Here in the ogre’s cave we get only a few television channels. One of them shows, each weekend, an astonishingly bad movie; not merely the dull-witted clutter that fills up the hours between infomercials for other stations, but atrocities approaching Ed Wood standards.<\/p>\n
We generally have no way of knowing what the flick is, but this week, my housemate said, “Oh, it’s the Bad Movie. Oh, Robert Vaughn<\/a> is in this one, and I think that’s whatsername who was in Last Tango<\/i><\/a>.” In a minute or two I was able to say, “The only movie with Robert Vaughn and Maria Schneider<\/a> from Last Tango<\/i> is The Babysitter<\/i><\/a>. The mini-review at IMDb says this director<\/a>\u2019s films got worse and worse until, after The Babysitter<\/i>, he had the sense to retire.”<\/p>\n Wonderful times, ennit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here in the ogre’s cave we get only a few television channels. One of them shows, each weekend, an astonishingly bad movie; not merely the dull-witted clutter that fills up the hours between infomercials for other stations, but atrocities approaching … Continue reading