80s comedies, complete with totally inappropriate references, ableism, racism, sexism, homophobia, unnecessary nudity and macho bullshit. Idk.

I don’t really believe in Guilty Pleasures. I think if you like something, let your freak flag fly. If you’re embarassed to say that you like something, you don’t actually like it honestly.

With that being said, I get strange looks when I tell my friends about random terrible B-Movies I enjoy, the more obscure the better.

Generaly I like movies with a good twist, or that require a bit of thinking, so things like The Usual Suspects, Seven, Memento or Shutter Island (though not so much films that fall into this category but which I feel cheat, like The Prestige.

I also quite like ‘clever protagonist outsmarts the antagonist(s)’ films, like The Amateur, Law Abiding Citizen, or, I suppose The Usual Suspects also falls into this group as well, though I prefer it when the cleverness is plausible and not crazy accurate prediction on exactly how people will react to chnaging evens (Law Abiding Citizen has a bit too much of this).

But they’re not really guilty pleasures. My guilty pleasures are American Hich School movies, like 10 Things I Hate About You, Heathers, or even Bring It On. Bonus points if it features an unconventional teacher or coach who turns underdog teams or academics around, like Coach Carter or Dangerous Minds.

Ridiculously soapy period drama with a huge amount of money thrown at it for costumes and locations. See Sissi and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

I don’t like horror movies in general but I like horror movies based on turning innocent pre-existing characters into monsters

Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey

Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

The Blood and Honey universe also has Peter Pan and Bambi movies out. Sadly I haven’t gotten to watch them yet cause they didn’t come to my local theatre

I also like Brightburn (based on Superman)

Recently watched The Mean One (based on the Grinch). It’s pretty good

Plan to watch Alice in Terrorland and those Mickey Mouse based horror films

India has the “masala” genre, a blend of multiple genres; basically what comes to the mind of the average person when they think about Indian movies. I don’t think they create “pleasure” for anybody. They mainly exist, because it’s a low-efforts template for Indian producers to target the masses.

However once you get used to this genre and accept that there will be a few toilet breaks and tiresome tropes, you unlock the gate to some movies that are otherwise fantastic. It’s quite similar to starting to watch pro wrestling or shōnen anime.

Chopsocky and similar martial arts movies from the 1960’s and 70’s

Not guilty at all, but dance competition movies. It’s a subgenre of sports team movies where a diverse group has to learn to work together to win a competition, but the competition is dance. Movies like Stomp the Yard, Bring It On, and the Step Up series. You may be inclined to think Dirty Dancing as well, but that one is too individual and with too much drama, though it does include the all-important training montage.

Sounds like you’d love a lot of Charles Bronson movies, OP. Death Wish is a good one.

Mine is a bit niche. Male anti hero protagonist revenge movies.

Have you seen the strait to DVD Dwain Johnson film Faster? It’s exactly your niche. I’ve never been able to recommend it to anyone before, but its great!

Bright happy wholesome comedies

I only take my kids to the theater when I want to see a cartoon kids movie and not look like a creep.

Japanese monster fighting movies. Godzillas especially but it needs to be guys in rubber suits doing stunts shot in slow motion. If you have that, I’m there. No matter how bad the acting no matter how bad the story, no matter how horrendous the dub. Give me big rubber monsters fighting and I’m there.

Shitty b movies. Anything by the asylum, anything that may have once appeared on an episode of MST3K, any weird VHS your parent brought home for you one day back in the 90s by some obscure polish director that you half-remember and now that you think about it where the hell did your parents even find that movie?