Dungeonmaster (1985)

aka Ragewar

How bad is it? It sat on a shelf for two years before release. Needed another 200.
Should you see it? No.

This junk had seven directors. The film is a sort of computer age version of the seven labors of Hercules, each written and shot by a different person, but all seeming to be solved in 3 minutes by a wristband laser. The computer whiz has a girlfriend jealous of the attention he gives machinery that gets kidnapped. His computer can do anything with 64kb of memory. Richard Moll shows up, as do little people Phil and Sam Fondasero, a heavy metal band, a stone giant, sort-of zombies and a cave troll. The costumes are terrible, the dialogue also terrible (Satan likes puns) and the stories aren't long enough for structure, development or continuity.

Dreams Come True (1984)

How bad is it? Cheap regional film with poor acting.
Should you see it? No. And it's only on 30 year-old VHS, so you won't.

Made in Wisconsin with local actors (and a local band named for the town of Spooner), this is a film where two people can astral project, entering each others' dreams, thereby allowing them to live out their fantasies. Unfortunately, they're not very imaginative. The acting is very wooden, the effects are poor and, though the film appears directed to an early-teenage audience, there's a sex scene. It's fluff.

Dream a Little Dream 2 (1995)

How bad is it? Unneeded sequel meanders from a thin plot.
Should you see it? Only if you're a huge fan of the two Coreys.

Corey Haim and Corey Feldman return in this direct to video sequel to a mediocre film. Unfortunately, Jason Robards and Harry Dean Stanton do not return. Magic sunglasses give one wearer to have complete mind control over the wearer of the second pair; this one would expect would lead to some weird fantasy stuff, but instead, the film is mostly the two getting chased by thugs and the crazed inventor of the glasses. Feldman does a very protracted Michael Jackson-inspired dance routine, for no discernible reason.

Doom Asylum (1987)

How bad is it? Intentionally bad, it's also unintentionally bad.
Should you see it? No.

This is meant as a spoof, but it isn't immediately obvious. There's an abandoned mental hospital with a disfigured killer; the film was undoubtedly made because the location was available. Kristin Davis and Patty Mullen and a couple of other girls go into the building for unexplained reasons, after a communist lesbian punk band had already entered for also unexplained reasons. The killer, whose makeup is adequately done, but not consistent, makes wisecracks after his kills - but for whom (I mean, his audience is dead, right)? A scant 77 minutes, this is padded with black and white footage from Tod Slaughter films that the killer stops to watch. There's a bunch of pop references, a bit of toplessness, some adequate effects and some really bad ones, continuity errors, terrible acting, long sequences of wandering in hallways and some of the thickest New Jersey accents committed to film. It gets tedious pretty quickly.

Don't Sleep Alone (1997)

How bad is it? It's from the bottom end of the erotic thriller barrel.
Should you see it? No.

This sleaze noir once had a rating of 1.8 on IMDB and currently is up to 4.3, so somebody liked it (or more likely, people trying to manipulate ratings scored it high without watching it). A private investigator follows the case of a woman who sleeps with a different guy each night, only to find them murdered. There's misogyny, rape fantasies and strippers. There's also bad acting, lousy dialogue and a weak story that includes a questionable psychologist impeding the investigation and possible multiple personalities.

Dr. Strain the Body Snatcher (1991)

How bad is it? Technically one of the worst films made.
Should you see it? No, which is okay, because it's REALLY hard to find a copy.

This was a Super 8mm home movie, apparently shot with the built-in camera microphone and sound edited in hard stereo (i.e., sounds are one speaker or the other. Added music, at improper volume, is all on one side). A young man is being investigated by the police and he tells his story, which is about his uncle and his "Reanimator"-like experiments. Uncle Dr. Strain has low tech facial sores and a penchant for 80's casual wear, as well as a basement full of zombies. He tries to transfer his soul into his nephew, but it goes into a zombie and then there's a chase scene... that stops abruptly without resolution. There's a cemetery that rivals the one in "Plan 9" for shoddiness. Extraneous noise - dogs barking, wind, lawn mower, an argument - drown out the dialogue in places.

Dirty Movie (2011)

aka National Lampoon's Dirty Movie

How bad is it? It's not the worst National Lampoon film, but it is the least plotted.
Should you see it? No.

Everything National Lampoon released directly to home video is terrible, but some people said that this one was actually funny, so I checked it out. It's not funny, unless you're a 10 year-old boy for whom all jokes are new. The "plot" is that a filmmaker decides to make a film that's nothing but people telling the dirtiest jokes they know. It's no "The Aristocrats." It's mostly meant to offend, and I'm a believer in "If it doesn't offend somebody, it's not very funny," but its scattershot approach doesn't work. There's a lot of the N-word, plus bestiality, pedophilia, dead baby jokes, digs at little people and old people, at transgender people, at Mexicans and Jews and at the film industry itself (but not enough to work). Christopher Meloni, who directed, also stars and Cyndi Lauper shows up. The best comedian in the bunch is Robert Klein.