Bad Directors and Films

Tommy Wiseau is one of the most famous current "Bad Movie" directors, his film The Room (2003) becoming an online hit. Originally his film made $1900 over a 2 week theatrical release, however after its resurgence in popularity made $7,840,034 by the end of a 2017, 14 years after its initial run. In 2017 a film titles The Disaster Artists was made about the Rooms production and was directed by James Franco. it went on to make $29.8 million USD at the box office.

Roger Corman is known as the "Pope of Pop Cinema, and has worked on a total of 395 different movies. He is well known for giving a lot of big hollywood stars a shot, which lead to their later success, including the likes of Martin Scorsese and James Cameron. His films include the likes of titles such as Dinoshark and Sharktopus, as well as more well known titles like Little Shop of horrors (1960) and Death Race 2000 (1975)

Ed Wood Jr Was one of the first widely renowned "Bad" directors, even known and remebered affectionately with the title "The Worlds Worst Director". He was born on the 10th of october, 1924, and died on the 10th of November in 1978. Similar to Wiseau, he also wrote, produced directed in his own films, as well as appearing in some roles and cameos, however was known to be bad at all of these things. Some of his most well known worst films include Bride of the Monster, and Plan 9 from outer space. 

Russ Meyer Started his film career as a United States Army combat camera man during the Second World War. following the end of the war he moved on to glamour photography, dpoing works for the likes of PlayBoy Magazine. his film debut was a Nudist Comedy titled The Immoral Mr  Teas, which found financial success and served as a benchmark for his style of films. Many of his projects featured Campy sexploitation, his well known films including Faster, Pussycat!Kill! Kill! in 1965, pushing the boundaries for its time, as well as Vixen! in 1968 and Beyond the Valley of The Dolls in 1970

Lloyd Kaufman is well renowned for comedic bad gilms, he started his career making controversial and shocking films, his first one a 15 minute film of a pig being butchered during a summer trip overseas in Africa. In the 70s he decided to start a film studio with his friends Frank Vitale and Oliver Stone, called 15th street films. They would go on to make many commercially successful films such as Squeeze Play (1979 and Bloodsucking Freaks (1976). Theyre most well known film is The Toxic Avenger, released in 1984



Recently I watched the film Little Italy (2018) with a friend, as we heard it was an incredibly bad movie. it starred Emma Roberts and Hayden Christen Anderson. it was filled with bad writing, an uncomfortable amount of innuendos, poorly ripped off internet trends and memes and an incredibly cliche and predictable storyline. Despite this it was incredibly entertaining to see just how awful it would get at parts, and I feel part of the appeal of watching terrible movies is watching it with other people.

I also watched Cats (2019), however I found it was boring as well as incredibly hard to watch, but that may be because I don't know anything about cats the musical, so the premise didn't really appeal to me. It was just a bad film all around, and I don't think I could bring myself to watch it again. 

I feel like exploitation films and shock films will progressively be harder and harder to make. I think a lot of them in the past have worked because of people being ignorant or uninformed about a group of people or conditions. I feel the general public now is much more informed about social issues, so exploitive films often come across in poor taste looking back in hindsight. The internet I feel has also played a big part in this, as in the past the voices and the people who fell into the subject matter being exploited now have a platform to voice their concerns and strugles, and have the power to bring information to the public.