History Horrible / LiveActionFilms0ToF

* '''''Film/ArtemisFowl''''', a 2020 film adaptation of [[Literature/ArtemisFowl the book]], was released after years of DevelopmentHell, only to be panned by critics, hated by the book series' fanbase, and regarded as a black mark even for Disney's live-action filmography. What was a beloved book about the start of the adventures of a twelve-year-old VillainProtagonist is turned into a ClicheStorm about a boy genius setting out to save his father from a villain while securing an important MacGuffin. The plot is barebones, incoherent, and swaps out key elements from the books in favor of unfitting new ones. Characters barely act like themselves at best, and at worst barely look like themselves, as with Creator/JoshGad's Mulch, a casting decision they rewrote the lore around. [[FightSceneFailure The fighting sequences are clumsy at best]], and several well-liked characters from the books go completely wasted. The film only had a 10%/20% critic/audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Fans of the original book series were disgusted by the InNameOnly adaptation, even moreso by their hopes to make it a franchise. Even Disney itself didn't seem to have much faith in the movie, as they quietly released it directly to Creator/DisneyPlus instead of delaying it in light of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, as with other films from the era. WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdYo0clBfco talks about the movie here]], and gives the movie an F grade. [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews Dominic Noble]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88EfKm-V7k also reviewed the movie]] after having previously read the books and also found very little to like about it, criticizing the many unneeded changes made to the book in the movie. Sean "Smeghead" Moore of WebVideo/CinematicExcrement also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6sGTdjkV4U talks about it here]], citing he never read the books and then [[AdaptationDecay proceeded to point out inconsistencies even he noticed]]. The film was among those removed from Disney Plus in spring 2023, though it's unlikely to be one that will be missed.

* '''''Film/DeadlyLessons''''' isn't as well-known or infamous as films like ''Film/{{The Room|2003}}'' or its contemporaries, but those who have seen it all agree that it's awful. The film, directed, written by and starring Stuart Paul, who purposely left his name {{uncredited|Role}} for directing, opting to be labeled as Q. Mark ("Question Mark", ''gettit?''), is about Paul playing a seemingly magical "prophet without a god" named Simon Conjurer (apparently based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus Simon Magus]]), who's absolutely perfect in every possible way, who has to contend with a murder accusation concocted by his arch-enemy (played by Creator/JonVoight… no, really) while teaching a night class full of individuals with varying mental problems. The class helps clear his name while also confronting their own inner demons. Filmed in 2005 as ''The Legend of Simon Conjurer'' but never formally released until it was quietly released on streaming services in 2014, ''Deadly Lessons'' is a complete abject failure. The film has a wildly inconsistent tone, [[MoodWhiplash going back and forth between being a somewhat serious thriller and a bizarre catoonish comedy]] at a wild rate. Not only that, the film is honestly quite offensive in its portrayal of mental illness, implying that Conjurer can cure their problems in one night without any sort of issue ([[CureYourGays including homosexuality,]] [[BrokenAesop which is cured by the gay character watching Simon have sex with his love interest in the film]]). All of this is also ignoring the pitiful special effects, the slow pacing of the film's near two-and-a-half hour runtime, [[WTHCastingAgency Voight's absurdly cartoonish performance under excessively silly looking prosthetics and a fat suit]], the film's extensive IdiotPlot and its incomprehensible combination of absurdities and psychological elements.

* '''''Film/ChairmanOfTheBoard''''' was comedian Carrot Top's first ([[StarDerailingRole and only]]) major role in a feature film, starring him as an annoying inventor called Edison who inherits a business from a millionaire. With bad jokes, a stupid plot, and obnoxious acting, it's no wonder the film got Carrot Top a Razzie nomination for "Worst New Star", and his costar Raquel Welch another Razzie nomination for "Worst Supporting Actress". It currently sits on the Bottom 100 on Website/IMDb, has a 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and only made [[BoxOfficeBomb $181,222 out of its $10 million budget]], [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]] considers it one of the [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15047_inoperable-humor-5-worst-comedies-all-time.html five worst comedies of all time]], and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic took a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUZB4Ossjmk look at it here]] as does [[WebVideo/ObscurusLupa Allison Pregler]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoLA5XzkCZc on her review]]. The director and writer of this film, Alex Zann, would eventually go on to make fellow Horrible entry ''Film/WoodyWoodpecker'' (2017). It did at least provide an especially notorious episode of ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'' where all of Courtney Thorne-Smith's attempts to promote the film were ruthlessly torpedoed by fellow guest Creator/NormMacDonald:

* While Creator/{{Netflix}}'s documentaries tend to vary in quality, '''''Enter the Anime''''' is such a failure at what it sets out to do that it becomes downright infuriating to almost anyone familiar with the subject. Ostensibly about an outsider discovering the medium for the first time, what the "documentary" is ''actually'' about is a glorified advertisement for Netflix's anime roster, a fact made glaringly obvious by how ''every'' series highlighted is one on the platform (all the more blatant by the inclusion of ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania|2017}}'', which while admittedly very easy to confuse it for an anime series from Japan thanks to its visual design, is actually [[{{Animesque}} an American production]]), yet is not disclosed at all until the credits. As a documentary, the whole film fails miserably, lacking any coherency or through-line, with large amounts of {{Padding}} through random trivia and the host complaining about how difficult the documentary was to make, with actual ''interviews'' with industry professionals being reduced to short five minute sequences that lack detail and are over-edited to the point of being difficult to watch, and then-recent events (such as the Creator/KyotoAnimation arson attack) being glossed over. Perhaps worst of all however is that, despite the beginning openly attempting to dissuade old orientalist portrayals of Japan as inaccurate, the film itself embraces it to the point of painting the anime industry in an almost inhuman light, even taking comments relating to the industry's long history of worker abuse and framing it as pure artistic passion. Casual viewers gain no incentive to delve into the medium itself, casual anime fans will gain nothing that a quick search online can't easily grant, and anyone genuinely invested in the industry will likely be infuriated by the inaccurate and insulting portrayal of the medium, which has led to the film having a 2.5 on IMDB and an 8% on Google Play. Watch ''WebVideo/MothersBasement'' rip it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKlUNPymBqc here]] while Callum May of ANN highlights its faults [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/enter-the-anime/.149762 here]].

