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SYNOPSIS: With another year drawing to close, film critic Michael Adams found himself making an unusual New Year’s resolution: in the next 12 months, he would find the answer to the question: ‘What is the worst movie ever made?’ He would do so by watching at least one terrible film per day. For a year. That’s 365 bad movies in 365 days. No fast-forwarding. No pressing the stop button.
Armed with a toy bingo machine, which serves-up his movie-watching program each day, Michael’s life becomes a never-ending plasma-screen parade of martial arts morons, purplefaced vampires, bouncing bimbos and reefer madmen. From legendary turkeys like Showgirls, Battlefield Earth and Gigli to video-age obscurities like Ax ‘Em, The Tony Blair Witch Project and Rollergator, Michael begins to appreciate that while the films he sees are almost uniformly terrible, their awfulness holds their own undeniable fascination.
This is comic-quest memoir mixed with ‘extreme’ movie criticism and laced with film trivia and encounters with celebrities like Michael Bay, Matt Damon and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and interviews with bad-movie aficionados such as Joe Dante, John Waters, Eli Roth and Leonard Maltin.
As the months go by, Michael becomes hopelessly addicted, knowing that the bad movie he views today will only be supplanted by a worse one tomorrow.
And what is the worst movie ever made? With the countdown to the next year looming again, and with his final decision down to the wire, Michael makes the call, only to find that’s not quite the end …
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