There ought to be a word for the sort of film that you don't merely get a shiver of guilty pleasure from watching but you also get a certain frisson from owning up to watching.

Spill.

-- Nicholas E. Grinder (me@impolex.demon.co.uk), July 05, 2000

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All those Blade Runner ripoffs. I love the high-tech Hollywood trash like Johnny Mnemonic, Fifth Element and Matrix. I also appreciate the lowest gutter sci-fi of the straight-to-video variety, from Troma Films' mutated horrors to Amazon maiden-in-a-thong flicks (the somethings of the Avocado Jungle, for example, a staple of late-night cable TV in the States). I tend to like them grim and predictable.

-- Tom Dean (tsd@ogk.com), July 05, 2000.

James Bond. Yes, he's a male chauvinist pig and I whinge all the way through them but I can't help watching them.

-- Polly (diem99@hotmail.com), July 06, 2000.

The worst? The guiltiest? Two words: Shannon Tweed. And yes, I am ashamed.

Bill

-- Bill Chance (chancew1@aol.com), July 07, 2000.

Catholic horror movies, the ones that include at least one scene in a creepy church. You know what I'm talking about -- PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THE UNHOLY, THE SENTINEL, ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE EXORCIST, STIGMATA. I can only attribute this to three years of Catholic grammar school and the horrors they entailed.

MMF

-- Melanie Miller Fletcher (xanadu1@ibm.net), July 10, 2000.

the above wrote "PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THE UNHOLY, THE SENTINEL, ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE EXORCIST, STIGMATA. "

Oh, you forgot The Omen series!

While I do love the above...I am a sucker for (and don't laugh) shirley temple movies.

-- tori (toritoo@aol.com), July 16, 2000.

Drop Zone starring Wesley Snipes. Actually anything with Wesley Snipes or sky diving in it. Super Cop starring Jackie Chan as much for the bad dubbing job as for Jackie's charming action stunt out takes at the end.

-- SallyHewson (sallyhewson@sympatico.ca), July 17, 2000.

Big Trouble in Little China. It's only the greatest film ever made.

-- Stephen Porpora (sbp2@dana.ucc.nau.edu), July 26, 2001.