Some guy told me my bad movie picks were 'too mainstream' and I got defensive at first

He was right though, I was just grabbing The Room and Birdemic like everyone else. Now I dig into regional public access horror from the 80s and it's way more fun. Anybody else get called out for playing it safe with their bad movie choices?

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the_emery1mo ago

The first time I realized I needed to step up my bad movie game was when someone pointed out I had literally just watched the same 5 YouTube compilations everyone else had. Start digging through local news archives from the 80s, that's where the real gold is hiding.

the_william1mo ago

...and then they hit me with the "so you watched the DVD of The Room your buddy got you for Christmas" line, and I'm standing there with my hands in my pockets like a kid who got caught eating glue. The thing is, they weren't wrong. I was basically that guy at the party who thinks he's discovering fire because he finally watched Troll 2. But once you start digging through those random local news archives from like 1983 where some guy in a cheap vampire costume is hosting a kids show nobody remembers, that's when you realize the mainstream bad movie scene is just the tip of the iceberg. Now I'm sitting here with a VHS rip of a regional horror movie called "The Incredible Melting Man of Maple Street" that has exactly 47 views on YouTube and I feel like I finally graduated from bad movie kindergarten.

wendysanchez1mo ago

And once you start hitting up those local archives you realize there's a whole underground scene of weirdo public access hosts nobody talks about lol