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by Adam Miller
I have in the past summoned the theories of those such as Georg Lukacs in my critique of certain films. I have complained when movies take detours into absolutely meaningless...
What's next? THE MASK JR? Oh wait…
by Adam Miller
ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE JR. is one of those films that doesn’t deserve the amount of thought I'm about to give it. This review is an...
A weird kung-fu/sexploitation flick. It features the requisite, seedy nudity and sex scenes plus a dose of kung-fu fighting by its heroine. Additionally, it features some of the most obnoxiously...
Quotes that were… "I learned the truth a long time ago. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it can't kill you."
And quotes that should've been… "The truth is, I'm not really an...
It took me three tries to get all the way through this film mainly because it is absolutely revolting to watch. It has the grotesquerie of a horror film but without the campy fun. It's probably...
by Dan Angell
Last night around 8 o'clock I was flipping through the channels, seeing if BOSTON LEGAL was back on after it's hiatus for DANCING WITH THE STARS. While I was at it I figured I...
Quotes that were… "Is it just me or does the jungle make you really, really horny?"
And quotes that should have been… "The steely grip of the anaconda has nothing on the Thigh Master!"
You...
Exploring the fresh/rotten dichotomy…
by Adam Miller
ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES has long been a cult classic and nothing I write will do much to change that—nor should it. I was first...
Quotes that were… "WHOOOOO, THAT one puckered up my butt-hole! "
And quotes that should have been… "Really, we ought to get a warrant…"
Ah, Michael Bay, how I despise thee. Seriously, you...
Quotes that were… "I love you / you love me / we're a happy family…"
And quotes that should have been… "Oh, thank god, Mr. Arnold… AAAAAAAAH!"
There’s a lot of bad movie material lying...
Quotes that were… "I am going to make you as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of kerbango."
And quotes that should have been… "Does anyone else feel like we're on a 'swiftly tilting...
Gigli, rhymes with “much maligned” if the consensus of film reviews is to serve as any kind of rhyming dictionary. Frankly, the only way I’d refer to the consensus of film reviews as any kind...
This page highlights those films which represent the best of camp cinema. Whether they are famous firsts or simply genre defining entries into the camp cinema canon, they are worthy of special...
What happens when you don't really like what you know you're supposed to… ?
by Adam Miller
It seems kind of, I don’t know, lame to pick Roger Ebert as one’s favorite critic. After all, his...
Just a run down of titles purchased over the past week…
A BUCKET OF BLOOD
ALIEN FROM L.A.
EARTHSEA
EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC
FLESH AND BLOOD
FUZZ
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
KILLER KLOWNS FROM...
I'll put it this way: BOARD HEADS is a far better film than DEATH TO SUPERMODELS, CARE BEARS THE MOVIE, HOT DOG THE MOVIE, SEX AND THE TEENAGE MIND and NAT'L LAMPOON'S GOLD DIGGERS. Those are the...
Boys Klub: A Rekap from Recent Memory
Never mind the lack of apostrophe, never mind that we can't spell, we can't even write our letters correctly!
A buddy of mine was visiting for a concert last...
Quotes that were… "This swamp is a monument to death. Snakes, alligators, quicksand… all bent on one thing: destruction."
And quotes that should have been… "Ach! Lobo! I told you to stop...
An American in Scotland… ?
by Adam Miller
An unexpectedly terrible film. BRIGADOON was a succesful Broadway show, and with Gene Kelly starring in and choreographing, this film ought to be at the...
Quotes that were… We haven't met. I'm Max. You probably thought I was a computer nerd, didn't ya? Ha-ha-ha, wrong! I was a Navy SEAL, lady. You really should see what I can do… with just my...
No way can this review be as cooly titled as the film which it reviews…
by Kevin Flanagan
Hollywood films rely on stereotypes and archetypes. We know this, we often turn a blind eye (or two), and...
The Cohens giveth and the Cohens taketh away…
by Adam Miller
BURN AFTER READING is both a send-up of Washington D.C. cloak-and-dagger ethics and middle-class, white, spousal neuroses. Kind of...
Just a sack of bone, blood, and slime… ?
by Adam Miller
A variety of films contend for the title “most controversial” of all time. “Most controversial,” we should be careful to note,...
For First Year Campers…
What are the things I can expect to see on this site?
There are few different forms our content can take.
The first is the blurb which is just a brief summary of every...
