Horror Movies That Are So Bad They're Actually Funny

#1. The Gingerdead Man

This 2005 movie is another one of those franchises where you really can't just pick one. There are at least four of these movies, and I wouldn't be surprised if they made more. The basic premise is that a serial killer was executed and brought back to life as a gingerbread man who wants to get revenge on the victim who turned him in. He goes through and kills people at the bakery in the first one. Then in the second one, he goes through a movie production set killing people. In the third, he travels through time, with some random Silence of the Lambs references, and attacks people at a roller disco. The fourth involves a killer bong. They're all filled with overacting and horrible dialogue, and they all seem to have the same low-budget effects that make it a franchise worth watching.

#2 Killer Clowns From Outer Space

This movie is un-disappointingly exactly what it sounds like. This 1988 classic- and I use that term lightly- tells the story of a small town that is invaded by aliens. The best part though? The aliens are clowns, or at least they look like clowns. Now, while this film may actually be slightly terrifying for those of us with a fear of clowns, to the rest of us it is just a movie filled with laughs and slap stick humor. The clowns are ridiculous, they run around the town causing havoc and taking over the town. Of course the movie ends up with a big climactic part in the perfect setting to go along with this absurd plot- a carnival/circus tent with amusements and fun house tricks galore. I won't spoil too much, but just know the clowns do not disappoint when it comes to making you laugh- just ask the 6.2 stars it has on IMDb.

#3. Jaws 3

Jaws was a good blockbuster, Jaws 2 was an Ok blockbuster and Jaws 3 was no blockbuster. In the third movie, which came out in 1983 and received a startling 3.6 stars, we see a mother shark break into Sea World to try to rescue her baby who was trapped. As you can guess, things do not go as planned as the mother fights her way through the waters and people to get to her baby. So for the entire movie you get to witness overacting, poor writing, and iffy special effects.

#4. House Of The Dead

In this, two college students, Simon (Tyron Leitso) and Greg (Will Sanderson), take a boat to an island to attend a rave. They meet up with three girls: Alicia (Ona Grauer), Karma (Enuka Okuma) and Cynthia (Sonya Salomaa). Karma has a crush on Simon, Simon has a crush on Alicia, and Cynthia is Greg's girlfriend. When the five arrive at the dock, they find that they are late and the boat that is supposed to take them to the island has already left.

The film was panned by the critics and Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 41st in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 4% based on 57 reviews and the site's consensus stating "A grungy, disjointed, mostly brainless mess of a film, House of the Dead is nonetheless loaded with unintentional laughs." In 2009, Time listed the film on their list of top ten worst video games movies.

#5. Thankskilling

While on their way home for Thanksgiving break, five college kids run "afowl" of a homicidal turkey that wants them dead. As the cursed bird hunts them down one by one, the survivors scramble to find a way to defeat the possessed creature.

The entire movie leaves you wondering, "Is it this bad intentionally?" "They gotta know this is crap, right?"

#6. Troll 2

From its laugh-inducing soundtrack (apparently recorded using only a vintage 1980s Casio keyboard) to its unilaterally awful acting, "Troll 2" is a life-changing experience, similar to the Middle Ages' trials by fire. If you succeed at ingesting this festering piece of cinematic detritus in one sitting, you will emerge a new person, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes. The watching itself may be painful, but it is ultimately worth the pain to be able to say, with conviction, "I survived 'Troll 2,' and I'm still technically alive."

#7. Wrong Turn

Where do I even begin with this? I honestly couldn't decide on one movie to focus on here, so I am just including the entire franchise. These movies are amazingly bad, but the first one still has a surprising 6.1 rating on IMDb because they're amazingly addictive at the same time. The movies follow a family of mutated, inbred West Virginia hill people who come into contact with different members of the outside world. There are the love-filled angsty young adults, and one even involves prisoners fighting the hill people. There is even an especially gruesome scene where it shows two of the related hill people doing the deed while wearing parts of their victims. Because someone in real life obviously thought of that to add to the script- normal. The movie does deserve some props for creativity though, there are some pretty gruesome death scenes and some seriously twisted events.

#8. Birdemic: Shock and Terror

Following the success of The Birds, many filmmakers seemed to have the idea to make movies about nature and animals attacking humans. In 2010, yes just a few years ago, this lovely movie came out. The movie, which has 1.8 stars, tells the story of birds coming in and attacking a quiet little town in California. The citizens are terrified, while being attacked by clearly fake birds, but somehow some of them find the strength and decide to fight back. A wild battle ensues, because it turns out the birds are mutated. The film builds up very very slowly, and then is just a huge mess of overacting and badly made birds. IMDb estimates their budget at $10,000, but it would amaze me if they spent that at all. The dialogue alone is worth the time you would throw away watching this movie.

#9. Teeth

High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.

In a nutshell, this low budget film is more satirical than scary.

#10. Death Bed:The Bed That Eats

It was shot in 1972 and took until 2003 to see the light of release day, mind you.

You can practically picture the main setpieces already just from hearing the premise (i.e. the title): teens noisily having sex in the bed and in turn getting noisily eaten like some lost Monty Python sketch, the bed stalking one panicked girl down a long hallway through the magic of jump cuts like some lost Monty Python sketch, maybe even silently clinging to the ceiling like Batman and lying in wait to crush someone...like some lost Monty Python sketch.