A good movie can help make an evening. A bad movie, however, can ruin it.
We’re not talking about bad movies that we secretly enjoy, though. There’s nothing wrong with a guilty pleasure movie now and then. Lord knows I have several.
No, I’m talking about movies so bad that we can’t help but turn them off. These are the films so hated that moviegoers made sure their voices were heard. According to IMDb ratings, these are some of the worst movies of all time.
Disaster Movie
After the success of the 2000 horror spoof Scary Movie, Hollywood seemed to think it had the green light to parody anything and everything. Sadly, no one was around to stop them.
This isn’t the only spoof movie we’ll talk about on our list, but it’s far and away the worst. The 2008 parody film tackles a wide variety of then popular movies and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Twisted, Juno, and, for some reason, My Super Sweet 16? It tried to do way too much and didn’t succeed at anything.
Manos: The Hands of Fate
The only acceptable way to watch this trainwreck of a movie is by watching the Mystery Science Theater 3,000 episode of the same name.
While other notable awful films, such as Plan 9 from Outer Space, have a certain charm, Manos has zero appeal outside of being riffed on and made fun of.
Birdemic: Shock and Terror
The 2010 independent romantic horror-thriller (you read that right) is what happens when unskilled filmmakers only have a budget of approximately $10,000.
Like Manos, Birdemic‘s failures are all on a technical level, with little to no redeeming qualities available. Having said that, it received two sequels, so I guess someone out there liked it?
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Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Despite negative reviews, the original Baby Geniuses was a box office success that some people, and I’m not kidding when I say this, compared it to a modern-day Look Who’s Talking.
Its audience was no doubt thanks to the popularity of the Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats. To no one’s surprise, the film’s unexpected success led to a sequel, but Baby Geniuses 2 proved that the studio couldn’t capture lightning in a bottle twice.
Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
Do you want your holiday movies to be incredibly preachy and try to teach you a lesson about the true meaning of Christmas? Then Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas is the holiday film for you!
Cameron literally opens the film talking to the audience as himself and spends roughly 80 minutes explaining how atheism and consumerism have stolen Christmas. Oh, and Santa Claus is a Christian.
There are plenty of other movies that tackle how consumerism has tainted the Christmas season; stick with those.
The Hottie & the Nottie
Is there anything more 2000s than a Paris Hilton movie where she refuses to go on dates with people unless her ugly best friend also has a date? I didn’t think so.
The movie was already aging badly from the moment it was released, and it’s only gotten worse since then.
House of the Dead
Video game fans are, sadly, all too familiar with the work of Uwe Boll.
Movies based on video games already have a hard enough time finding success, but Boll is notorious for a string of truly awful films based on games. 2003’s House of the Dead may be his worst.
Son of the Mask
I grew up in the ’90s, so naturally, Jim Carrey’s The Mask was one of my favorite movies.
For some reason, a sequel was made 11 years after the fact, starring Jamie Kennedy, of all people, bearing little to no resemblance to the original film, except that it gave people a reason to see this bad comedy.
It kind of worked, seeing as it made $60 million at the box office, but that wasn’t enough to recoup its budget of nearly $100 million.
Radhe
The Indian movie industry has enjoyed success in recent years, most notably with 2022’s RRR. It’s opened up audiences to an entirely new market of enjoyable movies they would have otherwise missed out on.
2021’s Radhe, however, is something that you should keep missing. A remake of the 2017 South Korean film The Outlaws, Radhe is an incredibly generic action film where everyone seems to phone in their performance.
Epic Movie
Time for another spoof movie. This time it’s 2007’s Epic Movie.
The Scary Movie films were starting to run out, and filmmakers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer were turning their attention to new genres. Epic Movie tackles The Da Vinci Code, Borat, Pirates of the Caribbean, and other popular “epic” movies of the mid-2000s. If you like toilet humor, I guess you’ll find something to like here.
Pledge This!
The National Lampoon brand was once a calling sign for clever and enjoyable comedy. Classics like Animal House and Vacation remain as funny today as they were when they were released.
Even modern day National Lampoon films, such as Van Wilder, can be a guilty pleasure for some, myself included. The 2006 straight to video movie Pledge This! starring Paris Hilton, however, is anything but a guilty pleasure. At least it’s not as bad as The Hottie & the Nottie, though, right?
Battlefield Earth
John Travolta’s adaptation of the L. Ron Hubbard novel is an absolute disaster.
Operating on a budget of roughly $44 million, you have to wonder where all that money went. It didn’t go to the visual effects, the set design, or the camera work, because they’re all atrocious and off-putting.
Even the original screenwriter, J.D. Shapiro, blasted the film, saying that seeing the movie once at the premiere was “one too many times.”
Alone in the Dark
Uwe Boll is back, this time trying to adapt the once iconic horror franchise Alone in the Dark.
However, he didn’t get the memo that he should be basing this 2005 film on the original games, as they’re the good ones! Instead, he based things on the more modern releases, which are all hot garbage.
At least there’s a somewhat strong cast, featuring Christian Slater and Tara Reid.
Dragonball Evolution
Given the massive popularity and success of the Dragon Ball series, I don’t doubt that we’ll see a successful live action adaptation at some point. That day was not in 2009, though.
Series creator Akira Toriyama said that the script was not only “bland” but also failed to capture the spirit of the original series. I don’t blame him one bit there; it feels like a hollow, cheap cash-in of a film that has no desire to pay respects to its source material.
Foodfight!
I have to be honest: I have no idea this movie even existed. Given its impressive cast (Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Eva Longoria, Hilary Duff), that’s a pretty impressive feat.
Then again, the movie failed to meet its original planned release in 2003 and was quietly released in 2012. The constant product placement and style of humor may have been more at home in the early 2000s, but come the 2010s, it was all outdated.
Going Overboard
The 1989 comedy is Adam Sandler’s film debut, proving that before he made it big with Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, he had some stinkers that even rival Jack and Jill.
Going Overboard stars Sandler as a struggling comedian on a cruise ship. It failed to resonate with critics and audiences and would ultimately become just a trivia question in Sandler’s career. He joined the cast of Saturday Night Live a year later, and the rest was history.
From Justin to Kelly
Despite the massive popularity of American Idol in the 2000s, we absolutely did not need a movie starring the show’s original finalists, Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini.
Sadly, we did get a movie starring Justin and Kelly in 2003. Even diehard Idol fans knew to stay away from the film.
Gigli
I think there was something in the water in 2003, because From Justin to Kelly may not have been that year’s worst movie.
That distinction arguably goes to Gigli, the romantic crime comedy starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Did you know that the two were dating at the time? I sure did, because I’m pretty sure that was the only selling point during the movie’s marketing blitz.
Cats
I remember sitting in the theater watching the Cats musical for the first time and failing to understand the hype. Sure, “Memory” is a great song, but I don’t want to sit through two full Acts just to hear it.
At least the theater production is better than whatever this travesty of a film is, headlined by its nightmare fuel visuals. Someone, please, erase the movie from my memory.
Glitter
20th Century Fox.
Mariah Carey owns the holiday season thanks to the success of “All I Want for Christmas,” but when it comes to the movie industry, she’s better off watching films rather than starring in them.
Carey has since distanced herself from the movie, which is an excellent career decision. Glitter is plagued by some of the worst acting in movie history.
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