Are you a fan of films so bad they’re actually kind of good? There’s an event for that: the Worst Film Fest, now in its second year, celebrating the kind of “disasterpieces” that make audiences cringe and laugh at the same time.
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Technical ineptitude, wooden dialog, concepts that never should’ve made it beyond paper – it’s all celebrated at this quirky festival of clips and short films, taking place at a sound studio in downtown Oakland. “Did your budget run out? Did your actor get sick?” reads the fest’s pitch line. “Did your high concept fall flat?… Submit any project that highlights work gone wrong. All failures welcome.”
Last year’s entries included a pained version of “The Boss Baby” whose pint-sized protagonist dreams of fixing cars, a flick about an unsuccessful w