10 Excruciatingly Bad Films You Should Die Before You See

1. Birdemic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-y53CRSF9Q

Released in 2010, Birdemic came to the attention of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fans for its laughably cheap effects, bad acting and corny storyline, which might be entertaining if watched with an audience, but anyone who’s ever sat through this turkey on their lonesome will see things differently.

Half the movie is given over to boring melodrama - will yuppie Rod score with Victoria’s Secret model Natalie or will she walk away? He does, of course, and they suddenly find their small town overrun by crappy digital birds created in 5 minutes on the director’s laptop. 

Clearly inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (Tippi Hedren is seen on a TV at one point), writer/director James Nguyen has instead created a movie that ranks with the worst films ever shown on MST3K – it’s cheap, sluggish and coma-inducingly awful. Birdemic doesn't just suck, it sucks all the air out of the room.

Contributor

Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'