The Evil Dead (1981), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Long Weekend (1978), The Surprise (2015), The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994), The Party (1968), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Vault of Horror (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Campy movies.
Storyline: Teens (Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker) in a remote cabin accidentally resurrect demonic forces with a taped incantation and the Book of the Dead.
Plot Keywords: teenager, girlfriend, friend, monster, living dead, dark, gory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum's director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou's friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.
Plot Keywords: director, railway inspector, clerk, insurance investigator, passenger, campy, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets), a bitter married couple teetering on the edge of divorce, take a camping trip to heal the rift between them. As the weekend progresses, the selfish pair engage in reckless behavior that demonstrates an increasing disrespect for their natural surroundings. When Peter and Marcia become the targets of a series of inexplicable animal attacks, it becomes clear that an angry Mother Nature has come to exact her revenge.
Plot Keywords: man, wife, dog, husband, shocking, eerie, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A rich man signs a contract to end his life. While picking out his coffin, he meets a young woman doing the same thing, and they instantly fall in love with each other. Trouble ensues when they both try to get out of their contracts.
Plot Keywords: eccentric, millionaire, young woman, love interest, amusing, witty, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Intrepid Japanese detective Maiku Hama is on the case in this adventure. Hama is suave, macho, and cold but he is a total klutz. His attempts at machismo always fall flat. When he's out on a case he spends more time getting beaten up than he does solving the case.
Plot Keywords: detective, waiter, criminal, brother, client, campy, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While trying to tie his shoe, bumbling extra Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) unwittingly triggers explosives that destroy the set of an epic war film. The furious director tells executive Fred Clutterbuck (J. Edward McKinley) to fire him. Because of a misunderstanding, Bakshi instead mistakenly receives an invitation to an exclusive party at Clutterbuck's Hollywood mansion, where he proceeds to wreak havoc on partygoers as he stumbles through what will become the wildest night he's ever seen.
Plot Keywords: actor, director, studio head, daughter, waiter, singer, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a tale that almost redefines sibling rivalry, faded actresses Blanche and 'Baby' Jane Hudson live together. Jane was by far the most famous when she performed with their father in vaudeville but as they got older, it was Blanche who became the finer actress, which Jane still resents. Blanche is now confined to a wheelchair and Jane is firmly in control. As time goes by, Jane exercises greater and greater control over her sister, intercepting her letters and ensuring that few if anyone from the outside has any contact with her. As Jane slowly loses her mind, she torments her sister going to ever greater extremes.
Plot Keywords: sister, child actor, actress, pianist, neighbor, paraplegic, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five tales: "Midnight Mess," "The Neat Job," "This Trick'll Kill You," "Bargain in Death," "Drawn and Quartered."
Plot Keywords: vampire, magician, wife, englishman, painter, priest, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ashley Williams travels to a secluded cabin in the woods with his girlfriend Linda where they find a tape recording of a professor and a book of evil. This unleashes a bunch of evil spirits that constantly terrorize Ash. Meanwhile a journalist comes to the area to study the book of evil. Ash and her end up having to survive this swarm of evil until morning comes.
Plot Keywords: boyfriend, girlfriend, demon, archaeologist, campy, creepy, cabin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The LEGO Movie is a 3D animated film which follows lead character, Emmet a completely ordinary LEGO mini-figure who is identified as the most "extraordinary person" and the key to saving the Lego universe. Emmet and his friends go on an epic journey to stop the evil tyrant, Lord Business.
Plot Keywords: tyrant, toy, stranger, citizen, airy, amusing, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: British Dr. Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) finds a colony of pressure domes built by aliens who are taking over officials.
Plot Keywords: professor, soldier, government official, government agent, colleague, suspenseful, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford). He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. He would be a perfect catch -- except he's only fifteen years old.
Plot Keywords: teenager, stepmother, father, best friend, woman, cheeky, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the Harry DeJour Playhouse in New York in the mid-2000s, John Waters emerges from a confessional onto a stage littered with trash. He tells stories. After a few about his childhood and early influences, he roughly follows the chronology of his career as a film director, relating anecdotes about the making of each film and letting those stories lead him to riffs on other topics. Gay references and wry observations about people's foibles and limits are constants. Waters' looks, too, are the butt of his jokes.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: divine, campy, creative, hilarious, passionate, theater, baltimore ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents, his brother, Divine's mom, actors and crew, other directors, film critics, a film curator, psychologists, and Maryland's last censor, who shudders at the memory of Waters's pictures. Also included is footage of Waters making his early movies, culminating in an up-close and in-depth look at Pink Flamingos: the script, the set, the filming conditions, its editing, its distribution, and its impact. In sweet ways, this documentary is also a celebration of Divine (1945-1988).—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, actor, parent, friend, campy, amusing, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A rerun of many of the gags from the television series Police Squad! (1982). An Airplane! (1980)-type spoof, this time with the an incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin, who always "gets his man". Visual gags come thick and fast, and it's impossible to catch them all with one viewing. The plot: Queen Elizabeth II of England is coming to town, and Vincent Ludwig has plans to assassinate her using a brainwashed baseball player.
Plot Keywords: detective, partner, businessman, assistant, queen, police officer, campy ...
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