Yahoo News 13 most embarrassingly terrible movies on Netflix
We love Netflix but, um, sometimes it can kind of feel like it's full of crap.
It's not, of course – there are some absolute gems to be found, like these rom-coms or these horror movies. There's also some absolutely, brilliantly, terrible dross in the best bottom-shelf-of-the-video-store tradition.
Planning a bad movie night? Want to know what to avoid? Desperate for a movie about a giant sexy snake woman? If any of these things apply to you, head on in.
1. Hot Bot (2016)
Two nerdy teenage boys rescue a life-like sex bot from a pervy senator in this bizarre low-rent Weird Science throwback from directors The Polish Brothers, Cynthia Kirchner from The Bold and The Beautiful. Really makes us miss Weird Science.
2. Undercover Grandpa (2016)
James Caan stars in this terrible family version of The Expendables, where an old fellow who claims he invented Kentucky Fried Kitchen rounds up his former CIA pals to foil the kidnapping of his grandson's girlfriends. James Caan was in The Godfather, you know.
3. Hisss (2010)
Directed by Jennifer (daughter of David) Lynch this US/Bollywood co-production follows a shapeshifting snake-woman who turns into an avenging angel for wronged women in pursuit of her male snake lover, aided by policeman Irrfan Khan. The FX are terrible, the script is incoherent, but this is still madly watchable in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way.
4. Alienator (1990)
Filmed predominantly outside an old shack, this 'semi-remake' of The Astounding She-Monster never did get its intended cinema release. We wonder why...
5. Reclaim (2014)
Not actually a romance about taking the wrong black suitcase home and falling in love with its owner. John Cusack and Ryan Phillippe's 0%-on-Rotten-Tomatoes thriller centres around a couple who adopt a child from an adoption agency called – and we're not joking – the IRA. What could possibly go wrong? Oh – everything.
6. Maximum Ride (2016)
Based on James Patterson's softcore-porn young-adult series of novels, the film follows the adventures of some teenage experiment subjects who can fly because they are half-bird. The film's heroine is actually called Maximum 'Max' Ride, because irony is dead.
7. Alien Abduction (2014)
Camping trip, young people, found footage, based on a true story, some sort of Alien Abduction, good grief make it end.
8. America 3000 (1986)
In the year 3000, America still exists, believe it or not, and it's ruled over by a society of brutal warrior women called 'Fraus'. #TimesUp indeed.
9. Ghoulies (1985)
B-movie cash-in which makes Critters look like Gremlins, where a boy messes with his dead dad's stuff to impress his mates at a party and instead unleashes hordes of goopy demons. It's now consider a 'cult classic'. But then so is Troll 2...
10. Troll 2
Considered by many to be the worst movie ever made (back of The Room!) this clunky, funky B-movie is neither a sequel nor contains any trolls, and that is just scratching the service of its awfulness. It did spawn the glorious documentary Best Worst Movie however – it's okay, it still makes sense even if you haven't seen the movie.
11. Nazi Vengeance (2014)
When a journalist undergoes regression therapy and realises that he is being stalked by a mysterious and vengeful presence because he was a Nazi in a past life, one must ask the question: "Can a person be held responsible for their actions before they were reincarnated?" Just kidding, it's: "Who cares?"
12. The Do-Over (2016)
The second of Adam Sandler's interminable four-film deal with Netflix, the 'Do-Over' of the title is not an attempt to atone for his past cinema sins and christen a new era of high-quality comedy. No, it's about a couple of d-bags who steal the identities of two murdered men. LOL.
13. Naked (2017)
Topping the list of 'Worst Netflix Originals' is this rom-com starring Marlon Wayans. It's Groundhog Day, only he's naked!
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