Talk:List of films considered the worst/Removed films

The below movies were removed from the list of films considered the worst for one or more of the following reasons: lacking in citations, popular and/or successful movies removed (financially and/or critically, thus negating most bad reviews/scores that would otherwise make them list-worthy) and some directors and (to a lesser extent) actors being widely reviled or mocked for their output.

Films re-added to the list

The following films were once removed from the list but have since been re-added once proper sourcing was produced:

• Bat Pussy (unknown, possibly 1973): A loose spoof of the 1966 Batman television series cited as one of the earliest examples of a pornographic parody film, the presumably-1970s pornographic film Bat Pussy has been described as the worst pornographic film ever made due to "some incredibly unarousing sex and a general attitude of awfulness". Possessing no credits or copyright information, there is no known record of Bat Pussy's existence prior to the mid-1990s, when it was discovered in the storeroom of an adult movie theater in Memphis, Tennessee, and subsequently released on home video by exploitation film distributor Something Weird Video. Gawker Media's io9 proclaimed the film to be "the absolute nadir of pornography, period. Not just Batman-themed pornography. ALL pornography", deriding its "obese redneck" cast as rendering the film "wank-proof". PornParody.com, a website dedicated to pornographic parody films, acknowledged its status as "the worst adult movie of all time", describing Bat Pussy as "renowned for its technical ineptness and anti-eroticism" due to its "physically unappealing" actors. AV Maniacs contested Bat Pussy's categorization as pornography on the grounds of the lead actor's visible impotence and instead labeled the film "anti-porn", asking "How else do you categorize an adult film that completely and utterly fails to elicit even the minutest amount of arousal in its viewers?" The book The Many More Lives of Batman by William Uricchio and Will Brooker also labeled Bat Pussy "the worst porn film ever made", criticizing its poor adaptation of the source material, while Tim Lewis, the general manager of Something Weird Video, selected Bat Pussy as the one film "so nuts it has to be seen to be believed" out of the company's entire catalog, saying it was "only for the truly jaded adult film viewer".

• Merely called the worst porn film of all time, but never referred to as the worst or even one of the worst films of all time. benǝʇᴉɯ 17:47, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

• Bio-Dome (1996): A Jason Bloom stoner comedy starring Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin, the film revolves around two clumsy, dim-witted slackers on a road trip, who look for a toilet stop in what they believe is a shopping mall, which in fact turns out to be a bio-dome, a form of a closed ecological system in which five scientists are hermetically sealed for a year. It was universally panned by critics for its poor acting, unfunny gags and overabundance of references to substance abuse, sexual innuendos, and toilet humor. It has a 5% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also has a score of 1 out of 100 on Metacritic, the worst reviewed film on their site (tied with The Singing Forest, Chaos and InAPPropriate Comedy). Kim Williamson of Boxoffice Magazine stated that Jason Bloom's "inexperience shows" as Bio-Dome was his directorial debut. Ryan Cracknell of Apollo Guide said that Bio-Dome "could possibly be the worst Hollywood movie I've ever seen". At the 1996 Golden Raspberry Awards, Pauly Shore co-won a Razzie Award for Worst Actor for his work in the film, tied with Tom Arnold for that actor's performances in Big Bully, Carpool and The Stupids. The New York Times investigative reporting series, Retro Report, later cited the film and its negative perception as part of a general piece on the negative public perception of the real Biosphere 2 project.

A close one, but worst Hollywood film isn't enough, we need a source calling it the worst in all of cinema. LM2000 (talk) 19:15, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

• Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011): Critically panned and a box office bomb. It holds a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 9/100 on Metacritic meaning “overwhelming dislike”, it was nominated for 6 Golden Raspberry Awards, and it managed to earn just $2.5 million from a budget of less than $10 million. It was only in the theatres for 2 weeks before being pulled.
  • Extremely bad but maybe not the worst, mostly because it was overshadowed by Jack and Jill (2011 film) that same year, which won a record 10 Golden Raspberry Awards. -- 109.77.208.104 (talk) 19:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
• Daniel – Der Zauberer (2004): A low-budget film from Germany, starring singer Daniel Küblböck as himself. Küblböck was voted Germany's Most Irritating Personality in 2003, causing the film to be predictably unsuccessful. The title isn't even accurate, as it implies that Küblböck is "Der Zauberer" ("The Sorcerer"), who is actually a different character (played by Ulli Lommel, the writer/director of the film). Went straight to #1 on the IMDb Bottom 100, and remained there for most of 2004.
• Foodfight! (2012): Foodfight! is a 2012 American computer animated adventure comedy film produced by Threshold Entertainment and directed by Larry Kasanoff. The film features the voices of Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Hilary Duff, and Eva Longoria. Originally planned for a Christmas 2003 release, the film was pushed to late 2005. The Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and International Film Guarantors were set to auction off the film and all associated rights in September 2011, to settle C47 Productions and Threshold Animation Studios defaulted loan for the film. Indiewire called Foodfight! " one of the worst animated films ever made." Also, Nathan Rabin covered this movie for his "My Year of Flops" series, criticizing it for " The grotesque ugliness of the animation alone would be a deal-breaker even if the film weren’t also glaringly inappropriate in its sexuality, nightmare-inducing in its animation, and filled with Nazi overtones and iconography even more egregiously unfit for children than the script’s wall-to-wall gauntlet of crude double entendres and weird intimations of interspecies sex"...and saying "Foodfight"! doesn't just represent one of the entertainment world's most appalling lapses of taste, restraint, and judgment in recent memory; it's one of those fall-of-civilization moments."

Most of the criticism for this film comes from Youtube critics, who are not WP:reliable. So far no reliable sources have been provided which call this the worst film ever made, therefore it isn't suitable for the list. LM2000 (talk) 16:35, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

I suppose there might not be the necessary "broad spectrum" of critics saying it, but is the problem with the IndieWire source just that it calls it "one of the worst animated films ever made" as opposed to "one of the worst films ever made" in general? Just curious since IndieWire is considered a reliable source. Alphius (talk) 23:50, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

• The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987): The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is a live-action adaptation of the then-popular trading card series of the same name, itself a gross-out parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls co-created by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman. The film is often criticized for its gross-out humor, nonsensical plot, poor explanations, bad acting, and the unsettling appearance of the Garbage Pail Kids. It has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 1, making it tied for the lowest scoring film on the site. Caryn James of The New York Times said the movie is "too repulsive for children or adults of any age" and is "enough to make you believe in strict and faraway boarding schools". Carlos Coto of the Sun-Sentinel called it "one of the worst ever made". Much of its content is said to be inappropriate for children, its intended audience. Throughout the movie, the Garbage Pail Kids steal, get in fights, bite toes off people, flatulate in people's faces, threaten others with switchblades, urinate upon themselves, and run over cars. In addition to scatological behavior, the movie has several scenes that feature sexual images, violence, and drinking. Offended parents launched a nationwide protest of the movie that successfully resulted in the movie being withdrawn from circulation. The shortened release contributed to the movie's poor gross of only $1,576,615. It was nominated for three Razzies at the 8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Visual Effects, Worst New Star for the Garbage Pail Kids collectively, and Worst Original Song.

• Only called one of the worst once. benǝʇᴉɯ 17:17, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

• Glitter (2002): Glitter is a musician film that was intended to be Mariah Carey's acting debut and was directed by Vondie Curtis Hall. The film starred Carey, Max Beesley, Terrence Howard, Da Brat, Tia Texada, Eric Benét, and Ann Magnuson. In the film Carey stars as a young musician named Billie Frank who begins dating a disc jockey who helps her get into the music business, but their relationship become complicated as she ascends to super stardom. Glitter was a box office bomb ($5 million against a $22 million budget) and a critical failure garnering a mere 7% on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus stating "Glitter is a hodgepodge of movie cliches and bad acting that's sure to generate unintentional laughs. Unfortunately, the movie is not bad enough to be good". Mariah Carey has since stated that she regrets appearing in the film. At the 22nd Golden Raspberry Awards, the film received six nominations including Worst Picture and Worst Screen Couple for Carey's cleavage, and one win, for Carey who received the Razzie for Worst Actress. The Village Voice proclaimed, "For her part, Carey seems most concerned about keeping her lips tightly sealed like a kid with braces, and when she tries for an emotion—any emotion—she looks as if she's lost her car keys." "Total Film" magazine reviewed the film extremely negatively, awarding it just one star and stating, "It can't even scale heights of campy awfulness. This isn't so bad it's good, it's so bad it's actionable...An inept star vehicle that starts out desperately tedious and gets less interesting. Leaves you wishing the Lumiére brothers had said bollocks to cinema and gone down the pub". The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.

This film has been added too many times without any sources calling this movie the worst of all time. We need reliable sources before re-adding this film to the main page. FN071299 (talk) 17:48, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

• The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964): Billed as "the first monster musical ever made", the movie was made by and also starred Ray Dennis Steckler (a.k.a. Cash Flagg), who made the film on a budget of $38,000. Named the worst movie ever made on a 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. Also appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
  • GET YOUR TICKETS HERE Espngeek (talk) 22:50, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
• Loqueesha (2019) - The 2019 American independent comedy Loqueesha, written, directed by and starring comedian Jeremy Saville, was deemed the worst film ever made in a review in The Guardian. In addition to the problematic premise of a white man becoming a nationally syndicated radio host by impersonating a nonexistent black woman, the quality of the cinematography, audio editing, casting and special effects were considered very poor. Entertainment.ie called it "the worst movie of this decade". Cracked called it "Probably The Worst Movie of 2019". It currently has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 5 reviews.
  • Only The Guardian calls this the worst movie of all time, not a wide variety of sources.LM2000 (talk) 17:10, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
• Nukie (1987): Nukie is a 1987 South African film directed by Sias Odendaal (credited as Sias Odendal) and Michael Pakleppa, and starring Steve Railsback, Ronald France, and Glynis Johns. The plot concerns an alien, Nukie, who crash lands on Earth and seeks help from two children to reunite with his brother, Miko, who has been captured by the U.S. government. The film was heavily inspired by Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Simon Abrams of Politico wrote that Nukie was worse than 1988 E.T. knock-off, Mac and Me, writing that it is "probably the most incompetent E.T. ripoff of any time period ... While Mac and Me was just rotten and ill-conceived, Nukie is uniquely perplexing". Critic Brad Jones has said that Nukie is the worst film he has ever reviewed. Total Film named Nukie the worst kids movie ever made. They also named it one of the worst science-fiction films ever made.

• Only called one of the worst films ever reviewed by a single critic and one of the worst kids' movies. benǝʇᴉɯ 17:11, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

• Since re-added with more "worst" sourcing.LM2000 (talk) 02:59, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

• Saving Christmas (2014): Directed, produced and co-written by Darren Doane and starring Kirk Cameron, this faith-based Christmas comedy follows Kirk who's brother-in-law Christian (played by Doane) doesn't buy into the idea of the commercialism of Christmas instead of remembering the religious side of the holiday. The film was universally panned by critics and holds a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. New York Times film critic Ben Kenigsberg said that Cameron's acting "sounds so forced you half-expect the camera to pull back to reveal hostage takers". Three weeks after its release, the film gained additional notoriety when it became the lowest rated film on Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 list with a measly 1.5/10. The film was also nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Kirk Cameron), Worst Director (Darren Doane), Worst Supporting Actress (Bridgette Ridenour), Worst Screenplay (Darren Doane and Cheston Harvey) and Worst Screen Couple (Kirk Cameron and his ego).

Lacks critics from reliable sources calling it one of the worst ever. It scores remarkably low in IMDB and RT fan polls but those cannot be used due to vote stacking (MOS:FILM#Audience_response). LM2000 (talk) 08:38, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I nominate it to stay. Espngeek (talk) 01:15, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

• The Scarlet Letter (1995): A poorly received critical and box office flop, starring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall. The film received a "BOMB" rating from Leonard Maltin, and a 6% rating from Rotten Tomatoes. [6] This version is not considered to be among the best adaptations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel. Was nominated for seven Razzies and won for Worst Remake or Sequel.

While making off with seven nominations from the Razzies and having received a 6% rating from Rotten Tomatoes, it's clearly not considered to be the one of the worst ever made.

• Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2001): A direct-to-video title that got panned by The Nostalgia Critic and everyone else despite its' success in Italy. Espngeek (talk) 04:53, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
  • This keeps getting removed by sockpuppets of a longtime vandal. When they're not removing the entire entry, they're trimming sourced criticism down to the point where good faith editors remove it because it looks like it doesn't meet criteria.LM2000 (talk) 11:12, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Alphabetical list of removed movies

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• Absolute Proof (2021): It should be added on as it got 2 awards at the razzies and considered by critics to be pretty bad — Preceding unsigned comment added by RusherLeBFDIFan (talk • contribs)
  • If you can cite enough of those critics explicitly stating that it's one of the worst movies ever made, then we're good to go. DonQuixote (talk) 16:17, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
• The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002): A science-fiction comedy set in the year 2080, starring Eddie Murphy as Pluto Nash, a retired smuggler, who travels across the moon to discover who is responsible for the arson of his nightclub, the film also stars Randy Quaid as an android, Rosario Dawson as a naive singer just arrived on the moon, Jay Mohr as an old-fashioned lounge singer, and Pam Grier as Pluto's mother. The film is considered one of the biggest box office flops, with a £100 million budget, costing $20 million in marketing, and grossing only around $7.1 million, and it is panned by critics and audiences alike. Most of the negative opinions of the movie are based on the acting and dialogue, its lack of humor and the crude special effects. Pluto Nash was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards in 2003, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor for Murphy, Worst Director for Ron Underwood, Worst Screenplay and Worst Screen Couple for Murphy and "himself cloned", it did not win any of the Razzies awards, it also lost to Gigli in 2005 at the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Comedy of Our First 25 Years.

More notable for being a commercial flop than for its poor reception, so far no citations have been provided to prove it is considered to be among the worst. LM2000 (talk) 23:45, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

• Alexander (2004): Hyped as one of the serious Oscar contenders of 2004, Oliver Stone's epic on Alexander the Great was both a critical and financial disaster. The film received a 15% on Rotten Tomatoes [7] and made just $34 million by January 30, 2005, rounding to about $116 million short of its $150 million budget. [8]. It ended up being nominated for six Razzies (It "won" nothing) and landed Roger Ebert's number one pick for the worst movie of 2004 (Tied with Troy). Two general criticisms of the film were both Colin Farrell looking ridiculous with bleached-blonde hair and overall being way too long (In August 2005, an eight-minute shorter Director's Cut was released on DVD). Some critics noted:

"So misconceived, so shrill, so fetishy is Oliver Stone's epic, so unintentionally hilarious a stew of paganism and Freudianism, that it makes Conan the Barbarian look like Gladiator." --Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

"A lunk-headed train wreck that looks like a tag sale in a 323 B.C. supermarket in old Peking." --Rex Reed, New York Observer

Repeating what I said in the edit summary: nothing more than critical quotes lifted directly from not-quite-'worst-worthy' RT score and citing low box office. Only 1 worst list and didn't even 'win' Razzies Dannybu2001 22:27, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

• Alex l'Ariete (2000): The first foray into an acting career by the former ski champion Alberto Tomba, this movie ended his days as an actor, due to his extremely poor performance, often not even speaking intelligibly. Former model and costar Michelle Hunziker joked about the poor box office performance, saying that the movie was seen only by her, her granny and her auntie. Actor Massimo Poggio defined it "one of the least seen film[s] in the history of the movies.". The film budget was about 3 million euros, while it grossed less than 2000 euros and with just 285 viewers most theaters stopped screening this movie after a few days. L'Unità journalist Luca Bottura wrote that the movie "made the Lumière brothers regret having invented the cinematograph." Tomba was nominated as worst actor in many contests and won the Cinepernacchia.
• A*P*E (1976): An American/South Korean co-production directed by Paul Leder made to cash-in on the success of Dino De Laurentiis' 1976 remake of King Kong. The film has been widely panned, with the titular monster (In an infamous scene where he flips off a helicopter) even appearing on the cover of The Official Razzie Movie Guide. The special effects are among the most panned aspects of the film. John Wilson claims that the ape suit used in the film "looks more like your grandmother's lamb's wool coat collar than an actual simian." He also remarks that "a five-year old could spot the [model buildings and vehicles] as phony." Other critics have noted that the size of the monster appears to change throughout the film, and that the ape actor's t-shirt can be seen through holes in his costume. Monster movie critic Mike Bogue states that "A*P*E may not be the worst giant monster movie ever made, but it would have to chart high on any Top Ten Worst list." Citing such things as the ape vomiting and the ape dancing to the film score, Bogue states that "as the genre magazine Castle of Frankenstein used to say in its movie reviews, this one is so bad it has to be seen to be disbelieved."

