Campy Movies
 

So I just got done watching Punisher: Warzone, and I really don't know what to say.

I mean, it was the exact opposite of the previous Punisher movie, and was probably the campiest movie I have seen in the last 5 years. There really is no better way to explain this movie! It was a super violent Camp fest.

So I thought we should hold a discussion on campy movies.

It doesn't help that 80% of them are monster movies using the same formula.
 

Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are drenched in camp, and they are AWESOME. synk mentioned Bruce Campbell for a reason. His chin and him can take any movie and make it awesome.

He is the King of Camp and the Lord of All That Is B-Movie for a reason.

How about Machete? Will that count? The trailer rocked, at least.

And snakes. If there can somehow be a giant snake in a Sci-Fi original, there will be. Even in movies that have no reason to have a giant snake, if you look hard enough, you'll find one.

I suspect that in the end Sci-Fi will make a movie that's like "Python vs Boa vs King Snake vs other giant snakes....on an aircraft carrier......beached in Egypt....that had a plane land on it filled with giant scorpians.....while a plague monster runs around scaring the humans......and an archeologist/FEMA worker who once did a stint at the CDC tries to seal the curse of the plague beast while studying it's effects on the fighting habits of giant animals.....while soldiers go around being eaten and shoot at things."

Yeah, just like that.

Dog Soldiers is one of those films which amuses me greatly as through the entire film I am flip flopping my opinion whether the film is horrorifying or comedic and serious or campy.

Evolution and Eight Legged Freaks slide up there on the campiness meter too.

And who can forget this film, or this man altogether.

Southland Tales is fun as long as you can quiet the bit in your brain that keeps insisting that he believes everything he's filming.
I always thought that Sci-Fi were the holders of some revered formula capable of making perfect movies to watch while drinking and doing something else (Scrabble, Risk, more drinking, Monopoly). Your perception of time starts making everything speed up and the movies become less formulaic and more a rapid series of anacondas or Mansquitos or manacondas chopping an extra's head off.

Did somebody say camp?

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