10 Great Films From Bad Directors

Could it really have been anyone else? Tommy Wiseau’s unhinged melodrama is commonly cited as the Citizen Kane of bad movies. So utterly detached from reality is Wiseau’s vision it regularly feels like a work cobbled together from an AI forced to watch 10,000 hours of hallmark romance films.

Serving as the film’s writer, director, producer and lead actor, Tommy himself seems to be a singularly gifted filmmaker in the area of bad movies. Plotlines appear then vanish into thin air, the camera work sometimes looks out of focus, the script is littered with non-sequiturs and everyone’s line delivery feels like it was beamed directly out of the actors’ mouths by an alien force.

And yet truly The Room is a great film. It’s great for all the wrong reasons but great nonetheless; enchanting viewers the world over and often selling out cinemas re-screening the film. The Room has captured hearts all over the world based purely on its demented execution, plastic spoons and all. There is absolutely no doubt that no one but Tommy Wiseau could have made a film this entertaining, intentionally or unintentionally.