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

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I'm sorry, but where the hell is "Snakes on a Plane" on this list? I'm actually counting down the days till it comes out on DVD.

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I LOVE the Sleepaway Camp movies---and not just the first one--I love them all. Especially since they got lower in budget as time went on.

My friends and I did this thing in high school where we'd try to rent the stupidest slasher movies we could find. I loved them all: Cheerleader Camp, CHUDS 2 (much better than CHUDS), Evil Toons, Dr. Hackenstein . . . the list goes on.

But of the non-slasher variety I adore Center Stage. I'll watch it whenever it's on TV.

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Another Spice World fan here - thats the movie that made me adore Posh and her fabulous piss-taking ways.

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John Waters' Female Trouble is one of my all-time faves. Dawn Davenport's cha-cha heel meltdown on Christmas morning was a thing of beauty...a beauty experiment, if you will.

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"Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels!" was my avatar quote here for quite a while, in fact....

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John Waters' Female Trouble is one of my all-time faves. Dawn Davenport's cha-cha heel meltdown on Christmas morning was a thing of beauty...a beauty experiment, if you will.

Oh, man, that is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. "I wouldn't suck your lousy dick if I were suffocating and your balls had oxygen!"

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Streets of Fire.

'Nuff said.

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Mine is and always will be Troop Beverly Hills. I can't get enough of that movie and I'm about to add it to my Amazon wish list as soon as I finish this post.

The "Cookie Time" song and the fashion show and "Kumbaya?" All classic moments. My favorite campy movie. And if you question its campiness? Hello! A young Tori Spelling (and a camp-out)!

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cybercathy said:

Mine is and always will be Troop Beverly Hills. I can't get enough of that movie and I'm about to add it to my Amazon wish list as soon as I finish this post.

The "Cookie Time" song and the fashion show and "Kumbaya?" All classic moments. My favorite campy movie. And if you question it's campiness? Hello! A young Tori Spelling (and a camp-out)!

Oooh, that's one I'll watch when it crops up on TV.

And I don't know whether it's campy, but my favoritest ever Grade Z movie is The Doom Generation. Sex, violence, and cameos from a boatload of minor celebrities (Heidi Fleiss, Lauren Tewes, Margaret Cho, Perry Farrell, Dustin Nguyen and more!) It's total crap, but it's total crap I adore and own on VHS. C'mon - the dialog starts with "Fuck!" and ends with "Want a Dorito?"

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indygirl said:

Streets of Fire.

'Nuff said.

Sacrilege!! Streets of Fire is not camp! It is genius! Seriously, some of the best editing in a movie - EVER.

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.

So did I, TamaraDixon. I remember listening to that album while I played with Barbies. Paul Williams is brilliant. I fangirled all over him once when I saw him at an antique show. I even started singing stuff from POTP and from - wait for it, you know what's coming - Bugsy Malone (about this film, see my comment above re: Streets of Fire). The poor man was clearly appalled but was nice enough to tell me I was singing in the right key.

For camp value, I think Showgirls may own this thread, or share the title with Rocky Horror.