wow now thats a tough one. If you mean out right horrible i did not like it in any way at all then i would have to say
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Bless the child comes close since it missed every single note or suspence or terror it could have.

Boy oh boy, three way tie --> Bandits, Freddy Got Fingered, and The Flintstones.

Runners up: Saw, Starship Troopers 2, and Terminator 3

I am so glad I found this tribe!

I think the worst movie ever is Manos the hands of fate.
It is cool to break movie rules unless you don't know your breaking them.

Garbage pail kids the movie and Liquid sky

Have you ever seen "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle"? It is definitely the worst movie ever... I think Bill Mayer was in it...long time ago anyway...

I haven't seen Santa Claus Conquers the M's tho..

"Can't Stop the Music"
Disco movie with Bruce Jenner 'acting' and the Village People.

Need I say more?

High on the list should be

SPECIES.

Good freakin' god... how horrible can a movie get? I wanted to shoot Forrest Whittaker, kick Al Molina in the head... and poor, poor Ben Kingsly walked through that flick with a look on his face that read "I'm getting paid. I'm getting paid. And the upshot is that I will die at the end of the film. I'm getting paid. I'm getting paid..."

It was the second movie where we actually wanted our money back for sitting through the whole thing as a reward!

The first movie was, of course, The Neverending Story.

I just saw one of the worst movies ever recently, it was called demons at the door (2004) I actually didn't watch it all i think like 15 minutes into it, it was to painful to watch and I turned it off.

Before we go further: when you say bad, do you mean so-bad-it's-good, or downright so-bad-you-hate-it?

Twilight of the Dogs. Perhaps the stupidest plot line ever put to paper or film. Also one of the dumb effects ideas, a fake looking doll, as in really badly sculpted, with LEDs on it that change colors to indicate the condition of areas of the body of an "attractive" female alien.

I had just finished working on a really ball buster of a movie with the ever present Hack, John Ellis.....

He premiered his film from about two years prior, having just finished post production, at a SciFi con in DC called Disclave.

He was sitting behind me during the premier.

At one point it got so bad I had to start making some quips and before long the whole place was cracking comments and howling, except a few stuffy types afraid to piss John off.

John got so mad he start kicking the back of my chair and saying, in the voice of an angry little kid, "You're just so cool and better than the rest of us."

Oh, well, some times you just have to be yourself and not care who you piss off.

to this day, I wish I could have the two hours back that were taken from me by SIX STRING SAMURAI. One of the more obvious and forced attempts at making a "cult" film ever. Sheesh. Worse than being forced to watch Carrot Top do his live act.

This is perhaps not in the exact spirit of this tribe but I hafta say I was never more pissed off at wasting 90 minutes of my life than when I finished watching Open Water.

Howard The Duck ranks. Eeeewwwww, putrid!

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tough call...

eyes wide shut

Actually, I finally got an answer to this question. At first I was going to say "Metal Messiah" [1978] www.imdb.com/title/tt0079549/combined but then I realized that the absolute, truly worst film I had ever seen was "Too Outrageous!" [1987] www.imdb.com/title/tt0094165/combined starring female impersonator Craig Russell. The former film stretches the definition of bad, but at least it has some trashy entertainment value. The Russell film, on the other hand, is strictly for lovers of the morbid - and even most of them will be put off. Craig Russell died not long after this sequel to the quirky but acclaimed Outrageous! [1977]. He went through epic drug addiction, STD, and very public mental breakdowns. Which tends to make the trite & sleazy references to all these things in the screenplay of Too Outrageous that much more unpleasant to be subjected to. If ever there was a film that was NOT for watching, but which is for lying down and avoiding, this is definitely it. Believe it or not, every film (with the exception of those by Meryl Streep) listed in this thread is better than Too Outrageous.

BTW, both "Metal Messiah" and "Too Outrageous" are shining examples of government-funded Canadian cinema.

So very many great BAD movies...did everyone forget Robot Monster? How about The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy? Maybe The Braniac?

