10 Films That Are As Bad As You've Heard

8. As Above So Below

Hitman Agent 47
Universal Pictures

You’ve got to have a Found Footage movie on a list like this, so why not the one where a Lara Croft lookalike leads her cameraman on an increasingly silly adventure?

Scarlett Marlowe (Perdita Weeks) looks like a model, has a black belt in Karate and speaks with a plummy English accent, so any resemblance to Lara is purely intentional, but you’d never see Angelina Jolie walk past a sign that reads Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here without a good reason. Naturally, her group ventures into the catacombs. Naturally, there are weird people down there. They get lost. They argue etc etc.

At this point, the viewer starts wondering, “What can happen that The Blair Witch Project, Grave Encounters, Rec, The Frankenstein Theory, Willow Creek, Evil Things, The Sacrament, Devil’s Pass, Greystone Park et al haven’t done already?” Well, nothing. The tour guide says things like, “People who go in there, they don’t come out!” A phone rings and Scarlett’s dead father says, “Why won’t you talk to me?” And so on.

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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.'