10 Bad Films That You Absolutely Must See

9. The Incredible Melting Man

“You’ve never seen anything until you’ve seen the sun through the rings of Saturn!” announces astronaut Steve West (Alex Rebar). Unfortunately, the viewer doesn’t share the sentiment because “the rings of Saturn” look a lot like public domain stock footage of solar flares, right down to the hair on the lens.

We’re once again in the realm of low low budget sci-fi, where what goes up must come down mutated (call it ‘Quatermass-itis’), or in this case, melted. Waking up in hospital, the removal of West’s bandages so freaks out the nurse that she runs through a glass door, after which our aeronautical antagonist rampages through the countryside decapitating fishermen and terrorizing chain-smoking 10-year-olds while being pursued by colleague Dr Ted Nelson (Burr DeBenning).

When a sleazy photographer and his topless model stumble across the fisherman’s remains, the film stumbles too, stopping dead for a misplaced ‘comic’ interlude involving Nelson’s mother-in-law and her partner, who stop en route to a dinner date and end up victims of Sir Melts-A-Lot. 

Eventually, the manhunt leads to an industrial plant where West dissolves into an icky mess before being swept away by a bored janitor, but doubts persist: did the filmmakers intend their movie to be funny?