Everyone knows watching a truly awful movie is a lot more fun than a pretty good one, especially if you've recently been smoking your K2.

So when the Tribeca Film Festival and American Express held a "My Movie Pitch" competition asking aspiring filmmakers to submit a one-minute movie pitch, we went in search of the worst of the worst -- ideas that transcended simply being bad and attained a new level of terribleness.

The winner of the contest gets financing for his or her project, and the opportunity to talcum powder Jim Jarmusch's balls, or something like that. So far, voter turnout has been pretty abysmal so the contest is still anyone's to win.

Now, in the tradition of Votefortheworst.com, we're asking that you pick one of these pitches for us to champion in the hope of forcing the folks at Tribeca to put its funds behind a gem like "Gesundheit" (about a world where sneezing can kill you) or "Stuff Blow Up" (what more do you need to know?).

Keep reading to see the pitches and then vote. When the votes are in, we'll launch an Internet campaign to help your favorite terrible movie idea win the whole shebang.

Which of these awful movies do you want Tribeca to bankroll?
"Gesundheit"414 (28.0%)
The Stevie Starr documentary97 (6.6%)
Esau's movie77 (5.2%)
"The Waterhands"198 (13.4%)
"Stuff Blow Up"261 (17.7%)
"The Awesome Adventures of Mr. Stache"331 (22.4%)
"Contractor Hell"98 (6.6%)


We guess "Gesundheit" couldn't be any worse than "One Missed Call."




This guy's expression at 0:12 will haunt our dreams for years.



This swarthy fellow should probably have considered investing a little more time in developing his story and less in finding tropical locales to shoot his pitch in.



This guy talks about coming up with "The Waterhands" with his sister "in the summer of '93," meaning he must have been at least in his mid-30s when he came up with this winner.

(Note: the video was removed from YouTube after this article was published)


This dapper young chap should forget the art house snobs at Tribeca; you're meant for Hollywood, babe. Pitch this out in La La Land and you'll have Michael Bay and Brett Ratner in a bidding war.



We have a feeling that this auteur is totally just f**king with the contest. But we like to pretend that he's serious, because it makes it that much funnier.



This one is a slow-burner, but totally worth the time investment. If you watch closely you can see the cat blinking out "HELP" in Morse code.



P.S. If you're one of these filmmakers, please don't hunt us down and kill us. We've had worse ideas, we promise. The only difference is we were smart enough not to put them on YouTube.