A LOT of the movies I own are ones which are so awful, repeated viewings are a guarantee of dangerous brain swelling and sometimes explosion. A few examples? Sure, why not? Some of these movies are just bad, with no redeeming value whatsoever (like "Invasion of the Star Creatures"), some are mildly entertaining ("Monster from a Prehistoric Planet" or "King Kong Escapes"), and some are just great, even when they don't have good stories or effects or characters, etc. They just entertain. The following are lists of movies I've seen or own. Not ALL my movies, that would take too long. Just the high-(and low-)lights.

    The Worst I've Seen or Own or Both (in No Particular Order):

"Invasion of the Star Creatures" - Two large, buxom B-Movie actresses (Gloria Victor and Delores Reed) play alien scientists named (Get ready) "Poona and Tanga". They land on Earth and set up shop in a really stupid looking fake cave. Enter Frankie Ray and Bob Ball, the completely insane man's answer to Abbott and Costello, as Army privates who discover Poona and Tanga and somehow seduce them into defecting to Earth, presumedly to discover the early-1960s joys of housewifery. This is complicated by guys with burlap bag head masks and tights, sort of like Veggie-monsters, chasing our two heros endlessly through the stupid cave set, while they mug painfully for the camera. Directed by what had to be a drunk Bruno VeSota, this movie has a spleef factor of 5. In other words, it would take this many to simply tolerate watching this mess. Bob Ball actually sorta had a career after this mistake, but Frankie Ray, Gloria Victor and Delores Reed never appeared in another movie.

"They Saved Hitler's Brain" - Please understand, most of these movies are so bad they defy logic. Consequently, there is little to no public demand for these movies. When you find them, if you're a fan like myself, you grab them while you can. Mostly they're gonna be found in the $5.50 bin at Walmart and other such places. Most video rental stores will NOT carry the more esoteric titles, such as "..Hitler's Brain", so guys like me tend to spend the bucks while the gettin' is good. Hitler's Brain is bad, but it's in that special category of "Damn this sucks, but I can't seem to stop watching". Apparently some South American filmmaker threw this mess together originally, then some enterprising fool in the US bought the rights to it and added a whole bunch of incomprehensible subplots involving secret agents who pretty much all get killed before we ever get to see Hilter. Technically they didn't just save Der Fuhrer's brain, they lopped the whole head off and preserved it a la The Brain That Wouldn't Die. Hitler can even look around while in his jar! Just so you know, the head melts during a fire in the lab where doctors were going to attempt the world's first head graft. None of the actors used to pad out the movie could act, and the pay-off for sitting through this mess is seeing Hitler's head melt in the fire, just like a wax head would. And that's about it.

"The Brain From Planet Arous" - John Agar "stars" in this movie, he plays some sort of scientist who discovers odd radiation flucuations near "Mystery Mountain". After going there, he becomes possessed by a giant, floating, semi-transparent balloon made to look like a brain with two glowing eyes. The stated purpose for this possession is global conquest, but the apparent purpose seems to be to shtup Agar's onscreen fiance (The planet AROUS, get it?). After finally being forced out of Agar with no sign anywhere of Max Von Sydow, Agar and his assistant pretty much kill off the floating brain thing by whacking it a bunch of times with an axe. Exit the horny brain alien.

"The Beast of Yucca Flats" - Directed by Coleman Francis, my nominee for worst director of all time (and yes, I own a couple Ed Wood movies too). This one stars Tor Johnson as a Russian scientist who just happens to defect to the US, to the ONE place in the New Mexico desert and at the exact time where a nuclear bomb is coincidently being detonated. The result of this unhappy confluence of events is Tor wearing oatmeal on his face and wandering around the desert for another 45 minutes, strangling victims and threatening two lost kids until he's shot down at the end. That's the whole plot, but what Coleman lacks in story he more than makes up for in completely incomprehensible voice-overs ("Flag on the moon", etc.).
I have seen every available episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and Mike and the Bots skewer not just "Beast of Yucca Flats", but two other equally terrible Francis movies, "Red Zone Cuba" and "The Skydivers". Actually, I own several of the movies torn up on MST3K, in the original form. Of course, I also own every episode of MST3K.

The Beach Girls and the Monster" - What we have here looks like a bad, color remake of "The Horror of Party Beach". The burning question is, WHY a remake? No one seems to want to take credit for this. The plot of this mess wouldn't pass muster as a Scooby Doo episode. Guy in a bad monster suit terrorizes chicks in bikinis until discovered and killed at the end.

"Mars Needs Women" - Starring Tommy Kirk as a space alien who falls in love with scientist and Va-VOOM chick Yvonne "Batgirl" DeCarlo. Her field of expertize? Sexual relations between Eartlings and extra-terrestrials. How convenient.

"Invasion of the Astro-Zombies" - Written by Wayne Rogers (yes, the Wayne Rogers from M*A*S*H), and has something to do with solar powered robots and kidnapped girls in bikinis, I think, it's pretty cheap and pretty incoherent.You kinda get an idea how bad this one's gonna be during the opening credits, which feature shots of battery-powered toy robots walking around a fog machine behind someone's garage. I have to admit to marvelling at the scientist who created the "Astro-Zombies" tho. He makes em solar powered (they have small silver discs on their heads to collect sunlight) but constantly sends them out at NIGHT to attack the scientist's targets! It is a real hoot watching these "invincible" robots, chasing their victims thru the night, while holding flashlights up to their foreheads. No kidding.

"Garden of the Dead" - WOW, this one is something! Convicts, working at an out of the way prison manufacturing chemicals, become addicted to sniffing formadlehyde fumes. They decide to escape en masse and are gunned down and buried by the prison guards. No big deal, the prison was closing down anyway, this solves the pesky problem of having to transport the prisoners to new prisons. Unfortunately, the formaldehyde has done something to the prisoners. They re-animate, climb out of their graves and start ripping the guards apart. Nothing can stop them, not bullets, not boobs, nothing. Only real problem with this movie is that it's only like an hour long.

Almost any movie by Roger Corman -I own a bunch of these, mostly due to their availablility. I didn't see a lot of these movies when I was a kid, so I watch em now. I'm pretty sure, after seeing these movies, that my childhood was happier for NOT having seen them as a kid. "The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues", "Swamp Women", "Teenage Caveman", "Beast with a Million Eyes", "Night of the Blood Beast", etc., are all Corman movies. Hell, the guy's responsible for almost 360 movies, either as director or exec producer. He worked in ALL genres, sometimes at the same time, using the same actors on a redressed set. F'rinstance, Beverly Garland was one of Corman's stable of actors. She starred in "It Conquered the World", "Gunslinger" and "Swamp Women" at basically the same time. "It" was a real bad sci-fi/horror movie, also starring Peter Graves and Lee Van Cleef, about an alien cucumber from Venus, or some such happy nonsense. "Gunslinger", a western costarring Allyson ("Attack of the 50 Foot Woman") Hayes and an apparently drunk John Ireland, about a female U.S. Marshall (Garland) who has about 70 minutes to deal with 100 or so subplots, none of which are resolved too satisfyingly. And "Swamp Women" is a sorta Crime Drama co-starring a pre-Mannix Mike Conners, billed here as "Touch" Conners. Good thing he changed it before "bad touch" became so popular. All 3 flicks were churned out at about the same time, with similar non-existant budgets and anemic shooting schedules. They all probably turned a small profit, just because expenses were so minimal.