Some movies are so bad they become legends, not for their quality but for how badly critics tore them apart. These films earned tiny ratings on sites like IMDb and Metacritic, with reviewers calling them disasters in acting, effects, and stories. Let’s look at a few of the worst ones that got destroyed by critics.
Manos: The Hands of Fate from 1966 tops many bottom lists with an IMDb score of just 1.7 out of 10. Made on a shoestring budget by a fertilizer salesman turned director, it features awful acting, endless driving scenes, and a plot about a family stumbling into a cult. Critics say the pacing drags like wet cement, and the dialogue feels like it was mumbled in a hurry. You can read more at https://creepycatalog.com/best-bad-movies/ or check IMDb’s lowest rated at https://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom/.
Disaster Movie in 2008 holds the number one spot on IMDb’s bottom 100 with a 1.9 rating from nearly 100,000 votes. This parody tries to mock every hit film from that year but ends up with jokes that flop harder than the disasters it spoofs. Reviewers ripped it for lazy writing and cringe humor that misses every mark. See the full IMDb chart at https://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom/.
Birdemic: Shock and Terror from 2010 scores a measly 1.7 on IMDb and gets called out for its clip-art birds that dive-bomb with cartoon explosions and airplane noises. The story of toxic birds attacking a town has acting so stiff and effects so cheap that critics laughed it off the screen. Details come from bad movie rankings at https://creepycatalog.com/best-bad-movies/.
The Room in 2003 earned fame as the Citizen Kane of bad movies, with critics slamming its bizarre love triangle, random rooftop talks, and lines like Youre tearing me apart, Lisa! It bombed at first but later built a cult following despite the harsh reviews. Find out why at https://creepycatalog.com/best-bad-movies/.
Plan 9 from Outer Space in 1959, directed by Ed Wood, features flying saucers on strings, grave-robbing aliens, and Bela Lugosi’s reused footage from an old film. Critics mock its hubcap UFOs and over-the-top acting, cementing it as a sci-fi trainwreck. More on this classic flop at https://creepycatalog.com/best-bad-movies/.
Cats from 2019 stunned with its 2.8 IMDb score and creepy CGI fur that critics said looked like nightmares. The musical adaptation of the stage show got panned for weird visuals and a story that went nowhere. Check IMDb at https://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom/ or bad movie lists at https://creepycatalog.com/best-bad-movies/.
Even in 2025, flops kept coming. The Smurfs reboot landed on Metacritic’s worst list, with critics calling its script the most tin-eared ever, like a dented traffic cone with no charm. One review trashed Papa Smurf’s kidnapping plot as a globe-trotting mess. War of the Worlds scored 2.5 on IMDb, joining the bottom ranks. See Metacritic’s 2025 disasters at https://www.metacritic.com/pictures/worst-movies-of-2025/ and IMDb at https://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom/.
Other critic killers include The Last Airbender, slammed in YouTube reviews as worse than The Room for its wooden dialogue and acting, and Disaster Movie clones like Meet the Spartans at 2.8 on IMDb. Wikipedia tracks these in lists of worst films across centuries. Watch breakdowns at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYJVbTxl7Io or browse lists at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_films_considered_the_worst.
Sources
https://creepycatalog.com/best-bad-movies/
https://www.metacritic.com/pictures/worst-movies-of-2025/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYJVbTxl7Io
https://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_films_considered_the_worst
