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