History Horrible / LiveActionFilms

** '''''Film/{{Gotti}}''''', a 2018 biopic of [[TheMafia mafia]] boss John Gotti adapted from the memoirs of his son John Angelo "Junior" Gotti, spent seven years in DevelopmentHell, and it shows. A near-two hour attempt to paint a ''mob boss'' as an [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade unambiguous hero and family man]], it's a mostly RandomEventsPlot that jumps between events in Gotti's life with no structure (with overuse of {{stock footage}} as if it's trying to be a docudrama). Only John Travolta as the titular Gotti seems to be [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously acting properly]], as everyone else is horrid. That's not just true for the acting, but the makeup - Spencer Lofranco as Junior Gotti is unconvincingly aged 20 years with glasses and gray hair dye, which makes the cuts to stock footage of the real Junior (who actually looked his age) even more jarring. There's even a rap score by Music/{{Pitbull}} - for a movie that's set largely in the 70s and 80s! The film earned a [[MedalOfDishonor rare 0% critics' score]] on Website/RottenTomatoes, and in a piece of scumminess befitting a mob film, [=MoviePass=] tried to [[AstroTurf artificially inflate]] [[https://theplaylist.net/moviepass-audience-score-gotti-20180620/ the film's audience score]] so they could claim CriticalDissonance and advertise it as a film that [[https://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-travolta-gotti-critics-0-percent-rotten-tomatoes-score-1202850906/ "trolls behind a keyboard" don't want you to see]]. This flopped, as [[BoxOfficeBomb it failed to recoup its $10 million budget]], partially thanks to 40% of cinemagoers getting their tickets free through the [=MoviePass=] service. It was nominated for seven Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Director, but won none (losing the first two to ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'', also on this page). WebVideo/RalphTheMovieMaker tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZDDbqWze3M here,]] as does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFpDWvDeLv0 What The Flick?!]], with Christy comparing the film unfavorably to fellow Travolta stinker ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. ''WebOriginal/DoubleToasted'' also covers the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSnx_FaGcs here.]] WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2YXl9-wYuA here.]]

* '''Barry Mahon''' was the [[TruthInTelevision real life]] inspiration for the character played by [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] in ''Film/TheGreatEscape''. He was also an ExploitationFilm director, due to acting as a pilot for Creator/ErrolFlynn, best known for a couple of strange Christmas movies.

%% For that matter, while I Know Who Killed Me may have belonged here in the past due to the amount of Razzies it won and the reception it got at the time of release, it's undergone critical re-evaluation in recent years and has been Vindicated By History. Please don't try to re-add it.

* '''Barry Mahon''' was the [[TruthInTelevision real life]] inspiration for the character played by [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] in ''Film/TheGreatEscape''. He was also an ExploitationFilm director best known for a couple of strange Christmas movies that make you wonder what sort of horrors the Nazis subjected him to.

* '''Chester Novell Turner''' has directed only two films, both of them poorly produced with much of the dialogue drowned out by ambient noise or the synthesized soundtrack, and one of them involves dollfucking. The other is [[http://blackhorrormovies.com/talesfromquadeadzone.htm a terrible anthology]], '''''Tales From the Quadead Zone'''''. '''''Black Devil Doll From Hell''''' was so horrifyingly bad that WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob still refers to it (and Novell Turner) with terror, and had such enormous levels of BrownNote that [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] had nothing but [[https://youtu.be/j620xIRllB0 hatred to express]]. When the people of Spanish website ''Cinecutre'' [[https://web.archive.org/web/20171026220021/https://cinecutre.com/movie-review/black-devil-doll-from-hell-1984 reviewed it]] (in Spanish), the nicest thing they could say about it was that the thing really had a disquieting atmosphere that kept them watching, but only because they expected the police to interrupt the movie at any moment and arrest everyone involved; otherwise, they call it one of the worst things they've spotted internationally, bad enough that (paraphrased) "after watching it you'll be tempted to call an exterminator to fumigate your devices". The only thing of any value is the [[http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Erry+Vision+Films Erry Vision Films logo]] which has entertained more people than either of his films ever did since it tends to appear on scary logo compilations.

# It isn't a Horrible film just because any Website/ChannelAwesome alumni (including the few still on the site as of writing), [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement Smeghead]], and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it, or because it was either on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', [[WebVideo/IHateEverything I Hate Everything]]'s ''The Search for the Worst'', or Filmento's ''Anatomy of a Failure'' series. Nor is it a Horrible film just because it earned a Razzie nomination/award for Worst Picture or any other catagory. There needs to be independent evidence, such as reputable critics like Creator/RogerEbert and Creator/LeonardMaltin (emphasis on plural), for example, to list it. Once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review. Website/RottenTomatoes and Metacritic are good starting points to find those critics; if the rating on RT is in the single-digits and/or the Metascore below 30, it's a potential candidate for this list. In other words, universally despised by audiences and critics alike.

