Always been strongly of the opinion that I'd rather watch a 2/10 film than a 5/10 film, since with a 5/10 film the semblance of ambition and holding itself together well enough is far more boring than a 2/10 film, which is often far more compelling in how alluringly shit it is. I love not being able to take my eyes of something because every new shot or line of dialogue is a new level of confusion, just absolutely not what you were expecting, exceeding your expectations of shitness because surely even as someone with no film making experience you feel you could have done at least one scene a bit better yourself.
With that in mind...
All the Neil Breen movies
I'm sure you know about these if you're reading this thread.
How has he not had more mentions here yet? I only became aware of him recently, and I watched "Twisted Pair" before Christmas and it was easily up there with "The Room" among the best worst films I've ever seen.
For context: At the start of his filmmaking career, Breen - who directs, writes and stars in all his films - was a Las Vegas estate agent (<Wayne Campbell voice>
"Excellent") and I'm told all his films somehow involve him as some sort of supernatural being with incredible powers. Breen as an actor however is a fucking wreck of a dude who's old beyond his years, shambling about like a drunk vampire who's just woken up on a park bench, and does not for a single second portray himself in any sort of brave, dramatic or heroic light. He's just a mess, it honestly feels like his brain is on another planet half the time.
"Twisted Pair" is the closest thing I've seen to an actual serious comparison piece to Tim Heidecker's "Decker" stuff. The same shocking editing and acting work across the board that you'll be accustomed to if you've seen stuff like "The Room" but in a modern day setting with fucking heaps of weird, cheap effects and CGI explosions. A sizeable chunk of the film is just Breen superimposed onto stock footage, including the phenomenal opening scene, where yer man haphazardly guides a load of soldiers through a derelict building (to safety, you'd presume, though we never see this) and then blows it up using his powers.
By and large, the film makes basically zero fucking sense whatsoever. There's an evil brother (also played by Breen wearing a black hoodie and a hilariously cheap adhesive beard) who used to (?) have the same crazy powers as his sibling but was cast out of the alliance or something and he's in some sort of weird abusive druggy relationship with a woman, and the main Breen is also in a relationship with another woman who at several points is also alluded to being his sister. Breen greets her at the start of the film by stalking her home, breaking into the house and initiating a sort of forceful rape scenario. There is absolutely no explanation given for any of this and up until the point where they start talking to each other and you realise they know each other, the viewer is led to believe, in the fucking opening scenes of the film, that Breen is just shuffling about trying to rape someone.
There's a lot more going on with evil aliens and shady deals and forces beyond human comprehension littering the plot in the most batshit sloppy fashion that I can't even be arsed t attempt describing it. Suffice to say, if you want something that fits this thread title perfectly, you cannot go wrong with this film. It is truly baffling at every single turn, the special effects are frequently hilarious and the acting, editing and entire plot all defy belief. It's fucking great.
