Event Horizon (1997)

Event Horizon is essentially a haunted house movie in outer space. The spaceship is creepy, full of creepy noises, ghosts/hallucinations, and other blinking lights and other standard fare in haunted house movies. A lot of people either love or hate this movie, it was panned by most critics but it has a strong fan following. The film is set in the future and is about an innovative spaceship that went through a black hole and disappeared, only to reappear years later with its crew missing. A team of astronauts are sent to figure out what happened to the crew and salvage what they can from the ship, the ship's creator (Sam Neill's character) is 

among the salvage team. The new crew starts experiencing strange things on board the ship and they come to a dark conclusion on where the ship might have gone on its initial trip through the black hole (hell). The acting is what ties this movie together, both Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) and Laurence Fishburne (pre-Matrix) give wonderful performances, but the supporting cast although full of relatively unknown faces is also great featuring: Joely Richardson (Natasha Richardson's sister, and Vanessa Redgrave's daughter), Sean Pertwee (Equilibrium, and Dog Soldiers), and Jason Isaacs (The Patriot and Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter series). As the film progresses it gets progressively gory (they had to cut back in order to get an R rating). I absolutely love haunted house movies though and pretty much any twist on them, so this was interesting and enjoyable even if a tad too gory for my liking

at times. The pacing was wonderful, the film had a natural progression leading up to its climax at the very end of the film. The ending was similar to that of Carrie (1976), or Dressed to Kill (1980), or The Fury (1978). The CG is impressive by 1997 standards, but a bit dated by today's standards. It is also notable that the film has a similar feel to the first Alien (1979) film. I give it a 4.25/5; The film is featured in Rue Morgue Magazine's 200 Alternative Horror Films You Need to See. The film is also available to stream on Netflix. You can view the trailer below:  

The Toxic Avenger (1984)

The Toxic Avenger (1984) the king of 80s stereotyped, cult and so awful they're amazing movies. The Toxic Avenger is the movie that launched the creation of indie/cult movie company Troma Studios, an extremely successful movie franchise with 3 sequels a children's cartoon series (similar to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and a confirmed upcoming remake starring Arnold Schwarzenegger!, and the career of its creator and head of Troma studios, Lloyd Kaufman. Idk if this movie was made to be horrible and have people overact on PURPOSE, but it is almost inconceivable that the quality of this film could be so low without making it that way on purpose. At first glance it would look like a movie you and a group of friends could easily make with your own camera, heck with the quality of phone cameras you could probably make a BETTER looking film with your phone, but where this movie does spend it's money is on it's incredibly over the top gory death scenes. How this movie (easily one of the most gory movies I've ever seen and ever made. The violent aspects of the film, and the relationship some of the characters have with violence are seriously messed up) got a successful children's TV cartoon is beyond me. Also I'm not a fan of gore so IMO what makes this movie great is it's references and tributes it makes to Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, The Three Stooges, Abbot & Costello, A Clockwork Orange, and Dr. Strangelove, and it's general over the topness in every way possible that makes it HILARIOUS, It also has the most stereotypes I've ever seen in one movie it I'm assuming that's part of the humor (but who knows?  ). The mexican restaurant is called "The Mexican Place" and they have samurai swords on the walls and a pizza oven in the kitchen lol. This movie is also so 80s it hurts, with random people dancing for no reason in most of its scenes, and MULTIPLE 80s montages. The film also has MILLIONS of noticeable errors (jump cuts continuity errors, over exposed lighting, bad lip dubbing, etc.) but they add to the fun of it, even though the quality is damn awful, this is seriously the most fun I've had watching a movie in a LONG long time, it's not hard to understand why this became as successful as it did (it's also referenced in TONS of movies and TV shows). So note I give this one a 5/5 not for quality by any means, but just because of how enjoyable/fun it is. 
P.S. the movie's available on instant on Netflix.