* '''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg]]''' started off only writing parodies, doing the divisive ''Film/SpyHard'' (which was directed by Jason's father Rick Friedberg, and even then then script was supposedly heavily rewritten by Rick and the film's star Creator/LeslieNielsen) and ''Film/ScaryMovie'' (actually some of it; their script was merged into the Wayans' script before production began). Then after years of not being able to see their script done, they decided to make movies themselves starting with 2006's '''''Date Movie''''', and their persistence led to their names becoming shorthand for "utterly incompetent parody". Their shtick consisted of [[NarrowParody only doing parodies of the most recent movies]], [[ShallowParody a lack of research beyond watching the previews]], [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece wave after wave of painfully-dated pop-culture references]], [[RedundantParody rehashing jokes from the original work]] (such as '''''Epic Movie''''' having Wolverine FlippingTheBird with his claw, something he did in the first ''X-Men'' film)... and to make everything worse, their penchant for [[ToiletHumour Toilet]] and VulgarHumor makes the movies [[NauseaFuel nauseating to watch]]. For some perspective on the quality of their films, [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] reviews ''Epic Movie'' [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rmZ4Ru0hI here]] and [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement Smeghead]] reviews '''''Meet the Spartans''''' [[https://vimeo.com/110976942 here.]] Korey Coleman of WebAnimation/{{Spill}} and WebOriginal/DoubleToasted would go on to list Friedberg and Seltzer as his mortal enemies in his ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsQ2ag8BUF0 Epic Movie]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym_axeBYD2U Meet]] the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGw1oKkuXQ Spartans]]'' reviews (until he watched ''[=InAPPropriate=] Comedy'', that is). For a while, CriticalDissonance kept them rolling - low budgets made the movies financially successful [[CriticProof despite bad reviews]] and eventual audience backlash, to the point that a [[ReclusiveArtist rare]] [[http://grantland.com/features/surely-they-cant-be-serious/ feature-interview on both]] noted how they managed to both be "among the most consistently successful in all of Hollywood" and "score frightening level of Internet vitriol". This changed with:

** One of his most notorious adaptations, '''''Film/AloneInTheDark2005''''', has almost nothing to do with the [[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark video game series]] it's based on [[InNameOnly beyond a few names and basic plot elements]]. It features an impenetrable plot, CaptainErsatz computer-generated monsters called "[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenos]]", Tara Reid [[WhatTheHellCastingAgency as an archaeologist/museum curator]], a [[CoitusEnsues sex scene that comes from nowhere]] accompanied by Neneh Cherry and Youssou N'Dour's "7 Seconds" - [[IsntItIronic a song which Boll apparently didn't know is about racism]], and most comically of all, an ''extremely'' long ''Franchise/StarWars''-style OpeningScroll which is read aloud to the viewer (by Boll himself) and is likely to kill interest in the film before it truly begins, initially added to the film because test audiences were confused about the film's plot (as you can imagine, it didn't help much). Screenwriter Blair Erickson [[http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/behind-scenes-uwe/1/ gave a behind-the-scenes glimpse]] into Boll's insanity in a Website/SomethingAwful article. [[http://channelawesome.com/nostalgia-critic-alone-in-the-dark/ See the Nostalgia Critic crossover review here]] and [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement Smeghead]]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5EJKr4vNj4 review]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90UtCac50XU here.]] [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling]] and Conrad Zimmerman [[https://soundcloud.com/jimquisition/the-spin-off-doctors-alone-in-the-dark also tore it apart]] on The Spinoff Doctors podcast. [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] destroys the film [[https://youtu.be/89GSbsJPht0 here]].

* '''Chester Novell Turner''' has directed only two films, both of them poorly produced with much of the dialogue drowned out by ambient noise or the synthesized soundtrack, and one of them involves dollfucking. The other is [[http://blackhorrormovies.com/talesfromquadeadzone.htm a terrible anthology]], '''''Tales From the Quadead Zone'''''. '''''Black Devil Doll From Hell''''' was so horrifyingly bad that WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob still refers to it (and Novell Turner) with terror, and had such enormous levels of BrownNote that [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] had nothing but [[https://youtu.be/j620xIRllB0 hatred to express]]. When the people of Spanish website ''Cinecutre'' [[http://www.cinecutre.com/movie-review/black-devil-doll-from-hell-1984/ reviewed it]] (in Spanish), the nicest thing they could say about it was that the thing really had a disquieting atmosphere that kept them watching, but only because they expected the police to interrupt the movie at any moment and arrest everyone involved. The only thing of any value is the [[http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Erry+Vision+Films Erry Vision Films logo]] which has entertained more people than either of his films ever did since it tends to appear on scary logo compilations.

