Worst Movies of All Time

These are the worst movies of the past 100 years according to voters at thestinkers.com.
Hey wait a sec! Some favorites are listed here, Star Trek TMP and Star Wars TPM weren't that bad surely?
Eeeek! the most popular film of all time (unadjusted) is on the list too, wow! seemingly billions of moviegoers have no taste whatsoever!


Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
An Alan Smithee Film-Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
Anaconda (1997)
The Apple (1980)
Armageddon (1998)
Arthur 2: On The Rocks (1988)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1980)
The Avengers (1998)
Baby Geniuses (1999)
The Bad News Bears Go To Japan (1978)
Barb Wire (1996)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Best Defense (1984)
Best of the Best (1989)
The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Boxing Helena (1993)
Caddyshack II (1988)
Caligula (1980)
Can I Do It ...Til I Need Glasses? (1977)
Can't Stop The Music (1980)
Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986)
The Cheech and Chong Films of the 1980's
Clambake (1967)
Cobra (1986)
The Concorde - Airport '79 (1979)
Cool As Ice (1991)
Crow: City of Angels (1996)
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
The Exorcist Sequels (1977, 1990)
Far Out Man (1990)
The Forbidden Dance (1990)
The "Friday The 13th" Series (1980-1989)
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
Glen or Glenda? (1953)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1984US) and The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989US)
Godzilla (1998)
Grease 2 (1982)
Gymkata (1985)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Harlem Nights (1989)
Heartbeeps (1981)
Heaven's Gate (1981)
The "Highlander" Sequels
Howard The Duck (1986)
Hudson Hawk (1991)
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1963)
Independence Day (1996)
Ishtar (1987)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
It's Pat: The Movie (1995)
Jaws 4: The Revenge (1987)
Judge Dredd (1995)
Lambada (1990)
Last Action Hero (1993)
Leonard Part 6 (1987)
The "Look Who's Talking" Sequels (1990, 1993)
Lost In Space (1998)
Manos - The Hands of Fate (1966)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
North (1994)
Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Penitentiary 2 (1982)
The Pirate Movie (1982)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Pokémon: The First Movie (1999)
The "Police Academy" Series (1984- 1994)
Popeye (1980)
The Porky's Trilogy (1981, 1983, 1985)
The Postman (1997)
Red Dawn (1984)
Rhinestone (1984)
Rocky V (1990)
Sextette (1978)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Shanghai Surprise (1986)
Showgirls (1995)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Spice World (1998)
Star Trek-The Motion Picture (1979) and the "odd numbered" original cast sequels
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Striptease (1996)
Superman IV (1987)
Tarzan, The Ape Man (1981)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its sequels (1974-1997)
Titanic (1997)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1993)
Waterworld (1995)
Weekend at Bernie's and Weekend at Bernie's II (1989, 1993)
Who's That Girl (1987)
Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Wild Orchids and Wild Orchids 2 (1990, 1992)
Wild Wild West (1999)
Xanadu (1980)

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For 2002 stinkers click here http://www.thestinkers.com/2002sofar.html

Titanic and The Blair Witch Project!!!

Give me a break...

Pretty good list, IMO--though they left out The Robot Monster and Zontar: Thing From Venus and The Green Slime. I wouldn't have included Chainsaw of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, however.

Theres quite a few guilty pleasures on that list Jack, gotta love this movie title though "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies" haven't seen the film but the title is classic!

From their site...

MOST INTRUSIVE MUSICAL SCORE
The Fast and the Furious

What did they expect for that film, James Horner?

Heaven's Gate

Uh, yeah... whatever...

Sorry, but classics such as THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH have no place on that list! All three of these films are huge, and I mean really HUGE favorites of mine, and as I said, I think all three of these films are classics!

I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY PUT "Friday the 13th" ON THERE! Other movies there don't deserve to be on that list as well, too many to say though.

I disagree with having I]Titanic[/i] and The Gods Must Be Crazy on the list.

Titanic had some flaws, but it still is a great movie.

Manos, The Hands of Fate deserves top honors. Plan 9 From Outer Space is watchable compared to Manos.

At least Ed Wood could make a movie FUN to watch!

Jeez guys calm down, one of my absolute favorites is up there too, how do you think I feel? But the people have voted, what can you do?

There's at least 10 movies that should not be on that list, but regarding the Friday the 13ths, Blair Witches and Heavens Gate hmmm I'm not so sure, just kidding, be gentle.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre IS a horror classic, should not be on that list, and the poor much maligned Star Trek The Slow Motion Picture is far better than most of the subsequent Treks, MO.

I like the list, except I have to disagree with the listing of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (which has provided a running gag between my friend and I for the past five years).


Exactly. Just take off the first Friday the 13th film and Blair Witch 2 as they don't belong on the list.

