The worst movie of every decade, according to Letterboxd Movierulzz

Believe it or not, there are some people who just want to watch good movies. If they hear a movie is bad, they avoid it.

I call these people “suckers.”

Come on: What’s more fun than a bad movie? Well, good movie, yes. But sometimes, you just want to wallow in the dirt. You want to laugh at the bizarre dialogue, bizarre acting choices, out-of-focus photography, and incomprehensible plotting. You want to see something that makes you think “You know what? Maybe I could be a filmmaker? These guys did it! How much worse could I be?” In those times, a good movie simply won’t suffice. You need the worst of the worst.

That’s when I turn to a site like Letterboxd, the great social media app for cinephiles, and scan through their massive database of over a million movies, sorting the titles according to their lowest average scores and year of release. When you do that by all the films released in a decade, you can see the single lowest-rated film every decade dating back to the dawn of cinema. Below, I’ve compiled just over a century of those findings.

I’m a little ashamed to admit that I’ve only seen eight out of ten titles ranked as worst of all time as of this writing. But on the plus side, I know exactly what to watch the next time I feel like falling into a deep, dark hole of cinematic debris.