10 Movies That Prove Pod People Run Hollywood

4. Catwoman

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Remember how a character in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers said her Uncle Ira wasn't her Uncle Ira? It looked like him, talked like him, but it wasn't him? Well, here's a movie about a character who acts like Catwoman, talks like Catwoman but bears zero resemblance to Selina Kyle, the villainess who first appeared in Batman #1 (1940).

Instead, "Patience Phillips" (Halle Berry) is a graphic designer exterminated with extreme prejudice by Sharon Stone when she stumbles across a diabolical masterplan involving a skin cream with dangerous side effects (or something). This leads to 2 hours of Berry running around in S&M gear, swearing vengeance on Stone and whoever green-lit a movie with cheesy effects, dreary action sequences and crummy logic. Throw in a ‘comic relief’ gay character and you have a movie that, had it been a hit, would’ve shaken Western Civilization to its foundations.

One of Roger Ebert’s most hated films, Catwoman received seven Razzie nominations and ‘won’ four, including Worst Actress. Collecting her $1.98 trophy in person, Berry thanked Warner Bros “for putting me in this piece-of-s**t, God-awful film.” 

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'