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| 2 | %% Films like the Ghostbusters reboot, Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil movies, the Star Wars prequel and sequel trilogies, Michael Bay's Transformers films, the Twilight Saga, the Fifty Shades of Grey movies, Cuties, the 2019 version of Black Christmas, Disney's live-action remakes, and Zack Snyder's DCEU films do not belong here, as while they are controversial and hated online, they do have legitimate fanbases (and are often cases of critical dissonance). It must fail to appeal to almost everyone to make it here. |
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| 4 | %% For that matter, while I Know Who Killed Me may have belonged here in the past and was added 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, and it has been decided to remove it. Please don't try to re-add it. |
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| 6 | %% Similarly, Triumph of the Will and The Birth of a Nation, despite being filled with extreme Values Dissonance by today's standards, are too innovative in film history to be put here, and subject matter that is merely offensive is far too subjective of a claim for this type of list. |
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| 23 | ->''"'[[Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie Garbage Pail Kids]]'... does the title even '''sound''' like it's going to attempt to be a good movie?"'' |
| 24 | -->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''' from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6WVjZ7DENw here]] |
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| 26 | Can you believe that somebody paid the equivalent of $10 U.S. to see these movies in theaters (or paid about $30 U.S. to watch them at home)? Yeah, we couldn't either. Somebody made these films which, to put it kindly, didn't [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible turn out so well]]. If you want to see horrible animated films, please check the Horrible/AnimatedFilms section. For horrible MadeForTV movies, see the "TV Movies/Specials" section on Horrible/LiveActionTV. |
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| 28 | '''''Important Notes:''''' |
| 29 | # Merely being offensive in its subject matter, a BoxOfficeBomb, or a film you just plain don't like is not sufficient. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy, no matter how small a niche it is. It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this. (If you're unsure whether it belongs here or not, visit the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Horrible.Film discussion page]] and give us your input. Otherwise, if it's something you just plain don't like, please don't shoehorn it in, this isn't a page for complaining about things that fail to you.) |
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| 31 | # 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 (and you can check Ebert’s website for his own reviews); 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. |
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| 33 | # To ensure that the work is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, as well as to allow opinions to properly form, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month after release]]'''. This includes "sneaking" the entries onto the pages ahead of time by adding them and then just commenting them out. |
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| 37 | !Examples: |
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| 39 | [[index]] |
| 40 | * [[Horrible/LiveActionFilms0ToF 0-F]] |
| 41 | * [[Horrible/LiveActionFilmsGToM G-M]] |
| 42 | * [[Horrible/LiveActionFilmsNToZ N-Z]] |
| 43 | [[/index]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | !!Repeat Offenders |
| 46 | |
| 47 | Listed by last name or company, in alphabetical order.\ |
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| 49 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 51 | [[folder:A - D]] |
| 52 | * 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 Website/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). |
| 53 | ** '''''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 lack of the signature propeller on Karlsson's back is the ''least'' of the film's problems; the amount of DemographicallyInappropriateHumor in [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids a film targeted to kids]] is unbelievable, and the [[TakeThat mean-spirited jabs]] and cases of blatant ProductPlacement 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 having imagination is detrimental, 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]]. |
| 54 | ** The much-ballyhooed 2017 film ''Защитники'' ('''''Film/Guardians2017''''') is ultimately a blatant, shallow cash-in on the popularity of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. The five main characters, a team of superhumans secretly created by the Soviet government ([[FridgeLogic and widely publicised by Soviet press]]) must fight their own creator, [[FaceHeelTurn turned evil]] after a FreakLabAccident. The premise sounds solid enough, but the film is riddled with plot holes, badly-written [[HongKongDub and looped]] dialogue, {{flat character}}s, and [[SpecialEffectFailure terrible CGI]] (notice how the werebear's jaw vanishes!). Andreasyan did his best to push this film as a [[TheMoralSubstitute more patriotic]], "Russian" alternative to Marvel's heroes, but as always ended up the butt of many jokes, being known outside of Russia mostly as "that superhero movie that has a guy who turns into a bear". In fact, the movie was outclassed by [[SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames its mobile game tie-in]]. WebVideo/IHateEverything talks about this disaster [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgcenfc6Qbc#t=15m9s here]] while reviewing every superhero movie of 2017, and [=BadComedian=] gives an in-depth breakdown of the movie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pconHWXO3Ss here.]] |
| 55 | * '''Creator/TheAsylum''' is a low-end production company infamous for familiar-sounding [[TheMockbuster Mockbusters]] -low-budget "remakes" of popular films with suspiciously similar titles. Most of their films end up going direct to Creator/{{Syfy}}; they still qualify for their rare theatrical releases. They specialize in making cheap FollowTheLeader films; apparently, the only way they can get people to watch their films is to trick them into it and throw in a few moments of [[{{Fanservice}} gratuitous nudity]], all while [[PolishTheTurd never providing sources for the gushing quotes on the DVD cases]]. Their only works that aren't Horrible are the [[SoBadItsGood hilariously trashy]] ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' film series and ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'' movie, and the [[SoOkayItsAverage passable]] TV series ''Series/ZNation''. Examples: |
| 56 | ** '''''Mega Piranha''''', a knock-off of ''Film/Piranha3D'' that is painfully boring with [[SpecialEffectFailure poor special effects akin to early [=PS2=] graphics]], a terrible script, and horrible acting. |
| 57 | ** '''''Film/MegaSharkVsGiantOctopus''''': From the title, one would expect a [[SoBadItsGood hilarious]] sci-fi B-movie where two giant polystyrene monsters fight, taking half the world's population with them. In actuality, the film is just '''dull'''. The acting is predictably terrible, the script is weak, the eponymous "fight" only lasts for two minutes at the end, and the one hilariously SoBadItsGood scene (the one where the shark manages to jump up to airline-cruising altitude and takes a bite out of a jet) isn't funny enough on its own to redeem it. |
| 58 | ** '''''Snakes on a Train''''' (not to be confused with ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'', the film it's trying to capitalize on)[[note]]Or [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Alligators on a Train]][[/note]] is boring and extremely dull. The dialogue is extremely clunky (especially the racist remarks from the redneck at the very beginning), which is especially annoying since the film is just essentially boring conversation scene after boring conversation scene on the train. Not even the few minutes of topless women in the middle are enough to save it. As for the eponymous snakes, there's one that appears in a very dark lit shot about 20 minutes into the movie (you have to essentially squint to see it), a few garter snakes coming out of a woman's arm, and there's about maybe 17 small pythons or corn snakes in the last 5 minutes, and they don't attack ''anyone'' (thus proving the "1000 venomous vipers" claim on the cover to be a complete lie). The closest the film gets to snakes fucking shit up is when the people get off the train, and the female protagonist turns into some [[SpecialEffectFailure fake CG viper]] and devours the train, then suddenly mysteriously vanishes into a weird lightning flashing sky or whatever. Never has 80 minutes felt so much like 3 hours. |
| 59 | ** '''''Monster''''', a ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' mockbuster, is The Asylum's most obscure film, and for good reasons. It has obnoxious camera work which is inexcusable even for FoundFootageFilms, a garbled and focusless plot, and overacting awful characters. The titular "monster" never fully shows up: it's supposed to be a giant squid, but when it attacks, it only shows a tentacle and the camera defocuses just to (not) let you know it's there. The most pathetic part is the film was rushed (and it shows) to be released a week before ''Cloverfield'', hoping that unattentive moviegoers would watch their film instead of the latter. For added 'quality,' the film is supposed to take place in Tokyo, Japan- but is very obviously filmed in LA's Chinatown district. And despite the premise that the city is being destroyed and everyone is evacuating, they didn't even bother to dub out the background noise, which audibly includes traffic sounds and ''children playing happily just off camera!'' |
