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Ask most people what the "worst movie ever made" was and the likely answer would be Plan 9 From Outer Space. But a serious contender for that title has to be the never released Jerry Lewis film The Day the Clown Cried (VIA growabrain). It tells the story of a circus clown who is sent to a Nazi concentration camp during WWII. In the camp, he befriends the children and then leads a Pied Piper like procession to the gas chambers! How could this possibly go wrong?

HARRY SHEARER:

"With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presense of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. Oh My God! - thats all you can say. "