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ABBIE & DIANA'S TWENTY GUILTY PLEASURE MOVIES (in no particular order).
1. Fear
A mid-90s movie starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg as her psycho obsessive ex-boyfriend. I love it. I love the first half where it's kind of a dark psychological movie and I love the second half which is lame action-suspense movie and I love all the parts in between. Gil Grissom from C.S.I. plays the protective father and there's a part where Wahlberg gets Witherspoon off while they are riding a rollercoaster. Too bad he's effin' crazy! This is my number one guilty pleasure. - Diana
I like the part where he gives himself a home-made ebonics tattoo the best. - Abbie
2. The Chase
This is another mid-90s movie that stars Charlie Sheen (I know) and Kristy Swanson (I KNOW) in a movie that takes place 90% of the time in a car (during a car chase). Also, Sheen (a convicted killer) and Swanson (the rich socialite he takes hostage) have sex during the 80-mph car chase. This runs a very close second favorite guilty pleasure to "Fear." PS: Cary Elwes has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it part. Yay! - Diana
3. The Saint
This movie was the beginning of my ability to see a preview, identify the actors in it and list their previous movies. It stars Val Kilmer (OMG IS THAT THE GUY FROM WILLOW???) back in the mid nineties where he was hot. It was also one of my first action movies. Val Kilmer plays a theif for hire who has to steal the cold fusion formula from Elizabeth Shue. He seduces her and surprise! He likes her a lot. She gets pissed and then they both get chased around Moscow by some Russians who have stolen all the heating fluid. At one point Val falls in a frozen river to get Elizabeth's heart pills and then they have to have sex in a hooker's Anne Frank closet to save him. - Abbie
4. Jawbreaker
Tell me, who doesn't love Rose McGowen? She's crazy! Rose is the popular girl and school and she and her posse play a prank on their friend Liz for her birthday where they kidnap her, shove a fist-sized jawbreaker in her mouth and toss her in the trunk. Liz chokes to death and Rose and co. make it look as if she died in a kinky-sex related accident. I bought this DVD in one of those giant bins and the front of target, where you have to dig up to your elbows to find anything not starring Dolly Parton. It's awesome. - Abbie
5. Sleeping With the Enemy
Long story short, Julia Roberts is abused by her husband, who plays extremely cool opera music while they have domestically abusive sex. Then she runs away and he goes after her while she's alone in her house. I can count on one hand the number of times I don't want to punch Julia Roberts, and this movie is the number one reason why. - Diana
Diana and I watched this movie together in health in tenth grade and ended up renting it because we missed the ending for a picture or something. She later bought it for me as my eighteenth birthday gift, which shows why I love her. I was also going to mention the opera music sex part, because that particular composer (Burlioz? Diana's not getting back to me on the spelling of that) will always make me think of this movie. - Abbie
6. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
I haven't seen this movie, but I will confess that the song "Do You Only Wanna Dance" by Mya is on my iPod. BABY, STOP, YOU'RE SURROUNDED! - Diana
My girls at Hollins like this movie as much as I do. I guess I just like watching people dance. The music is fun, the dresses are pretty and Diego Luna looks twelve. - Abbie
7. No One Would Tell
I have four words and a mathmatical symbol to recommend this movie. Fred Savage = Abusive Boyfriend. Need I say more? How about D.J. Tanner from Full House is Fred's victim/girlfriend? How about that? - Diana
Apparently child stars can only do lifetime movies after their teen sitcoms end. Fred Savage is about the most unthreatening person ever but somehow manages to still be crazy. Also, sex in the woods! - Abbie
8. She Cried No
In the same vein of "No One Would Tell" (in fact, we saw this movie, "No One Would Tell" and "Sleeping With the Enemy" all in the same 9th grade 8th period health class) D.J. Tanner is a victim. This time Mark-Paul Gosselaar is a date-rapist. It contains the same excellence found in "No One Would Tell" and probably much of the same dialogue. - Diana
