Top 10 movies to avoid, worst movies of all time

Thousands of readers of the magazine “Empire” participated in the survey “The worst movie of all time”, and the final result was a list of these 10 movies

the-room-worst-movie

10. The Room is a 2003 independent film written and directed by its star, Tommy Wiseau. Without any studio support, Wiseau spent over $7 million on production and marketing for the film and failed.


highlander-worst-movie9. Highlander II: The Quickening is the second installment to the Highlander film series, released on November 1, 1991 by Interstar. Upon release, this film was met with harsh criticism by both critics and audiences.


happening-worst-movie8. The Happening is a 2008 thriller film that follows a man and his family as they try to escape from an inexplicable natural disaster. The plot revolves around a mysterious neurotoxin from plants. The film was nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Actor (Mark Wahlberg, along with his performance in Max Payne) and Worst Director (M. Night Shyamalan) at the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards. In “The Happening” nothing actually happens.


sex-lives-worst 7. Sex Lives Of The Potato Men is a British comedy film released in 2004. The film is about the sexual antics of a group of potato delivery men in Birmingham. The film was condemned by most film critics for being crude and tasteless. The Times review called it “one of the two most nauseous films ever made”. It was also controversial in that nearly £1 million of public money from the National Lottery via the UK Film Council was used to fund the project.


Heavens-Gate-worst-movie6. Heaven’s Gate is a 1980 American Western film based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. The film’s production was plagued by cost and time overruns, negative press, and rumors about director Michael Cimino’s allegedly overbearing directorial style. It is generally considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all-time.


epic-movie-worst-movie5. Epic Movie is a 2007 American parody film. The film was a financial success despite its extremely negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 21st in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 2%. Producers of the movie Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer were nominated for the “Worst Screenplay” award at the 28th Golden Raspberry Awards. Nothing Epic in this movie.


titanic-worst-movie4. Raise The Titanic. The novel was a bestseller. The film, however, was poorly received by the critics and proved to be a box office bomb, losing most of its estimated $40m budget. Lew Grade, one of its major backers, is said to have remarked that it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic


love-guru-worst-movie 3. The Love Guru is a 2008 comedy film, directed by Marco Schnabel and starring Mike Myers and Jessica Alba along with Romany Malco, Justin Timberlake . The Love Guru was panned by most critics. The film was listed as the worst movie of 2008 in the New York Post’s Top 10 Worst Movies of 2008 overview. Before the film’s release, some Hindus expressed unhappiness about how Hindus are portrayed, the disrespect of their culture and the bad impression that it would make for those not well exposed to Hinduism.


Battlefield-Earth-worst-movie2. Battlefield Earth is a 2000 film adaptation of the novel Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard, staring John Travolta. Critically, the movie was seen as a disaster and reviews were nearly unanimously bad. The Washington Post commented: “A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.


batman-and-robin-worst-movie-ever1. Batman and Robin is a 1997 superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, staring George Clooney. Even him once admitted Batman & Robin, the schlocky 1997 superhero movie that jump-started the actor’s career, was lame. Now director Joel Schumacher’s steaming heap of cinematic dung has been voted the worst film ever by readers of Empire magazine. Atempting to pick out just one bad scene from Batman & Robin is impossible, and it certainly wouldn’t do justice to just how painfully awful the rest of it is. The film is so dreadful that director Joel Schumacher actually apologized for it on the DVD commentary. That’s right, the man who proudly made 8MM, The Number 23 and Cousins thought Batman & Robin was so bad that it warranted an apology.


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  1. Aaron Weiss

    Actually, you’re wrong about The Room failing. Yes there was an initial bomb, but the cult film has weekly ritual rocky horror-like showings throughout the nation.

    But yeah, it totally failed as a serious film. Funny none-the-less.

  2. Dave

    Yes, Batman and Robin is biggest fail movie of all time

  3. Jade

    Great list. I will show it to my friends lol

  4. BUDA20

    I respectfully disagree in epic movie and the happening, these are not very good but not very bad either.

  5. Obesiden

    Epic Movie is by far one of the worst I have seen. I wanted to torture myself after seeing it. I couldn’t agree more.

  6. Barton Fink

    how is it that every one of these “10 worst movies of all time” lists rarely ever include things that are in “all time”? heavens gate is practically on this list because the writer couldn’t think of something else. case in point, heaven’s gate was panned box office wise, but many realized it was ok despite being incredibly long. please stop putting “all time” on lists like this if you can’t really span all time.

  7. JOE

    Gigli is worse then all of these movies.

  8. Jack Vermicelli

    “Even him once admitted”? Really?

    The Happening wasn’t good, but was it really one of the worst movies of all time?

    And no mention of Plan 9 From Outer Space?

  9. Alexander Burbridge (Come at me!)

    I have several problems with your list. Why is there a movie on the list that recieves rave review on the pic you used? Why are you listing epic movie alone, when you should put them all together. epic, date, scary, super hero, meet the spartans etc. You could have made this blog a hell of a lot easier if you had called it “The Worst Movie Ever” and listed the following.

    Snitch’d- If you have not seen this movie. Watch it when you are high as hell. Whether your drug be beer, whiskey, pills, acid, shrooms, weed, crack, meth, heronie, or just laughing. This movie features Eva Longoria before she was famous.
    A forty year old cop goes undercover in a high school to break up a drug ring. He ends up breaking more necks than he does drug deals. If this movie were at all serious, it would be heralded for its dark story. depecting the main character and his receding hairline impersonating a teenager and seducing a teenager. Overall Snitch’d is a better bad movie than the rest and a better comedy than the rest.

  10. mormSouff

    Thank you for articleI liked it very much

    See you

  11. TheForever

    I like how many of the commentators apparently can’t read.

    The first line of this list says “Thousands of readers of the magazine “Empire” participated in the survey “The worst movie of all time”, and the final result was a list of these 10 movies”. Whoever wrote this article didn’t choose the movies – voters did

  12. Skip Freethrow

    I also disagree about The Happening. I thought it was a well-done horror movie. I think its true that there are things in nature we don’t fully understand. I know its easy to make fun of a movie that revolves around plants that kill people, but it makes you think.

  13. The Durutti Column

    No mention of Howard the Duck, Troll 2 or Garbage Pail Kids The Movie. These wretched films all deserve to make the aforementioned list.

  14. Roadknight

    Apparently, they didnt see Highlander:the Source. Its so bad, it makes Highlander 2 look like Oscar material

  15. juttinPants

    Horror House on Highway 5 is by far, far reaches of the imagination worse than any of the bad movies on this list. Epic Movie too.

  16. Johnjohn

    No, no…there are many bad movies, yes. But you forgot Graffiti Bridge by Prince. It was the “sequel” to Purple Rain (same characters), but for some reason Warner Brothers had no faith in Prince despite the mega-millions he made them with Purple Rain, so they refused to give him funding. He made it on a $7 million budget…which wouldn’t be horrible for a GREAT director/cast/writers, but this is Prince we’re talking about…and it remains to this day the only film I can’t sit through because it’s embarrassing (for me to watch, for me to think that Prince made it, etc.). Under the Cherry Moon was a much better movie. GB? Not anywhere near sub-par, even.

  17. Kyle

    Wanted should be on this list, it is probably the worst movie I have ever seen.

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