| 60 | ** '''''Film/{{Transmorphers}}''''' - no, not ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'', ''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. Maybe you watch for Shaley Scott, the one actress who appears to know the movie's shit and refuses to [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously take it seriously like everyone else]], instead ChewingTheScenery like it's filet mignon, but that's it. And despite the title, ''Transmorphers'' is actually a ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' knockoff. (Unlike ''The Terminators'', released at the same time as ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', which is actually a ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' ripoff.) |
| 61 | ** 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. [[FlawlessToken All of the "good" musicians are African-American]], and European-style choral music is presented [[ClassicalMusicIsBoring in a very unflattering light]] compared to more modern styles. 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/TheHappySpaceman, an atheist, takes it on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7vqrkamgRc 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]]. |
| 62 | ** '''''The Source''''', aka ''The Surge'', a ripoff of ''Film/TheCraft''. The movie had a 9-day shooting schedule, and their idea of clever camera work was to rock the camera back and forth like a teeter-totter. The acting and writing were horrible, and the eponymous power source was a big rock with a lens flare behind it. |
| 63 | ** '''''Film/KingOfTheLostWorld''''', clearly a ripoff of ''Film/KingKong2005''. The plot makes no sense, the acting and writing are horrible and the CGI looks like graphics from an early [=PS2=] game, especially the giant ape near the end of the film. See Big Jack Films give this movie the lambasting it deserves [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix81aduNkGc here.]] |
| 64 | ** You wouldn't expect there to be a sequel to Creator/JamesCameron's ''Film/Titanic1997'', but 2010 saw the release of '''''Titanic 2''''' ...which, by the way, [[NonIndicativeName isn't really a sequel]] to ''Titanic''. The acting and writing are a joke, the CGI effects are abysmal, and it kills off any and all characters that it deems unimportant. Hunter the Movie Reviewing Pony sinks this movie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzE-DDk-YwE here.]] |
| 65 | ** '''''Film/NaziOverlord''''' tries to cash in on the buzz behind ''Film/Overlord2018'', but just falls flat. To start with, the film doesn't even try to distinguish itself from the one it's ripping off, having the exact same premise of a group of soldiers on an isolated mission discovering NaziZombies. While that premise is indeed tried and true, the film doesn't actually do anything with it until the last 20 minutes or so, with the first hour and ten minutes focusing on the dynamics of a bunch of soldiers with no distinguishable personalities played by actors who cannot act. When we ''do'' get to the zombies, we only see them for about two minutes total, with the rest being two Nazi scientists testing things while the heroes are tied up. Add onto that a completely nonsensical AssPull of a SuddenDownerEnding, and you get a film that deserves its 2.0 Website/IMDb rating. |
| 66 | ** Their ventures into animation, such as ''Trolland'' and ''Izzie's Way Home'', aren't any better either. See the Horrible/AnimatedFilms subpage for more information on that. |
| 67 | * While otherwise a competent, if polarizing, filmmaker, '''Creator/UweBoll''' has one hell of a track record when it comes to {{video game movies|Suck}}, to the point that petitions were written in an attempt to put him out of business and that his page used to be part of the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub on this very wiki. He's on [[Creator/BlizzardEntertainment at least one company]]'s blacklist, and [[Creator/HideoKojima another guy]]'s list of [[BerserkButton things to never discuss within earshot]]. He also has a sick and twisted sense of humor - for instance, '''''Film/BloodrayneTheThirdReich''''' was simultaneously shot with a SelfParody called '''''Film/{{Blubberella}}''''', where the entire joke was that instead of a ThirdPersonSeductress the protagonist was a fat woman. He would later leave film making behind and set up [[https://www.theworlds50best.com/discovery/Bauhaus.html his own German restaurant]] in Vancouver, which has gained [[https://www.yelp.com/biz/bauhaus-restaurant-vancouver excellent reviews]]. |
| 68 | ** 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 [[QuestionableCasting as an archaeologist/museum curator]], a 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]]. |
| 69 | ** '''''Film/HouseOfTheDead''''' has nothing to do with the source material apart from zombies (who don't act like the ones in the game anyway) and some gameplay clips used as cutscenes. The dialogue is riddled with tiresome exposition and the cast (including Jonathan Cherry, who in the same year had gained some goodwill from ''Film/FinalDestination2'') woodenly (aside from Creator/JurgenProchnow, [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously who made his character one of the few highlights of the film]]) portrays the typical slasher fodder group. Many considered it an offense to both the video game saga and George Romero's filmography, the last of which is brought up in some painful attempts at being "meta". It currently holds a deserved Rotten Tomatoes score of 3% and an Website/IMDb rating of 2.0, and ''Time'' listed it on their list of top ten worst video games movies of all time in 2009. WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann covers it in a Hilariocity review [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mudGqiV-6yY here.]] [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] also covers this film [[https://youtu.be/XEDdu-LbCqY in this video]]. |
| 70 | * '''Brain Damage Films''': An appropriately-named distributor and occasional producer of every conceivable type of horror film, it's gained a reputation as an [[SmallNameBigEgo egotistical]] Creator/{{Troma}} wannabe. Its NoBudget releases (almost all of them, as impossible as that may seem) have been met with almost universal disdain, to the point that most websites that even bother to notice them immediately dismiss any film put out by it as a (to quote the now-defunct Slasherpool) "home made piece of shit" that tries to compensate for its many, many shortcomings by throwing in as much nudity, sleaze, and [[SpecialEffectFailure awful]] gore as possible. Take a look at just [[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article97.htm one]] of their zero-budget productions, and [[http://anythinghorror.com/2011/08/12/skeleton-key-3-2011-caesar-and-otto%E2%80%99s-summer-massacre-2009-back-to-the-beyond-2011/ a few more]] for good measure. |
| 71 | ** '''''Film/AliceInMurderland''''' had an awesome gimmick: A SlasherMovie based on ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'', with the Jabberwocky as the killer. Unfortunately, that's all it has to offer. The film, despite supposedly taking place in a fancy house, was very clearly filmed in a cheap warehouse. Most of the film isn't even focused on the killings, but instead the dynamics of a bunch of unlikable sorority sisters. Add in a nonsensical InTheBlood angle, and the film earns its dismal 1.9 Website/IMDb rating. See ''When Bad Movies Attack!'' tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOXpI8pXf5U here.]] |
| 72 | ** '''''Film/CurseOfPirateDeath''''' takes an already-silly title and slaps it on a dreadful movie. It is a slasher film starring an undead pirate, whom the film decides to paint as intimidating by calling him [[AtrociousAlias "Pirate Death"]] as opposed to ''anything'' creative. The acting from most of the cast is so wooden that it makes former porn star Ron Jeremy look Shakespearean in comparison. The plot itself is a disjointed mess with no interesting characters and an overuse of flashbacks. All in all, the film deserves its 2.6 [=IMDb=] rating. You can see Doc Schlock discuss the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIul64mmLb4 here.]] Longtime Website/SomethingAwful reviewer Ben "Greasnin" Platt also slashes the film [[https://www.somethingawful.com/movie-reviews/curse-pirate-death/1/ here]] with "special guest" Captain Manybeard. |
| 73 | * '''Roger Christian''' [[note]](not to be confused with the Los Angeles DJ who co-wrote several Music/BeachBoys songs)[[/note]]: Once known for his stellar set designs and art direction for films such as ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Film/{{Alien}}'', he has since taken a crack at being a director. Let's just say his resulting work... fell short. |
| 74 | ** 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 have to act like morons in order for it to work. Combined with laughable costumes, [[SpecialEffectsFailure weak special effects]], acting that is either wooden or [[ChewingTheScenery ridiculously hammy]], clueless direction, gratuitous overuse of {{Dutch Angle}}s and a multitude of other problems, you get a film that deserved its 3% on Website/RottenTomatoes, 9 on Metacritic, and 2.5 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. To top it off, it consistently goes on other lists for worst movies ever made, with it being placed at #1 on [=WatchMojo=]'s 2016 video of "Top 10 Worst Movies of All Time." |
