Films considered the worst ever
It was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, A monster movie about a giant bird ..as big as a battleship starring Jeff Morrow as a pilot. He has seen the movie 42 times.Shot in 1956, due to difficulty in finding a distributor the film was not released until 1959. Hughes thought the movie was so bad that he bought up every copy (which cost him about $12 million), and he refused to distribute the film until 1974, when Paramount reached a deal with him.
Other times, this turns out to have been a mistake and they often stop after the first try. A 1996 comedy that stars professional basketball player Shaquille O Neal as the title character, a genie. It was also featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Directed by Arthur J.
There were also conflicts between Raquel Welch and Mae West on the set. After being told that Kazaam is not a horror movie, Drew answers, Well, you haven t seen Shaq act. A $22 million musical that nearly destroyed the career of pop sensation Mariah Carey.
The movie was a box office disaster, having a budget of $10 million but grossing around $600,000 in the United States. In his Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin calls the film a hopeless mess of a movie . Based on the first half of L.
The film is cited on a 10-worst list in The Book of Lists, in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, and in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. This film only grossed $6 million, making it one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.
military withdrawing support due to the Unification Church connection, weather and natural disasters, customs difficulties, expensive directorial blunders, and the original director (Andrew McLaglen) quitting before the start of production. When the film was finally released to the public on March 31, 2006, it was a commercial failure, and universally panned by critics.
After a nightmarish dream sequence, Glen undergoes psychotherapy to help cure his affliction. George, Utah, downwind from a nuclear testing range in Nevada and is often blamed for the cancer deaths of many of the cast and crew, including Hayward, Wayne, Agnes Moorehead, Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz, and director Dick Powell.
Not only one of the least scary horror movies ever , according to Yahoo! Movies, but by pretty much any measure.. Warren, about a family on vacation that stumbles upon an isolated house inhabited by a polygamous cult.
The film Scary Movie also makes fun of the negative reception for Kazaam. Michael J.
Plan 9 was mocked on the television series Seinfeld by Jerry in the episode The Chinese Restaurant, in which he said, This isn t like plans one through eight. Nelson produced an audio commentary track for the movie for Rifftrax. Riddled with plot holes and suffering from terrible acting and equally-bad cinematography, The Room has been called the Citizen Kane of bad movies .
TBS broadcast the film on television in their prime time schedule, but added digitally animated solid black underwear to hide breasts and genitalia. The decision to make the film was based on the success of E.T.
In 1999, Offer filed a suit against 20th Century Fox and the co-directors of There s Something About Mary, Bobby and Peter Farrelly, claiming that 14 scenes in Mary were stolen from his film. Leonard Maltin gave the film no stars, saying that it was too depressing, and Not funny enough, or dramatic enough, or sexy enough, or bad enough, to qualify as entertainment in any category. Also, in what is considered as bad taste, Rumer Willis (Moore s real-life daughter who also plays the onscreen daughter) was required to see her mother strip in front of her. Often, an attempt is made to capitalize on the popularity of a successful film by making a sequel While they are usually considered inferior to the original, others end up being poorly done movies in and of themselves and sometimes taint the film they were meant to emulate or continue. The film is about a young boy in a wheelchair, who meets and befriends an alien who has crash landed on earth.
Critics from Variety, The Village Voice and various Internet movie sites panned it for a multitude of reasons, including poor script and production values, overuse of slow-motion and quick cuts to optimize the gory content, almost no connection to the game, and bad acting. Originally a black comedy with no romantic subplot, the producers demanded script rewrites throughout filming, hoping to cash in on the Lopez-Affleck romance that was big news in celebrity-watching publications of the time such as Us and People.
It bombed at the box office, making just $17 million, about $102 million short of the original. and Me. Starring Madonna, Adriano Giannini, and Bruce Greenwood, the film is a remake of the 1974 Italian film of the same name, which is a beloved classic in the eyes of many critics of European films.
The film is currently on the Internet Movie Database s 100 worst films of all time, Because of this, 20th Century Fox opted not to release the film on DVD; instead, they surrendered the rights to Columbia Pictures, which distributed the film outside the U.S. In the 1996 edition of Cult Flicks and Trash Pics, the authors state that, The film has become so famous for its own badness that it s now beyond criticism. A film by Coleman Francis shot silently with added narration.
