SubGenius Badfilms

If there's one trait that (most) SubGenii have in common, it's a love for badfilm! For those who don't know, "badfilm" doesn't mean "bad movie" any more than the SubGenius term "pink" means "the color pink" or "homosexual." How can you tell which movie is just a movie (good or bad), and which is truly a badfilm? You'll know when you see it! When you watch a cheesy monster flick or a grandiose special-effect extravaganza or an involving drama – it's the SLACK you get from that movie that lets you know when you've seen a badfilm!

If a movie is listed here with a , that means its entry here is especially in-depth, detailed, and hopefully interesting. These entries are worth reading, even if the movies may not be worth watching.

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• 2001 - A Space Odyssey
• 2010 - The Year We Make Contact
• 12 Angry Men
• 28 Days Later

A

• Adaptation
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
• After Hours
• Akira
• Alabama's Ghost
• Aladdin
• Alexander Nevsky
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• All Women Are Bad
• Amazing Grace
• Amazon Women On The Moon
• Amelie
• The American Astronaut
• American Beauty
• American Pie Presents: Band Camp
• American Splendor
• The Apartment
• The Aristocrats
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
• Avanti!
• The Aviator

B

• Bad Boy Bubby
• Bang Rajan
• Bartleby
• Barton Fink
• Batman Returns
• Batman: Dead End
• Battle Royale
• Being John Malkovich
• Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
• The Best Years Of Our Lives
• Beyond Lemuria
• The Big Lebowski
• Billy Nayer
• Black Book
• Black Lizard
• Blood Simple
• Blue Velvet
• Bottle Rocket
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Branded to Kill
• Braveheart
• Brazil
• Bride of the Monster
• The Bridge
• Bridge Over the River Kwai
• A Brief History of Time
• The Brothers Grimm
• Bubba Ho-Tep
• Bully

C

• Cabin Boy
• Cafe Flesh
• The Call of Cthulhu
• Calvaire (The Ordeal)
• Candy
• Cape Canaveral Monsters, The
• Cecil B. DeMented
• Cemetery Man / aka Dellamorte Dellamore
• Un Chien andalou
• A Christmas Carol
• Citizen Kane
• The City of Lost Children
• City of the Living Dead
• The Clan of the Cave Bear
• A Clockwork Orange
• Colossus of New York
• Comic Book Confidential
• The Compleat Tex Avery
• Conspiracy Theory
• Constantine
• Coonskin
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Crumb

D

• The Da Vinci Code
• Dark Secrets - Inside Bohemian Grove
• Dawn of the Dead
• The Day The Earth Stood Still
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Death Becomes Her
• Decoys
• Demolition Man
• Derailroaded: The Wild Man Fischer Story
• Dial M For Murder
• Donnie Darko
• Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
• Drugs Killers Or Dillers
• Duck Soup

E

• Ed Wood
• Edward Scissorhands
• The Elephant Man
• Equinox
• Eraserhead
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Even Dwarfs Started Small
• Exorcist - The Beginning

F

• Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• The Fifth Element
• Fight Club
• The Final Cut
• The Final Programme
• Five Minutes to Live (a/k/a Door-To-Door Maniac)
• Forbidden Planet
• Forbidden Zone
• Frankenstein - 1970
• Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster
• The Frau Plastic Chicken Show (a/k/a Nexxt)
• Freaks
• Fred Rogers America's Favorite Neighbor
• Freddy Got Fingered
• The French Connection
• From Dusk till Dawn
• Full Metal Jacket
• Funeral Parade of Roses (a/k/a Funeral Procession of Roses, Parade of Roses, and Bara no soretsu)
• Funny Games

G

• General Idi Amin Dada (A Self Portrait)
• Ghost World
• Giants and Toys
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Glen or Glenda
• God Monster of Indian Flats
• God's Angry Man
• Go Fish
• Goodfellas
• The Graduate
• Grave of the Fireflies
• The Green Slime
• Grizzly Man

H

• Hackers
• Happiness
• A Hard Day's Night
• Hardgore
• Harold and Maude
• Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
• He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
• Heathers
• Hell Comes to Frogtown
• Hell House
• High and Low
• The Hobbit
• Holy Mountain, The
• House on Bare Mountain, The
• How To Get Ahead in Advertising
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Human Nature
• Human Highway
• Husbands and Wives