But did anybody ever call it the worst ever? LM2000 (talk) 23:47, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998): A 1998 comedy about a film that was so poorly received that its own director wanted his name removed from it. In the film, Eric Idle's character is named Alan Smithee, but since replacing his name with what was then the only Directors Guild of America-approved pseudonym for directors who wanted their names removed from credits, Alan Smithee, is a logical impossibility, he destroys all copies of the movie. Also featuring cameos by Jackie Chan, Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg, and Oscar-nominated actors Ryan O'Neal and Sylvester Stallone, this film was widely panned by critics upon its release. It won five Razzies, including Worst Picture. With an estimated budget of $10 million, Burn Hollywood Burn only grossed approximately $52,850, since it was released in only 19 theaters, making it a tremendous box office flop. Roger Ebert gave the film a zero out of four stars, calling it a "spectacularly bad film—incompetent, unfunny, ill-conceived, badly executed, lamely written, and acted by people who look trapped in the headlights." It is also on his "most hated" list. In the documentary Directed by Alan Smithee, director Arthur Hiller stated he had his credit replaced with the pseudonym Alan Smithee because he was so appalled with the botched final cut by the film's producers. It was written by Joe Eszterhas and at one point in the movie a character comments that the film-within-the-film was "worse than Showgirls," which was also written by Eszterhas. Even with its hostile critical reception and commercial failure, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn did have one positive effect: It was perhaps the most widely known of several films which confronted the "Alan Smithee" issue that finally forced the Directors Guild of America to broaden the list of approved false names for directors who wished their actual names removed from motion picture and/or television credits.
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes a camp classic that knows it is being funny. Feral tomatoes--some giants--threaten people.

• People who think that Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is one of the worst movies ever are unaware of the fact that it is a comedy. (Ibaranoff24 00:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC))

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• Barb Wire (1996): The film was an adaptation of the Dark Horse comic book, and was both a critical and financial flop. In her first first starring role, Pamela Anderson promoted the movie at the Cannes Film Festival, but later regretted this movie as a bad choice. Siskel and Ebert gave it "Two Thumbs Down," criticizing the film's poor acting, boring script and elements borrowing heavily from Casablanca. At the 17th Golden Raspberry Awards, the film was nominated for six Razzies (including Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements" as Worst Screen Couple), and Anderson went home with the Worst New Star award.
  • Someone removed this from the list again, but since this has been removed from the list before, I don't think it should be re-added until some additional references are provided. It currently has a 30% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, which is much higher than most of the movies on the list. Fortdj33 (talk) 21:03, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
    • Unless someone who put it there is a fan of MST3K: The Movie. Espngeek (talk) 18:31, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
• Barney's Great Adventure (1998): This movie was adapted based on the children's television series that aired on PBS Kids titled: Barney & Friends, This film was written by Stephen White and directed by Steve Gomer. The film received poor reviews from film critics, and was nominated for 2 Golden Raspberry Awards, due to the negative criticism of the show and putting up Anti-Barney humor and several people becoming Anti-Barney fans across the United States back in the early 90s before the film was made. Critics have been criticizing it for: "being inappropriate for everyone of all ages". It is on #42 on imdb's Bottom 100 with a rating of a 2.1 out of 10.0. The film was mostly criticized for its poor plot, poor storyline, and poor acting. The 2 Golden Raspberry Awards that the movie was nominated for, was for worst guest star and worst original song.
  • Removed because the movie Movie has a 23% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, and the IMDb rating does not have enough votes to make the Bottom 100. Just not notable enough. Fortdj33 (talk) 17:08, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
• The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961): The Beast of Yucca Flats by Coleman Francis, shot silently with added narration, concerns a scientist (Tor Johnson) who is exposed to radiation from an atomic blast, which turns him into a monster. In his book Leonard Maltin's TV Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin called it "one of the worst films ever made". Bill Warren said, "It may very well be the worst non-porno science fiction movie ever made." It was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, where members of the cast state it is one of the worst films they have seen up to that point.

• Only called "one of the worst ever" once, source doesn't verify that MST3K called it one of the worst. benǝʇᴉɯ 16:58, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

• Be Cool (2003): Considered to be a sequel to the 90s film Get Shorty, John Travolta reprised his role alongside a large all-star cast including Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, Andre Benjamin, Dwayne Johnson, Harvey Keitel and Christina Milian amongst a slew of celebrity cameos. With nearly no plot at all, it became evident that too much of the film's resources was used to cast the actors, and not enough was used to write a screenplay capable of conveying a reasonable plot. The top critics at Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 14% rating, and video sales floundered as by 2009, DVDs found themselves in dollar stores nationwide.
• Beverly Hills Cop III (1994): Eddie Murphy phones in a half-hearted effort to extend a franchise that arguably shouldn't have even had one sequel, much less two. The film is notable for its sheer boredom factor: at 1 hour, 45 minutes, critics agreed that it could have been cut at least in half without losing any plot. Most experts also feel that the film marked the beginning of the end for Murphy's film career; he would go on to such duds as Vampire in Brooklyn, Metro, Holy Man, sequels to both The Nutty Professor and Dr. Dolittle, a ghastly I Spy remake, and the inexcusable The Adventures of Pluto Nash. As for Beverly Hills Cop III, it amassed a very low 8% at Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for two Razzies.
• Blank Check (1993) (Not to be confused with the 1970s game show of the same name): A Disney family film that got unusually bad reviews for its type. It is still sold on DVD at many Toys 'R' Us locations.
• Blood Feast (1963): Pioneering, if not the first film in the "gore" genre. Called worst movie of the year by Time magazine, but it has accumulated a very sizable cult over the years.
• Bloodrayne (2005): Rounding out director Uwe Boll's video game-to-movie adaptations, Bloodrayne debuted in late 2005, grossing just over $3.5 million worldwide by June 2006. The film was cited by both critics and audiences as having the same inane dialogue, poor pacing, and dullness that had plagued House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. BloodRayne has received poor reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, with an overall rating of only 4%.It was ranked 48th in Rotten Tomatoes's 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s. Metacritic gave the film a score of 18% based on 13 reviews, summarizing the reviews as "overwhelming dislike." Critics ridiculed Boll for hiring actual prostitutes instead of actors for a scene featuring Meat Loaf in order to save on production costs. They were allegedly only paid €150. The film has ranked as low as number 53 on IMDb's Bottom 100 list, although as of December 2007, this movie is no longer on the list. It was nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Kristanna Loken), Worst Supporting Actor (Ben Kingsley), Worst Supporting Actress (Michelle Rodriguez), Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay. Actor Michael Madsen even said in several interviews that he disliked the movie very much.
• Bolero (1984): The Razzie winner for the worst movie of 1984, this film finds Bo Derek (Razzie winner of 1984) searching the world for her ideal lover. The movie is widely criticized as being only good for Derek's nude scenes; some state even those weren't enough for redemption. Roger Ebert gave it one half a star, stating that "There are two Good Parts, not counting her naked ride on horseback, which was the only scene in the movie that had me wondering how she did it. The real future of BOLERO is in home cassette rentals, where your fast forward and instant replay controls will supply the editing job the movie so desperately needs."
  • This has been added and removed a few times at this point. Probably should be discussed before being readded again.LM2000 (talk) 08:32, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990): Based on Tom Wolfe's novel, the movie was directed by Brian De Palma and starred Tom Hanks in what might be considered one of his worst performances ever. The movie earned horrid reviews from critics and was a box office bomb. Ironically, Julie Salamon's book, The Devil's Candy, which chronicled the making of the film and its disastrous release, was very successful.
  • I am reluctant to have dropped this from the article, but it needs a citation stating it is "the worst" according to some recognized measure. I agree that the film was a big disappointment, but this article is not about disappointments per se, it's about the worst movies ever made. Ellsworth 22:33, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962): Cult drive-in classic featuring Jan in the Pan, anyone? Espngeek (talk) 22:36, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
• Bratz: The Movie (2007): Based off the controversial toyline, Bratz: The Movie was an enormous critical failiure, as it currently holds a 7% on Rotten Tomatoes. Michael Phillips called the film "the most horrifying of 2007", stating that, while the film seems to promote "releasing what's inside" and "letting your spirit soar high" it's all about clothes and outer beauty. He also claimed that Jon Voight's talent is wasted: "the actor—a good actor; remember?—looks as dazed as he did after being horked up by the snake in Anaconda." Richard Roeper stated that the film was one of the worst films of 2007. It was nominated for several Razzies, including 5 for each actress portraying each girl, but did not win any. Despite the horrendous reviews, the film earned $26,013,153 at the box-office. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.18.87.61 (talk) 17:09, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
• The Brown Bunny (2003): A road movie about a motorcycle racer, actor-director Vincent Gallo, who reunites with his girlfriend. He goes to McDonald's, washes his van, and visits a pet store, but nothing much happens until the notorious final scene where Chloë Sevigny performs unsimulated fellatio on him. A version that ran 118 minutes was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, and was voted by Screen International as the worst movie ever shown there ([9]). A later version cut out 26 minutes, and was given much more positive reviews. Subject of a notorious (if resolved) feud between critic Roger Ebert and Gallo ([10]).
  • I honestly did not feel like The Brown Bunny should be removed from the list. But, as it's written, it needs more 'proof'; especially since the post-film festival version was better received. I would like to see this one re-added merely by reputation (never seen it myself), but as is, it's stretching, and that could be construed as POV. Find some more cites, please! Dannybu2001 18:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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• Caddyshack II (1988): Caddyshack II was a poorly-received sequel to the popular 1980 film Caddyshack. The script largely recycles concepts and jokes from the original: stars Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dan Aykroyd and Jonathan Silverman play roles which mirror those played by Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Bill Murray, and Michael O'Keefe in the original. According to writer Harold Ramis, the only original cast member initially interested in returning for the sequel was Dangerfield, who left early in production after a dispute with producers over his requested script rewrites and subsequently determining the film would not be successful. Eventually, Chevy Chase agreed to appear again in a small part; during post-production, he told director Allan Arkush to call him "when you've dubbed the laugh track" before leaving in disgust. Ramis, who co-wrote the original film alongside Brian Doyle-Murray and Douglas Kenney, described Caddyshack II, which he co-wrote with Peter Torokvei, as "terrible". He went on to describe in a 1999 interview that he had strong misgivings about the film when it was pitched to him and only agreed because Dangerfield wanted him, and that after Dangerfield quit, he also quit and original director Alan Metter was fired in favor of Arkush. Dangerfield was sued by the film studio for refusing to appear, though the lawsuit did not change his mind and he was little affected by it.

Sports Illustrated has referred to the film as one of the worst sequels in history, and as a "stultifying dud" with no interesting characters and "groaner" jokes with "horse fart sound-effects". The New York Times wrapped up their review with "Caddyshack II is the kind of film that sends careers spiraling downward." Dave Kehr at the Chicago Tribune said "It's shoddy, lazy and numbingly stupid." Rita Kempley at the Washington Post said "It's patronizing and clumsily manipulative, and top banana Jackie Mason is upstaged by the gopher puppet." Michael Wilmington at the Los Angeles Times wondered if there had ever been a worse sequel, stating that "Even Rambo III has more laughs than Caddyshack II—And Sylvester Stallone wasn't even trying". Hollywood In Toto refers to the film as the worst sequel ever made. It holds a 4% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes. The Bleacher Report cited the sequel as one of the worst sports movies ever and also one of the worst movies ever.

• Only called one of the worst ever once. benǝʇᴉɯ 17:19, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

• Cannibal Ferox (1981): Made during the waning days of the "cannibal boom" of the late 70s/early 80s, it is a controversial and infamous exploitation film, notorious for its scenes of extreme gore, real animal killings, and moderate sexual violence. Directed by Umberto Lenzi, it may have been made to copy the success of Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust, which featured similar scenes of violence and morality. Even a positive review by the EOFFTV (Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television) still stated:

“ Any way you look at it, it's a vicious, mean-spirited film that virtually defies any rational description, belief or even criticism. There's little point to it all beyond simply being a catalogue of barbarism held together by a plot that's allowed to drift in and out of the narrative as and when Lenzi feels the need to lighten the tone of the proceedings.[11] ”

It is ultimately remembered by exploitation fans for the reasons it was supposed to be remembered by (shocking and overly dramatic scenes of cruelty). It garnishes only a 4.8 at the IMDb.

Sorry, but 4.8 on IMDB is nowhere near enough to count as being considered 'the worst ever'. Mark Grant 00:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

• Cannonball Run II is a film starring Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise, returning from the first film. This time around, the prize is $1 million as a bunch of oddballs illegally cannonball from California to Connecticut—the opposite direction of the first film. The film has 13% on Rotten Tomatoes. Gene Siskel gave the film zero stars and called it "the worst movie ever made". Roger Ebert gave the film 0.5 stars out of 4 and called it "one of the laziest insults to the intelligence of moviegoers that I can remember. Sheer arrogance made this picture." The film was nominated for 8 Golden Raspberry Awards, but did not win any.

  Only Siskel calls it "the worst", we need a variety of critics.LM2000 (talk) 11:49, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

• Can't Stop the Music (1980): Starring the Village People, this movie was horribly panned by critics, and was the first film to win a Razzie for Worst Picture. It also won Worst Screenplay. Valerie Perrine, Bruce Jenner, and Steve Guttenberg all have starring roles in this movie.
• The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969): Christopher Lee vehicle featured on MST3K. Yay or nay? Espngeek (talk) 02:41, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
• The Cat in the Hat (2003): Loosely based on the book of the same name by Dr. Seuss, the film had been received negatively due to the high amount of adult themes. It has a 10% "rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes, holds a 19/100 on Metacritic meaning “overwhelming dislike”, and has received eight Razzie nominations, such as Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Mike Myers), Worst Supporting Actor (Alec Baldwin), Worst Supporting Actress (Kelly Preston), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Screen Couple (Myers, Thing One and Thing Two), while winning one for Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie.
• Cattive ragazze (Bad Girls) (1992): The Italian erotic thriller Cattive ragazze (Bad Girls) was directed by gossip columnist Marina Ripa di Meana, and stars Eva Grimaldi as a recently divorced woman falling in love with a male stripper, alongside a cast of big names such as Anita Ekberg and Burt Young. The production received bad publicity, as it was made using money from the country's Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. Paolo Mereghetti in his film encyclopedia Dizionario dei Film described the film as a "vapid mess that can only serve those incapable of understanding what cinema is", and considered it able to "compete for the title of worst film in cinema history and win!" G. Giraud wrote in Il Lavoro that Cattive ragazze "does not resemble anything in a real movie, or even recall anything previously seen at the cinema, even in its worst". Film critic Marco Giusti refers to it as "one of the pillars of Italian trash cinema". While Cattive ragazze was Ripa Di Meana's directorial debut, she never made another film.

