are apt – a young boy befriends a lost alien, junk food is consumed as a way of bonding, and inevitably, chaos ensues. Understandably then, after all this time, many will gladly deride the film as being a truly terrible film. It sits on Rotten Tomatoes with a solid zero percent rating, meaning it has no positive reviews. The ‘Urban Dictionary’ definition of guilty pleasure is Something that you shouldn’t like, but like anyway. I’m of the firm belief that there is no such thing as a ‘guilty pleasure’. Yet, if you were to ask people on the street what the worst film of the bunch that was nominated ( Caddyshack II 4%, Rambo III 36%, Hot to Trot 0%, Cocktail 5%, Mac and Me 0%), then odds are they would say that Mac and Me was the worst out of the bunch. History has been kinder to Cocktail, with it becoming appreciated for what it is – an ok film with a charismatic lead. Now, at that same ceremony, Mac and Me went on to lose (or win?) the Worst Film award to Donaldson’s 5% on Rotten Tomatoes film, Cocktail – a film which has gone on to have a slight cultural influence with its cocktail concoction scene. Beating out Michael Dinner for Hot to Trot, Roger Donaldson for Cocktail and Peter MacDonald for Rambo III Edwards won his award for his film Sunset, while Raffill won his award for a little film called Mac and Me.

Yet, in 1988, he joined the great Blake Edwards as the co-recipient of an award that many maybe don’t want to have – the Worst Director award at the Razzies. Raffill’s career has never been one to garner awards attention, having delivered mostly genre fare that has left little in the viewers memory. In 1988, director Stewart Raffill released his follow up to the moderately successful The Philadelphia Experiment.

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