What is the WORST movie ever made?

[battleknight24]

For fun, lets divide this into categories:

1. Worst film ever released in movie theaters by a major motion picture company.

My choice: Freddy Got Fingered

Dishonorable mentions: I Know Who Killed Me, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, and Cops and Robbersons.



2. Underrated worst film of all time; a film that you think is bad but gets left out of "Worst Film Ever" discussions.

My choice: He's Just Not That Into You (never have I seen such a poorly executed movie with such an accomplished cast).



3. Worst film ever made, limited release in theaters or straight to video/dvd.

My choice: Any film by the company that released the films "Running on Empty Dreams" and "Smile Pretty."



4. Worst film ever made, anything goes.

This could be anything. It could even include a film you made with a camcorder and a group of friends. Share any funny stories you have!

[JCMach1]

1. 1. Battlefield Earth, 2. Batman/Planet of the Apes 3. The Brides Wore Blood 4. Grilled

Battlefield Earth- Is there anything worse... keep on reading.

I either love or hate Tim Burton Movies. Batman (I know some liked it) and Planet of the Apes were two of the biggest POS I have ever watched. I was close to adding Mars Attacks as well. God I hated those! It is time Burton received some props as a BAD director.

The Brides Wore Blood (1972) is howlingly, funny-bad

Here is a good synopsis: ...On the flip side of the disc is BRIDES OF BLOOD, which as I mentioned was previously available on its own disc from Retromedia. Shot in 16mm in Jacksonville, Florida, late director Bob Favorite proves that he can make a vampire film that stinks worse than Staten Island -- ahhhh, I mean stinks worse than Andy Milligan's vampire films, not the actual Staten Island. This rarely-seen effort tells the story of a pretty young blond who moves to Florida after a psychic tells her to go there to start a new life (I only wish it was that easy, I'd be on a plane tomorrow). She runs into an old man who invites her and three other young girls on a free tour of his ancestral mansion. The next day, the girls are invited to come back and meet his unattached nephew, whom he wants to marry off.

Turns out that the nephew is a vampire, and the screen's dullest one at that (picture Don "American Pie" McLean wearing a cape in 1972). One girl is turned into a vampire with exaggerated dime store fangs, and she must of learned how to act like one by watching "The Groovy Ghoulies" Saturday morning cartoon show. Another girl (a stuck-up photographer) is drained of blood in a gratuitous "needle" scene, and after her useless boyfriend tries to save her, they're both killed by a hideous guy who looks like half of the two-headed monster in THE MAGIC SWORD.

The blond girl is chosen as the bride and to continue the family bloodline, and she is kept prisoner by an idiot (hunchback?) with a mid-60s "British Invasion" hairdo. The vampire is killed by sunlight in a lame attempt to recreate Hammer's remarkable Dracula climaxes. Actually, the vampire's death scene resembles a ten-year-old's Super 8 remake of the end of HORROR OF DRACULA. Amateurish in every way, THE BRIDES WORE BLOOD is badly shot and terribly acted, and the Florida background feels totally inappropriate here.

Retromedia has rescued this baby from almost total obscurity (unless you count the out-of-print Regal tape). Considering that this was shot in 16mm, the film source is remarkably well preserved, making for a pleasing DVD transfer. Colors sometimes look muted, and there is a fair share of grain evident, but this is due to the film's low-rent production values. The mono sound is perfectly acceptable. No trailer for the film is included (I doubt one exists), but it's introduced by Ohio TV horror host Son of Ghoul. See the Ghoul teach his dwarf friend about hygiene by shoving red toothpaste and green mouthwash down his throat!... http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/i-m/markofwitchbrideswore7072.htm

Grilled (2006) is legendary in my family. Bored one afternoon, I took my family to see this rated G (in the UAE) film. A stinker from top to bottom, even the rater fell asleep as the film included lots of sexual innuendo, transexuals, violence, etc. I ended up having to explain what a transexual was to my 8 year old... which is fine, but I would liked to have had a better context for that conversation. Even a nice drama about TRANSEXUALS would have been better! If I had known, I would gladly have taken them to such... Never see a Kevin James and Ray Romano movie, EVER! Who knew? Being a meat salesman is NOT funny...

[WCGreen]

2. Mars Attacks was a pile of shit movie...

Best Friends with Mary Tyler Moore and Christine Lathi and Ted Danson. A real Stinker...

[AsahinaKimi]

3. Three words

DUMB AND DUMBER!

I would throw in the sequel too.

[rcrush]

4. Its called The Room by Tommy Wiseau

Look for it online its been dubbed by Rifftrax. Some long haired weirdo made a REALLY bad movie that makes you laugh out loud and how horrible his acting is.

It's so bad that when it was released it gained some wierdo cult following because it was so bad it was funny. Movie theatres in some cities would run it at midnight for fans who would dress up like the characters and they had all the lines memorized.

