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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Bad films
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 23:07:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 23:07:31 1983
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Those of you interested in seeing lots of clips from bad films in a
short time should catch a flick called "It Came From Hollywood", which
is making the Pay/Cable rounds these days.  It is made up of several
segments in which various comedians (Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner, Cheech
and Chong, John Candy) show clips from different genres.  I caught the
last half-hour a couple of nights ago, and saw the end of a segment
which included "Glen or Glenda" (another Roger Corman winner of the
Golden Turkey award), a segment with Gilda as a little girl talking
about monster movies (while they're showing giant locusts demolishing a
town she screams "Ooh, the attack of the giant chicken wing!"), a
segment on old movies involving marijuana use (with Cheech and Chong
heckling in the audience, of course), a section of coming attractions,
and a segment which makes fun of musicals.

At the end of the closing credits they listed all the films they used,
and I saw all my favorite "bad" films in there: "Plan 9 from Outer Space"
and "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" made it, of course (I didn't notice
whether "Dark Star" did, but I don't think so).

For those of you inthe Boston area, the Off the Wall theatre in
Cambridge periodically shows a series of bad films.  The last time they
did they had the Corman films, "The Terror of Tiny Town", "Lady Mud
Wrestlers vs. the Aztec Mummies" (or something equally inane).
Unfortunately, they did this during the last couple of weeks of the
school term, so I didn't manage to go to any of them.
-- 
			Barry Margolin
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