Picks for Campy Movie Night
What the title says. I have only watched the first movie on the list as this is an ongoing endeavor. Also in no particular order.
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- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsDolph LundgrenBrandon LeeCary-Hiroyuki TagawaTwo L.A. cops with opposing views on what is the best way to uphold the law have to work together to bring down the Yakuza, while trying to protect a beautiful woman.Stupid characters and writing, but that's what makes it so good you see. Alternate timeline where the yakuza have great influence in Los Angeles and the LAPD has a "Asian Crime Division", which is about as dumb as it sounds. Has a scene where horny Japanese salarymen eat sushi off a girl's pussy, in case you were not sold already.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellKim CattrallDennis DunA rough-and-tumble trucker and his side kick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.The main villian uses magic lightning powers, so it must be good.
- DirectorEdward D. Wood Jr.StarsGregory WalcottTom KeeneMona McKinnonEvil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible "Plan 9" into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger.Classic bad 50s movie. Bad acting and set/costume design all around, plus I heard there is a scene where a microphone is blatantly visible in the shot.
- DirectorJohn CornellStarsPaul HoganLinda KozlowskiJohn MeillonAustralian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.The lovable aussie inflitrates a drug cartel because why not. There is a scene where a man is about to commit suicide and Dundee basically does nothing about it.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsRoddy PiperKeith DavidMeg FosterThey influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.Everyone is a monster or alien or some shit and only this one guy knows, so he decides to load his shotgun and kill everybody. Sounds like a ridiculous premise and he says the Duke Nukem thing.
- DirectorRobert ClouseStarsKurt ThomasTetchie AgbayaniRichard NortonAn American gymnast travels to a foreign country to compete in a deadly game not won by anyone other than a native in more than 900 years.Typical 80s kung fu movie, but they fight with gymnastics, because why not.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellSteve BuscemiStacy KeachSnake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.There's a scene where the main character is at the risk of death if he doesn't win a three-pointer contest, so I'd say it belongs on this list.
- DirectorDeran SarafianStarsBruce AbbottBeatrice RingTeagan CliveHumans fight mutants in a post-holocaust world.Apparently Italian Mad Max, so add it to the list.
- DirectorJoel SilbergStarsLucinda DickeyAdolfo QuinonesMichael ChambersA struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.Alternate universe where people settle their problems with dance offs, what's not to love.
- DirectorSam FirstenbergStarsLucinda DickeyAdolfo QuinonesMichael ChambersA developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.The original unnecessary sequel.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerSharon StoneMichael IronsideWhen a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?Schwarzenegger has an existential crisis on Mars.
- DirectorDonald G. JacksonR.J. KizerStarsJulius LeFloreRCBRoddy PiperAfter a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs.80s action cool guy kills a bunch of anthropomorphic frogs who keep human women as sex slaves.
- DirectorTodd LouisoStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanAnnie MorganKathy BatesA depressed widower spends his time huffing gasoline fumes, buying toy planes and acting reckless in public while avoiding reading his wife's suicide note.Widowed man gets depressed and starts huffing glue and making RC planes. Might actually be a good emotional story, but how would I know.
- DirectorNgai Choi LamStarsSiu-Wong FanMei Sheng FanKa-Kui HoRiki-Oh, a young man who has superhuman strength, is incarcerated in a private prison, where inmates are treated like slaves. He is forced to use his unstoppable form of martial arts to destroy the corrupt officials and their lackeys.Violent man is incarcerated and relieves his anger by killing everyone inside since he hates private for-profit prisons so much.
- DirectorUwe BollStarsZack WardDave FoleyVerne TroyerIn the ironically named city of Paradise, a loser teams up with his cult-leading uncle to steal a peculiar bounty of riches from their local amusement park. The recently arrived Taliban have a similar focus, but a far more sinister intent.Since Uwe Boll needs his attention.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsSylvester StalloneRobert LoggiaSusan BlakelyTough trucker Lincoln Hawk is determined to win back his son and triumph at the world arm wrestling championships.Might just be a bad-bad movie, but a truck driver becoming a professional arm wrestler sounds pretty stupid to me.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsFred WilliamsonD'Urville MartinWilliam SmithTwo black bounty hunters, pursuing an outlaw, take over a small Western town without a sheriff.I mean, come on.
- DirectorEthan ManiquisRobert RodriguezStarsDanny TrejoMichelle RodriguezRobert De NiroAfter being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.A spin-off movie of a literal Spy Kids side character.
- DirectorRobert RodriguezStarsDanny TrejoAlexa PenaVegaMel GibsonThe U.S. government recruits Machete to battle his way through Mexico in order to take down an arms dealer who looks to launch a weapon into space.A sequel that is apparently worse, so perhaps it is more campy?
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsPatrick SwayzeKeanu ReevesGary BuseyAn F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.I can't tell if the is some kind of surfer movie or a bank heist movie, but either way it's apparently pretty corny.
- DirectorMarco BrambillaStarsSylvester StalloneWesley SnipesSandra BullockA police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.An LAPD cop who is prone to destroying everything he touches during his work gets cryogenically frozen and is awoken many years later when a new criminal is proven too difficult for the rest of the force to catch.
- DirectorAmir ShervanStarsRobert Z'DarMathew KaredasJanis FarleyJoe Marshall and Frank Washington are two tenacious police detectives who seek at all costs to stop the Katana, a renegade Yakuza gang composed of violent and sadistic killers who want to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles.An infamous low budget B-movie that may be a little too on the nose with it's cheesiness, but it may be a good watch.
- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerRae Dawn ChongDan HedayaA retired Special Forces colonel tries to save his daughter, who was abducted by his former subordinate.A classic Schwarzenegger action movie that is assuredly filled with tropes and stupid lines.
- DirectorSimon WestStarsNicolas CageJohn CusackJohn MalkovichNewly-paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner-transport plane when the passengers seize control.Nicholas Cage being Nicholas Cage.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJennifer O'NeillStephen LackPatrick McGoohanA scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.I don't know too much about this one other than that famous head explosion scene. If the rest of the movie is like that, then it should be pretty good!