Worst thrillers in movie history

- Director: Alexandros Avranas
- Stacker score: 38.6
- Metascore: 24
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 92 minutes

Jim Carrey absolutely commits to the role of hard-boiled Detective Tadek in this morbid thriller. Unfortunately, the film's dull execution and misogynistic themes leave the actor high and dry. Based on a 2008 New Yorker article, "Dark Crimes" sends Tadek into the criminal underworld as he searches for a killer.

- Director: Roland Joffé
- Stacker score: 38.6
- Metascore: 24
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 96 minutes

A woman finds herself trapped in a kidnapper's cellar, unable to leave and confused as to how she got there in the first place. What follows is a series of sadistic torture rituals testing the very foundations of human endurance. Viewing audiences could relate.

- Director: James Wong
- Stacker score: 38.0
- Metascore: 45
- IMDb user rating: 2.5
- Runtime: 85 minutes

The first live-action adaptation of the "Dragon Ball'' manga and anime series is also the worst adaptation, according to critics and audiences. A warrior named Son Goku must collect all seven dragon balls before the next solar eclipse, lest the evil Lord Piccolo destroy Earth. Perhaps the film would have fared marginally better had director James Wong been an actual fan of the source material.

- Director: D.J. Caruso
- Stacker score: 38.0
- Metascore: 31
- IMDb user rating: 3.9
- Runtime: 91 minutes

Movie titles don't get more on-the-nose than "The Disappointments Room," which might as well describe any room in which it plays. Upon moving into an isolated manor, a family unleashes an evil spirit. From this derivative premise comes an overly convoluted, scare-free plot.

- Director: Wes Miller
- Stacker score: 38.0
- Metascore: 26
- IMDb user rating: 4.4
- Runtime: 94 minutes

An African American judge (Taye Diggs) seeks revenge on the cops who killed his son in this timely thriller. Despite its social overtones, the film quickly resorts to various vigilante sub-genre cliché. John Cusack, George Lopez, and Luke Hemsworth co-star.

- Director: Michael Caton-Jones
- Stacker score: 38.0
- Metascore: 26
- IMDb user rating: 4.4
- Runtime: 114 minutes

An unnecessary sequel if there ever was one, "Basic Instinct 2" sees author Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) luring another detective into her web of sex and deceit. At least the film has a major award under its belt to show for the effort. Oh wait, it's a Razzie Award.

- Directors: Colin Strause, Greg Strause
- Stacker score: 38.0
- Metascore: 26
- IMDb user rating: 4.4
- Runtime: 92 minutes

After cutting their teeth directing Nickelback music videos, The Brothers Strause took their thirst for mediocrity onto the big screen, first with "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem," and then again with "Skyline." To be fair to the creative duo, they're accomplished visual effects artists with more than 82 credits under their collective belt. What we're trying to say here is, stick to the visual effects work.

- Director: Grégory Levasseur
- Stacker score: 38.0
- Metascore: 24
- IMDb user rating: 4.6
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Trapped in an underground pyramid, archaeologists square off against deadly creatures in this found footage flick. Bad CGI and poor lighting turn an already contrived premise into unwatchable dreck. Go rewatch "The Descent" instead.

- Director: Brian A. Miller
- Stacker score: 38.0
- Metascore: 23
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 94 minutes

British military contractor Lex Walker (Craig Fairbrass) arrives in Los Angeles to identify the body of his dead daughter, only to find someone else's corpse instead. The subsequent investigation puts Walker in the crosshairs of a maniacal tech millionaire (James Caan). Think of it as a straight-to-DVD version of "Taken" and one pretty much gets the idea.

- Director: Don Michael Paul
- Stacker score: 38.0
- Metascore: 23
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 98 minutes

Steven Seagal's theatrical movie career was officially past dead after he starred in this cheesy thriller. In it, Seagal portrays undercover FBI agent Sasha Petrosevitch, who penetrates a high-tech prison and gets embroiled in a criminal scheme. It was all straight to DVD from here.

- Director: Pearry Reginald Teo
- Stacker score: 37.5
- Metascore: 27
- IMDb user rating: 4.2
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Director Pearry Reginald Teo reimagines a classic fairy tale through the lens of modern horror. A young man (Ethan Peck) inherits an old estate and awakens an ancient curse in the process. Like Sleeping Beauty herself, critics struggled to stay awake.

- Director: James Isaac
- Stacker score: 37.5
- Metascore: 25
- IMDb user rating: 4.4
- Runtime: 92 minutes

Let's be honest: most of the "Friday the 13th" movies are not very good. But that didn't stop the franchise from churning out 11 installments before an attempted reboot in 2009. Among the worst offenders is "Jason X," which has the masked serial killer waking up on a spaceship in the 25th century. That premise pretty much says all there is to say about this certified turkey.

