13 Upcoming Movies That Could Score 0% On Rotten Tomatoes

Though Oscar season will be ramping up in the coming weeks, not every movie hitting cinemas over the next few months is going to be an awards-friendly hit. In fact, regular multiplex fare is generally pretty poor around this time of the year, and there's no reason to believe that 2014 will be any different. Most of said movies will suffer through poor reviews from critics, make their money, and then move on, but what about those movies that are so bad they can't find a single critic to like them? This would grant said film access to the "0% Club" on Rotten Tomatoes, a group of critically-savaged films including recent duds such as the dire Eddie Murphy vehicle A Thousand Words, Keith Lemon: The Film and Fred: The Movie. Earning a 0% on the website is pretty much as difficult as scoring a 100%, because making a film that not a single critic enjoys cannot simply be done on purpose: it has to prove so offensive to taste and counter-intuitive to logic that it's somehow even worse than Battlefield Earth (which incredulously holds 3%). That's right, these 13 movies have the potential to be worse than that, to score not a single critic in their favour, yet as they say, time will tell.

13. Annabelle

The Pitch: Remember that creepy doll Annabelle from last year's horror smash hit The Conjuring? She's got her own movie, a horror yarn based on another case investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga's characters from The Conjuring, who unsurprisingly don't appear here). Why It Could Score 0%: Because it's about as perfunctory and needlessly money-grabbing as horror movies get. Yes, that doll is super-creepy, but does it really warrant its own film? Why not just save it for The Conjuring 2? The trailers shown so far do little to dissuade that Annabelle is going to be everything that critics hate in a horror movie: tame, stupid, and having little reason to actually exist. Furthermore, the idea of a doll running around killing people is undeniably silly, yet the movie seems to be taking itself dead-seriously, which is always a bad idea. Release Date: October 3rd (US), October 10th (UK)