PARK CITY - Three screenings Tuesday. Three horrible movies. I feel like my trifecta of torturous films is complete.

If you think that the Sundance Film Festival is likely to show a better pedigree of films because of its focus on independent film, think again. This is what I caught in one day:

"Towelhead"
Alan Ball's ("American Beauty") is a repulsive, hateful film about the sexual awakenings of a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl while living with an abusive father and a pedophile for a neighbor (in a terrible turn for rising actor Aaron Eckhart).

It's hard to watch for all the wrong reasons, exploitive of the young 19-year-old actress Summer Bishil (pictured above with director Ball) who plays the teen girl, and it's a film populated with the most despicable caricatures.

Having said that, a colleague of mine loved it. Go figure.

"Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?"
More to the point, where in the world is the charming and funny irony from writer-director Morgan Spurlock, who directed the earlier and much better Sundance hit, "Super Size Me"?

In his new "documentary," Spurlock goes in search of bin Laden in the Middle East because he and his wife are having a baby and he wants to capture the terrorist to make the world a better place for his baby (and the $25 million reward would be nice too I'm sure).

What he comes up with is a deadly dull, two-hour travelogue of the Middle East with a history lesson that notes how bad things are in that region.

You don't say? For some reason, Spurlock fills our head with old news and statistics, well-worn lessons about war and violent conflict, and finally wraps it with straight-forward but preachy narration. Michael Moore already showed us this with a sharper eye for deadly satire and irony several years ago with "Fahrenheit 911."

This is a subject much too big for Spurlock to wrap his arms around. He should stick with more down-to-earth, humanistic subjects.

"Diary of the Dead"
To cap things off, there is nothing worse than being disappointed by a George A. Romero "Dead" film. And this is coming from one his biggest fans of the series that started with "Night of the Living Dead," "Dawn of the Dead," "Day of the Dead," and "Land of the Dead."

His new, smaller-budgeted entry takes the idea of "The Blair Witch Project" and the far better "Cloverfield" to tell the story of a new rising zombie saga through the lens of college students video taping the ordeal.

It's hardly scary, topped with unimaginitive and tepid gore (how can that be for a "Dead" movie!), and it just doesn't fit into the whole "Dead" mythology, which always has been a wonderful metaphor for social revolution.

Oh the horror!

The movie is scheduled to be released Feb. 15 in theaters. Here is the movie's trailer, which may or may not light up your loins.