- Director: Oliver Irving
- Stacker score: 37.5
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 83 minutes

Paranormal sleuthing should make for easy parody, but this "Scooby-Doo" knock-off becomes a parody of itself instead. Jon Heder ("Napoleon Dynamite," "Blades of Glory") assembles a team of amateur ghost hunters to investigate a potential haunting. Neither laughs nor thrills ensue.

- Director: Victor Salva
- Stacker score: 37.5
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 102 minutes

From the creator of "Jeepers Creepers" comes this far less cohesive outing, about a young man (Luke Kleintank) with a rare clairvoyant gift. In search of answers, he heads to a mysterious house with a dark secret. Despite its genuine atmosphere and compelling scares, the movie fails to pay off in the third act.

- Director: Hicham Hajji
- Stacker score: 37.5
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 99 minutes

Military hero Brad Paxton (Gary Dourdan) is in a race against time to save his kidnapped wife from terrorists. It might sound like a pulse-pounder in the making, but the story ends up being too generic to engage. Hollywood Reporter critic Frank Scheck called the film a "wan, ineffective vehicle" that "leaves its star all dressed up with nowhere to go."

- Director: Hyung-rae Shim
- Stacker score: 37.0
- Metascore: 33
- IMDb user rating: 3.5
- Runtime: 107 minutes

Made in South Korea but filmed in English, this monster movie commanded one of the biggest budgets in Korean cinema history. Made-up mythology provides threadbare cover for an all-out clash of CGI dragons. Solid special effects notwithstanding, the film suffers from a completely underdeveloped script.

- Director: Mickey Liddell
- Stacker score: 36.4
- Metascore: 28
- IMDb user rating: 3.9
- Runtime: 82 minutes

Teen Molly Hartley brings serious baggage to a new school in this supernatural thriller. Just when she's starting to fit in, a satanic-themed backstory reveals itself. Wade through the cheap horror tropes and one might find equally cheap psychological metaphors.

- Director: Matt Eskandari
- Stacker score: 36.4
- Metascore: 26
- IMDb user rating: 4.1
- Runtime: 90 minutes

Bruce Willis continues the anything-for-a-buck phase of his career in this home invasion thriller. Wounded and on the run, two robbers seek medical assistance from their hostages (one of whom is played by Willis). Survive the viewing experience is more like it.

- Director: Peter Hyams
- Stacker score: 36.4
- Metascore: 24
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 110 minutes

Wealthy elitists travel back in time to go dinosaur hunting and reality-shifting chaos ensues. So goes this Ray Bradbury adaptation, the source of which inspired the "butterfly effect" theory. The Simpsons did it and they did it better in "Treehouse of Horror V."

- Director: Martin Owen
- Stacker score: 36.4
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.5
- Runtime: 95 minutes

Consummate killers need support groups, too, is basically the core premise of this misguided mess. What happens to the circle of trust when its members turn on one another? Even the presence of Gary Oldman won't oblige viewers to care.

- Director: Martin Guigui
- Stacker score: 36.4
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.5
- Runtime: 96 minutes

Dennis Quaid plays former quarterback turned homicidal maniac Vaughn Ely in this low-budget thriller. When a group of teens stumbles upon Ely's dark secret, it puts them directly in his crosshairs. Contrary to what the title suggests, the film never so much as scratches below its highly superficial veneer.

- Director: Vic Sarin
- Stacker score: 36.4
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.5
- Runtime: 96 minutes

Based on the bestselling book series, this thriller kicks off Armageddon with the foretold Rapture. It alternates between various storylines, including one that involves Christian superstar Kirk Cameron as GNN reporter Buck Williams. Praise was missing from virtually every legitimate review.

- Director: Uwe Boll
- Stacker score: 36.4
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.5
- Runtime: 100 minutes

At long last, an entry from world-famous schlock master Uwe Boll. In 2007's "Postal," the director sends an unemployed loser and a crazy cult leader through an amusement park on a violent mission. Soon enough, both men discover that the Taliban has the exact same plan. Yes, that's the premise.

- Directors: Jamie Bradshaw, Aleksandr Dulerayn
- Stacker score: 36.4
- Metascore: 20
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 106 minutes

A former ad executive (Ed Stoppard) must stop various corporate brands from assuming world control in this Moscow-based sci-fi thriller. The story has all the trappings of a dark satire but plays it straight instead. Critics and audiences were thus laughing at the movie and not with it.

- Director: York Alec Shackleton
- Stacker score: 35.9
- Metascore: 34
- IMDb user rating: 3.2
- Runtime: 91 minutes

When a biker gang rolls into town, a small-town sheriff learns to embrace senseless violence once again. Those bikers should have known better than to disturb the Pearce (as in lead actor Guy Pearce). On Rotten Tomatoes, the Audience Score is even lower than the Tomatometer so this one must really stink.

