Bad/trashy production with that one plot element which holds up well
**The Violent Years (1956):** A bizarre film about an gang formed by girl from well-off families who are just bored. It's written by no other than Ed Wood, has a moralistic sequence where a judge scolds the gang leader's parents and hammers the moral of the story about how neglecting your kids will lead them to delinquency, and some of the girls' actions are silly (like when they clumsily vandalize a school room), but one moment stands out: the gang stumbles upon a couple making out, steal the girl's sweater and drag the guy to the woods at gunpoint, then starts stripping him as the leader starts undressing and advances on him. The next scene shows a newspaper saying the young man was "robbed" and "criminally attacked", confirming he was raped. The movie plays the rape by gunpoint scenario completely straight, decades before female-on-male SA would be taken seriously, in an otherwise cringefest of a movie with forced morals and lame acting.
**Batman Forever (1995):** Okay, maybe not a *bad* movie, but definitely not one of the best in the Batman Filmography. Nevertheless, the Riddler's plan to advertise his "Box" as a hyper-immersive TV device that sends 3-D images to the user's brain, but secretly use it to extract information and data from their minds for himself, is surprisingly prophetic in our times of Big Techs which feed their users content and information, only to collect their data and information with the users either unaware or too distracted by the consumption of content and entertainment to care.
**Leprechaun 3 (1995):** Anyone familiar with the *Leprechaun* franchise will know this movie doesn't take itself too seriously and most of the deaths and horror moments are intentionally awkward and funny. However, one moment things get serious is when a casino owner, Mitch gets his hands on the Leprechaun's magic coin, and it grants his wish that the heroine Tammy, a magician's assistant whom he's been lusting on for quite some time, would return his feelings. Tammy suddenly throws herself at him, starts stripping and acting seductively. but then when the Leprechaun retrieves the coin and the spell fades, she finds herself horrified and confused, and after fleeing Mitch's advances, she's visibly shaken and disgusted. Love spells were usually played as an innocuous trick in fantasy, but here, the movie acknowledges the horrific implications of being robbed of your consent and forced into a romantic/sexual encounter while on a trance, not far from when people fall victim of rape drugs in real life, and wake up confused, violated and traumatized.
**Batman Forever (1995):** Okay, maybe not a *bad* movie, but definitely not one of the best in the Batman Filmography. Nevertheless, the Riddler's plan to advertise his "Box" as a hyper-immersive TV device that sends 3-D images to the user's brain, but secretly use it to extract information and data from their minds for himself, is surprisingly prophetic in our times of Big Techs which feed their users content and information, only to collect their data and information with the users either unaware or too distracted by the consumption of content and entertainment to care.
**Leprechaun 3 (1995):** Anyone familiar with the *Leprechaun* franchise will know this movie doesn't take itself too seriously and most of the deaths and horror moments are intentionally awkward and funny. However, one moment things get serious is when a casino owner, Mitch gets his hands on the Leprechaun's magic coin, and it grants his wish that the heroine Tammy, a magician's assistant whom he's been lusting on for quite some time, would return his feelings. Tammy suddenly throws herself at him, starts stripping and acting seductively. but then when the Leprechaun retrieves the coin and the spell fades, she finds herself horrified and confused, and after fleeing Mitch's advances, she's visibly shaken and disgusted. Love spells were usually played as an innocuous trick in fantasy, but here, the movie acknowledges the horrific implications of being robbed of your consent and forced into a romantic/sexual encounter while on a trance, not far from when people fall victim of rape drugs in real life, and wake up confused, violated and traumatized.
