Best Worst Movie

Premiering in Austin, this documentary is about the purportedly "best worst movie" ever made, Troll 2, and its enthusiastic fans.

"...Directed by: Michael Stephenson. One of the breakout hits of South by..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Destroy All Monsters (and Ghosts)

Zack Carlson on Destroy, Haunted House project

"...slated to shoot in Bavaria with Best Worst Movie's Michael Stephenson directing...."

Aug. 23, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Something to Sink Your Teeth Into

Good advice from a guy who survived Troll 2, George Hardy, D.M.D.

"...Claudio Fragasso's intensely bad 1990 schlock-fest Troll 2 and Michael Stephenson's celebrated documentary Best Worst Movie. Stephenson's doc, which..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Is Here To Bash Your Brains In

Shock, schlock, and awe at America's premier genre fest

"...NBCUniversal subsidiary Chiller Network contacted Best Worst Movie director Michael Stephenson about making a documentary on the phenomenon of..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

FF2012: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for 'The American Scream'

Fantastic Fest premieres home Halloween haunt doc

"...home haunts it portrays, it always dreamed big. Director Michael Paul Stephenson explained, "In our heads, it was never..."

Sept. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...plus you’ll-never-believe-this docs like Ben Steinbauer’s Winnebago Man and Michael Paul Stephenson’s Best Worst Movie (it’s Troll 2, in..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest 2012 Awards

Big winners include 'I Declare War,' 'Flicker,' and 'Vanishing Waves' Interviews (Rian Johnson! Karl Urban!), reviews, and photo galleries galore

"...Best Actor: Michael Eklund (Errors of the Human Body)..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Screens Feature

FF2012: Fantastic Fest Awards

'I Declare War' and 'Flicker' take top prizes

"...(Crave) Best Screenplay: Max Porcelijn (Plan C) Best Actor: Michael Eklund (Errors of the Human Body) Best Actress: Alina..."

Sept. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...seriocomic vampire opus Destroy continues to wait on financing (Michael Stephenson, of Best Worst Movie, is slated to helm),..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Send a Card for Girlfriend's Day

Director talks Bob Odenkirk's Netflix crime comedy

"...The black comedy with a heart from director Michael Paul Stephenson is an unlikely crime tale of a..."

Feb. 21, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Magnificent Obsession

Charting the unlikely ascension of Troll 2 from crappiest movie ever made to cult darling

"...Michael Paul Stephenson, as you now know, starred as 10-year-old..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Film Flam

Texas Film Hall of Fame high-fives John Hawkes and Spoon, Bob Byington narrowly avoids probing Down Under, and more

"...vampire-hunter-in-Eastern Europe script Destroy to Best Worst Movie filmmaker Michael Paul Stephenson; his partner Lindsay Stephenson and Jennifer Roth..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...chemical peel for the world and Austin multi-instrumentalist Spencer Stephenson...."

Oct. 23, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Five Science-Fiction Authors to Scan Darkly

ST 37 captain Scott Telles pulls five notables off the SF bookshelf.

"...Valis or designer drug nightmare A Scanner Darkly. Neal Stephenson..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by S.L. Telles

Esther's All-Stars

"...Esther's Pool must be "the funhouse that Shannon and Michael built." In the same way that tens of thousands..."

July 30, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Page Two

Prelude to a column on cinematographer Haskell Wexler – by way of defending the ideological, political, and philosophical passions of John Sayles and Maggie Renzi against the intellectual bankruptcy of most current film criticism

"...Sayles, film professor and producer Jerry Carlson, filmmaker Michele Stephenson, and longtime media activist Lillian Jiménez in a discussion..."

June 3, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Lizzo, Beck Announced as SXSW Keynotes

Festival also adds cyberpunk pioneer Neil Stephenson

"...including literature and technology. Enter keynote number four Neal Stephenson. The godfather of modern futurism, master of speculative fiction,..."

Feb. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Carlson and Connolly's Further Plans to 'DESTROY'

Best Worst Movie filmmakers option local duo's script

"...Michael Paul Stephenson will direct the dark comedy about a..."

Feb. 16, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Plax Coalesces

ATX punks premiere new track “What a Waste”

"...Victor Ziolkowski: Chris [Stephenson] from Spray Paint and Michael [Goodwin] and Marley [Jones]..."

July 31, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Benedict Cumberbatch as the artist who invented the modern cat

"...Sharpe (who co-authored the script with Luca writer Simon Stephenson) captures how the turn of the 20th century allowed..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Fall Film Festival Season Takes Flight

Programming updates from AFF, Fantastic Fest, and aGLIFF

"...plus new work from Takeshi Kitano, Leos Carax, and Michael Paul Stephenson (Best Worst Movie) and a sidebar programmed..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest Gets 'Looper' For Second Wave

Stage two sees newbie Joseph Gordon-Levitt join FF veterans

"...The American Scream (2012) D: Michael Paul Stephenson, 81min, World Premiere In a small Massachusetts..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...people. Weird is the word used most to describe Michael Jackson. I don't want to be weird or live..."

April 18, 2003 Column

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush, Amy Hargreaves, West Duchovny, Michael Ian Black, Tony Shalhoub, Elisabeth Henry, Roger Hendricks Simon..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lyle Lovett

"...A&M. I did interview Steven Fromholz, and I interviewed Michael Martin Murphey, and I interviewed Willis Alan Ramsey. I..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...Seasons Hotel. Tapped to present will be presidential historian Michael Beschloss (Presidents of War), New York Times bestselling author..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday blurbs are down from Thursday's, but how are you holding up at this point?

"...to South by Southwest for the second time. – Michael Toland The Big Pink..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Off the Record

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Kerrville Folk Festival one year at a time

"...1973: Progressive Country: Willie Nelson, Michael Martin Murphey, and Thirteenth Floor Elevators' Benny Thurman with..."

May 27, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Naked City

"...the state, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, and the Communities Foundation of..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...[News Editor Michael King responds: Although Sen. Wentworth does not specify the..."

April 4, 2003 Column

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