty Python's Killer rabbit of Caerbannog
36. Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010)
Not Rated | 64 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Uganda's president gives Captain Alex an assignment to defeat the Tiger Mafia, but he gets killed in the process. Upon hearing the tragic news, his brother investigates to avenge Alex's death.
Director: Nabwana I.G.G. | Stars: Kakule William, Sserunya Ernest, G. Puffs, Kavubu Muhammed
Votes: 10,848
I didn't no a Video Joker was a thing, but it seems to be normal in Uganda.
37. Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
PG-13 | 93 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Sinbad and his shipmates aid a young prince, who must battle an evil wizard to gain the hand of a beautiful princess.
Directors: Enzo G. Castellari, Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga, Ennio Girolami
Votes: 1,851
The Mother narrating the story gets annoying but other wise just a lot of cheesiness.
38. Queen Kong (1976)
Not Rated | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A female film crew journeys to Africa where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love with the crew's male star.
Director: Frank Agrama | Stars: Robin Askwith, Rula Lenska, Valerie Leon, Roger Hammond
Votes: 677
British comedy is usually hilarious. This one is, but not in the way it wanted to be.
39. The Man Who Saved the World (1982)
91 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The adaptation of Star Wars.
Director: Çetin Inanç | Stars: Cüneyt Arkin, Aytekin Akkaya, Füsun Uçar, Hüseyin Peyda
Votes: 8,091
Turkish movies are nuts, everything the main character touches either explodes or get ripped apart.
40. The Miracle Fighters (1982)
100 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Former Royal Guardsman Kao was forced to be on the run when his superior couldn't tolerate him being a Manchu marrying a Han woman. A young prince was inadvertently killed when he kidnapped... See full summary »
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Yat-Chor Yuen, Ka-Yan Leung, Cheung-Yan Yuen, Shun-Yee Yuen
Votes: 564
So much weird magic. There is a guys who lives stuck in a pot.
41. Super Mario Bros. (1993)
PG | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world.
Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton | Stars: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis
Votes: 63,009 | Gross: $20.92M
Nothing like the games. But you just have to trust the fungus.
42. Bad Channels (1992 Video)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
An alien determined to capture human females takes over a radio station to do it.
Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Robert Factor, Martha Quinn, Aaron Lustig, Michael Huddleston
Votes: 1,476
Interesting alien design and a lot of cheese.
43. The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida
Votes: 10,033
Japanese horror has always been strange, Horror Comedy even more so.
44. Killer Bean Forever (2008)
TV-PG | 85 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Killer Bean is sent on a mission in Beantown, but when he attacks one of the warehouses owned by the mafia boss, Cappuccino, he gets the attention of Detective Cromwell, a bean who's trying to put Cappuccino, and possibly Killer Bean, behind bars.
Director: Jeff Lew | Stars: Vegas J. Jenkins, Bryan Session, Matthew Tyler, David Guilmette
Votes: 4,598
one guy makes one movie and did a pretty good job.
45. Get Mean (1975)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A wisecracking gunfighter is seemingly hurled through time and space as he escorts a Spanish Princess back to her homeland while contending with barbarians, Moors, evil spirits, a raging bull, and a maniacal Shakespeare-quoting hunchback.
Director: Ferdinando Baldi | Stars: Tony Anthony, Lloyd Battista, Raf Baldassarre, David Dreyer
Votes: 497
Spaghetti Western that can't decide what time zone it is in or what the plot line is.
46. The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A James Bondish spy and his female assistant infiltrate a group of South American Nazis who have kept Hitler alive until they take over the... using the ultimate weapon. In HD.
Director: Worth Keeter | Stars: Ian Hunter, C.K. Bibby, William Hicks, Anna Rapagna
Votes: 507
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