Campy Movies! Flicks We Hate to Admit We Love...

[carrier76]

When "Glitter" was on cable five times a day I watched it many times. It looks like a bad made for tv movie. The acting, pacing and editing is there to match. The poor man's version of Stephen Dorff, Mariah's puffy mug and the kitty that makes only two appearances in the movie (both times when Mariah has to leave her home) make this a winner/loser for me.

"We ask ourselves, is she black? Is she white? We don't care. She's exotic. I want to see more of her breasts."

Amen, amen. This movie is horrifying. I was very sad when "Crossroads" didn't have the same effect. Boo.

I submit, "Ernest Goes to Camp."

[Peggy Lane]

Sleepaway Camp. The badass 80s campers, the short shorts, the homoeroticism, the still-shocking surprise ending.

I love that movie shamefully. Did you know there's a super special DVD set?

[carrier76]

OH, and I forgot--MANNEQUIN. It was on yesterday. One of my FAVES!!!!! And it's so, so, SO bad.

"SHE'S THE DUMMY!"

[Wol]

Phantom of the Paradise. My love knows no bounds.

[Daisy Pusher]

johnboysmole said:

Oh, my god. Grease 2. Yep. I still want a cool rider.

That's right. A C-O-O-L. An R-I-D-E-R.

"And if he's cool enough, he can burn me through and through!
Whoa hoa ho ho!
And if it taaaakes forever, then I'll waaiiiit forever,
No ordinary boy, No ordinary boy is gonna do!
I wanna rider that's COOL."

Dude! I love Grease 2! When I was in sixth grade, I was obsessed with that film.

Anyhoo, Valley of the Dolls (natch!), Mommie Dearest, Xanadu, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, and Johnny Guitar. All great camp flicks. I am sensing a distinct Joan Crawford theme here. Hmmmm.

[ratscabies]

Ditto "Phantom of the Paradise"!!! I spent years tracking that down on video (First found it on laserdisc, now have the DVD). I saw it when I was in gradeschool when Warner cable first came to Ohio and the only movie channel (the Star Channel. How do I remember that?) played 8 movies during the month. It ran all day long over and over from midnight to midnight. For the longest time no one knew what I was talking about and thought I was making it up. And Paul Williams is Satan! What could be cooler?

The other hit from the star channel was (in a break with tradition) a double feature of "Pink Floyd at Pompeii" and an Italian caper flick called "A Pain In The A**". That's how the booklet listed it, and I swear that's hoe the title appered on the screen as well. I used to get in trouble watching the end of that while waiting for the Floyd movie to come on. Those dollyu shots of Floyds gear did serious damage to me at a very impressionable age. It made me a MUSICIAN!!!! Sorry, dad....

Elsewhere on the board, my devotion to "Spiceworld" is well documented as well.

My ex was in a really bad horror comedy flick called "There's Nothing Out There" that is a practically unwatchable version of "Scream" (it came out before "Scream"), but it has her topless, and the director's commentary tears her apart mercilessly. We're still friends, but it is great fun on some level to listen to him rant about the woman that broke me so badly!

[tamaradixon]

wol said:

Phantom of the Paradise. My love knows no bounds.

Me too!

I have the soundtrack ALBUM. I think I just about wore it out over the past 30 years. Gah I'm old!! Paul Williams rocked.

[satellite]

carrier76 said:

When "Glitter" was on cable five times a day I watched it many times. It looks like a bad made for tv movie. The acting, pacing and editing is there to match. The poor man's version of Stephen Dorff, Mariah's puffy mug and the kitty that makes only two appearances in the movie (both times when Mariah has to leave her home) make this a winner/loser for me.

"We ask ourselves, is she black? Is she white? We don't care. She's exotic. I want to see more of her breasts."

Amen, amen. This movie is horrifying. I was very sad when "Crossroads" didn't have the same effect. Boo.

I submit, "Ernest Goes to Camp."

I'll come sit by you guys. I can never not watch Glitter when it's on. Oh, the cheapness.

Purple Rain, anyone? the non-performance parts are nearly unwatchable, but Prince humping the floor during "Darling Nikki"?- priceless. Showgirls goes without saying.
I don't think Soul Man is meant to be campy, but it's another bad "can't turn it off" movie for me.
I also kind of love the Revenge of the Nerds movies.

[sugarhigh]

Buffy, The Vampire Slayer I adore that movie and can quote entire scenes.

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I was appalled when Entertainment Weekly did a DePalma story and completely ignored Phantom of the Paradise. I've seen that movie eleventy thousand times and will watch it whenever it's on. And I always cringe when Paul Williams's pot-belly and camel-toe appear in tandem. That should be part of a drinking game, right there.

I don't own that film, but I do own Glitter and four copies of Showgirls (two of which are the V.I.P. Edition, still sealed in plastic, anticipating a 22nd Century eBay goldmine). But it gets worse: I'd buy Can't Stand the Music if I saw it on sale in the store; something's keeping me from ordering it on Amazon for all of $9.58 and I don't know why that is.