When Movies Go Bad!

I think I watched probably one of the worst movies ever made last night called Teen Witch. I rented this movie from Netflix because I'd heard it had like a cult following. After watching it, I'm not really sure why unless it's for the sheer awfulness of it.

Robin Lively (Savannah) plays Louise, who is your typical nerdy but ubersmart teen. Even though she's sophomore, she's in the senior English class. She pines for Brad, the sensitive, popular football player (why does everyone go for the football player?) but he's dating the uber-popular Randa who is a cheerleader (could this be more cliched?).

She's so nerdy, no one comes to her 16th birthday party, and she has only one friend (shades of Square Pegs).

One night Brad almost runs Louise down with his car as she's riding her bike home from school.

Since she has a flat, and being pre-cell phone, she stumbles upon a mysterious house run by the little woman from the Poltergeist movies, Serena who tells Louise that she is a witch who will come into her powers on her 16th birthday, after realizing she's not the usual shill. Something to do with a locket that she wears.

Louise happily takes to being a witch, particularly since she can torture her awful younger brother. She's set up on a date by Randa, and she discovers she can make her horrible date disappear just by saying 'disappear.' Soon she's doing spells to make herself popular, and to get Brad to fall in love with her.

Of course, she has the epiphany that being popular is not all it's cracked up to be, and that she wants Brad to love her for herself. And that she regrets treating her only friend like crap. But what makes this movie truly bad are the eighties fashions, and the song and dance sequences. Noah Blake (Robert Blake's son) plays the cute white rapper who Louise's friend longs for. Thanks to a spell, she can rap with the best of them.

Then there's this long montage where all the boys in town sing and dance as they follow Louise around who now has big Jersey hair and wears pouffy tutu skirts to school. Even Madonna had stopped dressing like by 1988.

This movie was just torture, although I couldn't stop laughing at how bad it was. Poor Dick Sargent from Bewitched played the kind but bewildered dad. Somehow no one figured out that this girl was a witch, not even her parents, although she ran around spouting gobbledy-gook through-out the movie.

It wasn't even a good guilty pleasure movie that's how bad this one was (for example Valley Girl with Nick Cage).

Thanks for sharing my shame,
Elizabeth