This is plan nine, the one that worked! The worst movie ever made! The movie was also mocked on an episode of Mission Hill entitled Plan 9 from Mission Hill . It is also known for starring a very young Pia Zadora.
The film holds the distinction of being the first film to win both Worst Picture and Worst Remake or Sequel. The film gained cult popularity by being featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. This film by Rick Sloane was made famous after it debuted on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
— E.T. The Farrellys released this statement: We ve never heard of him, we ve never heard of his movie, and it s all a bunch of baloney. . A comedy film starring Tom Green, who also wrote and directed it.
The film also contains a number of visible mistakes, including actors depicting Korean War-era reporters being dressed in late-1970s clothing and haircuts. Olivier s performance was roundly panned and he was awarded the 1982 Golden Raspberry award for Worst Actor. This time, it was an adaptation of the novel by David Brin.
and appeared in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. A comedy based on a cable access show from 1988. The Giant Claw has gone down in history as one of the worst movies ever made, with some referring it as The Citizen Kane of bad B-movies! , This was the only worst b-movie to be distributed by a major motion picture studio which featured a double bill with The Night the World Exploded. Ed Wood s Plan 9 was labeled the Worst Film Ever by The Golden Turkey Awards.
Fans of low-budget cult films often use the phrase so bad it s good to describe movies that are so poorly made that they become an entertaining comedy of errors . The film, however, has garnered a cult following over the years.
When executed poorly, this method can backfire. Ron Hubbard s thousand-page novel of the same name (itself widely panned by critics), starring John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, and Barry Pepper, this film had the third worst 3,000-plus-theater opening weekend up to that time.
The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from almost every critic. It almost ruined the career of the writer, Joe Eszterhas, who has had difficulty living down the embarrassment.
It holds a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film appears in Michael Sauter s book The Worst Movies of All Time and made the 10-worst list in The Book of Lists.
Wood was apparently undeterred by the numerous physical differences – such as height and build – that distinguished Mason from Lugosi; e.g., that Mason was nearly bald while Lugosi retained a full head of hair until his death. It remains on the IMDb s Bottom 100 movie list, and appeared in the 2004 documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. This holiday staple was the creation of Nicholas Webster.
When Drew (Carmen Electra) is asked What is your favorite horror movie? she answers Kazaam. Wood idolized Lugosi, and before Lugosi s death, he shot a small amount of test footage of Lugosi.
It is not rated by either Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic. Many directors adapt a story from another medium such as a book, play, or game into a film, with varying results. It has played at the New Orleans Worst Film Festival and was included in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.
The edited R-rated version removes much of the gratuitous nudity and replaces it with story elements which attempt to make the plot understandable. Since his name is Alan Smithee, taking his name off the credits is a logical impossibility, and he destroys all copies of the movie.
It also started with an X rating but then had to be cut down to an R. All of the films directed by Friedberg and Seltzer received virtually no praise from critics, and were lambasted for their crude, offensive demeanor, tired and repetitive gags, and habit of really just referencing other movies in attempt to satirize them.
Cinematic Titanic released a production of the movie in November of 2008. A Herschell Gordon Lewis film, Monster was begun as Terror at Halfday by Bill Rebane, who would later go on to make The Giant Spider Invasion; the film was left incomplete, only to be purchased by Lewis, who reportedly needed a second film to release on a double bill, and who shot some additional footage. The Golden Turkey Awards confers its main character the title of Most Ridiculous Monster in Screen History and, listing its director Phil Tucker among the runners-up to Worst Director of All Time (the winner being Ed Wood), states that What made Robot Monster ineffably worse than any other low-budget sci-fi epic was its bizarre artistic pretension .
And just like Showgirls, it was heavily panned by critics. The picture consists mostly of men sitting around drinking coffee and talking; the ending consists of a long speech by the narrator informing us that there was no monster. All Movie Guide calls the film a surreal anti-masterpiece . A low-budget horror film made by El Paso fertilizer salesman Hal P.
