Anna Nicole Smith
For two strange years in the mid-90s, one of the most famous women in America made direct-to-video action films. The discs are time capsules.
Why she matters
Anna Nicole Smith's acting career was brief — a pair of mid-90s action vehicles made at the absolute height of her fame — and the films are fascinating precisely because of that collision: a global tabloid phenomenon dropped into the Die Hard-clone economy. Neither film is good. Both are irresistible to collectors of high camp, and as artefacts of 90s celebrity culture they have no real equivalent.
The essential discs
Skyscraper (1996)
Die Hard for loose change. The essential camp group-watch. Read the full review →
To the Limit (1995)
The companion piece — looser, stranger, somehow more watchable. Off the main catalogue but easy to find.
Collector's notes
Both films circulate on basic in-print DVDs and the occasional double-feature disc — a double-bill purchase is the honest way to do this. Approach as cultural history with a drink in hand, and these are two of the most purely entertaining discs on the site.
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