Thankfully, my relationship with movies moved on and I developed a deeper and different kind of appreciation for cult films, in part encouraged by the publication of Michael J. Wood Jr., Elvira was a pop culture icon, and the term “B-Movie” became synonymous with “bad movie”, typically referring to the product of an earlier era. Throughout the 1980’s, making fun of movies became a popular pastime – We rediscovered the films of Ed D. After all, home video and the whole “B-Movie” phenomena were just around the corner. It seems to me that the publication of The Fifty Worst Films of All Time coincided with a Zeitgeist that was ready to erode the way we appreciate movies. Unfortunately, I bought into it wholesale at the time, and I wasn’t alone. Now, as an adult, I can see the smugness and lack of understanding that this book was selling. It was fun to laugh at movies that either failed or that I didn’t understand. In it, the authors selected 50 films they’d designated as the worst, mocking movies by Alfred Hitchcock, Sam Peckinpah, Alain Resnais, and others.Īt the time of the book’s publication I was 13, and I enjoyed its tone and content. In 1978, Randy Dreyfuss with Harry Medved and Michael Medved published The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (And How They Got That Way).
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