** '''''Film/{{Gotti}}''''', a 2018 biopic of [[TheMafia mafia]] boss John Gotti adapted from the memoirs of his son John Angelo "Junior" Gotti, spent seven years in DevelopmentHell before finally being released. It shows, with the film going down as one of the worst mob movies ever made and earning a [[MedalOfDishonor rare 0% critics' score]] on Website/RottenTomatoes.\\\
The film has no narrative thorough-line, jumping between various moments in Gotti's life [[RandomEventsPlot seemingly at random]] while painting him — a ''mob boss'' — as an [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade unambiguous hero and family man]]. Talented actors embarrass themselves with dreadful performances, with Creator/JohnTravolta, as the title character, turning in [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously the only remotely efforted performance]]. The cinematography is ugly, and stylistically, the film can't decide if it's a regular biopic or a docudrama, resulting in several key points of Gotti's life being represented by {{stock footage}} (e.g. the hit on Frank Gotti's killer is summarized by a news report). Even simple aging makeup is done wrong: while Travolta's makeup is convincing enough, Spencer Lofranco (as Junior Gotti) is "aged" to 45 with only a pair of glasses and some gray hair dye, which barely hides that the latter was in his mid-twenties — especially glaring when the movie cuts to real photos of Junior, who actually looked his age when they were taken. Finally, the rap-heavy score by Music/{{Pitbull}} feels distracting and out of place in a biopic about a 20th-century mafia boss.\\\
As the cherry on top, [=MoviePass=] was widely accused of running an AstroTurf scheme to [[https://theplaylist.net/moviepass-audience-score-gotti-20180620/ artificially inflate the film's audience score]] on Website/RottenTomatoes, which it then used in an attempt to create a CriticalDissonance dynamic around it, [[https://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-travolta-gotti-critics-0-percent-rotten-tomatoes-score-1202850906/ running ads]] comparing critics to "{{troll}}s behind a keyboard"; it failed, with the film making [[BoxOfficeBomb only $1.7 million]] on its opening weekend against a $10 million budget, with 40% of the people who saw it getting their tickets for free through [=MoviePass=]. The film was nominated for many Razzie awards (Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Actor [Travolta], Worst Supporting Actress [Preston], Worst Screen Combo [Travolta and Preston] and Worst Screenplay), but won none, with fellow Horrible entry ''Holmes and Watson'' winning the first two. WebVideo/RalphTheMovieMaker tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZDDbqWze3M here,]] as does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFpDWvDeLv0 What The Flick?!]], with Christy comparing the film unfavorably to fellow Horrible entry ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', which Travolta also starred in. ''WebOriginal/DoubleToasted'' also covers the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSnx_FaGcs here.]] WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2YXl9-wYuA here.]]

** '''''Film/RedZoneCuba''''' (also known as ''Night Train to Mundo Fine'') was Francis’ third and final film, and an appropriately horrid ending to his career. The movie contains many of the elements common to his previous two movies such as [[RandomEventsPlot a plot where things just happen]] and production values so low that actors are obviously reused to play multiple characters. What makes it really painful to watch are the antics of Griffin, a DesignatedHero taken to an extreme played by [[DescendedCreator Francis himself]] who is entirely devoid of redeeming or sympathetic qualities, spending the whole film as an abusive and hypocritical JerkAss who wantonly commits murder and rape but is still [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic intended]] to be a sympathetic and tragic character. Creator/JohnCarradine, despite receiving fourth-billing, [[AdvertisedExtra only appears for the opening scene and a (poorly-sung) theme song for the opening credits]]. Add wooden acting from every actor involved and you’ve got a film that nearly broke Mike and the bots in their [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E19RedZoneCuba episode on it]], received a beating from The Agony Booth [[https://www.agonybooth.com/red-zone-cuba-1966-part-1-1078 here,]], [[Website/TeamNightSaturn Brian Sherrah]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBNldW-_mCA also covered the movie here]] and the film boasts a 2.6/10 on [=IMDb=].

** '''''Creepozoids''''', one of his first feature films, is a horridly boring ''{{Film/Aliens}}'' ripoff. The shots of the main protagonists walking in alleyways and opening doors [[{{Padding}} are too long]], and half the time [[LeaveTheCameraRunning you wonder if the cameraman fell asleep.]]. The aliens (or are they?) don't fare any better, being [[SpecialEffectFailure obvious, cheaply-made rubber suits]]. The plot is very undeveloped, and doesn't even bother explaining many random scenes that just happen with no explanation, like a scene where a female soldier is assaulted by a giant mouse, or when the alien gives birth to a baby alien who has a human face. The only character development is their awkward banter, mixed in with heaps of innuendo [[ViolationOfCommonSense ("Let's hump/shag it!" for "Get a move on!")]]. Bad Movie Reviewer tore it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01MsQOMaLYE here,]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJMoPm8Jmvk here,]] as well as WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE29Yis4iU8 here.]]

