Watch Tommy 'The Room' Wiseau's new short horror film

Tommy Wiseau has made a 12-minute short horror film, and believe me when I say it's every bit as professional, well-acted and enthralling as The Room.

I was late to jump on The Room bandwagon: I'm usually dubious about movies dubbed "so bad they're good" as I have to review several terrible DVDs a month (currently top of the pile, Lake Placid 3). However, in The Room's case, is really is so gloriously terrible, it goes all the way around the quality spectrum and settles on 'absolute work of accidental genius'. If you haven't yet seen it, do track it down, you won't regret it.

Part of the reason for the movie's 'success' was down to writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau (he's a triple threat!); a bizarre approximation of a human being, with the vocal delivery of a six-year old child who's been huffing paint fumes all morning and an accent that sounds like somebody hacked into his voice box and set his vowels to 'random'. Also, he looks like how I imagine Cher would look without the surgery.

Wiseau disappeared after The Room was subjected to ridicule, but he's returned to direct and star in a short film for Atom.com called The House That Dripped Blood On Alex. Like The Room, it's hilariously amateurish and I'm still not convinced Wiseau doesn't know exactly what he's doing. It's a bit like a Funny Or Die video, but without the self-awareness or celebrities.

Anyway, it's predictably awful but still undoubtedly worth 12 minutes of your time. The story begins "almost more than 19 days ago" and features the exact same qualities that made The Room so brilliant: sparse, empty sets, laughable plot twists, sub-Lake Placid 3 acting and atrocious dialogue that can only have come from the pen of Wiseau himself. At one point, a character says "Cowabunga dude!" without an ounce of irony.

In short, it's totally ace and your day won't be complete until you watch it. Just angling for a poster quote, there.