Few artists have rendered the art of failure as enjoyable as Claudio Fragasso did with his 1990 film, Troll 2. The combination of stilted acting, awkward dialogue, and a plot that makes any exploitation picture seem drab by comparison helped make Troll 2 a cult phenomenon. Four years ago, Michael St[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Best Worst Movie’
July 27th, 2010 - 12:23 am § in Freelance Work
Best Worst Movie and the cult of Troll 2 | Film | Interview | The A.V. Club Chicago
June 29th, 2010 - 2:13 am § in True/Slant
Giving 'bad music' another chance
Back in May, “Best Worst Movie” director Michael Paul Stephenson wrote an editorial about loving bad movies. It was titled: Bad Books Are Bad, and Bad Food Is Bad. But Bad Movies Are Not Always Bad What’s missing from the title? Music. Specifically bad music. Perhaps Stephenson lef[...]
June 18th, 2010 - 2:01 am § in True/Slant
Bad movies that are hard to resist
This week, Newcity published an article I wrote on Chicago’s bad movie scene. “So-bad-it’s-good” movies have been getting a lot of press lately. There’s “Birdemic: Shock and Terror,” “The Room” and “Troll 2,” which is finding even mor[...]
June 16th, 2010 - 12:42 pm § in Freelance Work
Horrid Shows: What, and who, is behind our bad-movie obsession? | Newcity Film
In the trailer for the new movie “Birdemic: Shock and Terror,” the film’s hero celebrates a million-dollar deal with a high-five from a co-worker. That money is an achievement, a goal people think about endlessly. It’s something recent DePaul University graduate Patrick Dowell ponders from t[...]
April 23rd, 2009 - 2:17 am § in Perfect Lines
IFFBoston
Be on the lookout for this next month: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HPXfmqIy-4] The Brothers Bloom kicked off this year’s Independent Film Festival for Boston (otherwise known as IFFBoston), and it was quite a treat. If you were a fan of Brick, think that the Oceans 11+ movies were[...]