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L-Tryptophan for the Celluloid Soul

Long before Michael Medved went all Moral Majority on us, he and his brother Harry produced a book dedicated to showing the best that bad film had to offer. The Golden Turkey Awards published the skinny on 31 mostly gawdawful flicks, and I'm proud to say (or embarrased to admit, depending on what day you catch me on) that I've seen quite a few of them. Just for fun (and because I'm bored), I decided to search on the title of each of those films, choose whatever I felt was the most interesting result, and post it here for your amusement/edification/ridicule/whatever:

Robot Monster
Rat Fink a Boo Boo
They Saved Hitler's Brain
The Conqueror
The Thing with Two Heads
The Food of the Gods
The Terror of Tiny Town
Change of Habit
Jesus Christ Superstar
Scream, Blacula, Scream
Attack of the Mushroom People
Dondi
The Tingler
Plan Nine from Outer Space

Props to Matt at Scrubbles for posting the hilarious Eegah! website which I thought was one of the original Golden Turkeys, but actually came from Harry Medved's first book, The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.

Comments

I can remember checking out that Golden Turkeys book from the library when I was a wee, Dr. Demento-lovin' lad. It really did start the whole "so bad it's good" thing. So for that I'm willing to forgive Mr. Medved for turning into a sanctimonious and preachy Right Wing Robot.

Yup, GTA turned me on to bad cinema as well, along with Danny Peary's book, Cult Films.