• Only called the worst once. benǝʇᴉɯ 17:30, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

• Chairman of the Board (1998): Comedian Carrot Top's first foray into film acting was very poorly received by audiences and critics, and also earned a negative reception from Norm MacDonald when appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
• Chaos (2005): A film about two girls who are brutally murdered and raped (not necessarily in that order). Almost every critic has panned it, many pointing out the similarities between it and I've added a rather lengthy summary of the hatred surrounding "Chaos," of which you can get a good idea of here, here, here and here, but I feel that it may need some cleanup (and maybe a bit more information should any develop). If you feel it needs any cleanup or changing, feel free to do it yourself or suggest it or whatever. Sillstaw 01:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Chaos needs more cites and some serious trimming before being readded

• Christmas with the Kranks (2004): This holiday movie was based on the John Grisham book, Skipping Christmas. Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis starred as the title characters, Luther and Nora Krank, who decide to skip Christmas in favor of a Caribbean cruise, much to the chagrin of the neighbors who all usually decorate lavishly. Although it was a commercial success, this movie was a critical flop. At Rotten Tomatoes, it only garnered a 4% rating. [12]. It made Roger Ebert's list of the worst movies of the year, landing at number two, after he gave it only one star in his review and referred to it as "a holiday movie of stunning awfulness." [13]
  • Only made an annual bad list, as far as I can see, has not been mentioned as one of the worst films ever. Fails to cite how it was a pretty big success at the box office. Cvene64 14:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Leonard Maltin gave this film a BOMB rating, his lowest rating he can give a film. Anonymous 3:56 pm CST, 2 January 2007
• The Cobbler (2014): One of the last films to be made before Adam Sandler's career saw its renaissance years later.
• Cool as Ice (1991): This vehicle for Vanilla Ice, loosely based on Rebel Without a Cause, is infamous for its awful dialogue, bad acting, and overall clunky and stupid plot. It won Vanilla Ice a Razzie for "Worst New Star". Notorious for the line "Drop that zero and get with the hero!".
• Cool World (1992): I have absolutely no idea who added this to the article. Currently rates 4.2/10 on IMDb and has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 4%, which are both well above what has been decided as a standard for inclusion. We're looking for the absolute worst films ever made, which would mean an IMDb rating of 2/10 or lower, ranked in the website's "Bottom 100" and holding a Tomatoes rating of 0%. This isn't even close. Cool World has its fans and its detractors, and the director himself has stated that it wasn't produced the way he had intended it, but there's no evidence that it is considered "the worst ever" other than the opinion of the person who added this to the article (possibly an anon. editor). In any case, its reputation isn't bad enough for it to be placed on this list. Also, the film was included with a sentence that implied that it was a rip-off of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which it is not, no more than Roger Rabbit is a rip-off of Song of the South. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 23:41, 17 June 2008 (UTC))
  • More like a divisive cult classic considering it's director. Espngeek (talk) 18:34, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
• The Core (2003): A movie about a team that drills to the center of the planet to restart the spin of Earth's core. Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics features the movie prominently and claims, "It's the worst physics movie we've ever viewed." [14] - While a mediocre movie, bad physics doesn't make it the worst movie ever
• Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977): Incomprehensible Italian sci-fi film with three unrelated storylines. Features shiny Flash Gordon-style spacesuits, absurd dialogue, cheesy synthesized music, an evil robot that resembles a pile of old television sets and Christmas lights, and the infamous "Cosmic Love" machine. Filmed in Italian as Battaglie negli spazi stellari and dubbed awkwardly into English. IMDB entry
• The Cotton Club (1984): Critical reception was mixed for the film as a whole. However, if memory serves, Hoskins, Gwynne and the Hines bros. received almost unanimous praise, as did the technical aspects of the film (photography, art direction, costumes). Anyway, I don't see how anyone can put this in a class with Gigli, Plan 9 and Killer Tomatoes. But de gustibus. Ellsworth (old comment moved here)
• The Crawling Hand (1959): When an astronaut dies in an explosion in outer space, one of his severed hands is left. It strangles townspeople and possesses the main character named Paul, a nerdy teenager. Burt Reynolds auditioned for the character of Paul and reportedly did such a terrible job acting that he was asked not to return to the set. Alan Hale Jr. appeared in this movie before he did in Gilligan's Island. Appeared in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made and featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

The Crawling Eye (1958)-also an episode of said show and mentioned in the last one as "The Marty Feldman Story". Espngeek (talk) 20:30, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

• The Crippled Masters (1982): Simplistic kung fu movie in which an armless man and a legless man become kung fu masters and fight against their evil teacher who maimed them. Appeared in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.

I really don't want to remove the entry for this film. The description kind of speaks for itself. However, I'm not sure if apppearing on a 50 Worst list constitutes a viable candidate for "worst ever". Does anyone have a better citation? -Aranel ("Sarah") 01:32, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Nope, I've removed it. Maybe find some more cite. This ONLY on the Worst 50 DVD citing thing is getting obnoxious. I think films need to been overwhelmingly considered worst, with multiple citations.Dannybu2001 19:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

• Cry Wilderness (1987): No mention of this 80s Bigfoot epic anywhere (sources and all). Espngeek (talk) 20:30, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
• Cutthroat Island (1995): This uneven swashbuckler starring Geena Davis and Matthew Modine as pirates is in the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest financial loss for a film, though its losses have been eclipsed by Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and The Adventures of Pluto Nash. - Major flop, but not worst of all time.

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• Daddy Day Camp (2007): Received 1% approval on Rotten Tomatoes, it was panned by critics for its poor acting and over reliance on Toilet Humour. Former Spill.com critic Carlyle picked it as his most hated film of 2007, saying in his review "[Daddy Day Camp] was shot and directed by someone who was fucking asleep."
• De Zeemeerman (The Mer-Man) (1996): According to 134,000 users of moviemeter.nl, De Zeemeerman is the worst Dutch movie of all time, scoring #3 in the list of worst movies overall (with National Lampoon's Pledge This! in the number one spot). De Zeemeerman revolves around a young man who has a hard time getting girls because he permanently smells of fish. The cure, offered by a mad professor, turns him into a male mermaid, or mer-man ('zeemeerman' in Dutch) It also turns out that he indeed was a human-animal hybrid all along.
• Dear Evan Hansen (2021): Stars Ben Platt reprising his performance in the titular role of 17-year-old Evan Hansen. The film garnered criticism for allowing Ben, at age 27, to play the role on screen, with nepotism and the involvement of his father, Marc Platt, as one of the producers, being the reasons. Received Razzie nominations for Worst Actor, Worst Director (for Stephen Chbosky) and Worst Supporting Actress for Amy Adams. It is considered to be one of the worst films of the 2020s by some.
• Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?(2018) - like most D'Sozua films it got a very negative reception and is tied for the worst-scoring film on Metacritic, but there are still not many who claim it to be one of the worst films ever made.[15]
• Deshdrohi (2008) written, produced and starring Kamaal R Khan is widely considered the worst Bollywood film of all time, with only 6% rating from Google Users (the only film to receive below 10% rating), most of the positive reviews being sarcastic. The film was accused of cashing on the 2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra, resulting in the film being banned in Maharashtra amid riot concerns. Deshdrohi has been ranked 1st in IMDb's "Worst Bollywood Movies of All Time", with only a 1.4/10 rating.
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005): Roger Ebert gave it the rare rating of zero stars and, "speaking in his official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner", stated that the movie "sucked." [16]. It also claims a 10% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. [17]
• Devilman (2004): A Japanese tokusatsu adaptation of Go Nagai's Devilman manga series making use of CGI effects. The film was universally panned, even by fans of the original manga, citing reasons such as the CGI being hideous, and the casting of various nationally popular models and teen idols, many of whom had not starred in a movie prior to this one. In addition, reportedly, CGI was used for the fight scenes because director Hiroyuki Nasu did not know how to direct one with live actors. One year later, the movie won Grand Prize for worst film of the year in both Snake Strawberry Award for Sports News (蛇いちご賞 スポーツ報知) and the Bunshun Kiichigo Awards, the Japanese equivalent of the Razzie Awards. The film had a budget of 1 billion yen but only made 520 million at the box office. Takeshi Kitano called it "one of the 4 most stupid movies ever made" and said "There is nothing better than getting drunk and watching this movie." Due to trying to force the whole story into a short run time, the plot was criticized for making little to no sense. The cameo appearances of celebrities such as Sachiko Kobayashi, Bob Sapp, and Konishiki had "no meaning at all, and only reduced the tension of the story." At the Tokyo Sports Film Awards Sachiko Kobayashi said she was suddenly called to the set to appear in the movie before she even knew what it was. The design of Silene on the poster was completely different to her appearance in the movie. The director Hiroyuki Nasu began his directing career as pornography director for Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Sadly he died about 5 months after Devilman's release at the age of 53 due to liver cancer. Critic Hiroshi Yamamoto created a whole separate part on his website to collect bad reviews of the movie. It links to several national newspapers that panned the movie as well as links to about 100 blog entries from various critics denouncing the movie.

http://kokorohaitsumo15sai.la.coocan.jp/devilmanlink.htm

• Diana: The Musical (2021): Despite winning the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, not enough sources to be declared the worst.

• Dirty Love (2005): Roger Ebert gave it his third zero star rating of the year, calling it "hopelessly incompetent," and "an affront to cheese" with reference to another review calling it "cheesy," saying that one scene verged "on dementia," and that he is uncertain whether "anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is" ([18]).

Written by and starring Jenny McCarthy, it "won" four Razzie awards, for Worst Picture, Worst Director (John Mallory Asher), Worst Screenplay, and Worst Actress (McCarthy). It also has a score of 8% on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert said in his review, "On the basis of Dirty Love, I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is," and on star Jenny McCarthy, he wrote, "I feel sorry for her." He also calls the film "so pitiful it doesn't rise to the level of badness."

• Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) : A film loosely based on the popular British television programme Doctor Who, this film is widely criticised among fans for being out of Who canon.
• Doogal (2006): The US dub of the UK film The Magic Roundabout was written by Fairly OddParents creator, Butch Hartman. It was on the IMDb Bottom 100 list as of May 2006, and had a 5% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. [19] Some reactions to the film:

"The key frame animation, based on three-dimensional models, is rudimentary, with none of the characters proving visually arresting." (Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter)

"Eighty-five minutes you'll never get back." (Michael Phillip, Chicago Tribune).

"In "Doogal", setting the world right again involves a badly paced quest for three diamonds, assorted jokes that don't land, and a daringly incoherent climactic confrontation." (Ned Martel, The New York Times)

I removed this bfor the following reasons:

Reviews don't speak out as "horrible"

The movie had very little promotion/hype

It wasn't reviewed for critics, so its rating on RT isn't very relevant

A bad animation movie doesn't mean one of the worst animation movies ever (Has anyone even heard of this movie??)

The above posting for Doogal is unsigned so I'm not sure how long this debate has been going on but this film is continuously readded. Sources from the article are added which call it the worst of the year but that isn't enough. We need sources calling it the worst of all time.LM2000 (talk) 04:33, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

• Doom (2005): Big screen adaptation of the popular video game, starring The Rock and Karl Urban. Was not well received by critics. Ebert and Roeper both gave it "Thumbs down," and Roeper called it "one of the worst films of the year." In his review, Ebert comments "No, I haven't played [the video game], and I never will, but I know how it feels not to play it, because I've seen the movie. 'Doom' is like some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play." [20] The film currently has a 20% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. [21]

I was reviewing the history and saw this one added and was going to remove it, but someone thankfully beat me to the punch. I'm sure this movie sucks, but this isn't a list of "Movies That Suck", that, and it just came out! It needs more time to 'earn' being a 'worst' movie. Besides, the cites were very weak; quoting both Ebert and Roeper and a not-so-bad-when-compared-to-many-movies-NOT-on-this-list RT score simply does not cut it. Do not re-add until the initial reaction to this movie has died down and it's been 'proven' more 'worst' worthy.Dannybu2001 16:32, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• Dracula 3000 (2004) : A movie about vampires in outer space, set in the year 3000.
• Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971): A Dracula with an afro joins forces with a mad scientist, Dr. Duryea (played by J. Carrol Naish in his last film role), to resurrect the Frankenstein monster, whose face appears to look like a raw steak. Like Naish, Lon Chaney Jr. also makes his last film appearance, playing an axe-wielding maniac who is a henchman to the mad doctor. Appeared in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. Previously held a spot in the IMDB Bottom 100.
• Dragonball: Evolution (2009): Loosely based on the Dragon Ball manga and anime series, by Akira Toriyama, was panned by critics and fans alike. On Rotten Tomatoes it scored 13%, while on Metacritic it got a 45/100. Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network, originally disgusted at anime fans who decried the film via leaked set shots and trailers before the film's release, gave the movie an overall failing grade and stated "the fans were right." He criticized the film's lack of explaining plot elements, its hackneyed storyline and lackluster effort by the actors. Luke Thompson of E! Online referred to the film as a "surreal mess" that would only make sense to fans of the original series. He questioned the use of a Caucasian in the main role and felt Chow Yun-Fat was "overacting like never before", but did consider it "fun in a train-wreck kind of way" and that while it was never boring it was also never "logical, coherent [or] rational". Reviewing the film for Australia's ABC Radio National, Jason Di Rosso stated the film was "lacking the visual panache of recent graphic novel adaptations". He agreed the film was uninspired and also felt it had dull "high school movie banter" dialog and was "cliché-ridden". The Village Voice's Aaron Hillis called the film a "loony live-action adaptation", but felt it was "more entertaining than it deserves to be" and would likely appeal to ten-year-old boys. The majority of the fans for the original series were very disappointed with its overall inaccuracies, and some consider it as a parody of Dragon Ball.

The reviews are mixed, none of them cite it as being the "worst", and the scores from aggregate websites are too high. Sorry, it's just not notable enough. Fortdj33 (talk) 16:20, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

• The Driver's Seat (1973): Comedy of a character played by Elizabeth Taylor making a movie in Rome, Italy; cited in a 10-worst list in The Book of Lists.
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005): A remake of the late 70s early 80s TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, this movie was slammed by Ben Jones (Cooter on the original TV series), saying it was an insult to fans of the TV show and the TV show itself. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave it zero stars, stating "There's a stink coming off the big-screen Dukes of Hazzard that even fans of the TV series (1979 to 1985) won't be able to shake out of their nostrils".

The film earned over $99M worldwide (as of this writing.)

The Dukes of Hazzard movie was removed from this listing. The original "Cooter" and a critic from Rolling Stone's dislike of the movie do not make it the worst ever. Also, contrary to the listing, the movie is now a financial success. It's 4.5 rating on IMDB would suggest it is a mediocre movie, but not within the realm of worst movies ever.

