(Warning - contains spoilers! Not that it really matters anyway.) 

Like all bad movies that end with an anti-climactic plot twist, Paris Hilton has once again been unleashed on the world after serving only half of her 45-day prison sentence. Who would have known that she'd escape the full punishment of the law?

Yet with uncanny timing, tonight's installment of the Washington Psychotronic Film Society at Dr. Dremo's will reveal what might have been if Paris had been imprisoned in a futuristic dystopian B-movie. The '80s film Turkey Shoot (aka Escape 2000) by Australian director Brian Trenchard-Smith chronicles a time in the not-so-distant future when social deviants are locked up for rehabilitation. The worst of the prisoners are selected for a survival contest, where they are hunted down like animals - a la The Most Dangerous Game except campier. Overall, you may think that the movie's terrible, but don't forget that it includes plenty of comic book-style violence and co-stars an imprisoned prostitute named Rita.

Check out the trailer here: 

And if that doesn't fill your appetite for bad movies, the Clint Eastwood Summer Film Festival Series will be screening Two Mules for Sister Sara this Friday in Rosslyn. For the record, I'm a huge fan of Eastwood's spaghetti westerns, but this has to be one of his weakest. The movie focuses too much on the unimpressive sexual tension and petty struggles between Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine (Sister Sara). And lo and behold, by the end of the film, we're told that Sister Sara wasn't quite the nun that we were initially made to believe. In fact, she's just a prostitute. Who could have possibly anticipated that turn of events?

In the final count though, despite all of our collective loathing for the likes of Paris Hilton and all of our incessant criticisms of terrible movies, there's something there that still keeps us watching. On the basest of levels, nothing titillates American audiences more than gratuitous violence and a good whore, even if we already know how the whole thing's going to end. So sit back and enjoy the ride.