I’m not sure whether it’s something to do with Dutch tastes or the fact that everyone smokes a lot of pot, but Dutch TV shows some really shockingly bad movies.
Turn on the TV any night of the week and you’re almost guaranteed to find a Steven Seagal on one of the channels. Not that weird – but most of the time they’re not even the ‘good’ Seagal films, like Under Siege or Marked for Death, from when he had some popularity as an action lead.
Instead, you’re more likely to see his more recent straight-to-DVD movies, like Attack Force – a film so bad that Seagal couldn’t be bothered to record all his own dialogue and is actually dubbed by another actor in some scenes.
But the best films on Dutch TV are those made for TV movies which imitate contemporary blockbusters. Last night I caught an absolute gem, Destination Infestation – an action thriller about killers ants aboard a passenger airliner.
Yeah, that’s right – Ants on a Plane.