| 75 | ** Roger Christian came back with 2013's '''''Film/{{Stranded}}''''' as he attempted to produce {{Career Resurrection}}s for both himself and Creator/ChristianSlater (the latter would rebound later with ''Series/MrRobot''). However, while it's one thing for a director to take influence and [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] from his/her previous works, it's another for Christian to shamelessly rip-off ''Film/{{Alien}}'' (which, mind you, was released in '''1979''') from its basic plot to every last twist. And even if ''Stranded'' didn't rip off Creator/RidleyScott's classic, the film is hopelessly filled with lifeless, undeveloped characters, poor dialogue, and cheap NoBudget sets and visuals (case in point: Slater uses ''a book-light for a communication device''). Combined with the story's terrible pacing and you get a film that more than deservedly earns a '''0%''' on Website/RottenTomatoes, a 3.4 on Website/IMDb, and a 27 on Metacritic. [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36m3n1 is more than happy to give the film a well-deserved beatdown]]. |
| 76 | * '''Creator/BobClark''' was a renowned filmmaker known for classics such as ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', ''Film/{{Porkys}}'', and ''Film/AChristmasStory''. While the rest of his filmography wasn't as remarkable, these two stand out as possibly the most ill-conceived movies he ever directed in his entire career. |
| 77 | ** '''''Film/BabyGeniuses''''' has garnered an insidious reputation as one of the very worst family films to ever be made, and it makes zero effort to hide this: putting aside the rather AudienceAlienatingPremise that the title gives away, the writing is beyond puerile apart from occasionally humorous banter between two side characters, ''gaping'' {{Plot Hole}}s, almost nonexistent lip syncing, the grandest of SpecialEffectFailure all piled on top of a blithering IdiotPlot. [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] endured the film in his review [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vt2eKA1MgM here,]] while a dumbstruck WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic reviews it through an inner-monologue [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lcCqU09ZCA here.]] |
| 78 | ** '''''[[Film/BabyGeniuses SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2]]''''' failed in much the same way that ''Disaster Movie'' did — it took faults the audience was willing to forgive and made them much, much worse. The writing's even more god-awful, with ostensible plot holes and the film itself quite obviously had a much lower budget (among other things, the lip-synching looks like it was done on drugs). The saddest part? It was the last thing Bob Clark directed before his death from a car accident. It got a very rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and sat on top of the [=IMDb=]'s Bottom 100 for years, at least until ''Saving Christmas'' and ''Code Name: K.O.Z.'' came along. Let's just see it send WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic [[http://channelawesome.com/nostalgia-critic-superbabies-baby-geniuses-2/ into a coma]]... although interestingly enough, [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel he considers the sequel slightly better than the first movie]]. WebVideo/IHateEverything [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8tKJjVFyEY agrees]]. [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6s5r6Q-nII disagrees]], considering it even worse than the first. |
| 79 | * '''Creator/DavidDecoteau''' is one of many filmmakers who had their start through Creator/RogerCorman, but unlike some of his contemporaries, [=DeCoteau's=] track record is not exactly as polished as theirs. When watching his films, expect {{Padding}} that can sometimes not even fill up a 90-minute runtime, bad cinematography, [[SpecialEffectFailure bad costumes and special effects]], and his gratuitous AuthorAppeal for HoYay and other homoerotic scenes. |
| 80 | ** '''''Film/{{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!")]]. The only real point in the film's favor is its catchy synth score by future ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Fairly OddParents]]'' composer Guy Moon. 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.]] |
| 81 | ** '''''Film/ATalkingCat''''' (also known as ''Duffy the Talking Cat''): The story has more holes than a beehive, the "drama" is [[ConflictBall forced and inexplicable]], the acting is [[DullSurprise wooden]], and the characters are [[{{Jerkass}} unlikable]], moronic {{Captain Obvious}}es. It also has [[SpecialEffectFailure god-awful special effects]] (the cat's mouth is an MS Paint circle!), a setting that's all over the place, and framing that looks like a [=YouTube=] video. Creator/EricRoberts ''literally'' phoned in his lines as the title character in 15 minutes, and the rest of the cast doesn't act much better - most of them are porn veterans, as is [=DeCoteau=] (under the pseudonym of [[AlanSmithee Mary Crawford]]). The laser pointer and cat treats used to "direct" the titular cat are clearly visible several times in the movie. For a movie that seems to have been intended as a family-friendly fantasy film, there's also virtually no humor to interest the kids [[AudienceAlienatingPremise (or anything to interest anyone else, either)]]. It has an [=IMDb=] score of 3/10. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m76z5mgv5_A JonTron]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0j8Jd8ipWY the Cinema Snob]] provide reviews, and Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} [[https://youtu.be/IpNKl9s2ddE gave it their typical treatment]]. |
| 82 | ** '''''Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper''''' [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot ruined an awesome "what if" concept]] and instead was an [[NoBudget extremely cheaply made]] homoerotic film of nothing going on save for [[WalkingShirtlessScene tons of shots of shirtless men walking around]] and playing with guns in their underwear while Bigfoot peeps on them. It's supposed to take place in the '70s, yet [[AnachronismStew it has a modern-day setting and look]], and the acting is what you'd expect from a softcore erotica. The movie allegedly stars Eric Roberts and UsefulNotes/{{scream queen|s}} Creator/LinneaQuigley, but neither of them appear onscreen. Roberts just narrates for a few minutes while heavily inebriated and Quigley herself only has ''one'' voiceover line. Bigfoot and D.B. Cooper appear onscreen together for a grand total of one minute. One of the most interesting things about the movie: D.B. Cooper is played by the original voice actor of [[VideoGame/DeadRising Frank West]], T.J. Rotolo. WebVideo/RedLetterMedia featured it on ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'', which they unanimously declared to be the worst movie they have ever featured until ''Shark Exorcist''. |
| 83 | ** Despite being a mockbuster of the action-packed ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'', '''''Film/HanselAndGretelWarriorsOfWitchcraft''''' is a boring mess. It presents itself as an action-packed UrbanFantasy horror film, but plays out more like ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' with its high school setting and {{Wangst}}y characters. The acting is wooden, the characters are unlikable, and the witches are cliched. Add {{Padding}} up the wazoo & the BigBad's laughable attempt at EvilSoundsDeep and remove any connection to [[Literature/HanselAndGretel the real fairy tale]] [[spoiler:barring one minor reference at the end]] you've got a film that deserves its 2.6 [=IMDb=] rating. You can watch [=ChrysaliceFiasco=] talk about the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mzkCDw5Bcg here.]] |
| 84 | ** '''''Santa's Summer House''''', another film made under the "Mary Crawford" pseudonym and filmed in the same house as ''A Talking Cat'', has, in no particular order, awful writing, acting, and dialogue, a [[{{Padding}} ten-minute long croquet sequence]], long scenes of nothing happening, transitions between scenes that consist of clip art of Christmas-related things cheaply moving across the screen, and [[YouDontLookLikeYou a Santa who looks nothing like Santa]] outside of a couple pictures on a wall where they slapped a clearly fake beard on him. It has a 3 on [=IMDB=] and a 12% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Read Spectrum Culture's take on the film [[https://spectrumculture.com/2018/12/05/from-the-vaults-of-streaming-hell-santas-summer-house/ here.]] Much like ''A Talking Cat'', the film was also covered by Rifftrax and can be seen [[https://youtu.be/JhKmBbzKIHM here]]. |
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| 88 | * '''Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films''', also known as [=MoviePass=] Films, is the film production company of [=MoviePass=] known for their action flicks. Some of their films are SoOkayItsAverage, with [[Film/TheWickerMan2006 one film]] they worked on being infamously SoBadItsGood, and ''Film/EndOfWatch'' has been critically acclaimed, but other films they have created are... not as good. They are also a very shady company, with [[https://fortune.com/2019/10/16/moviepass-lawsuit-oasis-ventures-film-rights/ the Emmett/Furla side becoming part of MoviePass without Oasis' permission]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=aB86SxD1cbE stealing a script from a YouTuber]] and [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/emmett-furla-hit-45m-fraud-lawsuit-inconceivable-1031053 inducing $1 million in fraud]] regarding the production of the film ''Inconceivable''. |
