so bad it’s good
For this Staff Inquiry, the Film Inquiry team lists their favorite guilty pleasures; films that aren’t great (or even terrible) can be oh so enjoyable.
Camp films are delightful, and demonstrate the range of ways in which a movie can leave a noteworthy impact on an audience. But what exactly is camp?
With the premiere of The Disaster Artist, we examine why films like The Room still have such an enduring status despite being labelled “trash film.”
Sure, it’s a terrible film, yet Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 has elements to make it an entertaining cult classic in the making.
If we can accept aesthetic subversion as a form of commentary or aesthetic, why do we still consider trash films as some sort of failures?
It’s become the norm to watch bad movies to make fun of bad movies, but why don’t watch them just because they’re a ton of fun?
The films that are so bad they’re good are the epitome in ironic movie-watching: intentionally watching terrible films in order to laugh at their technical failures, providing more humour than most comedies nowadays.