Dead Heat (1988)
Awesome little forgotten comedy-horror gem from the late 1980's written by Terry Black, brother of Hollywood action screen writer legend Shane Black. Basically it's your typical buddy-cop movie except during an accident in an investigation, one of the cops winds up dead and brought back to life as a Frankenstein-esque style zombie. He and his partner (played by Joe Piscapo with a hilarious mullet) set out to try and solve his murder.
There's a great scene in a Chinese butcher shop where the revivification technology brings a bunch of dead animals back to life, include what's left of a cow carcass, and it's really funny to see the zombie cop slowly decompose physically, but retain his professionalism and dedication to "the job". It's on Instant Netflix and I would highly recommend it.
Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
It feels kind of weird to call this a bad movie given the fact that the title could have already told you that, but even judged by the standards one must adopt when watching Troma movies, this is still awful.
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
For whatever reason I've always preferred Michael Myers' string of progressively worse sequels to those of Jason Voorhees, but for whatever reason I never got around to watching this one. I really only watched this one because it's one of Paul Rudd's first roles and I always like watching actor's early works. Out of all the
Halloween sequels, it's not quite as bad as
Halloween: Resurrection or
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, but it's not very good either. Weirdly enough with these things, the story is actually one of the stronger aspects of the film as it finally attempts to give a reason for why Michael Myers is immortal and has a hate-boner for his family. The problems mostly come from nonsensical goofs like Michael going out of his way to kill a Howard Stern style radio host for no other reason than because he's a jerk. Can't say this will change your life, but there's definitely worse...
Speaking of which
Sasquatch (2002)
Recently I found a pretty decent little Bigfoot movie on Huluplus called
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012) which exceeded expectations by not being completely sh
it, so I've been on the hunt for similar movies and Netflix was happy enough to cough up this Lance Henrikson dud. Henrikson completely phoned it in on this, and I can't say I blame him, but at least he got paid for it. There's some truly mindbogglingly stupid dialogue with some equally mindbogglingly bad cinematography that actually started to make me feel a little sick (like all the dutch angles in
Battlefield Earth (2000)) and a super abrupt ending where I'm not fully convinced something went horribly wrong during the editing process and they just had to cobble together an ending from all the footage they had.
Can't say I recommend it, not even to laugh ironically at it.
Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
If this movie did one thing right it's that it's not a found-footage movie. The setup is absolutely perfect for it and the fact that they didn't go for it is admirable if nothing else. In fact the movie actually starts off pretty well at least with building atmosphere and tension but really lets itself down in the 3rd act.