Here you can find all the in-depth criticism I have drafted on camp cinema over the years. Reading these essays will not only provide you with a better appreciation of the film's they analyze, but...
by Dan Angell
There have been lots of gory, bloody, brutal movies made through the years. There have been movies with rape, murder, and slaughter of live animals. But in the history of movie murder...
Quotes that were… "It's depressing that the words "secret agent" have become synonymous with "sex maniac."
And quotes that should have been… "Things may seem confusing thus far, I should...
Who knew the end of the world would be this… cinematic?
by Adam Miller
What doesn't this movie have? One might think, by title alone, that this is a mere disaster movie; a cheap knock-off of...
Quotes that were… "Zug zug."
And quotes that should have been… "Eegah! Dooboo Ringo Starr ma zugzug!" [trans.- Help! Ringo Starr is trying to rape me!]
Another oddity I’m proud to own....
Dancers are kuh-razy!
by Adam Miller
I admit, I've always been a bit snooty about dance. As a literary kind of guy, I never understood why someone would want to take the words out of something...
Quotes that were… "Are you kidding? Your guy's got a camera. Mine's got a flamethrower."
And quotes that should have been… "No soup for you!"
C.H.U.D. ostensibly stands for "Cannibalistic...
Buy yours today lest it be rendered obsolete come the revolution…
by Adam Miller
Advocates of Communism have long grappled with the fact that their ideology’s ideas can be difficult for the...
Hollywood's a real monster…
by Adam Miller
I’m a fan of the term “post 9/11” cinema. It describes an era of filmmaking so similar that it becomes almost a genre unto itself. Examples of...
Get ready for an asp whooping…
by Adam Miller
Loyal readers may perhaps be growing tired of reviews on vigilante cop movies. I have at this point seen so many films of that formula that I’m...
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There are few pieces of cinema as vomit inducing as COOL AS ICE. Strike that. There is nothing which induces one to vomit… no. VOMIT VOMIT VOMIT. COOL AS VOMIT. This film came out in 1991. I...
It can be difficult to defend Britney Spears these days, but as part of the generation that grew up ogling at her MTV videos, I feel it is my duty, if not to her, then to my adolescent fantasies....
Horny, right? People are horny?
by Adam Miller
I bet you were really wondering just how Sebastian became such a prick only to reform. What am I talking about? CRUEL INTENTIONS, you know, the late...
A direct to video film about rape geared towards… who, exactly?
by Adam Miller
If you've already read my Cruel Intentions 2 review you know I was none too impressed with the film. It was a...
CSI, Camp, and the Dehumanization of the Crime Drama
by Adam Miller
Susan Sontag claims that “the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” The essence of...
Cube is a horror movie.
Angelina Jolie is indeed the best thing about this movie
by Adam Miller
CYBORG 2 is the sequel to the Jean-Claude van Damme vehicle CYBORG. The sequel (unwittingly) traded up when it came to...
Simply put, watching D.C. 9/11 makes the Bush administration look even more incompetent than they did in the news at the time.
According to this film, the administration only speaks in the most...
Thoroughly engrossing…
by Adam Miller
Critics of Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy may have some good points about the films’ sprawling, their somewhat shallow allegorical nature,...
A lesson in getting the most for your money…
by Adam Miller
There’s a good reason why DEATH RACE (2008) is being made. Namely, its predecessor, DEATH RACE 2000 was a solid B-movie produced by...
Roger Corman, these clowns never knew ye…
by Adam Miller
Not since Vanilla Ice’s COOL AS ICE have I found a film so inexcusably distasteful. I will try, however, with the Insane Clown Posse...
Epileptics beware…
by Dan Angell
As all my devoted readers (all 2 of you) know, I have reviewed many a horror movie. If you haven’t noticed, their ham-handed attempts at scaring their...
First person shooter… what is that a kind of drink?
by Adam Miller
Other reviewers have claimed DOOM to be the best videogame movie produced thus far. I'd have to say that, while I'm still not...
This is definitely one of the "worst" films in my collection by all kinds of standards. First of all-and this isn't the film's fault-it's dubbed into English, and boy, you can really tell all kinds...
Yeah, the title really does speak for itself…
by Adam Miller
DUMB & DUMBERER: WHEN HARRY MET LLOYD is the kind of movie that really had no business being made. The original DUMB & DUMBER...
Ah! Now here’s a movie I can get behind… and then push off a cliff. I think the commentary really sold me on how idiotic the makers of this movie are in terms of what they think makes good...
