14 Terrible Recent Movies Destined To Become Cult Classics

2. The Book Of Henry

The Book Of Henry Jacob Tremblay
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Why It's Terrible: Jurassic World's Colin Trevorrow has left everyone worried about the fate of Star Wars Episode IX after unfurling this outrageously tone-deaf drama that piles on too many perverse twists for its own good, while wasting a hugely talented cast in the process (especially Naomi Watts).

Why It'll Be A Cult Classic: Simply put, this film is like a bats*** crazy satire of an art-house, Oscar-baiting drama, taken to the nth degree of insanity by a team of writers, actors and producers who were too close to the project to see exactly how rancid it was from a tonal perspective.

To that end, the movie is both unexpectedly hilarious in all the wrong places and one of the year's most unforgettable dramas (that's "dramas"), having earned well-founded comparisons to Tommy Wiseau's wonky, off-kilter epic The Room.

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