Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Stuart Gordon's 1996 Science Fiction Comedy Space Truckers Is Way More Exquisitely Fucked Up Than Either Its Abysmal Reputation or PG-13 Rating Would Suggest

Stuart Gordon’s deranged 1996 science fiction comedy Space Truckers went direct to video and looms as one of its creator’s biggest failures but it’s a lot more delightfully warped than its reputation suggests.

The Ultra-Violent R rated cut of 1994's Tammy and the T-Rex is Pure Pulp Bliss

Paul Walker’s brain inside a mechanical dinosaur: what more could you POSSIBLY want?

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 7, 2023Denise Richards, Paul Walker, Mac & Me, Jurassic Park, Film

The Hyper-Violent 1991 Christopher Walken Vehicle McBain is a Deranged Delight

One of you kind souls paid me to experience the exquisite ridiculousness of 1991’s McBain, a wonderfully preposterous revenge story and utterly insane Christopher Walken action vehicle.

1996's Wildly Unnecessary Ghosts of Mississippi is a White Savior Story Like Every Other

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinFebruary 28, 2023Rob Reiner, Alec Baldwin, Virginia Madsen, Whoopi Goldberg, Craig T. Nelson, Civil Rights

The Riveting 1978 Thriller The Silent Partner Has A Lot to Offer Beyond One of John Candy's First Film Appearances

One of you lovely folks had me write about the wonderful 1978 thriller The Silent Partner, with Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer and John Candy in one of his first film performances.

Regardless of Where You Stand on the Great Ding Dong Debate, Stuart Gordon's Castle Freak is Good Mean Fun

He’s a Castle Freak, Castle Freak! He’s super Castle Freaky Yaowww!

I've Foolishly Decided to Make Finishing My Next Book WAY Harder and More Time and Labor-Intensive!

There’s no impossible task I can’t make even more difficult, including making The Fractured Mirror even longer and its writing even more time and labor intensive.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 22, 2023

Creating Rem Lezar is a Waking Fever Dream of a Homemade Superhero Kiddie Musical

One of you kind weirdoes paid me to experience the exquisite madness of the 1989 homemade kiddie superhero musical Creating Rem Lezar. It’s a trip!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 20, 2023outsider art, The Room, Neil Breen, superhero, direct to video, family movies

The Extravagantly Awful 1978 Cheapie The Alien Factor is Quite Poor

One of you kind souls paid me to watch and write about 1978’s The Alien Factor, a micro-budgeted science-fiction horror movie that, to be brutally honest, is quite poor.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 8, 2023

The Number 23's Reputation for Being One of the Worst Movies Ever Made Is Well Deserved

I remembered the notorious Jim Carrey vehicle The Number 23 being staggeringly, mind-bogglingly awful but it’s somehow WAY Worse.