Just because you can't respect a movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.
A seminal text of the VHS nostalgia movement,
The Golden Age of Crap
serves up a sampling of junk-food flicks that gained their audiences on videocassette rental shelves during the '80s and '90s, a time when one couldn't visit the video rental store without being tempted by Italian post-apocalyptic adventures, ninja revenge yarns, and zombie-filled "camcorder epics." The movies covered here run from sleeper hits (
Phantasm II
) to cult favorites (
The Dead Next Door
), from unknown stinkers (
Plutonium Baby
) to undiscovered gems (
America's Deadliest Home Video
), all examined with a critical but fun-loving eye.
Now fortified in this 2nd edition with full-color posters and video covers, plus an exhaustive index.