** '''''Film/ThreeNinjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain''''', starring Wrestling/HulkHogan as a TV hero, falls flat with a family-friendly DieHardOnAnX plot. Other flaws the film had were the plot's FridgeLogic, the SpecialEffectFailure, and much worse acting than the first three films (which were decent). The film was a flop - it grossed only $375,805, and scored a 2.4 on the Website/IMDb scale. [=McNamara=] [[FranchiseKiller single-handedly torpedoed]] the possibility of any sequel or remake to be made in the near future. Even [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement the Smeghead]], a fan of the ''3 Ninjas'' movies, couldn't find anything good to say about this sequel, as shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBvP03Ozf90 his review]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVXosoBvazc part 2]]). WebVideo/IHateEverything reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUiiskrosJE here]] in his ''Search for the Worst'' series.

** '''''He's Still Karlsson!''''' (''Тот ещё Карлосон!'') is a re-imagining of the [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff widely beloved in Russia]] story of ''Literature/KarlssonOnTheRoof''. Sounds good in theory... and would be good if any other director did it. The amount of DemographicallyInappropriateHumor in [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids a film targeted to kids]] is unbelievable, and the [[TakeThat mean-spirited jabs]] that appear here and there are confusing. Overall, it seems like the film tried to have some ParentalBonus and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools failed on more levels than you could think of]]. In addition, [[TooBleakStoppedCaring there is little to no one to root for]], with the kid protagonist's father being an outright asshole who believes that ''imagination is bad'', the kid protagonist is full of {{Wangst}} and fails at acting convincingly very often and even Karlsson himself is [[DesignatedHero unlikeable due to many questionable things]] he does thorough the film.

** '''''Film/{{Gotti}}''''', a 2018 biopic of [[TheMafia Mafia]] boss John Gotti that was adapted from his son's memoir, went through seven years of DevelopmentHell before finally being released... and it shows, with the film going down as one of the worst mob movies ever made, earning a [[MedalOfDishonor rare 0% critics' score]] on Website/RottenTomatoes. The film completely lacks any sort of narrative through-line, jumping between various moments in Gotti's life [[RandomEventsPlot seemingly at random]], while ultimately painting Gotti -- a ''mob boss'' -- as [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade an unambiguous hero and family man]]. Talented actors embarrass themselves with dreadful performances, with Creator/JohnTravolta, playing the title character, being the only person in the cast who seemed [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously like he was even trying]]. The cinematography is ugly and stylistically the film can't make up it's mind on whether it is a regular film or docudrama, resulting in awkward cutaways to stock footage that summarises moments that would have otherwise been presented properly (Special mention goes to the hit on Gotti's son's killer, which is summarised by a news report), though the rap-heavy score by Music/{{Pitbull}} is the most distracting and out of place element. Even simple aging makeup is done wrong, as despite Travolta's makeup being strong, his son is aged to 45 by being given a pair of glasses and spray-painting his hair gray, which barely covers up the fact that his actor still looks relatively youthful (especially glaring given how it cuts to real life photos of the son who actually looks his age). As the cherry on top, [=MoviePass=] was widely accused of running an AstroTurf scheme to [[https://theplaylist.net/moviepass-audience-score-gotti-20180620/ artificially inflate the film's audience score]] on Website/RottenTomatoes, which it then used in an attempt to create a CriticalDissonance dynamic around it, [[https://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-travolta-gotti-critics-0-percent-rotten-tomatoes-score-1202850906/ running ads]] comparing critics to "{{troll}}s behind a keyboard"; it failed, with the film making [[BoxOfficeBomb only $1.7 million]] on its opening weekend against a $10 million budget, with 40% of the people who saw it getting their tickets for free through [=MoviePass=]. The film was nominated for many Razzie awards (Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Actor [Travolta], Worst Supporting Actress [Preston], Worst Screen Combo [Travolta and Preston] and Worst Screenplay), but won none, with fellow Horrible entry ''Holmes and Watson'' winning the first two. WebVideo/RalphTheMovieMaker tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZDDbqWze3M here,]] as does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFpDWvDeLv0 What The Flick?!]], with Christy comparing the film unfavorably to fellow Horrible entry ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', which Travolta also starred in. ''WebOriginal/DoubleToasted'' also covers the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSnx_FaGcs here.]] WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2YXl9-wYuA here.]]

