Jive_Turkey:

Don't disrespect Dark Crystal too much. Yes, it had a rather cheese-infested plot and fairly weak voice acting, but Jim Henson and co. were in top form with the puppetry and production design. I think it had a better overall look to it than Labyrinth. Not counting Jennifer Connelly, of course. :) But I guess if you aren't really into the puppetry thing, then DC would kinda suck.

Neighbors.
A comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd. I didn't laugh once.

Any Karate Kid movie

anyone remember D.A.R.Y.L.? it was A.I. from the 1980's.

Swamp thing?

Canabalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D.)

My roomie was showing me this awful piece of crap from the '80s called "Beat Street" last night. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

More Burt...


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I have to vote for Madpoet and Elpiper
"Slapstick of Another Kind" was probably the worst abomination ever to be placed on celluloid, 80's or anytime. What makes it even worse, is that it was actually based on - get this - a Kurt Vonnegut novel called "Slapstick" that was actually quite good. This is what happens when you sell the rights to your work, and have no say in the final outcome.

Anybody remember "D.C. Cab?"

For the calendar-challenged the "80's" was a period in history that began January 1, 1980 and ended December 31, 1990.

The topic is "What was the crappiest movie to come out of the 80's?"

I can't believe no one has mentioned The Wraith (1986) starring Charlie Sheen. Horrible acting, lame plot, and a sappy ending.

Only thin good about it was the car. Well, that and any movie that have Clint Howard in it.

Refresh my memory, please... wasn't Flash Dance an 80s flick??? If so it certainly deserves a nomination.

Crappiest 80's horror movies

The Gate
Slumber Party massacre (all of them)
Troll
Sleep away camp

Renting horror movies in the 80's was a crap shoot
about 10 terrible movies per 1 good one

But I never stopped renting them

Well, as long as people are still adding - here's my vote:

"They came to get their bodies into the best shape of their lives...too bad they'll never have the chance to enjoy it.

In the locker room...in the showers...in the weight room..even in the parking lot. Someone is turning the most beautiful bodies in town into a grisly, brutal body count.

Now nobody's safe. There's no place to hide."

Yes, that's right. Killer Workout : 89 minutes of the most unbelievable acting, deaths, and songs (!) ever put together on film. Let's see what allmovie.com says, shall we?


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Mr. Pulse
Syracuse, NY

You know Jason, you know Freddy, and you know Leatherface. Now, get ready for: The Safety Pin Killer! That's right, in Killer Workout, a dumb slasher movie if I've ever seen one, the unseen murderer dispatches his (or her?) victims with an oversized, novelty safety pin. It is an odd choice to be sure, the kind of thing that deserves an explanation. Naturally, the movie never even attempts to clarify where the killer acquired such a thing.

As the title suggests, an aerobics gym is under siege by a mad killer and everyone is a suspect. In fact, the movie gives so few clues as to the identity of the killer, just about everyone in the movie is a potential murderer until they get killed. And since just about everyone but the killer winds up dead, it's really just process of elimination.

Oddly, while the entire name cast is killed off, the aerobics classes continue in earnest. In fact, nothing is capable of stopping the dancing. While three men are murdered in the next room, the workout goes on. Death isn't even a factor; one character dies, but is still seen prominently in the later workout sessions. Director David Prior knew what he was doing when named the movie Killer Workout and not Logical Workout.

Cop chases, explosive tanning beds, and hundreds of shots of women's exposed flesh are thrown in for good measure. Much like the woman caught in the tanning bed, I felt very uncomfortable by the end of Killer Workout. Finally, thankfully, THE END flashed on the screen. What happened next? You got it, shots of the women working out. Not even the end of the movie can stop them!

No my friends you all have it wrong! Two of the most celebrated actors/actress made this stink bomb, Yet no one seems to remember it.

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No my friends you all have it wrong! Two of the most celebrated actors/actress made this stink bomb, Yet no one seems to remember it.

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having HBO in the 80's subjected viewers to endless showing of:

Just one of the Guys
Beastmaster (Dennis Miller once said that HBO stood for "Hey Beastmasters On.")
Morgan Stewarts Coming Home
Karate Kid I and II
Lucas
and
Fraggle Rock (not a movie but always on)

Dammit!!

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Any American Ninja movie.

Dungeon Master.

I win.

Something with Michael J. Fox in it that wasn't Back to the Future.

the graffiti drama "beat street" and swartzenegger's "raw deal."

Lodius2000 My vote for coolest bad 80's movie goes to "One Crazy Summer" starring john cusack, demi moore, and no one can forget, BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT

Dude. I saw that in the theater. I LOVE that movie.

metalstorm 3-d

-or-

jaws 3-d

Post #350+, so I gotta dig deep.