Candace Cameron is a lot more assertive in the movie and doesn't just sit back and let her boyfriend kill her. In fact, she even lives till the end. Zach Morris makes a more convincing villian than Wonder Years Boy but is another actor who never quite escapes his teen sitcom roll. Clearly our health teacher did nothing but let us watch lifetime movies. There was another with Calista Flockheart as an anorexic. -Abbie
9. Angel Eyes
Jennifer Lopez is a cop with a guardian angel, in the form of James Caviezel. Yes, the genre jumps around every few minutes, but Catch really is a big woobie in emo pain and that stays consistent except for the part where it isn't. - Diana
10. Frequency
James Caviezel (second mention) accidently manages to connect to his father (who died 20 years ago) through a radio and chats with him and saves him from death and then has to deal with the consequences. This is like the Butterfly Effect (another secretly awesome movie that actually kind of freaked me out) and there's an awesome part where a glass drops. I'm reasonably sure I cried the first time I saw it. Love! - Diana
I'm not as into this movie as Diana. It was cool but I kind of forgot it, mostly because I sort of hate Jim Caviezel. - Abbie
11. The Cell
This movie is kind of fascinating. I was really disturbed by it because it's 80% weird imagery. Like the horse part? FREAKYYY. I continue to retain images from this. The scenes of the victim in the tank frightened me deeply. And Jennifer Lopez makes another appearance on this list! - Diana
Again, some seriously weird and freaky bits to this movie. The general plot is kind of incoherent and I only recently realized that Vince Vaughn is in this movie. I've no idea why it fascinates me so. - Abbie
12. House on Haunted Hill (both)
I was amped when they started showing the new version on TNT because I'd really wanted to see it, and sat through it terrified and thrilled. I recorded it and forced others through it at several slumber parties. Alas, someone recorded over it. The house is by no means a house but that didn't change the awesome. The original is also great. I guess I'm a sucker for Vincent Price. - Abbie
13. Valentine
I really only watched this because it came out during my David Boreanez phase but it managed to worm its way into my heart through bad acting and corny deaths (Denise Richards' is the best) and plot holes you could drive a dumptruck through. DUDE, THE PART WITH THE CANDLE WAX IS HARDCORE. - Diana
I have to agree with Diana that Denise Richard's death is the best thing ever in this movie. She spends a lot of time before it talking to the person in the room with her as if they're a dog and then.... well I won't spoil it, but it includes a hot tub and a power-drill. AMAZING. Katherine Heigl of Grey's Anatomy also has a cameo at the beginning and her death is awesome too. - Abbie
14. Just One of the Guys
This is one of those movies that gets played on Comedy Central a lot. The story is that a girl pretends to be boy and hilarity ensues, especially when she falls in love with another boy. It's just one of those cute little 80s comedies that isn't particularly funny but weirdly endearing. - Diana
15. Hocus Pocus
I don't really feel guilty about loving this movie, but I do know that I have seen it about 800 times (I even have a VHS tape of it recorded off the TV) and I never get tired of it. I even have a rip of the song Bette Midler sings to zombify the adults on my iPod. I used to have a crush on Binx the cat (don't worry, he was actually a cute boy trapped in a cat's body). I also would totally name my cat Binx. And then I got a crush on poor Billy the Zombie. This is still a movie I break out around Halloween. - Diana
I just IM yelled at Diana after reading her comments because I hearted Binx too. My crush was probably weirder since during this period in my life I also loved a cartoon fox and wished I was Joyce in Milo and Otis. But anyway, I don't know why this was on the list we found because this movie freakin' owns. - Abbie
16. Once Bitten
I love Jim Carrey in this movie. I love this movie in general. It's about vampires! It's about sex! It's got a great scene in the club where the vampire lady rips off Carrey's buttons from his shirt. And I even have the song that played during that scene (excellent 80s music: "Hands Off" by Maria Vidal). Probably one of the most entertaining vampire movies ever. - Diana
I watched this movie because Diana told me it was awesome. It kind of treats vampirism like an STD and there's a great coffin sex bit at the end. Jim Carrey is really young in this. - Abbie
17. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
