10 Terrible Films By Game Of Thrones Directors

Director: Alan Taylor

Despite having helmed huge feature films such as Marvel's Thor: The Dark World (2013), Alan Taylor is still better known for his work as a television director. He has plied his trade behind the camera on a number of biggest shows in recent TV history including Lost, The West Wing, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Man Men and, of course, Game of Thrones.

The Brooklyn-born director was behind two Season 1 and four Season 2 episodes, and while it seems like a lifetime ago in Westeros, there's no avoiding that Taylor's work on episodes nine and ten of Season 1 has defined the series - Baelor, in which Ned tragically lost his head, and Fire and Blood, in which Daenerys' dragons are born in the flames of Drogo's funeral pyre.

There was nothing memorable about Taylor's Kill The Poor, unfortunately, as his adaptation of Joel Rose's novel ended up coming across as barely preferable to beheading. It takes place in pre-gentrification Manhattan and focuses on the residents of an Alphabet City apartment building, whom have to come together to determine which of them tried to burn the place down.

Kill The Poor is nowhere near as provocative as the title suggests, setting itself up as more of a character study. The problem is, these characters - a flamboyant gay man named Delilah, a presumptuous graduate student named Butch, the tenement's resident floozy Scarlet - have all been studied before, and in most cases to much greater effect. The 25% rating this film received on Rotten Tomatoes is actually flattering.