Badflique (thing)

A badflique is a movie that is so bad, it's good. Grade-B Cheez! This word is taken from Frenglish and should be pronounced with a pronounced frawnch pronunciation. Some examples of badflique include:

• Army of Darkness - Trapped in time. Surrounded by Evil. Low on gas.
• Tank Girl - only Lori Petty had any grasp of the precise level of bad with which they were dealing!
• Reefer Madness - The classic anti-drug propaganda-as-entertainment!
• Leviathan - Look out! It's THE LEG!!!!
• Deep Star Six - A terrible undersea beastie. Plus some of the dumbest undersea explorers around.
• Trancers - "Your name is Jack Deth? That's a dumb name, man."
• The incomparable gem from Troma, The Killer Condom - filmed in Germany, set it New York, starring German grade-F actors trying to be New York cops, subtitled back into English, about a renegade prophylactic that's running around NYC biting mens' talleywhackers off. Wow, this one tops the list.

Note that this should not be confused with simple bad. Movies that are 'just bad' are movies that are no fun to watch at all, either with serious intent or as unintentional comedy. Some examples of the latter category:

• Freejack - Oh, please, God, no, Mick. Not the ping-pong helmet!
• Event Horizon - Look out people...our careers are going to re-enter the Jovian atmosphere if we're not careful!
• Waterworld - "Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not God! The film is dead!"
• Antitrust - "My name is Phil Tates. Er, no, I'm not spying on programmers. I don't want to rule the world. GNOME WILL SAVE US!"

Got it? Good. :-)