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Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies

Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies

A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made

by Michael Adams
Paperback
Publication Date: 19/01/2010

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"Michael Adams's book is great fun! No one intends to make a truly bad movie, but when they do, Michael Adams will be there to watch it...and make it entertaining!" --John Landis, director of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers

In Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies, film critic Michael Adams embarks on a year-long odyssey to discover the worst movie ever made, which Mystery Science Theater 3000 star, writer, and director Kevin Murphy calls "disturbingly comprehensive, joyously critical, and the best of its kind." From all-time cult classics such as Reefer Madness and Plan 9 from Outer Space to new entries to the pantheon such as Gigli and Baby Geniuses, no genre, star, or director is safe from Adams's acerbic wit and hilarious observations. In the vein of A.J. Jacobs's New York Times bestselling book The Know-It-All, and with the snarky sarcasm of television's Mystery Science Theater 3000 and The Soup, Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies leaves no stone unturned. With a foreword by cult director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead).

ISBN:
9780061806292
9780061806292
Category:
Film theory & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
19-01-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
203.2x134.87x20.07mm
Weight:
0.31kg
Michael Adams

Michael Adams is an author, journalist, TV producer and screenwriter with a broad and deep knowledge of film. His memoir Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies is about a year-long search for the worst movie ever made. His book Shining Lights is a profile of Australian Oscar winners, based on interviews with Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush.

Michael also contributed to The 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema, edited the AFI yearbook, and hosted Showtime's Movie Club and SBS's The Movie Show. For a decade Michael was reviews editor of the Australian edition of Empire and has written extensively on film and pop culture for Men's Style, Yen, Rolling Stone, Rottentomatoes.com and Movieline.com. He most recently worked as a writer and researcher for a TV show about Australian inventors for the History Channel.

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