Quotes that were… "Watch out for snakes!"
And quotes that should've been… "Eegah!"
A bad movie staple created by one of the most ignominious names in the bad movie industry: Arch Hall,...
It's funny, I actually sat through this film twice and still just don't have too much to say about it. I suppose that whether or not this were a good film, the concept behind Elektra as a super...
I went to see Enchanted, the new Disney movie, in theaters. Now, I had heard interesting things about it and wanted to see what the talk was about (No, I don’t mean Doctor McDreamy Patrick...
Quotes that were… "I suffer without my stone. Do not prolong my suffering."
And quotes that should've been… "Luke, I am your father."
I hate this movie. It blatantly steals from better source...
ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX (1983)
The Italian film industry has an interesting "parallel" developmental trend to the art house films that are known and loved the world over. That seedy side is the...
How to lose a girlfriend in 10 minutes…
by Adam Miller
It wasn’t until we were actually sitting in the Gamestop parking lot that my girlfriend realized that I was serious about going to the...
FAR AND AWAY is the classic love story between a rich girl (Nicole Kidman) and a poor boy who has been wronged by her family (Tom Cruise). Sounds charming, right? Well it would be…if that were...
Cinema is arguably the most popular site of camp making today. Arguably camp analysis' most famous entrance into pop culture was MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000, which premiered in 1988 and stayed on...
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Perhaps the greatest gay caveman cartoon ever made. Directed by Ralph Bakshi (who also did the LOTR animated film), FIRE AND ICE is about a gay caveman fighting a gay sorcerer with the help of...
There’s a lot to like about FLESH+BLOOD, one of the earliest English films directed by Paul Verhoeven (TOTAL RECALL, STARSHIP TROOPERS). The film claims to be set in Western Europe, 1501—a...
The most expensive film in my collection! I'm proud to say. I put down thirty bucks for this one and don't regret it for a moment. The film is actually competently made, it's the source material...
Worth jacking..?
by Adam Miller
In my review of THE FORGOTTEN I pointed out that sci-fi and fantasy films can be forgiven for questionable logical so long as they play by whatever rules they set...
The second amphibious film to be added to my collection (see CANE TOADS). Essentially a mansion in the bayou, owned by a rich somebody-or-other, is invaded by various swamp creatures (frogs,...
I read a Washington Post article a few days ago stating that Lucasfilm (George's production company) would be offering a free service for fans to re-edit their own versions of Star Wars in any way,...
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Quotes that were… "YOU… GUILTY."
And quotes that should have been… "Read below for your punishment."
I would just like to say thank you to Nicolas Cage. He has...
I’ve fallen in love with Nicolas Cage lately. His past three major motion pictures have all been delightfully bad pieces of cinema. First there was The Wicker Man, a hilariously misguided remake...
This film holds some sentimental value for me. This is the first bad movie that I watched purely because it is bad. It is probably my favorite bad movie because it has a little bit of everything...
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez team up as two hitmen charged with abducting the mentally handicapped brother of a federal prosecutor. It's always tough for me to put my finger on why this is so...
It might be stretching it a bit to call this film a documentary as everyone in it is an actor, but that's where it's heart lies. In some ways this is Ed Wood's most powerful film if only because it...
Nuclear Fallout, It's Not Just For Cancer Any More
by Dan Angell
GODZILLA proves that just because you have a big budget and a lot of technology doesn't mean that you are any better than a Japanese...
So how about those crazy people…
Dan Angell
Gothika is a psychological thriller, relatively generic, staring Halle Berry. Now this movie is an interesting one, because I didn't hate it, but the...
The greatest bad movies moments to date!
"Watch for Snakes!"
No, Samuel Jackson didn't deliver this line, nor did it take a horde of internet enthusiasts to write it. While Arch Hall and gang are...
In the '90's, as has been discussed on this site elsewhere, it was apparently fashionable to get a group of young guys together and make several movies staring them. Probably the most popular of...
by Adam Miller
Ski resort on loan from Epcot.
I admit a bit of anxiety in posting this recap. It’s probably the only thing I’ve written for this site which has actually been anticipated by...
Going out in (fabulous) style…
by Adam Miller
The HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (HSM) franchise has produced some sharply divergent opinions. There were no divergent opinions at my screening of HIGH...
There are bad movies, and bad shows, but there are some that, after you watch, you feel owe you something for your time. This is one such show. After watching one episode of this catastrophe of...