I

• Ikiru
• Incubus
• In the Realm of the Senses
• Independence Day
• Inland Empire
• Irma LaDouce
• It Conquered the World
• It - The Terror From Beyond Space

J

• Jandek on Corwood
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Jurassic Park

K

• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Kill Bill
• Killer Klowns From Outer Space
• The King of Comedy
• The Ketchup and Mustard Man
• Kids

L

• Labyrinth
• L'Age D'Or
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky
• The Last Starfighter
• L.A. Story
• The Last Temptation of Christ
• The Last Unicorn
• Le Diner de Cons
• The Lion King
• The Life Aquatic
• Long Jeanne Silver
• Lord Love A Duck
• Lost In Translation
• The Lost Weekend
• Love and Pop
• The Love God?
• Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
• Lust For a Vampire

M

• M (film)
• Ma Vie En Rose
• Mad Dog and Glory
• The Man on the Moon (d: Cory McAbee, not the Andy Kaufman biopic)
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Metropolis
• Midnight Cowboy
• A Mighty Wind
• Miller's Crossing
• Miracles
• Mirrormask
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Mummy Returns
• The Muppet Movie
• My Neighbor Totoro
• My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117

N

• Naked Lunch
• Natural Born Killers
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
• Network
• North By Northwest
• Nosferatu

O

• O Brother, Where Art Thou
• Off The Charts: The Song-Poem Story
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Orgy of the Dead

P

• Palindromes
• Panic in Year Zero
• Paranoia 1.0
• Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
• The People vs. Larry Flynt
• The Phantom of Liberty
• Pinocchio
  • (Also: Pinocchio (CAV Laserdisc))
• Pistol Opera
• Plan 9 From Outer Space
• Planet of the Vampires
• Point Break
• Porco Rosso
• Porno Holocaust
• The Princess Bride
• Princess Mononoke
• Princess Raccoon
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
• The Producers
• Psycho

Q

• Queen of Outer Space
• Q: The Winged Serpent

R

• The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
• Rashômon
• Ravenous
• Real Genius
• Real Life
• Rear Window
• Rebecca
• Repo Man
• Rites of Uranus
• Robinson Crusoe on Mars
• Robocop
• Rock, Rock, Rock
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Roseland/(1970)
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Ruling Class
• Run Lola Run
• Rushmore

S

• Salesman
• Santa Claus
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
• Santa Sangre
• Santo and Blue Demon in Atlantis
• Santo Versus the Vampire Women
• Saragossa Manuscript, The
• Savages
• Save The Green Planet
• Scent of a Woman
• Schindler's List
• Schizopolis
• Scrooged
• Seconds
• The Secret Garden
• Seven Samurai
• Seven Swords
• Sexual Secrets of Marijuana
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Shaun of the Dead
• Sherlock Jr.
• Shortbus
• Singin' In The Rain
• Sitcom
• Solaris (1972)
• Some Like It Hot
• Space Thing
• Spirited Away
• Stalag 17
• Starship Troopers
• Stop Making Sense
• Storytelling
• The Straight Story
• Strangers on a Train
• Street of a Thousand Pleasures
• Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
• Suspicion
• Sword of Doom

T

• Taxi Driver
• Team America - World Police
• Terrifying Girls' Highschool: Lynch Law Classroom
• That Obscure Object of Desire
• They Live
• The Third Man
• This Filthy World
• This Is Spinal Tap
• THX-1138
• Top of the Food Chain
• Topo, El
• Touch of Evil
• True Stories
• Twins of Evil
• Twister

U

• UHF
• Ultra Flesh
• Unforgiven
• Up!

V

• V
• Vampire Circus
• Vampire Lovers, The
• Vampyres
• V For Vendetta
• Vertigo (1958)
• Victor, Victoria
• The Virgin Suicides

W

• The War of the Worlds (1953)
• The War Zone
• Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid
• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• What About Bob?
• What's Up, Tiger Lily?
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Wings of Honneamise
• Withnail and I
• Witness for the Prosecution

X

• X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes

Y

• Yellow Submarine
• Young Frankenstein

Z

• Zardoz
• Zontar, The Thing From Venus

See also:
Made-for-SciFi-Channel Quality Films
Anime
SubGenii in Film
Movie Favourites Of the Subgenius

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