* '''''Film/DancinItsOn''''' could easily give ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' a run for its money in terms of being one of the worst dancing-themed romance flicks of all time. Rich girl Jennifer falls in love with Ken, a dancing dishwasher, at the hotel managed by Jennifer's father. The two have a [[ClicheStorm bog-standard romance]] which leads to a dance competition. Said father doesn't approve of Ken, and Ken is caught in a LoveTriangle with his existing dance partner [[AerithAndBob Shotsy]] (who has an unrequited love for him) and Danny (a golfer hired by Jennifer's dad to drive a wedge in between by dating Jennifer and convincing her that Ken and Shotsy are a couple). What could have been mediocre at worst is made awful for many reasons. First, the leads Witney Carson and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp were contestants on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' and ''Series/SoYouThinkYouCanDance'' respectively, and neither of them seem to have any acting skills (Wespi-Tschopp has not appeared in anything since, while Carson's only other notable role is becoming the LovelyAssistant on the game show ''Series/Catch21'' after it was UnCanceled in 2019). The writing is all over the place, with awkward and {{narm}}tastic lines, and the editing is confusing (at one point, the movie hard cuts to a war scene to explain David Winters' character's motivation for mentoring Ken). Many secondary characters come in and out so randomly and jarringly that their appearances stand out, including an [[EthnicScrappy annoying African-American doorman]] at the hotel who calls himself "The Captain" and appears only to spout "wise" and "witty" advice. It also has downright abysmal production values: the title card appears for ''half a second'', the lighting is all over the place, and for whatever unknown reason ''the entire movie'' has [[HongKongDub absolutely terrible ADR]]. The film grossed only $27,000 [[BoxOfficeBomb against an estimated budget of $13 million]], Website/{{IMDb}} users gave it 3.0, and the only mainstream critics who bothered to review the movie were uniformly negative. Watch Creator/BradJones tear it apart on ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n434qVTPtU here]] and again as WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOcQS039EQk here]].

* '''''Ed''''' is a supposed baseball comedy made to capitalize on both the "family monkey movie" trend of the mid-90s and the rising fame of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' star Matt [=LeBlanc=]. You get a man who's clearly wearing a chimpanzee suit, unfunny jokes, and an unappealing relationship between [=LeBlanc=] and Ed, and the film ended up becoming a flop with critics and audiences. Also, the movie doesn't seem to know what its audience is supposed to appeal, [[MoodWhiplash since there are a lot of cartoony moments to appeal to the kids, yet there are also some questionable moments,]] [[note]]like in one instance, the baseball players get drunk at a bar....which is then followed by a scene in which Ed drives high-speed back to home.[[/note]] To make things worse, there's a moment near the climax in which then-L.A. Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda makes an utterly pointless cameo in which he complains about Ed's missing presence[[note]]Apparently, Lasorda's purpose is that he wants Matt [=LeBlanc=]'s character to be signed up for the L.A. Dodgers after the former wins the game...but still.[[/note]], something that could've been taken out without changing the movie at all. It was nominated for three UsefulNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s, ranks among the Website/IMDb Bottom 100, and sports a '''0%''' on Website/RottenTomatoes. WebVideo/MediaHunter goes into further detail [[https://youtu.be/zTk3BYNsrHU here]]. WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIWApnBNyA also reviewed it]], saying that it looked like one of the fake bad movies Joey would star in on ''Friends''. [=TwoTakes=] has [[https://www.youtube.com/embed/ToJnlNKBwLY nothing else but bad comments]] on their IMDB Bottom 100 marathon.

* '''''Film/DirtyLove''''', starring ex-''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' Playmate and current anti-vaccine activist Creator/JennyMcCarthy. A gross-out sex comedy with a female viewpoint may be unusual (and ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'' proved that it can be done well)... but the novelty of the movie's premise quickly foundered under a bad script (by [=McCarthy=] herself), wretched cinematography, and tasteless and gross humor (such as [=McCarthy=] [[FanDisservice dancing topless with her breasts covered in vomit]] and carpeting a store with her menstrual blood). Carmen Electra plays her TokenBlackFriend as an EthnicScrappy, even though she isn't black. The movie won four Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actress. Read Roger Ebert's review of it [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dirty-love-2005 here.]] Truly some of his best work. [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement The Smeghead]] also gave his post-mortem [[https://youtu.be/px9S56-F0O0 here]]. It was a massive BoxOfficeBomb grossing only ''$36,099'', one of the lowest of any movie ''on this entire list''.

* '''''Film/DirtyLove''''', starring ex-''Playboy'' Playmate and current anti-vaccine activist Creator/JennyMcCarthy. A gross-out sex comedy with a female viewpoint may be unusual (and ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'' proved that it can be done well)... but the novelty of the movie's premise quickly foundered under a bad script (by [=McCarthy=] herself), wretched cinematography, and tasteless and gross humor (such as [=McCarthy=] [[FanDisservice dancing topless with her breasts covered in vomit]] and carpeting a store with her menstrual blood). Carmen Electra plays her TokenBlackFriend as an EthnicScrappy, even though she isn't black. The movie won four Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actress. Read Roger Ebert's review of it [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dirty-love-2005 here.]] Truly some of his best work. [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement The Smeghead]] also gave his post-mortem [[https://youtu.be/px9S56-F0O0 here]]. It was a massive BoxOfficeBomb grossing only ''$36,099'', one of the lowest of any movie ''on this entire list''.

* '''''Film/DirtyLove''''', starring ex-''Playboy'' Playmate and current anti-vaccine activist Jenny [=McCarthy=]. A gross-out sex comedy with a female viewpoint may be unusual (and ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'' proved that it can be done well)... but the novelty of the movie's premise quickly foundered under a bad script (by [=McCarthy=] herself), wretched cinematography, and tasteless and gross humor (such as [=McCarthy=] [[FanDisservice dancing topless with her breasts covered in vomit]] and carpeting a store with her menstrual blood). Carmen Electra plays her TokenBlackFriend as an EthnicScrappy, even though she isn't black. The movie won four Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actress. Read Roger Ebert's review of it [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dirty-love-2005 here.]] Truly some of his best work. [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement The Smeghead]] also gave his post-mortem [[https://youtu.be/px9S56-F0O0 here]]. It was a massive BoxOfficeBomb grossing only ''$36,099'', one of the lowest of any movie ''on this entire list''.

