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The joy of bad stuff: why there's so much fun to be had from the truly awful

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In 1980, one of the TV shows that the biggest impact on my class at school was called The Golden Turkey Awards. It was a spoof ceremony to honour the world’s worst films, many of them dating from the 50s and 60s, mostly low-budget sci-fi or inept creature-features.

Such was its impact that Channel 4 followed up with a series on The World’s Worst Movies. Clive James devoted a show to bad films.

A mini-industry sprang up around risible celluloid disasters. As a student, I spent an evening in a packed cinema watching a double-bill of Plan 9 From Outer Space – long regarded as the worst film ever made – and a film called Robot Monster, which, famously, lacked the budget for an alien costume, so the director hired a gorilla suit but replaced the

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