Bad Movies in Respectable Places

[AndyC]

Recently, my wife (a minister) dusted off a sermon from a couple of years ago, in order to use it again, on a different group of people. It was from a Sunday shortly after we went to B-Fest 2002. Can't remember the religious significance of that Sunday, and she's asleep right now, but anyway, she opened by telling the congregation about B-Fest, leading into her first illustration - The Crawling Eye. She noted that whenever the long shot of the mountain appeared in the movie (which was often), the whole audience screamed in mock terror at this ominous image. Similarly, in the Bible, mountains often signify that something important is about to happen, and this led into her analysis of the particular passage.

This is my favourite of her sermons. I just love the idea of The Crawling Eye being used to explain something scriptural. I'm sure it surprised a few people.

Anybody else heard a B-movie referenced in an unusually respectable place?

[AlexB]

Not exactly respectable, but in a recent interview Anjelica Huston mentioned The Ice Pirates as her first big break in acting. One would have thought that she'd prefer to forget that she ever made that movie.

[Vermin Boy]

When I toured the NYU film school, the walls were covered in movie posters by NYU alumni-- Scorsese, Spike Lee, the Coen Brothers, etc. And there, inexplicably, between all these classic films... was CHUD 2!

[Eirik]

I was in a meeting with some very high level folks once and by necessity it was being started at 5:00 AM.  The highest ranking person in the room looked around the table and said: "It's like 'Night of the Living Dead in Here.'"  He was right, too.

[Lee]

Vermin, that's too damn funny! LOL

[Ed]

http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/

Its SCIENCE and the b-movie.

-Ed