10 Terrible Movies That Still Managed To Break The Box Office

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 29%

Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series arrived at the perfect time, intersecting with the emo and scene movement and evoking the PG fantasies of high-school girls the world over via the glittery, love-struck vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen. Sexy, sultry vampires were in, and true creatures of the night could go begging.

Of course, adaptations were big money in the late noughties, and 2008's Twilight put Robert Pattinson's face to Edward's name, making the collective fantasy all the more real. The film wasn't Shakespeare, but it had some indie credentials that included having Catherine Hardwicke behind the lens, and it did serious numbers.

Unfortunately for everyone, the next novel to be adapted - New Moon - was essentially money-spinning filler that treaded water and introduced some necessary additional characters before the more serious business of subsequent releases got underway. Perhaps recognising this, Hardwicke jumped ship, and The Golden Compass's Chris Weitz steered the film into a creative iceberg, producing one of the most lacklustre sequels ever committed to celluloid.

The $50 million budget was primarily used to make the film aesthetically pleasing, without consideration for the plot. Despite this, teens and tweens piled in with $711 million of their parents hard-earned dollars and made it an overwhelming success.