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Larry Buchanan!

Posted by Rob Doorack on May 4, 2007 at 06:46:39:
Buchanan may have been the least talented director in history; his work makes Ed Wood look like Kurosawa. As his obituary in the New York Times put it:

One quality united Mr. Buchanan's diverse output: It was not so much that his films were bad; they were deeply, dazzlingly, unrepentantly bad. His work called to mind a famous line from H.L. Mencken, who, describing President Harding's prose, said, "It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it."

I'm completely in awe of this guy's work. He's probably best known for Mars Needs Women although I like his completely awful Zontar, Thing from Venus better. I've seen a half - dozen of the movies that this auteur made and in all that footage there isn't one single frame that's competently composed, not one second of even passable acting or writing. If you tried to make an intentionally bad movie you couldn't succeed as well as Buchanan did in every unwatchable effort. A monkey given an Arriflex would eventually accidentally shoot a decent scene but even such random competence is completely absent from the Buchanan filmography.