- Director: David M. Rosenthal
- Stacker score: 35.9
- Metascore: 31
- IMDb user rating: 3.5
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Wait, someone remade Adrian Lyne's trippy psychological thriller from 1990? They did indeed, and it stars Michael Ealy as Jacob Singer, who returns home from war and experiences dangerous hallucinations. The story supplants mental torment with literal action as it progresses, thereby negating its one possible reason for existing.

- Director: Steven C. Miller
- Stacker score: 35.9
- Metascore: 25
- IMDb user rating: 4.1
- Runtime: 82 minutes

Not to be confused with the recent Chris Hemsworth movie, Steven C. Miller's actioner employs a similar premise with far less success. When a CIA operative (Bruce Willis) is kidnapped by terrorists, his son (Kellan Lutz) launches an unsanctioned rescue mission. Playing off the title, at least one critic compared the viewing experience to having teeth pulled.

- Director: Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad
- Stacker score: 35.9
- Metascore: 24
- IMDb user rating: 4.2
- Runtime: 97 minutes

A man tries to shake off an ancient family curse in this undercooked thriller from Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad. Throwing in everything but the kitchen sink, the story strives for social significance but can barely achieve cohesive plotting. It made just under $220,000 at the worldwide box office.

- Director: John Stockwell
- Stacker score: 35.9
- Metascore: 23
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 114 minutes

Halle Berry deserves better than this rudderless shark thriller, in which she plays a traumatized diving expert. Still recovering from a shark attack, she heads straight into deadly waters. It holds a 0% score on the Tomatometer as of press time.

- Director: Kevin Smith
- Stacker score: 35.9
- Metascore: 23
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 88 minutes

"Nepotism: The Movie" might be an alternate title for this botched horror-comedy from Kevin Smith. Starring both Smith's and Johnny Depp's respective offspring in the lead roles, it pits two shallow yoga enthusiasts against an evil force. Any semblance of satire gets quickly buried under a pile of nonsensical characters and plot points.

- Director: Gee Malik Linton
- Stacker score: 35.9
- Metascore: 23
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 102 minutes

Keanu Reeves will have to shoot six more John Wick movies to make up for this disjointed dumpster fire. While investigating his partner's death, Detective Galban (Reeves) uncovers a grave conspiracy involving police corruption and... space aliens? Citing studio interference, director Gee Malik Linton disowned the film before its release.

- Director: Courtney Solomon
- Stacker score: 35.9
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.4
- Runtime: 90 minutes

It's a race against the clock in 2013's "Getaway," which stars Ethan Hawke as former race car driver Brent Magna. At the behest of his wife's kidnapper, Magna zips around town in a Shelby Super Snake Mustang. The tagline is: Get in. Get out. Getaway. Based on the box office performance, that's exactly what audiences did.

- Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
- Stacker score: 35.3
- Metascore: 26
- IMDb user rating: 3.9
- Runtime: 90 minutes

"Saw" franchise veteran Darren Lynn Bousman plays upon superstition in this plodding tale of terror. Plagued by the number 11, a writer must prevent a demonic prophecy from coming to fruition. Who can guess when it was released domestically in limited theaters?

- Director: Steven C. Miller
- Stacker score: 35.3
- Metascore: 25
- IMDb user rating: 4.0
- Runtime: 97 minutes

Nicolas Cage dons a bad wig and prosthetic nose that may be the most entertaining elements of this abysmal crime thriller. Co-starring John Cusack and Adrian Grenier, it centers around a brutal kidnapping and blood-soaked rescue mission. Most critics honed in on Cage's over-the-top performance, which comes off as more tired than inspired.

- Director: Brian A. Miller
- Stacker score: 35.3
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 4.6
- Runtime: 93 minutes

A former mob hitman (Jason Patric) attempts to rescue his kidnapped daughter in yet another "Taken" knock-off. Co-stars Bruce Willis and John Cusack phone in their respective performances accordingly. "It's as if all involved are embarrassed they've been reduced to making this picture," wrote critic Jordan Hoffman for the New York Daily News.

- Director: Mike Mendez
- Stacker score: 34.8
- Metascore: 28
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 84 minutes

Meet the world's unluckiest bank robbers, who take a serial killer (Henry Rollins) for a hostage and get picked off one by one. What could have been a fun mash-up of two unique sub-genres paints it by the numbers instead. Cheap digital effects and paper-thin characters drive home the amateurish vibe.

- Director: Joe Alves
- Stacker score: 34.8
- Metascore: 27
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 99 minutes

The folks who made "Jaws 3-D" were so focused on having the shark leap out of the screen that they forgot to craft a decent movie around the concept. Everything about this film—which has Jaws terrorizing SeaWorld—reeks of poor production value. That didn't stop people from going to see it in modest droves, paving the way for a fourth installment that somehow managed to be even worse.

- Director: Maria Pulera
- Stacker score: 34.8
- Metascore: 24
- IMDb user rating: 4.0
- Runtime: 90 minutes

One of Nicolas Cage's weirder efforts—and that's saying a lot—this supernatural thriller finds him playing a truck driver named Joe. Upon making contact with the spirit world, Joe accidentally brings his vengeful wife back from the grave. With an 82% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes, this could be one of those so-bad-it's-good type situations.