| 89 | ** '''''Film/EscapePlan2Hades''''', a follow-up to the Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and Creator/SylvesterStallone vehicle, suffers from a very serious case of {{Sequelitis}}. Stallone and replacement co-star {{Wrestling/Batista}} are {{Advertised Extra}}s, with the movie actually starring Huang Xiaoming, who isn't well-known outside of China. The direction is terrible, the visual effects are very cheap, and the plot is a nonsensical mess that can barely justify any of the fights that happen in the movie. It received a mere 8% on ''Website/RottenTomatoes'', ''Webvideo/FilmBrain'' branded it the [[https://letterboxd.com/film_brain/film/escape-plan-2-hades/ worst film of 2018]] while Stallone [[https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2475817/sylvester-stallone-blasts-escape-plan-2-as-worst-produced-film-hes-ever-been-in later disowned it]], declaring it possibly the worst movie he's ever been in. A deal with the Boss/Schiller film group was broken in order to make it and the 3rd ''Escape Plan'' film, resulting in [[https://variety.com/2019/film/news/boies-schiller-escape-plan-lawsuit-emmett-furla-1203178856/ yet another lawsuit]]. |
| 90 | ** '''''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 (and to a certain degree his then-wife, the late Creator/KellyPreston, [[RealLifeRelative as Gotti's wife]]) 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''). 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''. ''WebVideo/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.]] |
| 91 | ** '''''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 dementia at the time; his health issues didn't become public knowledge until his 2022 diagnosis and subsequent retirement.) The actual star is Creator/FrankGrillo, who later admitted he thought the movie was terrible and only did it [[MoneyDearBoy to get money for his garden]]. 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.]] |
| 92 | * '''Daniel Farrands'''[='=] {{documentary}} work, particularly his retrospectives on the ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', ''Film/{{Scream}}'', and ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series,[[note]]''Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy'', ''Scream: The Inside Story'', and ''Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th'', respectively[[/note]] is widely acclaimed among horror fans. Unfortunately, the gulf between them and his TrueCrime films that [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory play fast and loose with the facts of the cases covered]], with their borderline slanderous depictions of famous real-life murder victims, is so vast that one might wonder if the same filmmaker is behind both of them. |
| 93 | ** '''''Film/TheHauntingOfSharonTate''''' immediately earns comparisons to ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood'' (which was released three months later) due to its subject matter, a revisionist history of the murder of Creator/SharonTate by the [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson Manson Family]]. Unlike that film, however, this one is pure {{exploitation|Film}}, tastelessly attaching the legacy of the Tate-[=LaBianca=] murders to a bottom-of-the-barrel slasher with tacked-on supernatural elements (Sharon having [[ForeseeingMyDeath premonitions of the murders]] in various {{Nightmare Sequence}}s). Large parts of the film consist of Sharon wandering around doing nothing interesting, characters have random discussions about fate and free will that the film thinks are far deeper and more foreboding than they actually are, they react with [[TooDumbToLive blinding ignorance and disinterest]] at the obvious signs that they are being stalked, and at times the film tries to go for a {{mockumentary}} feel (including incorporating real StockFootage of Sharon, her husband Creator/RomanPolanski, and Manson's followers) that it does nothing with. Sharon's sister Debra[[note]]Who, for the record, had initially also criticized how ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' portrayed Sharon's murder, but [[ApprovalOfGod dropped her criticism and defended that film]] after Creator/QuentinTarantino let her read the script, even lending some of Sharon's old jewelry to Creator/MargotRobbie to wear in the film.[[/note]] [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/haunting-sharon-tate-director-defends-controversial-movie-1200238 called it tasteless,]] and while Farrands attempted to defend it as a film about the victims fighting back against the killers, this falls apart in light of the ending, [[spoiler:where it turns out that Sharon and the other surviving characters were DeadAllAlong]]. WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann gives it his due [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bre_hOSNbaA here,]] calling it an easy contender for the worst movie of 2019. WebVideo/FilmBrain agrees, and went further in his end of year retrospective by calling it one of the worst films he's ever watched: "You'd feel cleaner swimming in sewage than you would after watching this". WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob tears this movie a new one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShilNunlMQw here]] and WebVideo/RalphTheMovieMaker gives it a panning [[https://youtu.be/otwh_TWqegg here]]. It was nominated for four Razzies and won one of them (Worst actress: Creator/HilaryDuff). |
| 94 | ** '''''The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson''''' followed it up, and was even worse. It's {{padd|ing}}ed with about ten minutes' worth of newsreel footage of the Creator/OJSimpson trial despite being only 82 minutes long, it has scenes that are blatantly ripped off from ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', most of the cast save for Mena Suvari and Nick Stahl is terrible (especially the child actors), its portrayal of Nicole is misogynistic and suggests that she brought her murder on herself, the {{foreshadowing}} of her eventual fate is glaringly obvious and ham-fisted, and it can't seem to decide just how involved or not O.J. Simpson was with the murders. It wound up with a 0% on Website/RottenTomatoes, a 1.9 score on Website/IMDb, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUd-yCQg0EQ an even more scathing review]] from Stuckmann. |
| 95 | * '''Creator/ColemanFrancis''' was a director with the dubious distinction of having all three movies he directed featured on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Francis’ films are notorious for having sluggish paces, {{Padding}} to get them to barely feature-length runtimes, {{Random Events Plot}}s, shoddy production values, and wooden acting. While his second film, ''Film/TheSkydivers'' is merely considered [[SoOkayItsAverage boring and unremarkable]], his other two cemented him in cinematic infamy: |
| 96 | ** '''''Film/TheBeastOfYuccaFlats''''', the directoral debut of Francis, manages to be horrid even by B-movie standards. The pacing is mindnumbingly slow and riddled with padding despite clocking in at '''less than an hour long''' and all of the acting falls squarely into DullSurprise. To add insult to injury, the film has almost no actual dialogue due to [[NoBudget lacking the funds to film with a soundtrack]], instead using FauxlosophicNarration littered with BeigeProse ([[MemeticMutation “Flag on the moon. How did it get there?”]]). Most infamously of all, the film opens with a scene of a topless woman getting murdered that has [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment no relevance or connection to the rest of the movie at all]] and was only added as gratuitous Main/{{Fanservice}}. It’s no wonder why the film has an abysmal 2.1/10 on [=IMDb=] and received a scathing review from [[https://www.agonybooth.com/beast-of-yucca-flats-1961-coleman-francis-14917 Mr. Mendo]] of Website/TheAgonyBooth in addition to the aforementioned [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E21TheBeastOfYuccaFlats Mystery Science Theater episode]], where it received some of the most vicious riffing in the show’s history. |
| 97 | ** '''''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=]. [[Website/TeamNightSaturn Brian Sherrah]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBNldW-_mCA also covered the movie here.]] |
| 98 | * Despite making some {{guilty pleasure}}s since 1999, Creator/AdamSandler's production company '''Creator/HappyMadisonProductions''' also made quite a few box office stinkers: |
| 99 | ** '''''Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star''''': Puerile, obnoxious, and inept in all aspects, the film feels more like a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch drawn out to feature length. The plot revolves around the eponymous Bucky Larson discovering his parents were 1970s porn stars and deciding to follow in their footsteps; it was essentially an excuse to cover the script with hackneyed [[VulgarHumor sex and dick jokes]] (particularly those about [[TeenyWeenie small penises]]). Couple this with hopelessly wooden acting, and you've got the kind of film that gets a '''[[MedalOfDishonor 0%]]''' on Website/RottenTomatoes, and a film so bad that the DVD doesn't even have any blurbs from critics on it, [[QuoteMine positive or negative]]. All of this led to the film [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing]], making less than one-third of its (small) budget back in ticket sales. It was eventually pulled from theaters after just two weeks. The film was bad enough on its own, but its failure was probably further precipitated by one of the ''worst'' promotional campaigns in history, consisting primarily of ads featuring an obnoxious, overly-enthusiastic man [[NoIndoorVoice yelling loudly]] at the viewer to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ltK7eXitw go]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjhc5GLoz_M see]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_z0f5YBPV4 the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQskek_qng movie.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VFuEq99v60 Repeatedly.]] WebVideo/CinematicExcrement did a [[http://vimeo.com/114101897 review]] of the disaster. Leon and Cyrus of WebAnimation/{{Spill}} also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOZZgrDEew took a look at it]], much to their regret. Despite all of that, it did not take home a single UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward, thanks to... |