[JCMach1]

6. I need to see that one, obviously...

[CottonBear]

24. Don't see it. I wasted 2 hours that I will never get back. It is truly awful.

It's not even "good" bad. It is just bad. :(

[tblue]

5. Picnic at Hanging Rock

Also the non-animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas

[gratuitous]

26. Live action Grinch: Stink, stank, stunk

Topping them all, however, is the number 1 stinkeroo of all time: Steven Spielberg's A.I.

And here's why: The late Stanley Kubrick never made the movie, even though he kicked it around as a project for years. There was a reason for that. Spielberg tried to make it, even though it has the absolute worst plot set-up of all time. To-wit: Young couple loses young son to coma. Dad works for company that manufactures realistic automatons, and they have a prototype 8-year-old boy. Mom is skeptical, but in her grief, allows Dad to bring this monstrosity home. After a short time, Mom "activates" the robot to imprint on her. Real son wakes up from coma, robot is out the door.

But let's take a look at this for just a second: A robot that becomes an 8-year-old boy? Forever? Who would want this abomination in their house? You're 33 when you adopt Electron. When you're 40, Electron is still . . . 8. You've just celebrated 50? Electron is still . . . 8. You're in your declining years, you get up to go pee for the umpteenth time today, and bark your shin on the coffee table. Hopping toward the medicine chest for some Tylenol, little Electron accosts you with drawing number 4,631 in a never-ending series of "Mommy and Me" pictures. Get out of my way, you little shit!

The boy never grows up, never hits puberty, never progresses past 8 years old. Had Dante imagined such a thing, he probably would have included it in the seventh circle of hell.

[old mark]

7. Anything with Will Ferell, but especially Elf. He makes me want to

:puke:


mark

[Clintonista2]

8. The second "Bourne" movie

The only time in my life I've ever literally fallen asleep in the theatre.

[BlueIris]

9. 1. "The Village." 2. "21 grams." 3. "Darkness Falls." 4. Toss up between "I Spit On Your Grave,"

and "The Hearse." Never see either of these films, people. Ever.

[JCMach1]

50. You are right, The Village was that bad AND Sixth Sense

Really hated those...

[Orrex]

10. I can't decide on any "winners," but I'd like to comment on your criteria

Bravo!

All too often in these "worst movie" threads, someone immediately rolls out Plan 9 followed instantly by Manos: The Hands of Fate. Sure, these are bad films, but they were cranked out by tiny companies with no resources and no illusions about how good they might be. Picking on them is like beating up the tiniest kid at recess.

A far more worthwhile exercise is the examination of horrendously bad films released by companies that should have known better and which had the resources to do better. Heck, they had the resources to abandon the project altogether, if only they'd had the integrity to realize mid-production that they were producing garbage.

Battlefield Earth is thus very hard to beat in this category, as is Batman and Robin or Howard the Duck.

[Forkboy]

11. For me it's Freejack.

I like bad movies that make no illusions about being bad, but Freejack actually thought it was trying to be good.

[BlueIris]

12. Oh, come on. How can any movie that features Amanda Plummer with a shotgun

be bad?

[Forkboy]

13. That's what I thought going into it!

I still can't figure it out. :)

[Ohio Joe]

18. Agreed

It is the only movie I've ever walked out of the theater on.

[Forkboy]

21. We watched it for free and I still feel like I was robbed.

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Number two is Top Gun. Runner-up is Titanic.

I don't think people realize the true enormity of how much both of those movies utterly fucking suck.

And I put them here because not only do not enough people understand the massive suckitude, the majority of people will put these abominations on their "Best movies ever!" lists.

[hunter]

15. Top Gun is truly Battlefield Earth hideous and not even worth gawking at. I never saw Titanic.

Now that I think of it (cringe) Top Gun is easily on the top ten list of movies I've ever suffered through. John Travolta strutting around in Battlefield Earth or the death of Captain Kirk in Star Trek Generations is better cinema than the disgusting dick waving shitiness of Top Gun.

[rrneck]

45. I might not have minded Top Gun

so much if I hadn't been assaulted by a rerun of it every time I walked into a Circuit City for ten years after it opened.

[Deep13]

16. Manos, the Hands of Fate.

Made in the '60s by Texas fertilizer salesman Harold Warren. Granted, it is not as intensely boring as Ray Dennis Steckler's Blood Shack, but it makes up for it in oily creepiness.

[Orrex]

23. See? That's what I was talking about!

In terms of scale, Manos would have to be several hundred times worse than it is in order to out-suck Battlefield Earth.

[baldguy]

17. An American Carol

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190617/

[driver8]

19. Pluto Nash with Eddie Murphy.

One of the biggest box office disasters, ever!!

