Turner Classic Movies is currently running a "salute" to Joan Crawford. I put in the quote marks because they're running all of her best movies and then, in the wee small hours of tomorrow morning, they're running Trog, a 1970 film that pretty much suggests the following scenario. Someone approached Ms. Crawford and said, "Joan, dear, you're getting along in years and your health isn't great. You may have only enough time left on this planet to appear in one more movie. Have you given any thought to what you'd like to do as your final project?"
To which Joan Crawford replied, "Yes. I've been thinking…I've appeared in so many great movies, so many true classics, that I think I ought to cap my career with the worst movie ever made. I think it would be a wonderful trick to play on my many fans. I want them to all rush to see a film because I'm in it and then just sit there in the theater, thoroughly appalled — and hopefully drinking Pepsi-Cola — at the most tasteless, uninteresting, crummy, low budget horror film I can find. Ideally, they will all stumble from the theater, go home and start petitions to revoke my Oscar for Mildred Pierce."
To which her friend must have said, "You can't possibly mean you're thinking of appearing in…"
"That's right," Ms. Crawford replied. "I'm thinking of appearing in Trog."
It's the only possible explanation.