When you’re a Mutant Reviewer, you dig through a lot of garbage to find cult gems! Today, we asked the team to share the worst movies we saw over this past year:

Justin: Without a doubt, the answer to this is Foodfight. This was “bad” in every sense of the term, from atrocious animation design to horrible puns to uncomfortable innuendo to actors who may not have known that they were being recorded at the time. I can’t say if this is the worst animated flick I’ve ever seen, but it’s an easy Top Five entry. Just weird and awful nightmare fuel full of bizarre corporate branding. You’ll never watch anything like it. And you’ll be thankful for that.

Sitting Duck: Worst movie in the sense that I was disappointed is The Pyrates. As I said in my review, there was never any hope of it doing justice to George MacDonald Fraser’s brilliant good-natured send-up of old-school pirate movies. I grudgingly accepted that there was only so much a BBC TV movie could hope to accomplish. Even so, it found unexpected ways to fail, most notably in the half-hearted acting.

Worst movie in the sense that the filmmakers made a rash decision that proved unwise is Demons of the Mind. Apparently, the original intention was that the supernatural threat would be revealed during the climax as werewolves. However, the suits at Hammer got jittery about this, as the studio’s prior attempts at werewolf movies had fared poorly. So the threat was altered to something that wasn’t werewolves. On the off chance any of you want to try watching it yourself, I won’t spoil it. Just know that it was incredibly stupid, and not even Virginia Wetherell’s extended nude scene made it worth sitting through.

Worst movie in the “Dear Gawd, this is boring!” sense is The Legend of Spider Forest (listed on Tubi as Venom, no, not that one). That title makes it sound like it should be pretty awesome. And the plot capsule on IMDB which states, “A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a “spider goddess” attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom,” would make it seem even more so. But it has the pacing of a one-legged tortoise on a February morning, with a whole lot of nothing going on. And if it weren’t for said plot capsule, I’m not sure I would have been able to figure out that the Big Bad was supposed to be a Nazi scientist.

Drake: This is probably a bad question to ask me, since it forces me to scan my reviews over the past six months or so, and that inevitably leads to me asking myself, “Just what is wrong with you? Why do you watch so many truly awful movies?”

Sure, there’s that sweet payoff of internet fame* that comes with my ever-expanding hoard of bad movie reviews, but is that really worth my sanity? Is it worth teetering on the edge of a total mental breakdown just to bring my meanderings on some truly wretched cinema to a good half-dozen readers** on a weekly basis?

Oh. Well, that answers that, then.

But then I asked myself if Justin meant the worst movie of this year so far, meaning just 2026, or the past 365 days. And I was going to go into his office and ask, but he had just opened up a package that got delivered, and was happily waving around the contents of said package. And since those contents happened to be a “New & Improved Mutant Thwack Stick 2.0! Now Electrified!”, I just decided to duck out of the Mutant Offices early and take my chances.

Which finally brings us to the worst movie bit of this article, and that should be obvious to everyone: Vice Academy 3. And, look, there was some serious competition for this one (I’m looking at you, Robot Ninja), but considering that this was director Rick Sloane’s third time at bat with this series of stupendously bad jiggle flicks, the fact that he struck out yet again is noteworthy in and of itself. Because, sure, anyone can make a bad movie. It happens. And you hope that those involved either learn and grow from the experience, or maybe take up another career altogether.

Instead, Sloane just kept getting worse and pumping out one bad flick after another, and by Vice Academy 3 any microbe of novelty that the concept may have had has long been worn into the ground. And of course there’s the very real possibility that Vice Academys 4-6 are even worse. In fact, that’s a probable assumption based on the direction the series is going in as of the third flick.

But those are the subject of a future “Worst Movie” Roundtable, and hopefully the answer given by a Mutant that’s not me.

*Which, granted, exists only in my own mind.

**More or less. Probably less.

ZombieDog: The worst movie is seen in the past year is without a doubt, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. I didn’t hate it because it was awful, I hated it because it was mediocre.

When I first saw the trailer, I was instantly interested. It looked quirky and weird, and I thought finally were going to get something truly unique.  I waited for the film to be released like a child waits for Christmas. The day finally came and in order to say I was disappointed, I just felt let down. It feels like somebody came in and pitched an awesome idea and then watered down that idea every chance they got. What was left was nothing special, and that’s why I hated it.

I’m just going to say it: I can’t wait for AI. I can’t wait for all those people out there who have ideas and the passion to express them. I’m sure the majority of it will be crap, however I have a funny feeling that were about to see a burst and creativity the likes of which we’ve never seen. A Renaissance, if you will, of film.

The real problem here is that the movie industry will be the ones to blame for their downfall. If you want to make art, then you have to take the chance to offend somebody. So what! There has to be a desire to push further than to just play it safe. When I first saw the trailer for this movie I thought it could be something cool like 1985’s Brazil.

A completely totally creative movie that pushed the boundary of everything that had come before. Terry Gilliam, the writer and director of Brazil and a Monty Python alumni, truly created a harsh vision of a totalitarian society. Even more than that, it was filled with beautiful imagery in outstanding cinematography. It isn’t like we don’t have movies in the history of film that you could use as a guideline and how to bring something new and unique to the public.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is the worst movie I’ve seen in the past year not because it sucks, but because it just put in the least amount of effort. Try harder people, take a chance and give us a challenge as film viewers, I think we’ll surprise you.