[Chan790]

20. My picks.

1.) An American Carol. It's just RW propaganda with a mediocre plot. I could have forgiven it the RW-lean but mediocre plot and writing is beyond forgiveness.

2.) Return of the King. Yawn. How to make a film that totally could have been done better in 90 minutes into a 3+ hour snoozer. Hint...good fimlmaking: The ring hits the lava, the bad guys all die, the good guys celebrate, the big type says "The End", the credits roll, the lights come up and the audience leaves. Instead, this disaster croaks along for another 20 minutes past the resolution of the plot.

3.) The Forbidden Zone. I've argued for this before and had people defend it...which is preposterous. It's homophobic, racist, makes fun of little people, juvenile, filled with scat-humor, badly-acted, badly-directed, badly-written, badly-everything. This is truly the worst film ever made...it has the sort of production values that Ed Wood would have cringed at. It is the reason that someday I will be forced to kill Danny Elfman for his involvement. The female lead walks around topless for the entire film and no reason is ever given. One of the major characters is castrated by his elementary school classmates. People are transported into a fantasy land by way of a colon. It features an extended length scene featuring jokes right out of Sambo being performed by actors in blackface. Much of what little plot there is revolves around bondage tropes.

4.) You just can't top The Forbidden Zone. The people responsible for it should be garrotted, their remains should be fed to crows, the fecal matter of the crows should be burned and the ashes fed to the loved-ones of the perpetrators.

[valerief]

22. That Mel Gibson violent Jesus flick. Stirs up the bloodlust in the fundy crazies. nt

[Jamastiene]

33. It was fundy porn.

They scare me. :scared:

[valerief]

41. Me, too. They're like unmedicated people with psychoses. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. "Carousel" or "Santa Claus vs. The Martians".

I leave out films that obviously were never intended to be "a-list" films. "Manos" would definitely be one, if such were to be included :rofl:

[bookworm65t]

27. Caligula, The Women (2008), any Bo Derek

so many flicks, so little space

[JCMach1]

46. Derek is so bad, she's good...

[ROFF]

28. Red Dawn

I actually felt insulted.

[Odin2005]

29. An earthquake disaster flick called "10"

SCIENCE FAIL!!!

[enigmatic]

30. Any of the films from this guy

[burrfoot]

47. Holy Crap! It's Captain Jack Sparrow! n/t

[begin_within]

31. Worst I've ever seen is "Cycle Vixens" (1978)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079018/

But it almost falls into the "so bad it's entertaining" category. Absolutlely amateur in every way: story, script, acting, photography, editing, everything is horrible in it. Not quite as bizarrely-entertainingly-bad as Ed Wood's films, but definitely the worst film I've ever watched from beginning to end. (I still have not seen Manos: the Hands of Fate though).

[mix]

32. DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

[qnr]

34. Not having seen every movie ever made, I couldn't hazard a guess n/t

[Mari333]

35. I hated 'Titanic'

I couldnt wait for everyone to drown.

[Danger Mouse]

36. Everything directed by Uwe Boll. IThread over, I win.

[qnr]

38. I'd say it disqualifies your response, since one single movie was requested.

But that's just my thought on the matter.

[Mopar151]

37. Days of Thunder

The more you knew, the worse it sucked!

Dishonorable mentions: The 'Moment of Truth" movies NBC used to counter-program against Monday Night Football. Almost any "movie" on Lifestyle.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

39. "Anal Sanctuary"

I was just looking around down in the various user groups, because I'm bored. I clicked on the "animation" group and read the review of "Anal Sanctuary." I haven't seen this film, yet I'm going to go ahead and nominate "Anal Sanctuary."

"Anal Sanctuary."

[elshiva]

42. Sounds like a porno movie title.

:wow: I've never heard of that. Are you sure it's not a porno?

[kwassa]

40. Eyes Wide Shut

Kubrick's folly.

[annonymous]

43. Master of Disguise, Drop Dead Fred and Ishtar

These are some of the worst major studio releases I have seen. My choice for underrated worst film would be The Last Boy Scout. It was done by Tony Scott and starred Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans but the plot makes no sense at all. Worst limited release/direct to video movie would be The Pebble and the Penguin. This movie was so bad that my daughter who was 7 at the time walked out of the room before it was over. My choice for worst ever is Baby Geniuses 2.

[Midwestern Democrat]

44. "Quintet" - a Robert Altman experiment that is aggressively unwatchable.

I know what Altman was trying to do - portray an incredibly bleak, dying, lifeless futuristic society - but it's a real chore to watch. Many people have said that this is one of the few films they ever saw in a theater that had mass walkouts - i.e. 3/4s of the theater walking out within half an hour - I can believe it.

[Zomby Woof]

48. Definitely, Maybe

I made the mistake of wasting precious minutes of my life watching this monstrosity on HBO recently. Holy mother fucking god sweet baby satan, it was pure anal seepage.

