10 Upcoming Netflix Movies That Are Probably Going To Suck
5. Brain On Fire
Release Date: 2018
Watch the trailer for Brain on Fire. Please, just take a few minutes to watch it.
How on Earth did a film trailer wind up being quite that bad in the year 2017? Everything about this adaptation screams "parody!" and yet this is supposedly a legitimate motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz. She plays one Susannah Cahalan, a New York Times reporter who starts to suffer from a bunch of weird symptoms and is later diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease.
Based on the memoir of the same name by the real Cahalan, it looks as though everything in this film has gone about as wrong as it possibly can. The fact that Moretz - only twenty years old - is playing a New York Times reporter aside, the overall tone of the trailer depicts a kind of hyper-sincere, saccharine hell that resembles real life in zero ways. The trailer actually looks like a fake trailer.
Unlike the majority of the films on this list of potential duds, we actually have some confirmation that this one is a waste of time and space before it's unveiled on Netflix: those critics who were unlucky enough to see Brain on Fire at the Toronto Film Festival awarded it a measly Rotten Tomatoes score of just 22%.
One big question remains, however: why did Netflix agree to distribute this movie on their platform when so many critics deemed it to be rubbish?