The joy of the "so bad it's good" movie is hard to explain if you're unfamiliar. Generally, the filmmakers have set out to make something good and important—and then missed the mark so badly that everyone agrees it's terrible. Whether it's a well-funded independent movie or big studio film, everyone has to be putting in effort to make an absolute cinematic turkey. But then. In a stunning turn of events, every tragic misfire becomes unintentionally hilarious, and the project tips into campy, compelling fun that fans love to watch and rewatch. (If you need more than what we've provided here, longstanding classic podcast How Did This Get Made?, which specializes in this type of movie, will give you even more good-bad movies to love). Below, 32 of the most terrible movies that accidentally turned into must-watch films.

"Moonfall"

Did you know that the Moon is actually a hollow megastructure being overrun by evil alien tech? (Spoiler alert, I guess.) Well, that's where this movie is taking us, and it only gets more ridiculous from there. There's a moment where the characters try to outrun the moon!

"Look Who’s Talking Now"

The third movie in any trilogy is always going to struggle with the weight of expectations. But when the third movie is the conclusion of a talking baby saga in which we instead hear the inner monologue of the family dogs (voiced by Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton, naturally), it's something exceptional. At the time, fans were excited for real-life couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck to star in a movie together. But they certainly didn't want this highly expensive flop, in which one of the main problems appeared to be that the pair didn't have any chemistry. Also, unrelated, Al Pacino is in this!

"Howard the Duck"

As explained by Zach Kornfeld on a Watcher YouTube video about good-bad movies, this is why you shouldn't trust the auteur theory (i.e., that talented creative people only ever have good ideas). George Lucas had just made the original Star Wars, and then he produced this.

"Battlefield Earth"

When it came out, this film was just seen as bad-bad instead of good-bad, winning just about every conceivable Razzie (plus, the production company went bankrupt!). But it's been parodied and referenced so much that, in hindsight, it's tipped into self-parody.

"Jingle All the Way"

This unintentionally hilarious holiday film really understood that Arnold Schwarzenegger could be funny—but that was the extent of its brilliance. Imagine having the audacity to put the actor in small-town America and making him a desperate salesman and normal family guy.

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