Before getting into this list, we first need to define the word camp, a nigh-impossible task that has confounded Letterboxd critics and Twitter hot take-makers the world over. Flamboyant, extravagant, glamorous, and in exceptionally poor taste, these are the core tenets of the camp aesthetic. Now, there are levels of campiness, with the highest of high camp arguably being works of art that hit these criteria unintentionally. Essentially, camp is the epitome of “so bad it’s good.” Overwrought, overthought, overcomplicated, these films, love them or love to hatewatch them, are the 10 campiest movies in history.
Showgirls
(MGM/UA Distribution Co)Director Paul Verhoeven is an underrated master of camp, better known for his equally campy sci-fi war film Starship Troopers. While Showgirls lacks in Starship Troopers‘ clever social satire, it makes up for it in sheer balls-to-the-wall hatewatchability. This is the story of Nomi Malone (incredible drag name btw), a young dancer who steps out onto the mean streets of Las Vegas with the hopes of becoming a star. This erotic drama soon unfolds with all the restraint and poise of a four-year-old on methamphetamine, as Nomi spends the first ten minutes of the film getting robbed, winning at slots, fighting a stranger who becomes her roommate, and almost getting hit by a car. It only goes downhill from there. From the jaw-droppingly wrong pronunciation of Versace (“It’s a Ver-sayse!”) to the scene where Nomi and her rival Cristal sit down to a fancy dinner and talk about the merits of eating dog food (no, I’m not making this up), Showgirls is without a doubt one of the wackiest, cringiest, and beautifully campiest films ever made. Was it bad on purpose? By accident? Only Paul Verhoeven knows for sure.
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