- Director: Rick Jacobson
- Stacker score: 34.8
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 4.5
- Runtime: 109 minutes

This conscious ode to grindhouse cinema fails to muster the guilty pleasures of its exploitative influences. It takes place in the desert and follows three femme fatales through a botched robbery scheme. A limited theatrical run yielded just over $17,000 in box office receipts.

- Director: Peter Medak
- Stacker score: 34.8
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 4.5
- Runtime: 93 minutes

An alien organism is on the loose and it's up to a genetically re-engineered, formerly deadly seductress (Natasha Henstridge) to track it down. With a premise ripped straight out of "Terminator 2," this uninspired sequel doesn't exactly score originality points.

- Director: Danny Steinmann
- Stacker score: 34.8
- Metascore: 16
- IMDb user rating: 4.8
- Runtime: 92 minutes

The fifth installment in the "Friday the 13th" series promised audiences a new beginning, only to churn out the same old run-of-the-mill garbage it had been churning out for years. You don't need to stream this one to know it involves a ski mask, a machete, and a lot of dead people.

- Director: Wes Craven
- Stacker score: 34.2
- Metascore: 25
- IMDb user rating: 3.8
- Runtime: 86 minutes

Horror legend Wes Craven filmed this reported cash grab soon after making the horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street." Bereft of originality, it reintroduces a group of cannibalistic desert mutants. The director has since disowned it.

- Director: Louis Morneau
- Stacker score: 34.2
- Metascore: 23
- IMDb user rating: 4.0
- Runtime: 91 minutes

Genetically mutated bats escape a government lab and invade a small Texas town in this campy horror dud. With help from Sheriff Emmett Kimsey (Lou Diamond Phillips), zoologist Dr. Sheila Casper (Dina Meyer) must stop the chaos before it spirals out of control. Any and all laughs are purely unintentional.

- Director: Mathieu Ratthe
- Stacker score: 34.2
- Metascore: 21
- IMDb user rating: 4.2
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Three couples head to a swanky hunting lodge for a weekend getaway in this found footage fiasco. When a meteor crashes nearby, it leads to a deadly alien encounter. Shaky cameras and loud yelling does not a horror movie make.

- Director: Ralph Ziman
- Stacker score: 34.2
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 4.4
- Runtime: 90 minutes

Based on a cult anime of the same name, this South African thriller takes place in a corrupt and slum-ridden society. After her parents are killed, a teenage girl (India Eisley) takes on the life of a vengeance-seeking assassin. Samuel L. Jackson co-stars and probably wishes that he hadn't.

- Director: Pasha Patriki
- Stacker score: 34.2
- Metascore: 16
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 104 minutes

It's a who's who of has-beens in this action-packed thriller, co-starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren in their fifth collaboration. Both men play prisoners aboard a retrofitted nuclear submarine, who must figure out how to escape their CIA captors. Canadian cinematographer Pasha Patriki makes his directorial debut.

- Director: Sylvain White
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 30
- IMDb user rating: 3.2
- Runtime: 93 minutes

An Internet-based urban legend springs to life—just barely—in this lambasted horror flick. Follow a group of teens as they discover that the mythical Slender Man might be all too real. Critic Simon Braund dubbed it a "stale, rigidly formulaic J-horror wannabe."

- Director: Will Forbes
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 27
- IMDb user rating: 3.5
- Runtime: 91 minutes

Terry Crews plays a modern-day version of African American folk hero John Henry in this gangland thriller. Tasked with helping two kids on the run, Henry must confront his violent past. It might sound straightforward enough, but most viewers are still trying to determine what this movie was actually about.

- Director: Jan de Bont
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 23
- IMDb user rating: 3.9
- Runtime: 121 minutes

True to its name, "Speed 2: Cruise Control" runs on autopilot through the course of its entire runtime. Noticeably absent is Keanu Reeves, who in no small part contributed to the first film's success. In a 2000 interview, star Sandra Bullock somewhat jokingly referred to this film as "the biggest piece of crap ever made."

- Directors: Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.0
- Runtime: 86 minutes

A gruesome French classic gets the (pointless) remake treatment from sibling directors Kevin and Michael Goetz. Follow an abuse victim as she turns the tables on her tormentor and then cleans up the mess with help from a friend. While the original film was a total shock to the system, this neutered version lacks bite.

- Director: David R. Ellis
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 22
- IMDb user rating: 4.0
- Runtime: 90 minutes

Theatrically released in 3D, this PG-13 thriller confronts seven college friends with a horde of deadly sharks. It comes to viewers from the same director behind "Snakes on a Plane" and arguably tries to muster the same energy. Despite making over $40 million at the worldwide box office, it still lost money for distributor Relativity Media.