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Pretty roundly condemnded by most bad movie reviews. I’m willing to forgive the film’s shaky realism (cars exploding before they actually crash into anything???), but I just can’t forgive its...
When Wumpus just isn't enough…
by Adam Miller
While doing some research for this film, I came across more than one review site whose mission was to “find my own low-budget diamond in a sea of...
I needed a movie that would get a couple of my friends into bad movies, so naturally, we went to blockbuster. Initially we considered getting something good, like The Departed. But then on the new...
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"I Know Who Killed Me," is it a title, or is the movie trying to tell us something? It may be that the movie is the only one to know who killed it, but I am going to take the...
I can think of any number of reasons to be sympathetic to the quality of I Know Who Killed Me. As pretty much every critic under the sun has pointed out, Lindsay Lohan’s screwed up personal...
by Dan Angell
I’m sitting in a hotel room, 3 hours before I have to show up for my cousins wedding pictures and my suit is in another city. I am typing on my sister’s computer and becoming...
This movie certainly does not belong in a museum…
by Adam Miller
After finally catching INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL I wasn’t quite ready to write one of my awful “10...
Who actually names their kid Jane Doe?
by Adam Miller
As an introductory note to this review, I recognize with some dismay that the movies on this website which I review positively will likely...
I love Jaws 3-D. Well, first of all, the DVD version isn't actually 3D, but it's filmed as if it were. Thus the viewer can expect lots of shots of things "floating" towards them. The film also...
Easily my favorite film in the Jaws series. The first psycho-shark thriller! As the infamous tag-line informs us, "This time, it's personal." The shark only targets members of the Brody clan and...
Jaws the Revenge has received a lot of flack from fans and critics alike on multiple accounts: There’s not enough shark mayhem… too much old people subplot… crappy looking shark… crappy...
Just like High School…
By Dan Angell
A stereotype can allow for many good things in a movie. Some of the best comedy is derived from stereotypes. Take “Caddy Shack” for instance. It satirizes...
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The following opinion piece was published in the Washington Times. The piece, written by actor Jon Voight, makes a strong case for not electing Barack Obama, as published. Camp Academy, however,...
For a bad movie reviewer such as myself, it is good to have connections. One such connection is through a good friend of mine who works at a theatre, where I see movies such as Jumper for free...
Unfortunately the producers of this film were unfamiliar with the more euphemistic meaning of "Kangaroo Jack"…
by Adam Miller
KANGAROO JACK, now there’s a movie not many people like. It...
KANGAROO JACK, now there’s a movie not many people like. It currently rates an 8% on Rotten Tomatoes, and I don’t expect that to change too much four years after the film’s original release....
Look at the review, Poo…
By Dan Angell
It takes a lot for a movie to sway me. It really does. I take very careful precautions in making sure that the movies selected by my esteemed colleague and...
WARNING: I have yet to have a single person agree with me on this review. Continue only at your risk of completely disagreeing with me as well!
EDIT: Nix that, all but one person disagrees with...
WARNING: I have yet to have a single person agree with me on this review. Continue only at your risk of completely disagreeing with me as well!
Sometimes I am truly left baffled by dominant...
Can I re-use my same “belly-flop” joke about any bad movie that has to do with water? Why not? This is Shyamalan’s belly-flop and hopefully the last we’ll see of this bozo for a while...
This is film is to action movie cliches what ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is to sci-fi. LAST ACTION HERO stars the Governator in one of his most fun roles: himself and/or a parody of himself.
The...
Just because films are campy doesn't mean they don't feature Hollywood's biggest stars. The following is a list of mega movie stars who appear in the film's listed on this site so you can learn...
Ridley Scott. Tom Cruise. Tim Curry. Add them all together and how could you possibly go wrong? The answer, my friends, is the stuff of Legend. Part of me, to be sure, likes this film. It's as if...
Bad comedy. Unfunny stuff. Bill Cosby famously disowned this movie before it was released, telling people not to go see it. One can understand why. It's a mess of a spoof on super secret agent...
The following sites introduced me to the wide world of camp cinema and there's no reason why they won't make a great introduction for you too!
http://badmovies.org/ A great film archive site with...
by Kevin Flanagan
Though parody only works to full effect on living texts—genres and popular bits of culture that recognizable to current audiences—there IS something to be said for aged,...
Makes me miss Joe Millionaire…
by Adam Miller
Note: This review is based upon the "rated" version of the film. Apparently the unrated has more nudity and graphic sexual content. Whether or not...