Added it back in - it is on Roger Ebert's worst list, which is listed as one of the prime examples from the top of the page. Turnstep 20:50, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Re-deleted, it made a profit and Ebert's opinion can't be the sole reason. This isn't the "list of movies that sucked", it's "list of movies 'considered' the worst"

Well, Ebert does give a lot of weight to the film's quality. And profit doesn't mean anything. Like you said, it isn't a "list of movies that were commercially profitable," it's a "list of movies 'considered' the worst." And the fact that most movie theaters kicked it out after two weeks also has something to say, although I don't know quite what. - Hbdragon88 05:31, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003): Prequel to 1994 hit Dumb & Dumber paled in comparison and played to universally bad reviews. Most reviewers used puns like "Dumberest" to categorize the film. It also received a 9% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. [22] Some statements made by reviewers about the film include: "Relies on double entendres so obvious they wouldn't get a chuckle from Beavis and Butt-head"; "I'm not laughing"; "I can’t hate this film enough"; "I wouldn't want you to consider even renting this thing"; and "Whenever you have to draw on the former Full House dad for comedic salvation, you're seriously hurting." Reviewer Scott Von Doviak of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram called the movie "the most ill-conceived attempt at extending a franchise since the Pink Panther movie that was stitched together from outtakes after Peter Sellers died." Was also nominated for 3 Razzies. Most of its success probably came from the fact that it tried to pretend Jim Carrey was in it.
• Double Dragon (1994): A very loose live-action film adaptation of the video game franchise of the same name. This film stars Mark Dacascos as Jimmy Lee and Scott Wolf as Billy Lee, along with Alyssa Milano as Marian Delario and Robert Patrick as Koga Shuko, the primary antagonist. In the movie, Jimmy and Billy Lee are only described as brothers, presumably to explain the differences in ethnicity, rather than twins. It was directed by James Yukich. The film takes place in a post earthquake Los Angeles, now referred to as "New Angeles".

The film was a box office bomb.

Gametrailers.com named Double Dragon in the countdown of 10 worst films based on videogames. Rottentomatoes gives Double Dragon a 3.2 ratiing. Rita Kempley of the Washington Post said the films was "clumsily paced by first-time director Jim Yukich: Time Magazine named Double Dragon one of the 10 worst films ever based on a video game. Siskel and Ebert both gave Double Dragon thumbs down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.16.94.221 (talk) 08:55, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

• Dungeons & Dragons (2000): Has been featured on two worst movies lists, has been called worse than Battlefield Earth and has a reputation for being so bad its good. It has bad review scores (10% on Rotten Tomatoes, 1.5 on Roger Ebert etc) both with critics and users.

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• Eegah (1962): The low-budget shocker Eegah features Richard Kiel as a prehistoric caveman emerging in early 1960s California who clumsily finds love with a teenage girl, and Arch Hall Jr., son of the director Arch Hall Sr. (filming under the name Nicholas Merriweather), performing musical numbers to his girlfriend. The film's notoriety was enhanced as a result of being featured on episodes of Canned Film Festival and Mystery Science Theater 3000, where the cast of the show stated in The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide (ISBN 0-553-37783-3), that they consider the shaving scene (where Eegah lolls his tongue around and laps up shaving cream) one of the most disgusting things they have seen. It was also one of the films listed in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.

• Only included on one list of the worst films, never explicitly called the worst. benǝʇᴉɯ 16:50, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

• The Emoji Movie (2017): Despite winning multiple Razzies and generally receiving a very negative critical backlash, there are no sources that claim it to be one of the worst of all time. Neither worst film of the year nor worst animated film is enough.
• Envy (2004): This film, which starred Ben Stiller and Jack Black, was so poorly received by test audiences it almost went straight to video. Due to the success of School of Rock (2003) (which starred Jack Black), Envy was finally released theatrically, but was again poorly received. It has a 5% Rotten Tomato rating [23], and both Jack Black and Jeffrey Katzenberg publicly apologized for the film at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Because of its poor performance in the U.S. it went straight to video in Europe [24].
• Eragon (film) (2006) : This adaptation was hated by critics, receiving a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Most fans of the book hated it and has made 70 million dollars on a budget of 100 million.
• Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983): IT STINKS! (With or without citations, including Joel Hodgson) Espngeek (talk) 15:44, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

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• Fahrenheit 451 (1966): This film is an adapted version of Ray Bradbury's novel of the same name. It was directed by François Truffaut, renowned French director. It was his first movie done in English. Reasons this movie is nominated is because of frequent use of stock footage, a repetitive soundtrack that hit the same four notes in a grindingly frustrating pattern, and incredible lengths of 'artistic integrity', including a scene where a woman is smiling as she is burned alive by a kerosene fire. The story deviated wildly from the book, missing the point of the story, and even ruining the ending.

At Rotten Tomatoes, it actually has a 100% rating, although it is an old movie, so the ratings can't be too reliable. -What is the logic behind that statement? The critic's opinion is what it is.

"a repetitive soundtrack that hit the same four notes" Anyone who writes that just displays his total ignorance of film music. In fact, Bernard Herrmann's score is regarded as one of the best of its time, and completely characteristic of the composer of Psycho and Vertigo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas M+ (talk • contribs) 15:32, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Can any of this really be considered good reasons? The only piece of evidence as to whether the film is good or not is that its score on Rotten Tomatoes is 100%, a point in its favor. The rest sounds like the article's writer is simply whining about how the film isn't the way they wanted it to be. There is no evidence as to whether any of the issues would be taken from a different point of view. 71.162.2.126 (talk) 23:47, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

• The Fantastic Four (unreleased film) was added to the list a few days ago. However, it's hard to find actual citations of this film's badness, largely because it was never commercially released and so it got no professional reviews, wasn't eligible for Razzies, and so forth. Is it legitimate to regard the fact that the studio regarded the film as so bad as to be unreleasable (while lots of studios release lots of bad films every year) as itself a "citation" of the fact that this film was regarded as unusually bad? AJD 21:53, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm leaning against it. Since it didn't have a commercial release, very few people have ever seen it, so there won't ever be a critical or popular consensus of badness. - Lifefeed 18:19, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

I've removed it from the list altogether; since it was never released theatrically (or even on video), it cannot have a fair evaluation Dannybu2001 19:28, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

• Fantastic Four (2005 film) (2005): After the disaster of the 1994 Fantastic Four film, expectations were high. The critical reaction was overwhelmingly negative, scoring only a 26% at Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review aggregation website. The movie was criticized for weak storytelling, poor science, and paper-thin characters — especially the bland Doctor Doom, arguably one of the hallmark villains in the Marvel Comics world. In addition, Jessica Alba's performance earned her a Razzie nomination for Worst Actress. It should be noted, however, that unlike most of the films listed here, Fantastic Four gets decent ratings from viewers, including a 6.0 on the Internet Movie Database.

26% at Rotten Tomatoes is not "overwhelmingly negative". The reviews of this film were more like mixed-to-negative. The consensus didn't say it was terrible, it said it was "goofy and mediocre". 71.162.2.126 (talk) 23:48, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

• Fantastic Four (2015 film) is a 2015 film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, and serves as a reboot of the Fantastic Four film series. The film was met with extremely negative reviews; critics derided the film for its overly dark tone (especially when in contrast to the lighter and humorous tone of the original comics), bland visuals, and its nonsensical narrative. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film one star out of four, calling it "the cinematic equivalent of malware". Yahoo! Movies, Toronto Sun, Indiewire, and Rolling Stone have included Fantastic Four in their lists compiling the worst films of 2015. TechTimes said the film felt like "a setup for a movie that might not even happen". The Plain Dealer claimed the film to possibly be the worst superhero movie of all time, and Deadline Hollywood claimed to not be able to find one good quality about the movie. Fantastic Four also bombed commercially: it only grossed $26.2 million in the United States during its opening weekend, compared to its budget of $120 million. On CinemaScore, Fantastic Four holds the lowest rating for a superhero movie of all time, with a "C-". The film is also the worst reviewed movie based on a Marvel property on Rotten Tomatoes, currently holding a 9% approval rating based on 216 reviews. The film's director, Josh Trank, expressed extreme dissatisfaction with it in a tweet he later deleted.

• Interesting that three Fantastic Fours have been removed from the list. The 2015 version was called the worst of its year and worst of its genre but not the worst of all time.LM2000 (talk) 23:39, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• Feardotcom (2002): An horror film directed by William Malone and starring Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone and Stephen Rea. The film, upon release, was almost universally panned by critics, as the film holds a 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 99 reviews. The film was often criticized for its lack of originality, specifically, the plot seems to be too derivative of Ring, even though Feardotcom came out two months before the American version of The Ring. The premise is also very similar to that of Japanese film Kairo, released in 2001, and David Cronenberg's Videodrome. Andrew Manning of Radio Free Entertainment stated that "Of all the trash I had to watch in 2002, the insipid FearDotCom easily ranks among the worst.", while Oz of eFilmCritic.com stated: "In a year that has given us some of the worst films of all time, this must surely rank as the worst -- and that's a hard thing to do opposite Master of Disguise."

Worst movie of 2002? Most likely. Worst Ever? Very Unlikely. FN071299 (talk) 17:45, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001): A massively-budgeted CGI animated film, directed by a video game creator and funded by Square Pictures, a studio created by video game company Square Co., Ltd. It was hyped as a groundbreaking film that would pave the way for photorealistic animated actors indistinguishable from flesh-and-blood. Instead, many viewers found the stiff motion and glassy stares of the characters uninvolving or unnerving, and the film came to be Roger Ebert's go-to example of the pitfalls of the uncanny valley. The film is now often used in computer animation courses as a demonstration of how not to animate human characters. Worse yet, the story was unable to live up to even its video game roots, disappointing many hard-core fans of the Final Fantasy game series. Almost certainly the biggest box office bomb in history, even adjusting for inflation, the film lost over $120 million, making it Square Pictures' first, last, and only feature film.

Yes a bad movie, but mixed reviews according to Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.

I put it here, not so much for the badness (and it is bad), but because the intro mentions "overhyped" as a criterion. The movie was rediculously overhyped, saying that photoreal CGI human characters would soon exist side-by-side with live actors; even many of the positive reviews are "this is a bad movie, but the technology is The Future of Film". Given that a major criticism is how bad the animation actually is, and that this hubris lead to a $120 million loss and the bankruptcy of a studio, I thought it merited inclusion. But I'm willing to defer to other opinions if people generally think it's unworthy of inclusion in the article. --Misterwindupbird 17:44, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

It's more of a "Didn't Meet Expecatations" and "Box Office Bomb/Dissappointment" movie than a 'worst film'. The money-factor--on this or any movie--really only applies if it was also critically panned (generally resulting in the bad box office.) It doesn't really seem to 'qualify' as written. As far as 'overhyped', personally, I don't think that has any place as a criterium; that can be said of a lot of movies, and is kind of a Catch-22 considering that other movies are said to fail due to 'lack' of hype (a.k.a. 'advertising'.) Perhaps it should be edited? Dannybu2001 18:27, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

I re-read how the 'hyping' thing is written, seems fine as is. I don't think it reads as saying overhyped, box-office failures count as 'worst'; again, it only applies if it's also critically panned, which FF has mostly mixed reviews, with a leaning toward 'not-so-great' more than 'worst', 'bad', or even 'poor'.Dannybu2001 18:38, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, boy, I'm almost ashamed to say it. When I first saw it, I kinda liked it. --Surten (talk) 05:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Surten

• Finding Rin Tin Tin (2007): The lowest ranked film on the French site AlloCiné, compiling the ratings of several movie critics, is this Bulgarian-American film, which was unanimously ranked 1 star. Harsh reviews for sure, but not necessarily the worst movie ever made.
• The Fog (2005): This remake of the 1980 horror by John Carpenter was not screened to critics in advance. After the movie was released to the public, critics jabbed it as the worst horror movie in years. They point out that the movie is laden with lame CGI effects, wooden acting, a boring and predictable plotline (Frank Scheck from the Hollywood Reporter says that "Director Rupert Wainwright fails to bring any style to the material, not producing a fraction of the suspense or wit generated by Carpenter in the original even while working with a far lesser budget."[25]), and the stereotypical black guy (who, when he is arrested for "killing" the passengers on a ship, says that he was "just chillin'" in the meat freezer), mainly used for comedic effect and adds no effect of horror in the film. The Fog is currently #100 on the IMDb bottom 100 and has garnered an 8% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
  • Has only been in theaters for a month. Despite it's rather poor reviews, there's no hype as it being one of the worst ever. Worst of the year? Most likely. Ever? No.

• Frogs for Snakes (1999): A torturous caper film, of which Roger Ebert wrote:

  "I was reminded of Mad Dog Time (1996), another movie in which well-known actors engaged in laughable dialogue while shooting one another. Of that one, I wrote: Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time.' Now comes Frogs for Snakes, the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of Mad Dog Time." [26]

• Frozen Assets (1992), an American comedy starring Corbin Bernsen and Shelley Long and directed by George T. Miller (not that George Miller), concerns a Los Angeles banking executive (Bernsen), who gets a new job at a bank in Oregon, revealed to be a sperm bank. After some initial confusion, the executive and his nurse (Long), deal with a shortage of donations by holding a contest where citizens abstain from sex to save themselves for bank "deposits," much to the protest of a local brothel. The film was roundly panned, and was notoriously slammed by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, on their TV program At the Movies with Siskel and Ebert, with the former stating, "This is one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen" and "watching this film was as depressing an experience as I've ever had going to the movies"; and the latter calling it "the worst comedy ever made" and, in his newspaper review, "a children's film with a dirty mind; every character in this movie is dumber than the average roadkill. This is a movie to watch in appalled silence. To call it the year's worst would be a kindness." The film was a complete bomb, only grossing $376,008. Alonso Duralde stated that it is "[c]onsidered by many to be the worst film of the 1990s".
• For the Boys -- Bette Midler's USO tour falls flat.
  • Subjective opinion for an Oscar-nominated Bette Midler film. Espngeek (talk) 18:38, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
• Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965): Famous in the genre of "so-bad-it's-good," this flick features James Karen as an astronaut who discovers a ship full of cheesy-looking aliens who have sent a hairy space robot, named Mull, to conquer Puerto Rico. One of the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.
• Freddy vs. Jason (2003): While a box office success and fairly well received critically (at least among fans and genre critics), many felt that the film failed to live up to the hype that had been building up for so long for such a highly anticipated film. It was widely considered lame with bad acting, screenwriting, and plot. This is mostly faulted to the plot, which is often cited as adding little to the genre, and the characters being standard slasher stereotypes. While these criticisms are argued to be expected in the genre, others express the desire for something different in a film that they believe should be grander than both sets of predecessors and other slasher films. Some Friday the 13th fans have also expressed a distaste for the way in which Jason is portrayed in the film, although these complaints may have root in the controversial decision not to cast fan favourite Kane Hodder again in the role he played consecutively in the previous four Friday the 13th films. However, one of the most talked about aspects is the final scene, which has caused endless debates among fans of both franchises as to its meaning and who of the two actually comes off as the victor.

Bad horror movie, yes, but not worst EVER. Writeup even admits being disappointment rather than truly bad.

• Future War (1995): A longtime entry in the IMDb bottom 100, the film is notorious for poor special effects (including shots of dinosaurs that amount to little more than someone holding a toy dinosaur right by the camera) and badly staged martial-arts sequences. Almost half of the film was shot in a few days with next to no budget, after the original director's cut consisted of only 40 minutes of footage with no action sequences. The producers admitted they expected it to be shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (which happened a few years later).

