10 Most Beautiful-Looking Bad Movies Ever Made

7. Vinyan (2008)

There is a single long take in Vinyan that will take your breath away. The camera glides across a field towards a great ruin, goes over the top, inside, slowly lowers itself down through the dirt and the vines, and then changes direction to follow the film's two protagonists as they enter - all in one seamless move. And it appears to come out of nowhere, because it is beautiful and thought out in a way that much of Vinyan isn't.

That's not to discredit the cinematography inherent to Fabrice du Welz's mostly disappointing horror movie, which is plainly gorgeous to look at from the very start of the film to the very end: shot by Benoit Debie (famous as the cinematographer of Irreversible), every frame of Vinyan - which follows two distraught parents as they take a Heart Of Darkness-style trip into Burma in order to find their lost son after a tsunami - feels rich and deep and claustrophobic and sweaty; the jungles of Burma accurately rendered.

It's a shame that the film itself is a let down - a slow, uninteresting plod that feels like a wasted opportunity; far too ambiguous to be engaging. The only thing that Vinyan gets right is the look. For its visuals aspects alone, though, and the sense of primal feeling that Debie's cinematography provokes, it's worth spending 96 minutes with this picture.