The 25 Cheesiest Films Ever Made!
 

Piranha 3D's Painful Predecessors!

What is it about science-fiction and horror movies that unleashes the cinematic cheese? From hilarious atomic monsters to UFOs dangling from strings, the history of genre films is riddled with patently absurd imagery.

With Piranha 3D chewing its way into theaters Friday, the flesh-ripping–fish franchise — which got its start in the '70s at the hands of schlock-shock producer Roger Corman — aims for a bloodletting upgrade by showcasing the carnage in three-dimensional splendor.

Director Alexander Aja's modern-day reboot brings to mind a welter of predecessors that made melodramatic mincemeat from mutant DNA, flimsy rocket science, stiff acting and hilariously un-special "special effects."

To assemble this round-up of sci-fi's cheesiest hits, Wired.com recruited Pyschotronic Film Society founder Mike Flores, a specialist in B movies. Also weighing in are the movie-mocking madmen from Mystery Science Theater 3000 spinoff RiffTrax.

• The Creeping Terror
  Killer Shrews
  Troll 2
  The Giant Spider Invasion
  The Horror of Party Beach
  The Happening
  Robot Monster
  The Amazing Colossal Man
  Cloverfield
  The Brain That Wouldn't Die
  Barbarella
  Galaxy Of Terror
  Battlefield Earth
  The Beast of Yucca Flats
  The Avengers
  Slither
  Plan 9 From Outer Space
  Sins of the Fleshapoids
  Tremors
  Clash of the Titans (remake)
  Attack of the Puppet People
  The Aztec Mummy vs the Human Robot
  The Monster's Ship
  Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity
  Attack of the Crab Monsters

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/...-sci-fi-films/


Bet they forgot a few good ones. If you ask me, I wouldn't add Tremors, Cloverfield or the Titans remake to this list. They aren't painfully cheesy for chrissakes!

No Killer Klowns or Frankenfish? Come on...

Doc and NE should chip in with some good vintage ones.

Elvis and Ferox note - check out the cover of Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity.

only movie on that list I have seen is tremors

favorite part seems to have been looped over and over on youtube:

You should check out Slither, MD, lots of fun to watch.

I'd have put Eight Legged Freaks on that list.

I don't feel as though Slither belongs on that list right next to Troll 2... I actually thought that Slither was a blast... Most of those movies seem unintentionally funny, but Slither was purposefully so.

And how is Cloverfield cheesy? Its on the same list as BARBARELLS for Christ's sake.

Maybe they're just trying to piss diehard fans off...

Personally, I think "The Evil Brain From Outer Space" should be on the list, that movies was hilariously cheesy, almost as bad as Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Gotta check that out!

I thought Barbarella was really lame. It just flat out sucks.

I didn't think much of Slither the first time I watched it but it's grown on me and now i think it's solid. Wouldn't class it as cheesy... not sure why Cloverfield is on there?

Actually, which Slither is it referring to?

I'd say the recent one.

The 1973 one with James Caan isn't a sci-fi/horror flick.

if anyone takes a video of themselves (has a friend/coworker film it) quitting a job kevin bacon in tremors style I will totally send you 200$

more if it's a great video


chopping off the tip of your pinky gets you 5000$, that offer is always on the table.