Bad Movies You Must Avoid

by mikelarson479 | created - 26 Nov 2011 | updated - 18 Jun 2015 | Public

I've seen a lot of bad movies in my lifetime, but these ones stand out as being ESPECIALLY horrendous. Do NOT watch these movies. Unless you're a masochist.

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1. Scooby-Doo (2002)

PG | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

35 Metascore

After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on.

Director: Raja Gosnell | Stars: Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini

Votes: 125,445 | Gross: $153.29M

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid! STUPID! Why is it live-action films based off of children's shows from the 60s, 70s, and 80s always suck donkey testicles? I mean, we got Rocky and Bullwinke, the Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Smurfs, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Inspector Gadget, and this disgrace to the beloved mystery show! Don't get me wrong, the acting is superb, but everything else is just ridiculous.

2. Alone in the Dark (2005)

R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

9 Metascore

A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Frank C. Turner

Votes: 46,999 | Gross: $5.18M

Pitiful acting, nonsensical story arcs, numerous plot holes, boring and laughable dialogue, badly-executed fight scenes... Seems to live up to all the expectations one could have for an Uwe Boll film.

3. Battlefield Earth (2000)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

9 Metascore

It's the year 3000 A.D., and the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos. Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, who are unaware that their 'man-animals' are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.

Director: Roger Christian | Stars: John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Barry Pepper, Kim Coates

Votes: 83,069 | Gross: $21.47M

The winner of Worst Film of the past decade (the same decade as Freddy Got Fingered, Alone in the Dark, The Cat in the Hat, Scooby-Doo, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Birdemic, Gigli, I Know Who Killed Me, and Pearl Harbor). This doesn't even SEEM like a real sci-fi film. It looks like someone just took all the first takes and gag real of an actual sci-fi film and put them together, resulting in a poorly-constructed amalgamation of torture and stupidity. Oh, and John Travolta gives an ANUS of a performance.

4. The Legend of the Titanic (1999)

G | 84 min | Animation, Drama, Family

A grandfather mouse tells his grandchildren the "real" story of the Titanic disaster, including himself, evil sharks, a giant octopus, and an evil whaling scheme.

Directors: Orlando Corradi, Kim Jun Ok | Stars: Gregory Snegoff, Francis Pardeilhan, Jane Alexander, Anna Mazzotti

Votes: 3,640

How would you describe this? A. An abomination. B. A mockery. C. A horrible piece of unbearable goat *beep* The correct answer is D. All of the above. This movie is an INSULT to all the people who died on board the Titanic. It's more like a half-assed piece of anti-whaling propaganda than it is an account of the famous ship. This movie actually ENRAGES me, it's that bad.

5. The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)

PG | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

30 Metascore

A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.

Director: George Miller | Stars: Jonathan Brandis, Kenny Morrison, Clarissa Burt, John Wesley Shipp

Votes: 27,529 | Gross: $17.37M

The first one was strange enough. But at least the first one was entertaining. This one makes NO *beep* SENSE at all! However, I've heard that the third one is even worse. I became convinced of that once I saw just one review of it. So even though I'm never going to watch the third one, I'd recommend avoiding it, too.

6. Epic Movie (2007)

PG-13 | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

17 Metascore

A spoof on previous years' epic movies (The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) + 20 more), TV series, music videos and celebs. 4 orphans are on an epic adventure.

Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer | Stars: Kal Penn, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, Adam Campbell

Votes: 109,522 | Gross: $39.74M

This is the only one of those dumbass parodies entitled "_____ Movie" that I've managed to sit through, but it's still pretty bad. Wait, "pretty bad?" Who the hell am I kidding; it's horrid!

7. Black Christmas (2006)

R | 95 min | Horror

22 Metascore

On Christmas Eve, an escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Director: Glen Morgan | Stars: Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, Katie Cassidy

Votes: 30,621 | Gross: $16.24M

I never saw the original, but it HAS to be superior to this repulsive hunk of ass. It's just violence galore. I enjoy movie violence as much as any other movie-goer, but there has to be a POINT to that violence. If this were to count as a holiday movie, I would have to rank it amongst the second worst ever made, behind the "Star Wars Holiday Special" (I haven't seen that one either, but I can determine by myself that it's horrible, based off a review I saw.)"

8. The Omen (2006)

R | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

43 Metascore

An American official realizes that his young son may literally be the Devil incarnate.

