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Back in the early 1980’s, I discovered the Golden Turkey Awards books and my search for bad movies began. It was also around that time that video stores began popping up.  Before the days of Blockbuster Video, it seemed like you could go to these smaller video stores and find many of these Golden Turkey… Continue reading Why Knife-wielding Maniacs Scare Me

Anyone hardcore fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 should be familiar with the film Manos: The Hands of Fate. Manos is considered one of the worst films that ever appeared on the series.  The premise of the show is that mad scientists have captured a test case and show him bad movies.  The test subject… Continue reading Why Caretakers with Big Knees Scare Me

During the early 200’s, my family and I discovered a new group of bad movies.  This group of movies was labeled as “so bad they are good” to differentiate them from the films labeled as Golden Turkeys in the past.  One of the first of this group was a Film called Troll 2. While I… Continue reading Why Corn on the Cob with Green Frosting Scares Me

In 1982 the film It Came From Hollywood was released. It is a documentary film with a compilation of clips from “Bad Movies” drawing heavily on the book The Golden Turkey Awards. There is a short clip of a film not covered in the book that I was unfamiliar with that featured a giant ape… Continue reading Why Giant Apes Scare Me

A lot of the time when people hear the title of the movie The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant, people think you are talking about The Thing with Two Heads.  The Thing with Two Heads was the film that gets more attention and is more familiar to the general public.  But The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant has its… Continue reading Why Casey Kasem Scares Me

On the June 28, 1969, episode of The Rosey Grier Show, he sang a cover version of the Temptations song Get Ready. Around that same time, I was in the audience at a telethon in Jackson, Tennessee where saw Rosey Grier perform the song live.  I really liked his performance of the song, and I… Continue reading Why Ray Milland and Rosey Grier Scare Me

After seeing Cat-Women of the Moon and Missile to the Moon, why would anyone need to see Queen of Outer Space?  After all it’s just a variation of the same story that I had already seen twice.  What could possibly make a difference to make this one worth watching?  First, I think they are all… Continue reading Why Zsa Zsa Gabor Scares Me

In my previous blog post, I talked about the film Missile to the Moon, which is a remake of this week’s subject, Cat-Women of the Moon. I first heard of Cat-Women of the Moon when reading the book, Son of the Golden Turkey Awards where it was another nominee in the “Most Primitive Male Chauvinist… Continue reading Why Cat Women Scare Me

Back in the days of the home video revolution, I picked up an inexpensive VHS set of low budget sci-fi films.  It included The Hideous Sun Demon and Missile to the Moon. When I watched Missile to the Moon, I realized that it was one of those films where space explorers land on a planet… Continue reading Why Moon Maidens Scare Me

A syndicated movie show appeared on late night around 1987 featuring bad movies.  One of the only movies that I saw on this program was Hillbillys in a Haunted House starring country music singer Ferlin Husky. Ferlin Husky was familiar to me because his song Wings of a Dove was on some 8-track tape that… Continue reading Why Ferlin Husky Scares Me