** '''''Film/RedZoneCuba''''' (also known as ''Night Train to Mundo Fine'') was Francis’ third and final film, and an appropriately horrid ending to his career. The movie contains many of the elements common to his previous two movies such as [[RandomEventsPlot a plot where things just happen]] and production values so low that actors are obviously reused to play multiple characters. What makes it really painful to watch are the antics of Griffin, a DesignatedHero taken to an extreme played by [[DescendedCreator Francis himself]] who is entirely devoid of redeeming or sympathetic qualities, spending the whole film as an abusive and hypocritical JerkAss who wantonly commits murder and rape but is still [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic intended]] to be a sympathetic and tragic character. Creator/JohnCarradine, despite receiving fourth-billing, [[AdvertisedExtra only appears for the opening scene and a (poorly-sung) theme song for the opening credits]]. Add wooden acting from every actor involved and you’ve got a film that nearly broke Mike and the bots in their [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E19RedZoneCuba episode on it]], received a beating from The Agony Booth [[https://www.agonybooth.com/red-zone-cuba-1966-part-1-1078 here,]] and boasts a 2.6/10 on [=IMDb=].

** Based on [[Literature/BattlefieldEarth the controversial pulp]] Sci-Fi {{Doorstopper}} written by Creator/LRonHubbard, '''''Film/BattlefieldEarth''''' effectively [[CreatorKiller killed the Franchise Pictures company]] and mostly undid Creator/JohnTravolta's CareerResurrection. Although the film was supposed to be the adaptation of the ''first half'' of the book, it made numerous errors in the structure and the pacing of the plot, as seen by [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/trivia?tab=gf this list]] compiled by Website/IMDb users, and changed it in such a way that all the characters [[IdiotPlot have to act like morons]] in order for it to work. Combined with laughable costumes, weak special effects, acting that is either wooden or [[ChewingTheScenery ridiculously hammy]], clueless direction, and gratuitous overuse of {{Dutch Angle}}s and you get a film that deserved its 2% on Website/RottenTomatoes, 9 on Metacritic, and 2.4 rating on [=IMDb=]. These flaws didn't appeal to audiences either, as it only grossed $23,725,663 out of its $73 million dollar budget. Not only did this perfect storm of critical and commercial fail [[StillbornFranchise ruin Franchise Pictures' plans for a sequel based on the 2nd half of the book]], ''Battlefield Earth'' became the punchline for the 2001 UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward as it won all but the Worst Actress and Worst Remake/Sequel awards for that year. Afterwards, it held on to the reputation of having the most Razzie awards won for more than a ''decade'' until Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/JackAndJill'' bested it by winning all of the awards in the 2012 Razzies. The film also won the Worst Film of the Decade Award at the 2010 Razzies for movies that premiered between 2000 and 2009. With the film being ranked #27 on Rotten Tomatoes's Worst of the Worst 2009, it is no wonder why it served as the subject of [[http://channelawesome.com/nostalgia-critic-battlefield-earth/ the Nostalgia Critic's 100th video review.]] Website/SFDebris also has a [[http://sfdebris.com/videos/films/battlefieldearth.php few words]] to say about the film.

** The movies still collapse on their own (de)merits. The first one might be a GuiltyPleasure if you're in a forgiving mood, but the other films are just plain ''bad''. They're shot on bad video with terrible quality, the actors are awful, and the scripts are so stock and so linear that the stories (story?) are like 10-minute skits stretched out to an hour in a way that makes ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' look fast-paced. Both ''Death Nurse'' films end the same way. The editing is so bad it defies description. The "star" actress that played Crazy Fat Ethel, Priscilla Alden, is not good at acting and plays the same character in every picture, a crazy fat broad who gently taps people with a plastic fake knife about the chest and back. See the Cinema Snob's reviews of the ''Death Nurse'' films [[http://thecinemasnob.com/2009/09/13/death-nurse.aspx here]] and [[http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/02/20/death-nurse.aspx here.]]

** '''''Film/{{Transmorphers}}''''' - no, not ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Trans'''morph'''ers''. The film is painfully boring and the writing is bad, but the worst things about it by far are the [[SpecialEffectFailure special effects]] and audio. The robots start out like something out of a [=PS1=] cutscene and only get worse as the movie goes on. There's missing sound effects, which lead to sensory-screwing scenes where things explode ''silently''. The first round of [=DVDs=] had the audio sync slowly get worse as the movie went on to the point where it was off by over a second.\\\
The one silver lining in the movie is Shaley Scott, the one actress who appears to be aware of what kind of movie she's in. She [[ChewingTheScenery chews the scenery like it's filet mignon]], while everyone else [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously puts on their most dramatic (read: shitty) performance]]. And despite the title, ''Transmorphers'' is actually a ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' knockoff. Making things just that little bit more bizarre, when The Asylum eventually produced an '''actual''' ''Terminator'' knockoff (''The Terminators'', released at the same time as ''Film/TerminatorSalvation''), it actually owed more to ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' than it did any of the ''Terminator'' films.