[LanternWaste]

49. Matrix. Hands down.

1. Worst film ever released in movie theaters by a major motion picture company.
Matrix. Hands down.

2. Underrated worst film of all time; a film that you think is bad but gets left out of "Worst Film Ever" discussions.
Valley of the Dolls

3. Worst film ever made, limited release in theaters or straight to video/dvd.
DefCon 3

4. Worst film ever made, anything goes.
Any Star Trek film except for Khan and the new one.

[jmowreader]

51. Is it okay if I don't be constrained by your categories?

1. The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre (aka "The Passion of the Christ")

The Catholic Church, which Passion producer Mel Gibson belongs to, believes in mortal sin and venial sin. Mortal sin is that which the Blood of the Lamb cannot wash away. There are eight of them: extravagance, gluttony, greed, discouragement, wrath, envy, pride and making snuff films with Jesus in them.

2. War of the Worlds (2005 version)

Tom Cruise has all the charisma of a 2x4. No amount of CGI can fix that.

3. The entire LOTR trilogy

Here you have two movies. One of them is a series of thrilling set-piece battles. The other is a tedious, unwatchable thing about hobbits and a ring. If you were to take the three movies in the Trilogy, splice them together, delete all the hobbit shit and tighten it up a bit, you'd have a really good movie.

4. Days of Thunder

The role Tom Cruise was born to play: Jeff Gordon. This isn't a compliment.

5. Titanic.

Let's compare this film to another high-body-count picture: Robocop. Robocop had a lower body count, Ann was more likeable than Rose, and Robocop at least had a happy ending.

6. Personal Hygiene (TF 8-1665)

This 1951-vintage Army training film revolves around Homer the Dirtbag Soldier (whose squad leader seems never to have heard of AR 670-1; Homer's haircut is WAY out of regs!) and his squad's efforts to teach him to wash his nuts via folk songs. Some things are so bad they're good; "Personal Hygiene" goes from bad to good right back to bad again.

7. Twins

Easily Arnold Schwarzenegger's worst movie, which is saying something.

8. Cool World

Not even Kim Basinger, who was smokin' hot at the time, could save this. It was the only movie I ever walked out on.

9. Super Size Me

Some of you guys just LOVE this documentary, but come on: the moran ate nothing but McDonald's for a month. What the hell did you expect to happen?

10. Breakfast at Tiffany's

Perhaps the most overblown movie in the history of man.

[hobbit709]

52. Plan 9 From Outer Space and It's Alive

[tigereye]

56. yeah, but Plan 9 is so bad, it's good

I'd have to go with Howard the Duck, myself. And Straight to Hell was pretty unwatchable, as well.

[Roon]

53. I think it was Disney...but it was called a Mouse and his child.

[quakerboy]

54. So many to chose from, but the cream always comes to the top.

1)Veggie Tales
2)the goonies. Hate that movie. And everyone loves it, which makes it that much worse.
3)Born Losers(I am guessing. My dad and I watched a movie many years ago, and neither of us can remember the title of it, and with web searches this is the closest one in description that I can find, though the movie may have been some other, so minor noone has mentioned it on the net.
4)Veggie tales for the win. They give me nightmares, which distinguishes them from all other movies.

[chrisa]

55. Epic Movie, Ben and Arthur

1. Worst film ever released in movie theaters by a major motion picture company.

Epic Movie

2. Underrated worst film of all time; a film that you think is bad but gets left out of "Worst Film Ever" discussions.

I think "The Orphan (2009)" was one of the worst horror movies I've seen.



3. Worst film ever made, limited release in theaters or straight to video/dvd.

"Ben and Arthur." Palm trees in Vermont, hillariously bad plot and dialog. People who sound and look like they haven't acted a day in their lives. So bad it's good.


4. Worst film ever made, anything goes.

Also goes to "Ben and Arthur." It's up on Youtube if you want to go and see it. It will make you cringe and cry.

[east texas lib]

57. Anything with "Evil Dead" in the title...

Massive suckage.

[bookworm65t]

58. My mom nominates Giant. Bad makeup for James Dean

not to mention atrocious performances. Tried to watch this on TCM and ended up agreeing with her.

[Thirtieschild]

59. Maneater

Made for tv movie, sci-fi channel, based on my husband's wonderful novel, Shikar. At least they didn't give him credit.

[tonysam]

60. Candy (1968)

An absolute piece of shit, unwatchable and actually worse than 1970's Myra Breckenridge.

Somebody wrote a blow-by-blow piece about this trash so readers wouldn't have to watch the movie.

[Canuckistanian]

61. "A Walk in the Clouds" with Keanu Reeves.

Or almost anything with Keanu Reeves.

But "A Walk in the Clouds" is the ONLY movie I've ever walked out of.