Matthew, I almost posted the exact same thing about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Anyone who puts it in a 'worst movies ever...' list more than likely has not actually bothered to see the movie.

-Adam, who created the first Killer Tomatoes site on the web over six long years ago

What a joke. I'll give them Jaws 4 but...Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Texas Chainsaw, Natural Born Killers, and The Gods Must Be Crazy? Give me a big fat hairy break.

Adam we are talking about a film where tomatos are attacking people, yeah? Ok just got a little bit confused there, at least it has some good company, Titanic no less!!
I mean if I had made a film about bananas attacking scantily clad women on a beach, called it "Attack of the Killer Bananas", and starring John Travolta as Big Banana, their leader, would I really be shocked to see it on that list.

THIS POST VOTED WORST EVER.

How so? The oldest film on the list is only 49 years old.

Well, my only objection would be to Natural Born Killers, though I recognize the fact that many people just don't understand it.

The omission of Hannibal is somewhat confusing.

Steve, most people are under the very mistaken impression that Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is meant to be taken seriously. It's very obviously a comedic parody of the overwrought disaster movies of the '70s. If people attack the movie as a dated or in some way failed comedy, then I can understand and respect that opinion. However, the vast majority of the people who bash Attack of the Killer Tomatoes are either blindly making assumptions based on its title alone or parroting the words of other people because of its reputation as one of the worst movies ever made.

My impressions:

This is just a flame fest waiting to happen.

I think that the people who voted for Heavens Gate never saw the movie, they just heard it was bad so voted for it. I like the long version, especially on a big screen, but confess to watching it in two parts.

Personally I liked both Blair Witch movies (and especially the cable specials), but am embarrassed to say, I also liked The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (I'm a sucker for Tony Curtis).

I'd like to say that movies not on the list I would have voted for would be: Pi, Spaceballs, and Cool World, but since I know that people on this board absolutely adore those movies, I'll keep my mouth shut.

Too late.

Flame fest?

Don't see any evidence of that so far. Some people's feathers will be ruffled by some of the selections, but it's just a list.

Cheech&Chong is on that list? Give me a break.

Obviously, you can't take the list seriously, but in the same spirit, I'll trash it anyway

First, they took 300 suggested titles, so this skews to recent films. Then they vote to pare it down to 100. At that point, people would either vote for movies they actually saw and disliked or heard were bad. So really crappy movies that few people -- and rightly so -- saw slip out.

Since it's a straight vote that doesn't consider how many people liked the movie, popularity (in terms of butts in seats) counts for a lot, which explains why Titanic and TPM can easily get on the list. Maybe a smaller percentage of people didn't like it, but since so many saw it, they get more votes.

And any such list that doesn't have On Deadly Ground is horribly flawed.

//Ken

They forgot Mission Impossible II.


Peace Out~

I agree with you. Most people who bash the film haven't even seen it. Everybody I know who has seen the film has enjoyed it for what the film is, a parody of disaster movies of the '70s (and The Birds ).

After looking closely at the list, there are around 20 films that shouldn't even be on the list. I would like you to find me a large group of people and ask them:

"Hey, was Natural Bork Killers an awful film?"
"Hey, was Porky's an awful film?" (not counting the sequels into consideration)
"Hey, was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre crap?" (again, not counting the sequels into consideration)
"Hey, was Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me a bad film?" (ask the people who were familiar with Twin Peaks before they saw the movie)

And so on, and so on. And make sure the people have SEEN the film before asking them these questions.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?!? Natural Born Killers?!? Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me?!? Mars Attacks!?!?

BATS!!!!!!!!!!!!

You sure got that right, but they also left off Carnival Of Souls(remake), Guru The Mad Monk(if you don't believe me, check it out. I dare you), Poltergeist III, The Squeeze(one I'm sure Michael Keaton would like to forget), Psycho(remake, of course)...just to name a few....

also, the implied inclusion of the terrific Exorcist III doesn't lend much credibility to this list, either.

Popeye makes the list but Patch Adams doesn't???

Maybe I should have responded when those guys asked me to vote!

And how is the original The Gods Must Be Crazy on this list????? That makes NO sense at all.

RED DAWN? Plus they count some series which have 8 films...as 1 movie??? And did my eyes just temporarily discover the drug crack... or is.. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE on this list?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

OK, I'm leaving this thread now.

I promise.

Some clunkers on that list, to be sure... But if someone truly believes those are the worst films of the past century, then they sure as hell need to watch more movies, preferably late at night, on regional TV. Then, and only then, will they know the combination of disgust and delight a TRULY bad film can bring

What? No "Bridges Of Madison County"? What a POS movie.

Oh yeah. How's about "Forces Of Nature"? Another milestone in movie making.