10 Terrible Films By Game Of Thrones Directors

Director: Daniel Sackheim

Daniel Sackheim was involved in a string of feature-length projects in the late 1990s, helming four movies between '94 and '96 and working as a producer on The X-Files in '98 (a show on which Sackheim had worked as a director prior to life on Game Of Thrones).

Last season Sackheim directed both episodes three (Oathbreaker, which featured the first Tower Of Joy flashback) and four (Book of the Stranger, in which a captured Daenerys burns the remaining khals to death at Vaes Dothrak). Both episodes were well received, though the same cannot be said of the director's 2001 mystery drama The Glass House.

The film follows a problematic teen named Ruby (an incredibly hammy Leelee Sobieski), a girl who takes her parents for granted until they tragically meet their end in a car accident. Ruby and her brother then come under the guardianship of their seemingly perfect neighbours the Glasses, and it becomes obvious pretty quickly (too quickly, in fact) that they are not what they seem.

The film opens with a cheap-trick sequence as the protagonist and her friends turn out to be watching a movie-within-a-movie, and ten minutes in you are willing them to put that film back on. It soon becomes painfully obvious where things are heading, with a plot so thin and contrived that you can't help but wonder if the screenplay was scribbled on a napkin during Wesley Strick's lunch break.