Really Awful Movies

Best Worst Movie

Songbird Celine Dion warbling the 5,000th performance of My Heart Will Go On. That’s Dr. George Hardy’s analogy for the endless flogging of Troll 2 on the festival and movie convention circuit. The documentary Best Worst Movie focuses on Hardy, a charming Alabama dentist who flirted with the periphery of show business when he starred as Michael WaitsContinue reading “Best Worst Movie”

Murder by Decree

Countless forests have been felled to produce JFK assassination books; similarly, no trees are safe from “Ripperology,” with new hypotheses coming out annually and showing no signs of abating. Murder by Decree is a 1979 thriller about the Jack the Ripper killings, directed by the legendary Bob Clark (Black Christmas). It has Masonic elements, a la theContinue reading “Murder by Decree”