What's the opposite of magnum…
by Adam Miller
I’m not exactly sure how it happened, but there are fans and critics alike who consider MAGNUM FORCE to be the best of the DIRTY HARRY film...
Hal Warren and Gertrude Stein:
Masters of Repetition
A great deal of ridicule has been heaped upon “Manos” and its director, Hal Warren. Hal, as we know, was an El Paso fertilizer salesman...
Required viewing, in my opinion. Dolph Lundgren stars in this fantasy based on the wildly popular (even critically) Masters of the Universe cartoon series. Unfortunately, whatever glory the...
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This film actually survives any particularly scathing review. It's a kids movie, and pretty silly as a result. An interesting aspect to the pre-pubescent boy movie genre is the "innocence" of its...
For an action movie, this is surprisingly… Missing in Action? Nice!
by Adam Miller
I’m not exactly tuned into the whole “Chuck Norris” phenomenon. In fact, for a site devoted to reviews of...
MONSTER HIGH is like a horny teenager: it knows what it wants more than it knows what it is. It wants comedy, bared breasts, drug humor, gore, and dark humor. It does not know that itself is...
A comprehensive list of films on featured on this site posted in chronlogical order of their respective reviews (there must have been an easier way to convey that thought… damn).
1941
Red...
by Adam Miller
In this high-tech day and age, you can do pretty much all your shopping online. In the case of finding bad movies, this is often the only way to do you shopping. A lot of...
Since the Bolsheviks won the Russian Revolution, there has been a raging argument between Capitalists and Communists. It's an argument that has spanned countries, continents, races, creeds, time,...
The campiest places in San Francisco, Part 1: The Musee Mechanique
by Adam Miller
Part one in my series of campy locales in the downtown San Francisco area. The Musee Mechanique is located towards...
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S DORM DAZE
Since the later 1990s, National Lampoon has accelerated their branding of situational college comedies. Generally premised on star-crossed lovers facing the odds, the...
ore Ed Wood. For a while this was actually my favorite Wood film but then Plan 9 grew on me once again. The reason I love Night of the Ghouls so much, however, is that it features police officer...
Do you know what a lepus is? It's a rabbit (or hare, whatever). And watch out because they breed like crazy and are also prone to mutation if you mess with their chromosones. Put two and two...
Existentially speaking, it's still crap…
by Adam Miller
Most purchasers of the DVD version of NINE LIVES would be justified in complaining of false advertising. The consumate "presence" (aka...
It's important to tread gingerly when writing against the current of popular opinion. So I'm told. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is, in my opinion, less a film than a machination. It is rooted in the...
Ok, so I want to make an original horror movie. Here is my idea: there is group of kids and a certain song plays on their Ipod's right before they die (I'm thinking "Don't Stop Believing" by...
Near and dear to my heart, why? Because this is the first bad movie I ever consciously purchased. Penned (but not directed) by Ed Wood in his post Night of the Ghouls pornography days, the film is...
by Adam Miller
This site is traditionally reserved for reviews of bad movies (though I have allowed some exceptions: Seeding the Turf). But here I am at 11 pm watching A&E and there's show...
Magic the Paranormal Gathering…
by Adam Miller
PARANORMAL STATE’s second season debuts tonight on A&E and I just can’t help but take a few paragraphs to remind myself—and anyone who...
A Brief History Lesson by Daniel
There is only one question this movie begs, and that is: How many elite British soldiers can a couple of kids with no formal military training kill? The answer: far...
The 80s were PERFECT
by, Adam Miller
People at ROLLING STONE clearly thought they were the shit in 1985. Adam (John Travolta) is one of their star reporters. He’s hip. He’s edgy. He wrote a...
It's a tradition at my college that the whole student body goes to nearby Busch Gardens one Friday in October. I've gone all four years of my undergraduate experience, and this last year was...
Much of camp is produced in the form of various media- movies, TV, literature- but it can also be embodied in a location or cultural tradition. The trick is, some of these camp sites, if you will,...
The obligatory masterpiece. Ed Wood's finest creation. Their's all kinds of history to this film which I recommend you research. But the dirt is that aliens (who apparently also have developed...
Killing sleeping raccoons: somebody's gotta do it, nobody should have to watch it…
by Adam Miller
BIG LOTS was a little low on inventory, but seeing as how I was already cut from work and had...