Everyone's favorite movie to hate (Plan 9) is so bad, it's good. I love watching it for a laugh and for the pure, unbridled silliness of the dialogue, "acting", sets, etc.

Me, I like bad almost as much as I like good...it's all so subjective.

The Master Gunfighter (1975)
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I saw one recently called "Deviation". It had NO PLOT, and not even the gratuitous nudity could bail it out.

I actually own this one on DVD: www.sexgoremutants.f9.co.uk/necfile.html

ABSOLUTELY the WORST movie ever made. I think I may get the sequel.

BTW:

I use www.eccentric-cinema.com as a reference often. (I have no affiliation). It's brilliant and covers a wide range of B genres.

Warning: Some images on the site are NSFW. Movie title usually gives you a clue.

There was a movie named "A Polish Vampire in Burbank"

The funny thing was they actually hijacked the He Man action set at Universal studios after hours to shoot.

One of the worst films ever made, so bad it doesn't even have an IMDB entry: "Pigs".

Cannibal pigs on a farm. No special effects, no decent acting, in a very low-budget, low quality even on the camera work (as a film school grad, it grated on me). Rented for a club of deliberately bad films, watched mostly on Fast Forward it took 15-20 minutes to watch - and those minutes were still painful.

Uuughhh....My vote is a close tie between:

Manos - Hands of Fate

and

Robot Monster

(Robot Monster is hilarious...because the darned bubble machine gets higher billing than some of the actors!)

i might have to add a few...

'Barn of the Naked Dead'
'HORROR HOUSE ON HIGHWAY 5'
'Microwave Massacre'
'The Newlydeads'

...Ah i got a million of em....

Candy Von Dewd and the Girls from Latexploitia
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You know things have sunk to a new level when it's that painful to sit through a movie that people you know helped make. I nearly died the night I was forced to watch it on the big screen.

Ages ago, when I worked at home, I would rent ANYTHING and have it playing while I worked. This is how I saw "The Star Crystal", which I thought was pretty atrocious.

I know it's supposed to be a cult classic...but "I DISMEMBER MAMA" was one of the biggest pieces of cinematic crap I have ever seen...oh yeah "HICK TREK" was pretty bad as well...

Max the Magician!

Yuck, blah, barf, ugh, puke, etc. etc.

Man this thing has to be the worst low budget unfettered piece of trash in the history of low budget self serving film mangling.

It was made at a faire in maryland and has all the bad makeup, sloppy costumes, cheesy armor and weapons and crud you normally see at the more commercialized faires and on top of it the story and acting are also the worst I have every seen.

This thing couldn't even pass itself off as film made by a first year film student.

Ah, I shall be losing friends at an alarming rate, I uspect.

The last time I reported I this thread, I had rented "The Bells of Innocence", expecting Chuck Norris to hit people a lot, but all I ended up with was a Christian propaganda film (which I was forced to stop twenty minutes in) and a roomful of people, one of whom stood up after we stopped that movie and declared "To get the taste of that out of my brain, I must watch a lot of violence. Or a lot of sex."

But after this weekend, I think i have found my latest "rated POS" movie ever: "Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation"

Holy crapoly! I have never before watched a movie that sucked so bad it actually lifted me from my seat. Three times during the movie, I caught myself saying aloud "Please get better. Please?!" It made Starship Troopers a brilliant act of social commentary by comparision. It took a decent property, and a decent setup and just completely shitcanned it, replacing it with, well, with something really, really awful.

I told my wife I had seen the worst movie ever, and she said "Well, how does it compare with 'War of the Planets'?" which is a valid question.

You might remember my brief review of War of th Planets as a horrible movie made for abought eighteen dollars in what seemed to be the back yard of a Las Vegas edge-of-town house.

I thought about it and I realized that Starship Troopers 2 was, in fact, WORSE than War of the Planets.

War of the Planets had a cheap earnestness to go with it's overall cheapness, and it never tried to outdo its low budget.

Starship Troopers 2, on the other hand, had at least a DECENT pedigree, yet fell so far it made Satan wince when it struck. I mean, movies don't get THAT shitty until #4 or #5. There was nothing even remotely interesting in it from the first movie, no real battle scenes, no real bloodshed. Nothing, really. Even the guns looked hokey and fake and gave off these weird blue blips of light instea of just shooting things.