An anthology of short plotless movies Espngeek (talk) 22:07, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

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• Galaxy of Terror (1981): A low-budget clone of Alien, featuring appearances from Erin Moran, Robert Englund, and Ray Walston. The movie involves a terrifying pyramid found in space that turns many things into horror. One of its unit directors was a young James Cameron, who made maggots wiggle on a severed arm. Appeared in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.
• Gayniggers From Outer Space (1992): A short film directed by Danish filmmaker, DJ and singer Morten Lindberg, aka Master Fatman. It tells the story of a group of intergalactic explorers who discover the presence of females on planet Earth. Using guns that shoot deadly rays, they proceed to eliminate females one-by-one from Earth, which ensures them the ecstatic gratitude of the previously suppressed male population. Before leaving the planet, they leave behind a gay ambassador to educate the Earthlings about their new way of life. Some consider Gayniggers From Outer Space to be a cult film. Widely regarded as terrible and a torch for internet trolls worldwide.
• Get Carter (2000): Sylvester Stallone takes up the position of Jack Carter, previously played by Michael Caine. It has a 10% rating at rottentomatoes.com and voters at Screenselect.co.uk named it the worst remake ever. [27]
• Ghost Dad (1990): This fantasy comedy was directed by Sidney Poitier and stars Bill Cosby as the titular role. Much like the reviews for Cosby's previous film, Leonard Part 6 (1987), the reviews for Ghost Dad were also negative. Roger Ebert gave the film half a star, writing "Ghost Dad is a desperately unfunny film - a strained, contrived construction that left me shaking my head in amazement… How could Sidney Poitier, a skilled filmmaker with an actor's sense of timing, have been the director of this mess? How did a production executive go for it? Who ever thought this was a good idea?" Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote "As the movie goes on, Mr. Cosby's double takes become so long and painfully deliberate that there is time for double takes within double takes." Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "A dinky, TV sitcom comedy like Ghost Dad doesn't serve Poitier's artistry, either behind the camera or in front of it." John Ferguson of Radio Times gave the film one out of five stars, writing, "Bill Cosby has had a disastrous time trying to transfer his TV popularity to the big screen. Following the ill-conceived spy spoof Leonard Part 6 came this equally daft supernatural comedy that, despite the efforts of director Sidney Poitier, also went straight to video over here." Ralph Novak of People wrote that "the film is confusingly inconsistent. Cosby is totally invisible at times, for instance; at other moments his clothes are visible but he's not." Jay Boyar of the Orlando Sentinel wrote "Cosby's ill-fated Leonard Part 6 (1987) was, by his own admission, not very funny, and neither is the new Ghost Dad." Desmond Ryan of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote "In his last film outing, Bill Cosby survived Leonard Part 6, a massive flop that would have killed the career of anyone who lacked his clout in the entertainment industry. Ghost Dad disappoints anyone hoping for a resurrection." Dennis King of Tulsa World wrote that Cosby's "recent movies stink. Cosby's last movie, Leonard Part 6, has become synonymous with "bomb." Ghost Dad does nothing to improve Cosby's track record." Caitlin Creevy of the Chicago Tribune gave the film half a star, calling the film an "embarrassment." Ghost Dad currently has a "rotten" 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
• The Giant Claw (1957): A monster movie about a giant bird "...as big as a battleship" starring Jeff Morrow as a pilot. The Giant Claw has gone down in history as one of the worst movies ever made, with some referring it as "The Citizen Kane of bad B-movies", mainly because of its terrible special effects. The bird in particular is considered one of history's worst movie monsters, being an unconvincing marionette puppet with a very odd face. The film is riddled with stock footage, making continuity a serious issue. Jeff Morrow, the star of the film, went to a screening of the movie; the audience laughed and sneered when they saw the ridiculous bird monster, and reportedly Morrow walked home drunk. This was the only "worst B-movie" to be distributed by a major motion picture studio, which featured it on a double bill with The Night the World Exploded.
• Godzilla (1998): Based on the popular Japanese monster of the same name, The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that only 25% of 63 sampled critics gave the film a positive review, with an average score of 4.7 out of 10. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average out of 100 to critics' reviews, the film received a score of 32 based on 23 reviews. In 1999, at the Huntley Hotel Garden Room in Santa Monica, California, the film won Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Supporting Actress for Pitillo and Worst Remake or Sequel. The film was also nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay.

Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four, noting that "One must carefully repress intelligent thought while watching such a film. The movie makes no sense at all except as a careless pastiche of its betters (and, yes, the Japanese Godzilla movies are, in their way, better - if only because they embrace dreck instead of condescending to it). You have to absorb such a film, not consider it. But my brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome." Ebert also pointed out on his review that the characters Mayor Ebert and his assistant Gene were Devlin and Emmerich's jabs at his and Gene Siskel's negative reviews of Stargate and Independence Day. Gene Siskel also commented on the parody characters arguing "If you're going to go to the trouble of putting us in a monster movie, why don't you at least take advantage of this by having the monster either eat or squash one of us?" In an entirely negative review, James Berardinelli writing for ReelViews, called the film "one of the most idiotic blockbuster movies of all time, it's like spitting into the wind. Emmerich and Devlin are master illusionists, waving their wands and mesmerizing audiences with their smoke and mirrors. It's probably too much to hope that some day, movie-goers will wake up and realize that they've been had." Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that the film "is so clumsily structured it feels as if it's two different movies stuck together with an absurd stomping finale glued onto the end. The only question worth asking about this $120 million wad of popcorn is a commercial one. How much further will the dumbing down of the event movie have to go before the audience stops buying tickets?"

Very close, but "Entirely negative review" isn't enough. We need reliable sources that is explicitly called the worst PLUS only one critic calls this film the worst.TD712 (talk) 17:55, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

• Godsend (2004): I think Godsend would be a viable candidate—could someone please add this to the article with the necessary references and explanation?
• Going Overboard (1989): Starring comedian Adam Sandler in his film debut, the film frequently ranks very "high" on the IMDb Bottom 100; currently at #11 as of April 24, 2015. The production was shot entirely on a cruise ship going from New Orleans to Cancun. The ship was going to the Miss Universe Pageant and was filled with beauty queens from all over the United States. The camera crew forgot to bring a box of lenses on the ship, so the director of photography was forced to shoot with the wrong lenses. Sandler was so ashamed of this film that it is not even listed on his official website. One reviewer said of the film, "If you hate Adam Sandler, you'll hate this movie. If you love Adam Sandler...you'll still hate this movie."

I tried to add this as a submission, but it was rejected because, as Czolgolz says, "nothing says this was one of the worst movies of all time". --MaxamillionSmart (talk) 13:08, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

• The Gong Show Movie (1980): movie based on the 1970s TV show The Gong Show.
• Gotti (2018): Nobody suggested about this Razzie-nominated stinker starring John Travolta as John Gotti (of which we know little about). Espngeek (talk) 14:31, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
• Great White (1980): The movie is widely decried as an Italian-made copy of Jaws, with its many similarities to Jaws and Jaws 2. Its release in theatres was blocked after Universal Pictures sued the film's makers and won the case. Appeared in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.

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• Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982): Bewildered fans of the first two films by having nothing at all to do with them, and making no sense on its own.
• HaMal'ach Haya Satan (The Angel Was a Devil) (1976): The Angel Was a Devil (filmed in 1971, released in 1976) is an Israeli horror film about a young woman fleeing a murderer that has been described by Meir Schnitzer, a leading authority on Israeli cinema and by others, as "the worst film ever made in Israel." Moshe Guez was the film director, scriptwriter, star, cinematographer, recorder, editor and the composer of some of its original music. Due to the high concentration of crew positions, the production missed out on the subsidy for full-length Israeli movies that is almost automatically given to local productions. The production and distribution were plagued by many additional problems, including impacts of the Yom Kippur War, script and actor changes, and the instant bankruptcy of its final distributor. In 2011, Avida Livny released the documentary Looking for Moshe Guez, describing the film and a search after its director in Israel and the US. The creator released a slightly improved digital version of his movie in 2016.

• Called the worst Israeli movie ever by one critic, but not the worst or even one of the worst movies ever. benǝʇᴉɯ 17:55, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

• Happily N'Ever After (2007): The film was panned by critics. Most of the criticisms included poor animation, lazy casting, tepid jokes, and a large number of critics felt the plotline was ripping off Shrek and Hoodwinked!. On its opening weekend it only grossed $6.6 million. According to Rotten Tomatoes, it only has a 4% critical approval rating on the tomatometer (and a very rare 0% in the "cream of the crop" division), yet it received a 3.1 average rating.
• Havana: Robert Redford starred opposite Lena Olin in this disappointing drama about the Castro-led Cuban Revolution that most people forgotten about. Espngeek (talk) 04:52, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
• Himmatwala is a Bollywood action film directed by Sajid Khan. Written by K. Raghavendra Rao and Sajid Khan, the film casts Ajay Devgn, Tamannah Bhatia and Paresh Rawal on the lead roles and is the remake of the 1983 film of the same name. This is the lowest rated Bollywood film on IMDb, with a mere score of 1.7 out of 7,310 reviews. Won the Surfer's Choice Awards for the Worst Film of the Year, the Golden Kela Award for the Worst Actor (Ajay Devgn), Worst Film (Sajid Khan) as well as the Worst Sequel/Remake Award (Sajid Khan) and the Ghanta Award for the Worst Film and the Worst Director (Sajid Khan). The film flopped greatly at box-office with an estimated loss of US$9,729,120 at 2013.{{Efn|Budget - $10,000,000

• Described as worst of the year but not of all time.LM2000 (talk) 07:15, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

• Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016) - very negative reception and four razzies, but no sources that claim it to be one of the worst films of all time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Epomis87 (talk • contribs) 14:51, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
• Holmes & Watson (2018): Critically panned, but only considered the worst of 2018.
• Holy Man (1998): Clumsy story of a holy man who reinvigorates a floundering Home Shopping Network by telling the truth about its products. Holy Man received an 11% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
• Honey (2003): Starring Jessica Alba as Honey Daniels, a hip hop dance choreographer whose dream is to star in music videos. Panned by critics and audiences alike, the film was on the IMDb Bottom 100.
• Honest (2000) has been ranked among the Top 10 vanity projects, and one critic remarked, "It is the worst kind of rubbish, the kind that makes you angry you have wasted 105 minutes of your life watching it."[28]; however, it is not widely known outside of the U.K.
• The Honeymooners (2005): The movie Honeymooners needs to be added. It is a recent addition to IMBb's worst movies of all time.
• The Horror of Party Beach (1964):Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured The Horror of Party Beach in 1997, and the film was listed in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. Del Tenney directed it, and the plot mainly consists of sea monsters attacking young women at slumber parties on an East Coast beach, who keep returning even after a few murders. The New York Times film review stated, "The most to be said for him is that he has not stinted on the gore." Thomas Lisanti in Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959–1969 called it "by far the worst of the sixties beach films", and Stephen King called it "an abysmal little wet fart of a film". Joe Meyers in the Hearst newspaper blog for the Stamford Advocate said on Del Tenney's passing: "Connecticut had its own Ed Wood, an actor, director and entrepreneur named Del Tenney who made a series of truly awful pictures in the Stamford area during the 1960s, the most notorious of which is Horror of Party Beach, a 1964 drive-in quickie about an atomic mutation that terrorizes Stamford ('Party Beach' was actually Shippan Point)." It is also listed in Michael Sauter's The Worst Movies of All Time.
  • Featured on MST3K and included in two books but no individual assessment calls it "the worst".LM2000 (talk) 11:45, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
• Howling: New Moon Rising, Critical reception for New Moon Rising has been predominantly negative and TV Guide remarked that the movie was "a new low for the franchise." Cinema Crazed and Dread Central both heavily panned the film, and Cinema Crazed commented that "Asking anyone to watch “The Howling: New Moon Rising” should be punishable by jail time and some kind of psychological examination."Bloody Disgusting also gave a negative review, stating that the movie "ranks right up there with Troll 2 as the most hilarious bad movie ever made" and that they believed that the movie kept the names of the actors and the town to "cut down on the people forgetting each others names because they had a hard enough time remembering their lines" It is also considered to be one of the worst movies ever made and also the worst of "The Howling" franchise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.211.145.142 (talk) 02:41, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
• Hudson Hawk (1991): Starring Bruce Willis, this movie was a notoriously panned big-budget flop and a "winner" of three Razzie awards for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay (which Willis co-wrote). Star Richard E. Grant tells in his autobiography of how the script was extensively rewritten during filming. Over the years, it has garnered a fanbase, who see it as an over-the-top parody that most people didn't "get" when it came out. Ears4life (talk) 17:07, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Hudson Hawk was a box office bomb. Part of the reason for the box office failure is that the film is clearly intended as an absurd comedy and yet was marketed as an action film one year after the success of Die Hard 2. When the film came to home video the tag line "Catch The Adventure, Catch The Excitement, Catch The Hawk" was changed to "Catch The Adventure, Catch The Laughter, Catch The Hawk"

Hudson Hawk has a Rotten Tomatoes has an average rating of 3.6. At metacritic all but two critics gave it a negative review. Roger Ebert named Hudson Hawk on his list of worst movies of 1991. Both Siskel and Ebert did not like Hudson Hawk. Critics at MSN Movies gave it 1 star. Hudson Hawk was nominated for the following categories in the 1992 Razzie Awards but did not win: Worst Actor (Bruce Willis), Worst Supporting Actor (Richard E. Grant) and Worst Supporting Actress (Sandra Bernhard). The film was nominated for and won the following categories in the 1992 Razzie Awards: Worst Director (Michael Lehmann), Worst Picture (Joel Silver), Worst Screenplay: Daniel Waters, Steven E. de Souza, Robert Kraft (story) and Bruce Willis (story), and Worst Actor (Bruce Willis). It was also nominated in 2000 for Worst Picture of the Decade.

Hudson Hawk has the dubious distinction of being the final film produced by TriStar Pictures prior to their being bought out and merged with Columbia Pictures (which was going through similar financial difficulties). Because the movie (in conjunction with other unsuccessful movies from the same studio) had lost so much money, the Sony Corporation had to salvage TriStar by purchasing its remaining stock, and by reorganizing the company as part of the recently-formed Sony Studios. As with United Artists when they were bought out by MGM, Columbia and Tri-Star were allowed to keep their own logos, and to continue making movies under their own names.

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• The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022): A poorly-received spin-off sequel to Ice Age: Collision Course and the sixth installment to the Ice Age released by Disney+. Originally planned to be a television series, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild was redeveloped into a feature-length film. Simon Pegg was the only original cast member to return to the sequel, to voice Buck. The film was widely panned by critics for its recasting of its main actors, lack of primary focus on the titular character, animation quality, the absence of Scrat, Peaches, Brooke, Julian and Shira and the decision to continue the franchise without the involvement of Blue Sky Studios.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 22% of 32 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.9/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 30 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

Courtney Howard of Variety gave the film a negative review, saying how the story's focus is on the major characters of the previous Ice Age films, rather than solely on the titular Buck. She also points out the problematic disability representation and how the animation is "akin to a late-stage pre-viz pass", ending the review saying that the film "should've remained on ice." Natalia Winkleman of The New York Times said that she was disappointed to see the film replace almost all of its celebrity voices and stated that of all the "sins" in the movie, the omission of Scrat was unforgivable. Giving the film a D+, The A.V. Club's Jesse Hassenger compared it to Disney's other direct-to-video sequels, saying: "The new direct-to-streaming Ice Age sequel is a generic chunk of content." Mark Kennedy of the Associated Press gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, writing: "Visually and storytelling-wise it's not a cut above much of what kids can watch on TV these days. This is a franchise that looks like it's slowly going the way of the dinos, while we drool." Laura Miller from The Michigan Daily wrote that she was somewhat disappointed in the cast change and the "elementary plot", but said that she was most upset that the film was not made for the same audience as the past Ice Age films.