Ten Reasons Why I Hate Prince Caspian
by Adam Miller
I know that a film has particularly irked me when my review of it contains a prologue. Indeed, this review has led me to question just what Camp...
PRINCE VALIANT might be best noted today as featuring an early performance from rising star Katherine Heigl as the lovely Princess Ilene. I say rising star, because she is a much, much better...
Who knew an independent low-budget horror film could actually be a letdown…
by Adam Miller
In THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT a bunch of college kids run around with handheld cameras. In THE ADVENTURES...
Caw! Caw! Aaargh…
by Adam Miller
Remember that scene in JURASSIC PARK III where the little kid is fighting the giant, flying dinosaurs? I'm guessing it was a 10-15 minute scene in that movie,...
God Damn…
by Dan Angell
When I mentioned to a friend that I had this movie at home, they asked me, “So, what did you think?”
I responded, “Are you kidding, I can’t keep it on the...
I always start off my descriptions of this movie by saying "You know you're in for trouble when the director's name is 'Lerner.'" Raging Sharks is indeed one hell of a lot of trouble and a great...
Filmed before the end of the Cold War, RED HEAT is a buddy-cop movie built around not racial, sexual, or 'tudeinal differences between its leads, but political. Schwarzenegger plays a Soviet...
I have, of late, taken to combing my college library's DVD collections for the kind of films featured on this website. Appropriately, these DVDs are stored in the library's basement and indeed I...
How not to further your post- American Idol career…
by Adam Miller
Were it not for the film’s outlandish concept and incessant homoerotic imagery, RING OF DARKNESS (2004) would be the most...
A little fantasy flick dripping with some not-too-subtle Cold War politics. The Martian children are unhappy. No one on Mars knows why (perhaps it's because all their meals come in pill form?) No!...
If there's one thing I truly love about camp it's that it often celebrates a culture which is otherwise marginalized by mainstream society. I am often happily surprised by new sub-cultures I had...
You really can’t make a movie like SHAKEDOWN any more. I mean, when’s the last blockbuster you saw that opened with an African American male hanging out in Central Park listening to rap music...
It sounds like it could be a brilliant independent abstract film. Instead we have what I dub the spiritual successor to SINGING BABIES. This film stars Puppy Dog- a man in a dog suit. To help him...
Sheen-a good movie lately?
by Adam Miller
Much of what can be said about SHEENA has been said elsewhere. The film is a camp classic featured by The Golden Raspberries as one of the “most...
Because Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night just wasn’t good enough…
by Dan Angell
“Human beings, who are almost unique in their ability to learn from others, are also remarkable in their...
Steve Guttenberg. A robot with a heart. A hilarious Indian(?) side-kick who constantly confuses American phrases. And an antagonist named Scrotur.
All comic hell seems to break loose after the...
Showgirls, mainstream Hollywood’s first intentional venture into the world of NC-17 ratings was an infamous box office flop. But did you know it is one of Sony’ top 20 bestselling DVDs of all...
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by Adam Miller
I loved SKINNED DEEP. After writing a review of the stinkfest that was PSYCLOPS it’s so nice to be able to expound the virtues of independent horror...
A sexploitation flick set in a medieval “realm.” There’s basically these… uhm, warring factions I guess… and a weird marriage ceremony involving priestesses and virgins… and several...
The DVD case of SNAPDRAGON claims to offer a "psycho-sexual thriller." I was immediately intrigued as the term "psycho-sexual" offers up all kinds of questions. After all, if we buy into any...
SPAWN was one of those films that really seized the attention of the country when it was released back in 1997. Were people talking about its engrossing storyline? It's caliber acting? It's...
Some people actually enjoy a total wreck…
by Adam Miller
I haven't been a fan of the Wachowski brothers' more recent ouevre. As friends know, I have a passionate distaste for V FOR VENDETTA. I...
If you’ve frequented this site you know that there’s a special place in my heart for bad kid’s movies. A lot of other reviewers toss them aside as targets “too easy” to review, but I’ve...
STREET FIGHTER was made in the early generation of video game adaptations. It was a film no one particularly cared for, but has high merits in terms of sheer camp.
The film is based on the CAPCOM...
I first saw Super Mario Brothers (the movie) as a kid with my dad in the theaters. I hadn't gotten Super Mario Brothers (NES) until a few years after the system had originally came out, but...
Watching Ridley Scott’s Legend last night got me musing on why fantasy has long been regarded as a campy genre. It wasn’t till Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings that fantasy truly made its...
