I was thinking about this last night whilst going through a collection of old movies.

Many years ago in my teens, there was this movie called Krull .
It's a Science/Fantasy movie about an evil race of aliens flying about space in a giant space fortress and invading planets.
Krull happens to be one of these planets and it's a sort of Fantasy/Scifi type tech thing.

The plot holes are god awful. The acting is really terrible.  The special effects (its strong selling point) were good for the time, but look awful by today's standards.

As a teenager, I loved it.  But the kernel of the idea is pretty fun and could make a fun Science/Fantasy setting with some work.  Especially as the movie is one big quest made up of several sub quests.  so could be a lot of fun for a 10 session campaign or something like that.


So, what ideas are there out there for truly terrible movies that would make a fun RPG campaign/setting?

Krull has a 6.1 rating at IMDB...it's not Citizen Kane, but it's hardly a really bad movie.

I would go with She, which actually isn't that bad either (4.9), but basically it's a post apocalyptic movie starring (sorta) the blonde chick from Conan the Barbarian as the ruler of a tribe of Amazons who decides to go off (along with a henchwoman) to rescue this guy's sister (along with his doofus friend). They encounter all sorts of really weird stuff on the way. (Also strangely, Rick Wakeman of Yes does the soundtrack).

Yor the Hunter from the Future is another one. Mixes dinosaurs with fantasy and sci-fi

The Ice Pirates.

Zardoz. A really trippy 70s Post Apocalypse exploitation flick strring Sean Connery in a red diaper. It actually inspired the Mutant Crawl Classics module Warriors of Atoz.

Deathstalker. Definitely an influence on my version of the Wilderlands.

The Archer, aka Fugitive from the Empire, Sword & The Sorcerer, Battle Beyond the Stars

Any of the 80's Sword and Sorcery schlockfests:  Red Sonja, Hawk The Slayer, The Beastmaster (I know it's bad, but it's still one of my favourite films), the Conan Duology, The Sword and The Sorcerer, and so forth.

Hell comes to frogtown. Come on, Roddy Piper. Plus the notion if a guy's junk wired to cause agony or explode at a woman's command, hell Anita Sarkeesian would endorse it.

A.P.E.X. A weird terminator ripoff, I gotta plug it just for the cool robot outfits.

Moontrap. Weird mechanical alien pods invade earth and use machinery and human corpses to create combat units.

Quote from: JeremyR;1001455Krull has a 6.1 rating at IMDB...it's not Citizen Kane, but it's hardly a really bad movie.

I don't care what a rating site says.  I've seen it recently  as well and it's god awful.
Perhaps what's propped up the rating is it's achieved a sort of cult status over the years.
Try actually watching the movie and tell me it's not a bad movie.  

But if rating sites ARE important to you.

Rotten tomatoes gives it 33%
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/krull/

2 stars here.
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/krull/review/

On the IMDB site, the slightly better rating is more about nostalgia and how it's really cheesy, but a laugh as it's so bad.

It's a bad movie.. You might think it's not and that's ok, but I and a good portion of review sites disagree.
Anyway, good or bad, I get it's subjective..   To me it's bad, which is why I posted it as such.
And just because it's bad, doesn't mean I haven't watched it and had a laugh,  just not for the reasons I expect the makers of it were hoping.

"Waterworld" could make a fun setting for a post apocalyptic game. Cobine it with "Planet of the Sharks" for extra bite.

Dead Heat/URL]. One of those movies that all my friends and me thought was the shit when we were in grade school. I saw it again recently, and while it's got some interesting ideas, it did not hold up. However, the tech makes the setting interesting.

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Who wouldn't want to play in this postapocalyptic wonderland?

Quote from: HappyDaze;1001652Would this one count?
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As a bad movie or a fun setting?

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