* '''''Film/BloodWatersOfDrZ''''', sometimes known as ''ZaAt'', is a 1971 movie made on a [[NoBudget $75,000 budget]] that truly puts the "z" in zero-budget Z-movie creature features. The [[RandomEventsPlot plot]], if one is generous enough to call it that, concerns a MadScientist, Dr. Leopold, who wants to take revenge on the people who ([[ClicheStorm stop us if you've heard this one before]]) [[TheyCalledMeMad called him insane]], and his plan for doing so is to (and no, this is not an exaggeration) 1: Turn himself into a fish-man, 2: kidnap a woman and turn her into a fish-woman [[MarsNeedsWomen so he can have a mate]], 3: '''''[[MissingStepsPlan conquer the entire universe]]'''''. Reading that synopsis (or even just seeing the [[SpecialEffectFailure fish-man costume at work]]), you'd expect the movie to shoot [[SoBadItsGood right to the opposite end of the spectrum]], which it would, if it weren't so unforgivably ''boring''. The ridiculous appearance of the central fish-man, a costume that's bad even by [= the 70s=] monster movie standards (imagine a snarling [[Franchise/StarWars Greedo]] covered in Spanish moss) is the only source of unintentional laughs on the whole movie. Even at barely 100 minutes, the runtime is still [[LeaveTheCameraRunning padded to the gills]]: The first twenty minutes of the film (a good fifth of its runtime) consist of Dr. Leopold [[{{Padding}} walking around his lab, looking at his schedule, checking equipment, reading his notes]], and ''nothing else''. It doesn't get any better after that, either - there are only four kill scenes in the entire movie, and it's obvious that the guy in the fish costume ''cannot see a damn thing'', so all of the attacks move at a snail's pace while the fishman [[OverlyLongGag sloooowwwwwwwllllyyy aaaaammmmbbbblllessss]] his way towards the victims until you'll find yourself wishing the fishman would kill ''you'' just so you don't have to watch the movie anymore. Mortifyingly, the cast of hapless humans is somehow [[DullSurprise even less expressive]] than the monster, and when the movie's not content with simply being boring, it's boring and baffling: there's an [[{{Padding}} extended musical number]] where a group of random hippies we've never seen before singing a song together and then put themselves in jail. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Yup.]] After 100 agonizing minutes, the movie finally just [[NoEnding abruptly ends]] [[GainaxEnding without much being resolved]]. Watch Jay and Mike of ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'' take a crack at it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFkkVhiR1Yo here]], [[Website/TeamNightSaturn Brian Sherrah]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdwSVJNb3DI expresses his frustration]] with how this potentially laughable plot ended up being executed in the least amusing way possible, and ''WebVideo/IHateEverything'' suffers through it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOgI4fYJ8gA for your enjoyment]] in The Search for the Worst, but do not, under any circumstances, attempt to watch it ''without'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0lpXstpyo Mike and the Bots]] [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E05BloodWatersOfDrZ providing running commentary]].

* Despite not being very well-known, '''''Amazing Ape''''' is quite possibly one of the worst cases of CoversAlwaysLie in history. The film's [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014341/mediaviewer/rm3515764224/?ref_=tt_ov_i poster]] makes it look like it's going to be a family comedy starring a chimpanzee who gets a job as a doctor, but this couldn't be further from the truth. In actuality, the film is mostly a dry, poorly-acted, poorly-researched AuthorTract about alternative medicines. It centers around a terminally ill boy named Albert who befriends a laboratory chimp named Simon ([[SpecialEffectFailure played by a woman in a terrible chimpanzee suit]]) at the company his mother works for, all of which is PlayedForDrama. The rest of the movie consists of [[{{Anvilicious}} completely unsubtle and painfully hammered down messages]] about how cooked food causes cancer, a claim that is grossly false but also highly suspect considering the movie's director, Juliano Brotman, is a chef and the self-proclaimed "founding father of the Raw Food Movement". Interspersed with all this dullness are occasional comedy scenes with Simon, which both completely clash with the tone of the movie and are sometimes inappropriate for the film's supposed target audience of children. The worst one is a scene where two girls who are implied to be prostitutes comment about Simon that, [[BestialityIsDepraved "He was no man! He was an animal!"]]. You can watch Good Bad or Bad Bad review it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9I0Z-vt8H8 here]].

* Despite not being very well-known, '''''Amazing Ape''''' is considered by some people who did watch it to be the ''[[Film/RyansBabe Ryan's Babe]]'' of the 2010s, with the biggest difference is that unlike ''Ryan's Babe'', watching ''Amazing Ape'' will make you extremely angry every time you watch it. For starters, [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014341/mediaviewer/rm3515764224/?ref_=tt_ov_i it has a poster that makes it look like it's going to be a family comedy starring a chimpanzee who gets a job as a doctor]], [[CoversAlwaysLie but this is anything but that.]] The actual plot of the film centers around a terminally ill boy named Albert who befriends a laboratory chimp named Simon (who's actually played by a woman in a chimpanzee suit) at the company his mother works for, all of which is [[PlayedForDrama played for drama]]. The rest of the movie consists of a [[{{Anvilicious}} completely unsubtle and painfully hammered down message]] that essentially boils down to "Cancer is caused by cooked foods, so in order to cure it, stick with raw foods instead", which is not only grossly false, but made exponentially worse by the director of this film, Juliano Brotman, apparently being a "founding father of the Raw Food movement". There's also a lot of extremely inappropriate moments, with the most notorious one being a scene in which two girls comment on Simon after giving him a massage by stating, [[BestialityIsDepraved "He was no man! He was an animal!"]] To top it all off, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the end credits completely stop at the middle with no explanation whatsoever]]. Throughout the entire Good Bad or Bad review, [[https://www.youtube.com/embed/h9I0Z-vt8H8 Bryan Schilligo was "screaming his head off", while Kyle had to cower in fear, thus resulting in a hilarious experience to sit through]]. As a result, they later gave it a 'Good Bad' rating not because it was enjoyable [[SoBadItsGood 'in a good way']], but because it made Bryan reach his [[RageBreakingPoint rage-breaking point]] [[BerserkButton multiple times]].