It is an insult to intelligence, an affront to sensibility and an abomination to the eye. Gore Vidal blamed the movie for a decade-long drought in the sale of the original book. A large amount of hype was put behind promoting the sex and nudity in this NC-17 film, but the results were critically derided. The films listed here have achieved a significant level of infamy through critical and popular assertion as being among the worst films ever made.
Like Waterworld, it was widely panned by critics but was even more of a financial failure - the $80 million film made only $18 million at the North American box office. Sort of a self-parody, this movie portrays the making of a movie considered extremely horrendous by its director (Eric Idle). It earned a mere $3.2 million dollars in its opening weekend, .
The film, produced and directed by Phil Tucker, is listed in Michael Sauter s book The Worst Movies of All Time among The Baddest of the B s. It is also featured in The Book of Lists 10 worst movie list, in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, and in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. At the end of the episode, the people watching the film started to laugh and cheer, because they cant help but laugh at the worst thing they ve ever seen . In 1994, Tim Burton directed Ed Wood, which includes some material about the trials and tribulations of making Plan 9.
Roger Ebert gave the film a zero out of four stars, calling it a spectacularly bad film — incompetent, unfunny, ill-conceived, badly executed, lamely written, and acted by people who look trapped in the headlights. It was written by Joe Eszterhas and at one point in the movie a character comments that the film-within-the-film was worse than Showgirls , which was also written by Eszterhas. This action movie, starring Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas, was universally panned by critics, earning a rare zero percent rating (with 105 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes, where it remains as the worst critically reviewed film on the site. A Martin Brest movie featuring Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, with appearances by Al Pacino and Christopher Walken, that was declared by many to be the worst movie of 2003. The choreography was considered so bad, that a special Golden Raspberry Governor s Award was created as an excuse to present the film with a Razzie.
Some stars from the 1940s and 1950s were also shocked to see footage from their films seen as sexual in-jokes, even some, like Loretta Young, suing them to remove the footage. Due to having had most of its dialogue lost, the movie also employs a technique that has come to be synonymous with Z-movie horror: voiceover narration explaining to the audience the dialogue being silently enacted onscreen.
Among its most notorious flaws, besides poor production qualities, is an opening sequence with little dialogue in which the family drives through the countryside for several minutes looking for their hotel, a sequence said to have meant to contain opening credits. Like many others in this category, it has been featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000, and has been included in the IMDb s worst 100.
It won five Razzies, including Worst Picture. Béla Lugosi appears in this film, as he did in several other Wood films toward the end of his career.
Director and lead actor Vince Offer constructed the film out of a series of tasteless, lowbrow skits (including Gena Lee Nolin loudly using the restroom and a superhero named Dickman , who dresses in a giant penis costume and defeats his enemies by squirting them with semen). the Extra-Terrestrial (the title itself, Mac and Me, comes from the working title for E.T.
One review said the movie was so poorly built, so horribly acted and so sloppily stitched together that it s not even at the straight-to-DVD level. Some films listed here starred A-list actors or high-profile celebrities who critics felt were either badly miscast, paired or grouped with other stars with whom they did not share viable chemistry, or cast in an otherwise poorly made film that relied entirely on their star power. A Howard Hughes-funded box-office bomb featuring John Wayne as Genghis Khan and the redheaded Susan Hayward as a Tartar princess. CNN s Paul Clinton called it quite simply the worst movie ever released by a major studio in Hollywood history and listed the running time as 86 awful minutes. The most recent in a line of spoof films directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, Disaster Movie was panned almost universally by critics.
It is currently on IMDB s Bottom 100 list, Some theater chains threatened not to screen the movie at all, when distributor 20th Century Fox announced plans to rush it to VHS and DVD a mere six weeks after its opening weekend, but Fox ultimately relented and pushed the release date back a number of months. These films are commonly cult classics, however, as the overdone scenes of nudity, death, violence, and gore are often so poorly executed that they become more humorous than shocking. The 1970 film based on the book of the same name by Gore Vidal and starring Raquel Welch, Mae West, and Farrah Fawcett provoked controversy due to scenes that seemed a bit questionable for the time period.
