This post is primarily entries from my pack of 200 terrible films. Bad movies are my great, not-very-secret, love. As terrible as many of these were, I still enjoyed watching them.

181. Evil Brain From Outer Space
182. Hunk
183. Weekend With the Babysitter
184. Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold
185. Superchick
186. Star Odyssey
187. Mothra
188. Kubo and the Two Strings
189. My Mom's a Werewolf
190. Black Cobra

Evil Brain From Outer Space (1964)

Evil Brain From Outer Space is actually just several episodes of the 50's Japanese TV show, Super Giant, cut into a feature length film. It is obviously Japan's answer to the Superman television show. As such, it is weird and very low-rent. It is extremely entertaining, though. I have actually watched this twice so far this year. Watching it with my boys was a special delight. The cavalcade of goofy monsters, mutants, and robots is nonstop and a lot of fun.

Standout Moment: With the ridiculous robot council, right off the bat you know you're in for a good time.

Hunk (1987)

Hunk is a deplorable film. While trying to make a faustian tale about the downfalls of materialism and vanity, the filmmakers forgot to make those qualities look bad and instead got caught up in how much fun they were having. While telling the audience that yuppie culture is bad, it simultaneously and inexplicably makes it look like a great way to live. There are so many thoughtless details and plot points in this film it feels like it wasn't even made from a first draft. Case in point: when the main character becomes the titular "hunk" his name is inexplicably changed to "Hunk Golden": a name that is so bad that is isn't even good as a joke.

Standout Moment: Not only is he suddenly handsome and rich, but apparently he has super powers too somehow? This is revealed way late in the film, and almost as an afterthought.

Weekend With the Babysitter (1970)

Weekend With the Babysitter is more than just an exploitation film. It's the personal sexual fantasy of the director. Considering that he made only three films, and two of them involve affairs with a babysitter (and also star the same actor as the married man swept up into a passionate bliss), it is very clear what the guy thinks about in his spare time. The plot of Weekend With the Babysitter only reinforces the theory. A film director gets a weekend to himself when his wife takes off secretly on a drug-filled weekend (thus removing any blame from him for his actions), and so he follows the babysitter around to learn about the hippie lifestyle so he can be ready for his new film. One thing leads to another and he ends up having a beautiful, wonderful, definitely not creepy at all, of course, why would you even think that, affair with the babysitter. They both learn more about themselves, and bonus, she doesn't even want his money or more than one weekend with him. She's a hippie, and so is very sexually mature, and doesn't need to own him to enjoy a romp in the sheets. The whole thing ends in a crazy drug bust involving a legion of hippies on motorcycles.

Standout Moment: The needless murder of the Dustin-Hoffman-wannabe drug addict seems to be a last ditch effort to inject some tension into a fairly dull story.

Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold (1984)

I barely even know what happened in this film, to be honest. It involves what has to be one of the weirdest bits of whitewashing in the history of casting, golden Native American mannequins, and tasteless homophobia. As far Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ripoffs, this is, by far, one of the strangest ways to go about it.

Standout Moment: The only real takeaway moment from this is when the sidekick is embarrassed to see the main character naked.

Superchick (1973)

This was one of the more legitimately enjoyable films that I have seen from the collection. There is a mostly non-existent plot about some criminals trying to so... something? I think? The main concern of the film (thankfully, for it it is the most entertaining part of the film) is essentially seeing Tara B. True, the titular superchick, do whatever she feels like doing as she travels from city to city. The actress, who actually made headlines a few years later for claiming to be personal astrologist to the Reagans, is legitimately charming. The movie is basically carried by her magnetism, because the story itself is not very deep of thoughtful.

Standout Moment: The very end wraps up in a legitimately satisfying and surprising way.

Star Odyssey (1979)

There are surely enough Italian Star Wars ripoffs in existence to create a genre by themselves. This film, the so-on-the-nose-it-could-be-satire named, Star Odyssey, should be considered essential viewing for any scholar of the shameless ripoffs genre. From a robot couple that get brought back from the dead after committing double suicide (because they want to, ugh, have sex with each other), to weird, blonde aliens, intergalactic auctioneering, and an ending that makes the rest of the movie pointless, it really is a treat of terrible filmmaking.

Standout Moment: The realization that an early scene does not make any sense because the reels were switched and no one even cared to fix it before distribution.

Mothra (1961)

When I was growing up, Godzilla vs. Mothra was one of my favorite movies. The scene where the new Mothra larva shoot silly string at Godzilla has to be one of my favorite scenes of all time. I had never seen the original Mothra, however, so this year allowed me to make up for that lack. It was a decent enough film. Just as goofy as any of the early Kaiju pictures.

Standout Moment: "Let's go, Dad." "Blegh."

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

This is my favorite new movie so far this year. The animation is gorgeous, the story is fresh, and the characters are extremely well done. If it does not win for best animated picture, I won't know what to do with myself.

Standout Moment: The battle on the boat.

My Mom's a Werewolf (1989)

Another film from my pack of 200 stinkers. This one, like many terrible films, is merely a ripoff of another, more successful, film. This time around, the film is ripping off Fright Night. The rules this movie sets up for itself becoming increasingly bizarre until the reach the point of no longer applying to themselves because all logic is completely discarded. There are a few "joke" characters that show up along the way, as well. Each one is more ridiculous than the last. When we get to the peeping neighbor who is vocal about his bondage fetish, all bets are off.

Standout Moment: The pet store sequence is deliciously campy.

Black Cobra (1987)

Despite having the star power of Fred Williamson, Black Cobra never quite delivers the fun police procedural/vengeance flick that it promises. The bad guy is strange and hammy, Fred Williamson is great fun (although he seems to be phoning it in on this one), and the story is perfectly weird, but the movie never gets to the levels of excitement that many of the other films in the genre do.

Standout Moment: We have a three-life bad guy in this one.

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