When men rule, Madonna drools…
by Adam Miller
Experience has shown that there can be all kinds of reasons why a movie is “bad.” The ways in which we conceptualize a bad film inform us of how...
This film already violates the over-long-title rule (9 words not counting the II, sheesh!) The film also performs a privileged role of bad cinema: it doesn’t age well. Nothing like seeing Vanilla...
As other reviewers have pointed out, this film features neither teenagers nor zombies. It does have thirty-year-olds acting like teenagers and a secret Russo-Communist lab on an island developing a...
Much like the building it depicts, this film is cheap and offensive to the eye…
by Adam Miller
In many ways films like TENEMENT strike me as the spiritual forefathers of today’s torture...
WARNING SPOILERS… but frankly I don't give a damn because I hate this movie. It's the movie that's spoiled, I tell ya! The movie that's spoiled!
I went into Transformers with tempered...
A very, very strange little movie. If I remember its history right, there was an era in film when exploitation directors tried to pass off their wares as informative video to, I dunno, reach new...
Title:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (Across the Eighth Dimension)
Year:
1984
Director:
W. D. Richter
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Quotes that were… "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!"
And quotes...
Title:
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Year:
2002
Director:
Ron Underwood
Genre:
Comedy
Eddie Murphy shows us why he was born to play this character!
by Adam Miller
I've developed a bad habit of watching movies in the middle afternoon after long, restless nights and thus falling asleep halfway through them. Of course it doesn't help that the...
I believe there’s a lot to be mined from this movie which I haven’t had the good sense to appreciate. I’m trying to recall: I believe a meteorite or some such thing crashes near a lake and...
About as depressing as pulp can be…
by Adam Miller
So once again I’ll indulge myself by stepping a bit outside the bounds of Camp Academy’s subject matter while still (hopefully) maintaining...
At least it causes you to remember other, better, alien movies…
by Adam Miller
For those who have been with this site for some time (yeah, exactly) you might recall that M. Night Shyamalan is not...
A fun picture about a giant gila monster who attacks a small town. Well, actually it's a normal sized Gila Monster that attacks a miniature sized down, but whatever. Similar to pretty much all the...
What Happened?
by Dan Angell
I hate M. Knight Shyamalan. I hate bad symbolism. I hate ridiculous twists at the end of movies. I hate M. Knight Shyamalan movies with bad symbolism and ridiculous...
The name will seduce you, but here's a film with no marketable audience.
by Kevin Flanagan
Cannon Films, that legendary outfit helmed by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, developed a reputation in...
Though clearly bad, there is surprising (historical and contemporary) relevance in this belabored sequel.
by Kevin Flanagan
In a recent review, I remarked how The Happy Hooker (1975) is a strange...
You know, when I was a small boy I was afraid of the dark. And do you know why I was afraid of the dark? In fact it was because of a tree outside my window which cast a shadow on my wall that...
Another Big Lots purchase. In short, a kid finds a magic lamp and summons the dumbest genie ever (what is it with genie's being all powerful and yet they're always a. dumb and b. enslaved? Anyone...
This, folks, is where Michael Meyers “Mini-Me” came from, of Austin Powers fame. So besides midget fetuses running around, we also have animal-human hybrids (kinda), Val Kilmer on shrooms, and...
Honestly, this movie just fails to live up to expectations. The cover of DVD case features a bunch of people walking around with huge baloons strapped to their backs approaching a gigantic house...
The only thing this film masterfully disguises is its sense of humor…
by Adam Miller
I have to admit, I'm a sucker for commentary tracks where the makers of a film claim they were making a movie...
A painful kid's flick especially thanks to its star, THE METRO CHASE is about the story of a young boy and his sister who go on a vacation to Paris. There is absolutely nothing eventful about this,...
There is only one question this movie begs, and that is: How many elite British soldiers can a couple of kids with no formal military training kill? The answer: far far far too many. Now I must say...
Dolph Lundgren was then what perhaps Nicholas Cage is today, a recognizable star who makes a ton of bad movies. A poor man’s Schwarzenegger (not like his oeuvre is anything special). Well, add...
A film about prostitution which actually fleshes out its characters… without showing any flesh?
by Adam Miller
I see the DVD case for THE RANCH. Seeing as how it’s produced by Showtime I can...
A film which, to be fair, at least jogs through the motions…
by Adam Miller
Watching THE RUNNING MAN is like watching a director's vision of Adorno's culture industry on steroids. Lots of...
