10 Movies People Initially Thought Were A Joke

Like Tommy Wiseau, Neil Breen is another amateur filmmaker whose art is so bad that people believed it was all a joke, but Breen is incredibly serious about his movies. His stardom started with his second movie, 2009's I Am Here…Now, where Breen started to grow an audience in the underground circuits. 2012's Fateful Findings ensured that Breen would be loved by film fans around the globe.

After its release, some of the clips of Fateful Findings ended up on YouTube labeled as ‘the worst movie ever made’. The acting, writing and direction were so bad that everybody thought it was a joke, that nobody can be this incompetent and it was just cinema mockery made to make you laugh. One scene in particular, the one where character ‘Jim’ is shot and killed, ended up on a fair amount of 'try not to laugh' challenges all over YouTube, but this helped Breen's popularity as people started looking for the clip's original source.

It wasn’t long before the full movie was tracked down and pushed into the public eye because of how strange, bizarre and uncomfortably funny it is. The thing that made it much better was the fact that Breen, like Wiseau, has no self-awareness. He believes that his sci-fi dramas are ‘legitimate, mainstream, full length feature films’ and ‘not midnight movies’ despite them being enjoyed as the latter.