Most aspiring Hollywood directors have a clear-cut dream: packed premieres, adoring crowds, and the sort of feverish internet buzz among film nerds that a marketing budget simply cannot buy.

James Nguyen has achieved all that. But not quite in the way he expected. His horror film, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, is now being hailed as the worst film ever made. Indeed its sheer awfulness is at the core of its rapidly growing success.