** '''''He's Still Karlsson!''''' (''Тот ещё Карлосон!'') is a re-imagining of the [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff widely beloved in Russia]] story of ''Literature/KarlssonOnTheRoof''. Sounds good in theory... and would be good if any other director did it. The amount of DemographicallyInappropriateHumor in [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids a film targeted to kids]] is unbelievable, and the [[TakeThat mean-spirited jabs]] that appear here and there are confusing. Overall, it seems like the film tried to have some ParentalBonus and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools failed on more levels than you could think of]].

* '''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg]]''' started off only writing parodies, doing the divisive ''Film/SpyHard'' (which was directed by Jason's father Rick Friedberg, and even then then script was supposedly heavily rewritten by Rick and the film's star Creator/LeslieNielsen) and ''Film/ScaryMovie'' (actually some of it; their script was merged into the Wayans' script before production began). Then after years of not being able to see their script done, they decided to make movies themselves starting with 2006's '''''Date Movie''''', and their persistence led to their names becoming shorthand for "utterly incompetent parody". Their shtick consisted of [[NarrowParody only doing parodies of the most recent movies]], [[ShallowParody a lack of research beyond watching the previews]], [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece wave after wave of painfully-dated pop-culture references]], [[RedundantParody rehashing jokes from the original work]] (such as '''''Epic Movie''''' having Wolverine FlippingTheBird with his claw, something he did in the first ''X-Men'' film)... and to make everything worse, their penchant for [[ToiletHumour Toilet]] and VulgarHumor makes the movies [[NauseaFuel nauseating to watch]]. For some perspective on the quality of their films, [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] reviews ''Epic Movie'' [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rmZ4Ru0hI here]] and [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement Smeghead]] reviews '''''Meet the Spartans''''' [[https://vimeo.com/110976942 here.]] Korey Coleman of WebAnimation/{{Spill}} and WebOriginal/DoubleToasted would go on to list Friedberg and Seltzer as his mortal enemies in his ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsQ2ag8BUF0 Epic Movie]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym_axeBYD2U Meet]] the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGw1oKkuXQ Spartans]]'' reviews (until he watched ''[=InAPPropriate=] Comedy'', that is). For a while, CriticalDissonance kept them rolling - low budgets made the movies financially successful [[CriticProof despite bad reviews]] and eventual audience backlash, to the point that a [[ReclusiveArtist rare]] [[http://grantland.com/features/surely-they-cant-be-serious/ feature-interview on both]] noted how they managed to both be "among the most consistently successful in all of Hollywood" and "score frightening level of Internet vitriol". This changed with:
** '''''Disaster Movie''''', which along with all the narrow/shallow parodies and crude jokes, consists of long {{running gag}}s that were never funny to begin with. What makes ''Disaster Movie'' "special" is that it goes ''even further'' on all of this, managing to be more aggressively unfunny, more pandering, more vapid, and [[SpecialEffectFailure even cheaper-looking]] than the films before it. The film shot up (or down?) to the #1 spot on Website/IMDb's worst film list in less than a day and bombed in theaters. This film was so bad that Website/RottenTomatoes' critics' consensus states that "Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have produced what is arguably their worst ''Movie'' yet" and ''Pajiba'' [[http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/disaster-movie.php "[refused] to dignify [their] movie with a new review"]] instead composing their review of the film from bits from reviews of their previous films. ''USA Today'' film critic Louis Fehrey, in his review, said that ''Disaster Movie'' was an insult to the intelligence of him and his fellow Americans and an insult to cinema. He subsequently published an article in ''USA Today'' summing up all the reviews of the film, which were near-universally negative. It was part of WebVideo/IHateEverything's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIWpKPCGy54 trilogy Movie review]] alongside ''Date'', ''Epic'', and ''Disaster Movie'', noting that ''Disaster'' was the worst film he's ever seen (at the time of his video), noting how disrespectful the professionals involved are over other amateur projects that might look worse on the surface, as well as how the film would be only half an hour long without the insane amount of references, and how the longest amount of time the film went without one was 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Korey and the Co Host 3000 of WebAnimation/{{Spill}} suffered greatly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iT9riVhGdM after watching the movie.]]
** Follow-up ''Film/VampiresSuck'' managed to get somewhat better reviews than predecessors for at least attempting to parody the source material instead of just being a reference parade, to the point that Rotten Tomatoes [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vampires_suck/ called it]] "[[DamnedByFaintPraise a slight step forward for the Friedberg-Seltzer team]]". But then they stopped getting studio backing, and their self-made work - usually barely hitting theaters before/while hitting video on demand - hardly made any money while still attracting hate. '''''The Starving Games''''' and '''''Superfast!''''', shallow parodies of ''Film/TheHungerGames'' and ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' respectively, were more of the same. Their first "original" work, '''''Film/BestNightEver''''', was a FoundFootage comedy in the vein of ''Film/ProjectX'', when the subgenre was already earning backlash, ramping up the gross-out humor to compensate for lack of references, and featuring scenes which [[LeaveTheCameraRunning just won't end]] - [[http://www.avclub.com/review/with-best-night-ever-the-directors-of-disaster-mov-200978 the A.V. Club pointed out]] "the movie has more [[{{Padding}} awkward dead space]] than jokes". It's impressive how Seltzer and Friedberg still keep to their schtick.

