Horror Movies That Are So Bad They're Funny

Remember when you were a kid and Halloween was your favorite holiday? Perhaps you're interested in recapturing the awesomeness of Halloween, but aren't willing to watch anything really scary. Don't worry, we gotcha. Here's a list of horror movies that are absolutely so horrible that they're about as scary as an Adam Sandler movie, but twice as good.

Friday the 13th started out as a semi-grounded series about a mother who, desperate to avenge her son who drowned at his camp kills just everyone there. It quickly devolved into ridiculousness once the kid returns from the dead and starts killing people, while dressed as his mom (who first dressed as him). Then he goes to Hell, fights Freddy, and moves to New York because why not.

But then it just went all the way to out-of-control wackiness. See, in Jason X — a movie that looks like it was made over a weekend at a terrible community college — Jason gets abducted by an evil organization that freezes him. Then, he wakes up dozens of years later ... in space. Yeah, somebody greenlit Jason in Space. The movie then progresses pretty much the way you'd expect, if what you expect is, "what a twelve-year-old would make if given a hundred bucks and a camera."

Robot Monster — a succinct title if there ever was one — is about a robot from the Moon called Ro-Man who has killed almost everyone on Earth. A small group of humans, including a young boy, survive. The robot kills almost all of them before falling in love with a girl, has a change of heart, and tries to defend the remaining humans from its boss. The robot's boss kills it, and attempts to destroy the world with earthquakes and dinosaurs before ... the young boy wakes up.

Oh, it was all a fever dream? Except then, the robot rushes out of a cave screaming. So it ... wasn't a dream? Okay, look, we don't know if it was a dream or not. All we know is it's hilarious and you should watch it. Of course, that's a new opinion — when the movie first came out, it was hated to its very core. Its director, Phil Tucker, became so despised, he probably couldn't get a job as an usher. After getting robbed of the film's profits (which were shockingly large, with the film grossing a million bucks on a $16,000 budget), he went to a hotel and attempted to kill himself. This was all over a this movie starring — again — a space robot that looks like a monkey that's actually a kid's fever dream but maybe is prophetic. Thankfully, the director didn't kill himself, and went on to have a successful career as ... something, because no one cared about him or this movie, except to mock it. But we do. We care, sir. Watch this movie. It's awesome, for all the wrong reasons.

Did you like Gremlins? Want to watch a version of it that takes itself way too seriously and is also just the worst? Congratulations! Critters is for you. Now, you could start with the first, but let's just skip to the worst, Critters 3. The whole series follows tiny monsters that kill people because it's a horror film, so what else is going to happen? Are they going to give Algebra lessons to underprivileged children? Okay, that might actually be a neat movie.

That is also definitely not this movie. If you have anything resembling a sense of humor, check Critters 3 out. We're going out on a limb and saying it's actually one of Leonardo DiCaprio's best films (a distant second: that one with the boat). Oh, yeah, did we not mention that one of the best parts of this film is how it's Oscar golden boy Leonardo DiCaprio's debut? Yes, the star of The Revenant first showed up in a movie about tiny monsters that eat people. And not even one of the entertaining versions of those.

We're not gonna lie. This one isn't so much "so bad it's good" as "so amazingly epically awesome it's hilarious." Although, as you can possibly tell from the title it's ... a bit gorey. It's also Japanese, so you'll be treated to either hilariously awful dubbing, or have to read a whole novel's worth of subs. So, pick your poison.

Tokyo Gore Police is about, well, police, in Tokyo, who battle gore. See, there's an evil dude, called the Key Man, who mutates his helpless victims into monsters. Along the way, a young girl — dressed like a Japanese school girl and using a katana — fights him, before eventually morphing into a monster herself. Eventually, she finds out that the Key Man is after the chief of police (who also killed her father) and, in attempt to become stronger, the Key Man mutated himself with the DNA of dozens of infamous criminals. It's pretty awesome.

The tagline for this direct-to-dvd flick is "They're back. No strings attached" which is obviously, patently untrue, because the movie is called Puppet Master. The film is about a series of evil mannequins and puppets possessed by the souls of the dead and damned. They have a liquid failing their artificial intelligence, as the deviant monstrosities attempt to kill and burn down the world. So, it's your standard adult remake of Pinocchio. It's like Chucky, but terrible, or like Toy Story made by Rob Zombie, but poorly.

There's a first movie, but that one made it to theaters — who wants to see that? Skip to this one, as a good rule for horrendous horror is always to check if it's direct-to-home. If it is, check it out, as it'll be worth it in one way or the other. Plus, this one involves a mannequin resurrecting someone in one of its first scenes, so it's amazingly bad right off the bat.

This movie is basically about evil semen that takes over your mind. Next!

Okay, fine, a little bit more. In the beginning, a weird substance lands on Earth, nicknamed the Stuff. Eventually it's sold in stores, like ice cream, but it has no calories! Everyone gobbles it up like you would gobble up calorie-free delicious ice cream. Eventually, though, a child discover that it's actually a living being that gets inside you and turns you into a mindless, zombie monster. Again, this "Stuff" looks exactly like semen. It's evil, living semen that everyone on Earth is obsessed with eating. Seriously, how is this not universally accepted as the funniest movie ever made?

In the end, the Stuff is defeated and no one eats it anymore ... except then it's smuggled onto the Black Market. There's not that much more to say, except to repeat that this film is about people being addicted to eating evil, zombie-making babymakers.

M. Night Shyamalan started out strong. The Sixth Sense was so fantastic, people still talk about seeing dead people today. But after that, his oeuvre got kinda hokey pretty fast. Some people thought after his movie about the devil in a broken-down elevator — called, appropriately enough Devil — he was done for. Then came The Visit, a found-footage film about two kids who visit their grandparents for the first time, but their grandparents aren't all what they seem.

This movie is borderline scary for ... about half a second. See, the problem is the movie's theme is literally "Wow, look how scary these old people are!" but they kinda just act like ... old people. The grandmother is forgetful and walks around at night and plays (spooky?) hide-and-go seek, while the grandfather, well, he poops his pants. A lot. Near the end, the kids find out that it's not really their grandparents, and the not-granddad tries to kill them both, but the threat is kinda undercut by his shoving a poopy diaper in one of the kids' face. Over all, it's more like a terrible National Lampoon movie, more than anything you'd be spooked by.