- Director: Simon West
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 21
- IMDb user rating: 4.1
- Runtime: 92 minutes

Antonio Banderas plays mega-selling rock star Turk Henry in this overblown action comedy. When his model wife is kidnapped, the entitled musician sets out to save her. It might sound like "Desperado" meets "Taken" with a dash of "This is Spinal Tap" but each of those movies look like "Citizen Kane" by comparison.

- Director: Jodi Scurfield
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 102 minutes

Loosely based on the true story of Don Aronow, this crime drama chronicles the dangerous double life of speedboat racer Ben Aronoff (John Travolta). Spanning decades, the saga unfolds like a choppy highlight reel from better films. Even the folks at the Powerboat Racing World website warned viewers to "prepare for disappointment."

- Director: Marcos Siega
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 95 minutes

Those hoping for another "21 Jump Street" movie are better off watching the original TV series than this Nick Cannon vehicle with a similar premise. It sends Detective Tracy 'Tre' Stokes (Cannon) deep undercover at an elite boarding school, where he investigates a stolen car ring. Filmed on a reported budget of $25 million, it made less than $6 million at the worldwide box office.

- Director: Brian A. Miller
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Proving themselves true kings of second-rate thrillers, Bruce Willis and director Brian A. Miller churned out this revenge-fueled crime drama. Playing an ex-cop, Willis teams up with a traumatized bank manager (Frank Grillo) to bring down a trained criminal. Beyond the gritty veneer is yet another tired retread of played-out action tropes.

- Director: Maxim Korostyshevsky
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 94 minutes

Thrill-seeking elitists pay big bucks to experience warfare firsthand and get more than they bargained for in this laborious outing. It's up to former Special Forces soldier Craig McCenzie (Christian Slater) to protect the millionaires before they become casualties of war. Alas, if only it were satire.

- Director: Christian Duguay
- Stacker score: 33.7
- Metascore: 17
- IMDb user rating: 4.5
- Runtime: 93 minutes

It's extreme daredevils and a film crew versus Serbian terrorists in this box office bomb few people remember. The ridiculous premise gives way to an endless bevy of high-altitude stunts, but not a shred of decent storyline. "Less a movie than a 93-minute Mountain Dew commercial," wrote Entertainment Weekly critic Bruce Fretts in his review.

- Director: Dario Argento
- Stacker score: 33.2
- Metascore: 25
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 110 minutes

Italian horror legend Dario Argento embraced modern technologies with his first—and hopefully last—3D film. Starring daughter Asia, it puts an erotic twist on the tale of Dracula. To paraphrase numerous critics, this one is just plain terrible.

- Director: David Price
- Stacker score: 33.2
- Metascore: 18
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 92 minutes

A Nebraskan cult of homicidal children return for this maligned sequel, which has origins in a short story by Stephen King. Set eight years after its predecessor, it sends a journalist and his son to the scene of the original crime. Far from "The Final Sacrifice," it was followed by multiple straight-to-video sequels.

- Director: Robert Legato
- Stacker score: 33.2
- Metascore: 15
- IMDb user rating: 4.6
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Welcome to Eloise, an abandoned insane asylum with some terrifying secrets. Four friends learn that the hard way when they break into the place, hoping to find an important death certificate. This is the first and only theatrical feature from visual effects veteran Robert Legato, best known for his work on "Titanic."

- Director: Mary Lambert
- Stacker score: 33.2
- Metascore: 14
- IMDb user rating: 4.7
- Runtime: 105 minutes

Young Adrien Williams is desperate to fit in with the local clique of wealthy college girls in this soapy thriller. She falls under the wing of their leader and soon discovers that the life of luxury comes at a deadly cost. Comparing the film to Gorgonzola cheese, Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum called it a "crumbly summertime stinker veined with pop-cultural fungus."

- Director: John Ottman
- Stacker score: 32.6
- Metascore: 16
- IMDb user rating: 4.4
- Runtime: 97 minutes

In the wake of teen slashers like "Scream" came the "Urban Legends" franchise and this paltry second installment. While working on her thesis project, film school student Amy Mayfield (Jennifer Morrison) ends up in the crosshairs of a killer. Shot on a similar budget to the original, it earned about half as much at the worldwide box office.

- Director: Rob Hedden
- Stacker score: 32.6
- Metascore: 14
- IMDb user rating: 4.6
- Runtime: 100 minutes

Tired of hacking teens to bits at Camp Crystal Lake and elsewhere, notorious murderer Jason heads to the Big Apple. Wearing a ski mask and wielding a machete, he slaughters New Yorkers one by one and somehow blends right in. Late-'80s Manhattan was a different city back then.

- Director: Michael J. Gallagher
- Stacker score: 32.1
- Metascore: 25
- IMDb user rating: 3.4
- Runtime: 95 minutes

An Internet-based urban legend lays the groundwork for this indie horror film, about a serial killer with a mutilated face. College student Ashley tempts fate by luring the killer into the real world. Well, either that or she's completely lost her mind. Stay tuned to find out. Or don't.

