Horror-ble: 17 Terrible Scary Movies That Are a Screaming Good Time

1. Plan 9 from Outer Space 1957，IMDB Rating: 3.9, IMDB Votes: 40723, ID: 0052077
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Plan 9 from Outer Space is a classic example of a movie that’s so bad, it’s good. The film is celebrated for its staggering ineptitude, with laughable dialogue, wobbly sets, and paper-plate flying saucers. Despite its flaws, it’s a must-watch for its sheer entertainment value.
2. Night of the Lepus 1972，IMDB Rating: 4.1, IMDB Votes: 5502, ID: 0069005
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Night of the Lepus is a hilariously bad horror movie about killer rabbits. The film fails to be scary due to its use of real rabbits to depict the monstrous creatures. Despite its absurd premise, it’s a gloriously funny and absurd film perfect for a night of laughs.
3. The Wicker Man 2006，IMDB Rating: 3.8, IMDB Votes: 71874, ID: 0450345
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The Wicker Man 2006 is a remake that falls short of the original’s impact. The surprise ending seems silly and laughable. Despite its shortcomings, it’s still an interesting watch for those who enjoy so-bad-it’s-good movies.
4. Troll 2 1990，IMDB Rating: 3.0, IMDB Votes: 34901, ID: 0105643
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Troll 2 is a uniquely bad film that manages to be consistently entertaining. The plot is ludicrous, and many scenes seem completely unnecessary. Yet, its sheer absurdity makes it a must-watch for fans of so-bad-they’re-good movies.
5. Birdemic: Shock and Terror 2010，IMDB Rating: 1.7, IMDB Votes: 25624, ID: 1316037
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Birdemic: Shock and Terror is a film that’s so bad, it’s good. With its laughable special effects and inane dialogue, it’s a film that’s unintentionally hilarious. Despite its flaws, it’s strangely watchable and perfect for a night of giggles.
6. The Room 2003，IMDB Rating: 3.6, IMDB Votes: 95676, ID: 0368226
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The Room (2003) is a cult classic that has been described as the ‘Citizen Kane’ of bad movies. It’s a melodrama that’s so fantastically inept that it borders on genius. The film is filled with overacting, unnatural dialogue, and preposterous plotlines, making it a perfect fit for the ‘Horror-ble: 21 terrible scary movies we still love to watch’ theme. It’s a film that’s so bad, it’s good, and it’s definitely worth a watch for a good laugh.
7. The Happening 2008，IMDB Rating: 5.0, IMDB Votes: 217716, ID: 0949731
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The Happening (2008) is a science fiction thriller that has been criticized for its incoherent and unconvincing plot. Despite its shortcomings, the film has a strangely compelling quality. Its absurd premise of a natural disaster causing mass suicides fits well into the ‘Horror-ble: 21 terrible scary movies we still love to watch’ theme. It’s a film that’s so bad, it’s good, and it’s definitely worth a watch for a good laugh.
8. The Toxic Avenger 1984，IMDB Rating: 6.2, IMDB Votes: 32610, ID: 0090190
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The Toxic Avenger is a film that combines superhero spoof with over-the-top humor and gore. Despite its absurdity, it manages to entertain with its excessive forms of deviancy. It’s a film that’s so bad, it’s good.
9. The Evil Dead 1981，IMDB Rating: 7.4, IMDB Votes: 234458, ID: 0083907
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The Evil Dead is a film that, despite its low budget and minimal plot, manages to unsettle with its raw, naked force. It’s a film that’s so grueling and intense, it’s enjoyable in a twisted way.
10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975，IMDB Rating: 7.4, IMDB Votes: 168341, ID: 0073629
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a film that’s more of a long-running social phenomenon than a movie. It’s a film that’s cheerful, silly, and kind of sweet. It’s a film that’s so bad, it’s good.
11. Killer Klowns from Outer Space 1988，IMDB Rating: 6.2, IMDB Votes: 46412, ID: 0095444
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space is a film that delivers darkly goofy fun more often than not. Despite its ridiculous premise, it manages to entertain with its overacting, unnatural dialogue, preposterous plotlines, silly special effects, and comically over-the-top gore.
12. Snakes on a Plane 2006，IMDB Rating: 5.5, IMDB Votes: 145231, ID: 0417148
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Snakes on a Plane is a film that lives up to its title, featuring snakes on a plane. It isn’t perfect, but then again, it doesn’t need to be. The film is as silly as it sounds and that is the whole point. The dialogue is laughable, the scenario is ludicrous, and the computer-generated snakes look terrible. Yet, Snakes on a Plane is more enjoyable than a lot of the other films released this summer because it has no illusions about what it is.
13. Anaconda 1997，IMDB Rating: 4.9, IMDB Votes: 113098, ID: 0118615
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Anaconda is a film where a 40-foot man-eating snake is on the prowl in the Brazilian rain forest. The film is filled with overacting, unnatural dialogue, preposterous plotlines, silly special effects, and comically over-the-top gore. Despite some game efforts by a fine cast dominated by a brazenly over-the-top Jon Voight, “Anaconda” is a silly and plodding “Jaws” rip-off.
14. Exorcist II: The Heretic 1977，IMDB Rating: 3.8, IMDB Votes: 28698, ID: 0076009
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Exorcist II: The Heretic is a film that plays like two hours of deleted scenes; a clear creative vision fails to coalesce. The film is an incoherent babble with thousands upon thousands of pointless shots and dozens of meaningless camera pans. No real skill or talent was put into making this at all. It truly baffles and boggles the mind how movies this unfathomably bad can get made.
15. Jaws: The Revenge 1987，IMDB Rating: 3.0, IMDB Votes: 50129, ID: 0093300
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Jaws: The Revenge is not simply a bad movie, but also a stupid and incompetent one – a ripoff. The film is the fourth in a series that has served Universal Pictures long and well, and it stars Lorraine Gary, the wife of the studio’s chief executive officer. The film is a fun romp through zombified excess, spiced up with generous doses of B-movie flair, rotting flesh hysteria, and mock subliminality.
16. House of the Dead 2003，IMDB Rating: 2.1, IMDB Votes: 38742, ID: 0317676
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House of the Dead is a film that is a fun romp through zombified excess, spiced up with generous doses of B-movie flair, rotting flesh hysteria, and mock subliminality. The film is a grungy, disjointed, mostly brainless mess of a film, House of the Dead is nonetheless loaded with unintentional laughs. The film is an incoherent babble with thousands upon thousands of pointless shots and dozens of meaningless camera pans.
17. The Gingerdead Man (2005) 2012，IMDB Rating: 0.0, IMDB Votes: 0, ID: 26324502
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The Gingerdead Man is a delightful disaster of a horror-comedy. Its absurd premise of a killer Gingerbread man, combined with over-the-top performances, makes for a hilariously entertaining watch. Despite its many flaws, or perhaps because of them, the film has a certain charm that makes it a perfect fit for the ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ category. It’s a movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously, providing plenty of laughs along the way.