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From Bad to Worse: Road House

Road House

This crap-movie classic of 1989 stars Patrick Swayze as a superstar bar bouncer whose sensitive zen ideals are routinely sacrificed on the altar of throat-ripping judo! If Showgirls were a boy, it would be Road House. (Golden Raspberry nominee for Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Actor (Patrick Swayze), Worst Supporting Actor (Ben Gazzara), and Worst Screenplay.)

Series Description:
From Bad to Worse: A Six-Week Study of Cinematic Terribleness with David Schmader

From Bad to Worse is a six-week descent in the depths of cinematic hell led by local writer/performer David Schmader. Schmader premiered his annotated screening of Paul Verhoeven's notorious stripper drama Showgirls at the Northwest Film Forum in 1999, after which he toured the "live cinema essay" to film festivals around the country and recorded his critically acclaimed commentary for MGM's special-edition Showgirls DVD in 2002.

During the Showgirls touring, audience members asked, "What movie's next?," and From Bad to Worse is the start of the answer. This series features a half dozen films of near-Showgirls-ian failure, presented in workshop screenings hosted by Schmader, who'll provide short introductory lectures and running commentary for each of the six films. The results of these workshop screenings will then be boiled down and gussied up for Schmader's forthcoming full-length cinema essay Nomi's Inferno: An Annotated Journey of American Cinematic Terribleness.

Fair warning: These movies are terrible, and we will be watching them all the way through. This is why it's wonderful that the screenings are being hosted by Central Cinema, where friendly people will bring beer and wine and food right to your seat. (The booze helps kill the pain, and the food helps sop up the booze so the next day doesn't suck.)