'The Best Worst Movie' Part I: The Documentary

August 4, 9:19 AMMovie ExaminerJason Roestel

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I spent a major portion of my adult life trying to find the most entertaining bad movie ever created. Now I'm spending a major portion of my adult day today trying to track down the list of 150+ bad movies, with reviews(!) I watched over a five year period so many moons ago.

Five years is what they give you for armed robbery. As it happens it's also the sentence I handed to myself for being such a habitual film dork. Five years strapped in a chair - blinds shut, eyes wide open - bad movie after bad movie after bad movie running like a film festival in hell. Five frakking years...

I once haunted the 7.99$ used movie bins at Blockbuster and Warehouse like Bubbles shall now haunt the forests and glens surrounding the Neverland Ranch compound. At these choice locations I discovered truly bad movies like Hell Comes to Frogtown and Prayer of the Rollerboys. (a post apocalyptic roller-blading movie featuring some daring in-line skate action as well as a big steaming sex scene between Corey Haim and Patricia Arquette) Once I discovered the unlimited freedom of a Netflix queue I gathered much more courage with my choices. Battlefield Earth, Shriek of the Mutilated, Basket Case, - these terrible films stampeded through my queue as they began their dangerous cross-country pilgrimage to my Toshiba DVD player. One movie I did manage to miss during this five year period of reckless movie watching was Troll 2. My excuse? There are literally thousands of shitty movies out there people - and I am only one man. And one man can only take so much bad theater. 

Now that I see the new trailer for this documentary called Best Worst Movie I'm thinking two things. First, I want to add this film to my collection of eclectic documentaries based on weirdos, smart-o's and eccentrics of every make and kind. Second, I really-really need to see Troll 2 to find out if it is indeed the best worst movie of all time.

Check out the trailer: 

Trailer Critique: Things are looking promising for B-movie junkies. That flash to the Rottentomatoes rating of 0% Fresh for Troll 2 is beyond mortal temptation for a guy of my predilections. (I checked - yep it's 0% fresh alright...) Tonight I'm going to hunt Troll 2 down and find out if it indeed deserves the title of Best Worst Movie Ever - expect a review tomorrow. Then on Thursday I'm going to list my personal Top 10 Best Worst Movies of All Time and somehow make that five years spent sealed in an air-tight room viewing every kind of unimaginably bad movie available worth the inhuman effort of doing so. I promise that none of this has anything to do with GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra being released this weekend - that's just coincidence and random physics rearing their chaotic heads. Hopefully sometime this year I'll be able to see this documentary based on a film genre I once knew better than my own dear Mother...

On to 'The Best Worst Movie'Part II: The 'Troll 2' Review!