- Director: Stephen Carpenter
- Stacker score: 32.1
- Metascore: 20
- IMDb user rating: 3.9
- Runtime: 84 minutes

Another lame-brained teen horror flick from the post-"Scream" universe, "Soul Survivors" centers on a college freshman named Cassie (Melissa Sagemiller). In the aftermath of a near-fatal car crash, Cassie has visions of the ghostly variety. Austin Chronicle critic Marc Savlov dubbed it a "toothless, fright-free journey into dullsville."

- Director: Rick Rosenthal
- Stacker score: 32.1
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 4.0
- Runtime: 94 minutes

Whatever new life was breathed into the "Halloween" franchise by 1998's "Halloween H20" was duly sucked out by this 2002 installment. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) must once again survive an encounter with Michael Myers, this time on the set of a reality TV show being broadcast from Myers' old home.

- Director: Fred Durst
- Stacker score: 32.1
- Metascore: 18
- IMDb user rating: 4.1
- Runtime: 88 minutes

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst steps behind the camera for this psychological thriller, reportedly inspired by personal experience. It stars John Travolta as an autistic street performer, who takes his celebrity obsession to dangerous extremes. Writing for RogerEbert.com, critic Brian Tallerico described the film as an all-out assault on fandom and a tasteless one at that.

- Director: Todd Lincoln
- Stacker score: 32.1
- Metascore: 18
- IMDb user rating: 4.1
- Runtime: 82 minutes

A university experiment unleashes a supernatural force in this rote horror flick. The story takes loose inspiration from a real-life experiment in the early '70s when Canadian researchers tried to contact a ghost. If tanking at the box office wasn't enough, the movie was also nominated for Worst Film at the 2013 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards.

- Director: Brian A. Miller
- Stacker score: 32.1
- Metascore: 17
- IMDb user rating: 4.2
- Runtime: 96 minutes

Representing another collaboration between director Brian A. Miller and Bruce Willis, this sci-fi thriller takes place at an ultra-futuristic resort. Guests arrive to play out their wildest fantasies with android-like employees, one of whom becomes self-aware. Think of it as intelligent movies like "Blade Runner" or "Westworld" minus the intelligence.

- Director: Adam Marcus
- Stacker score: 32.1
- Metascore: 17
- IMDb user rating: 4.2
- Runtime: 87 minutes

Jason went to hell in 1993 and so, too, did the audiences who went to see this sophomoric splatterfest. As if trying to world-build upon the loosest of foundations, it explores the mythical origins of the iconic serial killer. The initial script was reportedly written in just four days, yet some might wonder if there was a script at all.

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- Director: Scott Silver
- Stacker score: 32.1
- Metascore: 16
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 92 minutes

Three rising stars united for this late 1990s crime thriller, based on an old TV series that the film's target demographic had never heard of. Claire Danes, Omar Epps, Giovanni Ribisi play three juvenile delinquents turned undercover law enforcers. It was bad at the time and has aged even worse.

- Director: Uwe Boll
- Stacker score: 31.5
- Metascore: 30
- IMDb user rating: 2.8
- Runtime: 92 minutes

One of Uwe Boll's lesser-known abominations puts a man (Patrick Muldoon) on the run from an ax-wielding maniac. It made about $1,500 at the box office and somehow even that that seems high. Let no one forget that the New York Times critic Stephen Holden gave it a semi-positive review.

- Director: Joe Chappelle
- Stacker score: 31.5
- Metascore: 10
- IMDb user rating: 4.8
- Runtime: 87 minutes

John Carpenter's "Halloween" is considered one of the best horror movies of all time. "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers," on the other hand, is considered one of the worst. As one might imagine, it sees the iconic slasher returning to Haddonfield. Perhaps star Paul Rudd thought it was a comedy when he read the script.

- Director: Mathew Cullen
- Stacker score: 31.0
- Metascore: 16
- IMDb user rating: 4.1
- Runtime: 118 minutes

A clairvoyant con woman (Amber Heard) gets romantically involved with three different men in this lurid crime thriller. If the woman's own premonitions prove correct, one of the men will kill her. Based on a novel, the story gets hopelessly lost in its own mess of undercooked themes and dizzying plot points.

- Director: Dimitri Logothetis
- Stacker score: 30.4
- Metascore: 27
- IMDb user rating: 2.9
- Runtime: 102 minutes

Adapted from a comic book series, this fantasy-based action film blends sci-fi and martial arts to purely derivative effect. It centers on the long-running war between jiu-jitsu fighters and aliens and is miraculously even worse than it sounds. Nicolas Cage appears around the 40-minute mark as a Yoda-like figure, but does little to elevate the material.

