10 Terrible Movies That Inspired Their Own Cult Followings

5. Birdemic: Shock And Terror

Most of the films on this list have taken on a new lease of life as unintentional comedies, bringing joy to their audiences where there previously wasn't any. Though Birdemic: Shock And Terror has enjoyed a similar success, there are some who find it hard to even make it through the trailer, let alone the whole movie. It's that bad. Inspired by both Hitchcock's The Birds and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, former software salesman James Nguyen's 2009 film is ostensibly a romantic drama for the first half of its running time, detailing the courting of a man and a woman. The second half sees them and the world attacked by acid-pooping, poorly-animated birds who explode when they hit the ground. The survivors of the birds' attacks attempt to fend them off with coat hangers and escape into the forest where they learn that the birds are only attacking cars and petrol stations. They're later inexplicably saved from a final attack by a flock of doves for some reason. Birdemic displays Room-like levels of implausible storytelling and unconnected plot points, and audiences love the film for it. The film managed to get shown in theatres across America and has been featured in periodicals and on websites as disparate as Bloody Disgusting and the Huffington Post, and even inspired a sequel, Birdemic II: The Resurrection. That film was also written and directed by Nguyen, who seems to have quite the career directing catastrophes in his future.