As the movie character differs so widely from her comic book source, the character, as portrayed in this film, has been cited as Catwoman In Name Only . Loosely based on a series of video games by Infogrames, and directed by Uwe Boll. The film retains only two central characters: the eponymous duck and Beverly Switzler, and makes no effort to have them look or behave similarly to their counterparts from the comics.
Also starring Jackie Chan, Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg, and Oscar-nominated actors Ryan O Neal and Sylvester Stallone, this film was widely panned by critics upon its release. Unlike more mundane bad films, these films develop an ardent fan following who love them because of their poor quality, because normally, the bevy of errors (technical or artistic) or wildly contrived plots are unlikely to be seen elsewhere. A semi-autobiographical quasi-documentary about transvestism, starring and directed by Ed Wood.
one of the worst films ever made . However, Disaster Movie is usually considered the worst of them, and is included on the Internet Movie Database s 100 worst films of all time, once ranking at number one. Filmmakers sometimes try to overuse content considered taboo or shocking by the general populace as a means to draw in curious film-goers (see shock value).
Following Lugosi s death, the character was then played by Tom Mason, the chiropractor of Wood s wife at the time, who played his scenes holding the character s cape in front of his face. The movie was filmed near St.
The movie was lampooned in September 1994 in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Critics have panned the film, with Time Magazine saying Myra Breckinridge is about as funny as a child molester.
In Italy it grossed €71,575 and in Spain €105,371 from 174 screens. In the television series The X-Files, Fox Mulder watches Plan 9 whenever he needs to focus on a difficult problem, claiming that the film is so incredibly bad that it shuts down the logic centers of his brain, allowing him to make intuitive leaps of logic.
However, in his otherwise negative review of the film, Slant Magazine critic Ed Gonzalez said: Madonna gives her best performance since Abel Ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his Dangerous Game. Madonna even won the Worst Supporting Actress award that same year (for her performance in Die Another Day). A sequel to the 1999 film Baby Geniuses, it was a box office flop, grossing only $9,000,000 of its $20,000,000 budget. The film itself took the 1982 Razzies for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay, and Young s direction earned him a tie for Worst Director of 1982. Two years after the controversial Waterworld, Kevin Costner involved himself in another post-apocalyptic film.
Both critics and fans of the genre widely rejected the film. This would be the last film that Hughes would produce. This war movie, starring Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, and directed by Terence Young, was meant to be a depiction of the Battle of Incheon during the Korean War.
Years later, video distributors such as Avenue One DVD began to make light of this, adding such blurbs as Almost Starring Bela Lugosi to the cover art. Noted film composer Elmer Bernstein wrote the score for this film.
Many of Wood s fans and critic Leonard Maltin insist that this was far worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space; Maltin considers it possibly the worst movie ever made . In the movie, Catwoman has actual superpowers, which she lacks in the comics.
The films have either been cited by a combination of reputable sources as the worst movie of the year, or been on such a source s list of the worst movies of all time. It is on the IMDb s Bottom 100 list, It is also one of the few films considered the worst of all time to have spawned a sequel, Hobgoblins 2, made twenty years after the original. Notable in part for not featuring any trolls (the baddies are goblins from the town of Nilbog , which is goblin spelled backwards), and for not having anything to do with Troll.
John Reynolds, who played the character Torgo, supposedly a satyr, wore a rigging for his legs that made his performance extremely awkward. It is now regularly broadcast by VH1 as part of their Movies That Rock series. Much like Showgirls, Striptease - starring Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds and directed by Andrew Bergman - relied heavily on sex and nudity.
Factors resulting in poor performance include: Loosely based on the Marvel Comics character, which was created by Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik, and stars Lea Thompson, a young Tim Robbins, and Jeffrey Jones. The lycra catsuit was replaced with slashed leather pants, a bra, and a mask, which also acts as a hat, and she leaps from rooftop to rooftop in stiletto heels.
The movie is on the Bottom 100 list at the Internet Movie Database, Based on the DC Comics character and starring Halle Berry, the film retains next to nothing of the Batman antagonist and the source material. Nelson (who also stars in the film under the pseudonym Vic Savage), the film is memorable for its use of some bargain-basement effects: stock footage of a rocket launch played in reverse to depict the landing of an alien spacecraft, and what appears to be shag carpet draped over several actors shambling about at a snail s pace, thus bringing the monstrous creeping terror to the screen.