Mad Magazine Presents "Up the Academy" (1980)

A movie so bad that Ron Liebamn, one of the leads, had to sue to have his name removed from the credits.

That's when you know a movie is a piece of BLEEECCCHHH!

Scary List. A friend of mine wrote one of those very cliche, not so bad then, but awful when you look back films. Campus Man. One crazy Summer was a funny funny movie, always makes me laugh.

Did anyone else like Dead and Buried as far as 80's horror films go?

Rockula

it's really bad.

In the so-bad-it's-good category:

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak.

Awful acting, awful story and it stars Tawny Kitaen.

Oh, and and the heroes are captured by women who are all topless.

Good times.

followed by

Late, but:


And who could forget

sorry jive turkey, i haven't been able to find redneck zombies in years. they used to have it at this mom&pop video place in my area (philly burbs) that has since been run out of town by blockbuster. curse you blockbuster!

additions to the list:

"russkies" starring ...christopher lambert maybe??
florida youngsters befriend shipwrecked russian sailor. the cold war at it's most tepid.

"flight of the navigator" starring the voice talents of paul 'fwap fwap fwap' reubens
florida youth befriends timetravelling spacecraft, little fuzzy aliens, sings beach boys songs.

"the last starfighter" starring... some dude.
trailer trash gets recruited for galactic war by being a video game hi-scorer. i like it cause it's realistic.

"ghostbusters 2" you know damn well who's in this one.
i think this one came out in 89 but if it's later i heartily apologize. too hot to handle, too cold to hold, you call the ghostbusters and they take control - bobby brown.

Adding voting and another film

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak

It's got Tawny Kitaen topless

also

The Boy Who Could Fly

It's crap-tastic

What?!? "Top Secret" kicked ass!

Big Bad Mama 2 was a bad movie but it had 2 hot chicks
Julie McCullough and Danielle Brisebois

Top Secret did kick a$$. That was a great comedy.

I sure wish this would have been an 80's movie to get in on the voting but this was by far the worst movie I have ever seen... and it had Anna Nicole Smith in it so it compounds the magnitude of how much it sucked.

IMDB link

Top Secret rocks.

Breakin' II Electric Boogaloo... 'nuf said

DoubleGGuy had a list of Can't-Believe-You...whatever
I would add these to the list

Top Secret, hilarious movie
One Crazy Summer, not all that bad
Flash Dance, come on, Jennifer Beals rocked and you all know it
D.C. Cab, "Okay, but I don't work on January 8th, that's Elvis's birthday."
Labyrinth, A young Jennifer Connely, I've had a crush on her ever since
War Games, this was well done, I liked it.
The Gods Must Be Crazy, This is a classic. Not for everyone but not bad either.

I missed many of the obvious stinkers that are on this list. Howard the Duck, I took Siskel and Ebert's advice on that one missed it. Leonard 6, same. I missed all of the slasher or mutant or zombie flicks.

Mystic Pizza (1988)

Damn it, why can't we do this around my birthday (May). My husband only allows me to rent a really horrendous movie on my birthday. The rest of the year we have to rent "good" movies. I can't complain though. I knew he was the man for me when he bought me Carnosaur on DVD for our first Christmas.

The Slugger's Wife.

Worst. Movie. Ever!

Oh, I can't read any more, let alone vote. I saw so many pieces of crap. I'm just hyperventilating and breaking out in cold sweats now.

Okay how about:


MANNEQUIN - A mannequin that comes to life. And that is the only girlfriend this loser can find. A living mannequin.


YOR, THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE


HOWARD THE DUCK


ERNEST GOES TO CAMP


Also, does anybody remember the name of that film about a gang of punks that gets caught on the wrong side of town and has to make it back to their hood by going through all the other gangs. It was terrible but I can't remember the name of it and it's bugging me.

Too easy. I'd like to nominate Student Bodies, the Paramount stinker that made the later horror film parody Scary Movie look like a shining cinematic achievement. The horrible, blurry camera work, awful jokes, and disturbingly bizarre storyline all added up to the worst film I've EVER seen. This sucker put me in PAIN.

JR

I really liked it but my roomates HATE U.H.F.

Stanley Spidowski is my daddy!

Megaforce

The Adventures of Gwendolyn (major boobies but bad bad bad)

I meant "Perils of Gwendoline". Helps to look these things up first.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087903

Howws about how "student Bodies" got its R rating? I can't believe that I sat through that whole thing and didn't see one nipple.