The memorable line to this 1970’s film starring Sean Connery is “get behind my aura” with the lead wearing a red unitard diaper. There are explosions, fighting and flying saucers (to a degree.) It’s surprisingly funny, a little dark and grounded in the story for such a campy premise. Even though this film is engaging and cool, it’s a really campy film because of the action movie cliques that happen in the film. This film, also known as Dark Angel, is about stopping a renegade alien trying to steal a trout only found on our planet and will not stop hunting while repeatedly saying to the victims “I Come in Peace.” This is such a fun movie with a young Dolph Lundgren as the surly cop. I Come in Peace (1990)Ī buddy cop movie with a disgruntled surly cop who plays by his own rules and his working-class stiff cop partner investigating mass deaths in the downtown area of Los Angeles. Harvey Keitel is in this without his Brooklyn accent but dubbed over with British actor, Roy Dotrice. It never goes completely gory in any way or very violent. The story was supposed to be a space exploration film but it was directed was very toned down by the director. This awkward engineer puts his conscience in a robot that goes on a killing rampage. Due to what it’s based on, the film is too much and very campy.Ī small intergalactic space traveller requires assistance in his voyages, therefore, a couple hires an engineer with a weird robot.

A cult classic for its approach to the sexual revolution and the hippie movement of the 1960s. It has a solid story about an astronaut stopping an evil scientist Durand Durand threatening to bring back evil and chaos that would destroy the galaxy. This was based on the French graphic novel from 1962-1964. But there are some special effects of lasers and explosions that look better than most people would expect. This film is almost mostly too simple and weird to be watchable which is why the worst movies list has this film on it somewhere. A pair of aliens misplace or were beta testing an experimental weapon that shoots lasers when attached to the wearer. This is a dumb movie with great stop motion effects that most people don’t get to see anymore. This movie was mostly silent for the first six minutes but that’s if you don’t count on the lead character not saying anything for the first 15 minutes of the movie and garbled sounds of what aliens could sound like. There are a lot of science fiction movies that have space and extraterrestrial life as an element in storytelling. This list will have some bad movies that have space as a setting in some way. This is my shortlist of movies that are over the top campy and weird. Since the beginning of cinema, there were always space movies.

Planet exploration movies