Making the Best Out of the Worst Classic Movies
Films have helped to shape our culture, and our very ideas of creativity. Movies are the visual books in which we can all participate, and for as long as they have been making good films, they have also been making bad ones. I have to tell you. I love bad movies. I almost love them more than good movies. It is a terrible obsession I have. I go to the video store in search of the worst looking movies and I bring them home and relish in their awfulness! Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen my fair share of award winners, and my favorite movie, “L.A. Confidential,” is hardly bad film making, but when it comes to a guilty pleasure, mine is bad movies!
I’ve seen some of the worst martial arts films ever made, terrible westerns, unbearable action movies, and don’t get me started on bugs and other mutant creatures. I even have favorite bad actors who no one in the right mind should know the name of and who will go nameless in this article for slander and libel reasons! I’m so in love with bad film making that the publisher I work for, and am published by, Roberts Publishing, has asked me to write about some of the worst movies ever made. I can hardly wait to get started!
Beyond your average bad movie, there are the classic bad movies. Yes, there are actually classics, so bad that they have actually lived in infamy because they stunk. Think about it. You’ve seen at least a couple of them.
Everyone has heard of “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” technically the worst movie ever made, by the worst director ever, Ed Wood. I’m not being mean, people actually voted on that and elected him the worst that Hollywood ever had to offer. “Plan 9,” is no doubt the most notable of Mr. Wood’s projects, however some of his other films must not be overlooked when searching for a true stinker. “Glen or Glenda,” explores sexual identity, while his little known, “Orgy of The Dead,” explores nothing except to give the director a good excuse to have two hours of naked women belly dancing (when you’re lucky) in a graveyard. If you’re in need of a plot, you’ve come to the wrong place, and if you wanted decent acting you’ll need a map you’re so far from it!
Ed Wood is the tip of the iceberg. There are several directors, in our country and internationally, who have released multiple nightmares and are still going strong. They have their own production
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