* '''''Film/BenAndArthur''''' was [[CopiouslyCreditedCreator directed, produced, executive produced, written by, edited by, cast by, scored by, and generally crapped out by one Sam Mraovich]]. He stars as Arthur, [[DesignatedHero a pudgy, whiny]] gay guy trying to get married to the [[MrFanservice hunky Ben]] despite the wishes of his [[AmbiguouslyGay closet case]] fundamentalist brother and a priest with apparent mob connections. The production values are so poor they make ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' look like ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', the acting's hilariously wooden, and Mraovich apparently doesn't know the first thing about filmmaking… or even religion for that matter (one scene has a character claiming to have obtained the "recipe" for holy water, even though holy water is simply water that has been blessed by a clergy or religious figure), resulting in an {{Anvilicious}} tripe that's offensive to gays and Christians alike. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XVPOjXmCQ0 You need only see the trailer to get an idea of how bad this is.]] It was also tackled by WebVideo/ObscurusLupa [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6ie7RAC7s here]], in Spanish by Videofobia (where it's called "the gay version of ''Film/{{The Room|2003}}''") [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gJCCvp0A64 here]], WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst dedicates a solo Spotlight review to it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xto-7_xWb9g here]], and Cynical Reviews tears it apart [[https://youtu.be/nbeKWYuRnpY here]].

* The characters in the imaginatively-named '''''Bear''''' are beyond unlikable, the acting's poor (only Katie Lowes from ''Series/{{Scandal}}'' seemed to have a career after it was done; it helps that she [[CreatorBacklash has bashed it since]]), the plot's poorly explained (they don't say where they were going until after the eponymous bear attacks). The special effects are [[SpecialEffectsFailure highly questionable]] (there are several shots where you can clearly see the lights, film crew, and stuntmen... and when the bear's obviously a guy in a suit), and there are several inconsistencies in the bear's behavior throughout the film.
** The ultimate low point is when they're crawling out of a pipe. You can see a man wearing a bear glove standing on top, ready to reach through for a JumpScare ''after'' the tunnel scene is finished. As [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35nlbs points out]], he's waiting for a nonexistent cue and therefore has no reason to be in the shot.
** The most surprising thing about this film is that it was produced by Creator/FreddieWong, who is usually praised for his great special effects on Creator/RocketJump.

* In 2000, Creator/KimBasinger followed up her 1997 UsefulNotes/AcademyAward victory (for ''Film/LAConfidential'') with '''''Film/BlessTheChild'''''. This film [[StarDerailingRole torpedoed her prospects as a leading lady of films]]. Perhaps the first red flag is that ''Bless the Child'' was {{not screened for critics}} by Creator/{{Paramount}}. The film tries very hard to be a {{Supernatural|Fiction}} ReligiousHorror film (à la ''Film/TheOmen''). But, it fails every step of the way, from the [[ClicheStorm clichéd]], [[ForegoneConclusion predictable]] storyline to the [[NightmareRetardant ridiculously limp non-scares]], most of them {{jump scare}}s, to the [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic awkward dialogue]] to Basinger's [[DullSurprise emotionally sterile]] performance. The plot is full of [[PlotHole holes]] and [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy-handed]] [[AsTheGoodBookSays Bible allusions]], with many characters [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything just being there to make her character, Maggie O'Connor, look good by comparison.]] Not that Maggie herself is [[IdiotBall particularly intelligent throughout,]] mind you. Even worse are the {{special effect|Failure}}s--no effort is taken to hide the CaliforniaDoubling, the spirits take the shape of glowing lights, and a roomful of rats looks like a scene from an animated cartoon. The film made $29,381,494 against a $40 million budget, got a 3% rating on Website/RottenTomatoes, and scored 17/100 on Metacritic. Basinger was nominated for a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward but "lost" to Music/{{Madonna}} in ''The Next Best Thing''. The movie also severely [[CreatorKiller harmed the careers]] of writer Tom Rickman and director Chuck Russell. The podcast ''Podcast/WeHateMovies'' [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/complete-whm-16105861 goes further]] into ''Bless the Child''.

* '''''The Devil and Father Amorth''''' shows how far a once-respected director (in this case, Creator/WilliamFriedkin, of ''Film/TheExorcist'' fame) can fall from grace. Supposedly a documentary about the real-life ninth exorcism of a woman named Christina in Italy, it was filmed under the condition that Friedkin filmed the exorcism without any crew or lights, and only one camera. Needless to say, the final result doesn't look very professional. It also comes across as a DocumentaryOfLies, as footage of the exorcism has Christina speaking in the VoiceOfTheLegion, clearly edited. After a montage of Friedkin interviewing various scientists about the footage, he claims [[BlatantLies they believed it was Satanic in nature]], in spite of the fact that the footage clearly shows their skepticism. Furthermore, it goes off topic by showcasing various locations used in the aforementioned horror film, and showing footage of Father Amorth's 91st birthday. WebVideo/JonTron hilariously points out all of its faults [[https://youtu.be/tlygSuwNcsg here.]]

* '''''Film/DancinItsOn''''' could easily give ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' a run for its money in terms of being one of the worst dancing-themed romance flicks of all time. Rich girl Jennifer falls in love with Ken, a dancing dishwasher, at the hotel managed by Jennifer's father. The two have a [[ClicheStorm bog-standard romance]] which leads to a dance competition. Said father doesn't approve of Ken, and Ken is caught in a LoveTriangle with his existing dance partner [[AerithAndBob Shotsy]] (who has an unrequited love for him) and Danny (a gofer hired by Jennifer's dad to drive a wedge in between by dating Jennifer and convincing her that Ken and Shotsy are a couple). What could have been mediocre at worst is made awful for many reasons. First, the leads Witney Carson and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp were contestants on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' and ''Series/SoYouThinkYouCanDance'' respectively, and neither of them seem to have any acting skills (Wespi-Tschopp has not appeared in anything since, while Carson's only other notable role is becoming the LovelyAssistant on the game show ''Series/Catch21'' after it was UnCanceled in 2019). The writing is all over the place, with awkward and {{narm}}tastic lines, and the editing is confusing (at one point, the movie hard cuts to a war scene to explain David Winters' character's motivation for mentoring Ken). Many secondary characters come in and out so randomly and jarringly that their appearances stand out, including an [[EthnicScrappy annoying African-American doorman]] at the hotel who calls himself "The Captain" and appears only to spout "wise" and "witty" advice. It also has downright abysmal production values: the title card appears for ''half a second'', the lighting is all over the place, and for whatever unknown reason ''the entire movie'' has [[HongKongDub absolutely terrible ADR]]. The film grossed only $27,000 [[BoxOfficeBomb against an estimated budget of $13 million]], Website/{{IMDb}} users gave it 3.0, and the only mainstream critics who bothered to review the movie were uniformly negative. Watch Creator/BradJones tear it apart on ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n434qVTPtU here]] and again as WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOcQS039EQk here]].

