From ‘The War of the Worlds’ to ‘The Room,’ What Makes a Movie So Bad It’s Good?

Everybody loves bad movies. Search your heart, you know this to be true. Audiences cannot help themselves when they see a hot, flaming piece of garbage making its way to movies or streaming services. It's like trying to look away from a car accident, or averting your gaze from a really disgusting bug. The worse, the better. We all simply must have it. But, just to make things clear, it isn't just any stinky old movie that fits these criteria. No, when we say people love bad movies, we mean a very specific kind of bad . It's a kind of trash that should be considered a genre of its own, that should have a separate section on streaming platforms, kind of like dramas and horror films . We're talking about a select group of movies that are usually known by the long-ish name of "so bad, t