Best Worst Movie

I love documentaries about bad movies. It’s fascinating to me to see the why and the how behind movies that have gone terribly, inexplicably wrong. Best Worst Movie is about Troll 2, considered to be one of the worst movies in cinematic history that has undergone a re-appraisal as a camp cult classic. The idea of a movie being terrible and yet entertaining because of it is a fascinating idea. There’s a bizarre psychology behind that. Unfortunately, this movie couldn’t care less about that. It’s far more interested in reveling in — and practically masturbating over — the movie’s camp status. There’s a ton of fawning and gushing from fans that becomes downright obnoxious, as if this is the only movie to ever be viewed this way. Yes, it’s fans love it, but WHY. They can’t all be ironic hipsters. What is it about this terrible movie that people enjoy? And while it sort of touched on the lives of the cast and crew since, it’s mostly focused on one or two people, so what little of post-T2 info you get is relegated to info cards in the credits. What’s here isn’t poorly made, it’s just never explored beyond the surface depth of “this movie is terrible, isn’t that cool?”. It would be nice to explore WHY.