Top Ten Best Worst Movies Ever

These movies are so bad they're good. A list of the ten worst movies ever made that are actually so bad you can't resist watching them every time they're on. This goes beyond the realm of the guilty pleasure and into the world of downright embarrassment.

1. Showgirls When Jesse from Saved By the Bell decided to get as close as she could to doing all out porn without actually stepping over the line, the entertainment world became giddy with stifled laughter. Once this piece of mega-garbage hit the big screen in 1995 it quickly became lampooned as one of the worst movies ever made. With a near sweep of the Razzie Awards, Showgirls is the type of bad movie that's best enjoyed as something it's not: pure comedy gold. Ridiculous dialogue, cheesy situations and Jesse Spano's overly tanned and hardly clothed petulant brat of a character make this the ultimate guilty pleasure for lovers of terrible movies.

Best part: watching Jesse and her ketchup bottle go to town on a poor order of French fries.

2. Battlefield Earth Wow. Talk about the worst movie ever made. For scale and scope nothing can beat the absolute critical and box office flop of John Travolta's scientology epic. He plays this weird looking alien who stomps around Earth bossing Forest Whitaker around while the earthlings (led by Barry Pepper) try to fight another ridiculous form of oppression found only in the worst sci-fi movies. The story is ludicrous, the cinematography is overly stylistic and the action is fit for the Sci-Fi channel. Not only did this sweep the Razzie Awards (the only reason Forest Whitaker didn't win Worst Supporting Actor is because he lost to Barry Pepper) it is the biggest box office flop since Waterworld.

3. Waterworld Another Kevin Costner vanity project; this time he thinks he's Mad Max. Waterworld is one of those terrible guilty pleasures that holds your attention only because you want to see how much worse it will get. It's not the worst movie ever made but it's just so terribly ridiculous that it's earned a seat of honor on the "best worst movies" list and I expect it will stay here for some time. Waterworld has already achieved the status of classic garbage fit for the ages. Thousands of years from now, archaeologists will dig up an old scratched up copy of Waterworld on DVD and marvel at Costner's vision of post-apocalyptic Earth. Then they'll watch Costner's The Postman and die laughing.

4. Road House How does a Zen master with a PhD in philosophy give back to society? By becoming head bouncer at a redneck dive bar in the middle of nowhere. Face it, guys who like movies, Road House is one of the worst movies ever made. While we love the fights, the babes and Jeff Healey, the movie suffers one fatal flaw: it's stupid. But it's something we can't resist. If you get the chance try and see the unedited version. You don't want to miss the part where Patrick Swayze walks in on one of his employees and says, "Yo Steve, you're history" and Steve says, "But I'm on my break!" Some of you know exactly what I'm talking about. "Stay on it."

5. Red Dawn Another Swayze classic but this time you also have Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Grey, Lea Thompson and Powers Boothe. 1984's version of World War 3 sees the United States invaded by Russian and Cuban troops who setup their strategic stronghold in...the middle of nowhere? No wonder these bad guys were beaten by a bunch of high school amateurs. While the premise was frightening at the time and the violence over the top for its day and age, Red Dawn is one of those "worst movies" we taut as an awesome cinematic accomplishment. Who hasn't played paintball without raising their air rifle above their heads and shouting "Wolverines!"

Best part: Russian paratroopers wipe out an entire high school science class.

6. Plan 9 From Outer Space This is one of those classics, generally known as the #1 worst movie ever made, and is it ever. Words can't describe how bad it is - you need to see this yourself. Really.

7. Rocky 5 What is it about this movie that prevents me from turning it off? It's a movie that overachieves in its pointlessness. A fifth Rocky breaks no new ground and doesn't even give us an official boxing match at the end. All we get is Tommy "The Machine" Gunn, a bafoonish Oklahoma boy with father atonement issues who follows Rocky around until the Stallion agrees to train him. Only in America can this movie be made and only in America will it be available for repeat viewings on weekend cable TV.

8. Airborne Anyone who's seen this movie loves it. Pretty boy surf jock Mitchell Goosen finds himself relocated to cold, snowy Cincinnati where he quickly becomes a social outcast who's teased and bullied by a group of tough high school hockey players (an entourage that includes Jack Black in one of his first roles). Mitchell is the type of hero you love to hate. With a carefree attitude about life, fluffy surfer hair, a nerdy cousin played by the great Seth Green and an encyclopedia of witty laid-back California dialogue, you only hope this guy gets pulverized by any of the many bad guys who are out to get him. Another cable TV classic, Airborne succeeds in portraying the typical pettiness of high school teenagers, in a world where no one works, studies or needs a car.

Best part: a perilous Chinese downhill on roller blades down the harrowing Devil's Backbone.

9. The Golden Child Another terrible movie that became a classic repository of one-liners is easily one of Eddie Murphy's worst. But it is one of those movies that's filled with so many great quotes that the movie seems to wallow constantly in a pile of its own stupidity.

Best part: Any scene were Charlotte Lewis is scantily clad or fighting her way through a hallway of broken water pipes while wearing a white blouse.

10. Any Police Academy (especially Police Academy 2 & 3) All classics, all terrible. The Police Academy franchise is arguably the definitive collection of worst movies ever made yet they get so much airtime that you can't help but be familiar with Mohoney, Hightower, Tackleberry, Hooks, Proctor and Jones (the guy who makes the sounds). It's clear the filmmakers had a blast making these movies and chose not to labor over such petty matters as polishing the script or coaching the actors. Just turn on the camera and let everyone act like complete idiots. What else can you expect from a movie where Bobcat Goldthwait is one of the top stars? The series took an expected decline after Steve Guttenberg left but Police Academy long cemented itself as the worst movie ever made just a few seconds after the opening credits of part 1. With 7 P.A.'s to speak of the world can only hope that we see Police Academy 8. Why not? It would be hard to do anymore damage.