10 Best 'Worst' Movies Of 2017 (So Far)

If Hollywood decides to make Scary Movie VI, there’s plenty to lampoon in Rings, which has a real shot at being the year’s most needless sequel. If it doesn’t turn out to be the year’s dumbest, most soulless and unintentionally funny horror film, then we all have a lot of dross to wade through in the near future.

The opening is basically a Scary Movie scene played dead straight: on a late night flight, a woman tries to calm a fellow passenger who starts telling her about “that videotape that kills you after you watch it” (what is this, 1998?) Curiously for a young fellow, he somehow managed to find a VCR and watched the tape, which means he has seven days to live and his time runs out right now.

Faster than you can say, “What a hokey opening!”, images from the videotape start playing on the cockpit screens while black sludge mysteriously seeps from under the cabin door, and then… well, then the narrative jumps forward two years for an odd story about Professor Johnny Galecki, who’s started some kind of cult to protect himself from the videotape curse.