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3''Creator/AndyWarhol's Bad'' is a 1977 BlackComedy[=/=]Crime[=/=]{{Horror}} film about a woman (Creator/CarrollBaker as Hazel Aiken) who runs a beauty salon out of her house and makes extra money by providing women to do hit jobs. Susan Tyrrell won the MediaNotes/SaturnAward for Best Supporting Actress.
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5!! "Andy Warhol's Bad Tropes":
6* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: A dog is stabbed.
7* TheBigRottenApple: It is set in New York City, and does not portray it in a positive way.
8* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Although, as is standard for feature-length Warhol movies, he only produced.
9* OnlyKnownByInitials: P.G., R.C., L.T. and S.F.
10* ProfessionalKiller: It's about ruthless women who carry out hits.
11* ShoutOut: Mary says that the last movie she saw in a theater was [[Film/AllThePresidentsMen "the Watergate one"]].
12* TakeThatAudience: Vincent Canby's review in ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers The New York Times]]'' described the film this way:
13-->"It also presents the audience with a dilemma. If we become outraged and walk out, as one might in the baby-murder scene, it laughs at us: This is, after all, [[MST3KMantra only a film]][[invoked]], so why don't we become outraged at the various real horrors in the world around us? If we don't become outraged, says, the film, we may not be too different from the robots in the movie."

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