12 Trashiest Films Ever Made

11. The Babysitter (1969)

the babysitter
Crown International Pictures

One of those rare pictures that delivers more than the trailer promises, The Babysitter is a blast of vintage sleaze whose attempts to shock and exploit take precedence over logic and motivation, resulting in an abundance of unbelievable caricatures behaving in dumb (and uproarious) ways.

Our heroine is Candy (nudge), one of those free-thinking young women who just wants to smoke pot, dance naked and tell some groovy guy, €œMan, I dig you, you turn me on.€ She€™s also cranking the handle of an aging prosecutor who€™s seeking refuge from the pent-up, Bridge-playing sobersides that blames him for everything wrong with their marriage.

What Candy doesn€™t realize is that her squeeze already has a grown daughter, who some thugs are threatening to out as a lesbian (this is 1969, you see). You know you€™re watching a classy movie when the filmmakers take a €œshow, don€™t tell€ approach to her sexuality, lingering on the poolside smooching and ear-nibbling before the actresses hit the sauna for some serious €˜method acting.€™

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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.'