The phrase "awful direction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe guidance or advice that is poor or misleading.
Example: "The project failed because we were given awful direction from the management team."
Alternatives: "terrible guidance" or "poor direction".
Poor John Hannah - a decent actor who deserves better - is given some awful lines and awful direction, playing their rackety pal Jonathan, running a club in Shanghai.
After two seasons of absolutely awful direction, AMC's hit zombie drama is back to form.
I definitely looked at Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives as tonal (inspirations) for Get Out, especially because as those movies are developing we reveal more and more about this sort of awful direction it's heading.
Michelle Churma, wearing a pin on her shirt with an image of a machine gun and the phrase "Plead the Second" — a reference to the 2nd Amendment — said she feared the country would go "in an awful direction" if Clinton is elected.
Some of the things I thought awful (dire direction; the choices of textual cuts, and rewriting Shakespeare's language) will perforce remain.
The execution of such a premise can go in many awful directions.
("Awful," né awe-full, went in an analogous direction but died in a different way).
Hercules (The Rock was good as Herc. Bret Ratner's direction was awful).
In this interview, the actor Ralph Bellamy — whose name was used a gag in one of his movies (Hawks's "His Girl Friday," here at 50 35) — explains how Leo McCarey, who won an Oscar for his direction of "The Awful Truth" (also starring Cary Grant), went about the business of eluding the dictates of a script: he simply didn't have one.
Then it drags us down to the valley of despair: I am awful and horrible and really, really bad at directions!
In the meantime, the kids are taking an awful lot of crap from an awful lot of directions for an awful lot of reasons at the moment, and yet they keep tweeting away, keep winning gold medals, smashing world records, headlining rock concerts, and becoming violin virtuosos, so the great demi-plié downturn might not be their or their iPad's fault.
