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Plan 9 from Outer Space, infamously considered "so bad it's good", is a contender for Worst Movie Ever Made.

The films listed here have achieved a significant level of infamy through critical and popular assertion as being among the worst films ever made. 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. Examples of such sources include the Golden Raspberry Awards ("Razzies"), Roger Ebert's list of most hated films, Rotten Tomatoes, and the Internet Movie Database's "Bottom 100" list. Image File history File links Gnome-globe. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (427x661, 68 KB) Summary The poster of the very 1959 film Ed Wood conceived. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (427x661, 68 KB) Summary The poster of the very 1959 film Ed Wood conceived. ... This article is about 1959 film. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Razzie Award The Raspberry Awards or Razzies, first awarded in 1981, were created by John Wilson in 1980, intended to counterpoint the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, screenwriting, songwriting, directing, and films that the film industry had to offer. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For the in-memory database management system, see In-memory database. ...

Original films

B-movies

Although B-movies are not generally presented or accepted as fine cinema in the first place, some of the films from this genre have become known for being markedly worse than others, sometimes being referred to as Z-movies.^{[citation needed]} The King of the Bs, Roger Corman, produced and directed The Raven (1963) for American International Pictures. ... Z-movie (or Grade-Z movie) is a term applied to films with an extremely low budget and a miserable quality. ...

Some B-movies have become cult classics, partly as a result of their peculiarities.^{[citation needed]} 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". 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.^{[citation needed]} A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. ... A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. ...

Glen or Glenda (1953)

A semi-autobiographical quasi-documentary about transvestism, starring and directed by Ed Wood. After a nightmarish dream sequence, Glen undergoes psychotherapy to help cure his affliction. Béla Lugosi appears in this film, as he did in several other Wood films toward the end of his career. 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".^[1] In his book Cult Movies 3, Danny Peary suggests that this is actually a radical, if ineptly made, film that presents a far more personal story than is contained in films by more well-respected auteurs.^[2] This film was included in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.

Robot Monster (1953)

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 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."^{[citation needed]}. It is also featured in The Book of Lists 10 worst movie list^{[citation needed]}, in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time^{[citation needed]}, and in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. Noted film composer Elmer Bernstein wrote the score for this film. It was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000^[3] and was positively reviewed by author Stephen King.^[4]

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

Ed Wood's Plan 9 was labeled the "Worst Film Ever" by The Golden Turkey Awards. This movie marked the final appearance of Béla Lugosi. Wood idolized Lugosi, and before Lugosi's death, he shot a small amount of test footage of Lugosi. This was then placed in the movie and repeated several times. 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. 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. Years later, one video distributor^[who?] made light of this, adding the blurb "Almost Starring Bela Lugosi" on the tape box. Due to difficulty in finding a willing distributor, the film was not released until 1959. It has played at the New Orleans Worst Film Festival^{[citation needed]} and was included in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. Plan 9 was also 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. This is plan nine, the one that worked! The worst movie ever made!"

In 1994, Tim Burton directed Ed Wood, which included some material about the trials and tribulations of making Plan 9. 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. 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."^{[citation needed]}

The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)

A film by Coleman Francis shot silently with added narration. 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. Leonard Maltin's TV and Movie Guide calls it "one of the worst films ever made".^[5] Bill Warren said "It may very well be the worst non-porno science fiction movie ever made."^[6] It was also featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

"Manos" The Hands of Fate has an opening nine-minute sequence in which nothing much happens but endless driving through the countryside, due to the opening credits being left out.^[7]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

This holiday staple was the creation of Nicholas Webster. When Martian children get to see Santa Claus only on TV, their parents decide to abduct Santa to make them happy. Like many others in this category, it has been featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000^[8] and is also included in the IMDb's worst 100^{[citation needed]}. Also cited on a 10-worst list in The Book of Lists^{[citation needed]}, in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time^{[citation needed]}, and in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.

