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That's the name of the book-

https://www.hamiltonbook.com/the-bad-movie-bible (https://www.hamiltonbook.com/the-bad-movie-bible)

nice...the still from SAMURAI COP on the front suggests this guy has good taste in bad taste.

interview with Joan Collins? hopefully the movie she's in there for is EMPIRE OF THE ANTS, I love that one. it's cack but it's great

Once I get my SSI money-which should be soon-I'm getting it!

Didn't asylum films write this?

I dunno-but it has a website-

https://www.badmoviebible.com/ (https://www.badmoviebible.com/)

ah it's those guys... Ive been subbed to their youtube channel for a while. some pretty good uploads on there

Hey guys, I wrote the book, and I run the site and YouTube channel too, my name's Rob Hill. I check in here to read but I'm not much of a poster.

I just felt compelled to say the book isn't connected to The Asylum! My publisher is a regular little operation. I'm a film critic and lifelong fan of good bad movies (sincere ones, not so much The Asylum) and just wanted to try and open this world up to mainstream moviegoers a little bit. The book features some talk about how and why stuff like Samurai Cop is so funny, but mainly it looks at 101 of the best good bad movies. They're largely genre movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s (most, but hopefully not all, of which guys like you will probably know) + obvious oddities like Breen & The Room. I had to throw a couple of mainstream things like Batman & Robin in for commercial reasons, but there ended up being a pretty good selection, I think. There are also some interviews and so on (it was Empire of the Ants I spoke to Joan Collins for. She called it the worst experience of her life and denied ever having seen it).

Hey-thanks Rob! It looks good! I'll be getting a copy!  :cheers:

Same here.  :smile:

As a film writer with a book in the works I have a question: did you pitch to the publisher directly or go through an agent?

haha, nice... I have great respect for actors who suffer for their art.

You doing a book? WOW!  :thumbup:

This is my third book and I've never had an agent, but my wife is an editor in the publishing industry so I kind of had an 'in' when pitching ideas. Didn't help get anything approved but it probably helped get the idea in front of someone who could actually do the approving. Good luck!

And thanks to everyone for the positive comments! I mention this forum in the book actually. I wanted to see as much as possible during the research phase and I was reaching out in all directions for suggestions. Can't remember which now, but I know a couple of final entries resulted from recommendations made here.

One of the things I love about the bad movie scene is these things are often obscure and word spreads slowly from 'Patient X' a bit like a disease. When you stumble on something great you haven't seen discussed before it feels like you've unearthed a treasure you can share with people! (A couple of great oddities I found too late for the book are William Shatner's Groom Lake and, just last week, Uri Geller's biopic, Mindbender. There are videos from both on my website badmoviebible.com and the YouTube channel.)

Bah, you mentioned Shatner. Now I have an urge to watch Kingdom of the Spiders again.

not seen that one, sounds craptastic!

talking of Shatner has anyone seen AMERICAN PSYCHO 2? one of the very few legitimately 'so bad it's good' movies of the post 2000 era, imo

My gran had a copy of it on VHS which I once watched with her. It has the finest overacting I have ever seen from Shatner, far outstripping such classics as his performance in The Twilight Zone or indeed The Devil's Rain.

Kingdom Of The Spiders - 'Starring William Shatner' - FULL Movie (1977) by Doug Burgess - Dailymotion (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mlu5r)

Watch and enjoy a true master of his art at work.

I'm writing a book just about Eegah!

cool, cheers  :thumbup:

just found the Bad Movie Bible on amazon. slightly more than I would normally fork out for a book tbh, but I definitely want it. and so does my coffee table :)

   yup,he actually out-shatner's himself! even with the character's name, lol!

William Shatner-
" People like you should be ground up into dog food"

http://youtu.be/RSJ56d6iemU (http://youtu.be/RSJ56d6iemU)

IMPULSE is a great badmovie. What the f**k, Shat?

Kingdom of the Spiders is great. I haven't seen American Psycho 2 but Groom Lake is a fantastic post-2000 Shatner. Directed by the man himself, and based on one of his ridiculous sci-fi novels. Check out the highlights if you're intrigued:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePxmA8RnRQ&t=10s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePxmA8RnRQ&t=10s)

nice, will check that later.

watched Kingdom Of Spiders last night on that dailymotion link. I have to say it's no Empire Of The Ants but I did get a kick out of the badness. there was one scene where Shatner looked bizarrely like Oliver Reed, never thought they looked that similar before.

time to dust off my TJ Hooker box set now. what I especially love about that show is how Hooker will finish a hard day on the beat by sinking a few whiskeys at the local bar then drive back home - without a seatbelt !

that's pretty cool you got a book published  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

The South African online store Loot www.loot.co.za (http://www.loot.co.za) has it: I will buy it in February.  :smile:

(http://cdn.loot.co.za/images/x400/100667636112179215$778E1829.jpg)

Just ordered it at ZAR361: approximately $36.  :smile: