14 Worst Movies of 2025 Nobody Asked For

2025 has been an eventful year when it comes to films. Masterpieces like Sinners, One Battle After Another, Weapons, Frankenstein, etc are now considered as the early predictions for Oscar shortlists for the Best Picture award.

While this year delivered plenty of standout cinema, it also served up its fair share of movies that left the critics and the audiences scratching their heads. Sometimes, even the biggest ambition or creative passion can’t save a film when execution falls short.

Check out the worst movies of 2025 based on Movie Insiderz scores.​

From hype to nope: The worst movies of 2025

Rabbit Trap

Directed by Bryn Chainey, Rabbit Trap is set in 1976, where Dev Patel’s Darcy and Rosy McEwen’s Daphne are a musician couple aiming to pursue their career while also trying to have a baby.​

One day, Darcy captures sounds of something that he shouldn’t have heard. Soon after, they meet a teenage girl, and terrifying things begin to happen.

The film failed to make an impact as it lacked any strong appeal that could have drawn the audience in. Its heavy and complex narrative may have been difficult for some viewers to follow, resulting in a less engaging experience. ​

Eden

Ron Howard helmed what was originally known as Origin of the Species. Eden is a ferocious survival story of the residents of the Galapagos Islands. The story is a true account of some German settlers on a remote island that showed the greatest threat is the humans themselves.

Despite strong themes, the film did not impress due to a lack of immersive storytelling. Ana de Armas delivered a notable performance, but the director struggled to capture the potential of the true stories, which could have been more engaging.

The Man in my Basement

Corey Hawkins’ Charles Blakey is struggling financially and decides to rent his basement to a peculiar businessman, Anniston Bennet (Willem Dafoe). Mr Bennet offers a hefty amount to Blakey for renting his basement for the summer, and if he promises not to tell anyone about him.

Nadia Latif directed her third film and has a limited track record as a director. With a shining cast, the film failed to etch itself into our minds due to pacing, and it was hard to follow the story.​

Tron: Ares

Tron: Ares brought bling to our eyes with its trailer, but the film couldn’t do much to save the franchise. Disney started off great with Lilo and Stitch live-action remake, but the advanced program, Ares (Jared Leto), that came to Earth from the Grid on a dangerous mission, couldn’t win the audience’s heart.​

The digital infiltration looked appealing, but the visually striking sci-fi film lacked depth. The film had a strong message with themes resonating with today’s dominance of tech on human lives; sadly, the predictable structure didn’t carry the film’s potential.  ​

The Strangers Chapter 2

The second installment in The Strangers reboot trilogy by Renny Harlin didn’t make much of an impact as did Final Destination: Bloodlines. The entire trilogy was filmed in 52 days, which Harlin thought would allow for a continuation effect “into the psyche of both the victims and the killers.”

Maya (played by Madelaine Petsch) is seen ending up at the hospital, the only survivor of the unknown, vicious killers. But the killers have not stopped there. The film is the survival story of Maya and whether she can manage to escape this time.    

The Conjuring Last Rites

Michael Chaves created a final goodbye film for The Conjuring franchise, but we didn’t know it was for Phase One in the Conjuring-verse. Warner Bros has confirmed that a Conjuring prequel film is on the way with young Ed and Warren Lorraine.

Though Last Rites had a successful box office debut, the film had delayed horror and slow pacing issues. The film underused the true potential of the real Smurl case, and several disconnected elements deprived us of the scares that we were expecting from the trailer release.  

Together

Michael Shank’s directorial debut, Together, earned a remarkable critics’ rating of 90 percent. The story follows real-life couple Dave Franco’s Tim and Alison Brie’s Milli, who want to save their dying relationship and go to a remote countryside house.

They encounter a mysterious force that asks more from their bodies and flesh. Obviously, the film’s unsettling imagery might not be as appealing to some audiences. A lack of narrative closure and overreliance on ambiguity didn’t work.​

Understandably, it is a body horror film, and what else could have been expected? The gnarly scenes of arms blending into another body evoke some pukish dread in our minds, leaving us nauseated.  

I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025

2025 was apparently the year of reboots, and Bloodlines smashed its way into the theatres, but I Know What You Did Last Summer was a sheer disappointment.

Just like the 1997 original IKWYDLS, five friends hit someone accidentally one night, and they start getting creepy messages. The killing spree starts, and everyone is running like mad. Bleh.

The story was a drag, even with fresh actors. There was nothing new, and the innovation factor was missing. No depth in the lore, but a mere rehash. JobBlo reviewed it as “an absolute dumpster fire.”   

28 Years Later

You might be wondering why a film with an 89 percent RT critics’ score is in the worst films list. Directed by Danny Boyle, the third installment in the ‘28’ franchise has two further sequels. The story starts off 28 years after the virus broke. The non-infected ones are living separately with limited resources from the mainland, where the mutated virus-infected beings walk.​

The nude zombies snatched away most of the film’s fun parts since I had to run the film forward, where most of the action was lost. Most of the scenes were in the dark, intentionally kept to blur the audacity of the zombies. Overall, it wasn’t worth the hype.​

Hurry Up Tomorrow

Trey Edward Shults brought the singer, Abel Tesfaye, who is also known as The Weeknd, to the film screen. He finds a fictionalized version of himself in the film and walks on a journey where he questions everything.

He meets Jenna Ortega’s Anima, who tries to pull him out of the baffling situation. Although the film is the official launch of his album, it was wild, but the actor didn’t leave anything memorable. The story didn’t seem to make any sense.​

Another Simple Favor

​Director Paul Feig thought that sequels might be boring and had never thought of making one for “A Simple Favor”, but we guess he was right in the first place. The sequel shows two frenemies, Anna Kendrick’s Stephanie and Blake Lively’s Emily reunion at Emily’s wedding.​

But Emily might have planned Stephanie’s murder. An unexpected twist made the story boring towards the end. The first half of the film was a fresh breeze with Capri’s picturesque views, but the story fell flat with one insane turn.  

The Woman in the Yard

A Black family is living in an isolated house and finds a bizarre woman with a black veil sitting in their yard. First, the family thinks she needs help, but the woman has other sinister plans.​ Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, The Woman in the Yard was a rule-breaker from the director who doesn’t like to do horror and slasher, but the film did not give us a genuine nightmare. Towards the end, the film’s fright as well as the excitement faded away.​

Holland

​Hearing the name of Nicole Kidman, one might expect a spectacular performance, but here, the case is different. Holland is about Kidman’s Nancy and her husband, whose lives turn upside down by a secret that shouldn’t be known by anyone.

The actress’s thrilling performances in Babygirl (2024) and The Perfect Couple (2024) had us wondering if Holland will be electrifying. However, the film was somehow left hanging in the air. A great potential was foolishly wasted.   

The Electric State

The upcoming much-hyped Avengers: Doomsday is directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, who directed The Electric State. An orphaned teenager, played by Millie Bobby Brown, goes off on an adventure with a smuggler, Chris Patt, to find her lost brother.​

The shallow characters and weak storytelling gave the audience a hollow experience. The strong graphic novel material was squandered in this dystopian sci-fi adaptation.

Help us out- what terrible movie did we miss?