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Bad, On Purpose? The Awful, Awful Scourge of ‘Sharknado’

I adore bad movies. I own Foodfight! on DVD. I’ve made countless friends furious when I forced them to sit through Manos: the Hands of Fate. I own a VHS player partly so I can watch my copy of Miami Connection. Terrifyingly personal psycho-drama turned black comedy The Room, no-budget bigfoot horror Night of the …

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Best of Bad Cinema – ‘Birdemic’

Birdemic: Shock and Terror Written by James Nguyen Directed by James Nguyen USA, 2008 You have to respect an artist with a vision.  Sometimes they make Dances With Wolves or The Passion of the Christ and are rewarded critically and commercially for their risky works of passion.  Other times you get James Nguyen’s notorious 2008 film …

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Best of Severin Films: ‘Birdemic: Shock and Terror’ – a tribute to Hitchcock’s The Birds

“Like Ed Wood, Nguyen is an auteur with a dream and while we may laugh at the movie, we can’t laugh at the fact that he got the job done…” Birdemic: Shock and Terror Directed by James Nguyen Written by James Nguyen 2009, USA On the list of movies so bad they’re good, we must …

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