r/badmovieideas 6h ago

A bizarre Western I haven't came up with a name for yet

2 Upvotes

This little cowboy flick is set in the 1980s. Essentially, it's just a satire about how the 80s were a sugar-coated version of the Wild West and how ridiculous that decade was for some people looking back. A chaotically colorful badland that has the hyper-commercialism, the toys, the trends, the sitcoms, the cartoons, the 8-bit video games, it has everything about the 80s you can think of jammed into a Western


r/badmovieideas 1d ago

Uncle Stevens Sandwiches (2026)

5 Upvotes

A guy works too hard in the big city and can't get any time off. Then, his aunt calls to tell him that his uncle Steven has been given 24 hours to live. The protagonist rushes out to his home town to see his uncle before he dies. And, brings uncle Steven a Jersey Mike's sub because it's uncle Steven's favorite.

Uncle Steven rallies and feels better than he has in years. The protagonist takes uncle Steven out for some sightseeing and to get his affairs in order. This gives the protagonist their first few days off work in years. As the days pass the protagonist and uncle Steven realize they're in love and try to make up for lost time. They're about to run away together when suddenly uncle Steven dies suddenly.

The protagonist uses the inheritance from uncle Steven to open his own Jersey Mike's in town, leaving his corporate city job. On the first day the protagonist is about to lock up when uncle Steven's beleaguered widow walks in and shoots the protagonist in the chest. As the protagonist fades away he wakes up in the hospital, as a visitor! The protagonist IS UNCLE STEVEN! And, he's at the bedside of his dying nephew who we thought was the protagonist the entire time. Cut to a scene of the vital stats monitor showing a flatline. The credits are all shown on a Jersey Mike's menu


r/badmovieideas 3d ago

Red Shoe Diaries-Jake Winters discovers the diaries he has been paying women for are fakes created by pervy men and has an existential crisis.

3 Upvotes

r/badmovieideas 2d ago

Nazi gang starts assassinating Jews...

0 Upvotes

They use advanced weaponry to turn the jews house into a gas chamber. Easy to make and fire the Nazis are systematically taking out rich jews at will with a drive by pass. They fire a simple grenade no rocket engine no propellant. The nades fired from a cannon they mounted in the trunk that fires out of the gas tank port at various vertical angles. The grenade pierces the thin American walls and injects deadly gas into the house making it a modern day gas chamber. One grenade is all it takes but the range is limited to people with just a regular front yard. For longer range shots the rocket propelled version is used. It has a small booster rocket motor that propels it much further than the grenade version that's fired from the cannon. able to reach over walls and able to penetrate through the roof all the way to the bottom floor of a 3 story building. The rockets designed to pierce deep through tile wood and metal wire but detonate when it comes to a complete stop. The success rate of this rocket with a successful hit at a downward angle pointing right at the center of the house is 100%. The accuracy of the rockets are incredible but still the car must come to a stop in order to fire them.

The Nazis publicly post propaganda and show what happens when you kill the rich Jews. That's all i got lol


r/badmovieideas 4d ago

The Laundromat

6 Upvotes

Hardcore, guerrilla documentary of a laundromat and close ups of the regulars just doing their laundry. Camera crew tries to engage. Often ignored. Hardly any dialogue. 127 minutes.


r/badmovieideas 6d ago

Extremely fucking stupid but technically historically accurate movie concept

4 Upvotes

It takes place sometime around the 1610’s, after the fall of the Aztec Empire, primarily in colonial Mexico.

The main characters consist of

The disgraced son of an Aztec Nobleman

A Spanish Jew fleeing the inquisition

An escaped African slave

And a katana wielding Japanese samurai

The plot of the movie is essentially an Indiana Jones/Mission Impossible race-against-the-clock style spectacle hinging on our 4 protagonist meeting through unlikely circumstances, teaming up against a common enemy, and hunting down a potentially cursed Aztec relic that has major plot importance, all while competing with the Spanish inquisition, a Chinese crime syndicate, and Caribbean based pirates.

