15 Hilariously Awful SyFy Original Movies

What's not to love about a SyFy original movie? They're cheesy, poorly acted good times, with ridiculous plots and dialogue that can be funnier than many actual comedies. Audiences really started to recognize that with Sharknado back in 2013, a film which has already birthed two sequels and become a yearly event for SyFy.

Despite being the first one to really gather mainstream attention, Sharknado was far from the birth of this kind of film with a totally whacked out premise. No, the SyFy channel (formerly just the more logical Sci-Fi) has been airing their own brand of absolutely bonkers movies for decades now.

Each one of these films is crazier than the last, and the network has been trying to one up themselves year after year. After so many films that have to keep getting crazier, Sharknado's popularity was like a worldwide recognition of the fact that this is what society has come to: a movie about sharks in tornados. What could they possibly think of next?

Over the course of many years and an insane number of hybrid monsters that inevitably have to fight each other, here are the 15 most hilariously awful SyFy original movies that don't involve shark weather hybrids.

Aztec Rex, also known as Tyrannosaurus Azteca, tells the definitely totally true story about how explorer Hernán Cortés discovered a group of Aztecs who worship a pair of Tyrannosaurus. 

What, you didn't read about that in history class?

Cortés and his crew are captured by the natives, and so in order to escape they must kill the dinosaurs, or as the Aztecs call them, the "Thunder Lizards." They don't really explain why dinosaurs are there, but it doesn't seem like the Aztecs raised them from the dead or anything. They're just kind of still alive. Could this be set in the universe of The Good Dinosaur? 

The Tyrannosaurs obviously kill a bunch of people throughout the movie, and it all culminates in a gunpowder explosion that takes place almost entirely off screen. Yeah, you see the explosion start, but then the camera cuts away and when it returns, the dinosaur's face is all red like they brushed over it in Microsoft paint. These are some of the worst T-Rex special effects you'll ever see, like something straight out of a video game. 

Then the film ends with a voiceover telling you what happened to Cortés after this, once again implying this is a real part of history. With bad acting, bad T-Rex effects and an insanely goofy plot, Aztec Rex is everything you'd expect from the SyFy channel.