Bad Movie Night

Sometimes you've got experience the worst before you can appreciate the best. This is the thinking behind Bad Movie Night, an evening where terribleness is both endured and celebrated in equal measure. Our masochistic mission is to watch the most awful cinema made by humankind, all the while reveling in the self-inflicted atrociousness.

The inaugural Bad Movie Night featured a trilogy of the most ridiculous movies I've ever seen. Of the three, the one that stood out for me was the 1994 movie adaptation of arcade fighter Double Dragon.

The filmed starred Scott Wolf (he's been in loads of cheesy American drama series) and Mark Dacascos (he would go on to play Mani in brilliant movie Brotherhood of the Wolf - watch it if you haven't seen it), and they squared off against Robert Patrick (of Terminator 2: Judgement Day fame) in a grim vision of the future.

There was an amulet with magical powers, a bad guy who could transfer his essence into shadow form and then take control of other people's bodies, a chase sequence involving trucks covered in "futuristic" tin foil, and some really ropey martial arts. In truth, I haven't got a frickin' clue what actually happened in the movie, there was plentiful supplies of sour mash whiskey on hand, but I absorbed enough to know that it was a worthy addition to the line-up for Bad Movie Night. In particular, the outfits that the two brothers sported during the film's climax need to be seen to be believed.

Watching Double Dragon made me think about other films based on video games, and of the many IPs that have made the switcharoo, which of those might qualify for inclusion in our monthly evening of dire cinema? Off the top of my head, Hitman springs to mind. That was a really, really shite movie. Doom was pretty stinky. Mortal Kombat was bad, bad, bad on a number of levels, and the Lara Croft films both left me cold. Are there any more that I'm missing? Ideas on a postcard please.