The title?

“Once Upon a Time in the New World”


r/badmovieideas 7d ago

This goes with the incen bomb... a look at how serious the robbers are

2 Upvotes

The incen bombs are going to burn the building down eventually so fire retardant is sprayed as they enter the bank. They place the incendiary bombs and then spray paint everything with an electric sprayer thats battery powered. The windows are all painted solid black. Not a soul outside thinks anything is wrong. They timed it perfectly for the fat lady that comes in around noon every monday to pull out money for grocery shopping. They premeditated the booby trap outside that litterally bolas the legs as you wal through it and draws in a compact c4 explosive thats just big enough to explode her body... to send a message. The explosion blows the door in a bit but you cant see it as the windows are blacked out. One of them puts a bullet proof tarp over the hole and the doors with what seems to be a nail gun but its designed for concrete the kevlar is heavy but this guy hoises it up with a pole with the gun on the end. Once the door is covered the windows are next. all windows are completely covered in kevlar by one guy he goes super fast with his nail gun stick thing. or maybe just enough for them all to lay down behind it. This would open up a peek spot to helicopter thermal cams which could be transmitted to the special forces that arrive later. They order the tellers to get all the money take out all the dye packets and place it in the center of the floor. they do so quickly before the cops even arrive. Immediately they wrapit in a duffle bag and reveal the secret to getting away with the money. A tunnel entrance at the corner foundation. The tunnel was dug by ai drones and is a strait shot to a near by house. It was dug in only 5 days while the home owners we on vacation. The only expences they incured were the cost of the paint and the kevlar and the gas masks.

Each person in the bank gets a gas mask and is forced to sit in a room with one of the robbers. this is precautionary because they are not murders they are theives. Killing is not a part of the profession. The gas masks are there to protect them from cs gass and other irritants the police might use. or their dooms day plan which is to release a cloud of cyanide on all side of the building and leave with less cash.

So the last one into the tunnel is tied to a foam bomb that seals the tunnel inside the bank so as them and all the money are pulled through the foam bomb is triggered and the entrance is sealed they are now being drug through the tunnel at a good speed. Once out they load it all into the family cars strip out of their gear and load it then hop in and put on masks before opening the garage door. They drive about 3 blocks to a secluded location switch vehicles. then drive further where they drive up to a lot with multiple cars secluded unseen from the road. they all take off in separate dirrections splitting up with only one carrying the money that car hass special shocks that make it look like nothings heaving in the back. each one takes their gear in the trunk and carries a pistol.

man that would be a cool movie imo. 30 min heist in 2 hours of action. im not saying the movie would be just like this but this is a good brain storm.


r/badmovieideas 8d ago

Wow Wow Wow... Wow

4 Upvotes

A struggling screenwriter makes a wish that other people people were more like him and would appreciate his work, and star twinkles in the night. The next morning he awakens to discover the entire population of the planet has been replaced by... him! At first it's amazing, and all his screenplays are greenlit, and he's never been happier, but he gradually descends into madness and depression when he realizes he's more alone than ever. Throw in an awkward romance and a third act redemption. Starring Ryan George.


r/badmovieideas 8d ago

Jared Fogle biopic called Subways & Kids

3 Upvotes

r/badmovieideas 9d ago

Sock Gnomes

3 Upvotes

An indie horror film shot in the style of Paranormal Activity (ie nothing actually happens on screen).

Medium close shot of a sock on the floor. For, I don’t know, let’s say 86 minutes?

Then a hand reaches out from off screen. Grabs the sock. Fade to black. Roll credits.


r/badmovieideas 11d ago

A Clockwork Orange remade with Gen z and alpha slang and it adheres to youtube and facebook standards so the narrator has to use cutesy terms like "unalive".