• The Ice Pirates (1984): In the future, water is a priceless substance. Space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and enlisted to help find her father. This Space Opera has sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, castrating machines, monsters, bar fights, time warps and inexplicable blobby monsters.
• The Incredible Torture Show, later released as Blood Sucking Freaks (1976): Lacks the references required for it being labeled as one of the worst ever made.
• InAPPropriate Comedy (2013): InAPPropriate Comedy was screened to critics in advance but, it has been widely panned by critics, with it being called worse than Movie 43, a film released two months prior that was considered one of the worst films ever made. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 0% , also based on 5 reviews. On Metacritic, it holds a 1/100 meaning “overwhelming dislike”.

• Needs more than one review calling it worse than a film on this list.LM2000 (talk) 12:28, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

• Intensive Care (1991), a Dutch action horror/slasher, starred the popular Flemish singer Koen Wauters, in hope of attracting more people to the theaters. The plot centers around a surgeon (George Kennedy) who survives a car accident that leaves him horribly burned and puts him in a coma for seven years. When he awakens he starts a murdering rampage for no particular reason. He stalks the film's protagonists – a young girl, her brother and her boyfriend (Koen Wauters) – and tries to kill them, once again without the audience ever being informed what his motivation is and how he manages to survive numerous attacks that would horribly injure any normal person. To top it all off, Kennedy is obviously replaced by a different actor.

The film failed to make a huge profit and was demolished by the critics. De Volkskrant reviewed it as: "A movie where every aspect goes so disastrously wrong that it almost seems like a parody." Yet it quickly gained a cult following due to its bad acting, unconvincing special effects, poor English pronunciation, and a hole-ridden plot. In one of the most infamous scenes, the girl's boyfriend lies on the floor, bleeding due to stab wounds, which causes her to remark, "Moet ik een pleistertje voor je halen? Jeetje mina!" (Translation: "Shall I get you a little band-aid? Golly gosh"). The picture is traditionally shown during each edition of the Dutch-Belgian B-movie festival Nacht van de Wansmaak and has frequently been called "the worst Dutch movie ever." Due to this reputation it has been honored in the "Hall of Shame" of the festival.

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• Jaws: The Revenge (1987): Jaws: The Revenge is rated 25 of the worst sequels ever made by film critics and it earned the lowest amount from the franchise and received poor critical reception. It scored a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and received $5 Million less than its predecessor and contains many implausible scenes such as the Shark swimming from a New York island to the Bahamas (approx. 2000 km) under three days. It received a worldwide Box Office take of $51,881,013.

This movie has been removed several times, and while it might be the worst Jaws movie, it has no references making it one of the worst ever made. Sorry, just not notable enough. Fortdj33 (talk) 02:52, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

@Fortdj33 It is now. I re-edited its re-entry onto this list with more references than the one above it. 132453626236:CA (talk) 01:18, 7 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.190.23.109 (talk)

• Jury Duty (1995): Pauly Shore stars in this comedy that was considered by the publishers of Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide for a rating lower than the book's lowest rating of "BOMB". It also has a 0% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer [29] and Pauly Shore "won" for worst actor in the 1995 Golden Raspberry Awards.

Bad comedy? Yes. Worst ever? No. References making it one of the worst ever made have not been implied. Sorry, not notable enough for it to go there. 132453626236:CA (talk) 01:18, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

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• Karvat / (The Hair) (1974) is a Finnish erotic black comedy film, written and directed by Seppo Huunonen. It was loosely based on Lionel White's 1962 suspense novel Obsession, like Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 French film Pierrot le Fou. The Hair tells the story of a middle-aged man who becomes deeply involved with the affairs and criminal connections of a mysterious girl. Critics were scathing in their reviews. Eeva Järvenpää from Helsingin Sanomat summed up her assessment: “The Hair is trying to offer sex and humor, a show and momentum, violence and drama. In all of this, it fails miserably.” Timo Malmi from Ilta-Sanomat considers the film to be one of the "worst Finnish films ever" and in his assessment calls the film's “plot so confusing and tense that its progression is not even interesting, and the "alternative" fantasy ending does not make the viewing experience any easier.” In connection with the 2011 DVD release, Janne Rosenqvist from Film-o-Holic site found something positive in the film as well: “At its best, The Hair offers smooth physical black comedy spiced with jazz, but the outright obsession with experimentation is too much of a burden.”
  • One source calls it "one of the worst Finnish films", we need more citations.
• The Killer Shrews (1959): In this film, a mad scientist creates shrews the size of dogs, which were actually dogs with fake hair and fangs glued on them. One of the stars of this film, James Best, went on to play Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard. Appeared in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. Also appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
• King's Ransom (2005): Anthony Anderson portrays Malcolm King, an obnoxious but rich businessman who stages his own kidnapping to avoid paying a heavy divorce settlement to his wife. In the process, various film cliches like the mistaken identity and the bumbling white guy (Jay Mohr) come into play, but no plot devices could save this movie from ignominy. While relatively benign in comparison to the other films on the list, it deserves a spot nonetheless for its mix of offensive "humor" (Charlie Murphy has a cameo as a gay gangsta), a barely-discernible plot, and next to no comedic value. It is currently Metacritic's third-worst movie of 2005 (behind Chaos and Alone in the Dark), but it is also the 19th-worst movie ever made according to that metric, checking in with an extremely low score of 11/100.

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• Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006): This movie, starring Blue Collar TV's Larry the Cable Guy, was panned by critics and bombed at the weekend box office during its release in March 2006. Within three days of its release, it already had the #1 spot on the IMDb Bottom 100 though it now holds a top 20 position within the list. It also currently has a 4% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. [30] Lou Lumenick of the New York Post described it as "For masochists only" and "virtually unwatchable and laugh-free." [31]

There are several new movies on the IMDb Bottom 100, Aquamarine, ATL and Medea's Family Reunion being some of them; all of which received average reviews on RT. Yes, it was a bomb and received horrible reviews, but there's little likelihood it'll be remembered in three weeks; also, Lumenick is a rather tough critic. If it won't be remembered in three weeks, it's forgettable, not one of the worst ever.Ohyeahmormons 01:48, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Last Action Hero: a self-parody of action star Arnold Schwarzenegger, and his first serious box office failure (considered bad by some, but by far not by all: IMDB Rating of 5.4/10).
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• The Last House on the Left (1972): Leonard Maltin and Gene Siskel both rated this movie "no stars", rare occurrences for both critics. However Roger Ebert has always spoken favorably of the film, and it has therefore achieved cult classic status among horror fans.

The Last House on the Left, and some telling of how depressing and hopeless it was. (Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune said that he "would only recommend it to my worst enemies, [and] even then I'd flinch.") At an L.A. screening, the audience was given copies of Roger Ebert's zero-star review (a rarity for him, although he also gave one to Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo the same weekend) as well as their response letter defending it. At the Q&A after the screening, the director (David DeFalco, a former wrestler) talked of how "hardcore" it was, adding that he was a "demon" and "the king of violence and evil;" however, when the audience began attacking the film, he and the producer began defending the film as a "cautionary tale." The audience then pointed out how the film was exploitative, which prompted DeFalco to essentially threaten the audience ("You saw what was on the screen, you know what I'm capable of"). Even the actors in the film are ashamed of it, having crashed the L.A. screening to criticise the film and DeFalco; they originally signed on to do a remake of Last House on the Left, but the film was changed into its current form and they were obligated by contract to work on it.

Is this talk of a remake? "Last House" was directed by Wes Craven not David DeFalco.

Answer to above question: This is actually referring to the film "Chaos" - a 2005 film directed by David DeFalco which is a "Last House" ripoff.

• Leave the World Behind (2023): Sam Esmail's film adaptation of Rumaan Alam's 2020 apocalyptic thriller novel of the same name, co-executive produced by former U.S. president Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama. While it was well-received by critics (73% on Rotten Tomatoes and 68 on Metacritic), it was widely panned by audiences for its screenplay and themes, particularly its ending involving a character losing all of his teeth in reaction to sonic blast sounds and New York City being bombed.
• The Lonely Lady (1983): A drama film directed by Peter Sasdy, adapted from the 1976 novel written by Harold Robbins, The Lonely Lady, starring Pia Zadora, was a critical and commercial failure. Roger Ebert opened his review saying that "If The Lonely Lady had even a shred of style and humor, it could qualify as the worst movie of the year. Unfortunately, it's not that good." John J.B. Wilson, who included it in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, wrote: "In rough cut, The Lonely Lady was one of the funniest bad movies ever made." Dennis Schwartz called it "A true candidate for one of the worst films ever." Zadora herself said that The Lonely Lady was "a real turkey, done very badly", that she "knew it was bad all along" and that despite being taken seriously by its director it became a "camp classic, one of those movies that's so bad it's funny."

The film was nominated for eleven Golden Raspberry Awards (a record at that time until being surpassed by Showgirls with 13 nominations) and won six: Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Musical Score, Worst Original Song ("The Way You Do It"), Worst Picture, and Worst Screenplay. It was the first movie to win more than five Razzies. It was also nominated for a Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Worst Picture as well as for a Razzie for Worst Picture of the Decade, but lost to Mommie Dearest, and for Worst Drama of the Razzies' First 25 Years, but lost to Battlefield Earth. Zadora's performance in this film and Butterfly also led to her being nominated for three special Razzies: Two in 1990, for "Worst New Star of the Decade", which she won, and "Worst Actress of the Decade", where she lost against Bo Derek, and "Worst Actress of the Century" in 2000, where she lost against Madonna. The film has a 0% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 12 reviews.

• Only called "one of the worst" once; the rest of the reviews either call it the worst of the year or simply bad. benǝʇᴉɯ 16:52, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

• Lost Horizon (1973): A unanimously panned musical remake of the original Frank Capra classic, starring Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, and John Gielgud; hailed as the worst movie of the year by Esquire. John Simon observed that it "must have arrived in garbage rather than film cans."

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• Machhli Jal Ki Rani Hai (2014): Machhli Jal Ki Rani Hai is a Bollywood film directed by Debaloy Dey.[1] The film stars Bhanu Uday, Swara Bhaskar, Murli Sharma and Reema Debnath. It is scheduled to release at 13 June 2014. A sequel to the movie is also on cards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Troydevinny545 (talk • contribs) 12:40, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
• Mad Dog Time (1996): Gangster movie, probably intended as a comedy, with a voice-over at the beginning explaining that it takes place in an alternate universe. Roger Ebert comments in his zero star review that this flop (renamed Trigger Happy for video release) "is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time" [32].

WHAT? How could this film not be on the list? Can someone provide an explanation? --Hmdwgf (talk) 16:31, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

• Marci X (2003): Lisa Kudrow stinker about rap music owned by a white Jewish princess featuring Major Payne as gangsta rapper Cleopatra Orlando Jones. Espngeek (talk) 21:38, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
• Material Girls (2006): This film received bad buzz from the promotion period to the actual release. The opening weekend saw a gross of $4.62 million in over 1500 theaters. It has received an abysmal 6% of the critic's approval [33] from Rotten Tomatoes, a low average score of 17 out of 100 from Metacritics [34], and was immediately ranked number one on the IMDb's Bottom 100 list after only a week of release [35] with 1.6 out of 10. So far, the production has very low anticipations for its international releases after very negative receptions in their original production country (United States). People also predict that one (mainly Hilary) or both of the Duff sisters may be a shoo-in for a Razzie nomination(s).

Other movies, such as Little Man and Phat Girlz, went to #1 on the Bottom 100 right after its release. For that reason, the IMDb Bottom 100 is not reliable. Although $4.62 out of 1500 theaters is a flop, it isn't exactly a huge loss. Besides, if the criteria for "Worst movies ever" is bad reviews and bad box office, the list would be endless. I also found this statement to be quite POV (A shoo-in for Razzie nominations? That seems to be one's two cents than an actual prediction). Ohyeahmormons 17:21, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

• Mean Combat aka The Losers aka Nam's Angels (1970): Bikers bolt machine-guns to their rides and rip up war-torn Vietnam. Dire even when I was 13. So bad it gets a cameo as a motel movie in Pulp Fiction. How much more cult can you get?
• Millennium (1989): Science fiction film criticized for an outrageous plot, terrible acting, and showing basically the same shots twice from different camera angles for the second half of the film.
• Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996): Film that, despite its title, is more of a frightening horror film than a family-oriented fantasy adventure. Stars Ernest Borgnine as a grandfather who tells his children frightening tales as a cautionary lesson. Appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in its last season, and topped the IMDb Bottom 100 in mid June 2005.
  • "You're WELcome" Espngeek (talk) 20:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
• Mesa of Lost Women (1952): Low-budget fantasy film which features an enlarged image of a puppet spider, sent by a mad scientist played by Jackie Coogan to destroy everything. Won the award of "Most Primitive Male Chauvinist Fantasy" in the 1986 book, Son of Golden Turkey Awards, and included in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.
  • From the maker of If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (1971) Espngeek (talk) 20:03, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
• Miami Connection (1987): Despite being called the worst film of that year by The Orlando Sentinel, it's not enough to be on this list... (even for tough guys). Espngeek (talk) 02:37, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
• Mister Magoo (1997): Disney's live action version of the cartoon character starring Leslie Neilsen as the myopic (nearsighted) millionaire who continually mistakes things for other things. Of ironic note was the disclaimer at the end of the movie to the effect that "the preceding movie was not intended to offend or make light of the problems experienced by the visually impaired". Many audiences nevertheless felt that this was an insult to their intelligence.

What is it with your writing style? It's as if you knew that your writing was complete nonsense, so you tried to cover it up by using up a source on every single word. Don't come back to this article until you find more eligible sources claiming it to be the worst ever. End of story. 172.190.24.104 (talk) 15:34, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

• Mitchell (1975): Joe Don Baker plays the direct antithesis of almost all fictional detectives: an overweight, unkempt, unlikeable, incompetent, alcoholic detective. He seems to spend most of his time between seemingly unconnected plotlines in that the burglar shooting early in the movie and John Saxon's shady lawyer character seem to have no connection to Martin Balsam and Merlin Olsen's drug smuggler characters. Mitchell's sleeping with a prostitute, the slow car chase, the argument with the kid, and the somewhat borrowed Key Largo ending are among the other interesting elements of this movie. This movie, along with Manos: The Hands of Fate, has achieved unexpected cult status through Mystery Science Theater 3000 (widely suggested as the only way one should view this film), much to the displeasure of Jon "BUZZ OFF" Baker.

In it's defense, the MST3K version (which is all most people have seen) is heavily edited, and the full picture without the cuts makes much more sense.

