I may have said 2025 was a great year for movies, but like always....there are some stinkers. Now remember that I did not see every horrible movie because I dont always look for a terrible movie so movies like Hurry Up Tomorrow, Five Nights At Freddys 2, Regretting You, The Strangers: Chapter 2, Bride Hard, Run, and Playdate are not on this list.
Now time for the dishonorable mentions and considering people liked one of these movies, I may get some backlash for it.
Well, now let's get to the actual list and if you liked any of these films, this is my list so get over it.
In my quest to see all the mystery movies, I watched this one at home (I didnt see it in the theaters because I had a doctor's appointment in Chapel Hill the next day) and I wish I didnt have the curiosity to see this one. In a movie about a guy using the Relay service (used for deaf people) to protect whistleblowers, the acting in this film is pretty lifeless and the plot completely was a clusterfuck. There is a twist in this movie that makes no damn sense and that is the only way this movie stays out of being a boring hour and 52 minute film that forgets that thrillers are supposed to be thrilling. Probably the worst of these Mystery Movie showings.
If you are wondering why The Russo Brothers are returning to make Marvel movies after trying to branch off after Avengers: Endgame, it is because their non-Marvel Movies have been complete crap. In a needlessly more than 2 hour movie that takes place in an alternate 1990s, Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt try to protect exiled robots and find Millie's brother with Stanley Tucci playing the villain. So many good actors are wasted in a movie that tries to have a message in treating people like lower class citizens and the dangers of letting AI do your jobs for you, but it falls flat when you are just checking how long the movie has left.
Man, I really wanted to like this movie about a real estate agent who gets attacked because he also may be a retired assassin. Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose (who also have Oscars for Best Supporting Actor and Actress) have zero chemistry as the supposed couple and they both may need to fire their agents as they have been in nothing good since those films they won Oscars in. The only good character in this whole movie is The Raven aka Roger, who is an assassin who likes poetry. Also terrible in this film is Marshawn Lynch, who probably should stay in the world of football because he just looks ridiculous when he tries to act.
Speaking of films I was looking forward to but completely shitting the bed, here is the movie called Him. Let's get the good out of the way first, Marlon Wayans is fantastic as star QB who is trying to mentor the potential future star QB in with his unorthodox and dangerous methods of making him achieve success. The real problems are a film that tries and fails to be an art film when it did not need to as well as the leading actor who may have been better in the also horrible insulting reboot I Know What You Did Last Summer (which didnt make the list). And the worst part is buried in there could be a good film about the horrors of trying to succeed in professional football.
Until Dawn the video game is a fun video game where you are kind of making a horror movie and your decisions for these characters along with what you do with quick time events decides which of our cast of characters lives or dies. Until Dawn the movie is a generic and uninspired horror movie that completely changes the plot of the game into being stuck in a house and having Groundhog Day rules (how freaking unoriginal at this point) to stay alive or you die in 13 days. None of the main actors in this movie make it worth your time to watch and Peter Stormare tries to make it work as the psychiatrist, but they change so much of his character that he becomes a twist villain for some unknown reason.
A film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Mark Wahlberg and advertised as Mark Wahlberg as a pilot dealing with assassins while piloting a small plane. That was not the film we got and instead we got one assassin with a bald spot who tries to kill a potential FBI witness on a plane. That assassin is actually Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Dockery is actually the person fighting on the plane to protect the FBI witness. May have been false advertising there, but the movie could still be interesting. Then you remember this is a hour and 31 minute movie with most of it on a plane with only one guy trying to kill the witness on this tiny plane and interest goes "bye bye" rather quickly. Ultimately a poorly paced movie with terrible acting and just stupid action scenes.
This was a Robert De Niro passion project that was teased to be made since the 1970s. In it, Robert De Niro has two roles as two mob bosses (who are not related to each other in any way) and that is only the tiniest problem with this movie based on real life events. The biggest problem is that this movie is over two hours and oh boy, does it feel like it goes on for like four hours. The pacing of this film is terrible with so much talking and very little action. The only thing that this movie has is it was released on a terrible weekend and the two other movies it competed with are worse for me. Warner Bros. was the studio that made this movie and as you all now know, Warner Bros. Discovery is now being sold. With shit like this, it's not surprising.
