'The Disaster Artist' Is 'The Room' Where It Happened
Director/star James Franco fondly — and hilariously — chronicles the making of the cult-movie fiasco The Room, evincing a deep understanding of the unhinged ambition at its core. (Go figure.)
Though Ed Wood's is commonly cited as the worst film ever made, he released a far more compelling failure three years before with , a semi-autobiographical melodrama about a cross-dresser, played by Wood under the pseudonym "Daniel Davis." has all the staggering ineptitude of — most memorably, Bela Lugosi's armchair commentator shouting "Pull the string!"— but it has the added benefit of being nakedly personal, a plea for tolerance from a man who has chosen to reveal a closely guarded secret on
