Mathias Clasen
Mathias Clasen is associate professor in literature and media at Aarhus University. His research focuses on horror media from a cognitive-evolutionary perspective (e.g., Why Horror Seduces, OUP 2017).
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“So-Bad-It’s-Good”: The Room and the Paradoxical Appeal of Bad Films
IN ENGLISH. What makes some bad films “so-bad-they’re-good”? In our latest article, Marc Hye-Knudsen and Mathias Clasen shed light on the paradoxical appeal of bad films by bringing contemporary humor research and cognitive film theory to bear on Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic The Room, often heralded as “the best worst movie ever made.”