10 Criminally Low IMDb Movie Ratings You Won’t Believe

9. Kill List

IMDb Rating: 6.3

There should be no surprise at all that Kill List doesn't score all that highly on IMDb. Ben Wheatley's second film is one of the most utterly divisive films of recent years, polarising viewers in the starkest way possible; you either find it a darkly brilliant horror or a misguidedly disgusting drama, with little room for negotiation in between.

If a film splits the audience, the best it can really hope for is a rating like Kill List's 6.3 - every scoring of 10/10 will be offset by those actually angered by its pitch black ending giving it 1/10 and lamenting "I'd give it zero if I could." But while that rationalises why such a great film sits so low, it doesn't really excuse it.

The end-of-second-act divergence from low-key crime drama into harrowing cult thriller may have proved too shocking and disgusting for many, but that is very much the central part of Wheatley's genius. It's a film that benefits from further exploration, the motives of various characters becoming clearer and that ever-present sense of unease given sickening justification upon rewatch, which leaves the door open for a widespread reappraisal by the film's detractors down the line, assuming they can stomach another viewing.