10 Amazingly Bad Rip Off Films You've Never Seen

Roger Corman’s Star Wars has everything that George Lucas’s space opera had: a score by an Oscar-winning composer, larger-than-life characters, quotable dialogue, a memorable villain and, of course, light sabre battles.

It also features David Hasselhoff in heavy mascara, Caroline Munro as a bikini-clad space pirate, a police robot with an inexplicable Southern drawl and, best of all, Joe Spinell as a cackling villain who plans to rule the universe with a lava lamp. Christopher Plummer also appears, playing an Emperor who can change the course of history by shouting, “Imperial Battleship….halt the flow of time!”

There are, of course, bigger-budgeted (and therefore ‘better’) movies, but they don’t have an ounce of Starcrash’s dumb fun (no Amazons on horseback, either). Call it kitschy and juvenile, but it has a b-movie charm that’s as entertaining as it is endearing.