10 Best Bad Movies Since 2000

Viewed with an enthusiastic audience, The Room is some kind of classic, a jaw-on-the-floor experience whose mindboggling awfulness is attributable to writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau, the only thespian ever to bring down the house with the line “Hi, Mark.”

Looking like a genetic experiment that sampled DNA from Willem Dafoe and a lizard, Wiseau has all the charm and grace of a street-corner drug dealer. When not delivering soap opera dialogue in his impenetrable East European accent, he’s constantly chuckling apropos of nothing, even while listening to a story about domestic abuse. And he’s the romantic lead in The Room, a vanity project Wiseau financed himself to the tune of $6 million

It’s basically Wiseau’s love letter to himself, with characters constantly remarking how wonderful he is (even the florist says, “You’re my favourite customer.”) Cast and crew were constantly quitting or being fired, so characters are introduced only to disappear moments later, leaving gaping holes in the narrative.

In one scene, a character responds to her mother’s cancer diagnosis by telling her that “they’re curing people every day” and the topic is never broached again. Strange doesn’t begin to cover it.