Flop TV

How did a movie from the director of City Slickers and Tremors, with a cast including Eddie Murphy, Pam Grier, Rosario Dawson, John Cleese, and Joey Pants turn out to be one of the biggest critical/commercial flops EVER, making 7mil on a 100mil budget? We’ll find out!

Nothing more heartwarming than a holiday family movie where Michael Keaton dies and comes back as a snowman friend for his young son. Oops – sorry. We misspelled “traumatizing.” Contains the lines "You the man!” “NO, I'm the SNOWMAN!”

A totally normal movie about a guy who falls in love with a roller-skating Greek muse who inspires him to open a nightclub and also there’s an animated sequence and Gene Kelly. While on many canonical “bad” movie lists, this is kind of an awesome time capsule of early-‘80s excess, with a great ELO/Olivia Newton John soundtrack!

One of the death knell films for old Hollywood, before the “new Hollywood” era of the ’70s, this bloated (152 minute!) musical about the titular doctor who can “talk to the animals” cost 17 million in ’60s dollars and made about half that. Despite no one liking it much, it was nominated for 9 Oscars and won 2! Studios could still spend their way to THAT, at least!

And for the finale, the big one! The movie that was crowned by The Golden Turkey Awards as “worst ever,” and the defining film by schlock auteur Ed Wood -- a director so revered for being bad, they made a movie about him! My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space? Can you prove that it didn't happen?