| 100 | ** '''''Film/JackAndJill''''', a 2011 film that stars Creator/AdamSandler [[ActingForTwo as a set of estranged twins]]. The premise concerns Jack Sadelstein, a commercial director, who is visited by his annoying identical twin sister Jill. During the Thanksgiving holidays, Jill is wooed by Creator/AlPacino, much to Jack's annoyance since he sought out Pacino for [[ProductPlacement his Dunkin' Donuts commercial]]. Like ''Bucky Larson'', the film's plot is essentially a bad ''SNL'' sketch stretched to feature length. Worse still, the gags are all lowbrow and derivative of Sandler's earlier works, there are a multitude of negative implications regarding its depiction of Mexicans, the cameos from celebrities such as Drew Carey, Shaquille O'Neal, and John [=McEnroe=] are wasted, and the direction is hopelessly careless. The film got a 3% on Website/RottenTomatoes, a Metacritic score of 23, and a 3.5 on Website/IMDb. It also won a Razzie in ''every category'' of 2011, resulting in a record of 10 awards, beating the record that had been set by ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' for over a decade. Director Dennis Dugan's career was tarnished by this film and has only helmed ''Grown Ups 2'', the sequel to his ''Film/GrownUps'', since. If you have a lot of time to kill, ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'' takes a look at it [[http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-jack-and-jill/ here,]] extensively detailing Sandler's scam-like laziness in making his films, [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] has his own review of it [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x386bhj here,]] [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement Smeghead]] gives his opinion [[https://vimeo.com/112611999 here,]] and Creator/MarkKermode shares his thoughts about it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySKXQ0vKxpk here.]] WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic tears this movie a new one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djIIs2dkaX0 here.]] Even fictional review shows like the [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-03-29 one]] in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' use it as an [[https://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-08-13 example]] of a [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-08-15 horrible movie]]. |
| 101 | ** ''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 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.]] |
| 102 | * '''Donald G. Jackson''' was an American director who's often considered "the Creator/EdWood of the Video Age" due to the [[MindScrew bizarre nature of his films]] and their [[RandomEventsPlot lack of a defined storyline]] thanks to his improv style of filmmaking he named "Zen Filmmaking", where no scripts are used at all. While his 1988 Wrestling/RoddyPiper vehicle ''Film/HellComesToFrogtown'' is now considered a CultClassic, the majority of his films were utterly panned by critics. |
| 103 | ** '''''Pocket Ninjas''''', a ''Film/ThreeNinjas'' rip-off that manages to look like someone took discarded storyboards from the worst ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' season ever and decided to film them with [[NoBudget $30 and whatever kids they could pick up from the local playground]]. Jackson directed a good portion of the movie until he was kicked off the project; it was later finished by the producers of ''Film/FutureWar''. Plot elements happen in almost reverse order, the editing is incoherent, the main villain (played by Z-movie veteran Robert Z'Dar) makes maybe two appearances before being replaced by his kids, [[GreenAesop eco-conscious messages]] are shoehorned in such a blunt fashion that [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet Ted Turner]] would shake his head, the voiceover ''outright lies'' about the circumstances of the film (opening with a mention of the kids saving the universe when all the stakes are entirely local), all the characters are dumber than stoners in remedial class, and the dialogue treats "butt-whiff" and "fat Republican" as the height of witty dialogue and classy insults. Website/SomethingAwful takes a hatchet to it [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/movie-reviews/pocket-ninjas.php here,]] and it also ate a part of [[Creator/AllisonPregler Obscurus Lupa]]'s soul [[http://phelous.com/2011/03/16/obscurus-lupa/obscurus-lupa-presents/olp-pocket-ninjas/ here.]] WebVideo/RedLetterMedia also ripped the film to shreds on WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mRJmcuC-8Y here.]] |
| 104 | ** '''''Rollergator''''' is a 1996 shot-on-video movie that follows a roller blade-riding teen who seeks to help a purple, jive-talking baby alligator (who's obviously a [[OffTheShelfFX store-bought hand puppet]]) return to its owner while avoiding a corrupt theme park owner and [[GratuitousNinja his ninja bounty hunter]] from kidnapping the gator to display him for cash. The movie feels similar to ''Film/TheBeastOfYuccaFlats'' with its [[NoBudget poor production values]] and a [[RandomEventsPlot meandering plotline]] that mostly take place outside in the sticks. But while that movie was largely quiet throughout its runtime, this falls head first into constant noise with the Rollergator himself who has an ear-grating voice that never shuts up and an accoustic soundtrack that loops endlessly at full volume and drowns out all the dialogue except for the Rollergator's lines.[[note]]It only stops for a few seconds when it loops back to the start.[[/note]], in a movie that's already heavy on terrible acting, action scenes that lack action, and some really atrocious dialogue. Rollergator currently holds a 1.2 rating on Website/IMDb and a 2-and-a-half star rating on Creator/{{Amazon}}. It was [[https://youtu.be/pKesdLhMTcM heavily panned]] by Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} hosts Mike Nelson and Bill Corbett; who both cited it as the worst movie they ever had to cover for the site. |
| 105 | ** The third entry to his ''Film/RollerBlade'' series, '''''The Roller Blade Seven''''', not only marks Don's first collaboration with co-director and star Scott Shaw, but is also considered by fans to be their answer to ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''. What should be a straight forward story about a warrior travelling through a post apocalyptic world to save a nun from an evil empire and their army of street punks is completely mangled by its blatant NoBudget and the duo's [[RandomEventsPlot unfocused improv directing style]]. The movie suffers in every aspect with its poor acting and dialogue, terrible fight scenes, a soundtrack made up of demo melodies that come packaged with synthesizers, random characters like the desert guru and the [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext 50's rock n roller]] who add nothing to the overall story, and blatant goofs (like Donald clearly being heard reading back an actress's lines to her in one scene - one of the ''first scenes of the movie'', making it all too clear what you're getting into) being left in. It doesn't help that when the [[LeaveTheCameraRunning camera isn't left running]] the movie pads itself with scenes that loop multiple times for no reason. It's no wonder the movie holds a 2.1 on [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102804/ IMDb]], is [[https://ideas.rifftrax.com/forums/244244-rifftrax-movie-requests/suggestions/6431429-legend-of-the-roller-blade-seven frequently requested]] to be covered on Podcast/{{RiffTrax}}, and why the guys over at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxoLSM9adtM Good Bad or Bad Bad]] struggled to even consider this an actual movie let alone talk about it. |
| 106 | * '''Christopher Lewis''' directed this duology of shot-on-video horror tripe that would color the public's perception of the very ''concept'' of DirectToVideo for years to come: |
| 107 | ** '''''Film/BloodCult''''' occupies a unique place in film history as one of the first DirectToVideo horror features, and what a way to start! The film is a SlasherMovie about a maniac dismembering sorority girls, and features such lovely elements as a [[DesignatedHero "hero"]] more concerned about his erection than the SerialKiller running around, a scene that's a few minutes of the sound of a couple arguing ''over a still image of their house'', enough {{Padding}} to kill a horse, a canine GodOfEvil named [[MeaningfulName Caninis]], and an ending that leaves all but one of the plot threads unresolved. Needless to say, this film deserves its 12% on Rotten Tomatoes and 3.4 on Website/{{IMDB}}. Watch Schlockmeisters tackle the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-12XBHhrog here]]. |