• Moment by Moment (1978): Love story between John Travolta (playing a character named Strip) and Lily Tomlin. The movie was so unsuccessful it was never released on video. Critic John Simon referred to it as "Aeon by Aeon". Named worst movie of the year by Esquire magazine.
• mother! (2017) Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the Biblical and Gaian allegory mother! divided critics and audiences. Despite a Rotten Tomatoes score of 69%, the film attracted several strongly negative reviews from critics, with Rex Reed in the New York Observer calling it "the worst movie of the century", Kyle Smith in the conservative National Review describing it as "the vilest movie ever released by a major Hollywood studio", and Michael Heaton for The Plain Dealer naming it "the worst movie I have ever seen". The Daily Telegraph noted that social media reaction was similarly split, with "some calling it a masterpiece, others proclaiming it the worst film they've ever seen", and the film was one of only 20 ever to receive an F grade, the lowest, from movie audiences as tracked by CinemaScore. Aronofsky and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem were all nominated for the 38th Golden Raspberry Awards. Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian, who had given the film five out of five stars in his review, suggested that the film suffered more from mis-marketing and the audience expectations from casting Hunger Games star Lawrence than its own merits or flaws. A deliberately non-committal review from The Globe and Mail gave the film lowest and highest marks simultaneously, and suggested that it was "a once-in-a-lifetime film, whatever that means to you".
  • The warning on the top of the talk page says that before adding a film "Ensure that it is widely considered one of the worst films by a broad spectrum of both casual and professional film critics". That's most definitely not the case with mother!. Some critics really hated it, but it had a mostly positive reception (69% on Rotten Tomatoes, 75 score on Metacritic). No broad spectrum. Aquila89 (talk) 08:06, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997): Directed by John R. Leonetti, this movie has earned the wrath of Mortal Kombat fans and critics alike, earning 4% on Rotten Tomatoes [36]. Jeff Vice of The Deseret News of Salt Lake City called it "A dopey, badly acted and headache-inducing bore".
• My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008) A Meg Ryan vehicle that is supposedly a romantic comedy, the film tends to fall flat on its jokes and fails to even bring life to the cliched story. Another problem was the focus of Ryan and her face being botoxed. The film was released in theatres internationallly but is given a direct-to-DVD treatment in the United States. There are no reviews for the movie in Rotten Tomatoes as of now.
• Music (2021) One of our first contenders for the worst films of the new 2020s: Sia's directorial debut, nominated for four Razzies (winning three in the process), two Golden Globes and the title for the worst autistic movie ever made to the point of controversy. I (a person with autism) just think it's a quirky Oscar bait at worst. Too early? Espngeek (talk) 19:58, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

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• New York Minute (2004): Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's first foray into feature films (after years of direct-to-video features directed toward their pre-teen fanbase), earned $5.6 million, the lowest for any film playing at 3,000 theaters.

"New York Minute was Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's first foray into feature films (after years of direct-to-video features" ...and It Takes Two. If a source considering it the WORST EVER has New York Minute, it could be readded. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.191.49.24 (talk) 22:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

• No Holds Barred (1989): The movies was launched as an attempt to boost Hulk Hogan's acting career several years after his appearance in Rocky III. The movie was heavily promoted on World Wrestling Federation television. No Holds Barred currently has a 3.6 rating at the Internet Movie Database, while at Rotten Tomatoes it has a rare 0% Both Siskel and Ebert gave it thumbs down. Siskel called it "miserable" and "a really awful type of film". He also said a girl walked out about halfway through the film and "you have to make a film pretty bad for a child to walk out of the picture." Ebert said "you get jokes about people soiling their pants, about overflowing urinals, about all kinds of vulgarity, all kinds of digusting behavior...little kids ... are just going to be offended and disappointed in it."
• Norm of the North (2016): An American computer-animated comedy film directed by Trevor Wall and starring the voices of Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, and Bill Nighy, Norm of the North was reported to have a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 35 reviews, although it currently stands at a rating of 9% based on 64 reviews. The film has a rating of 21 out of 100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". The film received negative reviews from The A.V. Club, Empire, The Los Angeles Times, The Observer, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, and Variety. Cartoon Brew, Metro, and /Film all noted Norm of the North's scathing reviews, with Olivia Waring of Metro predicting that the film "may even go down in bad movie history with The Room and Gigli".

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• Old Dogs (2009) A comedy film from Walt Disney Pictures directed by Walt Becker and starring John Travolta and Robin Williams, along with a few other actors such as Seth Green and Bernie Mac (in his final film role) playing supporting roles, Old Dogs was panned by critics, currently holding a 5% on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert started his review for the film by saying "'Old Dogs' is stupefying dimwitted. What were John Travolta and Robin Williams thinking of? Apparently their agents weren't perceptive enough to smell the screenplay in its advanced state of decomposition". He gave the film one star out of four. The Orlando Sentinel's Roger Moore gave Old Dogs a rating of one and a half stars out of a possible four. He wrote "The new comedy from some of the folks who brought us Wild Hogs is badly written and broadly acted, shamelessly manipulative and not above stopping by the toilet for a laugh or two." Tim Robey of The Telegraph savaged the film, saying, "Old Dogs is so singularly dreadful it halts time, folds space and plays havoc with the very notion of the self." He added to the review, "Being a film critic is a wonderful job, but there are weeks when the bad film delirium strikes and we’d all be better off in straitjackets. A colleague opined to me the other day that this might be the deadliest run of releases in his 20-year history on the job, and I can completely see that." He also said, "You'd have to hate your family to take them to this!" He gave the film zero stars. Carrie Rickey gave the film a more positive review, with a rating of two and a half stars out of four. Rickey commented of the multiple cameos in the film, "A child of 5 can see that these brief appearances serve to pad a gauze-thin script." Old Dogs may not be good. But the sight of pesky penguins pecking Travolta and Green in the embrace of an unlikely partner makes it just good enough." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The A.V. Club said the movie was not recommended for adults or children. Old Dogs was nominated for four categories during the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor for John Travolta, Worst Supporting Actress for Kelly Preston and Worst Director for Walt Becker, but lost to All About Steve. Despite the horrendous reviews, the film did well at the box office, earning $96,753,696.
• The Omega Code (1999): the most successful Christian movie of all time

How is this accurate?

Yes, arguably a dreadful movie, but not as successful as The Passion of the Christ, among others. Should this be changed?

I dropped it from the list until a source for "worst ever" is cited.

Note: Passion of the Christ wasn't technically a 'Christian' film, there's a difference between Catholicism and Christianity (not by much really, but there is), plus generally 'Christian films' refers to movies made by Christian companies, which sadly, Omega Code was mostly made by the TBN people; 'Passion' was just a Mel Gibson project that happened to get embraced by some in the religious community. Regardless, I've never heard of Omega Code being successful at all, it blew big time even if one ignores the biblical inaccuracies (which is diffult since they tried to make it the point of the movie.) Dannybu2001 16:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Catholicism is a devision of Christianity - check the sources right here at wiki. I think the difference your referring to is between Protestants and Catholics.

• The One and Only (2002) starring Patsy Kensit was concieved as a film to promote a better image for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne receiving funding from the City Council and regional agencies. It was screened for a total of five days in a Newcastle cinema and failed to find distribution. -- I moved this from the article. Movies fail to secure distribution for lots of reasons: the apparent criteria for being included in the article require at least one critical citation of the movie's badness. Ellsworth 17:06, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• One Missed Call (2008) The American remake to the original currently holds a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus,"One of the weakest entries in the J-horror sweepstakes,One Missed Call is undone from bland performances and shopworn shocks." Also Rotten Tomatoes gave it the mouldy tomato award for the Worst Movie of 2008. It grossed $45,847,356 on a $20 million dollar budget and the film is also criticised for borrowing plot elements from other movies.
  • I removed this entry from the list for lack of references Fortdj33 (talk) 16:00, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012) Less said about this Razzie-nominated B.O. bomb based on an obscure kids' show infamous for their PSAs, the better. Espngeek (talk) 17:49, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
• The Oscar (1966) Some freeloader's opinion on this cinematic birdseed doesn't fit in this article. Espngeek (talk) 22:58, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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• Paint Your Wagon (1969): Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood sing (enough said).

Enough said? Not really. Paint Your Wagon, despite being a weird idea, isn't utterly terrible.

• Petey Wheatstraw (1978) aka "Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-In-Law": The Devil offers a man the chance to return to earth if he agrees to be the Anti-Christ and marry the ugliest woman on Earth—the Devil's daughter.

Petey Wheatstraw knows EXACTLY what it is, though. It's a low-rent Rudy Ray Moore vehicle, with no apologies for being such. It could almost be considered intentionally bad, if the sequence where Rudy Ray Moore uses his magic powers to turn a fat woman skinny so she can get out of her lawn chair is any indication. I fucking love this movie. -HX 17:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

• Pink Flamingos (1972): Directed by John Waters and starring Divine, this movie is notorious for trying to be as disgusting as possible. Certainly the sex scene involving a chicken would be hard to surpass unless, of course, one were to watch the scene where Divine eats freshly excreted dog feces. From this description the reader should readily apprehend whether he/she is likely to regard the film as nauseating, or as one of the best ever made.
  • Now on the National Film Registry. Espngeek (talk) 15:40, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
• Pinocchio (2002): Roberto Benigni's adaptation of the beloved classic fairy tale (which also tanked at the B.O.) got negative reviews for the dubbed version done by Miramax. However, the original Italian release was met with mixed response. Espngeek (talk) 14:45, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
• The Postman (1997): Two years after the controversial Waterworld, Kevin Costner involved himself in another post-apocalyptic film. This time, it was an adaptation of the novel by David Brin. Unlike Waterworld that received mostly mixed reviews and did well at the box office, the film was widely panned by critics and was more of a financial failure - the $80 million film made only $18 million at the North American box office. Siskel & Ebert gave The Postman "Two Thumbs Down", with Siskel calling it "Dances with Myself" (in reference both to Costner's Oscar-winning film Dances With Wolves and the Billy Idol song "Dancing with Myself"; Ebert also referred to the end of the film, in which a bronze statue of The Postman is unveiled. James Berardinelli of Reelviews called the film "dumb and riddled with gaping holes of logic, and the dialogue sounds like it was penned by a hack writer." The film is ranked at 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Postman took home five Razzies for Worst Picture, Worst Actor, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Original Song for its entire film score. It won an award for every category in which it was nominated — the first time this had occurred in Razzie history (with Battlefield Earth also accomplishing this feat, winning seven out of eight Razzies, with both Forest Whitaker and Barry Pepper being nominated from the same film for Worst Supporting Actor).

Not explicitly cited as the "worst movie of all time". Despite that only 10% of critics gave the film a positive review, its average critic score on Rotten Tomatoes is a 3.8/5, its score on Metacritic is a 29. It holds very moderate audience scores on Metacritic, IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. Failed to win Worst Movie of the Decade Razzie. Nominated for Best Science Fiction Film in the Saturn Awards. Swarm ^X 07:13, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

• Poultrygeist (2007): B-movie company Troma Entertainment's final film, a box office bomb received poorly by the public, resulting in the independent film company's demise.[37] The film is directed by Troma president Lloyd Kaufman, and written by a former fluffer for Ron Jeremy and gay porn star Gabriel Friedman (who is also the film's editor) with Daniel Bova and Lloyd Kaufman. It was produced by Andy Deemer and Kiel Walker. The plot of the film involves a fast-food restaurant being attacked by chicken zombies. The plot's conceit, which is a parody of the Poltergeist film series, is that the restaurant is built on an ancient Indian burial ground, and the Indian spirits have merged with the dead chickens to create chicken zombies. In what director Kaufman claims is a "fromage" (Kaufman's pun on the term "homage") to the film The Happiness of the Katakuris directed by Takashi Miike, the film has a series of musical numbers. Principal photography for the film took place during the summer of 2005. The first Troma film to be funded out-of-pocket, director Lloyd Kaufman paid for the film with personal funds, it was also the last film by Troma Entertainment before the company folded later that year.
  • The facts that this was Troma's last movie and that the company closed down in late 2007 are entirely false; while it was produced dirt cheap, it is far from being Troma's "last" movie and Troma itself, as of March 22, 2019, is still operating today. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.101.248.181 (talk) 14:33, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

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• Raise the Titanic (1980): Based on Clive Cussler's book, this was the first attempt to film one of his novels. Reviews were atrocious, and audiences heavily ignored the movie, which had been criticized for a weak script and the casting of Richard Jordan as Dirk Pitt. Cussler himself admitted he didn't like this movie version of the book. Speaking of the film's titanic losses, producer Lew Grade reportedly commented "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic."
• Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985): Although it was a smash hit at the box office by racking up over $150 million and being the second most successful movie of 1985 (behind Back to the Future), it could not be spared the wrath of critics and Razzie-voters alike. Critics say that the second Rambo replaces the emotional depth and plot that made First Blood such a well-made movie with mindless shoot-em-up action scenes. Others say that this movie is pro-American propaganda, since they feel that it is an excuse for patching up the failure that the United States suffered in Vietnam. The second Rambo was nominated for seven Razzies, in which it won four (including Worst Picture of 1985, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Actor). The film earned $300.4M worldwide.
• Ready to Rumble (2000): Considered to be one of the worst films of 2000. David Arquette and Scott Caan play port-a-potty cleaners (which in and of itself leads to plenty of toilet humor) who are dedicated WCW wrestling fans. The dimwitted duo attempt to help restart the career of their favorite wrestler, Jimmy King (played by Oliver Platt). To help promote the film, Arquette was given a brief run as WCW Heavyweight Champion. WCW fans hated the idea with a passion, and Arquette himself thought it was a bad idea. Flopped both critically and at the box office; in his Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin gives it one and a half stars, and calls it a "lowbrow timewaster," and the film only made a little more than $12 million domestically. The film has a 25% rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Both the movie and Arquette's title reign were inducted into the WrestleCrap archives.

Yes a bad movie, worst of year, maybe but not one of the worst ever made --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 16:21, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

• The Real Cancun (2003): Hyped to the public as the first ever reality movie (the equally unsuccessful From Justin to Kelly being the second), this $8 million project grossed less than half its budget at just $3.7 million in its third week of release. Nominated for a Razzie for Worst Movie of 2003.

From Justin to Kelly was not a REALITY picture (leaving The Real Cancun to be the ONLY one.) Also the "Razzie for Worst Movie of 2003" award was actually called Worst Picture. It has been that way since it was first awarded on 31 March 1981. Go back to the Wikipedia article about this film and GET A CLUE! Add more references to the film as well. Do that! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.191.49.24 (talk) 22:09, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

• Redline (2007): An action film about racing exotic cars. It has a zero percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, and has a 3 out of 10 star rating at the IMDb. This movie stars Eddie Griffin, Nadia Bjorlin, and Nathan Phillips and became best known for Griffin's behind-the-scenes incident, when he crashed a rare Enzo Ferrari worth over $1 million for the movie's promotion.
• Red Zone Cuba or Night Train to Mundo Fine (1966): apparently budgetless independent film from Coleman Francis and Anthony Cardoza attempts to re-enact the Bay of Pigs invasion with fewer than a dozen extras.
• Robotech the Movie: The Untold Story: Intended to bridge the gap between Macross and Southern cross segments of the Robotech series, this animated film was created by merging animation from anime OAV Megazone 23 and anime TV series Southern Cross. After an unsuccessful test run in Mesquite, Texas, it was pulled and permanently shelved by Harmony Gold U.S.A. Executive producer Carl Macek reports being unhappy with the film after distributor Cannon films demanded too many changes from his original vision and is said to have disowned it. Those few Robotech fans that have seen it, mostly via rare bootleg tapes, tend to agree that it's better that it was never widely released.
• R.O.T.O.R. (1988): Robocop/Terminator knockoff that's worser than two skeletons making love in a tin coffin. Espngeek (talk) 02:08, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

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• The aforementioned Samurai Cop (1990) Espngeek (talk) 19:53, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
• Santa Claus: The Movie (1985): the Dudley Moore epic from 1985.
  • Only 6 words to say about the movie? You must have been asleep when you inserted this entry. Besides, the Nostalgia Critic reviewed it and said that it isn't that bad.
    • Any mention of the 1959 nightmare-fuel classic of the same name? Espngeek (talk) 14:11, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
      • Or 1972's Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny? Espngeek (talk) 20:55, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
• Santa with Muscles (1996): Features professional wrestler Hulk Hogan in a Santa Claus outfit, fighting with Ed Begley, Jr. for control of mysterious crystals beneath an orphanage. Featuring a Clint Howard cameo, this film has repeatedly dipped to the number one spot on the IMDb's bottom 100, thanks in part to a campaign by professional wrestling fan-site Wrestlecrap.

