by Abb Jones
The Reelness

A special congrats goes to actor Josh Hartnett, who has had the distinction of being in the worst film of 2025, just a year after he starred in the second worst film of 2024. (Josh, for the love of God, please get a new agent.)

As usual, horror and comedy dominate this year’s list, with a sci-fi flick and erotic drama even making their way in. Here’s The Reelness’ 10 Worst Movies of 2025. (Click on the titles for our entire review.)

#10: Havoc: D+

Even the normally on point Tom Hardy couldn’t save this brainless crime thriller, about a formerly corrupt cop who tries to make amends and clean up his act. Silly, nonstop action sequences fail to make up for a barely there story and a set that looks like a Temu version of Gotham City.

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#9: Witchboard:  D+

Scream queen Madison Iseman is the only bright spot in this terrible remake of the equally terrible 1986 horror/thriller about a cursed pendulum board that summons evil spirits. This unintentionally hilarious horror showcases some ridiculously bad acting. Just bring back the original starring the late Whitesnake music video vixen Tawny Kitaen, already.

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#8: Honey Don’t:  D

Filmmaker Ethan Coen, the younger half of the Oscar-winning Coen brothers (Fargo), trots out a not-so-funny crime comedy that he wrote with his lesbian wife about a lesbian detective (Margaret Qualley) investigating a whodunit while juggling a romantic interest with the town police officer (Aubrey Plaza). It is poorly written, predictable, excessively violent and contains undeveloped, one-note characters. Terrible.

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#7: Ash: D (Worst Sci-Fi)

This feature film debut from music producer/rapper Flying Lotus is a cheap, visually trippy hodgepodge of way better sci-fi/thrillers with more compelling stories, better sets, and more convincing actors (sorry Eiza Gonzales, this means you). How Flying Lotus managed to make a film that is both profoundly boring and tedious is quite a feat.

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#6: The Parenting: D

A gay couple’s plans to introduce their parents to one another at a weekend cabin getaway goes awry when a poltergeist is accidentally summoned, in this feeble, unfunny supernatural comedy that apparently sought to be a mashup of Meet the Fockers and Evil Dead. The big-name supporting cast – Edie Falco, Lisa Kudrow, Brian Cox and Parker Posey – often seems lost with little to do as the lame film never finds the right balance between horror and comedy.

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#5. Coyotes: D

Real-life couple Kate Bosworth and Justin Long star in this strange horror/comedy about a family terrorized by killer coyotes during a power outage at their home in the Hollywood Hills. Piss poor CGI, loathsome characters and corny humor that fails to land all help make this creature feature a total stinker.

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#4. Vicious:  D- (Worst Horror)

While her younger sis Elle stars in Oscar caliber movies, poor Dakota Fanning seems mired in a world of really bad movies. Her latest, a dimly-lit supernatural horror/thriller about a mysterious puzzle box, makes very little sense, is boring as hell and has a stomach-turning amount of gross body horror/mutilation. Hard pass.

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#3. Playdate:  D- (Worst Comedy)

It looks like action hero Alan Ritchson (Reacher, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) wanted to try his hand at screwball comedy, only this terrible film – a (funny?) Reacher meets Paul Blart: Mall Cop‘s Kevin James – almost never hits its mark. Too profanity-laden and violent to be family friendly, and too mean-spirited and outdated to be a comedy, this is one playdate to avoid.

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#2. Emmanuelle: F (Worst Erotic Drama)

Lustful Emmanuelle is on a never-ending journey for sexual fulfillment, in this tepid remake of the iconic 1974 erotic drama that starred the late Sylvia Krystel. Naomie Merlant is the bored (and surprisingly boring) titular character in a series of pointless, off-putting sexual encounters throughout Hong Kong. Why an underutilized Naomi Watts agreed to do this film is a mystery. The screenplay and dialogue are shockingly bad.

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#1. Fight or Flight: F (Worst Action/comedy)

Oh Josh Hartnett, what has happened to you? After last year’s latest M. Night Shyamalan disaster Trap, Hartnett is back again in another stinker, this time playing a mercenary trying to protect a witness (a complete ripoff of 2022’s craptastic Bullet Train). There is no real story – just a bunch of mindless fight sequences featuring a crazed looking Hartnett, body parts and a chainsaw. Brace yourself: Hartnett’s next film is the psychological thriller Verity co-starring the aforementioned Dakota Johnson.

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Don’f forget to check out our 10 Best Movies of 2025.