Best & Worst Video

9. Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
Penn Jillette and his silent partner, Teller, try to translate their postmodern magic act to film in this wretched movie debut. Further evidence of the raging vacuity of self-referential ''new comedy.''

10. See You in the Morning (1989)
Director Alan Pakula's script reworks his own life's ups and downs into the smarmiest psychobabble this side of Donahue. As a Manhattan psychiatrist, Jeff Bridges is so blitheringly sensitive to everyone's needs that you'll want to punch him out.

Enhanced yellow video subtitles on foreign releases such as Babette's Feast destroyed overnight one of the main banes of film buffs — white subtitles on white backgrounds.

Rabid Grannies
Mutant on the Bounty
Robo-C.H.I.C.
Road Lawyers and Other Briefs

Indio's distributors donated some profits to saving rain forests, but the message of the film is that environmentalists save the planet with AK-47s and hand grenades.

The ghouls featured in the box art for Dead Pit have little green eyeballs that light up, but that's nothing compared with the talking Frankenhooker box, which snarls, ''Wanna date?'' when you press a hidden button.

The competition included...Mortal Passions' nugget of domestic truth: ''No matter how bad things got at home, no one expects to get killed for it,'' and Kurt Russell's bizarre throwdown to a thug in Tango & Cash: If you want me, me and my ass are in the neighborhood.'' But Savage Beach gets the nod for lumpiest line when the villain's leather-clad Commie girlfriend breathlessly coos — and we quote: ''My ideology means more to me than fame and adulation.'