20 Worst Films Of All Time

7. Myra Breckinridge (1970)

At its core, Michael Sarne€™s film is essentially a $5 million homoerotic gag, though it€™s hard to say whether the joke was at the expense of Gore Vidal (who wrote the source novel), backers Twentieth Century Fox or the audience. Courtesy of a sex change performed by Dr John Carradine, Myron Breckinridge (Rex Reed) has transformed into Myra Breckinridge (Raquel Welch) and decided, for no particular reason, to teach €œCinema Love Making€ at a phony dramatic school run by his/her uncle. Also around, for equally unfathomable reasons, is Mae West, who sings Hard To Handle and talks about establishing €œa boy bank where credit is always good.€ Over the course of 94 agonizing minutes, Welch beds Farrah Fawcett and straps on a dildo to sodomize one male lover, during which she comments: €œMy goal is the destruction of the last vestigial traces of traditional manhood from the race.€ She would€™ve been better off quoting Shakespeare: €œA tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.€
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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.'