| 108 | ** '''''Film/TheRipper''''' is shot-on-video tripe not even Creator/TomSavini can save. Savini is here not for his special effects abilities, but for his acting, but all he gets is a glorified cameo in the last five minutes. The rest of the film is boring rambling about UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, an obnoxious film buff stereotype pestering his professor about Creator/VincentPrice movies, wooden acting, fuzzy camerawork, and {{Padding}}. Worse still, in an utterly shameless act of self-promotion, it features a lengthy segment where the protagonist and his girlfriend watch the aforementioned ''Blood Cult'' and talk about how good it is. All in all, it's no wonder that Savini gave a public apology for his role in this dumpster fire. |
| 109 | * '''Ulli Lommel''' was a German director whose career dates back to the early 1970s, when he worked as an actor in the films of Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder and gained mainstream attention in 1980 with ''Film/TheBoogeyman1980'' (the second sequel to which, '''''Return of the Boogeyman''''', also falls under this) which they mention on the cover of all his [=DVDs=], apparently hoping people confuse it with the Sam Raimi-produced one. Though most of his stuff was never well-received critically, it seems that it didn't turn full-on Horrible until about 2004, when he began churning out a long line of DirectToVideo, NoBudget, shameless [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] horror flicks and true crime films that rated less than Uwe Boll even when the latter was at his worst. They include: |
| 110 | ** '''''Film/DanielDerZauberer''''' (German for ''Daniel: The Wizard''), a fantasy musical drama starring Daniel Küblböck (he finished 5th in the German version of ''Series/AmericanIdol''). There's NoBudget, and the plot's incomprehensible - the protagonist's dead grandfather (played by Lommel himself) is the Wizard, [[IAmNotShazam not Daniel]], and is wandering among the living for no clear reason. The German mafia wants to kill Daniel, also for no clear reason (aside from possible influence from the Devil. Seriously). Neither of the major characters are likable, and Küblböck as Daniel is spectacularly bad; he shows here why he was voted "Germany's Most Annoying Man" two years in a row. Apparently, when a theater decided to show a large portion of it as an unannounced special preview, the audience rioted. The film has regularly been in the "top" five or so on Website/IMDb's Bottom 100 since it was released, and has occupied the #1 spot on more than a few occasions. Even Küblböck himself described it as "the worst movie of all-time" in an interview several years after it was released. |
| 111 | ** '''''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, BRoll, 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. |
| 112 | ** '''''The Tomb'''''. It claims to be an adaptation of Creator/HPLovecraft's short story ''The Tomb'', but it's a rip-off of ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''. The story's about some people wandering around in a tomb (or, well, a warehouse) where they were trapped by some guy and have been tortured. They keep finding other torture victims, who all die. That's an educated guess of the plot. The sound recording's inexcusable, obscuring the dialogue and often slipping out of sync. It has wooden acting, a nauseating JitterCam, dollar-store props, and one scene with a man who is supposed to be jogging but doesn't even ''try'' to look like it. This is probably the worst "adaptation" of Lovecraft ever filmed. Oh, and the ending makes no sense. |
| 113 | ** '''''Zodiac Killer''''', the first of Lommel's modern true crime films, is a [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] of ''The Zodiac'', which was also re-released around the same time as the cinematic release of Creator/DavidFincher's ''Film/{{Zodiac|2007}}''. In other words, a Mockbuster of a Mockbuster. Poor production values and performances abound, as does plenty of blatant inaccuracies (DSM IV is a book about psychiatric disorders, not a disorder itself) and gratuitous stock footage, gratuitous scenes, and obviously-improvised dialogue, all of which [[LeaveTheCameraRunning drag on]]. There's pretense in spades, such as the killer comparing serial killers to all members of the armed forces, and ranting about wanting to join the military so he can [[SociopathicSoldier kill who he wants when he wants]] without fear of repercussions. It was mentioned in passing in WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob's [[https://youtu.be/_5JbK2WZSTw?t=1208 review]] of the 1971 independent film ''The Zodiac Killer'', saying that while he found that film bizarre, it was still way better that Lommel's film. It later had a pseudo-prequel known as '''''Film/CurseOfTheZodiac''''' which somehow garnered even worse reviews, with one stating it seemed like it was made "by an epileptic with tourettes". |
| 114 | ** '''''Zombie Nation''''' is another horror film (and we use the term "horror" very loosely) made by him. The characters are dumb, the plot goes nowhere until the last third, and what happens in the last third makes absolutely no sense. Despite the DVD cover showing an actual zombie lunging right at you, [[CoversAlwaysLie this never happens]] in the film. Worse, the zombie women look nothing like zombies ''at all'' . The [[GainaxEnding ending]] is stupid, too: The zombie girls agree with the voodoo mages who resurrected them to become policewomen and start a cheeseburger diet just after murdering the main protagonist. |
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| 118 | * '''Barry Mahon''' was the [[TruthInTelevision real life]] inspiration for the character played by Creator/{{Steve McQueen|Actor}} 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. |
| 119 | ** '''''Film/SantaAndTheIceCreamBunny''''' is a 1972 children's film in which ice cream never actually appears, and most of it is a hideously-poor adaptation of ''Literature/{{Thumbelina}}'' directed by Mahon himself;[[note]](some versions of the film have an adaptation of ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' [also by Mahon] instead, but that version has never been released on video)[[/note]] Santa and the bunny (an extremely cheap mascot suit) are a mind-numbing FramingDevice made by another director to kill time. The opening frame consists of a sweaty Santa having children bring all manner of local farm animals in attempts to roust his sleigh out of a half-inch of sand. The finale's mostly the Ice Cream Bunny driving slowly while children sing an inaudible song. The ''Thumbelina'' film has [[NestedStory a frame story of its own]] with a girl wandering around an amusement park and staring at some kind of Thumbelina display and a ''recap'' narrated by a minor character. The film would probably be unknown if it weren't for ''Website/TheAgonyBooth'' [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080110012824/http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Santa_and_the_Ice_Cream_Bunny_1972.aspx reviewing it;]] it is notable mostly for being shot at the defunct amusement park Pirate's World. Even the guys on ''Podcast/RiffTrax'' [[https://youtu.be/hw1GxIQqp84 got stumped,]] admitting at one point in the film that they had nothing to say about the insanity on-screen. |
| 120 | ** '''''Santa's Christmas Elf (Named Calvin)''''' is even more painful to sit through than ''Ice Cream Bunny'' because it's a 70-minute slideshow of puppets and children poorly superimposed over backdrops that are almost impossible to distinguish because of the complete absence of lighting. The story of the mischievous and lazy elf (named Calvin, of course) is narrated by a woman who sounds like she couldn't be bothered to be there, and the few child actors with speaking parts aren't any better. None of the shots are framed properly, with many instances of characters being swapped out without changing the background, and a few [[AccidentalNightmareFuel unintentionally creepy-looking shots of children staring blankly at the camera]]. For a long time, ''Santa's Christmas Elf (Named Calvin)'' didn't even have an [=IMDb=] profile even though a promotional poster suggested the movie would run in local theaters on weekends. It also [[https://youtu.be/wiCw1bjWbHA utterly broke]] WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob. |
| 121 | * '''Sean [=McNamara=]''' (no, not the character from ''Series/NipTuck''): A director who is apparently so tied up in making sure his films are [[ContractualPurity family-friendly]], at his worst he is considered to be to family entertainment what Uwe Boll is to [[VideoGameMoviesSuck video game movies]]. While most of his TV series are well-received and some of his movies worked with audiences (such as ''Film/SoulSurfer'', ''Treehouse Hostage'', and ''Race to Space''), others...didn't. |
| 122 | ** '''''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 never particularly great, but certainly a wide distance above this). 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. |
| 123 | ** The '''''Film/{{Bratz}}''''' movie (based on the popular toyline) became notorious for being filled with idiotic dialogue, {{plot hole}}s, [[BrainlessBeauty brainless]] and [[FlatCharacter downright flat characters]], and countless negative stereotypes (the Mexican family even has a mariachi band). It bombed in the box office and earned Razzie nominations. [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/bratz-the-movie,3360/ Nathan Rabin]] of the Website/AVClub declared that it "is why terrorists hate [America]". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMmJcUoiGQ See the Nostalgia Chick review here.]] WebVideo/AniMat cites it as being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmYHlxtrIo0 the worst film he's ever seen]]. Carlyle of WebAnimation/{{Spill}} gave his 2 cents [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy88ggp6IXY here]], and would later on name it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-ozZiaV-SE the second worst movie of 2007.]] |
