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If you were built like a starfish, you could plop your stomach on your dinner plate and digest your mom's ickiest casserole without ever having to taste it!

Also among the Lazzie dishonours are Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem (Ickiest Onscreen Chemistry), Eva Mendes (The Setting Us Back Award for Negative Stereotyping in a Movie) and Victor Rasuk, whose Spanish speaking skills in Che earned him the 'No Espeak Espanish' award.

Ickiest stuff involves places where sewage can be waist-deep, take unidentifiable forms (if you want to know what a gelatinous "snotscile" is, here's your chance), and create toxic gasses.

Add them together, and you've got what may be the ickiest news story of the year.

The story of a sexually transmitted parasite infecting, in the ickiest manner imaginable, a nondescript singles apartment complex, Shivers, in all its B-grade hilt-for glory, is a prescient and unsettling tale of nature and nurture gone awry.