Or, does harmless, hokey kitsch age well?
by Kevin Flanagan
Though my golden age of exploitation film is the 1960s-1970s, when American International Pictures and Hammer Studios reigned supreme...
Not-so-secretly sleazy
by Dan Angell
When you find a movie for $3.99 on the discount rack, and it describes itself on the cover as, “The sexiest thriller of the year,” AND it was a straight to...
My worst Christmas present…
by Dan Angell
A good friend of mine was in town for Christmas, and as we had little better to do, we went to the downtown Regal Cinema to watch Frank Miller’s newest...
Adam's life in 20 years…
by Dan Angell
Near the end of the movie, Walt hands a cat to his father, Bernard to keep him company. The cat escapes and Bernard has a heart attack while trying to...
I'm tempted to write this entire blurb in Wookie because that's what about half the script for The Star Wars Holiday Special is written in. We learn that the wookies on their home planet Kashyyk...
It's general etiquette to not pick on individuals involved with bad films any more than necessary. Generally speaking, no one sets out to make a bad film. That said, I have at times singled out...
Penned by Ed Wood and poorly directed by someone else. What happens when good girls go bad? Bad movies, apparently. A gang of buxom young babes run around robbing people rather violently for...
With Nicholas Cage. I must opine for a moment that I believe Nick Cage is quickly becoming a modern day bad movie star. It seems to me that his past three “blockbusters” have all been...
8/27/2008 BIG LOTS comes through again! On sale now are their $3.00 DVDs, much like their recent MGM promotion. But this time BIG LOTS has truly outdone themselves. Including in the DVD rack are...
Thought of the Day Archive
Here is a compilation of the site's thoughts of the day!
Best Arnold movie ever? I might have to nod my consent (though LAST ACTION HERO is right behind it). TOTAL RECALL is the kind of movie you want it to be thanks to its central gimmick. Arnold...
WARNING SPOILERS… but frankly I don't give a damn because I hate this movie. It's the movie that's spoiled, I tell ya! The movie that's spoiled!
I went into Transformers with tempered...
The definitive Michael Bay film (after the Meat Loaf music videos, anyway)
by Adam Miller
The release of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN is of some historical import to Camp Academy. My review...
A really weird little comedy with Ed Begley Jr., Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, and Michael Richards. It was shot entirely in Yugoslavia for tax reasons (?) and is a Universal monsters flick send-up....
Films are great because you know that they begin and end. After subjecting yourself to something like, say, SEXTETTE, you can pop in CITIZEN KANE, no problem. Television, on the other hand, is a...
Check out the full Vertical Limit recap here!
Who knew mountain climbing could be so combustible? If you thought scaling a 90 degree cliff with naught but a rope to support you was scary enough...
by Adam Miller
I first saw VERTICAL LIMIT in an Orlando theater. I was a freshman in high school and played on the chess team (and yes, in case you were wondering, I have had sex since then). I had...
Kevin Costner’s infamous belly-flop of a movie. Pillaged because of its exorbitant cost and low financial gain at the box office lands this flick in the all-too-frequently chartered waters of the...
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You've got to hand it to a movie audacious enough to have lines like: "You killed Chad!" / "Pssh, whatever."
WILD THINGS 3 (aka Diamonds in the Rough) is the third remake of the original WILD...
A fan favorite, to be sure. WILLOW isn't nearly as bad as many movies on this site, but it did fall short of its maker's original expectations. The main problem with WILLOW is that it's source...
What's next, killer Magic 8 Balls?
by Adam Miller
WITCHBOARD perplexes the bad movie reviewer in that for a film that does so much wrong it still manages to tug at the heart strings a little...
Wanton career fluke for director Michael Winner…
by Kevin Flanagan
When director Ken Russell wanted to take a relative break after filming THE DEVILS (1971), the most political, challenging, and...
I like this movie. I really can't say why. How about the songs? They're the worst of bubble gum pop. Half of them are by ELO, the other half sung Olivia Newton-John. How about the dancing? An aging...
Surprisingly one of my more popular films to show to other suckers, er I mean, friends who agree to watch bad movies with me. The movie is very very dumb. It's alternative title is "The Boy Who Had...
Sean Connery felt he was being type-cast as secret agent James Bond. So to break that image he took on all sorts of crazy roles, including this one in ZARDOZ. I gotta say, there are probably easier...