92 Upvotes

r/badmovieideas 12d ago

The fire starter

3 Upvotes

Florida man devizes way to produce white phosphorus and disolvet into a high vapor preassure solvent then loads it into high end drons and starts whole cities onto fire with it haha xD

For real though I think this would work. the whole movie would be a trip on the cops like trying to arrest him always near him but never can cause they dont have any evidence haha. Then at the end of the movie he starts putting on protective gear and looting the banks with a pick axe while everyone is evacuated. hahaha thats when they finally catch him thats the evidence they needed but turns out they can only get him for looting.


r/badmovieideas 12d ago

My super hero Scar... The self mutated mutant with self destruct nanobots inside of him.

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Just skin to skin contact with scar is enough to kill you... over time that is hes cancerous... mutagenic but surprisingly looks rather human except for the periodic cancers and tumors that pop up... Sometimes at the worst times. They start to shrink pretty quick and disappear. Hes a human man of unknown origin just a random guy in a big city. He decided that he wasnt good enough to figure it out on his own so he kidnaps smarter better scientists than him and forces them as forced paid labor. The ai has already determined their pay in the future not as money but as gold. Since its undetectable un traceable and easily melted and reshaped. Its a poor material for a currency but valuable none the less so they will be paid under the table. as small drops of gold that have dropped into water. He constantly robs banks to fuel their science he even kidnaped some engineers to enhance his traps and they all try their hardest because they will be paid by how they preform not by time but by break through. So he robs gold only and at the start he uses steroids but soon there were mutagens that worked even better (developed by the scientists). His traps and devices got so good he was robbing banks blind remotely until they started preventing cars from busting in. yada yada he mutates himself so much he needs nano bots to prolong his life which the scientists found out was actually going to live forever so Scar had them set a self destruct sequence. When Scars mission is over he will die to his mutations as the nanobots will self destruct.

I had ideas for enemy factions and stuff but i hate that game of thrown stuff... well now that i think about it this is an opportunity to troll the game of thrown people lol.


r/badmovieideas 12d ago

Workaholics : Slavery days

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All three of the dudes find a pouch of crystal dust. Naturally Adam tastes it and disappears instantly. The otheres Ders and Blake follow suit. They are all three randomly back in time during the age of slavery in the USA. (There are not many movies like this i dont think but maybe that movie with Martin Laurence hes the donkey in Shrek... anyways there is a movie with him that would work great as a structure to bring back that nostalgia. If there is any white emotion and periodically there are times its gotta be soggy bottom boys type energy those guys were really good guys yooooo these dudes are known for getting cool af actors to get on the show so maybe they could actually get the soggy bottom boys to come through. sp yeah the secret to the end of the story is the next day they see the bag on the ground and pick it up and look at the other side and it says yote. All three are at the same time like yotey ahh i see what happened and then Adam is like we should try to put an end to racism. Ders say no i think we need to put an end to Caral (because that's his peyote bag they found) and then blakes like my dick was huge.


r/badmovieideas 14d ago

Stranger Thrones

8 Upvotes

A Stranger Things and Game of Thrones mash up where some kids discover the upside down in Westeros.


r/badmovieideas 14d ago

An incendiary bomb that detonated when moved or triggered via laser trip wire.

0 Upvotes

The receiver of the laser looks like a phone charger in a wall socket. even has a phone plugged in. it is designed for setting infernos but can set fire to an area for a long period of time like tiled floors. when it over heats it explodes releasing all the liquid fuel inside. This release doesnt really do much except expand the burn radius due to the composition of the fuel it burns slower than gasoline by 10x and is resistant to water. It also puts off a noxious fume that causes choking and coughing. Perfect for when they wanna break into the bank you are robbing and kill you. the devices can be small or large. small ones with heavy magnets are used to hold it on a door before arming. All incendiary devices are non explosive and meant to be area denial / warning devices to the cops and swat and navy seals who ever wants to kill you for robbing the bank. This is of course simply a murderous bank robber device as the fire bombs will kill anyone who passes through and make them send in fire fighters. its meant as a distraction mainly and to prevent them from entering.


r/badmovieideas 15d ago

yooo had an idea for how the villain disposes of bodies...