** ''Film/JoeDirt'' was panned by critics, but nonetheless grew a devoted fan base over time. The same ''cannot'' be said for the [[DirectToDVD Direct-to-Crackle]] 2015 sequel, '''''Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser''''', which was as reviled by fans as it was by critics and earned a '''0%''' critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as a 22% audience score. An overly long 106-minute runtime, a nonsensical plot where Joe Dirt is thrown back in time by a tornado, pop culture references that are either overly dated or shoddy attempts [[WereStillRelevantDammit to stay modern]], and jokes that are either mean-spirited or pathetically lowbrow and lazy, and you have one of the worst movie sequels of all time. Which is saying ''a lot.'' [[http://www.avclub.com/review/only-thing-funny-about-joe-dirt-2-it-exists-222456 Read Nathan Rabin rip it apart for the A.V. Club here.]]

** Based on [[Literature/BattlefieldEarth the controversial pulp]] Sci-Fi {{Doorstopper}} written by Creator/LRonHubbard, '''''Film/BattlefieldEarth''''' effectively [[CreatorKiller killed the Franchise Pictures company]] and mostly undid Creator/JohnTravolta's CareerResurrection. Although the film was supposed to be the adaptation of the ''first half'' of the book, it made numerous errors in the structure and the pacing of the plot, as seen by [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/trivia?tab=gf this list]] compiled by Website/IMDb users, and changed it in such a way that all the characters [[IdiotPlot have to act like morons]] in order for it to work. Combined with laughable costumes, weak special effects, acting that is either wooden or [[ChewingTheScenery ridiculously hammy]], clueless direction, and gratuitous overuse of {{Dutch Angle}}s and you get a film that deserved its 2% on Website/RottenTomatoes, 9 on Metacritic, and 2.4 rating on [=IMDb=]. These flaws didn't appeal to audiences either, as it only grossed $23,725,663 out of its $73 million dollar budget. Not only did this perfect storm of critical and commercial fail [[StillbornFranchise ruin Franchise Pictures' plans for a sequel based on the 2nd half of the book]], ''Battlefield Earth'' became the punchline for the 2001 UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward as it won all but the Worst Actress and Worst Remake/Sequel awards for that year. Afterwards, it held on to the reputation of having the most Razzie awards won for more than a ''decade'' until Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/JackAndJill'' bested it by winning all of the awards in the 2012 Razzies. The film also won the Worst Film of the Decade Award at the 2010 Razzies for movies that premiered between 2000 and 2009. With the film being ranked #27 on Rotten Tomatoes's Worst of the Worst 2009, it is no wonder why it served as the subject of [[http://channelawesome.com/nostalgia-critic-battlefield-earth/ the Nostalgia Critic's 100th video review.]] WebSite/SFDebris also has a [[http://sfdebris.com/videos/films/battlefieldearth.php few words]] to say about the film.

** Their Christian films, such as '''''Film/SundaySchoolMusical''''' -- created after a [[TheMoralSubstitute Moral Substitute]] to ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' was suggested to them at a seminar about marketing to a Christian audience -- fare no better. In addition to the wooden acting and poor script, its problems are manifold. The eponymous "Sunday school" appears to be a Christian high school, as opposed to that term's usual meaning of a Christian class held before the main morning church service. The choir competition is prone to all kinds of FridgeLogic (only three schools seem to be competing) and tossing around of the ConflictBall when the lead character is forced to move across town. The music is unmemorable, with the actual choir performances limited to uninspired arrangements of dusty old hymns and sprituals, while the few original songs are weakly-sung with stilted choreography. [[PositiveDiscrimination All of the "good" musicians are African-American]]. The Christian content is largely limited to offhanded mentions of praying, and a choir member springing a verse from Zechariah on the judges. See [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] and WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows rip it to shreds [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36bta8 here.]] WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKvynC7Vl4k takes a look at it]] as the final entry of Musical March (in September) 2019, and WebVideo/MusicalHell [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzOqSlG0roI gave it a case to examine]].

