Unsociable Cinema’s 100 Greatest Films of All Time – The 10 Worst

Creating a list of the 100 greatest films ever made is not easy. Granted I completed this in over two days but you’ve got to be harsh. Whittling it down to a list of just 100 out of all the great movies as left me with a further list of 50 honourable mentions as well as a top 10 worst films of all time. What you will get is approximately 8 posts coming weekly of the great movies and the bad movies with a brief explanation of why they are placed on the list.

Remember, all these lists are down to opinion the films you will see over the coming weeks are films I believe are the greats that have somehow pushed the artistic medium as far as it can go, stretching across numerous genres and directors. So to start off we go with the 10 worst films of all time.

Life isn't a box of chocolates.

10. Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis, US)

Far and away the worst film ever to pick up the coveted Best Picture Oscar, beating out some top competition which all deserved the award more than this. A celebration of ignorance, proving if you’re stupid then you’ll get everything you need out of life, life isn’t like a box of chocolates. Only unless your life is as sweet and sickly and offensive as this.

9. Julien Donkey-Boy (1999, Harmony Korine, US)

If you were to label a director the worst in the world, it would come down to two people. Korine is one of them, taking his inspiration from Thomas Vinterberg and his bag of Danish naval gazing intellects, this Dogme 95 piece of trash shows how cinema is not to be used. Terrible performances and actually rather insulting. Don’t waste your time.

8. Transformers Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Michael Bay, US)

Also competing for position of worst director ever, Bay takes the cake, while Korine gets no attention and his films are left to rot in the only arthouse cinemas who dare to show them, Bay is blockbuster megalomaniac who foists his ‘vision’ upon the most mainstream of audiences. This is a fine example of bad taste filmmaking at it’s worst, bad comic relief and offensive on every level and not to mention boring.

7. Son of the Mask (2005, Laurence Guterman, US)

Simple, empty headed garbage. This sequel is missing everything that was decent in the original, including Jim Carrey’s finest comic performance, and I don’t say that lightly. replacing him with Jamie Kennedy and featuring a pissing baby this is a painfully unfunny slapstick waste of time.

6. Grease 2 (1982, Patricia Birch, US)

Hysterically bad in almost every possible way, recently you may have read a review of the original film on this site. This takes the camp element of the first film and pushes it into intergalactic territories here, with even worse songs and inert dialogue this is a turgid mess.

5. Epic Movie (2007, Aaron Seltzer & Jason Friedberg, US)

All the films in the spoof stable of the Wayans Brothers are all utterly terrible. This is the worst, another uncomfortably unfunny comedy which ‘spoofs’ all the summer blockbusters you can think of. That’s fine but when you’re reduced to gags about dwarves and Michael Jackson being a paedophile you know they just aren’t trying hard enough.

4. North (1994, Rob Reiner, US)

Rob Reiner’s string of great movies one after the other starting with This Is Spinal Tap had to end sometime, who knew it would end so badly. This completely pointless work is at best miserably inept and at worst offensive, only joy being Bruce Willis in a pink bunny costume a year after completing Die Hard 3.

3. I Spit On Your Grave (1978, Meir Zarchi, US)

I don’t believe at all in banning movies, however if there was one video nasty which should have remained in the bin it is this one. If empowering women was all about watching them being raped several times then I obviously missed a contract claus where that was deemed acceptable. Utterly vile.

2. Baby Geniuses (1999, Bob Clark, US)

Who knew the man who gave us the dark delights of Black Christmas and the leery hilarity Porky’s would resort to this. Yet another unfunny comedy where babies start talking with Christopher Lloyd and Kathleen Turner. If that’s your idea of a good time, be my guest and waste it.

1. Manos The Hands of Fate (1966, Harold P Warren, US)

The king of bad movies, notorious for its all round bad filmmaking and is even celebrated by Quentin Tarantino (he owns a 35mm copy). Should be seen for how not to make a movie, being shot on a $19000 budget is perhaps to harsh to call it the worst film of all time considering movies like Batman & Robin and Battlefield Earth do not appear on this list. This is just to terrible to not be number one, its not even funny and feels twice the length even though it’s barely a feature film.

Torgo, your King of the Bad Movie

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