Just because you can't respect a movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. A seminal text of the VHS nostalgia movement, The Golden Age of Crap serves up a sampling of junk-food flicks that gained their audiences on videocassette rental shelves during the '80s and '90s, a time when one couldn't visit the video rental store without being tempted by Italian post-apocalyptic adventures, ninja revenge yarns, and zombie-filled "camcorder epics." The movies covered here run from sleeper hits ( Phantasm II ) to cult favorites ( The Dead Next Door ), from unknown stinkers ( Plutonium Baby ) to undiscovered gems ( America's Deadliest Home Video ), all examined with a critical but fun-loving eye. Now fortified in this 2nd edition with full-color posters and video covers, plus an exhaustive index.