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Teen Movie Hell

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Born in the drive-in theater backseats of the 1970s, the demonic visions of Teen Movie Hell fueled the VCR, cable TV, and shopping mall multiplex booms of the 1980s before collapsing in the 1990s in a pixelated pile of cable dissipation and Internet indulgences. Between George Lucas's American Graffiti in 1973 and Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused twenty years later, lust-driven laugh riots on the order of Animal House, Porky's, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Revenge of the Nerds boomed at the box office and conquered pop culture by celebrating adolescent misbehavior run amok.

All-seeing author Mike "McBeardo" McPadden passes righteous judgment over the entire genre, one boobs-and-boner opus at a time. In more than 350 reviews and dozens of bonus features, Teen Movie Hell lays the crucible of coming-of-age comedies bare, from party-hearty farces such as The Pom-Pom Girls, Up the Creek, and Fraternity Vacation to the extreme insanity exploding all over King Frat, Screwballs, The Party Animal, and Surf II: The End of the Trilogy.

Tap the keg, tailor your toga, and belly flop hard into the exploitation inferno of bikinis beaches, locker rooms, summer camps, study halls, wayward teachers, cool camp counselors, wet-T-shirts, custom vans, sexy ESP, shower peepholes, and other overlooked penal code violations!
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Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Lucy ★★★★★

I've been flipping through this thing every night since it landed, and the way it traces the genre's arc from drive-ins to the multiplex collapse actually made me laugh out loud at the chapter on 80s cable trash. It's dense with detail but never feels like homework, which is rare for a book this dee

Joshua ★★★★★

The chapter breakdown alone is worth it, mapping the 70s drive-in era through the 80s VCR boom to the 90s crash feels like a film history course. I flipped straight to the sections on cable TV and mall multiplexes and got lost for hours. This is the definitive guide to that weird, wonderful subgenre

Riley ★★★★★

This thing is a time machine, covering everything from drive-in backseats to the VCR boom and the whole 90s collapse, so it’s part film history, part hilarious nostalgia trip. I couldn’t put it down once it got to the cable TV years, and the way it frames the whole cultural shift is spot on.