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I have a confession to make: I watch too many bad movies. I have more bad movies in my DVD collection than good movies and mediocre movies combined. I do not enjoy all bad movies; my favourites tend to be in black and white and involve some combination of Bela Lugosi, Roger Corman, Crash Corrigan, Ed Wood and the SciFi Channel on Saturday night. I fell asleep during Battlefield Earth and was rendered speechless by Catwoman, so there is a limit to what I can tolerate.

The faults of the proper bad movie endear it to me. It must be so completely absurd, poorly scripted, terribly acted and questionably edited as to result in a level of corn and silliness that keeps my attention while welcoming my derision. Being a true B Movie from the golden age of cinema certainly helps, but films from any generation can qualify. The "good" bad movie must never take itself seriously, regardless of the director’s intent (think Battlefield Earth vs. Plan 9 from Outer Space). It is this effortless tone that separates the insipid from the awesome.

The creation of the bad movie is an art form that has been taken to new and glorious levels by the SciFi Channel in such masterpieces as the 2006 action flick Mammoth. The made-for-TV film featured a posessed semi-decomposed creature of the same name, a slew of mad scientists who sought to "understand" what was going on, and a B-movie lover who obviously would have been one of the few people on Earth to have any experience with this sort of situation.

I will dedicate future entries to reviews of films as I watch them so you don’t have to. This blog is not meant to serve as a repository for the best of the bad, but as an athenaeum of information (and possibly some disinformation) on some of the bad movies available.

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