History of my Bad Taste

So just over a year ago I finished Uni and stepped out into the big world, ready to join the full time workers and to leave student life style behind me. Well I now work full time as a kitchen porter at the local Picturehouse cinema, City Screen. I live in a student house with two other ex students. I still eat a diet of total rubbish and always find ways of getting out of cleaning. So let me recap, in the last year I have managed not to change at all! So what do I do in my spare time, instead of looking for a job in my field, I like to go to the cinema, waste hours online, spend time with Mel, and watch a lot of TV and DVDs. I do what most people do in their spare time, but I would like to hope that most people do not watch the kind of things that I watch.
Let us step back in time about 4 years maybe 5, who knows maybe more. We are in the home of my best friend, Kevin, and we are bored wanting something to do. Cue Michael Kennedy holding a pile of what seems to be DVDs. Indeed it was DVDs, when looking closer it was easy to see that these films seem to fall under the genre of horror. Grabbing the first one at hand we put on the film waiting to be scared, how wrong we where! The film was in titled “The Unseen” and starred an actress called Barbara Bach (who I have just found out was a bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me), and after about ten minutes it was easy to see that we where going to be laughing more then hiding behind the sofa. It was awful, or what I can remember of it anyway. That was the beginning of a love for bad films and the continued mention of Barbara Bach. Every time we would sit in kev’s room and wonder what to do, my answer was always the same, “Let’s watch one of those bad movies Kev’s dad has given him”. Kitch and Steve would always seem to hate this idea, so in the end I only got to see a few of these films, and from what I can remember I think they where; two random squeals of “The Howling”, a film about America vampire collage students, a zombie movie and a film with the word toxic/mutant high school in it.
Time passed and I started to guide away from those types of films and my collection would not include any bad films till my second year of uni. So what do I call a bad movie, I say what do I call a bad movie, as everyone has their own opinion. For me it seems to be a film that I have the opposite reaction too. So for example if a scene should be scary and I’m having a good laugh, that is the type of thing that swings it towards a bad movie. Normally it depends on the production of the film, so if it is straight to video the chance is that it is going to be pretty bad. But that is only my opinion. So I end this blog, with the promise of going into more detail about some of the films in my collection, which include, Snakes on a Train, Sickle, Dead Scared and Earth Alien.
Till next time, I’m off to add “Jack Said” to my lovefilm list, a film advertised in the adverts of XXX 2: The Next Level and starring Danny Dyer. Just what the doctor ordered!!