- Director: Isaac Florentine
- Stacker score: 30.4
- Metascore: 20
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 89 minutes

A mysterious vigilante is picking off most-wanted terrorists and a FBI agent (Christian Slater) is hot on her tail. Aiming to be the next Bourne franchise, this ludicrous spy thriller hinges dangerously close to unintentional parody. Everything about it misses the mark, pun intended.

- Director: David Jacobson
- Stacker score: 30.4
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 93 minutes

The presence of Willem Dafoe and Michelle Monaghan suggests that there was once a decent script behind this noirish thriller. Under the direction of David Jacobson, it's pure arthouse amateur hour. Following a botched crime, an ex-convict (Stephen Dorff) and streetwise woman (Monaghan) embark on a road trip to redemption.

- Director: Wych Kaosayananda
- Stacker score: 30.4
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 91 minutes

Two warring assassins (Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu) team up to take on a common enemy in this frantic failure of a film experience. An outright cacophony in visual form, its very title inspires confusion. "Virtually all action, virtually no movie" is how critic Mick LaSalle summed it up in his review.

- Director: Andrew Sipes
- Stacker score: 30.4
- Metascore: 13
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 91 minutes

The short-lived movie career of supermodel Cindy Crawford has this mindless romantic thriller to blame. She plays civil law attorney Kate McQuean, who evades KGB hitmen with help from a police detective (William Baldwin). Fans of so-bad-it's-good cinema may find much to relish.

- Director: Joe Berlinger
- Stacker score: 29.9
- Metascore: 15
- IMDb user rating: 4.0
- Runtime: 90 minutes

Unlike its found footage predecessor, this formulaic follow-up was a tone-deaf exercise in worn Hollywood clichés. A group of tourists visit the site of the original film to summon the elusive Blair Witch...or is it all in their head? Co-writer and director Joe Berlinger assigned its failure to the studio, saying they "butchered the film at the 12th hour."

- Director: Farhad Mann
- Stacker score: 29.3
- Metascore: 29
- IMDb user rating: 2.5
- Runtime: 93 minutes

The original "Lawnmower Man" shamelessly exploited author Stephen King and yet still managed to invoke some provocative themes. Its 1996 follow-up explored similar terrain but with even less proficiency. Confined to virtual reality, an evil entity named Jobe tries to unify all the world's computers in his quest for total dominance.

- Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Stacker score: 29.3
- Metascore: 17
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 96 minutes

Chun-Li was just a normal teenager until she witnessed her father being kidnapped by the local crime lord. Now she's a famous martial arts expert on a quest for revenge. That premise might as well have come out of a "generic plot" algorithm and the film itself is likewise run of the mill, to put it kindly.

- Director: Michael Biehn
- Stacker score: 29.3
- Metascore: 11
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 83 minutes

Actor Michael Biehn (of "The Terminator") victimizes viewers with this directorial effort, in which he also stars. The quiet life of a dangerous recluse (Biehn) is uprooted by a surprise visitor, who needs his protection. Gratuitous violence of the grindhouse tradition follows, coming up short on just about every front.

- Director: Uwe Boll
- Stacker score: 28.8
- Metascore: 15
- IMDb user rating: 3.8
- Runtime: 127 minutes

Uwe Boll dependably delivers yet another instant stinker. With its outright terrible title, one doesn't even need to see this movie to know they'll hate it. Behold a man named Farmer (Jason Statham), who battles CGI monsters in order to save his kidnapped wife and avenge his son's death. It's all as crappy as it sounds, though possibly worth watching if you want to see what Burt Reynolds was up to at the time.

- Director: Chris Sivertson
- Stacker score: 28.3
- Metascore: 16
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 105 minutes

Having been missing for years, a young woman returns to civilization with severe doubts about who she is or where she came from. Lindsay Lohan tackles dual roles in this ill-fated thriller, which didn't exactly help her career. Coming to its defense a decade and a half later, Guardian critic Charles Bramesco in 2021 cites the film's "aesthetic of surreal artifice and grim interplay with real life."

- Directors: James Cameron, Ovidio G. Assonitis, Miller Drake
- Stacker score: 28.3
- Metascore: 15
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 94 minutes

James Cameron's directing career was off to an inauspicious start with this famously terrible sequel about killer piranhas. Fired from the project during a troubled production, Cameron later tried to have his name removed from the credits. He's since learned to embrace the work, once dubbing it the "best flying piranha film ever made."

- Director: Olivier Megaton
- Stacker score: 28.3
- Metascore: 15
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 148 minutes

IndieWire critic David Ehrlich said this sci-fi thriller "is so bad it should be illegal." Set in the not-too-distant future, it imagines a society in which a powerful signal will make it impossible to commit crime. That gives a team of career thieves one last chance to pull off the heist of the century.