| 124 | * '''Nick Millard''' (a.k.a. '''Nick Philips'''): Specifically, his films '''''Criminally Insane 2''''', '''''Death Nurse''''', and '''''Death Nurse 2'''''. ''Film/CriminallyInsane'' (a.k.a. ''Crazy Fat Ethel''), the movie that started the series, is not in itself horrible - if you like 1970s exploitation films, it might be okay. ''Criminally Insane 2'' and the ''Death Nurse'' movies come a decade later, ''are'' Horrible, and for the most part mix footage from the first film and StockFootage. Only ''Criminally Insane 2'' is a direct sequel. The four films together are four hours worth of one film with, according to WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob, three hours total footage; ''Criminally Insane 2'' is half stock footage from the original film, and the ''Death Nurse'' films are each one-quarter from ''Criminally Insane''. One scene is used in ''all four'', and there's one scene of stock footage {{flashback}}ing composed, itself, of stock footage... They all use the same five or six actors, and each film has the same credits sequence. |
| 125 | ** 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, an obese madwoman 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.]] |
| 126 | ** ''Criminally Insane 2'' a.k.a. ''Crazy Fat Ethel 2'', the sequel to ''Film/CriminallyInsane'', stands out compared to the ''Death Nurse'' films. When not showing stock footage from the previous film, the story consists of Ethel having to move into a halfway house due to massive budget cuts to the asylum she was staying at. The movie takes {{Padding}} to a whole new level, feeling like a three-hour movie despite its 60-minute running time. All the new footage for the film was shot on a cheap videotape camera with no semblance of any technical proficiency in both the audio and video. The only music heard in the entire film is from stock footage from the previous movie and noise from the video camera is dominant in the newly-shot footage. WebVideo/RedLetterMedia [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x94zXO02VPU recalls their experiences]] for you to enjoy. |
| 127 | ** Along with the post-''Criminally Insane'' Priscilla Alden films, he also made a number of other poorly-received flicks, such as '''''Doctor Bloodbath, .357 Magnum''''', a loose adaptation of '''''The Turn of the Screw''''', and the admittedly awesomely-titled '''''Dracula in Vegas'''''. |
| 128 | * '''Craig Moss''' is a director that takes Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg's formula of {{Narrow|Parody}} and ShallowParody films and somehow makes them ''even less'' funny, and he uses a ''lot'' of vulgar humor. Away from his parody efforts he's actually proven to be a somewhat capable action director, as evidenced by his ''Film/{{Bad Ass|2012}}'' films with Creator/DannyTrejo, but comedy is definitely ''not'' his forte. |
| 129 | ** '''''The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It''''' has jokes that are either just references, needlessly vulgar, or both (e.g., the main character's name is "[=McAnalovin=]"), the dialogue is equally as vulgar and they reuse the Verizon "Can you hear me now?" spokesman several times, all failing to be funny. [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] takes it on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUYF1ilPjc here.]] |
| 130 | ** '''''Breaking Wind''''' is filled with dirty jokes (many of them ToiletHumour, as the title is indicative) and mean-spirited jabs at the ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' fandom. Many, such as [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]], [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x380mgd?playlist=x43amt in his review]], say that [[Film/VampiresSuck Seltzer and Friedberg's parody of the series]] is bad but at least makes more effort. |
| 131 | ** '''''30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''''' attempts to be a spoof of popular 2010s horror movies. Instead, it's a rather shameful display of dated jokes, piss-poor editing, cringe-inducing acting, and a bizarre obsession over [[GagPenis jokes involving a man's junk]]. The film's biggest crime is that it features a potpourri of elements from various movies without showing even an iota of understanding these films, let alone make a joke out of them (the film has a [[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy Lisbeth]] lookalike show up as the daughter; that's the whole joke). But we're not the only ones who spit on this movie's grave: ''30 Nights of Paranormal Activity'' has a 2.6 rating on Website/IMDb, and received a thrashing from [[http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/30-nights-paranormal-activity/ We've Got This Covered]]. [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] returns to rip into the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6bj19h3wF0 here.]] |
| 132 | * A pitchman with a cult following on the internet for his creative, humorous {{infomercial}}s, '''Creator/VinceOffer''' has also made a pair of comedy anthology films, which... to put it bluntly, aren't nearly as good. |
| 133 | ** Before he started shilling [=ShamWow=]s and Slap Chops, he directed 1999's '''''The Underground Comedy Movie''''', a painfully boring and unfunny AnthologyFilm attempt at VulgarHumor with guest stars such as Music/GunsNRoses guitarist Music/{{Slash|Musician}}, Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan, and Joey Buttafuoco of "Long Island Lolita" infamy. A lot of the sketches have jokes that go on for way too long and are often repeats of the same sketch in what looks like an attempt to pad out the movie to feature-length. WebVideo/CinematicExcrement takes a brief look at it [[https://youtu.be/o_ccxkTJ8a4?t=1418 here]], considering it to have been a more deserving film for Worst Picture of 1999 over the actual winner, ''Film/WildWildWest''. With an [=IMDb=] score of 2.3, this failure of a comedy left Offer waiting 14 years until he released... |
| 134 | ** '''''[=InAPPropriate=] Comedy''''' is, in short, a failed attempt at making a film in the same vein as ''Film/{{Movie 43}}'' (which came out the same year, even though the two started production at different times, and is also considered Horrible). This {{grossout|show}} comedy featured an AllStarCast, including Creator/AdrienBrody, Creator/MichelleRodriguez, Creator/RobSchneider, and Creator/LindsayLohan. It is a perfect storm of lazy {{Double Entendre}}s, cheap sets, and weak acting. Above all, the jokes are simply reprehensible, such as a coat-hanger abortion sketch and a sketch where a character tries to entice black people to get on a "one-way" boat trip to Africa with watermelons, fried chicken, and malt liquor. Making it worse is that it rehashes sketches from ''The Underground Comedy Movie'' verbatim, including (but not limited to) "Flirty Harry" and "The Porno Review." But don't take our word for it - ''[=InAPPropriate=] Comedy'' received a Metacritic score of '''1''' and an Website/IMDb score of 2.8. If anything, Creator/NathanRabin's account [[http://thedissolve.com/features/you-might-also-like/626-inappropriate-comedy-is-where-laughs-go-to-die/ is pretty comprehensive about the film's incompetence]]. [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] manages to endure the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZitYyfYDvA here.]] WebAnimation/{{Spill}} would go on to review the movie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b9_yqmJlDs here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyRfrmdjA2o here]]; Korey Coleman himself would [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZSZNyZyODg later declare it]] one of, if not ''the'' worst films of the decade, and both Emer and Corey would call it the worst movie they've ever seen. In a repeat of Offer’s previous work, Cinematic Excrement would cover this in the review for Movie 43, and again say that it was worthy of the Worst Picture Razzie. |
| 135 | * '''Neri Parenti''' used to be a respected filmmaker, having directed many beloved Italian comedies including some of the ''Film/{{Fantozzi}}'' films. Then after 1996, he turned to directing ''cinepanettoni'', a genre of farcical comedies released during the holidays that's been stuck in the same formula since 2001: lots of gratuitous cursing, obnoxious sexual innuendo, unfunny jokes based on gender and ethnic stereotypes, exaggerated ToiletHumour, repetitive casting[[note]]'''All''' of Parenti's ''cinepanettoni'' from 2001 to 2011 star Christian De Sica and, with three exceptions, Massimo Boldi.[[/note]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and bad direction]]. As of 2018, there have been fifteen of these things, all with the exact same content — summed up by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjMltCTv_Hg this]] parody trailer from ''Film/ItalianoMedio'' director Maccio Capatonda. |
| 136 | ** '''''Amici Miei: Come Tutto Ebbe Inizio''''' ("My Friends: How It All Began") is a major stinker of his that could fall in the same category of Cinepanettoni. It claims to be a prequel to the classic ''Amici Miei'' (''Film/MyFriends'') trilogy, but with none of the charm and wit behind it. It rehashes the plot of the first film, with the only change being that it's set in the 15th century, with lots of unnecessary farting and pissing (in the original, there is a scene where the protagonists serve urine-laced soup to an ill man, but never actually shows the act of urination; in this version, it's just an excuse to shove in a scene [[{{Squick}} with a child pissing in someone's mouth]]). Fans of the original films were so disgusted that they staged a "funeral" for the first three films, and series creator Mario Monicelli openly expressed his hatred for the film just weeks before his suicide. |
