12 Worst Movie Performances Of 2018 (So Far)

7. Helen Mirren (Winchester)

Helen Mirren is one of the finest actors of her generation and so rarely gives a bad performance that she ends up being the saving grace of many a terrible movie.

Sadly that isn't the case at all in her dreadfully dull low-budget horror film Winchester. Mirren plays Sarah Winchester, the widow of the famed Winchester gunmaker who finds herself being haunted by the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles.

It's not a terrible premise for a horror movie by any means, and Mirren seems well-cast...except for the fact that she can't do a southern American drawl to save her life.

Mirren's attempt at a deep south accent is painfully distracting every time she opens her mouth, and a rare genuinely bad performance from an actress who spends a good deal of her time classing-up movies that don't deserve her. This one hurts.