30 Movies So Bad, They're Actually Really Good

Despite the headline you see above, for the most part, I don't buy the premise that movies can be so bad, they're actually good. If a movie's good, isn't it just...good? There's no question, however, that movies can succeed by failing.

Ed Wood is an extreme but perfect example of a filmmaker who never achieved precisely what he set out to do with any of his movies, but who nonetheless made cinematic magic out of enthusiasm, shamelessness, and no small measure of self-delusion. That kind of thing is always better than a strained attempt at creating the same effect. Think Sharknado-a movie that's fun, but that works so hard to achieve silliness that you can see the flop sweat. The best so bad they're good" movies get there quite by accident.

Personally, I'd almost always rather watch an interesting failure than a boring success-sometimes because passion is contagious, and just as often because a true WTF-level debacle is a rare and glorious thing. Here are 30 of them.