- Director: Kelvin Tong
- Stacker score: 28.3
- Metascore: 14
- IMDb user rating: 3.8
- Runtime: 95 minutes

Alternately known as "The Offering," this occult-themed horror show puts various sub-genre tropes in the blender and then hits the pulverize button. The story follows an American journalist out to Singapore, where she looks into the mysterious death of her sister. Produced in Singapore, it was marketed as the country's first Hollywood supernatural feature.

- Director: Travis Zariwny
- Stacker score: 27.7
- Metascore: 14
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 99 minutes

The cabin horror sub-genre is so common by this point that direct remakes seem either superfluous or opportunistic by default. Nevertheless, director Travis Zariwny presents an updated version of Eli Roth's cult classic. Join five teens as they head out to the woods and fall victim to a flesh-eating virus.

- Director: John Stockwell
- Stacker score: 27.7
- Metascore: 13
- IMDb user rating: 3.8
- Runtime: 93 minutes

A remote military compound with advanced lie-detecting technology has been compromised and its guards have vanished. Wesley Snipes leads a team of special forces soldiers to investigate the matter. Rock icon Gene Simmons co-produced and also makes a cameo, not that it helps.

- Director: William Malone
- Stacker score: 27.2
- Metascore: 16
- IMDb user rating: 3.4
- Runtime: 101 minutes

Unsuspecting victims log on to a mysterious website and die 48 hours later in this cyber clunker. Messy plotting and poor acting make it more cloying than the average Twitter fight. It received a rare "F" Cinemascore from the unfortunate moviegoers who went to see it on the big screen.

- Director: Robert Marcarelli
- Stacker score: 27.2
- Metascore: 14
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 100 minutes

Using advanced software, a rabbi unlocks the mathematical codes hidden deep within the Torah. His subsequent murder sparks a high-stakes adventure with world domination on the line. Overwhelmingly negative reviews didn't stop this religious-themed debacle from yielding a bigger-budget sequel.

- Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
- Stacker score: 27.2
- Metascore: 12
- IMDb user rating: 3.8
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Two years before Marvel Comics unveiled the first issue of "The Avengers," there came a TV show about British spies with the very same name. It was that show upon which this 1998 film was based, pitting Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes against a man who's dead set on destroying the world. Fiennes once said of its disastrous release, "I think it's a badge of honor to have a real flop on your resume."

- Director: Brian A. Miller
- Stacker score: 26.6
- Metascore: 13
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Bruce Willis and director Brian A. Miller re-team for yet another inferior thriller because someone out there is signing checks, presumably. Co-star Michael Chiklis plays a bank robber named Frank, whose missing memories hold the key to a botched heist. Anyone who watches 10 minutes of this tripe will quickly empathize with the title.

- Director: John R. Leonetti
- Stacker score: 26.1
- Metascore: 11
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 95 minutes

Interdimensional enemies are invading earth and it's up to a team of martial arts warriors to stop them. This inert sequel is considered famously bad among gamers and moviegoers alike. Viewers can expect shoddy special effects, cheesy electronic music, and basically no story.

- Director: Joseph Sargent
- Stacker score: 24.5
- Metascore: 15
- IMDb user rating: 3.0
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Between its anemic IMDb rating and 0% score on the Tomatometer, "Jaws: The Revenge" is quite simply an atrocious thriller if there ever was one. According to director Joseph Sargent, the movie's sheer awfulness is largely due to rushed development and a half-baked script. Whatever the reasons, its blatant incompetence was enough to put a nail in the franchise coffin for good.

- Director: Vic Armstrong
- Stacker score: 23.4
- Metascore: 12
- IMDb user rating: 3.1
- Runtime: 110 minutes

In the second adaptation of a bestselling book, a small group of people struggle to survive in a post-rapture landscape. Star Nicolas Cage takes a break from his normal substandard action fare to indulge in something with broader religious themes. Frankly, the apocalypse deserves better.

- Director: Keoni Waxman
- Stacker score: 20.1
- Metascore: 3
- IMDb user rating: 3.4
- Runtime: 90 minutes

Steven Seagal's few remaining fans were rewarded—or punished—with this lazy action thriller in 2016. He plays government agent John Harmon, who's tasked with preventing a terrorist attack. Even Seagal looks bored in this one so imagine how the viewers must feel.

- Director: Daniel Farrands
- Stacker score: 19.6
- Metascore: 8
- IMDb user rating: 2.8
- Runtime: 94 minutes

Shameless exploitation reaches a new low in this dramatic thriller, starring Hillary Duff as real-life actor and victim Sharon Tate. A series of haunting premonitions slowly builds toward the fateful night of the Manson murders. Comparisons to "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" may seem inevitable, but that would be like comparing "Gotti" to "The Godfather."

- Director: David DeFalco
- Stacker score: 17.9
- Metascore: 1
- IMDb user rating: 3.2
- Runtime: 74 minutes

Two drug-seeking teens suffer unspeakable abuses in this grindhouse wannabe from former wrestler David DeFalco. What's presented as a cautionary tale is little more than 70-plus minutes of brutal sadism. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

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