20 So-Bad-They’re-Great Movies You Can Use to Fight the Winter Blues

This time of year , the weather suck so much that leave the sign of the zodiac is even more of a job than it unremarkably is . That ’s when your best course of action is stay on the couch and watch movies — but sometimes you ’ve seen all the good ones . What then ? I ’ll severalize you what then — then you see the bad film . We ’ve picked out a crowd of movies so bad you ca n’t help but enjoy , and they ’re all useable online , too .

Amazon Prime

1) Bride of Re-Animator

Jeffrey Combs return as Herbert West , Miskatonic University ’s maddest scientist ( as does Bruce Abbott as his frenemy , Dan Cain ) . Though Brian Yuzna ’s sequel does n’t achieve the risible , creepy furor - classic heights of Stuart Gordon ’s original Lovecraft adaption , it ’s still pleasantly cheesy and merriment .

2) Don’t Go in the House

The too - generic statute title ( not to be confused with , for case , Do n’t Look in the Basement ) does n’t do this genuinely unsettle early slasher film jurist . It ’s about a guy ( Dan Grimaldi , now a math prof who also appeared on The Sopranos ) who take out his austere , Psycho - on - speed mommy issues on his female victims by burning them alive , though the sicko quality of the kill scenes is temper pretty by the film ’s excellently dated other elements . Like the bizarre disco - dancing scene .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB3Z6X8G1QA

3) Bad Taste

Peter Jackson ’s feature debut — a gory , schlocky scifi comedy about aliens in humble - town New Zealand , which he shoot over four class ’ worth of weekends in the mid-1980s — was conjecture to be high-risk on about every stage imaginable , and he bring home the bacon . Watching this motion picture is made doubly more enjoyable by see that finally someone allowed this guy to make Lord of the Rings .

4) Forbidden Zone

It ’s never a bad fourth dimension to watch this exquisitely weird , breezily offensive musical about inter - dimensional travel starring Hervé Villechaize and Susan Tyrrell ( and music by Danny Elfman and the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo ) . First - timers will wonder if their eyes are sending the right messages to their brain ; repeat viewers will merrily sing along and spout their favorite raunchy lines .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSmIJCHqcQ

5) Message From Space

The special effects in Kinji Fukasaku ’s outstandingly clamorous nod to Star Wars may not be up to par , but the movie has one thing George Lucas never did : Sonny “ Street Fighter ” Chiba , who plays the expansive Prince Hans . The trailer is n’t lying when it says this movie must be discover to be believed .

6) Queen of Blood

This 1966 scifi epic is set in the yr 1990 , when Earth has the resource to investigate cryptic starship crashes that take place on Mars . The sole subsister happens to be a distaff unknown who … well , see rubric . As an supply bonus , the roll include no less than Basil Rathbone , John Saxon , and Dennis Hopper .

7) Street Trash

Life soak up , but no matter what you do , outride the hell on earth away from Viper Wine .

Hulu

8) Deadly Blessing

Just a few geezerhood before he accomplish blockbuster success with A Nightmare on Elm Street , Wes Craven made this tree creeper about a cult whose member ’ Amish - similar simple ways mask their cultism to some badly evil ancient force . intelligibly , a clash with the outside world is inevitable and wo n’t reverse out well for anyone . The casting include the legendary Ernest Borgnine , Craven favorite Michael Berryman ( of The Hills Have Eyes ) , and a then - unknown Sharon Stone .

9) The Eternal

A mob seek a fresh start travel to Ireland in this gothic entry from author - director Michael Almereyda ( Nadja ) . Too bad that family admit Christopher Walken as the crazy uncle who ’s obsessed with reviving a soul - stealing ancient Wiccan .

10) Friday the 13th Part III

Nobody ever say part three is their favorite Friday the 13th entranceway — because it ’s terrible . But despite that , it ’s full of amazing material , including a vengeful biker gang and a practical joker character who thinks it ’s precious to fake his bloody demise ( not long before his actual flaming dying , of course ) . It ’s also the first film in the serial to boast the iconic field hockey mask , and has an amusing bit of set - ups that survive only to take reward of the fact that it was shot in 3D. Hey , look out for that striking snaaaaake !

11) Jeepers Creepers 2

Controversial writer - director Victor Salva follow up his surprise run into with this repulsion continuation , in which the scarer - monster - thing traps a school bus full of high schoolers on a unfrequented highway and begins clean them off , one by one . fortuitously , a nearby menage of Farmer , led by Ray Wise , are heavily armed and prim out for some vengeance .

12) King Kong

Kong : Skull Island opens in March , but you may get your gargantuan - copycat fix flop now with the 1976 remaking of the 1933 classic , which is decidenyl not a classic , and is dated in more ways than one . ( Instead of the Empire State Building , the ape climb up the World Trade Center at the end . ) Jeff Bridges , Charles Grodin , and Jessica Lange bring the main human beings ; the emphatically pre - CG Kong was create by special upshot legends Rick Baker and Carlo Rambaldi .

13) Moonraker

James Bond in space ! release out James Bond does not belong to in blank , and this film — possibly the goofiest of all Bond films — is ample cogent evidence .

14) Terminator: Genysis

Now that some fourth dimension has pass since the most recent and probably last Terminator pic deposited its blending ofincoherence , plot holes , and Emilia Clarke ( and her “ Pops”)into theatre of operations , we ’re really sort of fond of it . At the very least , it ’s worth a rewatch , which is more than we will ever say about Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines .

Netflix

15) Fire in the Sky

Is there a skillful / more ridiculous / less plausible ground - on - a - true - life history - foreign - abduction movie out there ? Doubtful . And sure none with cast that include D.B. Sweeney , James Garner , Peter Berg , and E.T. repeat offender Henry Thomas .

16) Next

With just “ Nicolas Cage as a Vegas magician , ” you ’ve already get across the so - speculative - it’s - good verge . Everything else — it ’s very generally base on a Philip K. Dick story ; Cage has psychic index , and therefore the FBI ( in the physique of Julianne Moore , which means this movie has two Oscar - win thespians in it ) want him to assist frustrate nuke - slinging terrorist ; the gotcha ! twist ending — is just marshmallow frippery on top .

17) The Lazarus Effect

Remember that brief minute when Olivia Wilde was in every single movie that came out ? This was perchance her corniest career decisiveness during that menstruum of over - intensity ; it ’s a Flatliners - ish narration of a womanhood whose grief - stricken fiancé brings her back from the idle using her own eldritch - scientific discipline conception . The backfires , badly , turn her into a superpowered crazy demon brute . The intriguing hold up cast includes Mark Duplass , Donald Glover , and Evan Peters , one of whom exits the movie when his character is killed by a vape pen .

18) The Queen of the Damned

Everybody remembers Interview With the lamia , but why no love for this other Anne Rice version ? It ’s campy as hell , with Lestat ( Stuart Townsend … whose vocation never really recover ) trifle a sleazy rock candy sensation and Aaliyah , who tragically die before the film was released , oozing deliciously through her office as the title lineament .

19) Robinson Crusoe on Mars

A retelling of the classic story through a 1960s scifi lens , as an astronaut marooned on Mars suffers closing off , evades aliens , and befriends his very own “ Friday . ”