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 Top 10 Worst Movies ever        
   Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966): where are the credits?!     This is a no-budget horror film made by an El Paso, Texas fertilizer  salesman. It is famous for having an opening nine-minute sequence in  which nothing happens but endless driving through the countryside, due to someone forgetting to add in the credits!.
  The film gained cult popularity by being featured on the Mystery Science  Theater 3000 television show. It was the #1 movie on the IMDb Bottom  100 for a long time since the list was first created. Filmmaker Quentin  Tarantino owns a rare 35 mm copy of the film, and has stated that it is his favorite "comedy."
 Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956): almost starring Bela Lugosi     The film is introduced and narrated by television psychic The Amazing  Criswell, and involves aliens who attempt to conquer the Earth by  resurrecting corpses from a cemetery. The aliens have divined that the  human race will soon develop the ultimate weapon: a "solaranite bomb"  (or "solarbonite") that can "explode the particles of sunlight" and  ultimately destroy the universe. They have attempted eight times to  persuade humanity not to build the bomb, but find themselves unable to  even get humanity's attention. "Plan 9", their plan to resurrect the  dead, is their final, desperate attempt. Unbelievably, this is all  claimed to be based on sworn testimony, even though Criswell says it  takes place in the future.  
  Produced and directed by Ed Wood, the movie is widely regarded as a  leading candidate for the title of "worst movie ever made", the film is  infamous for "almost starring" Bela Lugosi, since the scenes featuring  Lugosi were not shot with this film in mind at all.  
      
 Anus Magillicutty (2003): the anti-movie that anti-matters     The film focuses on the character Anus, who is obsessed with alcohol and  sex. The story involves Anus' efforts to hide a dead body. Eventually,  however, Anus also has a run-in with Satan. As Anus explains to his  brother, "Remember that contract we had with Satan? To make us  beautiful? ...I think he's come to collect."  
  In late 2005 and early 2006, it ranked number 1 on the Internet Movie  Database bottom 100 list, meaning that it received the lowest scores  among people evaluating films in the site's extensive database. A critic  from the State Press Magazine considers this to be the worst film  ever,[1] although the film was actually marketed that way, with the  State Press quote appearing on the poster. Anus Magillicutty was  directed by Morey Fineburgh, and although written by Abraham Fineburgh,  there was allegedly no real screenplay. 
      
 Gigli (2003): The end of Bennyfer     Originally a very dark comedy with no romantic subplot, the producers  demanded script rewrites throughout filming. Some reviewers dubbed the  film "The ultimate turkey of all time", referring to Lopez's character's  sex talk to Affleck's character inviting him to commit an act of oral  sex: "It's turkey time." "What?" "Gobble, gobble."  
  The Times newspaper gave the movie the rating below their lowest  possible score of 0 stars, the only movie to recieve this score. This  film is also said to have been a factor in the break-up of the  engagement between its two stars. Winner of 7 Razzies (including 2005's  Worst "Comedy" of Our First 25 Years). In addition Ben Affleck mocked  the film on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show.  
      
 Monster A Go Go (1965): No continuity, incomprehensible non-ending     The plot concerns an American astronaut who mysteriously disappears from  his spacecraft as it parachutes to Earth. The vanished astronaut is  apparently replaced by and/or turned into a large, radioactive, humanoid  monster. A team of scientists and military men attempt to capture the  monster--and at one point succeed, only to have him escape again  (however, both the capture and the escape are never shown, with only the  narrator revealing this to us).  
  Monster A Go-Go has an unusual, perhaps even unique, production history.  Director Bill Rebane ran out of money while making the film. Lewis, who  needed a second film to show with his own feature, Moonshine Mountain,  bought the film, added a few extra scenes and some dialogue, and then  released it, creating an odd, disjointed film with little continuity.  The film is infamous among those who have seen it for its  incomprehensible "non-ending." 
      
 Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002): even the game was better     Starring Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas, the film was universally panned  by critics and is believed to have no redeeming features (not even the  comedy value normally associated with bad films). It is often listed  among the worst movies ever made. Financially, the film was a box office  failure, grossing just over $14 million compared to its $70 million  budget. Liu and Banderas play opposing secret agents who are supposedly  enemies, but rather than fighting each other they end up teaming up to  take down the megalomaniacal director of the NSA.  
  A Game Boy Advance first-person shooter, Ecks vs. Sever, was based on a  very old version of the movie's script and, storywise, is almost nothing  like the film. It was released before the movie. A version after the  movie's release, considered a sequel to the game but which followed the  movie, was considered an impressive technological feat on the GBA and  was much better accepted than the movie itself. 
 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964): martians kidnap Santa Claus     Momar ("Mom Martian") and Kimar ("King Martian") are worried that their martian children are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KIDD's interview with Santa Claus in his workshop at the North Pole. So Martian leaders decide to kidnap Santa Claus from Earth and bring him to Mars to make toys for the children of their planet.   
  Famous in the "so bad it's good"-category, it has been featured on  Mystery Science Theater 3000 and holds a spot in IMDb's worst 100. Also  cited on a 10-worst list in The Book of Lists, The Fifty Worst Films of  All Time, and the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.  Features an early screen appearance by 1980s film icon Pia Zadora. The Canadian TV channel "Space: The Imagination Station" airs this bomb every Christmas as a salute to bad sci-fi. 
      
 From Justin to Kelly (2003): From Theater To Video      The movie features Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, the winner and  runner-up of the first series of American Idol, respectively. Texan  singing waitress Kelly Taylor (played by Clarkson) meets Pennsylvania  college student Justin Bell (played by Guarini), they fall for each  other, and then spend the rest of the movie trying to get together.  
  The critics began mercilessly deriding the movie upon news of its  making, and the movie was the box office bomb they predicted despite its  association with the popular television show. In an interesting twist,  theater chains threatened not to show it at all when distributor 20th  Century Fox—anticipating a theatrical flop. On the Internet Movie  Database website the film is currently the worst movie ever made. Other  listing systems also rate it among the worst movies ever made. Craig  Kilborn gave it a short and devastating review one day after its  release, with the words: "Here's the movie: From Justin To Kelly. Here's  my review: From Theater To Video".  The film's choreography was  considered so bad that a special Golden Raspberry "Governor's Award" was  created just so From Justin to Kelly could win it. 
      
 An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997): directed by Alan Smithee     In the film, an editor by the name of Alan Smithee (played by Eric Idle)  has been allowed to direct Trio, a big-budget action film starring  Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jackie Chan. However, the  studio recuts the film, and when Smithee sees the results (which he  describes as being "worse than Showgirls") and realises that he cannot  use a pseudonym (because the only one allowed is "Alan Smithee") he  steals the film and goes on the run, threatening to burn it.  
  The film was written (and produced, though he wasn't credited for it) by  Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Arthur Hiller. However, Hiller objected  to the way Eszterhas recut the film. So, as a result, in one of  Hollywood's greatest ironies, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn  is officially directed by Alan Smithee. The movie was regarded as  one of the worst films of all time, and managed to win five awards  (including Worst Picture) at the 1998 Golden Raspberry Awards. The film  grossed $45,000, which, accounting for inflation, is less than Plan 9  from Outer Space made during its release. 
      
 Batman & Robin (1997): or how Batman became gay     The fourth installment of the Warner Bros. franchise that began with  1989's Batman and the lowest-grossing of the film series. This film is  often billed as the worst superhero movie of all time, even to the point  that star George Clooney said he would refund people's money if they  stopped him on the street and said they had paid to see it.  
  In an interview with Barbara Walters, Clooney claims he played Batman gay.  The director Joel Schumacher also reputedly admits to not being proud  of this film (to the point where he flat-out apologizes for the film,  according to his commentary on the 2005 Special Edition DVD set),  despite earlier statements to the contrary.  
  Batman & Robin earned the nickname "Batman on Ice" for a scene in  which the titular heroes both inexplicably have retractable skate blades  hidden inside their boots. The film was mocked for the poor script,  over-extending the campy attitude of the previous installment Batman  Forever, the poor casting of other "big-name" stars Uma Thurman and  Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the addition of a poorly portrayed Batgirl,  played by Alicia Silverstone. Likely due to the film's poor reception,  no more Batman movies were made for nearly eight years.   | 
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