* '''''Film/FromJustinToKelly''''' features Music/KellyClarkson and Justin Guarini, the winner and runner-up of ''Series/AmericanIdol'' Season 1. Texan singing waitress [[TheDanza Kelly Taylor meets Pennsylvania college student Justin Bell]]; they fall in love and spend the rest of the movie annoying the audience. The dialogue's just as bad as the forgettable musical numbers, and wouldn't even have been passable in old cheap 1950s-vintage flicks. Clarkson once explained in an interview that it was a contractual obligation; this is the ''only'' time that ''Idol'' winners have been required to do a film.[[labelnote:*]]One was planned with Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken, the winner & runner-up of season 2, but the idea was wisely dropped when this film bombed hard.[[/labelnote]] It won the UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward in 2005 for "Worst 'Musical' of Our First 25 Years". WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows teamed up with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick to [[https://vimeo.com/221115653 review it]], while WebVideo/MusicalHell also tore it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8trAHJHo2w here]]. The only remotely ''good'' thing about the movie was that it was the film debut of Anika Noni Rose, later also known as [[Theatre/{{Dreamgirls}} Lorrell]] and [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Tiana]]. Clarkson, whose singing career was still going strong well into the 2010s, [[CreatorBacklash regrets having starred in this movie]] while Guarini [[StarDerailingRole disappeared off the face of the earth for years]] before reappearing as Lil' Sweet, the mascot for Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar in the latter half of TheNewTens.

* While Creator/{{Netflix}}'s documentaries tend to vary in quality, '''''Enter the Anime''''' is such a failure at what it sets out to do that it becomes downright infuriating to almost anyone familiar with the subject. Ostensibly about an outsider discovering the medium for the first time, what the "documentary" is ''actually'' about is a glorified advertisement for Netflix's anime roster, a fact made glaringly obvious by how ''every'' series highlighted is one on the platform (all the more blatant by the inclusion of ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania|2017}}'', despite it being [[{{Animesque}} an American production]]), yet is not disclosed at all until the credits. As a documentary, the whole film fails miserably, lacking any coherency or through-line, with large amounts of {{Padding}} through random trivia and the host complaining about how difficult the documentary was to make, with actual ''interviews'' with industry professionals being reduced to short five minute sequences that lack detail and are over-edited to the point of being difficult to watch, and then-recent events (such as the Creator/KyotoAnimation arson attack) being glossed over. Perhaps worst of all however is that, despite the beginning openly attempting to dissuade old orientalist portrayals of Japan as inaccurate, the film itself embraces it to the point of painting the anime industry in an almost inhuman light, even taking comments relating to the industry's long history of worker abuse and framing it as pure artistic passion. Casual viewers gain no incentive to delve into the medium itself, casual anime fans will gain nothing that a quick search online can't easily grant, and anyone genuinely invested in the industry will likely be infuriated by the inaccurate and insulting portrayal of the medium, which has led to the film having a 2.5 on IMDB and an 8% on Google Play. Watch ''WebVideo/MothersBasement'' rip it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKlUNPymBqc here]] while Callum May of ANN highlights its faults [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/enter-the-anime/.149762 here]].

* '''''Film/FunInBalloonLand''''' is less of a movie and more of an hour-long presentation for a below-sub-par balloon parade. The "plot" of this 1965 movie is as follows: A little boy named Sonny falls asleep whilst being read a bedtime story and is magicked away to Balloon Land. The acting is nonexistent, the choreography of the dance scenes is awful, and whenever the balloons interact with the child actors it's clearly someone off-camera reading the lines in [[DullSurprise a bored-sounding voice]], and the balloons themselves [[UnintentionalUncannyValley look]] [[{{Gonk}} absolutely]] [[AccidentalNightmareFuel horrifying]], ''despite'' the fact that [[SugarBowl the film has a happy tone]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids that seems to have been geared towards young children]]. Most of the dialogue is inaudible due to being so poorly recorded and makes what is happening impossible to follow, and the two balloons that actually ''move'' as characters are [[ValuesDissonance two grotesquely caricatured Native Americans]]. Then 20 minutes in, what little plot there is [[NoEnding suddenly stops]], and what follows is painful stock footage of the 1964 Philadelphia Thanksgiving balloon parade, which goes on for over 40 minutes and exists merely to pad out the running length, with commentary delivered by a woman who sounds like she's either stoned out of her mind or suffering a psychotic breakdown (or both). When the film finally ends, it uses the same clip as its opening. The film was so bad and obscure that only a DVD release by Something Weird made people discover it, leading to WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob reacting with horror [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMGJ9TDFXiY in his review]], Podcast/RiffTrax showing [[https://youtu.be/367s4wCap1I?t=679 shock in their commentary]], and Website/{{IMDb}} users grading it 1.1 out of 10.

* '''''Film/BenAndArthur''''' was [[CopiouslyCreditedCreator directed, produced, executive produced, written by, edited by, cast by, scored by, and generally crapped out by one Sam Mraovich]]. He stars as Arthur, [[DesignatedHero a pudgy, whiny]] gay guy trying to get married to the [[MrFanservice hunky Ben]] despite the wishes of his [[AmbiguouslyGay closet case]] fundamentalist brother and a priest with apparent mob connections. The production values are so poor they make ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' look like ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', the acting's hilariously wooden, and Mraovich apparently doesn't know the first thing about filmmaking… or even religion for that matter (one scene has a character claiming to have obtained the "recipe" for holy water, even though holy water is simply water that has been blessed by a clergy or religious figure), resulting in an {{Anvilicious}} tripe that's offensive to gays and Christians alike. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XVPOjXmCQ0 You need only see the trailer to get an idea of how bad this is.]] It was also tackled by WebVideo/ObscurusLupa [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6ie7RAC7s here]], in Spanish by Videofobia (where it's called "the gay version of ''Film/TheRoom''") [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gJCCvp0A64 here]], WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst dedicates a solo Spotlight review to it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xto-7_xWb9g here]], and Cynical Reviews tears it apart [[https://youtu.be/nbeKWYuRnpY here]].