I feel like half of those movies that came on Comedy Central in the middle of a Saturday afternoon are my guilty pleasures (probably because a lot of them suck but got replayed so often I feel obligated to like them). This one is pretty great, about a dude who absorbs a computer into his mind (but, like, old school computers). It actually took a couple of viewings to grow on me. - Diana
18. Escape to Witch Mountain (TV remake)
Another movie that has left enduring images of particular scenes in my mind even though I haven't seen it for years. I'm pretty sure I used to be mildly obsessed with this movie. I wonder if they still play it? - Diana
19. Milo and Otis
Diana bought me this movie on DVD because I loved it so much. I was obsessed with it when I was little and still am. It's a really sweet live action movied about a cat and a dog who're best friends. The cat, Milo, is kind of dumb and gets stuck in a box floating down the river and Otis has to save him. Then they both meet girl animals and have babies (and they totally show both the girl cat, Joyce, and the girl dog, Sondra, giving birth, so it's a very great movie to teach kids about where babies come from. Or scar them.) = Abbie
20. Labyrinth
I saw this on the disney channel late at night while at the beach during elementary school. Then i couldn't find any evidence of its existance for the next ten years or so. I finally borrowed it from Grace last year in school only too be slightly shocked at how poorly made it is. And also marvel at David Bowie's crotch bulge. It's still a really sweet movie despite the poor CGI. And David Bowie is mesmerizing in his tights. That's enough reason to love it right there. - Abbie
21. the fifth Element
The scene where LeeLoo kicks the aliens' asses to opera music pretty much sums up the greatness of this movie. Also, Bruce Willis wears a weird orange tank top thingy. This film was a point of bonding for me and my french host family. - Abbie
22. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 movie)
Yeah, no, not the TV show, actually. This was the movie with Kristy Swanson as Buffy. It's campy and stupid and there are a pair of unfortunate floral pants, but it's also pretty awesome. It gave me SUCH a huge crush on Luke Perry too. - Diana
Diana may remember floral pants but i will never get over how UGLY Buffy's prom dress was. This movie features Rutger Haur, Donald Sutherland, and Pee Wee Herman as well as Luke and Kristy, which is a big influence in its awesomeness. - Abbie
1. Fear
A mid-90s movie starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg as her psycho obsessive ex-boyfriend. I love it. I love the first half where it's kind of a dark psychological movie and I love the second half which is lame action-suspense movie and I love all the parts in between. Gil Grissom from C.S.I. plays the protective father and there's a part where Wahlberg gets Witherspoon off while they are riding a rollercoaster. Too bad he's effin' crazy! This is my number one guilty pleasure. - Diana
I like the part where he gives himself a home-made ebonics tattoo the best. - Abbie
2. The Chase
This is another mid-90s movie that stars Charlie Sheen (I know) and Kristy Swanson (I KNOW) in a movie that takes place 90% of the time in a car (during a car chase). Also, Sheen (a convicted killer) and Swanson (the rich socialite he takes hostage) have sex during the 80-mph car chase. This runs a very close second favorite guilty pleasure to "Fear." PS: Cary Elwes has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it part. Yay! - Diana
3. The Saint
This movie was the beginning of my ability to see a preview, identify the actors in it and list their previous movies. It stars Val Kilmer (OMG IS THAT THE GUY FROM WILLOW???) back in the mid nineties where he was hot. It was also one of my first action movies. Val Kilmer plays a theif for hire who has to steal the cold fusion formula from Elizabeth Shue. He seduces her and surprise! He likes her a lot. She gets pissed and then they both get chased around Moscow by some Russians who have stolen all the heating fluid. At one point Val falls in a frozen river to get Elizabeth's heart pills and then they have to have sex in a hooker's Anne Frank closet to save him. - Abbie
4. Jawbreaker
Tell me, who doesn't love Rose McGowen? She's crazy! Rose is the popular girl and school and she and her posse play a prank on their friend Liz for her birthday where they kidnap her, shove a fist-sized jawbreaker in her mouth and toss her in the trunk. Liz chokes to death and Rose and co. make it look as if she died in a kinky-sex related accident. I bought this DVD in one of those giant bins and the front of target, where you have to dig up to your elbows to find anything not starring Dolly Parton. It's awesome. - Abbie
