By Abb Jones
The Reelness

Horror dominates our list of bad movies this year, making up a whopping eight of The 10 Worst Movies of 2024 at The Reelness. Click on the movie titles for the full reviews.

#10 Bob Marley: One Love (Grade: D, Worst Biopic)

Incredible as it may sound, this biopic about reggae superstar and peace activist Bob Marley is so bland and dull that we never get to know the man himself. Kingsley Ben-Adir gets the Jamaican Patois down well enough but his performances are more mimickry than original. Huge disappointment.

#9 Never Let Go (Grade: D)

Halle Berry takes helicopter parenting to new heights as a protective momma bear so convinced that the only way for her and her twin sons to stay safe from an invisible monster is to be tethered to their dilapidated cabin in a remote, wooded, seemingly post-apocalyptic world. When one son accidentally becomes untethered, he starts to wonder if maybe mom is just mentally ill. It’s a silly, nonsensical story that, by its finale, infuriatingly defies even its own logic.

#8 Tarot (Grade: D)

Friends renting a cabin in the Catskill Mountains unleash a demonic entity when they find and start playing with a cursed deck of ancient tarot cards. The silly story and unlikable characters will have you rooting for the demonic entity.

#7 The Deliverance (Grade: D)

Glenn Close’s now infamous one liner aside, this is a ridiculously bad and poorly written tale of demonic possession from writer/director Lee Daniels starring Andra Day, Close and Mo’Nique. He should have excised that terrible screenplay.

#6 Joker: Folie à Deux (Grade: D, Worst Crime Musical)

As the encore for their double Oscar win (Best Actor, Best Original Score) for the 2019 psychological thriller, director Todd Phillips and Joachin Phoenix decided the sequel needed to be a musical, to reveal the inner thoughts of the mentally ill, killer clown. While a bold choice, the bizarre execution comes off as silly and dull. A major miss.

#5 The Exorcism (Grade: D-)

Russell Crowe must have needed some quick cash for agreeing to do this turkey of a possession horror, about an actor portraying a priest in a possession horror movie who – surprise! – becomes possessed. Shoddy visual and audio production make the dull screenplay even worse. A boring exorcism movie – wow.

#4 The Stranger (Grade: D-, Worst Horror)

A rideshare driver (Maika Monroe) becomes panicked after she picks up a rider (Dane DeHaan) who seems to know everything about her. Okay, sounds promising enough but Veema Sud’s film is a sloppy re-edit of her 13-episode series on the now defunct Quibi platform that makes absolutely no sense. Infuriatingly bad.

#3 Atlas (Grade: F, Worst Sci-Fi)

Between the end of her marriage to Ben Affleck and this sci-bomb, 2024 has not been a good year for Jennifer Lopez. This $100 million sci-fi blockbuster is about a data scientist who must check her anti-AI bias and work with AI to find a rogue counterpart trying to kill all humanity. Stupid dialogue, poor acting and silly visuals is all they got for their $100 million.

#2 Trap (Grade: F, Worst Thriller)

M. Night Shyamalan. Need we say more? Josh Hartnett is a serial killer who discovers the big pop concert he is attending with his daughter is an elaborate police trap to capture him. Um, okay. Shyamalan’s daughter Saleka is the pop diva who becomes a major part of the logic-defying story, in one of the most blatant instances of nepotism in recent movie history.

#1 Y2K (Grade: F – Worst Horror/Comedy)

New Year’s Resolution for Hollywood execs – never green light a movie written and directed by former Saturday Night Live cast member Kyle Mooney. This dreadfully bad and unfunny 1990’s period horror/comedy stars Rachel Zegler and Jaeden Martell as high schoolers terrorized by electronic devices that become murderous at the stroke of midnight. If only the Y2K bug had taken out this film.

Dishonorable Mentions: The Front Room, Roadhouse,  He Went That Way, Madame Web, Under Paris, Heaven is For Real, Here, Unfrosted

Make sure to check out our 10 Best Movies of 2024 in a couple of days.