What’s the one bad movie you hate to hear referred to as a bad movie?

Mine is Phase IV.

It’s definitely a weird movie, but I think it’s also a really solid and disturbing movie. I discover new things each time I watch it. The acting isn’t the greatest, but not so bad that it’s bad.

Find it on Tubi. Warning the dialogue is homophobic, sexist, and probably racist. Almost feel bad recommending it but it was fucking terrible in the way that scratched the itch.

This movie is both hilarious and troubling to me. Hilarious because of the comically bad dialogue, CGI blood, and totally inept technical execution, and troubling because of the unfortunate pervasive trend of objectifying women and having old, rich white guys abuse them for “entertainment”. Luckily, here, we can see how dumb and immature it makes these men look, as these people clearly have no understanding of reality. Trailer below, and keep an ear open for the assumedly-unintentional misspeaking of a very common phrase.

Mine was The Room

And a sex scene dumber and more pretentiously "artsy" than porking Panam Palmer in her tank.

Hey Guys!

So long story short. Myself and friends around the world remember this film and have been looking for this movie for many years. Some of us have been in the hunt for over 20 years! Including myself. We have done podcasts explaining it and multiple posts about it. It most likely was made and set in anywhere between the 1970s to 1990s. Not exactly 100% sure of the time frame though. Judging from my memory, I would say more 1970s to late 1980s maybe. Before I start describing the film. I want to make a point that this film is 100% not American Samurai, The Best Of The Best 2, Shoot Fighter 1 & 2, The Quest, Bloodsport, Kickboxer or Gladiator Cop. (More on what films we have confirmed it is not later) But we want everyone to know before proceeding reading the description of the film that we have confirmed all the details below to be mostly accurate and true. The movie I am searching for with all of the others in the hunt to is 100% a different story to the films listed above and I have actually gained new and confirmed details by others along the way over the months and years.

Now to the movie: The story we all seem to remember was about a white protagonist we believe, that is portrayed as a hero. He is potentially special forces or some really good fighter. He is in search of something or after something. Others in the search have confirmed he is in search of his missing brother. (No its not American Samurai as the brother is a villain in that film). The hero/main protagonist I think is captured by this crime syndicate or bad people while looking for the brother. I will now explain what we truly remember about the film. There is some sort of illegal barefist fight to the death tournament that starts in the film. There are no weapons involved apart from one fighter which I will get to shortly. This tournament occurs at some point through the movie. The main thing here is that all the fights are to the death or there is a 50/50 chance of survival. You are at the mercy of your opponent. There are no KOs or submissions from memory. Most fights are to the death with no rules. The fights take place in some sort of old abondoned building or like a huge secluded indoor area. It feels like it's set in some Oriental area and the fighters are there with no escape from the area. The actual fights themselves take place in a big sandpit (actual sand like beach sand) in a torch lit or low light environment in a building of some sort. From memory, there may have been a big black cage surrounding the pit. There was a small audience from memory that was watching (mostly all the fighters). Before a fight, I think from memory a gong is sounded, (almost like Shootfighter, American Samurai or The Quest). When fighters are defeated, there was a scene or two of bodies being taken to this chute or hole like drain near the sandpit and they are then dumped down there and disposed of. It's almost like a modern day martial arts gladiator tournament. We feel the fighters there are all there against their will. Like they must fight to win their escape. There are scenes to that we remember in which fighters are being held behind these cell doors or steel bars watching over the sandpit or ring. It feels almost like the fights are taking place in an old abandoned prison cell block with a mortar.

There are a few fighters in the film with different styles. The main character we all remember is the fighter with the blades or blade attached at the end of his hair in his very long braid or long hair. When I say long I mean it was very long and thick! From memory he is not white. Definitely that of potentially Asian, Dark Asian or maybe Brazilian race. He has a very long braid for hair and at the end there are steel tips or a big blade that he uses to kill or slice other fighters up during the fight sequences. We think he might have worn either long red pants with black shoes, or long black pants with black shoes and is very well built. This fighter is also the only fighter we think that cheats by using the weapon in his hair. He fights shirtless and gets the momentum for the blades in his hair by using a capoeira or wushu type of fighting style so he can swing the hair around and stab his opponents with his hair. A few fighting scenes with this fighter I remember are:

One fight he was just dancing around and just toying with his opponent. Eventually he beat his opponent to death.

Another fight was when he started slicing a guy with his hair and then either strangled the guy or caught him in the throat with the hair blades which killed him.

Then the final fight with this guy I remember was when he was against the hero (main protagonist). The hero faces him and the blade fighter's ponytail gets caught and he is then stabbed to death with his own hair blades im pretty sure by the main protagonist and hero.