* '''''Film/DeadlyLessons''''' isn't as well-known or infamous as films like ''Film/TheRoom'' or its contemporaries, but those who have seen it all agree that it's awful. The film, directed, written by and starring Stuart Paul, who purposely left his name {{uncredited|Role}} for directing, opting to be labeled as Q. Mark ("Question Mark", ''gettit?''), is about Paul playing a seemingly magical "prophet without a god" named Simon Conjurer (apparently based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus Simon Magus]]), who's absolutely perfect in every possible way, who has to contend with a murder accusation concocted by his arch-enemy (played by Creator/JonVoight… no, really) while teaching a night class full of individuals with varying mental problems. The class helps clear his name while also confronting their own inner demons. Filmed in 2005 as ''The Legend of Simon Conjurer'' but never formally released until it was quietly released on streaming services in 2014, ''Deadly Lessons'' is a complete abject failure. The film has a wildly inconsistent tone, [[MoodWhiplash going back and forth between being a somewhat serious thriller and a bizarre catoonish comedy]] at a wild rate. Not only that, the film is honestly quite offensive in its portrayal of mental illness, implying that Conjurer can cure their problems in one night without any sort of issue ([[CureYourGays including homosexuality,]] [[BrokenAesop which is cured by the gay character watching Simon have sex with his love interest in the film]]). All of this is also ignoring the pitiful special effects, the slow pacing of the film's near two-and-a-half hour runtime, [[WTHCastingAgency Voight's absurdly cartoonish performance under excessively silly looking prosthetics and a fat suit]], the film's extensive IdiotPlot and its incomprehensible combination of absurdities and psychological elements.

* '''''Apartment 1303 3D''''' is a 2012 remake of a Japanese film of the same name but without any of the positive elements of the original. The film is [[ClicheStorm a collection of ghost movie clichés]] with predictable twists and {{Jump Scare}}s that work mildly at best and fall flat at worst. The 3D itself is useless most of the time. Not even horror fans and critics found anything redeeming in it, and the general opinion is easily summed up by [[http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/apartment-1303-uk-blu-ray-dvd Gareth Jones' review]] on ''Dread Central'', in which the film is described as "bereft of interesting characters, dialogue, acting ability, scares, visual aplomb or much of anything else". Many also complained about the waste of Creator/RebeccaDeMornay's talent. It currently holds a dismal 9% on Website/RottenTomatoes and a 2.6/10 on Website/IMDb.

* '''''Film/FantasticFour2015''''' (otherwise known as ''[[Letters2Numbers Fant4stic]]'') has all the hallmarks of an AshcanCopy... except for the part where they released it. Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox made this just to keep the rights from lapsing back to Marvel Studios and put Creator/JoshTrank in the director's chair for his work in ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', despite the fact that Trank didn't want to make a traditional superhero movie. By the time they took it off his hands completely, the production was in shambles, and it shows. The script is plagued with poor pacing and characterization, including a plot full of {{Aborted Arc}}s. The cast of up-and-coming stars gives lifeless performances—even ComicBook/DoctorDoom, or rather, the GenericDoomsdayVillain [[InNameOnly given that name]], verges on ColdHam. The special effects start out [[SpecialEffectFailure on par with actual ashcan copies]] and only go downhill from there. Worst of all, the movie throws out the lighthearted charm of the source material in favor of [[RealIsBrown grime-colored]] [[DarkerAndEdgier misery porn]]. Throw in a [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot squandered]] moment of Creator/DavidCronenberg-esque BodyHorror and the occasional bad joke, and you have a recipe for disaster. ''[=Fant4stic=]'' ended up with a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a 4.3 on Website/{{IMDb}}, and Golden Raspberries for Worst Picture (alongside ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey''), Worst Director, and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. Fox wound up [[BoxOfficeBomb out over $80 million]], Josh Trank wound up out of a job (with his next film, ''Film/{{Capone}}'', [[DirectToVideo released to video-on-demand]]), and all other parties are trying to stay out of the picture. Also, four years later, 20th Century Fox got bought out by Disney, who owns Marvel Studios, meaning [[AllForNothing it even failed at the one thing it exists for]]. WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5NETEV0S0 covered the movie]], as did Creator/LadyJess & WebVideo/TheRapCritic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0sNmcajBeE here]]. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic rips it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwHRUxr7Aqg here]]. Comic Book Girl 19 discussed the movie's very TroubledProduction [[https://youtu.be/qC0mmSDCegk here]], as did Midnight's Edge with a whopping ''13-part'' [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPowVAXtN3lVNpK_f7QXbgag5HobKnV3w series]]. WebVideo/TheBlockbusterBuster [[http://channelawesome.com/fant4stic-blockbuster-buster/ did a review]], [[https://youtu.be/8JDY9a5YH0w as well as]] WebVideo/CinematicExcrement. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB4ZsxpOLQw During his appearance]] on ''The Film Brain Podcast'', [[WebVideo/StuartAshen Ashens]] called it the 3rd worst film he saw in the cinemas and in particular called out the ProtagonistCenteredMorality ending.

