Our fearless – and quite possibly senseless – movie janitor is watching every movie on the IMDb Bottom 100 list. Join us now for another installment of Unwatchable.

Unwatchable Week rolls on with one of our periodic substitutions. The actual #49 movie on the IMDb Bottom 100 list I’ve been working from all along is the 1989 Bo Derek sex comedy Ghosts Can’t Do It. Oh, how I wish I could find this movie, but there doesn’t appear to be any trace of its existence left on earth besides a handful of reviews and a four-second YouTube clip of Derek in a wet t-shirt. This is a tragedy that any self-respecting film preservationists should devote all the resources at their disposal toward rectifying. After all, we’re talking about a movie that swept the Razzies, taking home Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Derek) and Worst Director (John Derek). I demand a fully restored Criterion Collection edition by year’s end, but in the meantime, we have to find a replacement for today’s Unwatchable installment.

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Our fearless – and quite possibly senseless – movie janitor is watching every movie on the IMDb Bottom 100 list. Join us now for another installment of Unwatchable.

Bo Derek became the natural successor to Farrah Fawcett as poster girl of choice in the bedrooms of adolescent boys with the 1979 release of 10, in which the cornrowed, bikinied Derek played Dudley Moore’s object of lust. (For some reason her acting debut in 1977’s Orca, in which her leg was bitten off by a killer whale, did not catapult her to stardom.) Director John Derek was ahead of the game, having met 16-year-old Bo on the casting couch years earlier. Better known for trading in a series of hot blonde wives for younger models than any filmmaking acumen, Derek abandoned wife Linda Evans (who had earlier replaced Ursula Andress) for Bo, with whom he made four movies. Bolero is one of them, and perhaps not even the worst one, though I’d hate to have to live on the difference.

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