Whenever film aficionados get collectively to debate nice movie administrators like Steven Spielberg, David Lean, François Truffaut, and Kathryn Bigelow, Neil Breen’s identify isn’t talked about. There is an efficient cause for this. The veteran filmmaker might have 5 full-length characteristic movies underneath his belt, however by way of the standard of his output, he is proper up there with Ed Wood and Tommy Wiseau.
In different phrases, Breen is a director of badfilms. If you are unfamiliar with the time period, you may certainly know the sort: a badfilm is a kind of responsible pleasures, an entire turkey that however positive factors an viewers as a result of it is “so bad it’s good.” As everybody is aware of because the success of Wiseau’s legendary drama The Room, such movies are watchable exactly as a result of they fail at doing what they intend to do.
It’s truthful to say that Breen’s movies have a fantastic deal in frequent. They are inclined to characteristic protagonists with uncommon or superhuman talents, and their mission in life is to proper wrongs, which in observe often interprets to bringing pesky governments and large firms to heel.
The most ludicrous of those, maybe, was his 2012 effort Fateful Findings. Shot on lower than a shoestring finances with unknown actors, the movie centered across the lifetime of Dylan, a novelist who discovers that he possesses psychic powers, and units out to reveal the corruption and immorality of presidency and large enterprise.