On the other hand, you CAN make a movie and just do it wrong. These are the “Unintentionally, Unwatchablly, Crap” movies. I’m talking horrible acting, stupid writing, bad direction, horrible everything. If I, of all people, can’t make it through a movie, it’s got to be bad. Most of the time, this happens when someone tries to make a movie about something unimaginably ridiculous, and they actually try to take themselves seriously. This is wrong, and should be outlawed.

You see, the good Bad Horror Movies are not like regular movies. If they do it just right, they can achieve horror, laughter, and just plain entertainment all at the same time. They can take a topic so ridiculous and turn it into something even more unbelievable. It’s pretty awesome.

Here are some of my favorites. If you haven’t seen these already, go out and buy them, cause they are pure awesomeness.

When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.

Now, in this movie there is a pretty sterio-typical zombie movie plot. It actually is a direct sequel to the original Night of the Living Dead, except when they went to make it George A. Remaro didn’t want to do it. So they went ahead and made one anyway. Then, ten years later, George made Dawn of the Dead, the official sequel. Anyway, this movie then spawned 7 sequels on it’s own, and established itself as it’s own franchise. This movie actually was the main inspiration to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and if you watch it you will see the resemblence. This is definitly one of my favorites.

Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. There are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest.

This was my first run in with a Bad Horror movie. It is a true classic, and I will always love it, no matter how bad it is. It is, in sense, a kids movie, but it will still give you the creeps. I remember that as a kid, me and my buddy Anthony would watch this every Halloween just for a good laugh. It is awesome.

Rennie is celebrating her graduation aboard the SS Lazarus, along with her strict uncle, her favorite teacher her boyfriend, Sean, all of her classmates, and a stowaway: hockey-masked serial killer Jason Voorhees. One by one, Jason slowly murders each classmate and sinks the ship, stranding the survivors in New York. Rennie and the few survivors now must face Jason to save their lives from impending doom…

Not much to say about this except that it is the epitome of Bad Horror Movies. It is on the verge of just being plain bad, but it is saved by the pure fact that it is a Friday the 13th movie. The best part is that they are only in New York for the last twenty minutes of the movie and the movie was filmed in Vancouver. Awesome.

In the year 3000, the deep space salvage ship Mother III locates the vanished starship Demeter. Captain Abraham Van Helsing and his crew decide to claim the possession of Demeter. While exploring the spacecraft, they see a tape of fifty years ago of Captain Varna telling that his crew was acting weird after getting a cargo of coffins in Transylvania station. When 187 aka Coolio decides to search in the coffins for some possible hidden weed, he awakes Count Dracula.

OK, this one is the best by far. It is so bad in so many ways it’s pretty much unbelievable. But it does one thing right, one one thing only. It doesn’t take itself too serious. I could go into all the things that make this movie so great, but I want you all to go out and buy it. I mean shit, it has Coolie in it playing a futuristic, gangsta stoner on a space ship with Dracula. What is there not to love?