Leonard Maltin s TV and Movie Guide calls it one of the worst films ever made . Many especially avoided it because they thought it was just a vehicle for the Lopez-Affleck relationship. The thriller-mystery film starring Lindsay Lohan received almost universally negative reviews, Sometimes, stars in other fields, such as music or sports, will attempt to parlay their existing fame into a movie career.
The movie received universal negative reviews from film critics, earning a 0% positive rating on review website Rotten Tomatoes, Sequel to The Mask, this critically panned movie finds Jamie Kennedy finding the mask of Loki, and then conceiving an infant born son of the mask . David Janssen was listed as a co-star in the film and paid handsomely, but all his scenes were cut from the final version.
More than one reviewer called the film Travolting . It was also awarded five awards at the 2002 Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Picture, Worst Actress (for Madonna), Worst Screen Couple (for Madonna and Giannini), Worst Remake or Sequel, and Worst Director (for Guy Ritchie). In addition, the film was nominated for Worst Screenplay (by Ritchie), and Giannini for Worst Actor.
When Martian children get to see Santa Claus only on TV, their parents decide to abduct Santa to make them happy. Producer Mitsuharu Ishii was a senior member of the Japanese branch of the Unification Church, whose leader, Sun Myung Moon, claimed he had the film made to show MacArthur s spirituality and connection to God and the Japanese people.
After the film was released, Cosby was so disappointed with it, that he publicly advised people to not waste their money to see it. Examples of such sources include Roger Ebert s list of most hated films, Rotten Tomatoes, the Internet Movie Database s Bottom 100 list, and the Golden Raspberry Award ( Razzies ). Although B-movies are produced on low budgets that often compromise their quality, and thus have a reputation as being bad in comparison to a-list films, some of the films from this genre have become known for being markedly worse than others, sometimes being referred to as Z-movies. Some B-movies have become cult classics, partly as a result of their peculiarities.
It features a seminude prologue (which implies necrophilia) completely unrelated to the rest of the film, and a scientist turning into a monster played by Tor Johnson. This movie marked the final appearance of Béla Lugosi.
It was criticized for its poor script, hammy acting by Travolta, overuse of tilted camera angles, laughable dialogue, and several plot inconsistencies. This was then placed in the movie and repeated several times.
Production was plagued by every conceivable kind of problem, including labor issues, the U.S. After the opening-weekend flop, Fox reinstated the original release schedule.
It was shown only on 196 screens for two weeks, dropping down to 59 in the final third week of release. Maxim magazine printed, Even Quentin Tarantino couldn t revive Travolta s career after this movie. Directed by Uwe Boll, the film is an adaptation of the 1996 Sega arcade game of the same name, and was notorious for using footage from the videogame in the movie.
In addition, the accompanying soundtrack CD became the weakest-selling album in Carey s career, prompting Virgin Records/EMI to sever their ties with her. Starring Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini (the winner and runner-up respectively from the first season of American Idol), the movie was a box office bomb, grossing only $5 million. He later admitted he had only taken the role for a seven-figure payday.
The movie was roasted for mainly being another sequel without Jim Carrey, and having horrid special effects. In addition, it won the Golden Raspberry Award in 2005 for Worst Musical of Our First 25 Years. The film is in the Top 10 of the Bottom 200 movie list at Everyone s a Critic, This 1987 parody of spy movies was directed by Paul Weiland, and starred Bill Cosby.
With an estimated budget of $10 million, Burn Hollywood Burn only grossed approximately $45,000, making it a tremendous box office flop. This film was included in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. A science fiction film, originally shot and exhibited in 3D, featuring an actor dressed in a gorilla suit and what looks almost like a diving helmet.
The movie remains on the IMDb Bottom 100, The $70 million sequel to the 1992 thriller Basic Instinct featured a return performance by Sharon Stone, but was plagued by delays involving legal and financial disputes with Stone and the producers. Also, a teenage couple is seen making out for no apparent reason nor with any connection with the plot.
If this works well enough, the star can have a dual career in both fields, or move on exclusively to a film career.