Zero critics gave it a positive review at rottentomatoes. Santa With Muscles has been named one of the worst Christmas movies ever by moviefone. Chris Hicks of The Deseret Times says "Hulk Hogan, who makes Arnold Schwarzenegger seem like Laurence Olivier, stars in this kiddie picture as an eccentric (what else?) billionaire who gets hit on the head and thinks he's the real Santa Claus. --Kekkomereq4 (talk) 06:32, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

• Satan Met a Lady (1936): A adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon reworked as a drawing room comedy, generally seen as unfunny. Bette Davis starred and declared it the worst film she had ever made and one of the worst of all time. It was poorly received and considered very stagy in the worst sense of the term.

While poorly received, it is not considered to be one of the absolute worst films of all time. (Ibaranoff24 12:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC))

• There is something wrong with this list: where is Saturn 3 (1980)? Espngeek (talk) 19:53, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
• Savage Vengeance The film's star, Camille Keaton, refuses to speak of the film or its production. Her reasons for this haven't been made clear, but it has been rumored that she left the set before the end of the production, hence the film's abrupt end. Her only reference to appearing in the film came at a horror convention in 2005, when asked by a fan to explain her involvement in the movie, she replied: "I'm sorry, I can't speak about that." It has a 2.0 out of 10 on IMDB and is also considered to be one of the worst movies ever made. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.211.145.142 (talk) 02:49, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

• Scream (1981), as well as the end of the "Treehouse of Horror II" episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer notices that Mr. Burns's head is affixed to his body. Also appeared in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. -Aranel ("Sarah") 01:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Scream never appeared in the documentary. And I really don't see what that Simpson's episode has to with this.

I'm stopping now. If I wanted to be truly ruthless (actually I kind of do, but I don't want to be stoned), there are more that aren't supported by much in the way of actual evidence. I tended to leave ones that were the only ones in their sub-group because I did't want to mess up the alphabetical listing. I'm not saying that this films don't deserve to be listed, just that I think they should have better citations. (You are welcome to disagree.) -Aranel ("Sarah") 02:06, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978): a script written around unrelated Beatles tunes combined with some impressive musical cameos turned into a recipe for disaster.

As if we didn't know. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was actually BASED on The Beatles album, the songs WERE related, and it was based on their influential 1967 album. This is basically someone giving crap opinions over a bad film. 172.191.49.24 (talk) 22:25, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm readdding with different text. There's a lot of bad reviews of this film with a cast that includes many of rock's royalty.--75.6.154.98 (talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

More of a camp classic. Espngeek (talk) 01:18, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

• Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue: an obscure poorly-dubbed live action Snow White sequel from 1965 nobody saw. Espngeek (talk) 04:52, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
• Shanghai Surprise (1986): Starring Madonna and Sean Penn, it was considered one of the worst films of that year. It received six nominations to the Razzie Awards; Madonna won one for "Worst Actress".

This movie has a 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating, but it based on only 5 reviews. That's far too small of a sample size.

• • The above entry is undated, so I'm unsure how long this has been disputed, but I have again removed this film in 2021.LM2000 (talk) 18:00, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
• Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021): a sequel to the more beloved original 1996 cult classic that took its premise and made it into nothing but Warner Bros. product placement. Won two Razzies including Worst Actor for LeBron James.
• Sproet 2 (Fleck 2) (2003) Viewers of Dutch pay TV moviechannel Film1 voted this movie as the worst movie ever made by a Dutchman - in this case director Ben Verbong. In the movie, the pixielike character Sproet can make wishes come true by pushing the flecks ('sproeten' in Dutch) on his body. In the same list, Adrenaline was voted second worst. The budget of this movie was so low that scenes had to be filmed in public locations, which was later explained by director Roel Reiné as being artistically relevant "guerrilla filming".
• Starcrash (1978): Star Wars knock-off featuring Marjoe Gortner (subject of a 1972 Oscar-winning documentary), pre-Knight Rider David Hasselhoff, Christopher Plummer, a Southern-accented C3P0, scantly ladies and a score by John Barry that is mostly a camp classic. Espngeek (talk) 22:41, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
• The Starfighters (1964): A "bold" Air Force epic (also featured as an episode of MST3K) full of refueling scenes set to beautiful music, poopie suits and phone gags. Espngeek (talk) 20:35, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace(1987): the last film in the Christopher Reeve series of Superman films (in this case, produced by Cannon Films), and co-starred Mark Pillow as the villain Nuclear Man. Despised by fans and critics alike, it is the lowest-grossing film in the series, only taking in $15,681,020 at the North American box office. Many critics pointed out the film's poor screenplay, acting, and special effects (such as a scene in which Superman repairs the Great Wall of China with his super-vision), while some have criticized it for its lack of attention to the comic book source material. Such special effects led Rita Kempley of The Washington Post to call it "one of the cheesiest movies ever made". Film critic Jeffrey Lyles voiced similar hatred, claiming that the film "isn't just one of the worst comic book films, it's one of the worst films ever made". Superman IV holds an 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 44 reviews.
  • One source calls it "one of the worst", need more high quality citations.LM2000 (talk) 07:24, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
• Swamp Diamonds (1956): Roger Corman's Louisiana-set classic starring Beverly Garland and Mike "Touch" Connors featured on MST3K. "SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHUT UP!" Espngeek (talk) 20:24, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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• Teenage Strangler (1964): Obscure drive-in fare made famous by MST3K-"And he didn't steal no bike neither. I DID!" Espngeek (talk) 13:11, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
• Teenage Zombies (1958): Jerry Warren was a director in the early 1960s known for editing foreign films and making them into new movies by adding new footage filmed by himself. This is his second most famous, behind 1981's Frankenstein Island, which were films he actually made from scratch (he clearly did better bowdlerizing others' films). Appeared in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.
• The Telephone (1988): Whoopi Goldberg tried to sue actor-director Rip Torn so the movie would never see the light of day; she lost. Whoopi earned a Razzie nod for Worst Actress but lost to Liza Minnelli in Arthur 2: On the Rocks and Rent-A-Cop. The movie didn't end up ruining her film career; two years later she won an Academy Award for Ghost.
• That Hagen Girl (1947): A period melodrama about Shirley Temple who's convinced she's the illegitimate daughter of Ronald Reagan. Reagan tried to greatly distance himself from the picture, to the extent that Michael Medved in reviewing it for his works on bad movies had difficulty in obtaining a copy. It was cited on a 10-worst list in The Book of Lists.
• The Thing With Two Heads (1972): Film starring Oscar-winner Ray Milland as a wealthy bigot who demands that his head be transferred onto the body of Rosey Grier's character. Spoofed and referenced on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and others. Espngeek (talk) 22:48, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
• Town & Country (2001): This romantic comedy about life cost $90 million and pulled in $6.7 million at the box office. In his book, A Year at the Movies, Kevin Murphy cites it as the worst film of 2001.

More of a "bad in its release year" film. Bad box office and cite from the MST3K guy is simply not enough; needs more cites before being re-added. Dannybu2001 18:15, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009): This highly budget sequel of the film based on the toys, Transformers, was panned by critics almost everywhere, despite it being the third biggest opening film right after The Dark Knight and also the fourth highest-grossing film of 2009 worldwide (behind Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Based on 227 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Revenge of the Fallen received an average 20% overall approval rating. Metacritic, in turn, gave it an average score of 35 out of 100 from the 32 reviews it collected. There has also been considerable negative reaction to the characters Mudflap and Skids, who are alleged to embody racist stereotypes. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times said that "the characters [...] indicate that minstrelsy remains as much in fashion in Hollywood as when, well, Jar Jar Binks was set loose by George Lucas". The film was nominated for 7 Razzie Awards including "Worst Picture", "Worst Screenplay", "Worst Director" and "Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel" and won in the "Worst Picture", "Worst Director", and "Worst Screenplay" category.

Here we go again with epic fail citations. It still is not considered the worst movie ever made. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.190.70.92 (talk) 00:48, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

• Troll (1985): A horror/fantasy film with laughable special effects and a queer concept. As famously odd as its sequel, this film was included in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.
• Troppo belli (2005): In Italy, the 2005 Italian comedy film is widely considered one of the worst films of all time. Aside from doing extremely poorly at the box office, Star Costantino Vitagliano won the Fiaschi d'oro award for worst actor, while it was nominated for several others.
  • Despite claims that it is "widely considered one of the worst of all time" no sources actually indicate this.LM2000 (talk) 01:01, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
• Tron (1982): Originally considered a flop, it is undergoing a critical re-evaluation by a later generation and has acquired a cult status (IMDB rating: 6.3/10).
  • One of my favorites ever Espngeek (talk) 04:53, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

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• U.F.O. (1993): UK "comedian" Roy 'Chubby' Brown stars as himself in what is really a stand-up show for sexist jokes with a slow story. IMDb reviewers criticize it, even calling it a British alternative to Freddy Got Fingered.
• Undiscovered (2005): Carrie Fisher and Ashlee Simpson starred in this 2005 movie which was not screened in advance for critics and only has a 5% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes [38]. In its first weekend (August 26–28, 2005), its per-screen average was a mere $518. The second week, it set a dubious box office record by falling 86 percent - worse than the 82 percent suffered by Gigli in 2003. Critic Tom Long said: "All this silliness swirls around for about an hour and a half and then you get to leave the theater. Unless you're being held there at gunpoint. And really, that's about the only excuse for being in a theater watching this thing in the first place." [39]
  • Undiscovered may have flopped at the box office, but it had little hype to begin with.

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• Vampire In Brooklyn (1995): Starring Eddie Murphy in a pseudo-love story directed by horror guru Wes Craven. The film is generally regarded as uneven, combining the scares of a romance movie with the passion of a B-grade horror flick. It received an 8% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, and was additionally blighted by the death of Angela Bassett's stunt double on the set in a horrific fall.
• The Vizconde Massacre: God Help Us! (1993): Written and directed by serial comic artist turned filmmaker Carlo J. Caparas, this Filipino film is based on the multiple homicide of the Vizconde family in June 1991; and as such is advertised as a re-telling of the events that may have likely culminated to the crime. Made purely on speculation rather than concrete evidence, it was produced as a way of capitalizing on the case. Despite The Vizconde Massacre being a commercial success; with local audiences hungry for "some emotional release" on the unsolved crime; it was critically panned for its black-and-white characterizations, inept directorial choices, and wall-to-wall musical cues. Lourd de Veyra, in a scathing essay of the film for his anthology book This Is a Crazy Planets, wrote: "While film critics were heaping hate on [The] Vizconde Massacre, audiences were filling the cinemas to the rafters. And Carlo Caparas laughed all the way to the bank." It would spawn a slew of titles in 1990s Filipino cinema colloquially known as "massacre movies", exploitation films cashing in on recent murders ripped straight from the news headlines. A reboot-sequel, The Untold Story: Vizconde Massacre II, followed in 1994; albeit was not as commercially successful.

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• Who's Your Caddy? (2007): The film opened to extremely negative reviews. In particular, many critics have deemed it a "terrible rip-off" of Caddyshack. It holds an extremely low 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.
• The Wild World of Batwoman (1966): Featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, where Crow summed up the plot as: "It looks like they just put a whole lotta movies in a blender and turned it on really fast!" Also holds a 1.7 rating on IMDB, thus qualifying it as the #14 on the IMDB bottom 100 (as of August 14, 2005).
  • "END! END!" Espngeek (talk) 04:54, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
• Windows (1980): Anti-lesbian effort by acclaimed cinematographer Gordon Willis released in the same year as the cult classics Dressed to Kill and Cruising. Espngeek (talk) 11:29, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
• Wired (1989): The infamous John Belushi biopic based on one of Bob Woodward's lesser-known books where the only good quality was Michael Chiklis's performance (thank you, Cinema Snob).Espngeek (talk) 01:38, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
• Wolf Creek (2005): Based on a series of real events including murder, Wolf Creek was called one of the most violent and sadistic movies of all time. Film critic Roger Ebert gave it a rare zero stars out of four. He wrote; "There is a role for violence in film, but what the hell is the purpose of this sadistic celebration of pain and cruelty? There is a line and this movie crosses it. I don't know where the line is, but it's way north of Wolf Creek. I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking." [40] One such reviewer did just that, Seattle Times critic Moira Macdonald, said she walked out of her first movie. She called watching the movie 'punishment' and wondered how someone's real death inspired this "entertainment".[41]

This film and its write-up are not up (or should I say, 'down'?) to the accepted standards of the purpose and scope of this article. Dannybu2001 06:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok, safe to say its not for everyone. Sure some people like it, but it's a small minority. Some people worship Alone in the Dark, Showgirls, Battlefield, Batman and Robin etc, and all of those are listed here. It was put under gratuitousness because it's just that, gratuitous. It was only made to show gore for no other reason that to show gore and blood. Not really anything else unlike most other horror movies. I saw it, I can deal with a "gorey" movie, but without any reason for it, its just watching a slaughterhouse. Don't worry, I'm not putting it back on, but thats my side.--The great grape ape is straight out of the know 05:35, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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• Xanadu (1980): Despite winning the Razzie for Worst Director and other stuff, the film maintained a fan following (best-selling soundtrack, etc.) to the point of Broadway adaptation. Espngeek (talk) 19:06, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
• xXx (2002): Action/thriller starring Vin Diesel, in what many seem to be one of his worst performances ever. Diesel plays a character who is summoned by an NSA employee to take down a terrorist organization in Europe. Among the critics and public, it is a controversial like/hate movie.

I think it is important to note the sequel XXX: State of the Union was significantly worse, but still not bad enough to be on the list. -- 109.79.75.126 (talk) 04:01, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

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• You Got Served (2004): This dance film went straight to the top (bottom?) of IMDb's worst 100 film list in the immediate aftermath of its release. The contrived plot, Lil' Kim's cameo, and incomprehensible dialogue were instantly spoofed in the South Park episode "You Got F*cked in the Ass".

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I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Would making this page subpages (for example, Talk:List of films considered the worst/Removed films/A, Talk:List of films considered the worst/Removed films/B, Talk:List of films considered the worst/Removed films/C...) of Talk:List of films considered the worst/Removed films be better?.

~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 13:36, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

It's a bit confusing. Is it an article or not an article? It doesn't seem to belong in mainspace, yet it is. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 02:22, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Restored the page to its original location. ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 10:13, 16 April 2021 (UTC)