* Wasting the talents of Creator/ChristopherLee, '''''Film/TheCastleOfFuManchu''''' is a colossal mess of a spy movie. Lee stars as the titular [[YellowFace Fu Manchu]], a villain who loses all potency as he and his minions [[SpecialEffectsFailure blow up lots of stock footage]] [[ForTheEvulz just to dick around in the Mediterranean]]. To stop him from [[OmnicidalManiac freezing the world's oceans]], a Film/JamesBond Expy is called in to save the day and a kidnapped scientist. Said scientist has heart issues that result in [[LeaveTheCameraRunning 10-minute scenes of him whispering while the camera just drones on the cavern walls]]. Things seem to happen, gunfights look like they happen, people tend to "happen", but in all reality, nothing happens. A barely-comprehensible plot, painfully-wooden acting, and a plodding narrative turn a vapid thriller into a deadly bore. This film is particularly infamous for being one of the few ''[=MST3K=]'' movies where [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E23TheCastleOfFuManchu Joel and the Bots' riffing]] does ''absolutely nothing'' to make the film any less soul-crushingly painful, and in-universe, the film is one of the few that comes very close to breaking them, as they routinely break down during host segments, and it’s only a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Joel gives at the end that prevents the Mads from using the film to take over the world. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Additionally]], the ''MST'' crew chose the film [[TakeThatCritics in response to critics]] claiming that anyone could riff on the movies like they did. Leigh Jones of [=EternallyOptimistic=] Reviews considers ''Castle'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYmyW7gpAG8&t=13m47s the worst of MST3K's films when viewed on their own.]]

* '''''Film/FantasticFour2015''''' (otherwise known as ''[[Letters2Numbers Fant4stic]]'') has all the hallmarks of an AshcanCopy... except for the part where they released it. Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox made this just to keep the rights from lapsing back to Marvel Studios and put Creator/JoshTrank in the director's chair for his work in ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', despite the fact that Trank didn't want to make a traditional superhero movie. By the time they took it off his hands completely, the production was in shambles, and it shows. The script is plagued with poor pacing and characterization, including a plot full of {{Aborted Arc}}s. The cast of up-and-coming stars gives lifeless performances—even ComicBook/DoctorDoom, or rather, the GenericDoomsdayVillain [[InNameOnly given that name]], verges on ColdHam. The special effects start out [[SpecialEffectFailure on par with actual ashcan copies]] and only go downhill from there. Worst of all, the movie throws out the lighthearted charm of the source material in favor of [[RealIsBrown grime-colored]] [[DarkerAndEdgier misery porn]]. Throw in a [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot squandered]] moment of Creator/DavidCronenberg-esque BodyHorror and the occasional bad joke, and you have a recipe for disaster. ''[=Fant4stic=]'' ended up with a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a 4.3 on Website/{{IMDb}}, and Golden Raspberries for Worst Picture (alongside ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey''), Worst Director, and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. Fox wound up [[BoxOfficeBomb out over $80 million]], Josh Trank wound up out of a job (with his next film, ''Capone'', [[DirectToVideo released to video-on-demand]]), and all other parties are trying to stay out of the picture. Also, four years later, 20th Century Fox got bought out by Disney, who owns Marvel Studios, meaning [[AllForNothing it even failed at the one thing it exists for]]. WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5NETEV0S0 covered the movie]], as did Creator/LadyJess & WebVideo/TheRapCritic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0sNmcajBeE here]]. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic rips it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwHRUxr7Aqg here]]. Comic Book Girl 19 discussed the movie's very TroubledProduction [[https://youtu.be/qC0mmSDCegk here]], as did Midnight's Edge with a whopping ''13-part'' [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPowVAXtN3lVNpK_f7QXbgag5HobKnV3w series]]. WebVideo/TheBlockbusterBuster [[http://channelawesome.com/fant4stic-blockbuster-buster/ did a review]], [[https://youtu.be/8JDY9a5YH0w as well as]] WebVideo/CinematicExcrement. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB4ZsxpOLQw During his appearance]] on ''The Film Brain Podcast'', [[WebVideo/StuartAshen Ashens]] called it the 3rd worst film he saw in the cinemas and in particular called out the ProtagonistCenteredMorality ending.

* '''''Film/DeckTheHalls''''' was a 2006 Christmas comedy film that was thrashed by critics and audiences for all the wrong reasons. The main plot is that Buddy (Creator/DannyDeVito) moves next to Steve's (Creator/MatthewBroderick) house, and [[ArchEnemy Steve is obviously not happy.]] Buddy realizes that his house is not visible from space, according to a Google Maps knockoff, so he decorates his house with Christmas decorations in order to make it visible; even though map apps don't use live feeds to display data. What happens next involves awkward acting (Matthew Broderick is WAY too awkward and wooden, even for a film like this), gross jokes (Ex: Buddy and Steve drool over 3 girls wearing Santa outfits, only to realize that they are their '''''daughters'''''), boring filler, a completely preposterous plot that's not interesting in the slightest, and two unsympathetic main characters. It's got a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, and Creator/RichardRoeper [[https://youtu.be/prlosVOLuis?t=406 named it among the worst films of 2006]]. Not only that, people like [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Matthew Buck]], WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement the Smeghead]], and Creator/GoodBadOrBadBad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_qJpAyUP7U&list=PLH08EHfGcY-1W_7_vhaFxN3ByVI5z1Yem have]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxcWL4wmAYs&list=PLH08EHfGcY-1W_7_vhaFxN3ByVI5z1Yem also]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrBeiGcVMhc expressed their]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_gmLcIKf-s distaste]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foEKum6-QsI for this film]].

* '''''Ed''''' is a supposed baseball comedy made to capitalize on both the "family monkey movie" trend of the mid-90s and the rising fame of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' star Matt [=LeBlanc=]. You get a man who's clearly wearing a chimpanzee suit, unfunny jokes, and an unappealing relationship between [=LeBlanc=] and Ed, and the film ended up becoming a flop with critics and audiences. Also, the movie doesn't seem to know what its audience is supposed to appeal, [[MoodWhiplash since there are a lot of cartoony moments to appeal to the kids, yet there are also some questionable moments,]] [[note]]like in one instance, the baseball players get drunk at a bar....which is then followed by a scene in which Ed drives high-speed back to home.[[/note]] To make things worse, there's a moment near the climax in which then-L.A. Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda makes an utterly pointless cameo in which he complains about Ed's missing presence[[note]]Apparently, Lasorda's purpose is that he wants Matt [=LeBlanc=]'s character to be signed up for the L.A. Dodgers after the former wins the game...but still.[[/note]], something that could've been taken out without changing the movie at all. It was nominated for three UsefulNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s, ranks among the Website/IMDb Bottom 100, and sports a '''0%''' on Website/RottenTomatoes. WebVideo/MediaHunter goes into further detail [[https://youtu.be/zTk3BYNsrHU here]]. WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIWApnBNyA also reviewed it]], saying that it looked like one of the fake bad movies Joey would star in on ''Friends''. TwoTakes has [[https://www.youtube.com/embed/ToJnlNKBwLY nothing else but bad comments]] on their IMDB Bottom 100 marathon.

