10 Terrible Movies Everyone Goes Way Too Easy On

2. Birdemic: Shock And Terror

If The Human Centipede survived thanks to its central idea being so gruesome a sound appraisal was impossible to find, Birdemic flies under the radar of genuine appraisal thanks to a thin facade of self-awareness. The trailer that did the rounds a few years ago (and almost dethroned The Room as the so-bad-it's-good King) puts highlight on the knowingly bad bird special effects and hilarious pseudo-philosophy the characters spout. It must all a bit of fun, right?

Well, no. Not at all. More than any film on this list, Birdemic is helped by the fact that not many people have actually sat down and watched all 92 poorly conceived minutes of it. You see, in a move similar to big Hollywood productions, Birdemic the movie is totally different to Birdemic the trailer. The acting, writing, special effects and general filmmaking prowess are as crummy as expected, but the film wallows in this too much for its badness to be intentional.

Birdemic is a purposely cheap movie, but an accidentally terrible one; a cheap sub-Asylum enterprise intended to fill DVD store shelves and make back its minuscule budget, all done in some half-arsed earnest. But when distributor Severin Films (who we know are a savvy business after they brought the rights to 1978's The Inglorious Bastards in the wake of Tarantino's impending hit) realised just how bad things were, they produced that trailer in an attempt to make the terrible film appear all tongue-in-cheek. And, unfortunately, it worked.