5. Sleeping With the Enemy
Long story short, Julia Roberts is abused by her husband, who plays extremely cool opera music while they have domestically abusive sex. Then she runs away and he goes after her while she's alone in her house. I can count on one hand the number of times I don't want to punch Julia Roberts, and this movie is the number one reason why. - Diana
Diana and I watched this movie together in health in tenth grade and ended up renting it because we missed the ending for a picture or something. She later bought it for me as my eighteenth birthday gift, which shows why I love her. I was also going to mention the opera music sex part, because that particular composer (Burlioz? Diana's not getting back to me on the spelling of that) will always make me think of this movie. - Abbie
6. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
I haven't seen this movie, but I will confess that the song "Do You Only Wanna Dance" by Mya is on my iPod. BABY, STOP, YOU'RE SURROUNDED! - Diana
My girls at Hollins like this movie as much as I do. I guess I just like watching people dance. The music is fun, the dresses are pretty and Diego Luna looks twelve. - Abbie
7. No One Would Tell
I have four words and a mathmatical symbol to recommend this movie. Fred Savage = Abusive Boyfriend. Need I say more? How about D.J. Tanner from Full House is Fred's victim/girlfriend? How about that? - Diana
Apparently child stars can only do lifetime movies after their teen sitcoms end. Fred Savage is about the most unthreatening person ever but somehow manages to still be crazy. Also, sex in the woods! - Abbie
8. She Cried No
In the same vein of "No One Would Tell" (in fact, we saw this movie, "No One Would Tell" and "Sleeping With the Enemy" all in the same 9th grade 8th period health class) D.J. Tanner is a victim. This time Mark-Paul Gosselaar is a date-rapist. It contains the same excellence found in "No One Would Tell" and probably much of the same dialogue. - Diana
Candace Cameron is a lot more assertive in the movie and doesn't just sit back and let her boyfriend kill her. In fact, she even lives till the end. Zach Morris makes a more convincing villian than Wonder Years Boy but is another actor who never quite escapes his teen sitcom roll. Clearly our health teacher did nothing but let us watch lifetime movies. There was another with Calista Flockheart as an anorexic. -Abbie
9. Angel Eyes
Jennifer Lopez is a cop with a guardian angel, in the form of James Caviezel. Yes, the genre jumps around every few minutes, but Catch really is a big woobie in emo pain and that stays consistent except for the part where it isn't. - Diana
10. Frequency
James Caviezel (second mention) accidently manages to connect to his father (who died 20 years ago) through a radio and chats with him and saves him from death and then has to deal with the consequences. This is like the Butterfly Effect (another secretly awesome movie that actually kind of freaked me out) and there's an awesome part where a glass drops. I'm reasonably sure I cried the first time I saw it. Love! - Diana
I'm not as into this movie as Diana. It was cool but I kind of forgot it, mostly because I sort of hate Jim Caviezel. - Abbie
11. The Cell
This movie is kind of fascinating. I was really disturbed by it because it's 80% weird imagery. Like the horse part? FREAKYYY. I continue to retain images from this. The scenes of the victim in the tank frightened me deeply. And Jennifer Lopez makes another appearance on this list! - Diana
Again, some seriously weird and freaky bits to this movie. The general plot is kind of incoherent and I only recently realized that Vince Vaughn is in this movie. I've no idea why it fascinates me so. - Abbie
12. House on Haunted Hill (both)
I was amped when they started showing the new version on TNT because I'd really wanted to see it, and sat through it terrified and thrilled. I recorded it and forced others through it at several slumber parties. Alas, someone recorded over it. The house is by no means a house but that didn't change the awesome. The original is also great. I guess I'm a sucker for Vincent Price. - Abbie
13. Valentine
I really only watched this because it came out during my David Boreanez phase but it managed to worm its way into my heart through bad acting and corny deaths (Denise Richards' is the best) and plot holes you could drive a dumptruck through. DUDE, THE PART WITH THE CANDLE WAX IS HARDCORE. - Diana
