There are some Z-movies that get absolutely everything so unbelievably wrong on every level - and in such a singularly bizarre, insane, utterly logic-defying way - that watching them almost feels like some kind of psychedelic, mind-warping experience. These are the films where you spend the entire duration of the movie simply staring at the screen in wide-eyed disbelief, mouth agape, twitching slightly, and occasionally saying "what?". Fascinating in the same way that a gruesome train wreck is fascinating, these films are surreal and unsettling in ways that a more well-made film could never be, as they make you feel like someone slipped something into your drink. Whatever these films may be, they definitely aren't forgettable.
Some examples:
Boardinghouse (1982)
The Last House on Dead End Street (1973)
Alien Beasts (1991)
After Last Season (2009)
Deadly Daphne's Revenge (1987)
Nightdreams (1981)
End of the Wicked (1999)
Blood Freak (1972)
Things (1989)
Love Me Deadly (1972)
If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do? (1971)
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
Hardgore (1975)
Shaye & Kiki (2004)
I-Be Area (2007)
Monkeys in the Attic (1974)
Out (1982)
Psycho Weene (2006)
Season in Heck (2004)
Devil Story (1986)
Dracula's Angel (2014)
Can you think of any others?
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I've not watched many really terrible films. The Neil Breen films are great but an obvious one everyone knows about.
It's not really the same thing but those Friedman and Seltzer parody films are horrible films and aren't enjoyable but are kind of fascinating in a way. To try and keep them as current as possible half the stuff they are parodying hadn't even come out while they were filming so they just have to make stuff up based on posters or trailers meaning half the jokes make zero sense and all of them go on and on for way too long.
I watched meet the Spartans recently and it was painful but also because everything had to be so current it was like a snapshot into a couple of months of shitty mid 2000s showbiz news
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