This was a movie I almost considered putting in the GINO Award poll, but much like this movie....I forgot and only remembered it when I was looking at my list. You can see why I forgot as this movie for the most part is completely forgettable other than the fact that this somehow made a one hour and 26 minute movie seem like it was going on forever. It's about a woman who lost her husband from a crash she was also injured in and is now stuck dealing with two kids on her own when all of a sudden, a mysterious woman in black just sits in her yard doing nothing. The main character wants this woman out of the yard and the woman says she will be killing the kids. You may think that could be interesting, but trust me.....it definitely is not as this woman just does supernatural shit while sitting down so yes, we are dealing with the laziest witch out there. Then this also has a twist which would is played out so many times that you just go "blah" when it comes up.
I actually saw the first Den Of Thieves movie and it was just a meh film with a good ending twist. Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera decides to continue the story and it is a slog to get through (at nearly two and a half hours) with no good twist to save it. Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr. try their best in this film, but it does not save the over two hour film with not much action from being just too boring. I actually had to do two sittings to get through this movie at home so I can only imagine how pissed off I would be if I actually saw this movie in the theater. But sadly, they are making a third film because this film made enough money to warrant it it. We really are getting to a point where a lot of these two hour movies can be cut a lot and it would be a more enjoyable time, which sucks because then we are going to hacked to pieces movies that will suck because they arent longer.
Another long ass movie that also had stupid ass demon monsters in this gorge. The only reason this was not on the GINO list was because it was an Apple TV+ exclusive so I think even the people at Skydance knew the piece of garbage they had with this. Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy play two guards of a gorge who fall in love although they are on opposite sides of the gorge. Normally these two could do decent work, but they seem to have no chemistry in this film and I blame the direction for this (heck, both actors knew stuff in the film wouldnt work for them, but they were overruled by the director who should know better as he has made better movies). This was a script that was on the Black List of good scripts for movies that can't be filmed and this one may have needed to stay not filmed.
In 2025, Popeye went into the public domain and of course, there was going to be a horror movie with Popeye being the killer. You may be wondering why I saw only this one and not one of the other two and that's because some asked me to see it. So I saw it at the first chance I could get and while this is not as bad as the first Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honey, it is not as enjoyably bad as the second Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honey. Everyone in this cast is completely unlikable, but at least the kills were kind of interesting and the idea of Popeye having his strength because of mutated spinach was different enough to be okay. Thankfully, it seems from others that the only Popeye horror movie I've seen was the least bad of the three so maybe I should consider myself luck.
This one is very weird in it's messaging as it is after the events of Dracula in an alternative universe, but in this movie it more focuses on there not being vampires and Abraham thinking there are vampires when there isnt, despite the fact that events of Dracula did happen so yes, vampires do exist. In this movie, Abraham Van Helsing and Mina Harker get married (I guess John Harker fucked off somewhere) and had two kids in the American west. Mina dies and some people come to town to try to build a railroad and Van Helsing seems to be against this because of vampires while his kids doubt him, with this film seems to side with the kids. It's a mess of a movie and another movie that is too boring because there are no vampires despite the film basically saying there are vampires because well, its a Dracula film....even though it was after the events of Dracula. God, this movie makes my head spin.
Most times, body horror can be really done, but it can be messed up and unfortunately, Grafted is one of those body horror films that fails. Yes, I know this film was released in New Zealand in 2024, but it was released in the US in 2025. Basically, it is about a girl with a genetic birth defect on their face and neck who has to move in with her aunt after her father tried to experiment with some skin grafting on himself to fix the defect, but it backfires and he dies. Her aunt has a daughter who freaking hates our main character and she is pretty so she has a boyfriend that the main character is attracted to. She eventually finds her dad's notes and is able to make the graft while being able to fix the flaw that killed her father. She of course uses the graft for selfish purposes, kills her cousin and is able to use the graft to make herself look like her cousin. But of course a new flaw forms and shit happens. This movie has great effects, but that it is the only thing this film has so ultimately it feels like a waste. I wanted to like this, but that did not happen.
