Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and 'pills' - the beloved "dolls." A prim New Englander (Barbara Parkins) unexpectedly skyrockets from her job as secretary in a talent agency to a glamorous TV model. A determined singer (Patty Duke) finds that ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Tony Scotti
Directed By: Mark Robson

Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease during the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the closest the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on a French comic strip, the story concerns the adventures of a 41st-century woman, who pretty much gets it on with whomever asks. The sci-fi sets were pretty interesting at the time, though they look rather ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau
Directed By: Roger Vadim

This is the movie that made John Waters famous, and quite possibly the film that made bad taste cool. Yes, Virginia, a large transvestite actually eats dog feces as a kind of dizzying denouement to this frequently illogical and intentionally disgusting movie, but by the time that happens, you're already numb ... and you've possibly laughed to the point of losing bladder control. The plot ...

Manufacturer: Saliva Films
Starring: Nancy Crystal, Divine, Pat Lefaiver, David Lochary, Edith Massey
Directed By: John Waters

When three female rock'n'rollers travel to Hollywood to claim an inheritance, they meet up with a kinky music promoter who turns them on to a whole new scene. At first, all seems very exciting and the naïve trio becomes submerged in his dangerous tinseltown underworld-before they discover his true motives.

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Michael Blodgett, Phyllis Davis, Veronica Ericson, Erica Gavin, David Gurian

Directors Howard Ziehm and Michael Benveniste draw from the same cliffhanging Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s as the glitzy 1980 tongue-in-cheek space opera for their soft-core spoof. Hockey hero Flesh Gordon and often-naked love interest Dale Ardor join Dr. Jerkoff in his battle against the mad Emperor Wang from the planet Porno, who has unleashed his diabolical sex ray on the Earth. ...

Manufacturer: Henstooth Video
Starring: Howard Alexander, Annette Anderson, Mycle Brandy, Mark Fore, Leonard Goodman
Directed By: Howard Ziehm

Is Ed Wood the worst director who ever lived? His films are campy, clumsy, and hysterically inept, but their enthusiasm and good humor overcome incoherent scripts and wooden performances with heart, soul, and an infectious sense of fun. The jaw-dropping "documentary" Glen or Glenda? is a bizarre confessional starring Wood himself as a misunderstood transvestite and Bela Lugosi as a ...

Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Starring: Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon
Directed By: Edward D. Wood Jr.

MSTies rejoice! The year 2000 is not for naught! Rhino Video has beamed us another fine transmission from the Satellite of Love! The particular piece of filmic anguish we must share this time with Mike and the 'bots is "The Creeping Terror," in which our namesake villain appears to be a drunken syphilitic Gumby trailing a moldy picnic blanket. As Mike points out, he's neither the most ...

Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Starring: Mystery Science Theater 3000

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Jessica Harper, Cliff De Young, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Charles Gray
Directed By: Jim Sharman

If you grew up in the '70s and glued yourself to the television every Saturday morning, bowl of cereal in hand, then you are most definitely familiar with the world of Sid & Marty Krofft. A live-action oasis in a desert of anemic animated programming, the shows of the messrs. Krofft were marked by outlandish fantasy plots, otherworldly monsters, horrible costumes, mediocre production values, ...

Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Starring: World of Sid & Marty Krofft

Sometimes a movie achieves such legendary status that it can't quite live up to its reputation. Plan 9 from Outer Space is not one of these movies. It is just as magnificently terrible as you've heard. Plan 9 is the story of space aliens who try to conquer the Earth through resurrection of the dead. Psychic Criswell narrates ("Future events such as these will affect you in the ...

Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Starring: Carl Anthony, Bill Ash, John Breckinridge, Conrad Brooks, David De Mering