* Armenian-Russian director '''Sarik Andreasyan''' is widely known as "the Russian Creator/UweBoll", and that is not entirely undeserved. Website Posmotre.li [[note]](a [[ForeignRemake Russian remake]] of Wiki/TVTropes, sort of)[[/note]] refers to him as "the Anti-Midas" [[TheMagicTouch since everything he touches turns not into gold]], but into some squishy, brown-colored substance. Be it low-brow comedies, unforgivable remakes of Soviet classics, or more serious films - anything he has ever done has rarely been even decent, let alone good. (Though to be fair, his drama film ''Earthquake'' and anthology film duology, ''Moms'' have both gotten pretty positive reviews.) Andreasyan is also notoriously quick to claim any reviews of his films as copyright infringement. Many Russian [=YouTube=]-based film reviewers have had a lot of trouble with this (Evgeny "[=BadComedian=]" Bazhenov being the most notable example).

** '''''Reprisal''''', a 2018 action movie directed by Brian Miller, is a typical example of a later Creator/BruceWillis film where he is billed as the "star" but is actually an AdvertisedExtra, [[DullSurprise doesn't have much variety in his facial expressions]], and is replaced by a ''very'' obvious FakeShemp whenever his face is not on camera. (Sadly, this was because he was in the early stages of aphasia at the time; his health issues didn't become public knowledge until his 2022 diagnosis & subsequent retirement.) The actual star is Creator/FrankGrillo, who clearly didn't bring his A-game to the set. The editing is incredibly poor, with scenes that go on for way too long and shots that are very confusing. The sound editing is mixed so that it is very hard to hear what characters are saying and the acting is horrible. It's no wonder that this film has a '''0%''' rating on Rotten Tomatoes and only made $103,904 at the box office. WebVideo/RalphTheMovieMaker looks at it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6bqF_zzbig here]] and Brad Jones recounts his experience for ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5m6uN676jM here.]]

** '''''Reprisal''''', a 2018 action movie directed by Brian Miller, is a typical example of a later Creator/BruceWillis film where he is the "star" but is actually an AdvertisedExtra, [[DullSurprise doesn't have much variety in his facial expressions]], and is replaced by a ''very'' obvious FakeShemp whenever his face is not on camera. (To be fair, he was in the early stages of aphasia at the time; his condition did not become public until 2022.) The actual star is Creator/FrankGrillo, who clearly didn't bring his A-game to the set. The editing is incredibly poor, with scenes that go on for way too long and shots that are very confusing. The sound editing is mixed so that it is very hard to hear what characters are saying and the acting is horrible. It's no wonder that this film has a '''0%''' rating on Rotten Tomatoes and only made $103,904 at the box office. WebVideo/RalphTheMovieMaker looks at it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6bqF_zzbig here]] and Brad Jones recounts his experience for ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5m6uN676jM here.]]

** '''''Reprisal''''', a 2018 action movie directed by Brian Miller is a typical example of a later Creator/BruceWillis film where he is the "star" but is actually an AdvertisedExtra, [[DullSurprise doesn't put much effort into acting]], and is replaced by a ''very'' obvious FakeShemp whenever his face is not on camera. The actual star is Creator/FrankGrillo, who seems to care just as much as Willis about the movie. The editing is incredibly poor, with scenes that go on for way too long and shots that are very confusing. The sound editing is mixed so that it is very hard to hear what characters are saying and the acting is horrible. It's no wonder that this film has a '''0%''' rating on Rotten Tomatoes and only made $103,904 at the box office. WebVideo/RalphTheMovieMaker looks at it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6bqF_zzbig here]] and Brad Jones recounts his experience for ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5m6uN676jM here.]]

** '''''Diary of a Cannibal''''' is [[BlatantLies apparently]] a fictional spin on [[RippedFromTheHeadlines the Armin Meiwes case]], as it advertises itself. It really isn't. It mostly consists of the same footage being repeated over and over for [[{{Padding}} 86 minutes]] of the boy and the girl staring at each other, B-roll, second-unit and establishing shots, and the same axe-raising shot. What little writing present in the movie is terrible, the acting is cripplingly artificial and lifeless, the special effects are amateurish at best and unbelievably effortless at worst, the editing is nonsensical, the cameras are shaky or used downright pitifully (often even used to hide the effects) and make the movie look like it was shot through a jam jar, the music is minimalist and painfully discordant, and the sound is very poorly mixed (not even being edited to accommodate a phone call scene). There is a total of three minutes of dialogue, and the best part comes near the end, when she eats the boy she met over the Internet, and we're supposed to believe that [[SpecialEffectFailure potatoes are his kidneys and a steak is his heart]]. The film would be five minutes long if you removed the repeated footage. Watch Alex Jowski tear it apart [[http://www.geekjuicemedia.com/shows/antisocial-commentary/episode-94-diary-of-a-cannibal/ here.]] [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] also gives an extensive view on what's wrong with the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voH_OV7CUq8 here]] and later ranked it 3rd in his 2015 Bottom 5 films list.