It's been a while since one of these Indonesian horror films made one of these lists, but we get one thanks to Netflix releasing the Elixer in the US. It's a generic infected zombie and sadly unlike most zombie movies, this is a zombie movie that seems that it may trod into something interesting before turning around and saying, "we're doing something else". Large family has to deal with zombies? Wrong....most of them die. Rain maybe killing these zombies (which would be unique and explain how this would be something that wouldnt be believed by most people)? Nope.....it only just momentarily stops them. Zombies laying siege to a tiny police outpost? No....that ultimately is destroyed and overrun. This movie was so frustrating to watch and just pisses me off with the ways this movie could have been better if they went with an idea and not go away from it as quickly as possible so it could extend the runtime.
Hey, I like pro wrestling and I definitely like horror movies so this should be a match made in heaven for me. Sadly, it was a match made in hell as other than Chris Jericho and Steven Ogg (who I hear is completely nuts in real life), this cast is not that good in any way. We have wrestlers in death matches for a cult in some hopes of raising the devil or making wrestling snuff films for rich clients (this movie can't decide). I sadly watched this film twice (with the second one being on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs) and it did not get better the second time around. This actually almost made the Top 10 worst of 2025, but some last month watching took this out because there were worse than this. But the worst part of this film is it has a cool twist that could make things interesting with a final battle.....and the movie then ends before we even get that final battle. I really hate having a bad movie that maybe could be saved by a twist final battle, but the movie ends before it happens.
I am not a big fan of the Tron series although I can see the great ahead of their times special effects they bring to the forefront as well as the awesome music they always have. Well, they are both here again and the trailers with the idea of the world of Tron coming to the real world to cause havoc was exciting, but what brought everyone to a pause in wanting to see this movie is when you find out box office poison and overall creep Jared Leto was starring in this movie. He once again brings his lack of acting that we are used to seeing which only means he didnt even care about this film and adding to the crapiness is the worst acting I have ever seen from both Evan Peters and Greta Lee (who are much better actors). Ultimately, Tron: Ares is a boring experience and a definite show of how terrible Disney would be in 2025.
Video game movies have come a long way from being the unmitigated trash they used to be, but like Until Dawn this year and Borderlands last year, they dont have a perfect hitting record when it comes to the big screen and nothing justifies that bad reputation that video game movies get than A Minecraft Movie. A hit movie even before it was released, A Minecraft Movie does only the bare basics of movie making and then fills the rest of it up with terrible jokes (many of which have become the most annoying of memes), extremely bad acting, and a horrible story. The level of cringe in this movie gave me a damn headache and I hope to never see this movie again. I swear if you make one of those stupid jokes from this movie, I may give you an expletive in my response.
Dammit, Hollywood......stop making movies with the Smurfs because you have shown so many times that you cannot do it correctly. This time, we add new crap about more wizards, Gargamel having an eviler brother, and a magic book with all of them being completely unnecessary to the world of the Smurfs. We also once again have live action scenes, as if the Smurfs did not learn anything from two previous Smurfs movies with Neil Patrick Harris and Hank Azaria. As far as the Smurfs are concerned, they are voiced by some really bad voice acting led by unfunny guy James Corden (he only worked once as Peter Rabbit and nothing else) and Rihanna (who hasnt had a good acting role yet but because she is a big time singer, she still gets acting gigs). But this movie will do the meme of replacing a naughty word by saying Smurf instead so much that it leaves you shaking your head.
How the hell do you waste a movie with Brian Cox, Edie Falco, Dean Norris, Lisa Kudrow, and Parker Posey? Well, make it a very disgusting toilet humor and insulting gay jokes movie and add some horrible haunted house story in all of it. A gay couple invites both their parents to a house they rented for summer to announce that they are getting married, but that never comes out because of course, the house is haunted. While watching AEW Dynamite, you were plagued by Max trying to sale you on this movie with multiple trailers that look bad, so of course I had to see how bad it was and it was worse than the trailers made you believe. Not once did I laugh at this supposed horror comedy and more times than once did I feel sick with what I was watching.