I have to agree with Diana that Denise Richard's death is the best thing ever in this movie. She spends a lot of time before it talking to the person in the room with her as if they're a dog and then.... well I won't spoil it, but it includes a hot tub and a power-drill. AMAZING. Katherine Heigl of Grey's Anatomy also has a cameo at the beginning and her death is awesome too. - Abbie
14. Just One of the Guys
This is one of those movies that gets played on Comedy Central a lot. The story is that a girl pretends to be boy and hilarity ensues, especially when she falls in love with another boy. It's just one of those cute little 80s comedies that isn't particularly funny but weirdly endearing. - Diana
15. Hocus Pocus
I don't really feel guilty about loving this movie, but I do know that I have seen it about 800 times (I even have a VHS tape of it recorded off the TV) and I never get tired of it. I even have a rip of the song Bette Midler sings to zombify the adults on my iPod. I used to have a crush on Binx the cat (don't worry, he was actually a cute boy trapped in a cat's body). I also would totally name my cat Binx. And then I got a crush on poor Billy the Zombie. This is still a movie I break out around Halloween. - Diana
I just IM yelled at Diana after reading her comments because I hearted Binx too. My crush was probably weirder since during this period in my life I also loved a cartoon fox and wished I was Joyce in Milo and Otis. But anyway, I don't know why this was on the list we found because this movie freakin' owns. - Abbie
16. Once Bitten
I love Jim Carrey in this movie. I love this movie in general. It's about vampires! It's about sex! It's got a great scene in the club where the vampire lady rips off Carrey's buttons from his shirt. And I even have the song that played during that scene (excellent 80s music: "Hands Off" by Maria Vidal). Probably one of the most entertaining vampire movies ever. - Diana
I watched this movie because Diana told me it was awesome. It kind of treats vampirism like an STD and there's a great coffin sex bit at the end. Jim Carrey is really young in this. - Abbie
17. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
I feel like half of those movies that came on Comedy Central in the middle of a Saturday afternoon are my guilty pleasures (probably because a lot of them suck but got replayed so often I feel obligated to like them). This one is pretty great, about a dude who absorbs a computer into his mind (but, like, old school computers). It actually took a couple of viewings to grow on me. - Diana
18. Escape to Witch Mountain (TV remake)
Another movie that has left enduring images of particular scenes in my mind even though I haven't seen it for years. I'm pretty sure I used to be mildly obsessed with this movie. I wonder if they still play it? - Diana
19. Milo and Otis
Diana bought me this movie on DVD because I loved it so much. I was obsessed with it when I was little and still am. It's a really sweet live action movied about a cat and a dog who're best friends. The cat, Milo, is kind of dumb and gets stuck in a box floating down the river and Otis has to save him. Then they both meet girl animals and have babies (and they totally show both the girl cat, Joyce, and the girl dog, Sondra, giving birth, so it's a very great movie to teach kids about where babies come from. Or scar them.) = Abbie
20. Labyrinth
I saw this on the disney channel late at night while at the beach during elementary school. Then i couldn't find any evidence of its existance for the next ten years or so. I finally borrowed it from Grace last year in school only too be slightly shocked at how poorly made it is. And also marvel at David Bowie's crotch bulge. It's still a really sweet movie despite the poor CGI. And David Bowie is mesmerizing in his tights. That's enough reason to love it right there. - Abbie
21. the fifth Element
The scene where LeeLoo kicks the aliens' asses to opera music pretty much sums up the greatness of this movie. Also, Bruce Willis wears a weird orange tank top thingy. This film was a point of bonding for me and my french host family. - Abbie
22. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 movie)
Yeah, no, not the TV show, actually. This was the movie with Kristy Swanson as Buffy. It's campy and stupid and there are a pair of unfortunate floral pants, but it's also pretty awesome. It gave me SUCH a huge crush on Luke Perry too. - Diana
Diana may remember floral pants but i will never get over how UGLY Buffy's prom dress was. This movie features Rutger Haur, Donald Sutherland, and Pee Wee Herman as well as Luke and Kristy, which is a big influence in its awesomeness. - Abbie