For fans, the most infamous bad movie released in the past couple decades is The Room — an odd, convoluted approximation of a tragic love story written, directed by, and starring Tommy Wiseau. A mysterious figure with seemingly no prior history, Wiseau supposedly funded the $6 million film out of his own pocket. For years, it received no almost attention. But word-of-mouth spread and The Room grew into a bizarro cult hit. Today, it frequently shows in independent movie theatres across the country; viewers arrive with props a la The Rocky Horror Picture Show to mock the film’s inconsistencies, to toy with its torn narrative threads, and to generally enjoy its visceral weirdness in the company of an (often drunken) public.
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