Hey, you remember when I said the only saving grace of The Alto Knights was there were two movies worse than it that were released to theaters that same weekend? Well, this is one of those two, but not the worst of the three. A poster that makes the movie look like we are dealing with John Carpenter's The Thing, but instead we have to follow one woman in a lone space ship with occasional appearances from Aaron Paul and confusing shit about how she became the only member left on this ship. Yeah, there are aliens (kind of) and there are CG effects that arent good, but for most of this you have to deal with a very boring slow pace of a movie with a main character that sadly is bland.
And this was the worst in my opinion of the three movies that were released on that one crappy weekend. Disney continues it's terrible trend of trying to remake their hit animated films into live action trash. Now first, I wish to say that Rachel Zegler is fine as Snow White and I don't care for all the racist shit about her being cast as Snow White, although he ways of promoting this film were like how the four stars promoted 2016's Ghostbusters so she should have not been surprised when this film bombed because you don't do that. However, this movie didn't even have a chance with a bad script that changes so much from the Snow White tale, the whole Seven Dwarfs nightmare casting that ultimately led us to having CGI abominations being them, and the shit acting and singing of one Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen. Disney, you deserve the terrible 2025 you got with this shit and until you get your act together, I hope you keep having terrible box office numbers.
The Poohniverse (now known as the Twisted Childhood Universe) gives us a new horror version of Peter Pan that makes me want to go back to the world of Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honey 2 (still keep me far away from the first film). In this film, a guy named Peter Pan is taking kids away and maybe killing them so they can "go to Neverland". Also in this movie, we get shitty versions of Wendy Darling, Tinkerbell, and Captain Hook. Oh there is also a version of Tiger Lily, but Tiger Lily gets obviously killed in a wasted role that makes you completely numb to what happens. This movie really once again tries to play fast and loose with the Peter Pan story to the point that it makes you beg not to see a continuation of this Peter Pan story, but you already know that it is in vain because this evil Peter Pan will be teaming with Pooh soon in that Poohniverse film that is coming out.
This was my original Worst Movie of 2025 as its a film with an interesting contest of cops that are clones being on a game show where they kill criminals. This movie isn't funny in any way and it feels really painful the longer I watched it. The twists are ridiculously stupid and nonsensical as they really want you to feel bad for the so called criminals. This movie made cheap makes me realize that sometimes even the cheap movies can make something truly horrendous and no amount of trying your hardest can change that fact.
I knew this movie was going to be crap as soon as I saw Paul W.S. Anderson's name on the film and it having Milla Jovovich in a big hero role. This movie continues the tradition of if a big movie has Milla Jovavich in it, it is going to bomb in many ways. Even the acting of Dave Bautista and ideas from George R.R. Martin can't save us from a boring Sci-Fi Western retread that is way too long for its own good. This movie is also so very drab and lifeless with its color that you just feel depressed about the time you wasted watching this film. This was also the most pissed off I felt after watching a movie in 2025 and the only reason it is not #1 is because it was technically better made and better acted.
Now I do not like making the obvious worst movie of 2025 the #1 Worst Movie on my list, but after you see it, there really could not be anything else. This movie was made for the worst reasons as a test to see if they can make epic movies that you won't want to miss in theaters for the cheapest amount possible. It also has horrible acting from everyone who were obviously filmed when they were stuck on lockdown during the pandemic of 2020 (more so Ice Cube who never really leaves his house and reads dialogue from an obvious script). The effects of the aliens are some of the worst out there and may make even the folks at The Asylum laugh their asses off with how bad they are. Add political shit about data and being a rebel against the government along with Amazon really saving the day from aliens and you have a piece of trash that will be considered one of the worst movies of all time for years to come. H.G. Wells would would be rolling in his grave if he knew that his great novel was used to adapt this piece of shit.
So that is my worst of the year and I guess it is time for me to reveal the first film to be inducted in 2026, which is the film you all voted for the worst of 2025. Now for a long time, a different film was winning and I was shrugging my shoulders with that film, but a day and a half before the poll closed, another film took the top spot and kept it. That film of course was one of the worst films I saw in 2025 and a film that I may hate inducting because it sucks, but it is one that makes more sense.
Prepare For Plenty Of Shit To Be Unloaded Upon, Disney
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