by Gordon Ashley

Created on: February 21, 2007   Last Updated: May 09, 2007

The 10 Best Bad Movies of All Time

They're terrible. Badly written, badly acted, badly filmed, the story is just ridiculous, whatever. They suck. But you just have to love them. You do, really.

10. Dolomite
9. The Fifth Element
8. Bride of the Monster
7. Plan 9 From Outer Space
6. Freaks
5. Bride of Frankenstein
4. Night of the Living Dead
3. Journey to the Center of Time

2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1. The Birth of a Nation

10. Dolomite : This has to be the king of all blaxploitation films. This bizarre flick totally knocks the Blacula movies out of the running. Dolomite is a street-smart pimp just released from prison (to the delight of his hoes) who constantly cracks jokes that don't make sense (at least not to white people) and all his ladies know karate and kick serious ass. Plot? There's a plot? Well, it isn't important. What REALLY makes the movie is "Creeper" the crack head, whose debut at a street-corner burger vendor is fatally entertaining.

9. The Fifth Element: Like many people, I did not at first realize this film was meant to be funny. That's the advertising's fault. Really, though, I'm sure you've all seen this. You know that it's insane. You have to give mad credit to Gary Oldman, one of the greatest living actors, for his cyborg-hitleresque role and the ability to keep a straight face whilst explaining that empty is the opposite of full.

8. Bride of the Monster: An Edward D. Wood, Jr. classic, this was originally titled "Bride of the Atom." The original atomic paranoia movie. Stars Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist with a nuclear octopus. In the end, Lugosi is eaten by the octopus, which apparently then explodes. (Cut to: mushroom cloud) Strangely, the two men standing a dozen feet away survive the atomic blast. Well, someone had to deliver that famous closing line: "He tampered in God's domain!" (If you've seen the film "Ed Wood," with Johnny Depp, you know the story behind the mushroom cloud an investor gave Mr. Wood the money to finish the film on the stipulation that his nephew get a part and that it end with a big explosion.)

7. Plan Nine From Outer Space: Another Ed Wood film, the original zombie classic, and the final film of Bela Lugosi. Aliens are bringing the dead to life. Lugosi died after shooting one scene, so he was replaced by a dentist who slicked back his hair and held his cloak over his face so no one would know it wasn't Lugosi. Flying saucers hanging from fishing poles, shiny plastic alien uniforms, and snappy dialogue ... look for

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