Footage was recycled from the first movie.

Several scenes were post-treated to blue to make it look different somehow, but as anyone who's ever been aboard a small ship can tell you, blue-dying a turd doesn't make it any tastier.

When it was over, I begged forgiveness of my friends. I promised them we would watch Kill Bill next time.

You don't think 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' was redeemed by Pia Zadora's performance? Pia's breakout film, 'Lonely Lady', is way up there on my list. Harold Robbins, Dino deLaurentis, the Academy Awards, garden hose rape scene, it's got it all. Definitely 'Showgirls'. It's kind of cheating to list low budget or horror films, but while trying not to watch 'Attack of the Vampire Hookers' (featuring John Carradine, the sign of quality) you'll notice that some of the vampires have tan lines.

I've searched up and down this thread for at least one reference to the #1 worst movie of all time and nothing.......
no movie is worse than Leonard Part 6 starring Bill Cosby

*Vivre pour survivre* / *White Fire* (1984) gets my vote. I could never finish watching it.

A few other horrendous movies: *Blood Dolls* (1999), *The Crow: City of Angels* (1996), *Highlander II: The Quickening* (1991) and *Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace* (1999). I saw *Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies* (2001) two days ago, and I cannot say it's the worst movie ever, but it's quite awful even for a zombie flick.

huh. I've seen movies I own on here (Pigs, Cannibal Women of the Avocado Jungle), but I haven't seen some of my other faves:

Forbidden Zone (with the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo...black & white, so bad, it's my all-time favourite movie ever. With a great cast, too--Danny Elfman as the devil, Herve Villechaise aka Tattoo, from Fantasy Island as the Ruler of the Sixth Dimension. It's got Squeezit the Chicken Boy, a human chandelier, a topless princess, and a frog butler name Bust Rod, who humps anyone he can. Oh, and it's a musical) SEE IT. Seriously.
Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter (opening scene, he's attacked by Lesbian Vampire bikers on the beach--gets knocked down, springs back up and beats his chest: "Body of Christ!" he yells, and proceeds to kick ass, kung-fu style)
Sindbad of the Seven Seas (Lou Ferrigno as Sindbad. You may know he had a speech impediment, so they dubbed his voice. Badly. The fact that they dubbed everyone else's didn't make up for that fact. The villain was named Jaffar, like in Disney's Aladdin, and looked just like him--I am convinced that he was the inspiration for Disney's version)
And of course, Andy Warhol's Dracula (Where the Romanians sounded Austrian, the Italians sounded French, except for the one "hero," with a Bronx accent. Lots of gratuitous nudity, too) and even worse, Warhol's Frankenstein (3-D, and so bad I couldn't even sit through more than half an hour)

Alien Private Eye.

No question.

THE THING BELOW. It was worse than the worst SCIFI-CHANNEL "made-for-TV" movie

Geez, I live in Rockville, is it that bad here? Anyway, ya gotta consider really bad B- horror/sci-fi movies of the fifties, before real special effects to see reallly baaad movies. I nominate-"Attack of the Killer Shrews", because the 'shrews' were short-haired trained dogs with long hair attached to their backs, and in the attacking close-ups they had ridiculously long, fake teeth, and they kept wagging their tails as they attacked the victims. At least Santa Claus etc. had a plot!

I don't usually watch movies beyond the 70's, but "Basic Instinct 2" is the worst high budget film I've seen in a long time. And this one is so good it's bad, ~I couldn't turn it off, it was so hilariously awful. It's not bad like The Matrix, where you're just bored & nauseated, ~Basic Instinct 2 is horrible enough to really enjoy.

I think "Manos hand of Fate" should win the dubious distinction of the WORST. MOVIE. EVAR.

"Disco Godfather" w/ Rudy Ray Moore is a pretty awful one :)

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Kung Pao: The Movie (is that what it's called?)
Shark Tale

killjoy, most retarded stupid movie evermade