Director: John Moore | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, David Thewlis

Votes: 62,690 | Gross: $54.61M

Another remake that disgusts me. Once again, I never saw the original with Gregory Peck, but I'm pretty sure it made a lot more sense than THIS. This movie is just monumentally boring, stupid, and a real waste of time. Aside from that, half of the characters are just DUMB-ASSES who never take a break from being dumb-asses.

9. RV (2006)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

33 Metascore

Bob Munro and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies, where they must ultimately contend with a bizarre community of campers.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, JoJo

Votes: 63,550 | Gross: $71.73M

It's hard to describe how terrible this one is. I mean, what idiots actually thought that this would be at all charming or enjoyable to watch? It's downright DISGUSTING from start to finish.

10. The Cat in the Hat (2003)

PG | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

19 Metascore

Two bored children have their lives turned upside down when a talking cat comes to visit them.

Director: Bo Welch | Stars: Mike Myers, Spencer Breslin, Dakota Fanning, Alec Baldwin

Votes: 87,965 | Gross: $101.15M

I didn't even want to see this one when it came out. When I was ten, my Mom practically forced me and my nine-year old sister to see it at the theaters. Of course, she regretted it afterwards, and my Mom is a very intelligent woman, but still; I find it rather odd how she couldn't tell that a movie was going to blow when even her freakin' pre-teen kids could. Needless to say, it's disdainfully bad. Also, I'm rather surprised that they got Mike Myers to play the title role. Was Jim Carrey busy or something?

11. Jaws 3-D (1983)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

27 Metascore

A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.

Director: Joe Alves | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett Jr.

Votes: 48,218 | Gross: $45.52M

It's nowhere near as bad as the next one, but it's still very badly-executed. The visuals are dull, the acting is unbelievable, and the characters are very bland.

12. Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

15 Metascore

Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young

Votes: 49,543 | Gross: $20.76M

I *beep* HATE this one. I hate it, hate it, hate it. I HATE IT! I hate it more than Roger Ebert hates the movie "North." The story line is completely nonsensical. It is not scary, it is not engaging, it is not at ALL enjoyable to watch. How this movie managed to avoid "winning" any Razzies other than "Worst Visuals" is beyond me. The shark is actually the funniest part of this piece of cow crap instead of the scariest. It's so funny because it's so unrealistic. There is NO effort to make it look real. It's more fake and artifical than the acting from the Phantom Menace.

13. Dirty Love (2005)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Romance

9 Metascore

A jilted photographer goes on a mission to get back at her philandering model boyfriend and along the way discovers that not all love is created equal.

Director: John Asher | Stars: Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Carmen Electra, Victor Webster

Votes: 7,417 | Gross: $0.06M

I've never done drugs, consumed alcohol, or had a mental disorder. So I have no idea WHAT I was possibly thinking when I decided to watch this. Fortunately, I watched it late at night, so I don't remember that much about it. But I managed to retain the worst parts in my memory. Jenny McCarthy is typically not a fair actress. In this film, she's about as plausible as Madonna at acting. Also, Carmen Electra's performance is remarkably bad. Aside from the terrible acting, the plot itself makes no sense, and it is not interesting at all. Most of the people on camera actually appear to be reluctant to be there. Frankly, I can't blame them.

14. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998)

G | 96 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

35 Metascore

Scientists genetically create a new Pokémon, Mewtwo, but the results are horrific and disastrous.

Director: Kunihiko Yuyama | Stars: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Rica Matsumoto

Votes: 46,025 | Gross: $85.74M

In some ways, Japanese animated films are often superior to American animated films. The Japanese have produced numerous animated masterpieces, such as Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away (which is considered to be the second best animated film ever made behind Toy Story 3), and Princess Mononoke (one of my top 22 favorite movies). However, the Japanese are just as capable as we are of taking whatever they pull out of their asses and transforming it into an animated movie. Don't believe me? Just look at how *beep* well THIS movie and its sequels turned out! Aside from how its audience is incredibly limited to children who are fans of the franchise, it has characters more bland than plain lima beans, the tediously repeated message of "fighting is wrong" is completely hypocritical, and the way they bring the protagonist back to life is one of the dumbest things I have EVER seen in my life.

15. Funny Games (2007)

R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

44 Metascore

Two psychopathic young men take a family hostage in their cabin.

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet

Votes: 103,788 | Gross: $1.29M

This is the THIRD remake to appear on this list. This one is a shot-for-shot replica of the Spanish original. The one up-side to this movie is Naomi Watts. She is the only one that seems to be taking it seriously, and she manages to convey the emotions properly. Everything else is just a pain to sit through.

16. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

50 Metascore

Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie

Votes: 60,966 | Gross: $14.40M

Aside from the fact that this film has NOTHING to do with the others in the franchise, this movie is unique in the way that its main plot is comical, horrifying, and ridiculous. Sure, like the antagonist, I'm not very pleased that All Hallows' Eve went from a day of banishing the demons from the world in preparation for All Souls' Day to nothing more than the concept of children dressing up and going door-to-door, asking for treats. But that isn't enough to incite genocide! Seriously, what hack scriptwriter thought this up anyway? It's just plain stupid.

17. The Brothers Solomon (2007)

R | 93 min | Comedy

32 Metascore

A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.

Director: Bob Odenkirk | Stars: Will Arnett, Will Forte, Jenna Fischer, Chi McBride

Votes: 11,459 | Gross: $0.90M

I will admit that the "sign in the sky" segment is funny. But everything else is torture to sit through. In fact, Richard Roeper himself walked out of this movie. That was the first time he ever did it! That goes to show how bad this one is; Richard Roeper himself couldn't get through it! Yet I could. Strange... It's still pretty freakin' dumb. That pretty much sums up what's wrong with this movie.

18. The Last Airbender (2010)

PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Family

20 Metascore

Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel

Votes: 174,807 | Gross: $131.56M

The series was epic. It was an animated show that combined adventure, action, humor, tragedy, suspense, and romance into a beautiful amalgamation of wonder. This movie sucked. Some idiots just took the few flaws of the series and used them to make this movie. I had no idea what was going on; there was some material that I did not even recognize. It took a great show and turned it into nothing.

19. Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

67 Metascore

In 1961, a divorced Catholic couple's life is turned upside-down when one of their two adolescent daughters is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of subsequent stabbings.

Director: Alfred Sole | Stars: Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard, Niles McMaster

Votes: 12,939

This movie is just obnoxious. The suspense fails, the acting is medicore, and the plot is just outrageous. Also, this movie is ANNOYING. And I mean, INCREDIBLY annoying. It's more annoying than Pauly Shore, Tom Green, and the entire Kardashian family combined. I still can't believe I didn't turn it off before it was over! 'Cause now, I wish I did.

20. Barney's Great Adventure (1998)

G | 76 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

44 Metascore

A talking purple dinosaur leads a group of children on a hunt for a large missing egg.

Director: Steve Gomer | Stars: George Hearn, Shirley Douglas, Trevor Morgan, Alan Fawcett

Votes: 3,643 | Gross: $11.14M

I will admit that I enjoyed this movie when it first came out. Of course, I was *beep* five years old at the time. Now that I'm older and I have a better perception of the world, I can safely tell you this: KEEP AWAY FROM THIS ONE! No one over the age of seven could EVER possibly find it entertaining. Also, the songs are monotonous and mostly unoriginal, the suspense is unnecessary and over-the-top, and the main plot makes you want to shout "DO YOU REALLY THINK WE GIVE A *beep* ?" Seriously, it's so condescending that it makes the Care Bears Movie look like 300.

21. I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

16 Metascore

A young woman who was missing reappears, but she claims to be someone else entirely.

Director: Chris Sivertson | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough, Bonnie Aarons

Votes: 30,881 | Gross: $7.50M

I about near fell asleep while watching this. Now, I wish I HAD fallen asleep. I wouldn't have had to remember this failure. The plot jumps around more than an episode of Family Guy, and the acting makes me want to pour boiling water into my ears. This is one of the many reasons why Lindsay Lohan's career has never really gotten anywhere.

22. A Troll in Central Park (1994)

G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An evil Queen banishes a flower loving troll named Stanley (Dom DeLuise) to New York City, where he befriends two young children.

Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman | Stars: Dom DeLuise, Cloris Leachman, Charles Nelson Reilly, Jonathan Pryce

Votes: 7,289 | Gross: $0.07M

Boring as hell, and unbelieveably condescending. This has GOT to be the most pathetic excuse of a children's movie I've ever has the displeasure of seeing.

23. Titanic: The Legend Goes On... (2000)

Not Rated | 90 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

A Cinderella meets her Prince Charming on the ill-fated Titanic. Along for the ride are a rapping dog, other talking animals, and an assortment of wacky humans.

Director: Camillo Teti | Stars: Lisa Russo, Mark Thompson-Ashworth, Gisella Mathews, Silva Belton

Votes: 9,629

Horrendous. That's all I can say about it. It's a horrendous piece of *beep* Everyone who helped make this movie should be HANGED, it's that bad. I've seen both versions of it (the version reviewed by the Nostalgia Critic AND the extended versin), and I can safely say that this is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.

