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The Bad Movie Club overseas
Though bad movies continued to be produced throughout the 1960s, the Bad Movie Club's membership waned, both in New York and in Gainesville. Membership spiked, however, after the club announced its plan to organize a six-month trip to Paris, where the club would attend daily screenings at the Cinematheque. The group left on January 3, 1968, and was due back in early June.
The debacle that followed has oft been blamed on the UF chapter's faculty advisor, Dr. Wayne P. Chubb. Chubb, a self-described hippie, did little to guide the students during their trip to France, and was thus taken by surprise when he received news of the club's intimate involvement in the seizure of a Latin quarter cinema house on 25 May. The students, who had renamed themselves "Les Enfants du Cinema Mal," screened a pilfered print of Plan Nine from Outer Space until Paris riot police chased them from the building.
The school did not react well to its students participating in such shenanigans, and Dr. Chubb was placed on unpaid leave for two terms. The student senate officially disbanded the UF Bad Movie Club for two terms as well. In response, the Bad Movie Club orchestrated a takeover of the UF Film Appreciation Society through careful reading of the latter's by-laws. The first FAS screening for the 1969-1970 academic year was Plan Nine from Outer Space.
Plan Nine from Outer Space