A recent study by the journal Poetics has found a link between a love for bad films and high intelligence.
Now, I could have told you this. I love bad films and I think really good and talk smart.
So to celebrate, here's a list of five of my favourite best worst films of all time.
Now I wasn't going to do one of these lists without including a film by Ed Wood
who is pretty much the godfather of terrible cinema. Despite having little in
the way of budget, or talent for that matter, Ed Wood set out to make a science-fiction
epic about aliens trying to raise the dead to... save the world for... reasons.
It's filled with terrible acting and shoddy sets, but perhaps the most interesting choice is
Ed Wood's decision to include his friend, Bela Lugosi - who by this point was dead.
They achieved this by using footage of the late actor that had nothing to do with the film they were making,
and in any in-between scenes they used a body double who simply hid his face... like this.
Number 4: Manos The Hands of Fate
This low-budget horror from the 1960s follows a family on holiday who
fall into the trap of a Pagan cult, guided by weird and possibly drunk goat-man Torgo.
Now for the longest time only low-quality copies of the film existed, but back in 2011
some guy managed to find the original masters of the film, and that poor unfortunate soul spent his time
painstakingly remastering the film for blu-ray. So whoever said "you can't polish a turd" was wrong.
Number 3 'Show Girls'
Now Paul Verhoeven's a good director. He's made some quality films: Robocop, Total Recall,
Starship Troopers. But somewhere along the line, he somehow made this.
Starring Saved By The Bell's Elizabeth Berkley as the over-dramatic Nomi
The film answers the question no body was asking: What if 'All About Eve' had a lot more lap-dancing and tits?
There's an unforgettable sex scene that I can't show you for obvious reasons,
but let's just say it'll ruin swimming pools and champagne for you for life.
So the best I can do is just show you some of my favourite lines of dialogue from the film.
At the film's premiere, Kyle Maclachlan, who sports one of cinema's most unfortunate
haircuts, was famously overheard shouting "I thought this was an art film!" as he stormed out.
Number 2 'Troll 2'
Now I know what you're thinking: 'Chris, I've not seen the first Troll film!'
Don't worry, it's got nothing to do with the first Troll film. It's got
nothing to do with trolls! It's about goblins! It follows a family who moves to a new town
called Nilbog before they realise that... wait a minute! Nilbog is Troll backwards!
Naturally the town is inhabited by goblins disguised as humans who are planning on eating them.
The goblin queen Creedence Leonore Gielgud shows just what happens to your teeth when
you chew that much scenery. "This is my house!"
But the best performance in the film is this one line: "They're eating her. And then they're going to eat me."
"Oh my goooood!"
And number 1, 'The Room'.
The Room is the passion project of Tommy Wiseau, a mysterious man who wrote, directed and starred in the film.
Most of the films on this list are a product of a misunderstanding of how films work. This is a misunderstanding of how people work.
Character motivations change at will. A character brings up that they have cancer - only for it to never be brought up again.
There's four unbearable sex scenes in the film. Dialogue is badly dubbed over.
James Franco is making a film about the making of The Room, which has a cast list that is downright impressive.
But before that comes out, do yourself a favour. Check out 'The Room'.
It really is the best worst film of all time.