I love horror movies especially the cheesey type of horror movies that are so stupid that they are great. I do prefer the ones that would always appear on SyFy, but any other type (that is not like the ones on SyFy and look a lot better) is fine too.
I’d say marathoning Friday The 13th movies is worth a go. For what it’s worth, the fourth and sixth movie are legitimately good, but the rest teeter somewhere between entertaining b-movie and pure trash.
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. It brings me back. I can smell the independent movie rental place, the one with the low ceilings and the wall of NES games. Simpler times.
Lawnmower Man (read the book first, then watch the movie, then go WTF did I just watch)
I'm not sure that one gets back around to being good. Nailed the WTF part though. As a corollary, you can do the same with The Mangler. I saw the movie first, thought it was unremarkable. Then I saw it in one of the King short story compilations and was curious to see what they changed. It's even shorter than Lawnmower Man, like two pages. And they made it into a whole damn movie.
I'm glad this made the list. I was 11 or 12 at a sleepover when I saw it. I was trying to conceal my fear for the first half. I spent the second half concealing my boner.
Orgy of the Dead starts off like it's going to be your standard weird bad Ed Wood horror movie. We get to meet Criswell, who you might recognize as inspiration for a character in Fright Night among others. There's also an Elvira type character before Elvira did it better. But then suddenly it's just a topless woman go-go dancing in a fake graveyard. The whole thing suddenly feels like an softcore porn parody of a Gilligan's Island episode. The scene ends, and you might think "Gee, maybe they'll move on to a different location or move the plot along somehow?" Nope, you get a short narration scene and then the next woman comes out with a slightly different costume and dance, still topless though. That scene ends and you think "Well they can't possibly do that again, so maybe now the 'plot' will move along." Nope! More narration, and another topless dancing woman. By the third girl I was bored. But it was funny again with the fourth. With the fifth woman, I gritted my teeth and thought, "When will this end?" But, by the seventh dancing topless woman it was hilarious. Each one of these dancing girls was almost identical, just slightly different slutty costumes and music. At some point they introduce a Zombie and a Wolf man character to leer at the women along with jerk boyfriend and scared girl tied to a post. After it was clear that the ninth topless dancing girl was the last, I felt immense relief and raised a glass to that mad genius Criswell. Those 92 minutes felt like days. This is not a movie to watch sober and alone during the day.
Revamped - a very bad vampire movie written by, directed by, and starring the same man
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats - a horrible 70s horror movie with a very literal title
From Dusk till Dawn
I'm also including some movies that are horror comedies that are actually good and fun on purpose in case those strike the same chord with you. Some aren't strictly comedic, but I think they're all fun.
That's one that falls under the "not strictly comedic" but omg if I didn't burst out laughing at Justin Long's character several times. It was directed by one of the guys from Whitest Kids U Know and I think that shows through occasionally.
Any Toxic Avenger movie
Zombie 4: After Death starring Jeff Stryker https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094620/
The Covenant (2006)
David DeCoteau 1313 series, The Brotherhood series, Voodoo Academy series.
Death Spa!!! It's one of my favs of all time and I never see anyone talk about it. It's like actually good. Like, it's simultaneously so-bad-it's-good, but also just good on its own. Let me know if you check it out, I'd love to hear what you think!
The podcast How Did This Get Made just did an episode on the movie Bats. It sounded so good from the first five to ten minutes of the pod that I stopped listening so it wouldn't get spoiled.
If you want a genuinely terribly one, check out “Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy.” Sounds like a porn title, but it’s not. Just a batshit weird movie that makes no sense. It’s a Troma movie, but it’s not even funny like Toxic Avenger.
Take your pick, some of these are actual movies, some pretend to be (looking at you Suburban Sasquatch). You'll have some laughs regardless of the pick.
Midnight Meat Train. My wife and I were looking for bad horror movies a while ago, saw that this had Bradley Cooper and thought "ehhh, it can't be *that bad. * Spoiler, it was, but not hilariously bad, just straight up weird bad
The Computer Killers. It's pure 70s low budget British teen horror cheese. Don't read about it, just find it and watch it. You'll either love it or switch it off after 20 minutes, but I must preach this gospel.
B&W, german production, bad dubbing, 10 girls 1 guy, Stanley Kubrick's cinematographer, uranium, exploitation flick, plane crash, plenty of WTF, island, oh and some spiders.
Step into bizzaro world.
A few versions on archive.org. Apparently the restored one includes the original German adult content that was cut for the 1962 rerelease.
Wow. Rocky Horror Picture Show is not listed in the comments anywhere. It's really fun to watch at midnight in a theater with a crowd, but it's terribly cheesy and stupid, so fits your criteria. Tim Curry's performance is outstanding though.
Also, They Live is fun. Featuring Rowdy Roddy Piper.
I really like the first Human Centipede. It's so different than anything else out there. I didn't really care for the second installment, though, and the third is just too far out there for me.