* In 2004, [[InNameOnly what could be charitably called]] an adaptation of the English comic strip '''''Film/FatSlags''''' was released. Not long after seeing it, the strip's creator allegedly underwent CreatorBreakdown and threatened to [[FranchiseKiller discontinue the strip]] (though in the end, he settled for having another artist draw it for a few months). ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' had no executive control, which ''might'' not have been as bad if it was clear anyone involved had read the strip, or that those who did even cared. The film relies mainly on VulgarHumor and ToiletHumour, which fall flat. Barring that, there are the many crude parodies, the desperate attempts to appeal to the RuleOfFunny, the clear lack of budget (Sandra and Tracy's fatsuits are blatantly-padded body-stockings), the [[OopNorth ridiculous stereotypes]], the clichéd, disjointed plot, and the ham-fisted CharacterDevelopment. It holds an average score of 1.7 on Website/{{IMDb}}. [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]], who at the time regarded it as the absolute worst film he had ever reviewed on his show, and at the very least still considers it to be the worst comedy he's ever reviewed, has [[http://twitter.com/#!/FB_BMB/status/54291274731233280 some not-so-kind]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IP8pUt71Vk words of his own]] towards it. Same goes for TwoTakes, who both [[https://www.youtube.com/embed/8yUsIu5r_Rk completely suffered through this garbage]] as part of their IMDB Bottom 100 marathon. It also had the side effect, in tandem with the same year's ''Film/{{Thunderbirds}}'', of [[CreatorKiller killing William Osborne's screenwriting career]].

* '''''Film/DeadlyLessons''''' isn't as well-known or infamous as films like ''Film/TheRoom'' or its contemporaries, but those who have seen it can confirm all of its flaws. The film, directed, written by and starring Stuart Paul, who purposely left his name {{uncredited|Role}} for directing, opting to be labeled as Q. Mark ("Question Mark", ''gettit?''), is about Paul playing a seemingly magical "prophet without a god" named Simon Conjurer (apparently based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus Simon Magus]]), who's absolutely perfect in every possible way, who has to contend with a murder accusation concocted by his arch-enemy (played by Creator/JonVoight… no, really) while teaching a night class full of individuals with varying mental problems. The class helps clear his name while also confronting their own inner demons. Filmed in 2005 as ''The Legend of Simon Conjurer'' but never formally released until it was quietly released on streaming services in 2014, ''Deadly Lessons'' is a complete abject failure. The film has a wildly inconsistent tone, [[MoodWhiplash going back and forth between being a somewhat serious thriller and a bizarre catoonish comedy]] at a wild rate. Not only that, the film is honestly quite offensive in its portrayal of mental illness, implying that Conjurer can cure their problems in one night without any sort of issue ([[CureYourGays including homosexuality,]] [[BrokenAesop which is cured by the gay character watching Simon have sex with his love interest in the film]]). All of this is also ignoring the pitiful special effects, the slow pacing of the film's near two-and-a-half hour runtime, [[WTHCastingAgency Voight's absurdly cartoonish performance under excessively silly looking prosthetics and a fat suit]], the film's extensive IdiotPlot and its incomprehensible combination of absurdities and psychological elements.

* '''''Film/DaddyDayCamp''''', the sequel to ''Film/DaddyDayCare'', [[TheOtherDarrin replaces]] all of the cast (including Creator/EddieMurphy, whose role was taken by Creator/CubaGoodingJr). Aside from relying too much on ToiletHumour (moreso than even the first film, which was guilty of it but not to its detriment), the film was also notorious for its clueless direction, phoned-in acting from the replacement cast, and some of the worst dialogue one could hear from a film that gets theatrically released (it was originally scheduled to go direct-to-DVD). With a 2.7 on Website/IMDb, a 1% on Website/RottenTomatoes, and a Razzie for "Worst Prequel or Sequel", it's hardly surprising why Richard Roeper said he had "[[FlippingTheBird a finger [he] could use]]" to review this movie. It's also frequently referred to in [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]]'s ''Podcast/RiffTrax'' commentaries when compared to horrifying experiences. You can watch [[WebVideo/MikeJ a British person]] tear the film apart [[http://channelawesome.com/shameful-sequels-daddy-day-camp/ here]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0KpZEYkLxs You can also watch]] Creator/MarkKermode give his thoughts on this "excrementally terrible" film, as well as a commentary on [[StarDerailingRole the decline of Cuba Gooding Jr.'s career]]. Carlyle and Leon of WebAnimation/{{Spill}} also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVyqwamBIo despised it]], with Carlyle later declaring it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVyqwamBIo the worst film of 2007.]]

* '''''Film/ArtemisFowl''''', a 2020 film adaptation of [[Literature/ArtemisFowl the book]], was released after years of DevelopmentHell, only to be panned by critics, hated by the book series' fanbase, and regarded as a black mark even for Disney's live-action filmography. What was a beloved book about the start of the adventures of a twelve-year-old VillainProtagonist is turned into a ClicheStorm about a boy genius setting out to save his father from a villain while securing an important MacGuffin. The plot is barebones, incoherent, and swaps out key elements from the books in favor of unfitting new ones. Characters barely act like themselves at best, and at worst barely look like themselves, as with Creator/JoshGad's Mulch, a casting decision they rewrote the lore around. [[FightSceneFailure The fighting sequences are clumsy at best]], and several well-liked characters from the books go completely wasted. The film only had a 10%/20% critic/audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Fans of the original book series were disgusted by the InNameOnly adaptation, even moreso by their hopes to make it a franchise. Even Disney itself didn't seem to have much faith in the movie, as they quietly released it directly to Creator/DisneyPlus instead of delaying it in light of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, as with other films from the era. WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdYo0clBfco talks about the movie here]], and gives the movie an F grade. [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews Dominic Noble]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88EfKm-V7k also reviewed the movie]] after having previously read the books and also found very little to like about it, criticizing the many unneeded changes made to the book in the movie. Sean "Smeghead" Moore of WebVideo/CinematicExcrement also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6sGTdjkV4U talks about it here]], citing he never read the books and then [[AdaptationDecay proceeded to point out inconsistencies even he noticed]].