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Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

Ed Wood's Plan 9 was labeled the "Worst Film Ever" by The Golden Turkey Awards. This movie marked the final appearance of Béla Lugosi. Wood idolized Lugosi, and before Lugosi's death, he shot a small amount of test footage of Lugosi.

This was then placed in the movie and repeated several times. Following Lugosi's death, the character was then played by Tom Mason, the chiropractor of Wood's wife at the time, who played his scenes holding the character's cape in front of his face.

Wood was apparently undeterred by the numerous physical differences – such as height and build – that distinguished Mason from Lugosi; e.g., that Mason was nearly bald while Lugosi retained a full head of hair until his death.

It has played at the New Orleans Worst Film Festival and was included in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.

Plan 9 was also mocked on the television series Seinfeld by Jerry in the episode "The Chinese Restaurant," in which he said, "This isn't like plans one through eight. This is plan nine, the one that worked! The worst movie ever made!"

In 1994, Tim Burton directed Ed Wood, which included some material about the trials and tribulations of making Plan 9. In the television series The X-Files, Fox Mulder watches Plan 9 whenever he needs to focus on a difficult problem, claiming that the film is so incredibly bad that it shuts down the logic centers of his brain, allowing him to make intuitive leaps of logic. He has seen the movie 42 times. In the 1996 edition of Cult Flicks and Trash Pics, the authors state that, "The film has become so famous for its own badness that it's now beyond criticism."

Troll 2 (1990)

A movie in which vegetarian goblins try to trick a family into turning in to plants so they can devour them. Despite its title, no trolls ever appear in or mentioned in the movie. The goblins in the movie are midgets wearing burlap sacks and latex masks.

Campy acting, confusing plot twists, and unintentional homosexual innuendos have contributed to give the movie a cult status comparable to Rocky Horror Picture Show. The movie's child star, Michael Stephenson, is working on a documentary about the movie titled "Worst Movie Ever."

The Hottie and the Nottie (2008)

The film, starring socialite Paris Hilton, has been critically lambasted. . IGN gave it a 0 star review, saying "Hottie and the Nottie presents a problem because there are just no words to adequately express how clumsy, trite and deeply offensive it is from start to finish".

Film critic Scott Feinberg reported that a colleague muttered, "Shoot me in the $%&*# face", during a Boston press screening of the film. As of June 21, 2008, the film holds a 1.5 rating at IMDb and is ranked #10 on the Bottom 100. The film was also a commercial flop, grossing only $1,067,710, well below its $9,000,000 budget.

Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

The fourth film in the Jaws series ignores the events of the preceding and more successful Jaws 3-D, and uses a plot involving a shark seemingly plotting to kill the surviving members of the Brody family.

At the end, the shark is heard to "roar" repeatedly (which is biologically impossible) before being hit with a sailboat driven by Sheriff Brody's widow and exploding. Michael Caine is seen freshly plucked from the ocean with his clothes and hair perfectly dry. A studio test screening in

It was nominated for the Worst Picture award in the 1987 Golden Raspberry Awards, and won an award for "Worst Special Effects." Did I mention, the shark "roared?"

Maneater of Hydra (1967)

Several vacationing Americans enjoy the hospitality of the friendly but reclusive Baron von Weser (Cameron Mitchell) on a remote island. Baron von Weser's passion is creating new species of plants. He shows his guests one carnivorous specimen that is large enough to catch mice, perhaps even guinea pigs.

Which makes it all the more strange that the vacationers do not immediately suspect a killer tree when people begin turning up dead under mysterious circumstances and with bizarre wounds. Of course it's a man-eating plant! Well, in this case, a blood-sucking tree.

One thing stands out about this film. Nobody ever just runs away from the tree; they stand there quaking with fear until it finally wraps its branches around them. Simply walking away from the killer tree would have saved you, because it is not mobile. Duh!

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)

This movie was made as a spoof of bad B-movies. It succeeded in becoming one of the worst by itself.

Made on a budget of less than USD$100,000, the story involves tomatoes coming to life by unknown means and revolting against humanity.

A series of attacks perpetrated by tomatoes occur including one where the tomatoes attack innocent swimmers, in a parody of Jaws. Finally the tomatoes are cornered in a stadium where a special song is played over the loudspeaker, causing the tomatoes to shrink and allowing the various people at the stadium to squash them by stomping on them repeatedly.

You’ll need an extra strong bloody mary after watching this one.

Sabretooth (2002)

Okay, so it’s a made for TV movie. What, they can’t be bad too?

Using fossilized DNA, a scientist creates a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger. As the fearsome creature is being transported, it breaks free and begins stalking human prey. It first kills two vacationers, then begins to hunt four youth campers.

Catherine Viciy (Vanessa Angel) the scientist who created it, and her colleague Anthony Bricklin (John Rhys-Davies), call in Thatcher (David Keith), a Big Game Hunter and Tracker, to find the animal. Although Catherine wants it captured alive, Thatcher wants to kill it. He almost gets a shot on it but comes to find that Catherine unloaded his Rifle. He does manage to kill it but only after it kills her. He tricks it into jumping onto a sharpened sapling.

The movie’s dialogue speaks volumes about why it’s on the list. QUOTE "It could be right behind us and we’d never know."

It's right behind her and it eats her.