Everything Is Terrible! The Movie(2009)

Journey with us to a mysterious realm

Everything Is Terrible! The Movie is a surreal experimental film assembled from thousands of hours of obscure VHS footage. The creators spent years excavating thrift stores, video rental shops, and abandoned locations across America to source bizarre clips—commercials, instructional videos, forgotten TV segments, and home recordings. These fragments are cut together into a kaleidoscopic, non-linear narrative that defies conventional storytelling. The result is a mind-bending collage that moves between absurdist comedy, unsettling imagery, and moments of strange beauty. Rather than following a plot, the film creates an immersive journey through the weird margins of American media culture. It's a love letter to forgotten video ephemera and a critique of mass media, filtered through a distinctly surreal and darkly humorous lens.