| 137 | ** '''''Natale in India''''' is considered the worst of his Christmas films. The plot, despite trying to be episodic, instead results in a series of disjointed and unfunny gags. The "highlights" of the film include a dog pooping in a sandbox and kicking said sand over some children, two men at a circus eating tiger feces, and a rapper making references about vomit, who meets his obnoxious and shrill-voiced copycat. The films counts a miserable 3,1 score on Website/IMDb, based on more than 900 reviews. |
| 138 | * '''Paolo Ruffini''' is an Italian comedian and former TV host that mostly acts in comedies, usually lowbrow ones. After achieving popularity with his "Nido del Cuculo" gag dubs, he moved to filmmaking and directed a few movies of his own. To say the least, they're pretty bad. |
| 139 | ** '''''Fuga di Cervelli''''', a remake of ''Brain Drain''. God only knows how he took an already disastrous film and managed to make it even worse: in fact, it's a [[RecycledScript copy-paste]] of the Spanish version, with the same contrived dynamics and poor storytelling. Ruffini rummaged through the worst Italian TV comedians, [=YouTubers=], and internet celebrities, gave them limited direction, and had them spout very trite and repetitive gags that drag on for ''minutes''. The [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3040510/reviews only review on IMDb]] rips it to shreds. |
| 140 | ** In 2014, Ruffini made another film, titled '''''Tutto Molto Bello'''''. Nothing is improved from ''Fuga'', with an even blander plot (it's supposed to take inspiration from Todd Philips' ''Due Date'' but fails hard), annoying characters that expect to make the viewer laugh with girlish screams, bad slapstick, uninspired jokes, and pointless fanservice involving obscure references to old TV programs that nobody remembers anymore, including a random cameo by singer Enzo Ghinazzi (a.k.a. Pupo), and an out-of-place impersonation of radio commentator Bruno Pizzul. Ruffini openly claimed that the film is "not suitable for crybabies", mocking its haters. It has an average of 1 out of 5 on Italian review sites, and was a box office flop. Critics bashed it, some of them calling it "the death of Italian cinema), and [=YouTuber=] [=Victorlaszlo88=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiOFTV-wPc8&t=3m55s had a field day with it]] (you might want to lower your volume). |
| 141 | ** Ruffini struck again in Christmas 2017 with '''''Super Vacanze di Natale'''''. Cinepanettoni are already derided within Italy for their repetitive and unoriginal content, but when Neri Parenti left producer Filmauro, the studio released a couple duds before calling on Ruffini to direct something for Christmas '17. The result was a lazy {{clip show}} of random scenes from every previous Christmas film without even a framing device or a common theme to link the scenes: half of the scenes are just screaming matches and people farting, cheating on their spouses, or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking making insipid jokes]]. On an interview with the newspaper ''La Repubblica'', even Christian De Sica, who acted in every featured film, called it unreasonable to charge admission for something that you can find on [=YouTube=] ''for free''. |
| 142 | * '''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg]]''' gained infamy during the late 2000s for their parody movies. Breaking into public attention as "two of the six writers of ''Film/ScaryMovie''", they made their directorial debut in 2006 with ''Film/DateMovie''. 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]] (more on that later), and their penchant for [[ToiletHumour Toilet]] and VulgarHumor which made the movies [[NauseaFuel nauseating to watch]]. While ''Film/MeetTheSpartans'' and ''Film/VampiresSuck'' have some fans, and ''Film/DateMovie'' is considered unremarkable compared to their other efforts, the same cannot be said about their other movies: |
| 143 | ** '''''Film/EpicMovie''''' is supposed to be a parody of Hollywood blockbuster movies released during the 2000s, but even ignoring the title (not all blockbusters can be described as "epic"), the movie relies entirely on having characters from franchises with installments between 2005 and 2007 show up, announce their presence, do gross stuff, and/or die. It also established the level of "parodies" Seltzer and Friedberg would make, as it would feature Wolverine FlippingTheBird with his claw... something he actually did in the first ''X-Men'' film. For some perspective on the film's quality, [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] reviews ''Epic Movie'' [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rmZ4Ru0hI here]], and Korey Coleman of WebAnimation/{{Spill}} and WebVideo/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 review (until he watched ''[=InAPPropriate=] Comedy'', that is). |
| 144 | ** '''''Film/DisasterMovie''''' is considered the absolute worst of all their "movies", as it goes ''even further'' on all of the expected. It manages 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 ([[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213644/?ref_=chtbtm_t_86 having a 1.9 rating to date]]) 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.]] |
| 145 | ** While follow-up ''Vampires Suck'' managed to get somewhat better reviews, the duo stopped getting studio backing afterwards, and their following efforts went straight to VOD. '''''The Starving Games''''' and '''''Superfast!''''', shallow parodies of ''Film/TheHungerGames'' and ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' respectively, were more of the same. |
| 146 | ** Their first "original" work, '''''Film/BestNightEver''''', was a FoundFootage comedy in the vein of ''Film/ProjectX2012'', 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". |
| 147 | * '''Steamroller Productions''' is a production company founded by Creator/StevenSeagal that appears to have been made solely to fill up his limitless ego. While it was slightly more reputable back in the early '90s during Seagal's heyday, it has since devolved into producing direct-to-video movies and TV shows that all ostensibly star Seagal, who only does the bare minimum required to even look like he's acting -- and even that's not guaranteed. |
| 148 | ** '''''Film/AttackForce''''' is a film that even fans of Seagal dislike. Here, Seagal battles violent berserker types created from a drug emptied into the water supply of Paris after the team he leads gets murdered by one of them. It opens with credits superimposed over blurred images of what appear to be strippers dancing, then proceeds to a shootout that has nothing to do with the rest of the film before it gets to the main plot. It includes the line "We must find that titty-bar!". While Seagal's dialogue is often dubbed over by someone else in these DVD films [due to CreatorsApathy], this takes it to the extreme with virtually all his dialogue dubbed over as the film's plot was completely changed in post-production with disastrous results. ''Attack Force'' earned an absolutely negative 2.8 on IMDB. WebVideo/ShitcaseCinema also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMp-jc2T1OQ reviewed it]]. |
| 149 | ** '''''Sniper: Special Ops''''' is Seagal at possibly his lowest point put on film. It is a cheap cash-in on the popularity of ''Film/AmericanSniper'', even though it barely has any sniping in it. The plot involves a spec ops team having to abandon Seagal and another soldier after a rescue mission goes wrong and getting tangled up in a [[TrappedByMountainLions seemingly unrelated mission]] involving abandoned munitions, which eventually ties into rescuing Seagal. The production is noticeably cheap, the direction is dire and derivative, the action scenes are tensionless and horribly edited, and half the actors in the spec ops team -- including a noticeably drunk Wrestling/RobVanDam -- look too old to be special forces. Steven Seagal is by far the worst part of the movie, putting in so little effort that he spends most of his very short screentime sitting on a chair, mumbling lines and wearing sunglasses so he doesn't have to emote. He goes so far as to have a stunt double for his character ''walking up and down stairs''. The movie has a 3.2 on IMDB and is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIHyF7UWY4 ripped to shreds]] in the podcast ''Cum Town'' as part of its "Goatee Era Seagal" segment. |
| 150 | %%** '''''Film/ShadowMan''''' is poor even by Steven Seagal's low standards. The plot (co-written by Seagal) is nonsensical, the action and special effects are poor and there are copious amounts of body and voice doubles. The acting [including a random appearance from Creator/ImeldaStaunton!] is weak and it looks extremely cheap. WebVideo/FilmBrain rips it to pieces [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL-CfffxPs0 here]]. |
| 151 | * '''Nigel Tomm''' is an absurdist artist whose work is hated even by people interested in the style, and panned near unanimously for his lack of effort and tremendous pretension (in [[Horrible/{{Literature}} several media]]). Every movie in his filmography bills itself as an adaptation, yet it consists of a single color on-screen for 71 minutes on average. To get a good idea of the stupidity of the concept, here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxT1JvpHYYA an April Fool's episode]] of WebVideo/BooksVsMovies covering ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' which is compared to 75 minutes and six seconds of blue-screen. |
| 152 | * '''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 [[https://avid.wiki/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. |
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