"Manos" The Hands of Fate (1966)

A low-budget horror film made by El Paso fertilizer salesman Hal Warren, about a family on vacation that stumbles upon an isolated house inhabited by a polygamous cult. Among its numerous and most notorious^{[citation needed]} flaws, besides its poor production qualities, there is an opening sequence where the family is looking for their hotel while driving with minor dialog making up several minutes of footage of them just driving quietly through the countryside. Also, a teenage couple is seen making out with no apparent reason nor connection with the plot. John Reynolds, who played the character Torgo and intended to be a satyr, wore a rigging for his legs that made his performance rather awkward.^{[citation needed]} The film gained cult popularity by being featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.^[9] It has held the #1 spot on the IMDb Bottom 100 repeatedly^{[citation needed]}. It also has a 9% rating at Rotten Tomatoes,^[10] and the one positive review linked on Rotten Tomatoes is for its Mystery Science Theater appearance rather than the film itself (which the reviewer, Mike Bracken, calls "unwatchable").^[11]

Hobgoblins (1987)

This film by Rick Sloane was also made famous after it debuted on Mystery Science Theater 3000. At its lowest rating, it repeatedly made the IMDb worst movie list at number two, second only to Gigli^{[citation needed]}. MST3K writer Paul Chaplin later commented on Hobgoblins, saying, “It shoots right to the top of the list of the worst movies we’ve ever done". Efilmcritic.com called it "Jim Henson's worst nightmare".

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Poorly executed adaptation

Many directors adapt a book, play, or story from another medium into a film, with varying results.

Howard the Duck (1986)

Howard the Duck was loosely based on the Marvel Comics character created by Steve Gerber and starring Lea Thompson, a young Tim Robbins, and Jeffrey Jones, the film retains only two central characters^[specify] and goes to no effort to make them look or behave similarly to their counterparts from the comics.^{[original research?]} Executive producer George Lucas disowned it shortly after its release.^[12] In his Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin calls the film a "hopeless mess of a movie."^[12] The film was also among Siskel and Ebert's picks for the "Worst Films of 1986."^{[citation needed]} The film was adapted by Willard Huyck and his wife Gloria Katz and directed by Huyck, with no input from Gerber, who "was hoping against hope that the script and the movie itself weren't as bad as I thought they were. Or at least, that they wouldn't be received as badly as I thought they would," citing that many films he hated were at least successful. Huyck and Katz were once considered "luminaries",^[13] but have not made a film since. The film was nominated for seven Razzies and "won" four, including Worst Picture, New Star, Visual Effects, and Screenplay.^[14]

Catwoman was one of the most critically^[who?] panned movies of 2004.^{[citation needed]}

Catwoman (2004)

Based on the DC Comics character and starring Halle Berry, the film retains next to nothing of the Batman antagonist and the source material^{[citation needed]}. In the movie, Catwoman has actual superpowers, which she lacks in the comics^{[citation needed]}. The lycra catsuit was replaced with slashed leather pants, a bra, and a mask-cap, and she leaps from rooftop to rooftop in stiletto heels. As the movie character differs so widely from her comic source, the character has been cited as "Catwoman In Name Only".^[15] It has a 9% rating at Rotten Tomatoes,^[16] and was declared "arguably the worst superhero film ever made" by the Orlando Sentinel^{[citation needed]}. The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) put it this way: "Me-ouch!"^{[citation needed]}

It is the winner of four Razzies for Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst Director (Pitof), and Worst Screenplay.^[17] Berry arrived at the ceremony to accept her Razzie in person (with her Best Actress Oscar for Monster's Ball in hand), saying:^[18]

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Alone in the Dark (2005)

When Uwe Boll directed this movie – loosely based on a series of video games by Infogrames/Atari, and released in January 2005 – critics^[who?] panned it for a variety 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^{[citation needed]}. On the commentary of the DVD, Boll remarks that several of the scenes weren't depicted quite as he'd imagined them^{[citation needed]}. One review^[who?] 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." Alone in the Dark is a 2005 Brightlight Pictures horror film very loosely based on Infogrames popular video game series of the same name. ... The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. ... Uwe Boll (pronounced []), born June 22, 1965 in Wermelskirchen, Germany) is a German director, producer and screenwriter of films often adapted from video games. ... Alone in the Dark is a series of survival horror computer games from Infogrames (now Atari). ... Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA) is an international holding company headquartered in Lyon, France. ... This article is about the corporate brand. ...

^[19] This movie received 1% at Rotten Tomatoes^[20] and is regularly on the IMDb Bottom 100.^[21] Critic Rob Vaux states that this movie is so bad that

"the other practitioners of cinematic drivel can rest a little easier now; they can walk in the daylight with their heads held high, a smile on their lips and a song in their hearts. It's okay, they'll tell themselves. I didn't make Alone in the Dark."