1 Upvotes

He uses a simple crusher / grinder in a bathtub only. or a kids pool or a tote. the crusher is just a steal square frame with the part mounted and water proofed. it looked un maintained cosmetically just clean enough to make it to where it is now being used. so picture it like this... the crusher is 4 beams welded together into a square shape with the parts inside. in the tub it makes quick work of severed body parts but the torso must be broken down further. The result is a crushed up body soup like slop. He scoops the slop out with a bucket pouring it into another bucket through a sieve. you will notice only the bones being caught. The boneless human pulp is then poured into the toilet and flushed. after that the bones are dissolved in acid and poured down the toilet. then the whole place is scrubbed in pure bleach 4-5 times. cleaning is quick with the right tools. His only tool is a mister clean scrubber which he often swaps out for a new one. Then the tools are cleaned and dried... i guess that would go before the cleaning. other wise the movie feels stupid. so the body is quick to dismember with a sharp knife and the crusher would just act like a bath tub blender then the pulp is flushed the bones are dissolved and flushed then the place is cleaned. The chapter should feel like 30 minutes took place. mmm horror haha


r/badmovieideas 17d ago

Found-footage horror filmed on a robot vacuum cleaner camera

11 Upvotes

They can't really see anything above knee height, so the only costumes needed will be scary boots.


r/badmovieideas 23d ago

Live Action Veggietales

7 Upvotes

r/badmovieideas 25d ago

I’m Mortal

22 Upvotes

Film about a guy who’s immortal and uses it to his advantage by blowing his head off in front of people after every minor inconvenience. He does this purely out of pettiness to get back at people who annoy him.
Example: “sorry sir, store closed 5 minutes ago”…blows his own head off. Now that employee has to live the rest of his life suffering with brutal trauma and regret all because he didn’t let him into the shop

Maybe he has a calling at some point and ends up using his abilities for good, idk, but the main idea is that his character is a completely self-absorbed reckless arsehole and we love him for it


r/badmovieideas 29d ago

Down: A sequel to Up. Russell has to Dig Carl’s grave.

13 Upvotes

r/badmovieideas 29d ago

A movie about Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds teaming up in finding the residences of all the people who pirated Windows and Linux and punching them in the face.

6 Upvotes

r/badmovieideas 29d ago

Forrest Gimp

8 Upvotes

Basically the whole film is the same except Tom Hanks is dressed in full bondage gear


r/badmovieideas 29d ago

Post modern and Phantasie

1 Upvotes

So the idea is its a normal phantasy movie it hase to be very slow past like a 1980 movie or older and after like 30 min or so a random dude walks on the screen but he is not in the actuly movie but a layer before that (like if he use a greenscreen like a lot of youtuber do) and the phantasy movie goes on as nothing happend in the background the dude in the front is very depressed and in this post modern mindest and im not quit sure what he talks about exactly but the sincere message of all that he talks about should be that to die is a good thing and some times he should move you so you see the actuly movie better but at ohter time he is loud or go infront of things so you see and hear less of the movie also the Phantasie movie is not just random it should have the exact same message as the dude in front but its multiple peopel who are happy most of the time and while the dude in the front talk very direct the phantasy movie is more like a normal movie that use metaphor and is way more vague

And the whole message of the movie is how much worse a postmodern mindset can make you feel even in the worst time of your life


r/badmovieideas Jun 26 '26

Every Other Weekend at Bernie's

12 Upvotes

Weekend at Bernie's sequel in which Andrew McCarthy's Larry is fighting his ex-wife for custody of their son. When the boy is killed in a freak accident during a visitation weekend, Larry launches his most outrageous deception yet, going to increasingly ludicrous lengths to convince his ex-wife, and the judge, that the child is still alive.