10 Movie Flops It's Okay To Hate

10. The Wolfman

In the wake of The Mummy (1999) and Van Helsing (2004), Universal attempted to revive another of its classic monsters with The Wolfman, which the studio head later described as “one of the worst movies we ever made.”

The problem is that the basic plot just isn’t blockbuster material. The tragic story of a man being bitten by (and ultimately transforming into) a werewolf worked very well as a 70 minute black-and-white feature back in 1941, but as a 2 hour long long megabucks effects showcase from the director of Jurassic Park III? Not so much.

That explains the over-generous budget ($150 million), but when the film made less than that worldwide the studio was left with egg on its face. We’ll see if they’ve learnt from the experience when their reboot of The Mummy (starring Tom Cruise) opens in June.