24. House of the Dead (2003)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

15 Metascore

A group of college students travels to a mysterious island to attend a rave, which is soon taken over by bloodthirsty zombies.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer

Votes: 38,549 | Gross: $10.25M

Inconsistency at its peak. I mean, talk about plotholes galore! Uwe Boll couldn't make a decent film if he got some type of divine revelation from movie legends like Frank Capra and John Ford! This one just had too much pointlessness to keep track of everything. That's all I can really say.

25. BloodRayne (2005)

R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

18 Metascore

In the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen

Votes: 37,189 | Gross: $2.41M

Despite a surprisingly convincing performance by Michael Madsen, this movie has very little redeeming quality. I will admit, it is slightly better than the other two Uwe Boll films on this list, but it's still mindess drivel. It's a real shame to see a well-renowned actor like Ben Kingsley waste his time on this junk.

26. Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)

Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Thriller

A horde of mutated birds descends upon the quiet town of Half Moon Bay, California. As the death toll rises, two citizens manage to fight back, but will they survive Birdemic?

Director: James Nguyen | Stars: Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore, Tippi Hedren, Janae Caster

Votes: 25,435

You hear that? That's the sound of Alfred Hitchcock spinning in his grave. That's also the sound of Al Gore banging his head against a wall. Whoever thought it would be a good idea to take a classic thriller like "The Birds" and rewrite it in modern-day with a painfully obvious environmentalist message and actors with nonexistent talent... that person must've had some "issues." To be honest, this seems like one of those amateurish videos you see on Youtube. Only it's an hour and a-half long.

27. Bio-Dome (1996)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy

1 Metascore

Moronic best friends get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, a science experiment, along with a group of environmental scientists for one year.

Director: Jason Bloom | Stars: Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, William Atherton, Denise Dowse

Votes: 29,716 | Gross: $26.76M

It has Pauly Shore. Need I say more? The premise for this movie actually doesn't seem that bad. But when you hire someone as untalented and moronic as Pauly Shore to play one of the main characters, you're in for a world of hurt. If you're brave enough to approach this one, get ready to be bored, irritated, and aggravated to tears. I apologize in advance to all Pauly Shore fans. All three of them.

28. Gigli (2003)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

18 Metascore

Larry Gigli is assigned by a crime boss to kidnap the brother of a prominent district attorney. A beautiful woman known only as Ricki is sent to stay with him to make sure he doesn't mess up the job.

Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Terry Camilleri

Votes: 50,716 | Gross: $6.07M

I saw this one fully expecting to dread and despise it by the end credits. I'm pleased to say my expectations were completely met! I still can't believe so many excellent people became insinuated with this filth. Not just the actors like Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, and Christopher Walken. But the director is Martin Brest; the same guy who directed Beverly Hills Cop an Scent of a Woman! I have never cringed so hard and so much in my life than I did while watching this movie. The dialogue makes my skin crawl, the characters are unlikable, and the plot is absurd.

29. Warrior of the Lost World (1983)

R | 92 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.

Director: David Worth | Stars: Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Fred Williamson

Votes: 2,879

Don't let the intriguing poster fool you. The movie was actually based off the poster; not the other way around. If not for the brilliance of Mystery Science Theater 3000, I would never have gotten through this blatant ripoff of Mad Max. Robert Ginty looks and sounds as though he couldn't give any less of a *beep* about being there if he tried, and the story involves the most generic corrupt, dystopian setting I've ever seen. I doubt there's anything original in this movie at all.

30. Mommie Dearest (1981)

R | 129 min | Biography, Drama

55 Metascore

The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.

Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva

Votes: 18,324 | Gross: $19.03M

I lost all respect for Faye Dunaway after watching this crapfest. Then again, I wasn't all that fond of her to begin with, but at least she managed to deliver a number of convincing performances in the 60s and 70s. However, this movie was when her career really went downhill. If the producers' goal was to make us abhor Joan Crawford and everyone who was ever affiliated with her, they failed. But they succeeded in making me dislike everyone who made this atrocity.

31. Chicago (2002)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

81 Metascore

Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs

Votes: 243,243 | Gross: $170.69M

Without question, the worst movie to ever win Best Picture. Especially when you compare it to the four vastly superior films it won the award over. It's about as feminist as a brothel, the main characters have absolutely NO likable facets, and it appears to take place in a world where murder is about as serious a crime as littering. Its only redeeming aspects are the always-fantastic John C. Reilly, the gorgeous Catherine Zeta-Jones, and the sensual dance segments. Sadly, they don't compensate for the movie's myriad of flaws.



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