^[22] Screenwriter Blair Erickson wrote about his experience dealing with Boll and his original script, which was closer to the actual game itself, and Boll's script change demands on the comedy website Something Awful.^[23]

BloodRayne (2006)

Directed by Uwe Boll and loosely based on the video game of the same name, the film opened in 985 theaters throughout the United States on January 6, 2006; it was originally planned to be played at up to 2,500 theaters, but that number dropped to 1,600 and ended up lower due to prints being shipped to theaters that had not licensed the film.^{[citation needed]} In its opening, the film only made $1,550,000^{[citation needed]}. BloodRayne has received poor reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, with an overall rating of only 4%. ^[24] The film ended up grossing $3,591,980 as of June 2006^{[citation needed]}. The movie was criticized for not having much of a story, and for hiring prostitutes to stand in as actors to reduce production costs.^[25] The movie was also criticized by fans^[who?] for having little in common with the game^{[citation needed]}. The film has ranked as low as number 53 on IMDb's Bottom 100 list, although as of December 2007, this movie is no longer on the list.^{[citation needed]} It was nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Kristanna Loken), Worst Supporting Actor (Ben Kingsley), Worst Supporting Actress (Michelle Rodriguez), Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay^{[citation needed]}. Actor (Michael Madsen) who was also in the movie did not get nominated for worst actor. Madsen even said in several interview's that he disliked the movie very much.

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Star vehicles

Some films listed here starred A-list actors whom critics^[who?] 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.

The Conqueror (1956)

A Howard Hughes-funded box-office featuring John Wayne as Genghis Khan and the redheaded Susan Hayward as a Tatar princess. The movie was filmed near St. 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,^[26] Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz, and director Dick Powell (although according to an A&E Network Biography episode, Wayne also typically smoked five packs of cigarettes a day). 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. 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. This would be the last film that Hughes would produce.

Sextette (1978)

An adaptation of Mae West's Broadway musical of the same name is widely considered one of the most embarrassing sex comedies ever made, which Variety dubbed "a cruel, unnecessary and mostly unfunny musical comedy",^[27] as an overweight 83-year old (at the time of filming) West maintained her sex kitten role while uttering quips such as "I'm the girl who works for Paramount all day, and Fox all night", and who croaked a duet with new sixth husband Sir Michael Barrington (a 34-year old Timothy Dalton), a disco rendition of "Love Will Keep Us Together". The film also featured cameos by Ringo Starr, Tony Curtis, a makeup-less Alice Cooper singing Van McCoy's "Next, Next" while dressed like Elton John, and Dom DeLuise warbling The Beatles' "Honey Pie."

Heaven's Gate (1980)

The cast included stars Isabelle Huppert and Kris Kristofferson, in addition to Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, Willem Dafoe, John Hurt, Mickey Rourke, and Sam Waterston among others; and was directed by Deer Hunter's Michael Cimino. The film was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards - with Cimino winning for director - as well as an Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration by Tambi Larsen and James L. Berkey. The film received such a poor showing at Toronto Film Festival that the cast and director were escorted away to avoid harm^[28]. The film grossed slightly less than $3.5 million in the United States of its more than $40 million budget, caused the end of United Artists as an independent studio and Cimino's career has never been as celebrated as his success prior to the film. The movie's title has become a synonym for total failure.

Inchon (1982)

Although the movie had a cast of prominent stars, including Laurence Olivier (during the twilight of his film career, in which he had taken many critically panned roles. This was due to Olivier's failing health, meaning he could no longer act on stage, and so only films were left), this war epic "won" four Razzies: Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Olivier), Worst Director (Terence Young), and Worst Screenplay. It was named Worst Movie of the Year by Esquire. This movie was also criticized for being financed and produced by the Unification Church, and UC head Sun Myung Moon was a "special advisor" to the film. It has never been released on video or DVD.

The Lonely Lady (1983)

This film, based on the book by Harold Robbins and starring Pia Zadora, is criticized for bad acting, a clichéd storyline, and bad writing—the awards ceremony at the beginning and end of the movie is literally called 'The Awards'. It won 6 Razzies for worst actress, worst director, worst musical score, worst original song, worst picture, and worst screenplay. It was also nominated for worst actor, worst original song, worst supporting actor, worst supporting actress, and in 1990 it was nominated for worst picture of the decade and in 2005 nominated for the "Worst Drama of Our First 25 Years" Razzie. It has never been released on DVD.

