10. Project X
Many have said good things about this teenage flick directed by Todd Phillips, but for me it proved a tasteless and unseemly production that, at it's best, was like American Pie without the soul. Teenage party goers will lap it up, but the fact is it's a soulless and often mean-spirited party movie that misses the mark with a lot of it's humour, with overly zany and forced gross out gags relied upon throughout, while the acting is often flat. Unlike many high-school movies, there are no lessons, just moral ambiguity as the party rolls on in a cynical attempt at box office success.
9. Red Lights
Another film that veers confusingly from tone to tone with a bewildering ease, Red Lights sees Robert De Niro weirdly cast as a supernatural mogul who levitates and does other weird stuff. it's weird. The film goes for supernatural thriller with plenty of attempted shocks, but it's poor handling spills into an almost humorous caper with an absolute abhorant third act that destroys the possibility of this film avoiding lists just like these. The plot is fairly preposterous throughout but really spirals into..well, general awfulness at the end, and while the film tries to exist in the real world it's over-the-top shocks and sluggishly handled twists make it all too ridiculous, and it's hard to see the magic, let alone believe in it.