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I'm Rerunning this Piece on Jeremy Saville's Early Work Because We Can Never Have Enough Loqueesha Content

As part of my ongoing, obsessive coverage of Loqueesha filmmaker Jeremy Saville’s life and work, I unearth some of his early Youtube work, including such tellingly titled clips as “The Girlfriend Trainer” and “GayDate.” In a shocking, unexpected turn of events, they’re quite poor and also pretty offensive!

Three Years Later Glenn Danzig's Notorious 2020 Horror Anthology Verotika Still Sucks

One of you kind souls paid me to see Glenn Danzig’s infamous 2019 directorial debut Verotika, which more than lives up and down to its reputation for being wildly, entertainingly terrible.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 28, 2023Glenn Danzig, horror anthology, bad movie culture, The Flop House

Shards From the Fractured Mirror: Best Worst Movie, Clerks III, My Life's in Turnaround, The Shadow of the Vampire and Stardust Memories

In the latest round up of movies about filmmaking I cover a quintet of films featured in my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror

Happy 5th Birthday to Gotti, the Movie That Showed the Critics Who's Boss!

Is John Travolta’s Gotti as terrible as everyone says it? Yes. Yes it is.

2017's The Book of Henry Doesn't Get Enough Credit For Being One of the Craziest Pieces of Shit in the History of Film

If ever there was a movie meant for My World of Flops, and not public consumption, it’s the notorious 2017 flop The Book of Henry

I Still Can't Wrap My Mind Around the Turtle Club sequence in Master of Disguise.

A new column exploring the most important scenes in film history kicks off with an exhaustive look at the legendary Turtle Club sequence in Master of Disguise.

Close ReadingsNathan RabinMay 26, 2023Dana Carvey, Master of Disguise, bad movies, bad movie culture, 9/11

Manos: The Hands of Fate Proved Conclusively That NOT Everyone Can Make a Movie, But Everyone Sure Can Try!

One of you generous weirdoes paid me one hundred dollars to finally get around to experiencing the exquisite madness of Manos: The Hands of Fate, a Mystery Science Theater 3000-roasted camp classic and popular contender for worst film of all time that was everything I hoped it would be and more.

In Its Own Weird, Wonderful Way, Plan 9 From Outer Space Is a Miracle

In honor of Ed Wood’s birthday I am rerunning a piece collected in The Joy of Trash on Plan 9 from Outer Space, his masterpiece.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMay 11, 2023Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi, bad movie culture

Battlefield Earth Is a Camp Delight for Puny Man-Animals Everywhere

This movie is NOT good.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #179 Troll 2 (1990)

For a very special day (the end of the Joy of Trash Kickstarter) I wrote about a movie that embodies the joy of trash: the absolutely wonderful, utterly insane 1990 fever dream Troll 2.