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)

Sort of a self-parody, this movie portrays the making of a movie considered extremely horrendous by its director (Eric Idle). Since his name is Alan Smithee, he can't put that name in the credits, and he destroys all copies of the movie. Also starring Oscar winners Sylvester Stallone and Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Chan, and Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O'Neal, this film was widely panned by critics upon its release. It won five Razzies, including Worst Picture. With an estimated budget of $10 million, Burn Hollywood Burn only grossed approximately $45,000, making it a tremendous box office failure. Roger Ebert gave the film a rare 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."^[29] It is also on his "most hated" list.^[30] In the documentary Directed by Alan Smithee, director Arthur Hiller stated he had his credit replaced with the pseudonym Alan Smithee because he was so appalled with the botched final cut by the film's producers.^[31]

Battlefield Earth (2000)

Based on the first half of L. Ron Hubbard's thousand-page novel of the same name, starring John Travolta, Forest Whitaker and Barry Pepper, this film had the third worst 3,000-plus-theater opening weekend up to that time. It was criticized for its poor script, hammy acting by Travolta, overuse of tilted camera angles, laughable dialogue and several plot inconsistencies. More than one reviewer called the film "Travolting".^[32][33] Rob Vaux called the film a "crime against celluloid".^[34] Several describe the pain experienced while watching it.^[35] It has a three percent Rotten Tomatoes rating (listing 3 positive reviews out of 96).^[36] The film won seven Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Screen Couple (John Travolta and "anyone on the screen with him").^[37] In 2005, an eighth Razzie (for Worst "Drama" of Our First 25 Years) was awarded to the film.^[17] Maxim magazine printed, "Even Quentin Tarantino couldn't revive Travolta's career after this movie."

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

This action movie, starring Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas, was universally panned by critics, earning a rare zero percent rating (with 103 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.^[38] Rotten Tomatoes editors also ranked the film as the worst-reviewed film listed on the website.^[39] Critics variously described the film as "A picture for idiots," "Boring to an amazing degree," "A fine achievement in stupidity and dullness," "Dreadful," "Gives new meaning to the word incoherent," and "the film is bad on just about every level." One critic even called it "Simplistic: Bullets Vs. Humans."^[40]

Swept Away (2002)

After director Guy Ritchie won critical acclaim for back-to-back British gangster flicks Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, he went on to cast his wife, Madonna, as the female lead in a remake of 1974's Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August. It has a six percent rating at^[41] Rotten Tomatoes, an 18 out of 100 on Metacritic.com,^[42] and won five Razzies: Worst Movie, Worst Director, Worst Actress (tied with Britney Spears in Crossroads), Worst Screen Couple (Madonna along with Adriano Giannini), and Worst Remake or Sequel.^[43] It also went direct-to-video in the UK (Ritchie's home country and Madonna's adopted home.)^[44]

Gigli (2003)

A movie featuring Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck that was declared by many to be the worst movie of 2003. 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. This film only grossed $6 million, making it one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. Many especially avoided it because they thought it was just a vehicle for the Lopez-Affleck relationship. Some reviewers dubbed the film "The ultimate turkey of all time" — perhaps aptly, considering one notorious scene in the film involved Lopez's character's sex talk to Affleck's character as she invited him to perform oral sex on her: "It's turkey time." "What?" "Gobble, gobble." Winner of seven Razzies (including 2005's Worst "Comedy" of Our First 25 Years^[17]).

Redline (2007)

An action film about racing exotic cars. It has a zero percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes,^[45] and has a 3 out of 10 star rating at the IMDb.^[46] This movie stars Eddie Griffin, Nadia Bjorlin, and Nathan Phillips and became best known for Griffin's behind-the-scenes incident, when he crashed a rare Enzo Ferrari worth over $1 million for the movie's promotion.

I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

This Lindsay Lohan thriller received almost universally negative reviews^[47] and Richard Roeper ranked it #1 on his list of the Worst Films of 2007. The film earned nine Razzie nominations in 2008, and took home eight of them (breaking the record previously held by Showgirls and Battlefield Earth)^[48], including Worst Picture, Director, Remake or Ripoff, Screenplay, and new category Worst Excuse for a Horror Film, while Lindsay Lohan took home three awards: two for Worst Actress and the third for Worst Screen Couple.^[48] The film has an 8% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes^[47], and a 16% rating at Metacritic.^[49] Michael Rechtshaffen of the Hollywood Reporter commented that "enduring this ponderous, convoluted thriller is pure torture,"^[50] and wondered what Lindsay Lohan was thinking when she accepted the role.^[50] On a budget of $12 million, the film only made back $7.5 million during its theatrical run^[51] but managed to earn back the other $4.5 million through home video rentals.^[51]

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