There's another fighter I remember to. He was a very well built, big and muscular Asian man. He had a shaved head with a moustache or a fu man chu/goatee style of facial hair. Pretty sure he had a shaved head but also he had a chonmage style haircut with a long ponytail on the back of his head. (No it's not Tong Po from kickboxer lol) He would wear long black pants and a sleeveless black top or gi from memory with black wrist gaunlets almost leather like. He looked Chinese or Japanese. When he would fight I think the top was removed. This guy was like one of the main villains the main character was after. He is the final fighter of the tournament and the last fighter the hero faces from memory. The scene I distinctly remember from him was a scene where he enters the building or fighting area through a cell door of some sort. Very menacing and intimidating. He closes the door behind him and he then walks along I believe maybe a walkway, balcony or upper floor and proceeds to go and sit down and watch a death match between fighters. It's either this man or the fighter with the blade in his hair that the hero/main protagonist is after. Now we are not too sure if possibly this fighter here is the one who has the blade in his hair. However there is definitely a fighter in long red pants and black shoes that is shirtless or this Big Asian man that is described here that are both villains and bad guys in the film and fighting tournament.

I think from memory, the main reason the hero is there, is to find his brother and take down this crime syndicate or stop this from happening to someone else. Others have also said the movie had a 80s bombshell or good looking love interest female during that time that is involved with the main character and there was a training montage. (This last detail could be wrong) but a couple of people have mentioned this).

The fights in the film are extremely brutal, confronting and violent. Quite realistic and particularly when I saw this 15 to 20 years ago now it's always stayed in my mind with just how riveting it was. The whole movie was very dark (as in, it had a very eerie and gritty tone to it). Even the music was very eerie and had a dark tone to it to.

More backstory on the film as well as confirmed films it's not in the comments. I saw this film on late night Australian TV in the early 2000s. I have confirmed that a lot of other people have also seen this film to at some point years ago. But they cannot place the name themselves. Some have also claimed to have owned the film on VHS once and some have also rented it from video stores in the 90s. No one can remember the name though!

Thank you in advance guys.

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Me and my brother watched this last night on Tubi because it looked like a standard horrible movie with a very high budget. Stars Dennis Rodman as the lead thinking that would naturally draw people in. It was an enjoyably bad movie in the same way the "The Room" is a fun bad movie. Nostaglic too because it hits every trope I remember in movies around that time - goofy music & drum n bass tracks, very in your face, painfully corny dialogue, motorbikes, lots of women with no a**, and scenarios that are clearly the fantasy of a 10 year old boy. It was campy and knew what it wa

Highlights

• Horrible green screen when they're in the car and it flies
• A fight between Dennis Rodman and "the dancer" that naturally leads to them ripping each others clothes off and then eventually having sex. Then while having sex the room suddenly turns into this rave atmosphere.
• The two goofy monks that reminded me of bulk & skull from power rangers.
• Cartoonish goons on motorbikes wrecking things and having joker makeup. And most of all the main villain.
• The Chinese assassin popping out of nowhere every time.
• The villains ripped son randomly backflipping in the very beginning and then ending up making out with the kidnapped girl. But that doesn't beat him leaping in the air and landing in a grocery cart which then crashes down a flight of stairs.
• Dane Cook was annoying af as usual. In all his cringe af scenes there's goofy Disney Channel original movie music in the background which makes it even more cringe. He was so awful that it's satisfying seeing anything bad happen to him.
• Dennis Rodman's over-the-top opening scene.

Overall this movie would make a great drinking game.

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One of the few movies I own on DVD and VHS!

If you haven't seen it yet, drop everything and watch this (on tubi, of course). It's a sci fi monster movie that is also about witchcraft(?). The monster is a debonair Mexican aristocrat who transforms into a monster with an inflatable head! It drinks brains by drilling holes in your skull with a forked tongue! It's hands are pincers with suction cups! When he's in his human form, he keeps bowls of brains sitting around in case he gets hungry!

The performance by the lead actor is absolutely great and over the top. Check it out!

I'm not even sure what this was about, the title says Necronomicon, but its so convoluted i could not pay 100% attention. The funniest part is that several times they say "NecroMONicon". Wonky green screens, different audio volumes, very bad try, i guess it was filmed on the first try, no 2nd reshoots hahaha. Found it on Tubi.

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Buckle in folks. This play on 'Misery" but with the race and gender swapped for the leads is a pile of garbage rotting in the summer sun. It's about a controversial black female author kidnapped by a white man with multiple personalities. The lead actress spends most of the movie in her underwear. The ending is nonsensical, maybe impossible.

The actors are terrible but fully committed to their roles, which gives it some charm. The script is indecipherable with twists you didn't see coming only because you have no idea what's going on. The lighting, direction, editing... all of it scrapes the bottom of the feeding trough.

Find it on Tubi.

I have a bad movie page on tiktok (trashmoviemeister) and I've been trying not to double up on too many movie features in the same year. For some reason, I'm having trouble finding a movie I'm excited about from 1999. 1999 was an amazing year for movies with tons of nostalgic classics, but nothing that's quite what I'm looking for. Does anyone have a favorite piece of shit movie from that year?

EDIT: These are all great picks, super excited about Yonggary and Virus! Thank you fellow cinema dumpster divers! Gonna end up choosing Wild Zero, check it out if you haven't seen it

I knew mindlessly scrolling through reels on Instagram would pay off one day. Thank you, mysterious stranger, for posting a scene from this movie. Holy hell, this was amazing. Truly up there with some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen, and has every melodramatic, soapy trope turned up to 11. Trailer below.