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The worst director ever? Warhol was way worse than Wiseau
It’s ok, most of his egotistical sycophants are dead
What makes a bad movie? Is it bad cinematography, with the cuts, framing, and angles lazily shoved together? Is it poor mis en scene, with cheap wobbling walls and bad costuming? Is it a bafflingly rushed and poorly written screenplay and narrative? Is it clunky and amusingly nonsensical dialogue? Is it alarmingly bad acting that leaves your mouth open in bemusement? Is it miscasting that leaves your jaw on the floor? Or is it all of the above? In perhaps the most astonishing version of The Emperor’s New Clothes ever, the greatest laughably awful auteur is not Ed Wood or Tommy Wiseau, it is a man lauded over by the smug, self-absorbed and supercilious across the world: Andy Warhol.
Join me as I unpack the worst films ever made, from the most celebrated worst director. I’ll include links if you want to cringe horribly without my analysis. But let me assure you: his work makes The Room look like Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
A cast of vain, talentless, narcissistic sycophants
Do you remember, as a kid, making a movie with your friends? We did: we’d put on our tackiest princess dresses and mother’s sunglasses and make a contrived, cringeworthy film on the…
