The Room

Film enthusiasts in Southern Oregon will finally be able to find out why crowds at midnight screenings in L.A. are rolling around and crying with laughter.

A few years back, actor, writer, producer, director Tommy Wiseau spent $7 million on a romantic mess of an adult drama entitled The Room. It made $2,000 during its initial theatrical run. It is, without question, the worst film ever made. Including movies made on beta max video cameras in special education high school classes. But this comment is in no way meant to be discouraging. Because while The Room is the worst movie ever made it is also the greatest way to spend a blisteringly fast 100 minutes in the dark.

Simply put, The Room will change your life. It's not just the dreadful acting or inept screenplay or the bewildering direction or the musical score so soaked in melodrama that you will throw up on yourself; no, there is something so magically wrong with this movie that it can only be the product of divine intervention.

Tommy Wiseau has been described as a Cajun, a Croatian cyborg, possibly from Belgium, clearly a product of Denmark, or maybe even not from this world or dimension. All of these things are true at any one moment. He is a tantalizing mystery stuffed inside an enigma wrapped in bacon and smothered in cheese. You will fall in love with this man even as you are repelled by him from the first moment he steps onto screen with his long Louis the Fourteenth style black locks and thick triangular shoulders packed into an oddly fitting suit, and his metallic steroid destroyed skin. Tommy looks out of place, out of time and out of this world. There has never been anything else like him. Nor will there ever be.

As a special treat, a hilarious interview with the filmmaker will precede the feature.

Film archivist Steven Mayerson will present some festive shorts before the feature.

Also stay tuned the seventh chapter of the serial, Tiger Woman from 1944. Evil oil speculators in South America attempt to drive away an exotic native tribe and their hot queen, the Tiger Woman…but she’s a white woman and might be the lost heiress to a vast fortune! Actually The Tiger Woman wore a leopard-spotted outfit because the studio couldn't find any tiger patterned fabric! It’s a howler!

Members should bring some Thanksgivings leftovers for the potluck dinner before the feature. Some bottom feeders just come for the great food! It sure beats dumpster diving! Vomit bags will be available for those with weak stomachs. A registered nurse will be in attendance in case anyone should need assistance.